There are many questions schools will need to answer as they transition to digital teaching and learning. The recommended starting place is with the underlying infrastructure, and therefore, one of the first questions is: “How is a school’s or district’s broadband and network scaling going to change to meet these new demands?”

To find an answer, the Learning Counsel reached out to Summit Public Schools and spoke with Bryant Wong, their Chief Technology Officer.

Important questions discussed include:

• What has been Summit’s technology evolution?
• How is Summit’s infrastructure set up and how has that enabled transformation?
• What was the data and research which led to Summit’s network build-out? What is the key to a successful shift to 1:1?
• And finally, what advice can be shared with other districts are they take their next steps?

Providing digital equity to every student is much more important than just giving them the ability to complete homework at home. It’s about how to deliver new learning opportunities. Educators have arrived at a crossroads where pedagogy meets network technology. As a district leader, initiatives that enable high-quality digital learning and provide services and support to your instructors for teaching anytime, anywhere on any device, are increasing in importance.

The Learning Counsel 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey found that even though eighty to ninety percent of schools have network coverage, it’s not enough to support the burgeoning use of digital curriculum. Most educators consider the network to still be “unreliable.”

This brief examines how schools are facing the problem of digital equity and explores the main considerations for districts as they start their digital transformation.

Today’s digital natives are more and more living in a learning wonderland of shiny devices and software, that presents them with materials which are both educational and entertaining, as well as personalized (backed with full machine learning), scaffolded and standards aligned, while supported by slick assessments to make sure nothing important is ever missed. The Learning Counsel examined what leading executives in this space are confronting and the innovative solutions they’ve deployed.

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"Zombies” are more than just compromised networks, they’re tech that is so old it’s practically the walking dead. Transitioning to smart networks solves more than bandwidth, it solves many security issues while also getting agile, with the ability to adapt quickly to the introduction of new services.

This issue brief explains the current challenges of maintaining broadband and other networking services that work—as one Chief of Information and Technology put it—“as invisibly and reliably as a light switch.”

Schools now need an infrastructure that handles all of the data communication needs—wired, wireless and cellular.

This Poster Journal includes details of Santa Ana California’s successful personalized learning program; an analysis of PD strategy and tips to keep yours on the right track; an intervention story from inner-city DC that achieved 0% truancy.

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Effective planning of next-generation network and security architecture is a complex task that is critical now more than ever for all districts and schools. While most educational institutions have well-qualified IT personnel with good working knowledge of existing operations and technology, many can benefit from help when defining a roadmap for the future and deciding how to incorporate new technology as we transition away from textbooks to digital curriculum delivered over all manner of devices.

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This brief discusses a bold idea for apps in the classroom now that 50% of students nationally have access to computing devices for part or all of the day. This brief also showcases research and provides highlights on several key classroom app-planning points.