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JUNE 26, 2015

In November of 2014, President Obama challenged district superintendents to sign the Future Ready Pledge. Department of Education , and the LEAD Commission is hosting Future Ready Regional Summits across the nation to provide support for those districts and to build a network of leaders. Look at how you use time.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow.

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There is no box

MARCH 11, 2015

We’re a Google Apps District, MacBooks and iPads for all teachers, 70″ LED TVs, AppleTVs and Chromecasts are being installed in every classroom this summer. We are 1:1 Chromebooks 3-6th with a 6th grade 1:1 take home starting next year. We are also piloting tablets (iPads and nexus 7) and chromebooks in K-2.

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There is no box

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

— Robert Pronovost (@pronovost) September 10, 2015. This is purely end user, site based (in the classroom or office) technical support. And that would be in the classroom, at the school site. The problem with the above recommendations then is the 2, 3 or 4 schools per technician.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

So we did, through Future Ready Schools and my teams at the Alliance for Excellent Education , we partnered with Dr. Linda Darling Hammond , one of the top known researchers in the world when it comes to education and what works, and our team at Stanford University, to dive into the topic of what is it that actually works.

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