Interactive Administrator

Summer 2009

Experience Interactivity

Interactive Administrator, SMART's quarterly newsletter for education administrators, is full of timely news, insights and information on successfully integrating classroom technology solutions.

Nancy's Notebook

Opportunity

Nancy Knowlton, SMART's CEO, shares her insights into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and how it provides educators with an historic opportunity to initiate and implement their visions for education.

Research from the Field

America's Digital Schools 2008

The authors of America's Digital Schools 2008 predict the interactive whiteboard will be in almost every American school five years from now.

Classroom Solutions

Adding Interactivity Is Easy

Make technology adoption simple and learning extraordinary with these new interactive tools and solutions from SMART. Affordable, flexible and easy to use, they are the latest in a wide range of SMART products that help a district meet its technology needs.

Tech Trends

Interoperability: A SMART Priority

SMART products are designed to interoperate and integrate with each other and work with other classroom technologies. Vaughn Keenan, vice president of product development at SMART Technologies, explains the role this important consideration plays in SMART education solutions.

How Much Does It Cost?

Administrators in the midst of making decisions on investing the American Recovery and Reinvestment funds in education technology are examining total cost of ownership. Find out how SMART products lower total cost of ownership.

Case Study

Teacher Sharing Leads to Achievement

In a South Carolina school district, teachers collectively view professional development as an exercise in sharing and modeling. User groups and peers model best practice techniques with SMART products, and this sharing yields concrete results for teachers and students.

SMART Headlines

Invest in the Future

To help administrators make the best choices with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding, SMART's site shares a wealth of research and resources that demonstrate its leadership in enabling the extraordinary transformation of learning environments through the use of innovative technology.

SMART at NECC

Stop by booth 2904 at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) to join SMART for regularly scheduled tours and presentations, or to chat about the latest innovations in the world of interactive classroom technology.

Professional Development

The SMART Administrator Resource Center is a one-stop hub delivering the resources needed to build professional development programs.

The SMART Executive Briefing Center

A visit to the SMART Briefing Center gives administrators all the information needed to make important technology purchasing decisions.