District Adopts Philosophy to Improve Student Engagement

Prior to 2013, the availability and reliability of technology tools was a concern. Questeq was contracted to become the educational technology partner of Avonworth. Since that time, the Questeq team has stabilized the IT department and strengthened the district’s IT infrastructure (Network, Wireless, Content Filter, Email). The district has also embarked on the implementation of Chromebooks and Google Apps for Education in grades 6-12. A key part of this successful story is how the IT director and teachers worked together to facilitate widespread use of Google tools.

Technology use is very evident and totally integrated into students’ school days. Today, nearly every level of the Avonworth Middle School curriculum is utilizing the Google Apps/Google Classroom suite, and use is rapidly spreading in the high school. Student collaboration is encouraged inside and outside the classroom, and increased engagement is creating a better student work product. Some teachers have even gone totally paperless. It is anticipated that surveyed teachers will reveal greater satisfaction as compared with a benchmark taken before the Google implementation.