Educators from 3 states visit Huntsville for look at Digital 1:1 Initiative

AL.com

Nov. 14

Representatives of nearly a dozen school districts in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee were in Huntsville Wednesday to see for themselves how the schools’ new Digital 1:1 Initiative has been working. The group included superintendents, principals and teachers, from as close as Athens and as far away as Henry County, Ga., who spent the day touring some of Huntsville’s schools. “They know this is the wave of the future,” Rena Anderson, the school district’s director of community engagement said of the digital initiative, which put iPads and laptops in students’ hands and transitioned the district to online curriculum. Anderson said the Pearson staff are from Florida, but work with schools in a five-state region. “They were here to learn as well, and then go back and help the school districts they are working with,” Anderson said.

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