Cisco Education
Three K-12 Success Stories: How to Take Advantage of E-rate
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Learn about three school districts that increased student access and enhanced teaching and learning with help from the E-rate program.
E-rate Application Filing Window Opens January 11
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The E-rate application filing window has been announced! Schools have from January 11 until March 22, 2018, to submit their FCC Form 471 applications. Here’s what you need to know.
With E-rate Funding, Magic Happens at Ascend Public Charter Schools
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Four sites with four separate networks. No VPN capabilities, no streamlined network management, and no IT budget. Limited wireless access, inhibiting student learning and staff collaboration. Only a five person IT team. Starting to sound like a nightmare? This was the reality for Ascend Public Charter Schools, located in Brooklyn. Emeka Ibekweh, Managing Director of […]
Mesa Public Schools Creates Vision for the Future
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With 62,000 students, 10,000 employees and 87 schools, Mesa Public Schools in Arizona had a huge undertaking when looking to maximize the use of technology in the classroom. What started as a visioning process in partnership with Cisco, led to the comprehensive re-design of the district’s infrastructure a few years ago. Recently, the partnership with […]
Take Education from the Dark Ages to the Digital Age with Cisco DNA
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I went to school in the Dark Ages. Alright, that may be a little melodramatic. It was San Francisco public schools in the 80’s and 90’s: we barely had enough musty, old textbooks to distribute to each student, school computers were used solely for Oregon Trail, and my teachers used noisy overhead projectors with dry-erase […]
Lighting the Way to Better Learning Outcomes
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) wanted to cut costs and improve student results. Cisco Digital Ceiling is illuminating the way.
Cisco at CoSN 2016: A Recap
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Last week, members of Cisco's education team attended the CoSN 2016 Annual Conference in Washington, DC to engage with and learn from the country's leading education experts.
Learning from EDUCAUSE 2015
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EDUCAUSE is always one of my favorite conferences, and this year was no exception. While many of the discussion topics weren’t new, they did focus on issues that are gaining steam, such as mobile device management (MDM) and how to prevent cybersecurity breaches. Last week, I shared some of the things I was hearing on […]
Checking in from EDUCAUSE 2015
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Hello from EDUCAUSE 2015! I’m checking in from Indianapolis to share a little bit about what has been discussed so far. Yesterday, I heard an excellent general session from Daniel Pink, had the chance to attend multiple sessions on everything from the affordability of course materials to the personalization of the student experience, and spoke […]
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