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Washington School District Unwires the
Classroom Experience
Classroom Experience
Kent School District’s wireless network gives students and teachers access to learning
inside and outside the classroom.
Business Challenge
Kent School District is the fourth-largest school
district in the state of Washington, with 40 schools
serving 27,000 students. The district has long
recognized the important role technology can play in
enriching the learning environment. “It is important
to prepare our students for the challenges of higher
education, the work force, and life in general,” says
Thuan Nguyen, Director of Information Technology
at Kent School District. “Technology is an important
component of that preparation.”
District leaders developed a detailed plan for
equipping every one of the district’s seventh-
through 12th-grade students with laptops that allow
them to wirelessly connect to school information
systems and the Internet anywhere, and to use
state-of-the-art learning technologies in the
classroom. District leaders recognized, however,
that the computer labs and limited wireless
connectivity that had been used previously in some
schools could not provide the flexibility that students and teachers needed to truly take advantage
of technology in the classroom.
“With computer labs, technology use was isolated because teachers had to take students out of
the normal learning environment,” says Nguyen. “Teachers had to know beforehand that they
would be using the lab and how long the lesson would take. That required a cost-benefit analysis
and an all-or-nothing approach that often worked against the use of technology. It was often easier
to just remain in the classroom.”
Some schools were equipped with mobile computer carts, but using them required a time-
consuming and sometimes confusing setup process, with teachers having to connect a wireless
access point in the classroom to use the computers. And, whenever a wireless software or security
update was required, IT staff had to manually configure each access point. To lay the foundation
for the district’s ambitious technology vision, Kent School District leaders realized they needed to
rethink the way they were using wireless technology.
Network Solution
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
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Education, K-12
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State of Washington, United States
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3200 employees
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
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Bring innovative digital educational content
and the Internet into the classroom
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Overcome inflexible system of dedicated
computer labs and limited wireless
connections
connections
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Reduce IT staff effort in maintaining
access points
NETWORK SOLUTION
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Deployed flexible wireless network across
entire school system to support new
educational tools and modes of learning
educational tools and modes of learning
BUSINESS RESULTS
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Provided highly manageable, easy-to-use,
pervasive network connectivity
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Built a highly flexible, continually scalable
wireless network foundation
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Created a state-of-the-art learning environment
that allows students and teachers to fully
embrace technology in the classroom
embrace technology in the classroom