El Paso ISD

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Customer at a glance
Application
PowerUp program providing 1:1 notebooks in
high schools and middle school algebra
Hardware
• HP Stream Notebook PC
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4AA6-4528ENW, April 2016
“The e-text environment can
be rich with videos, interactivity,
and content refreshed on the
y. It’s a tool for transforming
how education is delivered in
the classroom.”
– Juan Cabrera, superintendent, El Paso
Independent School District
Operations eciency with
interactive content
To measure the success of the PowerUp
program, EPISD will look at academic metrics
such as standardized test scores and classroom
grades, as well as at behavioral measures
such as attendance and disciplinary actions.
It’s too soon to report on such indicators,
but one telling metric that can be estimated
with available data is operations eciency.
Replacing paper textbooks for 18,000 high
school students with e-text—as EPISD is doing
it, by customizing free content from the CK-12
Foundation—saves “money annually” while
delivering current interactive content.
Not only is the PowerUp approach welcomed by
teachers, it’s also more cost eective for the
district. The key to success, Stiles emphasizes,
is preparation, with every stang, procedural,
technical, and communication aspect planned
in advance. Equally important is to embrace the
philosophy that technology in the classroom is
not about devices, it’s about collaboration
between the technology and academic sides of
the house to create fundamental change.
“Anybody can put a device into kids’ hands;
that’s just following a logistics path,”
Superintendent Cabrera says. “But you
have to ask, ‘To what end?’ In our case, the
end is to change how teaching and learning
happen in the classroom. We’ve got engaged,
collaborative kids embracing responsibility for
their own education.”
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