Beaverton Schools Show Technology has a Role in Learning

A new report examining how the Beaverton School District has progressed since voters approved a big technology project shows that the efforts are paying off.

According to Education Week, the biggest hurdle was getting technology experts and instruction experts to get along.

"Philosophically, we weren't always together, the districts chief academic officer, Ginny Hansmann, told the paper. "Traditionally, IT maybe hasn't understood instruction, and the instruction side didn't understand technology like they should."

The paper says that the district worked to move district librarians and others who had been part of the IT department into the teaching and learning department.

"It made all the difference in the world," Hansmann told the paper.