Mobile devices such as tablets, smartphones and notebooks are transforming the classroom learning experience, thereby enhancing students’ learning and collaboration capabilities. As a result, education technology leaders are realizing that their network and wireless infrastructures are being put to the test. And sometimes those infrastructures are getting a “C” or worse. Discover what wireless and network infrastructure technologies are available for your charter school to examine, test and implement in preparation for today’s academic technology requirements and beyond. Learn how to future proof your wireless and network infrastructure by applying the strategies used by mindSHIFT customer, Uncommon Schools. During this presentation you will learn: • What’s driving the growth in class networks and cloud computing and the resulting concerns • How modern networks fuel charter school leadership, and how you can future proof your wireless and network infrastructure • 10 best practices for high performing classroom networks • How Uncommon Schools achieved short and long term instructional goals in the transforming EdTech landscape Who Should View? Education technology leaders who would like to learn how to achieve short and long term goals in the transforming EdTech landscape.

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Is Your School’s Wireless &
Network Infrastructure
Future Proof?

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Our Speaker
John Stewart
Regional Vice President,
K-12 Charter School Market
mindSHIFT, a Ricoh company
• 20+ years as an education and
technology professional
• Recipient of the Ernst & Young
“Entrepreneur of the Year” award
• New Jersey Technology Council’s CIO
Advisory board member

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Agenda
Uncommon Schools Case Study
What’s Driving Growth in Class Networks & Cloud
Issues & Concerns with Network Growth
How Modern Networks Can Advance Instructional Goals
How to Future Proof Wireless & Network Infrastructure
10 Best Practices for High Performing Classroom
Networks
Q & A
Agenda

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Case Study
• Preparation for PARCC Testing
• Wireless surveys, identify coverage gaps
• Simulations to assess how network performed
under high utilization
• Identified need for additional WAPS and upgraded
WAPS to alleviate capacity limitations, especially in
confined classroom situations
• Mimic live testing environments to examine the
load
• Prevented client access to WAPs that were at
capacity and routed them through WAPs that had
capacity
• Ensured staff and faculty did not have concerns
about technology so they could focus on the testing
and results
• Constant communication with staff during testing to
ensure success

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Growth Drivers:
Classroom Networks
• Learning Strategies
– Web based learning
tools and increased
use of video
– Student assessments
(e.g., PARCC testing)
and collaboration
projects
– Less expensive
devices
(e.g. Chromebooks,
tablets)

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Growth Drivers:
Cloud Computing
• 3 ways cloud computing
is changing education:
– No more expensive
textbooks or outdated
learning materials
– No expensive hardware
or software required
– Reaching more, and
more diverse, students

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Issues & Concerns:
Network Growth
• Performance and productivity:
network demands are
variable – students and
faculty depend on the
wireless network
• Security: data is increasingly
sensitive
• Integration: support and
service of legacy systems
• Storage: data volume
continues
to grow

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Modern Networks Can
Advance Instructional Goals
• Access to online instructional
resources, assessments and
content
• Innovative and ambitious
educational programs
– Group collaboration, presentation,
interaction
• Personalized teaching
experiences
– Mobile devices and anytime,
anywhere access
• Technology just works
– Minimal troubleshooting

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Who is mindSHIFT?
• vCIO Technology Steering
• Cloud Strategy Consulting
• Application Development
• Content Management System
Design & Development
• General IT Projects
• SharePoint ® Solutions
Cloud Services
Data Center Services Professional Services
Managed IT Services
• Server Management
• Network Management
• Desktop / Laptop Management
• Mobile Device Management
• Data Protection & Backup
• 7x24 Support
• cloudSHIFT® Server
• cloudSHIFT® Desktop
• cloudSHIFT® VoIP
• cloudSHIFT® Private Cloud
• Office 365
• cloudSHIFT® IBM i Series
• AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Managed Hosting
• Disaster Recovery
• IBM i Management
• Colocation
• Web Hosting
• Content Management Systems

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