4 Reasons to Incorporate Video PD in Your Classroom

Have you ever found yourself saying, “I just wish you could have seen and heard the student’s conversations for yourself?” Video PD is changing the way teachers engage in peer-to-peer collaboration, and how schools conduct teacher assessments.

How to Integrate New Technology

n this article, three school leaders share their best practices for helping teachers start on the right foot when implementing new technology and pedagogy.

Trailblazing Companies in EdTech: Lightspeed Technologies

Lightspeed is focused on helping educators effectively use classroom audio systems to enhance instruction and improve student achievement.

ELL Specialist: These Are “My Tech Essentials”

As a Future Ready district, we use technology to engage students in every lesson, while providing resources to bridge the gap between their native language and English.

Can You Hear Me Now? Lightspeed Technologies Can Help 

There’s not a chance in the world that any K-12 student has actually seen those old “can you hear me now” commercials. But there’s a good chance that at some time or another, most students have struggled to hear a lesson taught, a special presentation or the important points a speaker is making.

Elementary School Deploys Classroom Mics to Boost Confidence of Students

A Southern California school has added technology that enhances "audio clarity" in its classrooms. New River Elementary School in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District has implemented microphones that hang around the necks of teachers and students to amplify their voices through a flat panel speaker.

3 Visions of Truly Inclusive Education

In their mission to prepare every student for college or a career, today’s K-12 schools have to support not just high achievers, but students with emotional disturbances, language issues, and hearing challenges. Here are three educators whose creative solutions are making “readiness for all” a reality.

How a Principal Inspired an Innovative Classroom Audio System

During my career as a school leader, I often had companies try to convince me to buy their products. For the most part, when I would say yes or no to what they offered, that would be the end of it. Once, though, my colleagues and I went beyond being purchasers and became partners in the product-development process.

How a Makerspace Brought Our School Together on a Budget

About five years ago, my school, Mountain View Elementary in Simi Valley, CA, was on the verge of closing down due to declining enrollment.

Audio Solutions for Large Spaces

For more than a quarter-century, Lightspeed Technologies has been helping students hear every word with classroom audio systems like Redcat and Topcat. But learning doesn’t only happen in the relatively small space of the classroom. How can teachers, principals, and administrators make themselves heard in larger spaces such as gyms, libraries, and cafeterias?