The Year In Review

By Brianne Meyer, CETPA President

I have a pattern.  Each year, after the conference, I return to my desk and start my balancing act.  I desperately try to work my way through an inbox that better resembles a cosmic black hole than a manageable to-do list.  Meanwhile, I resolve to be more like the strategic, visionary leaders that fill the conference halls.  My balancing act is the inevitable conflict between the inspiration brought on by a week of great connections and content, and the feeling of being overwhelmed by the work that remains to be done.

CETPA’s 52^nd Annual Conference was both a reminder of our organization’s legacy, and a preview of our future.  The Monterey Conference

A Roadmap Towards One-to-One Mobile Computing

By Enoch Kwok

Enoch Kwok

Much has been written about the merits of moving toward a one-to-one computing environment (see a previous article, A Rationale for One-to-One iPads in K-12) and many schools and districts are eager to take the plunge and move forward toward implementation. But what does an implementation plan look like? How does a school or district get from almost no teacher experience with mobile computing devices and zero mobile computing infrastructure to every student engaged and focused on learning with their own

1-to-1 Hardware Options

By Rolland Kornblau

Rolland Kornblau

I started researching solutions for hardware a few years ago when a Principal at one of our Elementary Schools started looking to implement a 1 to 1 computer program.   After much research at the time and because we are a mostly Macintosh District, we standardized on Apple MacBooks, but there are many more options available today.  When the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium stated that the new Common Core Assessments were going to use computers, I realized there was an opportunity to start searching for hardware that can be used for online testing. Budget issues due to the economy had left our District, like many others in