Achievement First Deploys Zoom + Neat to Empower Teachers & Maintain School Communities
As restrictions on social distancing start to ease for educational organizations around the country, our schools and colleges are facing a number of unique challenges. Achievement First, a high-performance charter management organization, has already started thinking about how to address those challenges and provide a well-rounded education while preserving the health and safety of its students and teachers.
Achievement First supervises 37 charter schools across Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island, and serves 15,000 students with 2,500 to 2,700 teachers and staff members. Marques Stewart, Achievement First’s senior director of network/cloud infrastructure, shared how the organization continued to support its school communities during COVID-19 through the use of Zoom and Neat — and how the technologies will enable learning post-COVID.
Leveraging Zoom + Neat post-COVID
Although the organization plans to support a hybrid model of education for the remainder of the pandemic, Stewart and his teams are already envisioning how Zoom and Neat will be used once all teachers and students return to the classroom.
“One of the ideas we’ve been interested in is using Zoom and Neat for a professional development program,” Stewart said. “With these technologies, we wouldn’t need instructors and staff to travel to multiple regions to reach our schools. We would have a Neat Bar set up in one room in each of our schools, such as the library, and use that space for our professional development program, allowing multiple regions to develop and collaborate without needing instructors or staff to travel to different states.”
Learn more about how Zoom + Neat creates a seamless educational experience for students in the classroom and at home.