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Beyond the Products: Creating a Culture of SMART

 * Instructor:** Nathan Koering, Area Manager--Northern States, SMART Technologies

The future is now in interactive classrooms, and whether your plans are well under way, just starting or over the horizon, this is an opportunity to discuss best practices and methods for encouraging and growing the use of interactive technologies in the classroom. Best practices and handouts created by SMART Education Consultants and teachers, administrators and technology integrators from districts throughout the country will be part of the discussion. Time will be available for questions and answers, as well as collaboration.
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Leah Delia Larson -- Because we have so many new SMART products in my school, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to figure out how to get the most out of them. What I found is that we are further along in implementing SMART staff development than many other districts. At RMS, we already have a mentorship program in place, although I am still trying to figure out how to get everyone on board with it... There was an interesting document shown during the presentation, but I was unable to locate it on the [|SMART exchange] site (although there are a lot of other cool resources there) -- frustrating!