Arizona’s fastest-growing School District offers laptops in the classroom
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- HP Laptops
- Absolute
Tech Stack
- Endpoint Security
- Asset Management
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
- Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Asset Health Management (AHM)
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Headquartered in the cities of Surprise and El Mirage, Arizona, Dysart Unified School District (DUSD) is Arizona’s fastest-growing school district, as confirmed by a 10-year analysis. In spite of the exponential growth, the district has remained focused on academic performance, high-caliber staffing, continuous improvement, and its mission of “Increasing in Excellence” – or, preparing students for life in the new century. Six district schools received the state’s “Performance Plus” ranking for overall performance in implementing the state’s “Arizona Learns” program. Dysart Unified School District is growing incredibly quickly. In recent years, the school district has built no less than 15 new schools and currently welcomes more than 2,500 new students and 300 new staff members from around the nation each year. Recognizing that technology will play a major role in the livelihood of its K-12 students, the district is moving aggressively toward making laptops an everyday learning tool for its 23,100 students.
The Challenge
As with a growing number of school districts across North America, Dysart is increasingly turning to laptops and mobile devices as an everyday learning tool in an effort to produce better results in the classroom and prepare students for life in the new century. The move is evident in the District’s work with device manufacturer HP. The District’s laptop learning program began with the purchase of 1,000 desktop and 300 notebook computers. This expanded quickly, adding more than 1,700 devices with a goal of putting 5-6 in selected District classrooms.
The Solution
To keep watch over its new computers, the District’s Director of Information Technology Evan Allred and his team turned to HP’s endpoint security partner Absolute. “Having made a major investment in new HP laptops, one of the options we had for keeping track of them was Absolute,” said Allred. “Absolute helps us track each computer, where it is located, who is logging in and, should one go missing, where it has been taken. We can also inventory our computers at any time – which is an amazing feature for helping us with our budgets and appropriately allocating new devices to schools.” At present, more than 2,500 devices at the Dysart Unified School District are protected with Absolute, including the District’s fleet of HP laptops. This turned out to be money well spent as the School District experienced its first laptop theft since implementing the program, and had the device recovered within two weeks. This incident has helped the District continue to embrace its leading approach to technology adoption in education. Dysart Unified School District plans to continue the expansion of its successful laptop learning initiative. “The need for mobile computing is here to stay in today’s K-12 classrooms, and the technology for protecting and managing them in the school environment is now readily available,” says Allred. “The combination of HP laptops and Absolute is proving to be a great package for supporting our laptop learning programs.”
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