Ms.Z++lab+rescue-+Howe

One of my biggest challenges was walking into a school that had no real technology. The Computer lab was trashed and teachers had no internet capabilities and limited skills on PC's. I first rebuilt the lab, then fixed the buildings' network and repaired the PC's. Finally, I ran PD sessions that trained the teachers on basic PC skills, FirstClass and Gradebook. The following year, I built a new lab, found 30 NIC (wireless) cards and modified 30 PCs for wireless and made them CPS network compliant. I found a closet full of broken PC's fixed them and distributed them to the teachers for their classroom. Then I taught the teachers Achieve 3000 and the Edison Benchmark testing. Oh yes, I almost forgot......I did this while being a fulltime Computer teacher to 800 students in the Austin community.

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