Educational Leadership

• ACOT² Whitepaper
  Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow - Today is a collaborative project to help high schools get closer to creating the kind of learning environment this generation of students needs, wants, and expects so they will stay in school.
• Challenge Based Learning Whitepaper
  Challenge Based Learning applies what is known about the emerging learning styles of high school students and leverages powerful new technologies to provide an authentic learning process that challenges this generation of students to make a difference.

Design a Mac lab

• Lab Configurator
  Configure a Mac lab based on your school’s specific needs, receive a custom pricing quote, and learn more about why Apple is right for your high school.

Why a Mac Lab

• Apple in Digital Media
  Download information about the Apple hardware, software, and services that let high schools offer professional-level digital arts training.
• John Lennon Education Tour Bus video
  Watch how Apple technology is giving young people a hands-on opportunity to create original music, video, and broadcast projects.

Curriculum + Certification

• Apple Authorized Training Center for Education brochure
  Find out how easy it is to start training students for certification.
• Apple Authorized Training Center for Education online application
  Download the form you need to gain Apple Authorized Training Center for Education status.
• Rancho Bernardo High School video
  See some of the incredible things the students at Rancho Bernardo High School are doing with their Mac Career Tech lab.
• Apple K-12 School Site Licenses
  Find out more information on Apple’s affordable site licenses that can give every student access to our digital media and productivity applications.
• Apple Media Series
  The perfect companion to your site license. Learning to use Apple products for teaching and learning is easy with the Apple Media Series. Now K-12 educators and students can access engaging how-to videos and follow step-by-step guides to learn to use Apple products.
• Moviemaking Curriculum
  Explore free lessons created by digital media production experts Ross Kallen and Marco Antonio Torres.

Funding

• Raising Student Achievement guide
  Download information about how your school can access federal funds for Apple education solutions.
• Getting Creative with Perkins: Connecting Career and Technical Education to 21st Century Learning
  Download detailed information about how the Perkins Act can help fund your Mac lab.
• Apple Financing
  Apple also provides financing options to help your school afford a lab today.

Mac Labs in Action

• Career Tech in music
  Find out how students at Huntington Beach High School are creating projects — and sweet music — with GarageBand and other iLife ’08 software.
• Career Tech in video and film
  Learn how the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology is using Apple professional applications to give students the skills they need to enter digital media careers.
• The Mac lab dual platform advantage
  Discover why Cartersville City schools canceled their order for Windows-based computers and chose the multiplatform flexibility of Apple solutions instead.
• A Mac lab for core curricula
  Read why digital media executives from top companies advised the Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts & Technology to use Apple solutions to support its nontraditional curricula.