Apple Notebooks Provide a Positive Force for Learning

Profiles in Success: Westside High School, Westside Community Schools

Faculty, Students Endorse Mobile Learning Model

Despite the distribution of and ongoing support for over 2000 notebooks, Bird says that no additional staff was hired (since the launch, a single support staff member has been added). “The cost of 1 to 1 programs is sometimes misrepresented, and it shouldn’t be,” he says. “It does require reexamining job roles and deciding to do things differently. But you can implement a notebook program with your existing systems.”

“Our faculty and students overwhelmingly endorse the Apple notebooks. We feel they are making a major difference in learning.”

—Dr. Ken Bird, Superintendent, Westside Community School District

”Our faculty and students overwhelmingly endorse the Apple notebooks,” Bird adds. “We feel they are making a major difference in learning. As the research shows, our kids are completing their assignments faster and on a more regular basis; they’re meeting their grade-level proficiencies, and they say they find their classes more interesting and enjoyable. We believe all of this is directly related to our 1 to 1 program, and the Apple notebooks.”