Case Study: Walnut Hill Elementary School achieves increased student engagement and parent learning with SMART Technologies' SMART Board interactive whiteboards

Students and parents benefit from SMART Board interactive whiteboard

Walnut Hill Elementary School in Dallas, Texas, serves 420 pre-K–5 students and relies on teacher technologist Jeri Kitner to run the computer lab and offer evening computer classes for parents. Kitner’s challenge was reaching a wide range of ages, learning styles and bilingual learners (English-Spanish), while also supporting students with learning disabilities and engaging parents.

The school deployed 15 SMART Board interactive whiteboards with SMART software (supporting 36 languages) to provide a touch-based, inquiry-driven learning environment. The boards boosted engagement for pre-K through fifth grade, helped kinesthetic and special-needs learners, supported bilingual instruction, excited parents, and aligned with districtwide adoption (700+ SMART Boards installed, 1,000 more planned).

Walnut Hill Elementary School