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Meet Your School’s
New Tech Team

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What is a partnership?

When schools partner with us, we help them define a solid vision and plan of where they want to go with technology and how to ultimately achieve the learning goals of their students and educators. Our team then takes on the responsibility of implementing technology and providing ongoing professional development and technical support, along with strategy, monthly guidance, and more. This readily available, lightning-quick access to our team gives teachers the confidence to move forward and continue to grow their skills with technology knowing that we have their back every step of the way.

With Classmate, you can be confident that your school’s investment into technology and infrastructure will be not only well utilized, but also well supported (after all, that’s why we call it a partnership). Instead of relying on a savvy teacher, parent volunteer, or even a well-versed IT individual for your school’s technology needs, we offer an entire team of dedicated, passionate, and thoughtful humans, all with different skills and focusses, and all who work together to build and evolve your school’s relationship with technology from a foundational level.

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What does a classmate school look like?

Classmate schools come in all shapes, sizes, and grade levels, and from the outside looking in a Classmate school may not look overly different from any other school. Take a walk around though, and you’ll start to notice a few things:

Over time at our partner schools, the technology tends to fade into the background and nobody really needs to talk about it anymore. This gives back educators the time they need to focus on crafting meaningful educational experiences for their students.

  • Nobody is talking about the Wi-Fi (or more specifically, what’s wrong with the Wi-Fi).

  • That Grade 7 teacher that the whole staff used to go to for tech questions looks refreshed and reinvigorated and is teaching a lesson with more passion than anyone has seen in years.

  • The Grade 3 teacher is talking to Carlo, one of our Instructional Technology Coaches, about all of the ways technology elevated today’s lesson (along with how it all fits into the BC curriculum).

  • The Grade 2 students are presenting the results of last week’s science project via videos (that they shot and edited on their own) on the classroom projector — all from their desks and without any wires anywhere.

  • Kelvin, one of our Technical Support Engineers, is ensuring that the latest security updates have been applied to the school’s Shared iPads.

When I first considered working with Classmate I considered the financial cost. Can we afford to invest more in IT when our school has needs in so many areas? After working with them for 3 years I now ask myself how we ever afforded to live, learn, and work without them.

Above and beyond the fast and seamless wifi, immediate and helpful support desk, and support with leasing hundreds of devices throughout the school, Classmate has become an integral part of our educational process and vision. The team members are like part of the staff, providing professional development, helpful advice, and a sympathetic ear. They make learning fun while keeping us near the cutting edge of technology and educational best practice. I highly recommend partnering with them to everyone I talk to.

Jason Borkowski
Principal at Star of the Sea School

Over time at our partner schools, the technology tends to fade into the background and nobody really needs to talk about it anymore. This gives back educators the time they need to focus on crafting meaningful educational experiences for their students.

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How do we start?

Well, if you’re here, you’ve already taken the first step — thanks so much for coming this far!

You can click (or tap) right here to book a meeting with our co-founders Jani, and Jon. They’re the visionaries that put this whole thing together, and they’re the ones best suited to having the conversation about your school, its current culture and technology experience, and what its future could look like.

If your conversation proves fruitful, the next step would be what we call ‘Phase Zero’ — this is where our team goes in-depth and performs an extensive technical audit and cultural assessment at your school (we promise it isn’t as scary as it may sound).

Together, we turn the results of your technology audit & cultural assessment into a comprehensive plan for your school’s improvement and growth.

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