“The real infusion of technology as a classroom tool was school by school–if you had a principal who believed in it, you were fortunate. But if not…there was no centralized vision of technology being a classroom device,” said Fran Newberg, deputy chief of the Office of Educational Technology in the School District of Philadelphia.

The district realized a shared cart model hampered teachers’ efforts to integrate technology, because they didn’t have the carts in their classrooms each day.