ROB CHANDLER, CEO

About one year ago, we started talking to parents and students about the idea of a Classroom of the Future and the benefits a high-tech classroom space could bring to the learning process. This spring semester, we are pleased to announce the launch of Fairmont's first Technology Education Center at our Mable campus. Plans are currently underway for the development of a second "TEC Lab" at our Anaheim Hills campus, and the installation of a third lab at our Edgewood campus will follow.

Fairmont's TEC Lab was designed to introduce students and teachers to new technologies in order to enhance the educational experience in a positive and effective way. The Technology Education Center will function both as a laboratory and as a lecture hall. Classes will be assigned to the lab on a regular basis, and teachers will build the lab's tools into their lesson plans in order to engage their students further into study. Equipment and tools that teachers gravitate to, and find to be exceptionally effective for teaching and learning, will migrate down into other classrooms. As new technologies become available and are assessed for their educational value, they will be added to the lab and tested by our teachers and staff.

Fairmont's first lab is equipped with several promising elements that were selected by faculty and IT administrative staff as items that could be beneficial to the elementary learning experience. For an introduction to the equipment within Mable's TEC Lab, please click on the following link: TEC_LAB_Introduction.pdf