Technology serves a powerful and unique role for K –12 education. It can show children how wide the world is and shows them their real potential. It shortens the distance between teachers, parents and communities. It brings new resources into the classroom. It is a vital step in making sure no student gets left behind.

With so much at stake, we share the dream to harness technology and deliver its full potential. JDL supports IT with comprehensive services and expertise — uniquely developed to help K –12 educators provide the best resources to teachers and students. After all, that ’s where our best technology belongs. Theirs are the horizons we are meant to expand.

Our JDL8™ methodology extends the best practices approach to the design, implementation and management of complex local and wide-area networks – something we have done successfully in over four thousand schools.

School districts regularly harness our expertise in effectively deploying technology in K-12 education to help them ensure they are fully utilizing the various funding sources available to them. And our training and professional development services have helped thousands of teachers, administrators and IT professionals ensure they are prepared to use information technology to its fullest extent.

JDL is unique in three important ways:

• JDL focuses on K-12 education…exclusively
  Education is unique. Your school district is a unique environment within education. JDL understands the need to know the language, politics, funding cycles, federal and state mandates, pressures, frustrations, joys and satisfactions associated with public education.
  
  
• JDL is vendor neutral
  To the person who sells a hammer, every problem is a nail. Unfortunately, technology is often purchased because a vendor has a compelling story to tell about the solution provided by a product. JDL believes that solutions stand on a foundation of processes and products enable process. JDL respects the vendor preferences of its school district clients while at the same time bringing extensive knowledge about which products work best in support of certain goals. However, the product is the servant of the process.
  
  
• JDL services are founded on best practice
  Best practice is an accumulation of processes and procedures that, when applied, have a standard influence on the outcome or the achievement of the Vital Business Functions. Accounting, medicine and most other fields attempting to achieve Vital Business Functions subscribe to best practice for their discipline.

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