{"id":21791,"date":"2023-12-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lightspeedsystems.com\/resources\/case-studies\/beaverton-school-district\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:35:32","slug":"beaverton-school-district","status":"publish","type":"case-study","link":"https:\/\/www.lightspeedsystems.com\/de\/resources\/case-studies\/beaverton-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Schulbezirk Beaverton (Oregon) bek\u00e4mpft Online-Sicherheit und Technologiesucht von Sch\u00fclern mit Lightspeed Systems\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe Challenge: Addressing Technology Addition And Expanding On-site Filtering
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After years of technology disinvestment, the Beaverton community passed a bond in 2014 allowing a digital transformation for the learning and business functions of the district. Two critical needs were expanding on-site filtering to include protecting students anywhere they used their device, and the need to provide tools supporting student technology addiction. Addressing both needs was a priority for Steven Langford, Chief Information Officer, in order to implement a successful 1:1 program.<\/p>\n

Beaverton School District<\/a> needed a powerful cloud-based filter to ensure students were protected while at school and at home. Langford recalls, \u201cThe challenge for us was: How do we take the filtering requirements and what we want to do to protect students, and extend that from the perimeter of our district to the entire city, or beyond? We needed a filtering partner that would allow us to easily extend filtering outside of the district, into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Langford continues, \u201cAlso, when the devices went home, and of course it was exacerbated in the [COVID-19] pandemic, parents started having to deal with technology addiction. It\u2019s wonderful our kids can learn anytime and anywhere, but the unanticipated impact of that is for some kids, they aren\u2019t yet able to regulate. For some of our students, they need help staying focused on using technology for learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Beaverton was one of 13 districts nationally that worked with CoSN on a student connectivity study. We analyzed every Zoom meeting [that took place] in January, for all our 40,000 students. The data set on that was massive. [Lightspeed] Filter data was used to analyze how students experienced school remotely.<\/p>\n

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