Seventh Grade Teacher Shows Off SMART Classroom to Parents

The classroom was outfitted with the SMART boards last fall.

Spring-Ford teachers Kate Seward and Dan Butterweck got the chance to show parents what their excited seventh graders have been talking about since November - the brand-new SMARTboards, computers, document cameras and other equipment in their social studies classroom.  Seward won the classroom in September through a grant program called the SMART Exemplary Educator program. It gives the class the opportunity to work collaboratively on projects and lessons.  Seward is the only teacher in Pennsylvania who has won this award, and there are only 15 in all of North America. The system includes desktop computers and document cameras. The cameras can project pages, attach to microscopes, or project a cube that can function as a 3-D on-screen …

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