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Erik Ofgang

FOUND: Sustaining 1 2 1 programs by selling school devices - What They Never Told You

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The Auburn School Department in Maine is able to fund a sustainable 1-2-1 program thanks in part to a simple-sounding but rarely implemented strategy: they resell student and staff devices before any become worthless. 

“The model that schools have had since I've been in education, which is a long time, is use them until they are useless for anything but perhaps a boat anchor,” says Peter Robinson, Technology Director at Auburn School Department.  

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