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Tom: You need to have a company that understands the needs
that you're trying to solve.
For us, that company was T-Mobile.
-: GOAL High School is a public, online charter school
in the state of Colorado.
We utilize a blended, online approach
to engage our students.
-: At GOAL High School, we provide one-to-one PCs
for all of our students.
We also provide hotspots for every student
and network connectivity any place and any time.
T-Mobile allowed us to deploy the maximum number of hotspots
that we possibly could.
We need to make sure that our kids
have the same environment wherever they happen to be.
They can be in a park.
They can be at home.
They can be within one of our sites.
They can be anywhere they want to be
within the state of Colorado
and access the same school environment
that they would sitting in front of a computer
in a brick and mortar school.
The first thing you need to get right is the network.
If you don't get network right,
the rest of the services aren't going to happen.
-: We partner with T-Mobile to provide that reliable network.
Many of our students have full-time jobs,
many of our students who are maybe caring
for children of their own.
So, to be able to do their school work
wherever they need to on their time
is what really helps our students
to be successful and graduate.
One of the most important things in the world
is ensuring that you have a reliable network.
-: Finding a partner in that endeavor
was the most critical piece that I had to do
when I first joined the high school.
We needed to find a better way
to provide the academic achievement
that our students need, as well as provide our faculty
and our staff the connectivity they need
to reach out to our kids.
Finding T-Mobile and allowing them
to help us reconstruct this network
from a mobility standpoint was really key to the process.
-: I know that when I'm in the middle of a curriculum,
in the middle of a lesson,
in the middle of an online session,
I know that I have that reliability in my network.
Without T-Mobile, we wouldn't be able to operate
the way that we do.
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