Success Stories Education
| Butler SD #53 |
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"With Techcare's guidance, Butler District 53 formed a technology stakeholders committee comprised of teachers, parents, administrators and technology experts. After two year of discussion and a thorough technology audit conducted by Techcare, Butler 53 has launched its most impressive district-wide technology initiative to date. Changes include updating and virtualizing servers, doubling the number of interactive white boards, installing fiber connectivity, and implementing extensive professional development. We believe student engagement and achievement will increase as a direct result of these efforts. We are impressed with Techcare's staff. Every member of our Techcare team has demonstrated incredible commitment and expertise. We are proud of our partnership and look forward to working together on new projects as they emerge.""
____- Dr. Sandra Martin, Superintendent |
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| Brookwood SD #167 |
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""The Techcare team has been instrumental in helping us to provide a quality experience for everyone with our recent major network upgrades. When planning out our major projects I feel like I have the best support only a phone call away.
When we have Techcare's staff out in the buildings my staff and I never have to worry about asking a question - the techs are always friendly, courteous, and willing to do whatever it takes to help out. I wouldn't trade our experience with Techcare for anything."
____- Jay Blackman, Director of Technology |
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| Grace Lutheran Church & School |
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"Techcare personnel were invaluable in helping us design and implement our wireless network, while allowing our school to save money by walking me through the installation. A Techcare team brought over a Promethean Interactive Whiteboard to demo, and we were hooked. With one in place and requests for eight more, we plan to use the team again to present to parents as a kick-off for a fund raising drive. Even though we're a small school, we get excellent service with the personal touch of people we know by name."
____- Lyle Mortensen, Director of Technology |
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| Skokie SD #73.5 |
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"Graphtech has helped us meet our current needs assisting in advice, design and implementation of our high speed managed LAN-WAN and I would wager on their ability to meet the challenges of the future."
____- Mike Neims, retired Director of Technology |
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| Our Lady of Perpetual Help |
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"OLPHS is moving forward with technology and the Promethean Activboards brings it to the classroom. We have integrated this technology with our curriculum. We have seen the attention span and interaction of the kids improve drastically. Kids even discuss what they did in their classroom while they are out at recess."
____- Denise Block, Director of Technology |
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| Avoca SD #37 |
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"From the very beginning of our journey toward that mission, Graphtech has been at our side, providing support and direction. Even the most powerful and ambitious technology vision can be completely derailed if the students, staff and parents do not have an appropriate level of proactive support and maintenance. With Graphtech taking care of these basic support needs, we have been free to pursue our mission with vigor and enthusiasm."
____- Dr. Joseph Porto, Superintendent |
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| East Maine SD #63 |
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"East Maine SD 63 is highly satisfied with the quality of Graphtech's work, its help desk response time, and the commitment and caliber of its professional staff. Graphtech employees go the extra mile to make sure that our network and our other projects run smoothly and efficiently. With infrastructure improvements, the District has been able to more fully utilize its bandwidth to improve the delivery of online instructional resources, such as unitedstreaming; virtualize stand-alone servers; and install a new VOIP system in all seven schools and the District office."
____- Judith Satkiewicz, Director of Technology |
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| North Shore School District 112 - Superintendent of Schools |
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"When we needed a comprehensive review of technology support in our school district, we turned to Graphtech for an objective and informed opinion. They worked with us to identify our strengths, as well as our areas of need. Their input helped us design an infrastructure update, identify hardware needs and determine a support staff structure that would serve administrative and instructional needs. What began as a consulting relationship became a direct service relationship as we filled a director level gap. We felt this expenditure resulted in higher quality and more consistent service to our teachers, which in turn helped our students.
Graphtech also helped design our interactive whiteboard adoption and when fully implemented, we will continue to look to them for necessary support. Our preference would be for a long term relationship with an entity like Graphtech who knows us and knows our needs"
____- Maureen Hager Ed.D. |
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| Schiller Park SD #81 |
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"The leadership provided by Steve Feldman, from the strategic planning process to deployment of instructional software, as well as the hardware made this major shift in the more effective use of technology possible. The students, staff, and faculty are truly fortunate to have the members of Graphtech on their team."
____- Dr. Roberta Taylor, Superintendent |
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| Lombard SD #44 |
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"Graphtech has really helped us move forward. We had old equipment and had to make the change from Novell to Windows, Graphtech helped us put a plan together to get this all accomplished. We are looking forward to a network that is more stable and easier to administrate, we are also looking forward to using FirstClass as an email client and collaboration tool."
____- Chip Kunberger, Director of Technology |
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| Prairie-Grove SD #46 |
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"Sasha, I am not sure of the spelling but, you have to keep that guy!
He is great to work with, knows his stuff. Has a great work ethic. You guys nailed it with this one. Thanks to Tech Care for the help and all the hard work without him our VOIP would not be working.
Jeff was great too."
____- Mike Swanson, Director of Technology |
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| East Maine School District 63 |
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"At last night's meeting, the Board of Education approved the Techcare proposal for 3 years. I told the Board that we were highly satisfied with the quality of Graphtech's work, your response time, and how professional all your staff is and that they..."
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____- Judy Satkiewicz,
Director of Technology
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| Sunset Ridge School District 29 |
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"Today, Sunset Ridge and Graphtech are partners in the very sense of the word; from piloting new instructional technologies to day-to-day network administration and support."...
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____- Howard Bultinck, Superintendent |
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| The Joseph Sears School, Kenilworth School District 38 |
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"Graphtech played a critical role in the development of our District technology plan. As the plan developed, the Graphtech staff maintained the single focus of how best to support student learning and teacher instruction in the classroom."...
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____- Michael C. Conran, Principal |
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| The Joseph Sears School, Kenilworth School District 38 |
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"I'm extraordinarily pleased with Graphtech's work with us. They came in and made a great effort to understand our needs, and they worked very well with our Board of Education." play video
__- Linda Murphy
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| Avoca School District 27 |
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"Graphtech has a deep experience with school districts. They understand the unique problems and pressures of an educational setting."...
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____- Dr. Joe Porto, Superintendent |
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| Avoca School District 27 |
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"Steve Feldman just came in and helped us identify our needs, broke things down step by step, and that was very comforting to know that someone that's done this before and could help see us through this implemention." play video
__- Dr. Deanne Read
__- Principal, Marie Murphy |
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| Lake Forest Academy |
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"The level of knowledge and support that I have received from Graphtech is nothing short of brilliant. This is a landmark year for the technology here at Lake Forest Academy and it would not have been possible without Graphtech."...
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____- Anu Gupta, Director of Information Services |
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| Lake Forest Academy |
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"Graphtech helped us create a finance package that improved our capabilities right now, and spread the cost over three years." play video
__- Jon Cushman
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| East Maine School District 63 |
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"Graphtech helps us to be proactive, alerting us to potential problems before they occur. The Graphtech staff goes the 'extra mile' to ensure that our network is operating reliably so that we can focus on meeting the technology needs of our staff and students."
____- Judy Satkiewicz,
Director of Technology |
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| Wilmette Public School District 39 |
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"Over the past three years, my experience with Graphtech has been consistently excellent and has often exceeded my expectations. Graphtech's support technicians and specialists are second to none."...
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____- Matt J. Fuller, Director of Technology and Media Services |
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| Northbrook/Glenview School District 30 |
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"I can wholeheartedly recommend Graphtech Systems, Inc. because of the nature of the network analysis process they coordinated in our school district."...
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____- Christopher J. Hansen, Technical Coordinator |
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| Gurnee School District 56 |
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"We rely on Graphtech for the day-to-day operation and monitoring of our network infrastructure. We have a very high level of comfort knowing that Graphtech has our system running at peak efficiency."...
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____- Lee A. Steinsdoerfer, Technology Coordinator |
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| Lake Forest Country Day School |
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"One of the things that I like the most Graphtech is their focus on the education market, and the way they look at technology and education." play video
__- Mara Grujanac
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| Schiller Park School District 81 |
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"Thanks for your assistance in our support transition. The leadership provided by Steve Feldman, from the strategic planning process to deployment of instructional software, as well as the hardware made this major shift in the more effective use of technology possible. The students, staff, and faculty are truly fortunate to have the members of Graphtech on their team."
____- Dr. Roberta J. Taylor, Superintendent of Schools |
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| Prospect Heights School District 23 |
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"I just wanted to extend a thank you. Thanks to Andrew for getting it all organized and the schedule worked out so we could get the closet work and the server projects underway before the staff starts back up. A big thank you to Jeff, for your expertise and for the long days on Thursday, Friday, and especially for being flexible and working on Saturday. I'm sure we'll be in touch throughout the next couple weeks."
____- Donna Strollo, Network and Data Manager |
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| Wilmette Public School District 39 |
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"In case I haven't said so in a while... John Kirn is a tremendous asset. Every dollar I've spent with him on a project has been well worth it. His research, attention to detail, ability to deliver exactly what is needed, and ability to explain complex issues has been an invaluable aid to me and our school system... especially when the boss needs it done yesterday and it's suddenly the highest priority (which seems to be about everything)."
____- Matt J. Fuller, Director of Technology and Media Services |
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| Community Consolidated School District 62 |
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"I have worked with many organizations in my career, but none have displayed such a high level of professionalism and skill. If I had to rate the service and quality of work Graphtech provided I would rate it 10 on a scale from 0-10."...
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____- Glen Magle, Directory of Technology |
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| Community Consolidated School District 62 |
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"One of the things that my staff really loves about working with Graphtech is the fact that when they come in it's just like they're part of our team rather than an outside firm working with us." play video
__- Glen Magle
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| Deerfield School District 109
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"On behalf of our District, I would like to thank you and the people of Graphtech Systems for your fast and effective response to the network disaster we experienced this fall."...
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____- Al Chickerneo, Systems Administrator |
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| Golden Apple Foundation |
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"Great service... Graphtech is #1 in my book."
____- James R. Sorensen, Director, Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois |
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PT Conference Maker |
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"Overall, using PT Conference Maker was a very easy process, and one that I would recommend to any school." play video
__- Sam Richards
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__- Lake Forest Country Day School |
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"Just wanted to thank you and everyone at Graphtech. Our PT Conference Maker registration went smoothly again this year, and the process to get everything set up seems to get easier each year."
____- Peggy Billittier, Administrative Assistant-Principal's Office
_____Mundelein High School
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"Thank you so much for all your help with Lake Zurich's PT Conference Maker system. Everything went smoothly when things opened at 7 AM this morning. We received a very nice email from a parent this morning who was using the system for the first time and was very pleased at the user-friendly system. Again, thanks for such a great program!"
____- Gail Drake, Technology Secretary
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