Enhancing Classroom Learning and Safety: The Power of Surround Sound and Instant Communication Systems

The constant distractions in the classroom also prevent students from learning, especially with noise, noise in the hallways, noise in the classrooms, noise basically all around them. And when they are unable to hear well, then that also affects their learning. So front row now adding the surround sound in every single classroom helps tremendously. I mean, when we were testing the systems, the two different systems, we saw it here at this school and we saw it at the middle school as well, where a student who may not always participate Suddenly, we're more engaged in the lesson. They were also participating. They wanted to use that microphone and then talk. Some who may not be just comfortable speaking in in front of the whole class, suddenly even if they whisper, we can hear them perfectly inside the classroom. I did also ask the middle school students how they felt about the system. It wasn't just asking the teachers, it was also asking the students, the students at the elementary, the students at the high at the middle school, and it was in general the students one of the things that they always told me was I can hear the teacher very, very well. When we tested the system at the high school level, that was also the comment from the students. We can hear the teacher perfectly. Whereas before, you know, if you don't you're not listening and you're not hearing well, you disengage from the lesson. So now we see that engagement and hopefully, when the students come back now that we have the system everywhere, I I anticipate and I know that what we saw prior to the pandemic, we'll continue to see with when the students return back. But even now, within the middle of the pandemic, I was at a classroom guest just the other day and actually here at this school, where the students were participating and from home, I could hear them perfect their their questions, their answers, their comments was being heard in the entire classroom without having to, you know, worry about you know, I can't hear you or repeating what they're saying because the sound was just perfect. I absolutely love the PA intercom. It is so easy for us to call our teachers back and forth easier than the system we had before. Before we had the phone system and you had to dial in the classroom numbers is to get to the teachers. You had to press in certain codes just to get bells to ring. And with this system, it makes it so much easier because it's just one click of a button to get into that teacher's classroom and they're able to speak to you very clearly. They can hear me very clearly the same with the emergency alert system. I really like that system because it's really easy, one touch and the alarms go off when we have our fire drills. You know, of course, we pull our our poll stations, but we touch that one system, and everybody can hear what the alarm is going off for. Also with the all clear, when we're having our kids come back to the building, we it's easy just to click the bell. One right after the other for them to come in, and then we press the all clear button, and so there's no question that it is clear for them to come back and to come. The front row system has a safety feature that is very important, especially when we're working with kids with disabilities. Sometimes we have emergencies and we're own with students, the fact that we have the button that we could just push if I'm having to work with a student and I can't get to the wall to push the button or I can't get to somebody to ask for help. I'm able to push the button on myself and get the help that I need. It's it's a system that allows us to or allows the teachers more than more than us about the teachers, the moment that there is an urgent matter in the classroom, in the old days, and I guess in other schools we've done, don't have our system. If there's an emergency, the teacher has to run somewhere to talk to somebody or send a student to talk to someone, go to the office. Now there's you don't have to send anybody out out of the classroom in the event God forbid of something major where you cannot leave the classroom, now you have a way to communicate directly by just pushing that button and the alarm goes off immediately in the office. And even the central office will also receive that information that there is an emergency. So the communication is instant, and second scount when you have a major emergency. So now with the system, we are not only I feel better, but I we feel that our teachers are more safer in the way that they can communicate right away in any in any area of of the classroom immediately. So and then The goal is also for SROs or our security system. I mean, our security people to also be able to receive those messages in case of an emergency so that response is immediate, not, you know, waiting and guessing.