If you imagine public education as a large freighter, steady and strong, but typically slow to change course, the last two months have put rocket boosters on the back and converted it into a large wave-riding speedboat. We have changed the way we provide services. For a district who had not yet gone "one to one," or provided a computing device for each student, or provided devices for students to take home, we had hurdles to jump.

To date, technology staff has distributed over 7,500 devices to students to support learning at home, more than double what we initially anticipated. There were...