As a seasoned educator, Richard McLaughlin has been able to embrace technology to offer individualized instruction to meet the needs of his students. Currently, as an autistic support educator at High School of the Future in Philadelphia, he teaches students in a single classroom who have a range of abilities, Pre-K through 12. Using the SMART Board® as a collaboration tool for he and his students, Richard has been able to enhance the way his students learn for the last 11 years in his classroom. In the morning, as students check in at the interactive display, they can choose their own pen tool color, which is more significant than it may seem, Richard says. “I’ve taught them to change the pen color. It’s always a big deal, you know? One wants to write in purple, or yellow or bla

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