Today, the New Orleans public school system has only 21 schools in its jurisdiction. Most of them are in older buildings that were on high ground and survived the storm. Katrina caused $800 million worth of destruction to the schools, but it also provided an opportunity for a new beginning. The staff was determined to succeed when schools reopened after a year. Planners seized the opportunity for change. A dedicated tech team knew that technology could make a critical difference in students future success. They chose Qwizdom student response systems as linchpins of a model classroom project that included interactive whiteboards and laptops. The goal for technology, according to Peggy Abadie, Executive Director of Information Technology, is for technology to help transform instruction in such a way that ownership of instruction is transferred to the learner. They chose Qwizdom's Q4 Student Response System as the pivotal technology because they improve teachers' ability to know immediately how students are performing and engage and sustain students in learning at the same time. Today the district has 3800 Qwizdom clickers in classrooms, starting with high school math and science so that 98% of those classes have the response systems.