FrontRow Audio Systems
Advanced Education is excited to announce a new partnership with FrontRow, a leading provider of sound systems in K-12 classrooms. With FrontRow, students will be more focused and you will teach in a more productive classroom.
Schools using amplification have
more focused, productive classrooms
Each day, schools’ investments in people, curricula, and technology can be undermined when students miss 25% of what teachers say. That’s if they’re lucky enough to have a good seat: children in the back row may even miss 40%.
Why? Noisy air conditioning. Unfamiliar material. And inexperienced listeners. Children are naturally vulnerable to misunderstanding new concepts because they can’t reconstruct key words and phrases they’ve missed the way adults can.
That's why 4,000 US and Canadian districts use FrontRow sound systems to clarify and evenly distribute the teacher’s voice throughout the classroom.
Advantages of using Front Row Audio Systems in your classroom
One Touch Operation - Teachers only need to turn on the mic to start teaching
Energy Efficient - The FrontRow classroom amplification system uses up to 63% percent less energy
Easier Installations - The IR Speaker means that installations take about half the time of typical four speaker systems
FrontRow is known to improve:
- Student achievement
- Attention, behavior, & management
- Student equity
- Teacher fatigue
- ESL performance
- Technology integration
Studies have shown Improvement in Student Achievement with FrontRow Audio Systems
In a five-month study of first-grade students, the FrontRow classrooms had twice as many children achieving significant literacy gains.
Students in FrontRow classrooms are twice as likely to have high-level reading growth.
A number of studies show that students perform better academically in classrooms with a FrontRow sound system. For example, in a five-month study of 85 research and 81 control first-graders in the Broward County (Florida) Public School System, students in classrooms using FrontRow achieved significantly greater IRI-measured literacy gains. In fact, they were twice as likely to jump seven or more reading levels.
Why FrontRow improves literacy 
Phonemic awareness — the ability to distinguish individual speech sounds — is a basic requirement for developing young skillful readers. It’s hard to be aware of phonemes if you’re not consistently and clearly hearing them. Because FrontRow sound systems increase speech clarity and phonemic awareness, they can significantly enhance the effectiveness of reading and spelling instruction.
Read White Paper
Read the White Paper: - Using Classroom Amplification Using Classroom Amplification in a Universal Design Model to Enhance Hearing and Listening, issued by the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat (click here to download PDF).
Products
Three FrontRow systems cover the full range of instructional needs — the FrontRow Pro Digital for complete media integration, the FrontRow Symbio for connection to existing media amplifiers and the FrontRow ToGo for installaton-free and portable applications. The Advanced Education team can help you choose which system best fits your needs.
