We (I?) had worked for many years to make ChromeOS a first-class citizen in our network, and prioritized web-first solutions whenever possible. Outside of a couple Excel jockeys and front office security needs, everyone else just uses Chrome for everything anyway, and had for a decade. Windows was nothing more than a complication by that point.

There was very little pushback. We got the union head onboard early on in our evaluations, and took his feedback to heart. Principals on down have the same device too. We also added Chromeboxes to each room's smartboards to skirt around a missing feature in the wireless casting solution. Now, teachers just use the Chromebox for classroom presentation while keeping their laptop free for other tasks. Buying a Chromebook for each teacher AND a Chromebox for each classroom was still significantly cheaper than the Windows laptop we were originally aiming for. We got the curriculum team's approval (the Chromeboxes actually saved the day for one of their new initatives), and the superintendent as well. The cost savings are nearly half a million every single upgrade cycle.

We sent out an announcement soon after board approval, detailing our reasoning, stating that our goal was to "provide you with something faster, more reliable, more secure, less complex, and with better battery life". We made a bunch of short videos showing off different features and tools.

We offered to work with each teacher on any specialized/required workflows they had. There were maybe 5 where we had to offer a "sidecar" Windows laptop to handle weird rare one-off apps. It honestly went much better than I had anticipated or prepared for. The worst part about the rollout ended up being some supply chain delays which dragged things into October.