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Education Leaders

Hidden in Plain Site

Here at LinkedUp, we love to explore the crossroads where education and technology meet, especially when they can be used as tools for social advocacy! This month we’re exploring Hidden in Plain Site (Episode 67). Hidden in Plain Site (HiPS) is an organization that uses virtual reality (VR) exploration to grow social advocacy through a historical journey of empathy.

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ClassLink Products: March 2022

Now it’s even easier to use Roster Server with everything related to your Student Information System (SIS) easily accessible on the Imports page. Along with clear access to all your import tools, you can also clearly see where you are in the import process by clicking on the caret (down arrow) on the left.

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ClassLink Academy: March 2022

As 2022 rolls on we have exciting news from ClassLink Academy to make your learning experience even more magical! First up, our newly launched Discussion Forums will connect you with others like never before! Then, check your standings for our Q1 gaming competition. Finally, check out our latest ClassLink Academy initiatives as we reveal what’s in store for the not-so-distant future.

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Partnerships

Partnering With ClassLink: March 2022

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

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Education Leaders

Planning for Sustainability: A Little Data Mining Can Do a Lot for Digital Learning

In the final part of our Planning for Sustainability series, we look at how districts that used ClassLink avoided the struggle of learning from home and how these stories can help all districts as we move forward in an education system that is rapidly ramping up digital learning.

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Partnering With ClassLink: February 2022

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

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ClassLink Products: February 2022

With the FBI warning that schools at all levels are facing an increased risk of ransomware attacks, MFA is a tool you can use now to protect your schools (and your data). Tenant admins can quickly enable MFA in your ClassLink platform as part of your cybersecurity efforts.

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ClassLink Academy: February 2022

ClassLink Academy, ClassLink’s on-demand training platform, has a lot to offer in 2022! In response to feedback from our customers (maybe even you), we upped the magic in ClassLink Academy through Product Anthologies and Gamification Competitions — keep reading to learn more!

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Education Leaders

Planning for Sustainability: Determine Future Spending with Data

In part three of our Planning for Sustainability series, we look at how monitoring general digital access trends (daily ClassLink logins) and establishing processes can help you establish and maintain device access (even when funding declines).

Education Leaders

Implicit Biases and Their Ramifications

This month in our LinkedUp Podcast highlight, we're covering Episode 63: Implicit Biases and Their Ramifications. In this episode, Dr. Alan Phan (Founding Head of School, Royal Embassy Academy) shares what exactly implicit biases are, how we can recognize them and what we can do to combat them in our daily lives and work.

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Education Leaders

Planning for Sustainability: 4 Data-Focused Steps You Can Take Right Now

In part two of our Planning for Sustainability series, we look at how monitoring general digital access trends (daily ClassLink logins) and establishing processes can help you establish and maintain device access (even when funding declines).

Education Leaders

K12 Cybersecurity: Protecting Our Schools

We’re trying something new at LinkedUp! Each month we’re highlighting a recent podcast on the ClassLink blog because the information and ideas discussed are just so powerful and useful to educators they deserve a second look. This month we picked K12 Cybersecurity: Protecting Our Schools (Episode 59).

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Education Leaders

Planning for Sustainability: How Usage Data Can Prepare Districts for the 2024 Funding Drop

The years 2020–2023 are proving to be unprecedented in the world of educational technology. Some say that the amount of available federal funding will be the most we will ever have in educational technology! With that amount of funding, many school districts can build up their technology fleet and infrastructure systems of support.

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Engagement Insight: December 2021

Do you want to analyze and increase app usage across your entire organization? A great place to start is providing your instructional support staff (technology coaches, math coaches, and other staff supporting teachers and students) with the ability to see your ClassLink Analytics data. 

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Partnerships

Partnering With ClassLink: December 2021

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

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Education Leaders

CTO Keith Price Shares How Automated IDM Solves Access Issues and Saves Time

I know many of you are looking for ways to automate identity management so you can save time and—most importantly—ensure everyone has access to what they need when they need it. With that in mind, I want to share a conversion I had with Vestavia Hills City Schools CTO Keith Price and System Specialist Brendan Lovelady about how ClassLink has greatly improved identity management in the district.

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Partnerships

Partnering With ClassLink: October 2021

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

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Engagement Insight: October 2021

Cybersecurity concerns are on the rise in schools across the country. To help all ClassLink schools keep their data safe, we will roll out a software update in early 2022 that requires all tenant admins to enable multi-factor authentication on all tenant admin user accounts.

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Partnering With ClassLink: August 2021

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

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Resources to Kick Off the New School Year

As you launch into a new school year we’ve pulled together some of our most popular resources to prepare you for the busy days ahead. Don’t worry, we've also included our regular installment of a useful resource for the month and helpful tech tips. Find it all below.

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Connecting EdTech Product Use to Student Outcomes: Understanding How Research Studies Apply to Your District

Welcome to Student Outcomes: Connect the Dots With Usage Data. This is the final post in a three-part series designed to support education leaders in making informed decisions about digital resources. The series focuses on using data to ensure equitable digital learning access and using research to increase the instructional impact of digital resources.

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Connecting EdTech Product Use to Student Outcomes: How to Quickly Find and Interpret Research

Welcome to Student Outcomes: Connect the Dots With Usage Data. This post is the second in a three-part series designed to support education leaders in making informed decisions about digital resources. The series focuses on using data to ensure equitable digital learning access and research to increase the instructional impact of digital resources.

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Connecting EdTech Product Use to Student Outcomes: A Case Study on New Digital Divides

Welcome to Student Outcomes: Connect the Dots With Usage Data. This post is the first in a three-part series designed to support education leaders in making better decisions about digital resources. The series will focus on using data to ensure equitable digital learning access and using research to increase the instructional impact of digital resources.

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An Easier Way to Roster Staff Who Are Not in Your SIS

Having done rostering for one of the largest districts in the country, I am very familiar with the struggles around the need to give access to a particular platform to teachers and staff who are not scheduled with students. I am talking about district resource teachers, reading, math, and science coaches, special ed teachers, aides, media specialists, administrators, and the like.

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Partnerships

Use ClassLink Roster Server for Every Edition of Google Workspace for Education

As you prepare for a new school year, we think it's helpful for you to know that ClassLink rosters Google Classroom no matter which level of Google Workspace for Education your district uses. Since 2017, school districts have trusted ClassLink to streamline and automate rostering for all four Google Workspace for Education offerings.

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Engagement Insight: July 2021

As you begin to look toward next school year, we want to share some resources and tools that you can use to help keep your users up-to-date on changes you made over the summer.

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Partnerships

Partnering With ClassLink: July 2021

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

Education Leaders

How Schools Are Addressing Learning Gaps

Whether you call it learning loss, unfinished learning, or learning gaps, schools are sorting out ways to bring students up to speed after a long stretch of remote learning. In this post, we share what educators and education leaders are doing during the regular school year and summer school to help students catch up on missed learning opportunities.

Education Leaders
Remote Learning

Flip the Script: Instead of Additional Learning Time, Use Current Time More Efficiently

In all the excitement of stimulus funds coming down to the local level and the requirements of addressing lost learning time, many new ideas are being floated on how to help students once full-time in-person instruction begins again. An idea being discussed by districts across the country is the idea of extended learning time.

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Engagement Insight: May 2021

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. Each year Mental Health America, National Alliance on Mental Illness, and other mental health organizations across the country organize events, webinars, and more to improve access to mental health resources and support.

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Partnerships

Partnering With ClassLink: May 2021

Everyone committed to the education industry wants the same thing—success for schools. But that success requires that systems work together, exchange information, and are easy to access. ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless.

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Working Together to Support Education

In the age of digital learning (both in and out of the classroom), educators, students, and staff need the technologies they use to work together so learning can stay on track. That’s precisely why ClassLink’s Partner Program exists—and why we’ve taken a transparent and inclusive approach to work with EdTech vendors.

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Engagement Insight: April 2021

April is National Volunteer Month, a month dedicated to honoring and encouraging our communities’ volunteers. April became National Volunteer Month as part of President George W. Bush’s Points of Light Campaign in 1991. It is the perfect time to recognize the impact that volunteer service can have on local and national challenges, building stronger communities, and transforming the world!

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Engagement Insight: March 2021

Welcome to our new Engagement Spotlight format—new look, same helpful resources and tips. This month we’re highlighting National Women’s Month and bringing a little joy to our monthly update!

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Remote Learning

How Data Helps ClassLink Schools Grow Digital Engagement

Last year we shared data highlighting the remote learning experiences of ClassLink schools in the spring of 2020. The data painted a picture of schools making quick transitions to remote learning with relatively stable use compared to pre-pandemic numbers. With the fall semester complete, we revisited ClassLink Analytics data to see how student engagement with digital resources had evolved.

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Four ClassLink Tips and Tricks that Save Teachers Time

When I talk with teachers, I like to share tips and tricks for using ClassLink to save them time and make their day a little easier. Here I’m going to share those nuggets with you. Number one is my favorite for staying organized. Teachers tell me that number two is a gamechanger for saving time during busy school days, and number four is just plain fun.

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Remote Learning

How to Shift Six Classroom Best Practices to Remote and Hybrid Learning

Many classroom best practices can still work in remote and hybrid settings—with a little technology tweaking. Here I’ll show you how to translate six research-proven classroom best practices into remote and hybrid learning settings.

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Remote Learning

Understand Student Engagement With New ClassLink Analytics Features

In an era of remote learning, school leaders need access to analytics that paint a clear picture of student engagement with digital learning resources. Without that data, it’s difficult to know whether students are engaged and learning or struggling and in need of support.

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Remote Learning

Learning From ClassLink’s Data

In March 2020, when schools shut down during the pandemic, students’ experiences with remote learning varied, and some media portrayals labeled it a failure. In this blog series, we will share real school experiences, along with guidance for how you can apply their success to make remote learning more effective.

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Remote Learning

What I Learned from a Decade of Leading Virtual Education

A decade ago, the Kansas Online Learning Program emerged in the ether above the wheat fields in central Kansas. Our mission was to provide rural students with the same learning opportunities as their peers living in more affluent zip codes. In its ten year existence, the program more than quadrupled in size and resulted in heartwarming success stories.

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Remote Learning

ISP Capacity Planning for Remote Learning

Demands on school internet bandwidth change when schools switch to remote learning models. Schools often calibrate their bandwidth for large download speeds to satisfy in-school usage. However, when students and teachers are remote, the upload speed may matter more.

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Education Leaders

Schools Are More Than the Sum of Instruction

For decades, Learning Management Systems (LMS’s) have helped transform colleges and universities from exclusively face-to-face learning environments to blended and online learning experiences. A similar transformation is occurring in K12,especially as they adopt various LMS’s during COVID-19 related school closures.

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Remote Learning

It Takes a Village, but the Village Needs Wi-Fi

The proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” has more relevance in 2020 than ever before. The 2020 village, in all its modern splendor, is raising children in a connected and digital world that requires more than food, clothing, and shelter. It requires a new and necessary utility—access to the Internet.

Education Leaders
Remote Learning

Back to School Planning: Monitoring & Evaluation

ClassLink, in partnership with CoSN and SETDA, recently released version two of the back to school plan rubric. Evaluation is one of the core elements included in the tool. In this post, we dive deeper into the factors districts should weigh when monitoring and evaluating the success of their plans for the upcoming school year.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Maintain & Improve Your Learning Continuity Plan

As you stare down a complicated new school year ready to roll out your updated learning continuity plans, it’s important to remember your work is far from over. Your learning continuity plan needs to be iterative to be effective. As you learn from your success, mistakes, and, most importantly, the feedback of families, teachers, and students, your plan should evolve and change.

Education Leaders
Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Implement Remote Learning

Like a well-rehearsed fire drill, everyone needs to know what to do when the remote learning alarm sounds. For the switch to work, you need a clear process where everyone knows which steps to take and when to take them.

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Remote Learning

Back to School Planning: Deliberate Data Use

At ClassLink, we developed a rubric for back to school planning, in partnership with CoSN and SETDA. Assessment and data are one of the core elements included in the tool. In this post, we dive deeper into the factors districts should weigh when planning to collect and use data during the upcoming school year.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Consider & Work With Families

Families are frontline workers when it comes to learning at home. They need your support, clear communication, and understanding if they are going to find ways to make learning from home happen within their household.

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Remote Learning

Back to School Planning: Instructional Delivery Methods

At ClassLink, we developed a rubric for back to school planning, in partnership with CoSN and SETDA. Instructional Delivery Methods is one of the core elements included in the tool. In this post, we dive deeper into the factors districts should weigh when planning for instructional delivery scenarios during the upcoming school year.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Develop Teacher & Student Capacity

As you look toward an uncertain new school year, one thing is clear; it’s critical to equip students and teachers with the skills, knowledge, and processes they need to succeed with online learning. Without this step, all your other plans fall flat.

Education Leaders
Remote Learning

Back to School Planning: Rethinking Attendance

At ClassLink, we developed a rubric for back to school planning, in partnership with CoSN and SETDA. Attendance is one of the core elements included in the tool. In this post, we dive deeper into the factors districts should consider when crafting attendance policies and procedures for the upcoming school year.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Strengthen Data Privacy & Security

With digital learning and productivity tools at the heart of many learning continuity plans, districts are faced with keeping a colossal amount of student and staff data secure – both inside and outside of school walls. If that data is compromised or exploited, there could be serious impacts on student and staff privacy and safety.

Education Leaders
Remote Learning

Back to School Planning: Setting Priorities

While each school year brings with it a set of plans and goals, this upcoming year will require intense preparation. The present situation demands new paradigms for instruction and school operations. At ClassLink, we developed a rubric for back to school planning, in partnership with CoSN and SETDA. It includes core elements to consider as you plan for students to return to school for the 2020-21 school year.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Build Your Technology Ecosystem Plan

The technology districts need to support learning continuity goes well beyond devices, content, and internet access. Anytime, anywhere learning requires a solid foundation of technology infrastructure that supports learning both directly and indirectly.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Secure & Sustain Funding

Planning for learning continuity requires a shift in how we think about funding. As a district-wide issue, there must be a district-wide commitment to establish learning continuity – especially when it comes to funding those efforts.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Establish Equity & Access

Whether you call it the digital divide, the homework gap, or something else, we’ve never been able to provide all students in our education system with equitable access to online educational materials and opportunities. As a result, our most vulnerable students get left behind and suffer the most in educational losses. Sadly, the problem is exacerbated by the current health crisis.

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Remote Learning

What Lies Ahead - Planning for the 2020-21 School Year

Usually May brings with it exciting times for schools. In some areas of the country, it means end-of-year celebrations, graduations, proms, and a beginning to the summer season. In other parts, preparations for all these things would be starting. Unfortunately, these are not typical times. Now May brings an early end to the school year for many and a muddling through the final leg of remote learning for others.

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Remote Learning

Learning Continuity Guidebook: Start With Your Vision & Goals

Whether it’s a pandemic, a fire, inclement weather, or some other unforeseen circumstance, learning must continue. As district leaders, it’s our responsibility to set up our students, and teachers, for success. Our experiences – and countless conversations – have shown us that the following nine pillars are the core considerations for a learning continuity plan that is effective, inclusive, and enduring.

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Remote Learning

Administrators’ Guide - Make the Switch to Remote Learning With ClassLink

Moving your entire district to remote and online learning at a moment’s notice is no easy feat. At ClassLink, we want to support you through this transition. In this post, you’ll find an easy-to-follow guide outlining critical steps you should take to prepare your teachers, staff, and students for using ClassLink to learn at home.

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Parents’ Guide - Easy ClassLink Access

Your school district is using ClassLink to help make the transition to remote learning as smooth as possible for you and your child. With ClassLink LaunchPad, your child uses just one username and password to access all their digital resources.

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Teachers’ Guide - Productive eLearning with ClassLink

As you transition to using ClassLink for remote learning, you probably have questions. You might even be wondering where to start. We get it, and we’re here to help.

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Remote Learning

Prepare for Successful Digital Learning Days

Is your district struggling to plan digital learning days in case of school closures? In this blog post, former Mountain Brook Schools (AL) CTO, Donna Williamson, shares best practices for deploying Digital Learning Days from scratch.

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Get Insight to Make Informed Decisions on Culture, Climate, Staff Retention and more with Satchel Pulse

As we aim to empower students and teachers with instant access to their digital learning resources and productivity tools, we are given the incredible opportunity to work with passionate partners to help us support you in raising student achievement and progress.

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Education Leaders

Rural Districts – Taking the Digital Leap

Rural school districts have always faced certain challenges from long student and/or teacher commutes to school and extracurricular activities to a lack of diversity in courses (particularly AP, foreign language and non-core classes). Leaping into the digital waters presents both opportunities (distance learning, for example) and challenges.

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Six Ways SmartTrack Can Save Schools Time and Money

SmartTrack can reduce that loss by 75%, helping schools save thousands of dollars each year by transforming the way assets are tracked and inventory is managed. This is the most affordable, easy to use and customizable inventory solution on the market, and thanks to a partnership with ClassLink, it’s more accessible than ever before.

Education Leaders
Remote Learning

Demystifying Web Accessibility

Web Accessibility is part of the spectrum of delivering equal educational opportunities to all students. With more and more of our communication and school work being accessed online, the issue of website accessibility has come to the forefront of the accessibility discussion.‍

Partnerships

Partner Spotlight: StageAgent for Schools

As we aim to empower students and teachers with instant access to their digital learning resources and productivity tools, we are given the incredible opportunity to work with passionate partners to help us support you in raising student achievement and progress.

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Partner Spotlight: Curriculum Pathways

As we aim to empower students and teachers with instant access to their digital learning resources and productivity tools, we are given the incredible opportunity to work with passionate partners to help us support you in raising student achievement and progress. We are keen to introduce you to our wonderful partners through our regular Partner Spotlight series.

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Education Leaders

Guest Post: How Technologies Support District Goals of Being Digital on Day One

In the School District of Pickens County, our goal is to be “Digital on Day One” so our students and teachers have access on the very first day of school to the devices and content they need. We have been working toward this goal for five years now and have made some key decisions around software, professional development, and network infrastructure to help us reach this goal.

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Education Leaders

Guest Post: Five Technologies Improving The K-12 Digital Learning Experience

In 2013, under the direction of a new Superintendent, Mr. Tom Wilson, Anderson School District Five had one middle school take a giant leap to provide a Chromebook for each student to use in the classroom for “e-Instruction.” Teachers and students were responsible and eager to “shake up” and “challenge up” to indeed change traditional instruction, so in October 2013, the District supported students to take home the devices.

Education Leaders

The Call for Automated Provisioning

Sometimes education CIOs have to prioritize very technical problems that non-technical peers might think are a lesser priority, principally because they are not well understood. But when a teacher can’t access her accounts, or a student isn’t finding his work inside a learning application, those problems become all too real, and the priority becomes very clear.

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Partnerships

Driving Interoperability. Who’s Behind the Wheel?

During the past year, I have interacted with many school districts, as well as held numerous meetings with publishers and technology leadership groups such as Microsoft, SEDTA, COSN, IMS Global, EdFi, and ISTE. I must say that I am encouraged by the direction the industry seems to be headed.

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Education Leaders
Partnerships

Project Unicorn Data Interoperability Pledge

ClassLink is committed to providing secure access, privacy, and interoperability in our products while empowering customers, educators, and families to achieve an enhanced level of engagement in their students’ education. With a shared mission to leverage data to create better outcomes for students, save time for teachers, and increase efficiencies for schools, several organizations have come together to create Project Unicorn, an uncommon alliance dedicated to furthering interoperability within the K-12 education space.

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Is It Time to Embrace 21st-Century Learning Trends?

In 1988, a friend and mentor, Dr. William Bozeman, Professor Emeritus from the University of Central Florida penned an article for THE Journal that concluded two things that are still valid 30 years later: implementation processes must be taken more seriously by administrators than in the past. Resources without appropriate faculty development will be of little value.

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