• Report Details Increasingly Sophisticated Phishing Attacks and Proxies Targeting Students

  In a monthlong study of one U.S. school district with newly implemented PhishID security software, Identity Automation uncovered detailed markers of increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and dangerous proxy services targeting students, according to a new report out from Identity Automation.

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• Almost Half of Public School Students Started the Academic Year Behind

  Most schools are using various forms of tutoring as part of their learning recovery strategies, in addition to formative assessments, remediation, and individualized instruction.

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• Got Chromebooks? First Steps to Securely and Sustainably Reusing and Recycling School Devices

  An expert offers tips for K-12 administrators and their IT teams on how to make the most out of their investment in Chromebooks with security and sustainability in mind, and recommends schools revise their IT equipment policies to address used and end-of-life devices, including Chromebooks.

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• Going Digital with Student Records

  When it comes to records management, many K–12 school districts are still using microfiche, paper, and PDFs. For districts still managing and processing student records in a paper-based format, it might be time to look toward technology to help efficiently and securely manage student records. Check out how digital student records can make administrators' (and families') lives easier.

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• How We Launched a Districtwide Computer Science Program with Just 4 Teachers and No Formal CS Training

  At this California school district, a new weekly prep period for all teachers opened the door for four Teachers on Special Assignment to travel to each campus and teach Computer Science to primary students once a week — here's how the TOSAs (with no formal training in computer science) dove into the new subject to add computer science instruction to every classroom grades K-6.

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• Microsoft Introduces Full Suite of Learning Accelerator Tools at No Extra Cost

  Less than a year after introducing its Reading Coach and Reading Progress tools for education users, Microsoft today introduced an entire suite of similar tools called Learning Accelerators that focus on digital literacy, speaking and presentation skills, and math, each with a “Coach” tool for students and a “Progress” monitoring and assigning tool for teachers.

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• Paint a Picture Through Coding

  The top 20 most in-demand skills required by U.S. organizations are all computer-science based. Industries globally continue to voice their concern over the lack of tech skills among high school and college graduates. The skills gap is so large that with the right skills, students can almost walk out of school and into a highly lucrative career.

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• Shifting from Paper to the Cloud: How K-12 Schools are Digitizing Operations

  Digitization is the key to eliminating backlogs of paper processes made worse by staff shortages and other post-pandemic challenges. Schools can create modern and digitized systems that make documents searchable and accessible — eliminating the time required to file and search through boxes for old student transcripts, test scores, health records, and more.

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• The Best Ed Tech Innovations Will Be Emergent – If We Do This Right

  Without minimizing the need to honor students’ privacy rights, we as an ed tech community should also not miss the opportunity to search for the new emergent patterns that will no doubt appear when we look at how students, teachers, and their data all interact. It’s these new patterns, like ripples in the sand, that will likely offer insights into the heretofore most intractable questions in education.

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• Turnitin AI Writing Detector to Be Available as Soon as April

  Plagiarism detection company Turnitin reported that its AI writing detection tool will be available as a feature of its existing products as soon as April.

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• Tutoring Triumphs in Texas: Ector County ISD's Unique Approach is Yielding Remarkable Results

  Over the three years since Ector County ISD launched its tutoring program, the district has achieved remarkable growth, and superintendent Scott Muri recently joined THE Journal Insider podcast host Kristal Kuykendall to share some of the lessons learned during the pilot and implementation, such as its use of outcomes-based tutoring contracts, strictly structured tutoring sessions, and teacher involvement.

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• Unsung Heroes Grant Program Now Accepting Applications from K-12 Educators, Staff for Classroom Projects

  The Voya Unsung Heroes grant program, which awards $2,000 each to 50 educators to fund innovative classroom projects plus three top awards of up to $25,000, is now accepting applications through April 28, 2023.

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