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Instructure's CEO will step down in a couple of weeks after the latest purchase agreement with Thoma Bravo is complete.
02/18/2020
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Under the program, students progress from grade to grade at their own pace, based on mastery of concepts and skills laid out in Florida's Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.
02/18/2020
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
02/17/2020
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Continuing with our blogs that investigate SEL (social and emotional learning), in this week’s post, we explore the role that the classroom teacher can play in helping our children develop those critically important social and emotional skills and habits. The blogpost is written by a noted expert on children, teachers, and education, Dr. Shelja Sen, who is based in Delhi, India and is a co-founder of ChildrenFirst, a center that provides children with mental health care solutions.
02/17/2020
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In a revised agreement announced this morning, venture capital company Thoma Bravo has increased its offer to acquire Instructure, from the prior $47.60 per share to a “best and final offer” of $49 per share in cash.
02/14/2020
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The number of opportunities in esports has nearly doubled year over year.
02/13/2020
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A reading interventionist at a Washington state school recently received a grant to acquire audiobooks for her elementary students.
02/13/2020
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Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Mid-Atlantic is working with the Maryland State Department of Education to develop a tool that tracks services and engagement received by schools that need the most improvement.
02/13/2020
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Instructure's pending acquisition by venture capital company Thoma Bravo has fallen through for now.
02/13/2020
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When we discuss STEM education, it's easy to focus on acts of teaching and learning. But if our vision of STEM is only confined to the classroom, we risk ignoring a large portion of what the true essence of STEM education is all about. It is more than just a collection of subjects taught in isolation. In its truest form, STEM is a state of mind: a practice of critical thinking and problem-solving that learners engage in throughout life.
02/12/2020
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Should lead teachers in early childhood education have their own credential? A new feasibility study is underway to research the practicality of that idea.
02/12/2020
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Sony revealed a range of new AV gear for schools at the ISE 2020 conference taking place in Amsterdam this week. That includes five new laser projectors, with one offering a brightness of 13,000 lumens.
02/11/2020
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Later this year a free tool will appear to help school IT organizations get internet speed and pricing information on K-12 broadband connectivity across the United States using publicly available data from the federal Schools and Libraries Program (E-rate).
02/11/2020
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For the first time, a majority of elementary teacher education programs have adopted the tenets of reading science in their curriculum.
02/11/2020
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A British school that works with people who have severe autism is turning to virtual reality to help its students try out new experiences.
02/11/2020
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In a national online survey of 1,246 coaches, administrators and teachers, nearly nine in 10 said they found value in coaching as a form of professional development. More than half (52 percent) said it was "highly" or "very" valuable to them. And exactly half reported that coaching had a positive impact on their practice to a "large" or "great" extent.
02/10/2020
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The Character Tree is offering free subscriptions to its Black History Month video resources through the end of the school year.
02/10/2020
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
02/10/2020