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According to the two companies, the deal will result in a streamlined way for school districts to incorporate the Mentoring Mind's critical thinking content into their curriculum and teaching.
01/14/2020
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LEGO Education has started shipping SPIKE Prime, a hands-on classroom robotics and coding system for middle school.
01/14/2020
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The Educators of American Micro-Grant Program is awarding educators $250 to $5,000 for classroom technology to support student success. The organization reviews micro-grant applications on a quarterly basis (in January, April, July and October).
01/13/2020
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
01/13/2020
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The initial implementation will cover 150 ProColor displays, with the expectation of installing about 500 displays throughout the district over the next year. The installation work is being handled by Howard Technology Solutions, chosen through a bid process.
01/09/2020
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Schools districts in both Washington state and Michigan suffered malware attacks during the winter break.
01/09/2020
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Creating "gold-standard" project-based learning requires effective training (and more training), staying light on your feet and getting top leader commitment.
01/08/2020
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An organization of school technology leaders has given a peek at the "hurdles, accelerators and tech enablers" that innovation efforts in K-12 will face in the coming year.
01/08/2020
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A new report noted that young women have "many opportunity windows"during which the intervention of role models, particular kinds of messaging, involvement in engineering activities and the use of student-centered learning "can have a significant impact on her choices and persistence."
01/08/2020
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New Jersey defines chronic absenteeism as missing 18 days or more each school year. And it's especially high for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children compared to other grade levels, according to the state's Department of Education. Among kindergartners, for example, chronic absenteeism hit 11.4 percent during the 2015-2016 school year.
01/08/2020
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OER Commons, an organization focused on creating open educational resources for education, has developed a new tool for authoring OER.
01/06/2020
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
01/06/2020
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A college in New Jersey hosted 300-plus girls this week for an inaugural coding challenge. The New Jersey Institute of Technology invited in middle and high schoolers from 25 schools to participate in a first-ever coding-based competition. All are part of after-school "Girls Who Code" clubs.
12/16/2019
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One of the developments to ESSA’s new list of benchmarks requires schools to deliver financial reports that break out funding at the school-level — a task that was previously reported at the district-level. By December 31, 2019, each individual school must present their fiscal year budgets through an online report card. That end of year deadline will be here before you know it.
12/13/2019
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The U.S. Department of Education has simplified the application method for applying for small, rural school grants in 2020.
12/12/2019
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An Oklahoma school system was the victim of a malware attack. According to local reporting, between 75 and 100 computers at Bixby Public Schools were brought down, primarily in the middle school and an athletic complex.
12/12/2019
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In 2011, Instructure staked its claim in the LMS market by taking its learning management system open source. Now, the company has agreed in principle to be acquired by a venture capital firm. Instructure recently announced the transaction; Thoma Bravo has offered stockholders $47.60 per share in cash, valuing the company at about $1.79 billion.
12/12/2019
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Pritchardville Elementary has built parent engagement on three pillars: consistency, frequency and accessibility.
12/12/2019