5 cybersecurity life skills to teach all year
If a student from your school had someone knock on their front door, ask for personal information and offer to give them a treat in exchange for that…
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5.3 Million Star Assessments Show the True Impact of the COVID Slide
Renaissance, a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, has released How Kids Are Performing: Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on Reading ... Read more
Renaissance Answers: Has There Really Been an Impact from COVID on Student Performance?
Renaissance, a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today announced the upcoming release of How Kids Are Performing: Tracking the Impact ... Read more
Fear of Children Falling Behind Pushes Worried Parents To Seek New Supplemental Learning
With quarantine continuing to keep many of the nation’s children at home through the fall semester, many parents worry about ... Read more
Newly Minted Career Sparks National Nonprofit Links Kids with Professionals
Today marks the official launch of Career Sparks, a nonprofit organization aimed at connecting real-world career professionals with K-12 students, ... Read more
Follett Online Book Fairs a Convenient Option to Keep Kids Reading
Whether the 2020-21 school year is starting in the classroom or remotely, Follett is ensuring elementary and middle school students ... Read more
Pinna launches “Time for Kids Explains”, a timely, informative weekly news podcast for kids
Pinna, the only on-demand audio entertainment service developed and curated exclusively for kids 3-12, today announced the availability of the ... Read more
Scholastic brings civics education to the forefront with new 2020 U.S. election website
Drawing upon 100 years of experience covering news for kids, Scholastic is launching a new free website to help students ... Read more
Fame Kids Light the Way for the Next Generation of Names in Lights
High school students from LaGuardia High School, aka the Fame School, have been hosting a series of free public information ... Read more
PBS Offers At-Home Learning Broadcast and Digital Resources
As the nation prepares for the beginning of a new school year unlike any other, PBS and member stations are helping ... Read more
Staying Connected During COVID-19 [Teacher Spotlight]: Stacy Salter
What made you want to go into education and begin teaching? I have only been a teacher for three years but I have wanted to be a teacher…
Survey Shows Over 80% of Parents Are Future-Proofing Kids
Osmo’s latest parent survey reinforces what most parents already knew–that coding skills and STEAM education are a desirable means to ... Read more
Free classes and practice problems in over 200 subjects
Many K-12 schools have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More closings are sure to come. In response, Varsity Tutors, founded ... Read more
How edtech companies are helping schools navigate an uncertain year
In the middle of the abrupt changes to the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year, edtech companies offered resources and access to help educators, students, and parents make…
Bridging the gap in cybersecurity education
Experience Education (ExperienceAmerica.com), a leading organization in experiential learning, has partnered with Education Service Center (ESC) Region 20 in Texas ... Read more
Activities to keep kids engaged and learning during the summer
BrainPOP, the online educational solution that makes rigorous learning experiences accessible and engaging for all students, today announced a new product ... Read more
Remote Learning Taught by World-Class Instructors
Today Osmo, the company behind a new category of seamless, digital and hands-on play for ages 5-12 and used in ... Read more
6 steps to help children find purpose and resilience from home
Some days are great. Others are hard. More than two months into stay-at-home orders, parents and kids are getting used to the concept of learning from home via…
Easy Science Experiments for Kids at Home
A collection of fun, safe, and easy science experiments for your students and parents can do at home. Science education ... Read more
Learn Letters with 3D Augmented Zoo Videos
As educators are seeking engaging ways to help parents and kids with learning from home, this magically entertaining show for ... Read more
Keep kids reading all summer long
As parents, educators, public librarians and community leaders, we applaud all you have done for your children and students to ... Read more
10 team-building activities for distance learning
As a teacher, team building is something that comes naturally. We do it to break the ice at the beginning of the year, to build a community in our…
Renaissance is helping to support student learning outside of school
Working to support students during unexpected school closures, Renaissance is offering several free programs including myON, myON News, and Freckle ... Read more
Educational materials for middle and high school from PBS
On the heels of Earth Day, WGBH Education launched a collection of digital resources featuring content from the new film H2O: ... Read more
Free videos to support at-home learning during school closings
Ringbeller, an education media company dedicated to helping kids develop 21st-century skills like creativity, collaboration, and kindness, has released five ... Read more
Complete web-based math curriculum
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is offering one free month or a $15 discount on a yearly subscription to Beast ... Read more
Keeps kids engaged with free one-a-day brainteasers
MindAntix, a learning company that provides all students with the opportunity to build creativity and problem-solving skills, announced it is ... Read more
Digital ethics for kids
iKeepSafe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a safe digital landscape for children, schools and families, recently launched the sixth ... Read more
Dictionary.com Launches Learning At Home Center: Free Educational Resources for Kids and Parents
Dictionary.com announced today it has launched the Dictionary.com Learning At Home Center, offering free, educator-reviewed materials and resources for kids ... Read more
Free One-to-one Coaching for Kids Struggling to Learn
With schools around the country closed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, teachers are scrambling to teach online classes, students ... Read more
Online summit for all special education stakeholders
The 2020 Special Kids International Summit, presented by Kidskintha in partnership with UNESCO’s New Delhi Office and MindRocket Media Group, ... Read more
Free Math Program for iOS and Android
In response to the demand for learning at home, Bedtime Math has taken their research-proven after-school math club activities and ... Read more
How schools can cope during a pandemic
By now, we are all familiar with the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, and have suddenly learned more about epidemiological terms like vectors, latency periods, and mortality rates than…
Six things I learned bringing online learning to international schools
For the last 15 years, I’ve been introducing schools all around the world to the value of online learning. It started at the Colegio Internacional de Caracas in…
Developing successful personalized learning literacy programs
As a former kindergarten and first grade teacher, who later taught struggling readers in grades three to five, I was acutely aware of the reading instruction gaps that…
Three key trends in robotics education
Robots are hugely popular with kids. Want proof? Four of the 20 best-selling toys on Amazon during the 2018 holiday season were robots, robotics kits, or other electronic…
6 ways to get teachers on board with edtech
We’ve all heard about veteran educators who have been teaching the same way for years and are reluctant to integrate technology into their practice. Why should they? It’s…
The coolest K-12 robotics programs we saw at ISTE
Efforts to get kids coding have exploded in recent years, but sometimes kids need a push to discover the "why" behind learning how to code. At ISTE 2019,…
Rigor and joy: SEL and academics go hand-in-hand
Demographics McMinnville School District serves 6,800 students across 9 schools Biggest challenge We are a Title 1 school in rural Oregon with over 60 percent of our students…
‘I teach because’: 7 educators on why they teach
Has anyone ever asked you why you teach? What did you say? Maybe you said, "I teach because I love seeing ah-ha moments," or, "I teach because I…