Are educators and school staff ready to respond to a loss in the school community? This new whitepaper surveying nearly 12,000 educators shows how they perceive their abilities to support students and colleagues.
Podcast Series: Innovations in Education
Explore the full series of eSchool News podcasts hosted by Kevin Hogan—created to keep you on the cutting edge of innovations in education.
Using STEM & PBL to Combat New Challenges in Education
Many educators have reevaluated their curriculum and identified opportunities for improvement based on what they’ve observed during the pandemic. Take a look at some of the top challenges faced by the education community and how STEM & PBL helped overcome them.
Pooled COVID-19 testing in schools? Here’s what to know before diving in
Enabling K-12 schools to reopen for in-person learning is a priority for many teachers, administrators, parents, communities, and governments. But health and safety–both for students and school employees–is a top concern. Just as with the general population, regular COVID-19 testing can help identify cases early, even among asymptomatic individuals.
President Biden recently launched the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. This program provides funds for COVID-19 testing for teachers, staff, and students in an effort to create a safer return-to-school environment at no cost to parents or the school system. And best practices suggest that pooled testing on a weekly basis can create an easy-to-implement, safe environment that lets teachers and kids put the focus back on education.
So, what is pooled testing and what do school administrators and teachers need to know? Before you dive in, here’s everything you need to know about pooled testing.…Read More
Learn How UV Disinfection Can Support Your School’s Layered Prevention Strategies
To safely reopen, the CDC recommends the implementation of layered prevention strategies, including ultraviolet germicidal irradiation to clean & maintain healthy facilities. Explore how to incorporate the proven power of UV disinfection for air and surfaces into your protocols.
Find a Communication Solution That Works For Your K-12 School District
School communication solutions run the gamut from social media to parent portals and everything in between. This guide breaks down the tools on the market to help meet your district goals while taking into consideration what parents say they want.
Enrich Learning in Higher Education with New Display Technology
Today’s prospective college students prefer to learn and collaborate digitally, driving more higher education institutions to adopt advanced A/V solutions to better compete for digital-first scholars and expand their total offering.
Using Federal Funding to Support Student Success
The federal government set aside billions of dollars to help K-12 schools implement upgraded technology for improving outcomes and providing in-person and virtual services. Our latest white paper outlines how schools are using federal funding and technology to increase student connection and success.
ConexED is a unified student services platform that meets all requirements for funding-approved use, including securing a multi-year contract. The ConexED platform helps foster a connection between students, parents, teachers, and staff that makes a difference.
Hundreds of schools using ConexED were able to scale to virtual, in-person, or hybrid approaches for student services and instruction during the pandemic—without sacrificing the student experience. …Read More
Lessons learned in cybersecurity: How education coped in the shift to distance learning
Education in the United States faced a crisis this past year. The looming threat of the coronavirus—which spreads easily in highly-populated, enclosed rooms—forced schools across the country to develop new strategies for education.
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…Read More4 Helpful Tips For Re-thinking Stem In Your District
When we surveyed 62 district technology leaders, only 5% rated their schools as having high or extremely high levels of engagement in STEM and computer science. Now that in-person learning is opening up across the US and Canada, many district and school leaders are re-thinking what success and innovation looks like, starting with their district STEM programs.
In this guide, we will outline 4 research-based recommendations on how to re-think STEM in your district to make it more successful than ever for the school year ahead.
…Read MoreReturning to Normal: What “Back to School” Really Means for IT Teams
As schools and districts prepare to welcome students back to campus, what does the new normal look like?
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- Is there a predominant scenario, or are there multiple instructional models and learning arrangements appearing on the horizon?
- How can the technology acquisitions occurring last spring and summer assist district leaders with making wise budgetary choices, help with questions of student safety and mental wellbeing, address classroom tech needs, or enhance school-parent communication and transparency?
- Can—and should—schools incorporate their newly acquired tech arrays into in-person classrooms?
- How can schools keep paying for it all?
With this eBook, we hope to speak to many of the specifics around a return to substantial in-person learning and walk you through some of the main considerations regarding a return to campus, its impact on your IT teams, and solutions that can help make the entire process easier and more efficient.
…Read MoreHow one district evolved their PD to meet changing needs
Since 2019, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has tackled some common challenges for school systems: implementing a rigorous new curriculum, adapting instruction to distance learning, and building internal capacity for professional development. This case study demonstrates how CMS worked with their PD partner, BetterLesson, to support hundreds of teachers and leaders to respond to these changing needs, always prioritizing student-centered, equitable learning.
Aperture Education Creates Online Social and Emotional Learning Professional Development Program for Educators
EdSERT Digital provides online resources to help educators enhance their own social and emotional skills and teaching practices
Charlotte N.C. (April 20, 2021) — Aperture Education has launched EdSERT Digital, an online version of its paper-based social and emotional professional development program for educators. The EdSERT (short for Educator Social-Emotional Reflection and Training) digital program will be available to educators in July 2021. More information can be found at www.edsert.com.
Aperture created the EdSERT program to support the social and emotional skills and teaching practices of educators. It provides a comprehensive set of research-based and practical resources for K-12 teachers and out-of-school time program staff to increase their knowledge about SEL, guide them to reflect on and build their existing SEL skills and practices in the classroom, and ultimately enable them to more effectively promote the SEL skills of their students.…Read More