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Student mental health is still suffering–how should we address it?

March 14, 2024 by David Ball

The key to supporting school systems and student mental health is to harness the power of culturally-competent and age-appropriate solutions.

According to the CDC, more than one in three high school students experienced poor mental health during the pandemic, but in reality, the rate of U.S. students struggling…

Computer Science Education

Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades

February 23, 2024February 22, 2024 by Rachel Miller

To meet state standards, Springfield Public Schools found a way to put a dedicated computer science teacher in every school--for all students.

With 24,000 students, Springfield Public Schools is usually among the three largest school districts in Massachusetts. Our students are spread across 31 elementary schools and a total of…

K-12 Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity staffing shortage is districts’ top concern

February 5, 2024 by Laura Ascione

A new report finds challenges in fostering collaborative cybersecurity alongside the adoption of new security tools in schools.

One in 3 school districts ranked lack of dedicated cybersecurity personnel as their top challenge in safeguarding schools, according to Cybersecure 2024, an annual survey from Clever that…

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EmpowerU Honors Exemplary School Partners for Outstanding Impact on Student Mental Health

January 17, 2024 by ESchool News Staff

MINNEAPOLIS – EmpowerU, a leading national provider of mental health skills and support for schools, recently recognized five school districts ... Read more

District Management

Can 4 equal 5? The impact of 4-day school weeks

December 21, 2023 by Emily Morton, PhD, Research Scientist, NWEA

There are benefits and drawbacks to four-day school weeks--each district’s context and priorities are critical for guiding conversations.

Four-day weeks are becoming more common in school districts, particularly in rural areas of the U.S. Many districts are finding students and families like the shorter school weeks.

IT Innovations

Solving the IT staffing challenge in K-12 education

December 12, 2023December 11, 2023 by Al Kingsley, CEO, NetSupport

The lack of IT talent is a problem for all organizations, but IT staffing challenges place an especially large burden on K-12 school systems.

Even in the best of times, K-12 school districts often have a tough time recruiting and retaining IT employees, as it can be hard for budget-conscious districts to…

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Frontline Education and Vanco Announce Strategic Partnership

November 16, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

Malvern, Pa. and Bloomington, Minn. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education, a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in ... Read more

Securing the network edge

February 4, 2025October 23, 2023 by Jeff Festa

Zero trust acknowledges there is no longer a traditional network perimeter to be defended because applications now exist in ... Read more

5 Ways Remote Learning Strategies Work for Districts

February 7, 2024October 5, 2023 by Jeff Festa

In the wake of the pandemic, families have increasingly turned to remote learning, prompting Stride Learning Solutions to become a ... Read more

Closing the remote learning gap with smart audiovisual communications

December 20, 2023September 5, 2023 by Jeff Festa

Whether instructing from within a physical classroom or remotely, it is important that teachers employ smart audiovisual tools that enhance ... Read more

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BookmarkED Addresses the State of Challenged Books with Industry-First Technology to Enable Parental Choice in School Libraries

August 29, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

DALLAS, Texas – BookmarkED, the industry-first technology solution to personalize libraries with parental choice, has announced its official launch in ... Read more

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Linewize Selected as Preferred Technology Provider for Texas Schools in a Strategic Partnership with the Technology Alliance for Statewide Initiatives (TASI)

August 15, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

CHARLOTTE, N.C. /PRNewswire/ — Linewize, a division of global safety and student wellbeing leader Qoria, is proud to announce a preferred ... Read more

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CENTEGIX Posts Record Demand for Its Wearable CrisisAlert Solution

July 26, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

ATLANTA /PRNewswire/ — CENTEGIX, the leader in incident response solutions, announced that new customers of its award-winning CrisisAlert™ solution were the highest in ... Read more

IT Innovations

How managed services empower edtech in small schools

July 19, 2023 by Nadav Avni, CMO, Radix Technologies

Managed services can help schools keep up with changing edtech while protecting investments for the long-term.

The ever-present issue with technology is its inevitable obsolescence. No matter how groundbreaking an innovation may be, there always seems to be a superior alternative just a few…

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Connecticut State Department of Education Selects FEV Tutor for State’s New High-Dosage Tutoring Program

July 13, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

WOBURN, Mass. – The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) has selected FEV Tutor as an approved tutoring service in ... Read more

District Management

Outdoor learning helps our district’s students see sustainability in action

July 28, 2023July 13, 2023 by Tim Zearley, Associate Superintendent, Modesto City Schools

Modesto City Schools is investing in six outdoor learning environments to help inspire the next generation of sustainability initiatives and leaders.

Modesto City Schools has prioritized sustainability initiatives designed to address climate change, reduce our carbon footprint, combat air pollution, and educate the next generation of students about a…

Education Policy & Funding

In SEL budgets, measurement matters

July 11, 2023 by Jessica Adamson, Chief Strategy Officer, Aperture Education

As school systems hammer out their budgets, it is important to remember that measurement is a critically important part of SEL programming.

Social-emotional learning (SEL) programs in schools have skyrocketed in the past few years, with spending exceeding $1.7 billion in the 2021-2022 school year alone. Experts anticipate this to grow by…

District Management

Your top 5 school-home communication challenges, solved

July 28, 2023June 28, 2023 by Brooke Allen, Director of Communications, Crown Point Indiana Community School Corporation

A unified school-home communications platform gives educators and families choice and control over their communication preferences.

Implementing a unified communication solution focused on family engagement provides school districts with multiple benefits. An intuitive, easy-to-use program can standardize communication between school and home, for example,…

K-12 Cybersecurity

Safeguarding K-12 school networks with proactive cybersecurity approaches

December 12, 2023June 6, 2023 by Joseph Tibbetts, Senior Director for Tech Alliances and API, Mimecast

K-12 schools must have a firm understanding of their threat environment to align spending with their greatest cybersecurity needs.

Now more than ever, safeguarding students and staff from targeted cyberattacks is critical to the health of our U.S. education system. Local K-12 schools are a top target…

Curriculum & Assessment

3 new trends in student assessment

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 by J. Patrick Meyer, PhD, Vice President, Psychometric Solutions, NWEA

Through-year student assessment, AI and machine learning, and individualized assessment were all focus topics at a recent conference.

The National Council on Measurement in Education’s (NCME) annual meeting has always offered an opportunity to learn about innovative research and new trends in assessment. It is a…

IT Innovations

How to make secure K-12 digital transformation a reality

May 23, 2023 by Bob Turner, CISO for Education, Fortinet

IT staff are crucial to safeguarding a school's assets, but all employees can and should be accountable for cybersecurity.

The pandemic was a massive shift for school districts across the country, and even as we move out of it, we’re still feeling the impact. On the technical…

Students with Special Needs

3 ways to improve access to speech-language therapy

May 11, 2023 by Kristin Martinez, M.A., CCC-SLP, Clinical Director of Innovation & Outreach, SLP, Presence

It can be challenging for leaders to remove learning barriers, but those who take a multi-pronged approach with SLPs can make progress with speech-language therapy.

Schools today are facing a harsh reality: there is a chronic shortage of qualified speech-language pathologists (SLPs). As an SLP and clinical director who has worked with school…

IT Innovations

3 ways a cloud-based ERP helps schools innovate

April 12, 2023 by Tim Chadwick, Chief Information Security Officer, LINQ

Modernizing education resource planning should be a key priority—and a cloud-based ERP offers many benefits for K-12 administrators.

As school districts emerge from the worst of COVID-19, they’re bringing with them new priorities. Many of the changes that districts have made during the pandemic, such as…

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Action for Healthy Kids to Implement Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative

March 24, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

CHICAGO — Action for Healthy Kids has signed a cooperative agreement with the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to ... Read more

K-12 Cybersecurity

4 key ways schools can strengthen and advance cybersecurity strategies

December 12, 2023March 1, 2023 by Chris Percival, Director of Technology, Maconaquah School Corporation

cybersecurity strategies and cybersecurity tools are important for schools

In a 2022 survey, 72 percent of the participating school administrators responded that cybersecurity was either a priority or high priority for their district leadership and local school…

Students with Special Needs

3 ways telepractice helps combat burnout in special education

February 27, 2023 by Kristy Sprague, Special Education Clinical Manager, VocoVision

An approach to special education that includes telepractice holds the potential to reduce educator burnout and ease the workforce shortage.

Burnout is one of the leading causes of workforce shortages in U.S. schools and its impact is being felt by students who need consistent, quality educators the most.…

Teacher Professional Development

4 ways to support teachers after the holiday break

February 2, 2023 by Lisa O'Masta, President, Learning A-Z

These strategies can help school leaders support teachers, reduce their stress, and maintain their enthusiasm all year long.

Teachers (and administrators) appreciate breaks as much as students do. Time away from the classroom allows teachers to clear their minds, celebrate the holidays, relax with family and…

District Management

Does 4 equal 5? Research on impacts of 4-day school weeks

July 28, 2023January 18, 2023 by Emily Morton, PhD, Research Scientist, NWEA

Four-day weeks are becoming more common in school districts, particularly in rural areas of the U.S. Many districts are finding students and families like the shorter school weeks.…

IT Leadership

How a cloud-based ERP helps schools innovate and be nimble

January 11, 2023 by Tim Chadwick, Chief Information Security Officer, LINQ

As school districts emerge from the worst of COVID-19, they’re bringing with them new priorities. Many of the changes that districts have made during the pandemic, such as…

Education Policy & Funding

Learn how to modernize your K-12 financial operations

December 7, 2022November 17, 2022 by Laura Ascione

Automating your school district's spend management solution should be an integral part of modernizing your K-12 financial operations

Over the past several years, K-12 school districts experienced the limitations of legacy systems. With the recent government funding available for pandemic recovery, a window of opportunity opens…

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LINQ Expands TITAN Nutrition Claims Solution to Ohio and Montana

November 9, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

WILMINGTON, N.C. (PRWEB) — LINQ, creator of leading nutrition program solutions, has expanded its TITAN nutrition claims submission solution to Ohio and ... Read more

Curriculum & Assessment

Why universal screening is a more equitable identifier of gifted and talented students

December 5, 2022October 24, 2022 by Anna Houseman, Product Marketing Director, Riverside Insights

Universal screening with both ability and achievement tests allows each student to highlight both their potential and their performance in gifted and talented programs.

School districts have historically relied on a referral-based process to identify students for gifted and talented programming. This means that teachers or parents nominate their students to take…

Students with Special Needs

What matters most for our special education teachers?

December 5, 2022October 19, 2022 by Angela Nelson, CEO and President, Stages Learning

It is crucial to provide special education teachers with learning opportunities that will help them succeed in making a difference in students’ lives

We all know the problem. There is a frightening shortage of special education teachers and it’s getting worse. Even prior to the pandemic, 98 percent of school districts…

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Vector Solutions Adds Cybersecurity Awareness Courses to its Suite of Online Training Programs for Schools

October 4, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

Tampa, FL – More than 100 school districts are victimized by cyber criminals each year. To help school administrators and ... Read more

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Growing Number of Texas School Districts Partner with ParentSquare to Unify School-Home Communications

October 3, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. SEPT. 22, 2022 — ParentSquare, continuing its momentum in partnering with Texas schools, announces over a dozen ... Read more

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ScribFolders from Scribbles Software Helps Schools Go Paperless

September 28, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

Pineville, NC – Scribbles Software, a leading provider of K-12 records and enrollment software, is offering a cumulative records management ... Read more

How Modern Display Technology is Changing K-12 Education Spaces

December 16, 2022September 26, 2022 by Jeff Festa

K-12 school districts and service providers throughout the country have stepped up heroically to try and facilitate remote learning during ... Read more

K-12 Cybersecurity

Don’t wait to secure your endpoints from cyberattacks

December 5, 2022September 21, 2022 by Bob Turner, Field CISO for Education, Fortinet

Understanding risks that your endpoints face is key to knowing how to mitigate these risks and keep information and systems safe

As we enter a new school year, among the myriad things that instructors and administrators need to be concerned about, ransomware remains high on the list. According to…

IT Innovations

4 ways to tackle IT workforce shortages

December 5, 2022August 29, 2022 by Lauren Basile, Senior Marketing Communications Professional, ENA

IT teams have now been elevated to a strategic role, charged with driving multiple digital transformation initiatives across their districts

K-12 school districts have a retention problem and it’s not unique to teaching staff – superintendents, principals, nurses, bus drivers, paraprofessionals, and others are departing in droves.

Student mental health is still suffering–how should we address it?

Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades

Cybersecurity staffing shortage is districts’ top concern

EmpowerU Honors Exemplary School Partners for Outstanding Impact on Student Mental Health

Can 4 equal 5? The impact of 4-day school weeks

Solving the IT staffing challenge in K-12 education

Frontline Education and Vanco Announce Strategic Partnership

BookmarkED Addresses the State of Challenged Books with Industry-First Technology to Enable Parental Choice in School Libraries

Linewize Selected as Preferred Technology Provider for Texas Schools in a Strategic Partnership with the Technology Alliance for Statewide Initiatives (TASI)

CENTEGIX Posts Record Demand for Its Wearable CrisisAlert Solution

How managed services empower edtech in small schools

Connecticut State Department of Education Selects FEV Tutor for State’s New High-Dosage Tutoring Program

Outdoor learning helps our district’s students see sustainability in action

Your top 5 school-home communication challenges, solved

Safeguarding K-12 school networks with proactive cybersecurity approaches

3 new trends in student assessment

How to make secure K-12 digital transformation a reality

3 ways to improve access to speech-language therapy

Action for Healthy Kids to Implement Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative

4 key ways schools can strengthen and advance cybersecurity strategies

3 ways telepractice helps combat burnout in special education

4 ways to support teachers after the holiday break

Does 4 equal 5? Research on impacts of 4-day school weeks

Learn how to modernize your K-12 financial operations

LINQ Expands TITAN Nutrition Claims Solution to Ohio and Montana

Why universal screening is a more equitable identifier of gifted and talented students

What matters most for our special education teachers?

Vector Solutions Adds Cybersecurity Awareness Courses to its Suite of Online Training Programs for Schools

Growing Number of Texas School Districts Partner with ParentSquare to Unify School-Home Communications

ScribFolders from Scribbles Software Helps Schools Go Paperless

Don’t wait to secure your endpoints from cyberattacks

4 ways to tackle IT workforce shortages

Why interactive solutions are a smarter investment for schools

Follett Content Accelerates Public Library Strategy

Celebrating Teachers: Nominate Outstanding Educators for Crystal Apple Awards

School Specialty Expands Learning Beyond the Screen with New Outdoor Furniture Line

Avantis Education Transforms Classroom Inclusivity with Launch of EduverseTHRIVE at TCEA 2026

Lerner Publishing Group Launches Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s Genius and Joy Curriculum

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