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TX Approves Discovery Education Science Techbook for Statewide Use
Discovery Education — Thursday, July 28, 2011
Following a rigorous evaluation process, Texas has ... approving the Discovery Education Science Techbook as a key digital instructional resource for science instruction. This new instructional resource meets students in the digital environment where they live, while igniting their natural interest in science with dynamic, engaging resources.... Read More »
Learning.com Adopted for Delivering Online Science Materials
Learning.com — Wednesday, July 27, 2011
TEA approved Learning.com to provide its full-course offerings for middle school, and biology, chemistry, physics and integrated physics and chemistry (IPC) for high school. Offerings include curricula from Learning.com, Adaptive Curriculum, and Edusmart, all delivered through Learning.com’s digital learning environment. Read More »
NBC Learn Donates Licenses To All Delaware High Schools
NBC Learn — Wednesday, July 27, 2011
NBC Learn announced today that it will donate licenses to its “NBC Learn K-12” resource to all Delaware High Schools for the 2011-2012 school year. This gift matches a grant that the Honda Foundation launched last year, which funds the “NBC Learn K-12” resource to all Delaware middle schools—including teachers, students and their parents—for two years. Read More »
Triumph Learning Leverages The Douglas Stewart Company's Reseller Network
Triumph Learning — Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Through a new distribution agreement, The Douglas Stewart Company, the leading distributor and marketer to the education industry, will launch Curriculum On Demand, a Triumph Learning digital product, through their network of education resellers. The agreement allows The Douglas Stewart Company's resellers to provide a solution that meets the needs of classroom teachers at a fraction of the cost of comparable educational products. Read More »
Waukegan District 60 Adopts CCC! Streaming Media System
New Dimension Media — Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Waukegan Public School District 60 in Northeastern Illinois has adopted CCC! streaming media by New Dimension Media for their over 6,000 students. This service will allow teachers to augment their classroom lessons with award-winning educational media.... Read More »
AC Science Texas™ Approved for Texas Science Adoption
Sebit, Inc. — Monday, July 25, 2011
Adaptive Curriculum announced today that AC Science Texas™ has been fully approved for the Texas Science Adoption. AC Science Texas™ is a Texas-specific version of its award-winning online math and science solution. AC Science Texas™ provides full coverage of every new TEK, with access to hundreds of TEKS-aligned Activity and Animation Objects,... Read More »
K-12 English Curriculum Maps Based on CCSS Released
Common Core — Monday, July 25, 2011
With educators and policymakers demanding tools to help meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Common Core today released comprehensive K-12 English Language Arts Curriculum Maps. Written by teachers for teachers, the curriculum guides improve instruction and student learning in the new CCSS environment. Read More »
Rainbow District Selects SRB’s Trillium Student Information Suite
SRB Education Solutions Inc. — Monday, July 25, 2011
Rainbow District School Board signed an agreement with SRB Education Solutions Inc. to license the Trillium Student Information Suite to manage student data. Secondary schools will start using Trillium in September 2012. Elementary schools will begin migrating to the new system in the 2011-2012 school year. Read More »
TX Education Officials Recommend Pearson’s Online Learning Exchange to Schools Statewide
Pearson — Saturday, July 23, 2011
Students in Texas’ middle school and high school science classrooms will see their course materials leap into the digital age for back-to-school after the Texas State Board of Education’s decision to make Pearson’s Online Learning Exchange (OLE) program available statewide. Read More »
Framework for Teaching Chosen as a Teaching Evaluation Rubric for NY State
Teachscape — Saturday, July 23, 2011
The New York State Department of Education has selected the Framework for Teaching (FFT) as a rubric for teacher evaluation that is aligned with New York State standards of practice for teachers and/or principals. Created by Charlotte Danielson, the FFT is a research-based tool used as the basis for teacher evaluation systems in thousands of schools nationwide and overseas. Read More »
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