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School Improvement Network Announces New Version of Observation 360
School Improvement Network — Saturday, October 08, 2011
School Improvement Network provides the only classroom observation tool with prescriptive technology. The program will actually recommend training videos based on the observation results, thanks to its integration with the world's largest online professional development platform, PD 360. Read More »
Jersey City PS Selects Infinite Campus
Custom Computer Specialists, Inc. — Saturday, October 08, 2011
Custom Computer Specialists, Inc., the Northeast Channel Partner for Infinite Campus, announces that the Jersey City Public Schools, which serves over 27,000 students within Hudson County New Jersey, has selected Infinite Campus as its student information system (SIS). Read More »
Renaissance Learning Announces Reading Assessment for Spanish-Speaking Students
Renaissance Learning — Saturday, October 08, 2011
Renaissance Learning announced STAR Reading Spanish, a new computerized reading assessment for students whose native language is Spanish. The test can be used with students in grades 1–12 to assess their Spanish reading levels from beginning first grade to an end-of-fifth grade reading level. Read More »
Low Performing Schools Score Big on TX TAKS
Empowering Writers — Saturday, October 08, 2011
Houston ISD shouts from the rooftops that Empowering Writers, K-8 provider of Professional Development for the instruction of writing, is the driving force behind their TAKS test score increase in 09-10! By implementing the Empowering Writers approach, 18 of the lowest performing schools within Houston ISD's East Region improved an average of 11.3% on Texas TAKS tests. Read More »
Denver Schools Selects SAFARI Montage Platform
SAFARI Montage — Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Denver Public Schools has selected SAFARI Montage as the provider for both its Streaming Media content and Digital Media Management platform. After a year-long, in-depth bid evaluation process, the school district awarded SAFARI Montage with a 3-year contract to provide these services to all of the district’s schools. Read More »
SchoolCity & VersiFit Offer Complete Data Solutions
SchoolCity, Inc. — Wednesday, October 05, 2011
SchoolCity, Inc. and VersiFit Technologies announced an alliance to offer school districts a comprehensive educational solution to access a combined set of assessment, reporting and analyses tools. This alliance, under an OEM agreement, will allow districts to interact with either SchoolCity’s STARS™ or with VersiFit’s EdVantage™ data warehouse solution seamlessly. Read More »
Carnegie Learning Improves Accessibility for Math Students with Special Needs
Carnegie Learning, Inc. — Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Collaboration between the University of Kentucky and Carnegie Learning is providing students with disabilities in Kentucky’s Shelby County Public Schools with access to a digital math textbook that speaks words and equations aloud while highlighting elements on a computer screen. Read More »
Kaplan K12 Learning Services Offers Online Educator Toolkit
Kaplan K12 Learning Services — Tuesday, October 04, 2011
With teachers increasingly seeking support and clarity on how the Common Core State Standards will impact their classroom, Kaplan K12 Learning Services has launched an online toolkit with robust instructional and professional development resources to help them transition between what students learn now and future expectations. Read More »
New Initiative To Make Data Work
American Association of School Administrators, Consortium for School Networking, Gartner, Inc. — Tuesday, October 04, 2011
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) has announced a new collaboration - Closing the Gap: Turning SIS/LMS into Action - with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and Gartner, Inc. focused on helping schools meet growing demands to leverage student data into student achievement. Read More »
Playbooks Reader’s Theater Helps Kids Become Fabulous Food Detectives
Playbooks Reader’s Theater — Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Playbooks® Reader’s Theater, a popular children’s book publisher, offers Fabulous Food Detectives by successful author, Susan Ingebretson, as an appropriate choice that is both fun to read in its dramatic play-like format and informative on the topic of food purity and additives. Read More »
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