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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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districts, schools, teachers and students; literacy-related frameworks and academic standards; the competitive product landscape; target user and buyer personas (such as curriculum director or librarian); and pain points for school administrators, teachers and students. We covered topics such as number of U.S. We did semi-annual ones.)

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. In some ways, Amplify has returned to its roots.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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Kelly met him through Planet3 co-founder Albert Yu-Min Lin when Lin received an award sponsored by Switch, Kelly told EdTech Digest at the time. White says developers often wrestle with building a product that’s fun and engaging or a product that’s more direct in addressing a district’s academic standards.