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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Actively look for opportunities to provide feedback through diverse means such as phone calls, paper notes, technology, and face-to-face conversations. 2004), "Making workplace fun more functional", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. Some schools have large-scale team-building events both on and off-site. & Ryan, R.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Not yet convinced?

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2023 CODiE Awards Announced

eSchool News

SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. The SIIA Education Division serves and represents more than 200 member companies that provide software, digital content and other technologies that address educational needs. has spent his life learning and educating.

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Pluralsight, Vista Equity Partners Agree to $3.5 Billion Acquisition Deal

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Pluralsight , the publicly-traded provider of online training courses on technology skills, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash deal worth approximately $3.5 Today, Pluralsight offers a library of over 7,500 online courses across technology, design and business skills.

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Bluepoint Wind Awards $10,000 in Grants to New Jersey Teachers for Renewable Energy STEM Kits

eSchool News

In addition to partnering with KidWind on this educator mini-grant initiative, Bluepoint Wind sits on their Career Pathways Ad Hoc Committee on Offshore Wind Energy Education to provide industry support around youth workforce development. While this technology is just starting to be installed in the U.S. As the first U.S.

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Noodle Acquires ‘Key Assets’ of HotChalk to Expand Online Program Services

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But he’s had a change of heart and has written at length arguing these deals are too expensive for colleges and keep costs high for students—a point that is the subject of an ongoing, fierce debate among the higher education industry. Industry sources say that this transaction was likely nowhere near that amount.

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Utah’s Edtech Unicorn, Pluralsight Files for Initial Public Offering

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The Farmington, Utah-based provider of online courses for technology professionals has been on the radars of industry analysts ever since its $135 million Series B fundraise in 2014. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015. It recently broke ground on a new U.S.

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