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Instructure Acquires MasteryConnect for $42.5 Million to Expand K-12 Footprint

Edsurge

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 Of that figure, about $12.3 million will be paid in Instructure common stock, according to a U.S.

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MasteryConnect Cuts 30 Percent of Staff, Brings Co-Founder Mick Hewitt Back as CEO

Edsurge

Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. When Reid took over, Hewitt stayed at MasteryConnect as its chief product officer.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed. Noguera, Ph.D.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

But in those early days, Fair had no idea how to handle her students with disabilities, whose educational challenges ranged from learning deficits to behavioral disturbance disorders. A 2009 study concluded that no one explicitly shows teachers how to teach to “different needs.” No one taught her these strategies. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

The Hechinger Report

In Brockton – a once-prosperous town called “shoe city” until the last of its footwear factories closed in 2009 – drugs are plentiful. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If

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What happens when a regular high school decides no student is a lost cause?

The Hechinger Report

Washington is one of only a few states with officials dedicated to studying and spreading the practice; the Washington Office of Public Instruction “Compassionate Schools” division even produced a handbook on trauma-informed teaching in 2009. Students were learning to contain their outbursts long enough to calm down.

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