eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Last week, Mayor Brandon Johnson toured the high school, visiting carpentry, electricity, and culinary arts classrooms – and even sampling a large breakfast of sausages, bacon, eggs, potatoes, and toast prepared by the high school’s chefs. We have not seen those public-private partnerships before and they’re exploding each year.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The yearbook company signed a three-year pledge, which will support Sandy Hook Promise’s ability to bring the life-saving, evidence-informed “Know the Signs” prevention programs into more K-12 classrooms nationwide at no cost to schools. We founded Treering in 2009 with the goal of creating a more inclusive yearbook.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. To create the Unified Classroom, PowerSchool has been on a buying binge with backing from Vista Equity Partners. The New York-based company has received more than $57 million in investment capital.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

However, we can discuss the things that are already here and describe how they influenced everyday classroom activities. For instance, Osso VR is a virtual reality technology company founded on the principle of training surgeons with real world skills that can be directly applied when in the operating room. Let’s take a look!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

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 K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 Of that figure, about $12.3

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From Tech Company to Publisher?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. based company has raised $70 million in venture capital. To date, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. Given their respective footprints in the U.S. K-12 LMS market share in U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

My oldest son, who’s 12 now, was born in 2009, and he kind of grew up on it. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. And then in 2015 or 2016, my assistant says, “Hey, this company wants to meet. I’m a big fan.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

The company says it’s making these available to any “teaching-focused institution that grants degrees or certificates,” including non-traditional bootcamp-style coding programs. million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S. K-12 education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2018

At the same time, enrollment in teacher education programs dropped from 691,000 to 451,000 between 2009 and 2014, LPI says. School districts are also relying heavily on substitute teachers to fill vacant positions and ensure classrooms are staffed. That’s a 35-percent reduction during this period. Volunteer in local schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

And yet, Tade Oyerinde took the plunge in 2014, leaving the University of Leeds in England to dedicate his time to developing a tool to improve digital communications in the classroom. “My Samani says he’s used Campuswire for about two years now after receiving an email from the company. My mom was not thrilled,” jokes Oyerinde, 26.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It A company spokesperson wrote via email that “after a thorough review of TenMarks, we’ve made the difficult decision to no longer offer this service after June 30, 2019.” Horton says other teachers in her district had been piloting TenMarks in their classrooms.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Someone with a high-profile brand, who's promising you a whole range of benefits and admiration that will never come your way in the classroom. " Tagged on: September 6, 2017 More Or Less Technology In The Classroom? What does it reveal about how these companies imagine teaching and learning. teachers and students?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Someone with a high-profile brand, who's promising you a whole range of benefits and admiration that will never come your way in the classroom. " Tagged on: September 6, 2017 More Or Less Technology In The Classroom? What does it reveal about how these companies imagine teaching and learning. teachers and students?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 12, 2017

He does a lot of work with NNSTOY, and he is actually a full time classroom teacher teaching creativity and innovation. It used to be 30-40% of my kids wanted to be a classroom teacher. So great classroom teachers understand how to look outside of the box. 3 Great Teachers bring their authentic selves into the classroom.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Magoosh started in 2009 with four co-founders and a few computers. Have worked as a classroom teacher in the past. Magoosh is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We help millions study at their own pace, on their own time regardless of location, social status, or background.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. " Cop s**t supposedly brings order to the classroom by demanding compliance. What kind of company culture sanctions that?

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Hack Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

Although companies like the Standard Electric Time Company (founded in Massachusetts in 1884) sold synchronized clock and bell systems to schools (and yes, factories), an early function of the latter was not to mimic the rhythm of the workplace but rather to warn occupants about fire. And that includes the school bell.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

In my own classroom, I have my students run Hour of Code each December for the whole school – grades K5- sixth grade. Pairing her with an older girl in sixth grade at that time – one who wasn’t one who was really excited about turning in homework or engaging other classroom content – really worked well with this girl.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 6, 2020

IPEVO P2V CAMERA (2009) __ OVERVIEW Fast forward to mid-2020, and IPEVO has just released their 8th gen model, the newly updated IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB document camera. You can find out more details of the IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB and learn about the company's other products on the IPEVO site ! Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. Doug, as we finish up, could you give us a 30-second pep talk about personalizing learning for the students in our classroom today? He computes all the time.

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The Thinking Stick

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2009 I set up a camera to UStream our COETAIL session live from Bangkok as we had two virtual participants. That is a skill that is highly sought after in companies today. Day 3 of the #EduroChallenge is about teams and it’s something I’m personally very passionate about.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. SpaRRk Academy hallways are filled with art projects and classroom work from the students.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

That said, I try to spend most of my time in classrooms and in school buildings. I quickly evaluate if this is a person or company that’s worth a relationship. We luckily found a great local company. This company is in other districts that are 5 or 6 times larger than Avonworth, but they always see it through for us.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, all students in grades 4-12 receive a Macbook Air laptop with home Internet access. The district will design an evaluation process and integrate the product into instruction for the spring semester, beginning March 2 , in two social studies classrooms and two science classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2017

That’s the question Top Hat has been hearing from college students and faculty, and why the Toronto company has decided to take on the publishing business. The latest cash infusion is an extension of the company’s $22.5 The company quietly launched the marketplace to a private group of users in fall 2016.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

The experimental institution, called Quest to Learn , opened its doors in 2009 and became the subject of many books and articles. Glasslab developed its own games, including an adaptation of SimCity, the popular city-building franchise, for classroom use. But the effort struggled to be financially sustainable and shut down last year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The New York City-based language company, founded in 2011, offers 10 language classes along with courses in interior design, mixing cocktails and French culture. In an interview with EdSurge, Rohrbach explained how he sees the company as a way for people to keep enriching their lives. Last week, education startup Fluent City raised $2.5

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The bus is customized to operate as a center-based preschool classroom, complete with dramatic play and kitchen areas, building blocks and plenty of dinosaurs.”. Vail Valley Foundation activities and events are in part made possible by cornerstone partners: the Town of Vail, Vail Resorts, Beaver Creek Resort Company, GMC, and TIAA Bank.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Conner also identified three levels of innovation that need to occur, starting with the application of efficiency logic to smaller systems like classroom design. He is also a senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

What students won’t see in the promotional materials or when they register, however, is that the programs are being managed by a private, for-profit company called Noodle that is being paid $12,000 to $22,000 per month , per program, plus $88 per credit hour, per student, according to a list of fees disclosed by Noodle.

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