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How our high-poverty school reduced suspensions by 97%

eSchool News

Even just one student who is misbehaving can affect how much and how well an entire class is learning. When we arrived at Betty Best Elementary in Houston in the summer of 2014 and dug into the school’s data, we saw there were 627 office referrals during the previous year. Take a positive approach to classroom management.

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Teaching tricks: Better data strategies to ease teacher workload

Neo LMS

decreased by 20% between 2014 and 2016. Tracking the right learning data. Read this truly interesting article about tracking and quantifying classroom culture, that also profiles two great tech resources to track behaviors and responses in your students: ClassDojo and Kickboard. What is to be done to ease the teacher workload?

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Jen Medbery stepped down as CEO of Kickboard. Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). Why, schools of course.