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PowerSchool Completes Schoology Purchase in March Toward ‘Unified’ K-12 Data Ecosystem

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The newest addition comes courtesy of Schoology, a K-12 learning management system provider that PowerSchool announced it was buying last month. The latest—Schoology—adds a popular K-12 learning management system to the fold, one that has about 1,800 paying schools and districts, according to Schoology co-founder and CEO Jeremy Friedman.

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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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Founded in 2014, Pear Deck lets teachers create and share multimedia-rich digital presentations, which students can access on their devices and respond to through text, drawings and other interactive features. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.) The Iowa City-based startup has now raised $5.2

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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PowerSchool has reached an agreement to acquire Schoology, a provider of learning management systems with a sizable footprint among K-12 schools and districts. Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016.

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App of the Week: A clever LMS for instruction design

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Haiku Learning. Haiku Learning is a cleverly designed LMS geared towards extending learning beyond the classroom. Keep up a gradebook, attendance rosters, and inter-class communications in this centralized, cloud-based learning hub. Click here to read the full app review. . What’s It Like?

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

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As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Every student is unique and learns differently. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

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Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers and Learning to Go. Develop a Professional/Personal/Passionate Learning Network (PLNs). Discover which tools and apps your students already have access to or know how to use by surveying them. Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. Enjoyed these ideas?

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business. The sale gives PowerSchool access to Chalkable’s clientele of 1,100 U.S. school districts. Chalkable was formerly called STI, a Mobile, Ala.-based