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

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The effort, aptly named the “Unified Classroom” product suite, aims to connect assessment, enrollment, gradebook, professional learning and special education data services to its flagship student information system, which already houses a variety of data including attendance, discipline, health, roster and schedules.

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5 Essential Effective Blended Learning Best Practices

The CoolCatTeacher

We needed a simple system to assess student work including built-in rubrics. College and virtual high schools use learning management systems. Haiku Learning was our highest-ranked LMS. Recently, PowerSchool purchased Haiku Learning and rebranded it PowerSchool Learning. My students need to be ready.

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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. In addition to creating and managing their classes, teachers can create rubrics, assessments, and tasks using sophisticated but straightforward built-in creation tools. What’s It Like?

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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PowerSchool has now added an array of services in the past 15 months, including a learning management system (through its purchase of Haiku Learning ), special education reporting ( TIENET ), student enrollment ( InfoSnap ), formative assessments ( Interactive Achievement ) and a Canadian SIS ( SRB Education ).

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

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In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Haiku Learning (my LMS). Haiku Learning is my Learning Management system. Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom. Tip: To learn about my blended learning strategies, see my presentation on Slideshare Simple Steps to Blended Learning . I just enter the data once.

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K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool Acquires Haiku Learning; Jefferson Education Partners with Fishtree

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PowerSchool continued its acquisition streak with the purchase of Haiku Learning; in addition, Jefferson Education announced a partnership with Fishtree, and digital writing solution provider Citelighter gained additional funding. Citelighter Raises $2.1 Million: Digital writing solution provider Citelighter has raised a $2.1