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

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Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. The newest addition comes courtesy of Schoology, a K-12 learning management system provider that PowerSchool announced it was buying last month. Along with that comes new colleagues.

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How to Use Fortnite in the Classroom

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Sponsor: Adobe I use Adobe Premiere Rush to teach digital filmmaking in my classroom. He has had the opportunity to share his approach to Computer Science education at ISTE (2015, 2018), FETC (2019, 2020) BIT (2014, 2019), CONNECT (2019, 2020), Schoology NEXT (2018), as well as in interviews with major newspapers (Toronto Star, 2017).

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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. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. The pending deal would combine two established companies with large customer bases. and Canada. and Canada.

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3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

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For teachers using StudySync in combination with Google Classroom, I’ve described three strategies that educators can use to capitalize on the activities in the StudySync First Read lesson plans to engage students in online discussions, collaborative research projects, and online vocabulary review. #1 If so, could that create bias?

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Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

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Edmodo is permanently shuttering , the company announced late Monday. It’s no longer viable “for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves,” the company wrote in an online explanation of its closure. This means that the companies end up with large amounts of sensitive data.

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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Companies like to talk about their journey in raising money and growing over time, and one waypost for such journeys is to reach the ringing bells of a stock-market debut. heard those bells today, as the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange—though the initial price ended up on the low end of expectations.

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Edupreneur Rising – How Educators Are Creating Side Businesses

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Learn about the trends shaping how educators work and make money now besides their classroom work. As seen on Forbes.com, Schoology Exchange, District Administration, EdSurge, iNACOL, and TechEdge magazine, Will Deyamport, III, Ed.D. Learn about the trends shaping how educators work and make money now besides their classroom work.

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