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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. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. and Canada. Citelighter Raises $2.1 Preply Raises $1.3

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

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A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. The tool is also tightly integrated with Google tools—G Suite for Education and Google Classroom—which allows students to log in with their Google accounts. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.)

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ISTE 2017 Schedule #iste17

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They also bought Haiku Learning and have since created PowerSchool Learning, the best learning management system (in my opinion.). 9:15 – 10:15 am – Classroom of the Future Tour and Live Stream 207A We will stream on the PowerSchool Facebook page. . Tour Classroom of the Future (Live Stream from 207A).

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

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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. 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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5 Tech Tools, Innumerable Possibilities -- from the Hawaii #GafeSummit

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

PearDeck I learned about this very promising now-in-private-beta tool from +Chris Bell ''s demo slam. PearDeck is " an interactive presentation system for active classrooms ". It''s made especially for 1:1 Chromebook classrooms. A talented trio indeed! This video gives a nice overview of the product. Hawaii hangout.

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