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Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters

The CoolCatTeacher

Organizing lesson plans, units, resources, links, IEP’s, and IEP meetings can be cumbersome and stressful. In this example, I clicked brain breaks and found many resources to add brain breaks from task cards to free videos and other resources to add brain breaks to my classroom easily. Scheduling and Tracking Meetings.

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Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

Edsurge

For example: In late January, Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order giving state employees up to 30 hours of paid time off to sit in for missing staff at public and private schools. Company officials say it became apparent during the pandemic that school administrators couldn’t get substitutes fast enough.

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Companies go to high schools for career training

eSchool News

Since the second semester of his senior year of high school, he has responded to field calls as an employee of the largest underground utility locating company in North America — the Indianapolis-based U.S. Infrastructure Company (USIC). You learn how to work with people,” he said.

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Universities Turn To More Public-Private Partnerships To Meet Student Needs

Edsurge

For example: the pandemic sped up the transition from in-person to online and hybrid education, something experts don’t think is going away. “I To meet this demand, public universities are showing an increased interest in public-private partnership agreements that bring profit motives into the public sector.

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Expanding into Early Childhood Is Good for Edtech Companies. Is It Good for Kids?

Edsurge

Instead, the Norway-based company—which counts Disney as an investor —revealed a new suite of digital games, called Kahoot! It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. And no, it’s not more quizzes. And now, this is getting more and more structured.”

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Growing Number of Schools Turn to MiEN Company to Create Spaces that Support Learning and Collaboration

eSchool News

4, 2023 – Twelve schools and one district-wide project are a few of the most recent educational institutions to make MiEN Company their furnishing and design partner in creating or upgrading spaces within their school campuses. An example is the collaborative “Commons” space that Lamphere High School created from an unused computer lab.

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New Zoom Features Enhance Communication in K–12 Education

EdTech Magazine

The company is seeking to introduce functions teachers and administrators need for sustained remote learning, a model many districts are considering as they move away from the emergency remote learning model of the past couple of years. Many of Zoom’s new features are built around interoperability and accessibility.