Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In states that mix adoption and local control, like Utah, a commission reviews, vets and ultimately recommends instructional materials, although districts have final say. Occasionally the state will also partner with companies to provide materials or services to districts free of charge. Each state operates differently.

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EdTech Case Study Instructional Materials Policies 260

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5 million in investment to date.

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 79

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that its Savvas Essentials: Foundational Reading © 2023 supplemental literacy program has received the highest rating of “All-Green” from EdReports. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY At Savvas, we believe learning should inspire.

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Instructional Materials Company Analysis Elementary 117

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Among them are companies directly reaching out to teachers and administrators, offering to help ease that transition. Often, these pitches entail free or discounted software for products ranging from instructional materials to virtual conferencing tools. Still, she appreciates the sentiment from company officials. “I

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Company Software Instructional Materials Assessment 209

TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

This year, I had the opportunity to work with so many great educational technology companies on the podcast and I'm excited to have the opportunity to walk the vendor floor and meet everyone to say THANK YOU for being a part of the TeacherCast podcasting family. The problem always comes up … what booths do I go to? Learn more at [link].

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Company Conference EdTech Microsoft 68

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S. Even within the U.S.

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OER Instructional Materials Advocacy Meeting 170

eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading education companies Curriculum Associates and Corwin are partnering to help districts nationwide elevate teaching and learning practices that most impact student growth. The partnership allows the two companies to make recommendations and referrals for the other’s products and services. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.—

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Professional Learning Assessment Learning Data 98

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 18, 2023

As we plot a course of action, we need systems to cease being those very gulfs that Tennyson mentions in “Ulysses” because we find ourselves once strong and triumphant, now beaten, broken, withered, and battered. McKiney & Company go on to say, “Students didn’t just lose academic learning during the pandemic. We are change.

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Education Company Instructional Materials System 84

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nation’s families recently received another clear message that our education system is not serving all students. Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years?

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Education Instructional Materials System Policies 103

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

As the leader of an education company, it was a sobering reminder of the complexities and responsibilities involved in creating curriculum. They must be willing to invest the time and resources necessary to support teachers as they critically examine and develop their practice.

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Company Instructional Materials Secondary Study 150

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. I remember thinking that the school systems must have a great list of recommended online learning,” she said. Credit: eLearn.fyi. But I was wrong.”.

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Online Learning Robotics Learning Instructional Materials 145

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“It is truly an honor to be the first recipient of the NABSE scholarship sponsored by Curriculum Associates, a company that is willing to invest in educators and education,” said Muhammad. “As As an educator and author, I plan to use my award to complete my doctoral degree in educational leadership.

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Instructional Materials Education Conference Company 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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EdTech Company Training Guidelines 165

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

And edtech companies cater to this fragmentation in their product design and marketing. A school is a system, but it’s rarely designed and built systematically. Included are the core system elements of a school, all of which impact one another but which currently live in siloed spaces. And on it goes.

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EdTech System Data Company 151

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

As parents, we entrust our children to the public education system in the belief that the decisions made by educators, administrators, and policymakers are in the best interests of our children. Four, we must ensure that all instructional materials – no matter their form or medium – remain available for public inspection and review.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The resources provided through this partnership will support middle school and high school teachers as they build bridges between classrooms and careers for all students. Delaware educators can find out more about accessing the new resources available through this partnership by emailing deleducators@Discoveryed.com. DOVER, Del.,

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STEM Education Industry Schoology 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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Pearson Kaplan Company Education 93

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. Salvatore’s employer is Paper, which is based in Montreal, Canada and says it is the largest online tutoring company in the United States. Do you have any resources that you looked at in class? The pace is grueling.

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Company Training Instructional Materials Study 91

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

" Tagged on: April 28, 2017 Unroll.me's shadiness is exactly why people don't trust tech companies | Mashable → Users have a right to know exactly how and when their data is being used. ." And it's up to tech companies to make that clear — not bury it in privacy policies no one reads.

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EdTech Chromebook Policies Student Data Privacy 150

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. “We saw that our code was only looking at the adoption of textbooks,” said DeLeón.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Policies OER 40

Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

These tools help create instructional content, interactive lessons, polling surveys, activities, and students’ opportunities to ask questions and communicate effectively. Flipped classroom models empower students to do classroom work at home using multimedia presentations and online learning platform resources.

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Flipped Classroom Software Tools Classroom 97

techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

(October 10, 2018) – Following a comprehensive review, Florida’s Commissioner of Education, as recommended by the state’s Instructional Materials Reviewers, recently approved the adoption of the award-winning Discovery Education Science Techbook for statewide use as a core instructional resource through its state adoption process.

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Classroom Education STEM Differentiated Instruction 41

techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

And in the 2018-19 school year, that number is expected to double with more than half of the nation projected to report Lexile and Quantile measures from their state assessment systems. MetaMetrics is the sole source of these actionable measures relied upon by education companies, state education agencies, teachers, parents and students.

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Report Instructional Materials Assessment Tools 41

edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Idaho and Pennsylvania discussed how state and district leadership support digital learning opportunities and implement digital materials. According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning.

Digital Learning 40

Digital Learning Instructional Materials Learning Policies 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

education system. This will create a new demand for online tutoring services and I anticipate and hope that more federal resources are allocated to school districts to offer this 1:1 tutoring to students. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. This may assist with mitigating learning loss.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

“These next generation Summit Math courses were developed as part of a digital-first curriculum for schools that want to engage and personalize learning for each student and empower teachers with powerful instructional materials,” said Sean P. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education. The judges also said Stride “is a powerful (and fun!)

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Adaptive Learning Instructional Materials Course Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

We can take note of say, if one person’s stronger in math, how can the system identify the challenge, and then open it up to teachers so they can be better tutors for their students? Not just ACT material; we want to give you the best instructional resource we can find. What applications do we see of AI in education?

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Education Knewton Data Industry 133

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

She’s still having to do a lot of last minute work, particularly with going through all the resources she’s accumulated and trying to decide which ones to use. Have a system for organizing high quality lesson resources and ideas. For many teachers, the first hurdle to overcome is having a good organizational system.

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How To Resources Assessment Meeting 99

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

No longer relegated to using textbooks as their core instructional materials, teachers look to their institutions for help selecting, aggregating, and then delivering relevant content to their pupils. The online education movement has pushed K-12 schools and districts to rethink the way they develop and deliver content.

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LMS Blended Learning Advocacy Company 40

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 54

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

In the absence of answers to this question, it is too easy for teachers and administrators to become unwitting brand ambassadors for companies seeking to integrate their products into the classroom, regardless of impact on student learning and success.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 48

techlearning

MARCH 13, 2018

Core5 seamlessly adapts with student performance, targeting skill gaps as they emerge and equipping teachers with the data and instructional resources they need to personalize instruction for every student.

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Comparison Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

An estimated $132 million of repairs are needed system-wide. Méndez-Cupey, and together they’ve adopted a public elementary school that was badly damaged by Hurricane Maria, with plans to provide teacher training and instructional materials. And education is the foundation of our entire economic system.”.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break. Less clear was how deeply the disruption to traditional instruction would impact children who lacked access to learning technology and appropriate resources.

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Data LMS EdTech Accessibility 211

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 131