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How Voice-Enabled Technology is Changing the Contours of Higher Education

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Marissa Mierow It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company.

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Kickboard and Aperture Education Partner to Help Schools Use Student Behavior Data to Measure Social Emotional Learning

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28, 2018) — Social-emotional learning (SEL) company Aperture Education and Kickboard, which provides technology and coaching for school culture initiatives, have partnered to help schools collect, monitor and analyze data on 40 student behaviors that tie to the Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (the DESSA) core SEL competencies. (Feb.

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Study Finds Data Analytics Help Lower Rates of Disciplinary Action in K–12

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MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools are using technology solutions to mitigate poor student behavior! To test the impact of data analytics on student behavior management, researchers provided participating schools with Kickboard analytics software , designed to track students’ positive and negative behavior.

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Teaching tricks: Better data strategies to ease teacher workload

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Today’s blog, and the following two, will explore each of these in turn, looking at how both simple and complex technology applications can lighten the administrative workload, so that teachers can spend more time…well…teaching. Tracking the right learning data. Today we’ll focus on Data Management. Stay tuned!

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?On the Hotseat: 7 Questions for Kickboard’s New CEO, Stefan Kohler

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Many new CEOs face a learning curve when they enter the edtech industry. But at Kickboard , an online school culture system management system, it’s a straight dive in for Stefan Kohler, a former teacher and executive at companies including Scholastic and Pearson. What got you interested in Kickboard?

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March 28, 2018 Webinar Shows Schools How to Use SEL and PBIS Programs Together

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(March 19, 2018) — Social-emotional learning (SEL) programs and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) are both great approaches to support student learning. Kirsch has a diverse background in technology and consumer goods and comes from a family full of strong influential teachers.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Springboard, Asteria Education Make Acquisitions

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Also, Asteria Education has acquired ECS Learning Systems and Aperture Education and Kickboard are partnering to assist schools as they collect, monitor and analyze data on student behavior. Springboard Education has acquired Kids’ Adventures, a provider of before- and after-school programs.