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K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool Acquires Behavioral Management System; ETS Snaps Up Kira Talent

Marketplace K-12

The learning management system provider PowerSchool announced that it will acquire Kickboard, and a Kenyan startup announced that it raised $1 million in capital. The post K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool Acquires Behavioral Management System; ETS Snaps Up Kira Talent appeared first on Market Brief.

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KICKBOARD AND OVERCOMING RACISM PARTNER TO INTRODUCE ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION PROGRAM

techlearning

To help K-12 districts and schools achieve equity and create environments that are safe and conducive to learning for all students, Kickboard has partnered with Overcoming Racism to develop a new professional development program called Advancing Racial Equity in Education. For information, visit [link].

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

techlearning

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

EdTech Magazine

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. One of the most common is a system called Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports.

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Why we love our SEL tools

eSchool News

When we first started using Kickboard , we wondered if our high schoolers would care about things like character traits. With Kickboard, they actually do. They care a great deal about what their balance is and where they stand in Kickboard. But with Kickboard, students care, which helps these traits become intrinsic.

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

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Last year, we introduced the Alexa Education Skill API , which is a set of interfaces that allow edtech developers—such as those building Learning Management Systems, Student Information Systems, Classroom Management providers and massive open online course platforms—to quickly and easily build voice experiences.

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Teaching tricks: Better data strategies to ease teacher workload

Neo LMS

It’s a serious, and not very well publicized, crisis that is bleeding the education system of some of its brightest lights. Read this truly interesting article about tracking and quantifying classroom culture, that also profiles two great tech resources to track behaviors and responses in your students: ClassDojo and Kickboard.

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