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Use Digital Notebooks to Facilitate Book Clubs and Literature Circles at the Secondary Level

Catlin Tucker

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of creating readers, this approach can alienate students who struggle to access books at a particular reading level or do not care for the genre of the books on their class reading list. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub.

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How to Fund School Safety Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

For example, several states have adopted Alyssa’s Law, which requires public elementary and secondary schools to have a silent panic alarm that contacts local law enforcement in emergencies. Many school districts rely on analog camera systems that don’t connect to their networks or communicate in…

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Can the ‘Netflix For Textbooks’ Model Actually Improve Access?

Edsurge

per month for one access to one digital textbook or $14.99 per month to access all of the more than 1,500 titles on the company’s platform, with each plan requiring a four-month minimum. Users also get access to audiobook versions of their texts?available That’s why the all-access model is so significant?it

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Native American students have the least access to computer science

The Hechinger Report

Fortier’s school participates in a program operated by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society to expand access to computer science and science, technology engineering and math, or STEM, among Native American, Alaska Native and Pacific Islander students.

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ParentSquare Wins Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence Best of 2022 for Secondary Education

American Consortium for Equity in Education

The annual award recognizes edtech solutions that excel at aiding educators, students, and teachers ParentSquare, developer of the premier unified school-home engagement platform for K-12, announced today that it won this year’s Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of Keep Reading ParentSquare Wins Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence (..)

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CAE and Pearson Partner to Bring Critical Thinking Assessment to Secondary Education Students

eSchool News

CAE is proud to partner with Pearson to help schools and districts access our assessment tools to support student growth,” said Bob Yayac, president and CEO, CAE. These skills are highlighted in Portraits of a Graduate profiles, yet most states and districts do not have an effective and reliable approach to measure these skills.

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How School Districts Are Using Upgraded Audiovisual Tools to Improve Learning

EdTech Magazine

Now, through the federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, KCS was about to receive more than $114 million to spend on a wide range of learning improvement projects. One of the issues that had bubbled to the top during the assessment,” recalls KCS CTO Freddie Cox, “was disparate access to classroom AV.”

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