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PowerSchool Completes Schoology Purchase in March Toward ‘Unified’ K-12 Data Ecosystem

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The newest addition comes courtesy of Schoology, a K-12 learning management system provider that PowerSchool announced it was buying last month. Neither Gulati nor Schoology CEO Jeremy Friedman commented on the transaction amount. Today, the headcount has ballooned six-fold, thanks to a steady stream of acquisitions.

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Assessing Prior Knowledge: What Do Your Students Already Know?

Catlin Tucker

The reality is that students enter our classrooms with varied skillsets and prior knowledge. If teachers assess their students’ knowledge before diving into an explanation, lesson, or unit, they might be surprised by the wealth of experience and information that students bring into the classroom.

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Choice Boards 101: Strategies to Ensure Classroom, Professional, and Virtual Learning Success

A Principal's Reflections

The key with a choice board to use as a part of professional learning with adults or classroom learning with students is sound blended pedagogy. Add links to your Learning Management System (Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, etc.) In literally fifteen minutes, I had my choice board created.

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Flipped Classroom 101: Challenges, Benefits & Design Tips

Catlin Tucker

The flipped classroom m odel shifts the transfer of information online and moves practice and application into the classroom. The flipped classroom was one of the first blended learning models to become popular. Pair the video in an online discussion using Google Classroom or Schoology.

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3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

Catlin Tucker

For teachers using StudySync in combination with Google Classroom, I’ve described three strategies that educators can use to capitalize on the activities in the StudySync First Read lesson plans to engage students in online discussions, collaborative research projects, and online vocabulary review. #1 StudySyncVocab.

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Edtech Tools for SPED, Math, and Reading

A Principal's Reflections

Both the math and reading sessions focused on how edtech could be used during independent work, formative assessment, and pedagogically-sound blended learning. Below you will see the specific tools I provided during each session. Some aren't new, but others might be. Please feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section below.

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3 Ways to Streamline Expectations While Making Things Easier for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

It can become the hub for all lessons, videos, activities, assessments, and student work. A foundation can then be established for more personalized approaches such as pedagogically-sound blended learning or self-paced activities.

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