Katharine Beals discusses research and educating students on the autism spectrum, particularly what educators should be doing to support students.

The company recognizes three contest winners, along with a new Spanish assessment product to further Renaissance’s commitment toward supporting Emergent Bilingual students.

In this week’s episode, Hayley Spira-Bauer interview Juliana Finegan, VP of Strategy & Learning at Vivi.

This episode discusses K-12 cyber data and what strategies districts can take to protect their ecosystems from external dangers.

Discovery Education today announced it has acquired Minneapolis, MN-based Pivot Interactives SBC. Led by a team of science teachers, practitioners, and students, Pivot Interactives develops dynamic cloud-based activities and labs that actively engage students in the authentic exploration of real scientific phenomena.

For this episode, Tom Sherrington and Emma Turner welcome author and head teacher Sam Strickland to the podcast.

TeachBoost, a leader in teacher evaluation and instructional coaching platforms and a subsidiary of SchoolStatus, released a new national report revealing broad agreement that instructional coaching, supported by access to real-time coaching data, is highly effective at improving teacher practice and student outcomes in K12 schools.

Aperture Education has released its 2022-2023 Back-to-School Guide offering 48 pages of resources to help administrators, teachers, and parents support social and emotional learning this school year.

Scribbles Software, a leading provider of K-12 records and enrollment software, is hosting a free three-day virtual event Sept. 28-30 to help K-12 schools navigate the transition from paper to electronic records management systems.

The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks) was awarded a $2.9 million grant from the Bezos Family Foundation to design an innovative social studies and civics curriculum that uses a Project Based Learning (PBL) model. The new PBL units are being designed for teachers of grades 4-12 and will be available free as Open Educational Resources (OER). 

The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) calls President Joe Biden’s announcement August 24, 2022 on new steps to address student loan debt as a good step toward improving the employee pipeline issue in education.

The Homeschool Buyers Club’s free, easy-to-use Curriculum Selection Engine matches homeschool curriculum and products to a child’s learning needs and style.

“Kanga was designed to respond to the challenges and opportunities our clinicians have experienced in their own practice,” said Kate Eberle Walker, CEO of Presence. “The resulting platform is a combination of their expertise and 13 years of our own data on how special education providers and students engage in therapy and evaluations.”

University of Phoenix announces a new agreement with MedCerts – a Stride, Inc. company – to create educational opportunities for students and employees in healthcare and information technology (IT), and a talent pipeline and upskill system for employers.

“The best news here is that more and more educators are engaging their students with a simple and systematic method of teaching reading. They are helping all students reach reading proficiency no matter their learning differences, creating lifelong readers using research-based practices.”