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Hawaii State Department of Education Adopts Defined STEM Curriculum to Engage Students in Statewide Renewable Energy Initiatives

Defined Learning and the Hawai’i DOE are partnering with OpTerra Energy Services on Ka Hei, a comprehensive energy and sustainability education program

Leading Edge Certification Brings On California Gold Rush

San Diego County Office of Education Wins Golden Bell Award for LEC’s Online & Blended Teacher Certification

Call for Applications Now Open for Vernier Software & Technology’s 2016 Engineering Contest

Three STEM teachers will each win $5,500 in prizes for creatively using Vernier sensors to introduce students to engineering concepts and practices

Robotics Company Sphero Partners with CWIST to Launch Online Educational Community

Community facilitates communication, creation and project sharing for educators

Coolcher Launches Virtual Classroom Platform to Share Classes and Cultures from Teachers Around the World

The new online creativity platform delivers live, online courses in the areas of language, arts, music, and STEM

K12 Insight Adds Flashpoint Alerts to its Cloud-Based Communications Solution

The new feature in version 7.0 of Let’s Talk! instantly notifies school leaders about potential threats and crises

Minecraft students in 1st International Immersive Cultural Exchange

MELBOURNE and BOSTON Students in Melbourne Australia and Boston Massachusetts take part in the world's 1st international Minecraft cultural exchange Immersive Education (iED) students fr...

The Rachael Ray Show Surprises a Massachusetts Kindergarten Teacher with Lightspeed Technologies’ Donation of Four Redcat Audio Systems

Heidi Solivan was raising money for the new technology when the show’s producers called her and offered to help

New Follett ‘Top 50 Books’ List Gives Educators Valuable Insight Into What Students Are Reading

‘Follett Students’ Choice’arms preK-12 librarians with current statistics, trends

Learning Bird’s New Release Makes Differentiated Instruction Easy, Scalable

Additions include classroom management tools, lesson assignment support, added visibility for related lessons, and new reports to track results

Smithsonian Awarded Carnegie Grant To Advance Digital Learning Practices

Funding Supports Research on Digitized Museum Resources in K–12 Education

Lingo Jingo Awarded Prestigious English Language Learner Grant from U.S. DOE

New funding allows the company to offer pilots of its WIDA- and Common Core-aligned language-acquisition solution to a limited number of schools

PlanetHS Earns Single Sign-on Badge from PowerSchool

Student and parents can now use one set of log-in credentials to access multiple sites

Learning Upgrade Launches Interactive Whiteboard Courses

New Teacher Upgrade math and ELA lessons combine a front-of-class solution with individual instruction using songs, videos, and games

Curriculum Associates Launches New Math App to Help Students Develop Fact Fluency and Computational Fluency

Door 24® Plus for grades 1–8 joins the i-Ready® mobile family of educational products

Sunburst Digital partners with Speakaboos to bring the award-winning reading motivation and literacy platform to elementary schools Nationwide

  Chicago, IL – Sunburst announced Speakaboos for School, a new initiative bringing the award-winning digital reading motivation platform to elementary schools across the country through ...

Fifth Annual Follett Challenge to Launch Monday

$200,000 Contest to Recognize Leading Examples of K-12 Programs Teaching 21st-Century Skills to Students

Sunburst Digital announces a Spiraled Technology Skills Integrated Curriculum allowing Districts continuity in the teaching of 21st century skills like Coding, Programming and Computer Science

Chicago, IL - Imparting 21st century skills means starting young learners with a proper foundation and thoughtfully advancing students with age-appropriate offerings at each grade and level. F...


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