Mississippi has been highlighted in a new report as one of 10 states in the nation that has robust policies that encourage “healthy schools.” The state is also the only one in the nation to comprehensively cover employee wellness in its policies.
The Buck Institute for Education introduced its new brand name, PBLWorks. This change drives a renewed focus on providing high quality project-based learning to all students and supporting teachers and administrators in implementing PBL effectively.
StudySync announced its content partnership with The Players' Tribune. Through the partnership, StudySync is incorporating first-person narratives from a set of international athletes into its core StudySync ELA curriculum, as well as its Blasts assignments.
The MindFuel STEM Store is an online catalog of blended-learning resources, including lesson plans and project-based activities, experiments and design challenges, and entrepreneurial and innovation skills development course material. It covers topics such as body systems, chemistry, earth sciences, energy, ecosystems and more.
In its latest update, Verso has added Exit Tickets, a new feature designed to collect student-to-teacher feedback at the end of a lesson to enable formative assessment. Another update includes an improved teacher dashboard that enables teachers, coaches and mentors to share insights with and feedback for other teachers.
The partnerships with Critical Links and Modern Robotics, Inc., respectively, will transform connectivity, empower teachers and inspire STEM learning for students. Partnerships will see the launch of Mimio MicroCloud to improve and extend classroom connectivity, and MyBot education platform to expand STEM offerings.
Can schools avoid the temptation to add more screen time to animate students' lives? Given proficiency learning's emphasis on adaptive learning, real-time monitoring, technology use and student engagement, it seems inevitable what that the answer will be.
Johnson Controls will address aging infrastructure as part of a $3 million project to provide updates to schools within Trenton Special School District in Tennessee. The updates include intelligent LED lighting fixtures, an energy management control system, a Pathways HVAC Technology Learning Center and a STEM-focused curriculum to create energy and operational savings.
Encyclopaedia Britannica and Binumi have teamed up to bring video storytelling into Britannica's global product lines. The first product to be released is LumieLabs. It gives K12 school users millions of royalty-free multimedia clips structured around the curriculum, cloud-based editing, and secure video hosting and sharing.
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) and Renzulli Learning have teamed up to put their resources for social, emotional and academic support in homes and classrooms for the gifted, talented and twice-exceptional students. Updated benefits include a private online community, free SENGinar recordings by experts, discounts on workshops and conferences, and access to the Renzulli Learning Home Edition software.
