Oconee County Schools in Georgia has chosen to expand its partnership with itslearning. The district piloted the learning management system with 80 teachers and ultimately chose to roll out the system districtwide.
Amplify has launched a new mCLASS early literacy suite that includes both teacher-led and adaptive student-driven instruction, as well as the mobile version of the DIBELS 8th Edition assessment developed by the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon's College of Education.
The resolution of the partial federal government shutdown has averted a crisis in the public education system: the 22 million students who rely on the federal National School Lunch and breakfast programs for meals. With federal employees returning to return to work and federal funds beginning to flow again, the programs are back on safe ground.
Fairfax County Public Schools has selected Mackin Educational Resources as its provider for all print and digital books, audiobooks, videos, and other resources for its school libraries and professional library collections. Mackin will supply all the necessary infrastructure, expertise and customization required through 2025.
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.
The Cheddar post cable networks company and Discovery Education launched CheddarK-12, a collaboration delivering technology and business news to classrooms. Cheddar's current events content will be integrated into Discovery Education's Techbook Series, including a weekly compilation of briefings broadcast from the New York Stock Exchange floor.
DreamBox Learning signed a five-year agreement with the Austin ISD to deliver its online K8 math platform to the 83 elementary and 18 middle schools in the Texas district. For teachers, DreamBox provides ways to personalize lessons, monitor student growth and receive job-embedded professional development.
itslearning has created an easier workflow between G Suite and the itslearning learning management system, simplifying the itslearning experience with Google Drive, G Suite and Chromebooks. This latest update includes a single sign-on, seamless editing in Google documents and more.
