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7 MINDSETS ACADEMY
(www.7mindsets.com)
7 Mindsets offers an award-winning online gateway for social emotional learning, combined with an immersive professional development program for teachers that explores how to teach the mindsets and apply them in everyday life. Uniquely focused on whole school culture and climate, each new school is paired with a partner school that helps with leadership application, instructional integration, and overall resource sharing. Ongoing coaching and training is then provided on how to use 7 Mindsets Academy’s lessons and online content portal with students in classrooms. School administrators are also trained on best practices for implementation, focusing on structural integration of the 7 Mindsets into day-to-day campus activities, applying the 7 Mindsets as a “language” that aligns teachers, students, staff, and parents. Lesson themes include foundational concepts for raising expectations, developing meaningful relationships, embracing accountability, practicing gratitude, managing setbacks, and learning from mistakes.
BLOOMZ
(www.bloomz.org/childcare)
The parenting mobile app Bloomz announced a set of features tailored to childcare centers, including check-in/check-out attendance and daily sheets to keep parents on top of their kids’ everyday activities. To further its mission to connect parents with their kids’ world, Bloomz is also partnering with the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to educate parents across the country – through the Bloomz app – on a variety of topics relevant to raising children.
BULB
(www.bulbapp.com)
bulb digital portfolios empower students to create original content and publish/organize/manage work in one convenient place, promoting peer collaboration, teacher feedback/evaluation, and the opportunity for one’s work to reach a larger audience. Most importantly, students’ work is always accessible, whether the student moves grades, schools, or graduates. The consistent layout and intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows students to easily upload experiments, reports, and art projects created with other tools or build them from scratch directly in bulb using composition, image, video, and embedded content tools. New features allow students to embed document files such as PDFs and Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files for the first time. An anticipated, robust commenting tool will support more targeted feedback and a tightened permissions system will give students control over who can view and comment on their content.
ESSA READY
(www.essaready.com)
In early March 2017, Allovue launched ESSA Ready, a website to support K-12 school leaders as they prepare their financial reports for compliance under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Created for district and school-level leaders, the site is a guide for meeting the new financial reporting requirements in the statute. Under ESSA, school districts must now demonstrate greater transparency with their financial data, including showing per-pupil expenditures by school based on actual expenses. ESSA Ready features both original content from Allovue’s team such as: blog posts, webinars and other supports for districts moving toward data transparency, targeted improvement and fiscal equity. The website also provides links to external resources authored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the Aspen Education and Society Program, Chiefs for Change, and Education Resource Strategies (ERS).
HMH KIDS DISCOVER SOCIAL STUDIES 2018
(www.hmhco.com/kids-discover-socialstudies)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) announced the release of HMH Kids Discover Social Studies 2018, its social studies curricula for grades K - 6. The standards-based program includes a range of history and geography materials that encourage the development of active inquiry skills. Presented in a student-friendly, magazine-style format, the program combines hands-on lessons with digital assets. Built in partnership with Kids Discover, this next generation curricula series supports both ELA and Social Studies requirements for reading, critical thinking, and skills support so teachers can implement cross-curricular instruction while preparing students for the future. HMH Kids Discover Social Studies is available via Ed: Your Friend in Learning, the online learning system that personalizes the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students by combining technology, HMH content, and instruction.
MYON NEWS POWERED BY NEWS-O-MATIC
(http://about.myon.com/myon-news)
myON introduced myON News Powered by News-O-Matic as their first complementary product of myON and first of its kind digital news program aligned to digital books. The digital multimedia platform will serve as an interactive and fun introduction to daily news and current events, written for kids and reviewed by education experts and child psychologists. myON News will engage K–8 students to help them become informed global citizens, connected to digital fiction and nonfiction books. myON News publishes five original news articles designed for students every weekday, 52 weeks a year and are available in English and Spanish and at three personalized reading levels. In addition, myON News allows educators to assign articles, monitor student activity, and leverage real-time reporting and usage reports to guide and evaluate their students’ progress every step of the way.
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