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BALANCE BUDGET
(www.allovue.com/products/balance/budget)

Allovue released Balance Budget to help budget directors allocate resources to decision-makers throughout the district without having to manage many custom, static spreadsheets. Title I grant managers, teaching and learning departments, and school principals can now all manage their allocations to budget staff and other resources that are aligned to district goals. Late-stage changes to salary and benefits packages can be updated across dozens or hundreds of budgets with a few keystrokes.

ENGAGE! K-12
(www.robotlab.com/engagek12)

RobotLAB released a new digital platform that provides robot-based lessons for a wide range of subjects and age levels. Engage! K-12 is a hands-on learning experience organized by themes, such as soccer-playing robots or autonomous cars. Students and teachers can access the browser-based learning ecosystem from any device. Teachers without programming experience can bring their lessons to life with virtual or physical robots. Lessons are searchable by grade level, subject, and CCSS or TEKS standard, and cover topics from coding to STEM to storytelling. Teachers can use RobotLAB’s existing lessons, customize them for their classes, or create their own.

MYON VERSION 3.7
(www.myon.com)

myON announced the release of version 3.7, bringing re-envisioned faculty reports and more support for student readers. Now, students can select the read-aloud speed of any book in the myON collection. For early readers, additional native benchmark items are available that use pictures and simple sentences to track changes in students’ reading scores as they progress. When creating reading tasks, educators can use book alignments to state and national standards to connect titles to support curriculum goals.

TALES2GO
(www.tales2go.com)

Tales2go Inc. announced an introductory subscription offering for its award-winning service. Different from a building license, which provides a take-home license for every student, a Tales2go library license provides up to 10 licenses for use in the library/media center and 25 lendable licenses that can be shared with individual students on mobile devices. Tales2go supports the development of literacy skills during a student’s early childhood and elementary school years. The Tales2go service easily adds a listening component to classroom reading instruction. Tales2go works with leading audio book publishers ranging from Recorded Books, Scholastic, and Oxford University Press, as well as established storytellers such as Bill Harley and Odds Bodkin.

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