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BREAKING THE SPANISH BARRIER
Breaking the Barrier, Inc. announced the release of the 2015 Breaking the Spanish Barrier series of iBook textbooks. The updated Level 1, 2, and 3 editions have been enhanced with more audio, video, and interactive content to engage students. Breaking the Spanish Barrier uses grammar and rich vocabulary in the context of history, popular culture, and current events to build knowledge and language fluency. Extensive use of audio featuring native speakers provides more confidence-building support for learners who listen to and imitate their pronunciation.
CLARITY LEADERSHIP MODULE
(www.brightbytes.net)
BrightBytes added a Leadership module to Clarity, a platform that provides solutions to help educators make data-driven decisions for student learning. Created in partnership with McREL International, a nonprofit education research and development organization, the module empowers educational organizations to grow and develop leaders and track the progress of their improvement initiatives. The Leadership module is based on McREL’s research about the leadership practices that have the largest impact on student outcomes. The module provides personalized, actionable analysis for organizational teams in the areas of purposeful community, managing change, and leadership focus.
EXO U
(www.exou.com)
EXO U combines an LMS, assessments, and OER and licensed content to a teacher’s favorite third-party tools. With one click, teachers share content to any school-owned or student device. They can observe a student’s engagement, lock computer screens, and eliminate onboarding delays. Content gets delivered directly to students’ device. That means they can continue to work on it, even when there is no connectivity. It works across all operating systems such as windows, Mac OS, iOS and Android, and with any device. EXO U also partnered with Clever on SIS integrations in order to further reduce barriers to implementation. At ISTE, it partnered with Panasonic to showcase its solution with the Panasonic 3E, a laptop developed through a partnership of Panasonic, Microsoft, and Intel.
EDTRAININGCENTER AND OBSERVE4SUCCESS
(www.edtrainingcenter.com and www.observe4success.com)
EDTRAININGCENTER, provider of online training and professional development for K-12, has teamed up with observe4 success, a classroom observation and walkthrough platform, to create a new kind of observation, feedback, and professional development program for administrators, coaches, mentors, and teachers. Now, educators and administrators can customize their classroom observations and generate personalized PD recommendations in one cloud-based platform. Observers are able to immediately recommend or assign a teacher appropriate professional development courses upon completing the observation.
MYON AND CANDLEWICK PRESS
(www.myon.com)
myON announced the addition of Candlewick Press digital content to its personalized literacy environment. With the addition of elementary and middle school titles from Candlewick Press, launching this fall, myON continues to expand its digital collection that encourages reading at all grade levels. Digital book packages from Candlewick Press include the Judy Moody and Stink series by Megan McDonald, as well as titles by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Michael Winerip and Newbery Medalist, National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, and NYT best-selling author Kate DiCamillo.
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