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CAMPAIGN MANAGER
(www.k12insight.com/lets-talk)
K12 Insight announced Campaign Manager, part of Let’s Talk! 7.5, an upgrade to the company’s cloud-based community feedback solution. With Campaign Manager, school districts can keep their community engaged throughout the year. The feature makes it possible to create, schedule, and send custom email messages to specific segments of a school community without leaving Let’s Talk! Users can choose from one of seven premade email templates, or create their own. A “trickle” feature allows school districts to batch emails and manage the amount of feedback they receive, so that no one staff member or department spends an excessive amount of time responding to email.
ODYSSEYWARE SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION SERIES
(www.odysseyware.com/schooltransformation)
Odysseyware launched its School Transformation Series, a sequence of professional learning opportunities that highlights the unique ways schools and districts nationwide are implementing innovative technology solutions and new instructional strategies to engage students and transform learning. The series features blog posts and virtual events that give educational thought leaders a platform to share best practices from the field and highlight successful implementations that are making a difference for students and their communities.
PERFORMANCE TASK PD WITH JAY MCTIGHE
(www.definedlearning.com)
Defined Learning launched its new online professional development course, Performance Task PD with Jay McTighe. The four-module course guides educators through the process of incorporating project-based learning into their current curriculum. Upon completing the course, participants will be able to develop, implement, and evaluate student performance through a project-based learning performance task. Performance Task PD is designed and narrated by Jay McTighe, an accomplished author who is focused on standards-based reforms and development of performance-based assessments. The PD course is product-agnostic, but complements Defined Learning’s flagship product, Defined STEM, a supplementary curriculum breaking down tasks by grade level and standards.
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