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null — Creating a Digital Playbook: 5 Critical Components Cyber issues in schools can impact students, teachers, staff, and physical or virtual elements of schools and districts. Schools are driven by the notion of improving student learning through the tools and skills of educators.

Microphone in foreground closeup, blurred lights in background. — BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: District Outfits 400 Classrooms with Tech that Tackles Hearing Issues A partnership of three companies results in the installation of wireless microphone-based amplification systems in a record number of California classrooms

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BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Washington State District Adopts Discovery Education’s Social Studies Techbook

By TL Editors

"This curriculum must prepare students to ask complex questions, read and write with a critical lens, and know how and when to take action,” said Lexi Samorano, Highline Public Schools’ Secondary Social Studies Specialist.

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BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Massachusetts Schools to Use PublicSchoolWORKS for Online Safety Training

By TL Editors

EmployeeSafe provides schools and districts with access to 600+ online safety courses, including Suicide Prevention, Restraint and Seclusion, and more, as well as courses on other important safety topics.

Feature: Districts Share Student Data Security Practices

By Annie Galvin Teich

Parents and educators read about the latest security breaches every day in news headlines.

Back Office Business

By TL Editors

Clayton County (GA) Public Schools, Georgia State University’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), and Curriculum Associates will partner on a new program with middle-school teachers to implement the county’s math curriculum in their classrooms.

Executive Briefing

By TL Editors

A recent issue of the Hechinger Report highlights how VR is becoming an important tool for serving students with disabilities.

BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Carlsbad High School’s Award-Winning CHSTV Broadcast Journalism Program

By Claudia Kienzle

The students run the entire show. They work as on-camera talent and news anchors, and execute the live show from the control room.

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BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Oregon District Expands Partnership with Discovery Education

By TL Editors

RSD’s high school science teachers will use Discovery Education’s Science Techbook and professional development to create digital lessons in a 1:1 environment.

Executive Briefs

By TL Editors

Schools around the country have been setting up teams to assess threats posed by students who display signs of violence.

Repurposing School Libraries As Vibrant Hubs and Centers of Change

By Annie Galvin Teich

One of the issues that district leaders tackled in Philadelphia at the June Tech & Learning Leadership Summit was how to change pedagogy to support new kinds of learning that technology has enabled.

BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Texas District Adopts Germ-Resistant Interactive Flat Panels

By TL Editors

“We took time exploring our options, but we were sold on BenQ,” said Todd Gratehouse, CTO at Del Valle ISD.

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BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Simbli Board Management Software Now Available to All ISBA Districts

By TL Editors

eBOARDsolutions, Inc. and the Idaho School Boards Association announced a new partnership to make Simbli board management software available to all ISBA member school districts.

BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Boxlight Awarded Additional Programs from Clayton County Public Schools

By TL Editors

These three programs will be integrated in order to facilitate the educator’s implementation of Boxlight classroom solutions.

Back Office Business

By TL Editors

Understanding how Chromebooks differ from other laptops will help educators and administrators decide if Chromebooks are right for their digital classrooms.

Executive Briefs

By TL Editors

An approach to problem solving called improvement science may give district and school initiatives a better chance of success.

Report: T&L Leadership Summit

By Eileen Belastock

The elation felt while attending the June 2019 Tech & Learning Leadership Summit in Philadelphia could be compared to the exhilaration of running up the Rocky Steps in the City of Brotherly Love.

BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Indiana DOE Includes i-Ready Diagnostic on Approved Formative Assessment Program List

By TL Editors

“i-Ready provides our staff with the data and tools necessary to help our students make great gains in proficiency of state standards,” said Teni Helmberger, Director of Special Education and Assessment at Kokomo School Corporation in Kokomo, IN.

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A Q&A with Future Ready Principal Sanée Bell, Morton Ranch Junior High, Katy (TX) ISD

By Tara Smith

Back Office Business

By TL Editors

High School Nation is now using Blackmagic Design’s URSA Mini Pros as their main cameras with the organization’s nationwide high-school outreach program.