School Systems Blog
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PowerSchool Summit Series: Core Tools for Student Success
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What do you get when you mix a group of PowerSchool-savy school folks plus a team of Pearson’s best trainers and have them focus on standards for three days? A robust school- and district-level ability to develop educational success strategies for students in PowerSchool 7.0.
In the Core Tools for Student Success summit, System Administrators will learn how to implement standards in PowerSchool 7.0, how to create standards-based report cards using ReportWorks, and how to implement custom pages using PowerSchool 7.0.
Curriculum specialists will learn about Ken O’Connor’s 15 … -
Five Apps for Teacher Organization
With all of the lessons to plan, emails to read, and grades to calculate, it’s no wonder why teaching can be overwhelming. As educators, there is often a heap load to do in so little time, that it becomes difficult to squeeze it all in without surrendering quality. Being organized is the agent to managing time, remaining efficient, and even staying sane during the demanding moments throughout the school year. A few months back we shared “Apps, Software, and Sites Every Teacher Should Know About,” and since organization truly matters, …
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Apps for Educators: Science
Science is vital to human life. In fact, it is intensely woven into our daily decisions and routines. To put it frankly, “Science affects us all, every day of the year, from the moment we wake up, all day long, and through the night. Your digital alarm clock, the weather report, the asphalt you drive on, the bus you ride in, your decision to eat a baked potato instead of fries, your cell phone, the antibiotics that treat your sore throat, the clean water that comes from your faucet, and …
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PowerSchool Reaches Special Education with PCG Education Partnership
Today Pearson announced an agreement with PCG Education to provide PowerSchool, the industry-leading student information system (SIS), with robust, integrated functionality to address the special-education needs of today’s schools and districts. Read more…
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Four Ways to Use Pinterest in Education
It seems as though when one technology tool for the classroom is introduced, another one is waiting to make its debut! We’ve shared several 21st century tools with our readers; however, we have not acquainted you with a recent tool, Pinterest. Pinterest is an electronic bulletin board where users can “pin” images from around the web. These images are then categorized into various boards on the users’ profile. Pins are also shared and searchable, which makes Pinterest a wonderful resource for visual information. So what are these pin boards good …