Hello Xello: Every Student, Future Ready
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question that follows students from grade school to well beyond high school. Xello helps break this big and scary question down by engaging students in exploring their interests, skills, and future possibilities, and building meaningful plans that students are confident in and excited […]
The Safety of Curated Educational Video: A Spotlight on Boclips
Video can be a wonderful way to enhance learning in the classroom, but ensuring the quality and safety of that video is critical in the K-12 setting. That’s why we are so pleased to introduce Boclips, a company offering curated educational video services. Boclips is the leading provider of educational videos, offering the world’s largest collection […]
Heroes Made: The Ultimate Social Emotional Learning Solution
Introducing Heroes Made: The Ultimate Social Emotional Learning Solution Let’s dare to imagine how our society can transform if every child is equipped with the tools to build positive relationships and make responsible decisions. This shift could mean less time spent managing the daily ups and downs, emotional challenges, and the faulty coping mechanisms that […]
The Importance of Data Privacy for K-12 Schools
August might be summer break for kids, but presents data privacy challenges for school IT leaders. When calendars flip to August, a sudden flurry of activity ensues at virtually every K-12 school. While students might be squeezing in their last lazy days of summer, teachers, counselors, school administrators, and IT leaders are busy preparing for […]
A New Era in Education Communication: Tokenized CPaaS
As K-12 schools grapple with the enormous responsibility of safeguarding personal information, one area that has presented a challenge is effectively managing communications among parents, students, and educators. Districts often turn to technology to enhance and streamline those efforts, but there is inherent risk in transferring personally identifiable data (PII) to EdTech vendors. To ensure […]
The Institute for Humane Education: Teaching Solutionaries
The Institute for Humane Education (IHE) is dedicated to helping people understand, teach, and address systemic challenges, so they can create change that does the most good and the least harm for people, animals, and the environment. With IHE’s resources and programs, educators can prepare students to think critically, creatively, strategically, and systemically as they […]
Best Practices for Data Integration in K-12 Schools
Data integration has become more challenging for K-12 schools. According to K12 Dive, “there have been 102 education-related ransomware attacks in 2023 as of mid-September, compared to 116 in 2022, 107 in 2021, 116 in 2020, 104 in 2019 and 16 in 2018.” Hundreds of reported cybersecurity ransomware attacks on schools occur every year, and […]
K-12 School Cybersecurity: Protect Student Data
Districts around the country are being targeted by sophisticated cybercrime operations that are using personally identifiable information (PII) to target schools and extract student data. Threats coming from Russia and from within our own country have compromised schools and districts throughout the U.S. The Threat Landscape Has Grown Since the Pandemic Districts were already well […]
Disrupt Data Exchange to Solve the Student Data Privacy Problem
We can no longer pretend that the student data privacy problem in K-12 schools doesn’t exist or that traditional rostering services don’t exacerbate that risk. It’s time to acknowledge that duplicating data and spreading it across multiple third-party servers is unsafe for student data privacy, staff privacy, and overall cybersecurity. There is a better way. […]
Safeguarding Student Data
Safeguarding Student Data: Understanding the Importance of Privacy in the Digital Age In the digital age, the protection of student data has become a pressing concern. According to a study from Lightspeed Systems, more than two-thirds of education IT leaders indicate that concerns around privacy and security are more important now than they have been in […]