SchoolDay privacy governance
29 May 2025

Take Control of App Requests: Privacy Governance Must Come First

Privacy governance is the cornerstone to protecting PII. Every new edtech app promises to revolutionize learning, solve the latest instructional challenge, or spark student engagement in new ways. But behind every glowing feature list lies a question that school districts can’t afford to ignore: At what cost to student data privacy? App requests are pouring […]

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Boclips
August 27, 2024

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 […]

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Heroes Made
August 13, 2024

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 […]

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data privacy in k-12 schools
August 1, 2024

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 […]

Data Privacy

SchoolDay and Vonage partner to offer K-12 schools CPaaS
July 24, 2024

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 […]

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Institute for Humane Education Solutionary Framework
June 11, 2024

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 […]

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data integration best practices
May 28, 2024

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 […]

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K-12 school cybersecurity - protect student data
April 4, 2024

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 […]

Cybersecurity

disrupt data exchange to address the student data privacy problem
March 7, 2024

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. […]

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safeguarding student data
January 11, 2024

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 […]

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PII monitoring
May 11, 2023

An Intro to SchoolDay’s PII Monitoring

Picture yourself driving on a highway. The day is bright, the sky is clear, and you’re able to cruise along. Now picture that same drive, only the road ahead is obscured by thick fog. You have to put on the brakes, slow down, and ease your way down the road because you simply cannot see […]

Data Privacy

secure data exchange
March 23, 2023

Is Your District at Risk of Exposing PII?

Not all data exchange solutions are equally secure. How do you know if your data exchange puts your district at risk of exposing PII? School districts have been using data exchange for years to give edtech vendors and other third parties the information they need. Unfortunately, most data exchange puts districts at risk of exposing […]

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cybersecurity in K-12 schools
January 12, 2023

Protect K-12 Student Data with Comprehensive Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a challenge for K-12 schools. Looking back at September 2022, there were more than 16 disclosed ransomware attacks – half of which were on academic institutions. In the following November, another ransomware attack, on Norman Public Schools, completely debilitated the district. Increasingly, K-12 schools and universities are becoming primary targets for cyber criminals. […]

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