Bringing the ACT & SAT to Your Classroom More students are applying to four-year colleges than ever before. Preparation is known to improve performance on college entrance exams, and thus students' college options. Many schools are searching for ways to deliver prep to their students. The Need for Test Prep
Standardized college admissions tests like the SAT and ACT have exploded in popularity in recent years. The class of 2018 saw over 2 million students take the SAT, with nearly as many taking the ACT, a 30% increase over... More >> Relevant Tags:
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Build Your Legacy How leading with compassion, empathy and community supports teacher development The legacy of an education leader spans far beyond good test scores or improving student outcomes. Most of an administrator’s legacy is a lasting impact on teachers.
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A Well-Rounded Classroom
Every teacher juggles multiple agendas: teaching the standards, encouraging critical thinking, and getting their students up to speed. All these things - while challenging each and every student to perform their best.... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILE
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I’ve observed two contrary facts about educators:
Few people have the amount of influence that educators have. Most of you handle that responsibility with extraordinary performance.
Few educators get the honor that they deserve. Your gr... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILE
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Fighting the National Reading Crisis
Today’s teachers are often faced with students who have a wide variety of challenges. Be it because of dyslexia, ADHD, a learning disability or coming from an at-risk household, many students fall further ... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILE
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Great Leaps is a mission driven company fueled by a passion for equipping students for success through simple, effective and fun educational interventions. We have effective language and math interventions but are best known for our one-on-one Readi... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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The H.E.R.O. Program is designed for public schools, charter schools, private schools, after school programs and community organizations.
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Even with the unprecedented amount of money available in the 2018/2019 academic year for school safety and security, most schools will not reach a level of sustainable safety.
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ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) Training Institute ® instructor led classes provide preparation and a plan for individuals and organizations on how to proactively handle a violent critical incident or active shooter event.... More >> Relevant Tags:
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Betabox is reinventing STEM field trips by bringing them to you
Since being founded in 2014, Betabox’s mission has been ensuring that world-class hands-on learning can happen anywhere.
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While many colleges offer special programs for students with learning disabilities (LD) and other learning challenges, Landmark College is one of the only accredited colleges in the United States designed exclusively for students who learn different... More >> Relevant Tags:
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At University of the Ozarks, degrees are handcrafted, in intimate classes that allow professors to get to know each student and help them find their passion. Ozarks empowers students not just to imagine, but to fully inhabit their dreams.
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In theory, the choice is simple. We can continue to utilize a time-bound, age-based, one-size-fits-all curriculum-driven instructional model or choose to develop a personalized competency based learning system which identifies crucial learning outc... More >> Relevant Tags: Profiles
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EMPOWERED is a vastly different, nonlinear learning solution that offers students a way to learn that is best suited to them. After more than three years of development by a team of 500 developers, teachers and education experts, EMPOWERED is now av... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Young children learn differently from older children. Their Early experiences like play have a deep impact on their development and create the foundation for a lifetime of learning. Children develop their problem solving skills as well as their coll... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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In theory, the choice is simple. We can continue to utilize a time-bound, age-based, one-size-fits-all curriculum-driven instructional model or choose to develop a personalized competency based learning system which identifies crucial learning outc... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Soundtrap is the future of education. It is a cloud-based program that allows composers, musicians, music students, teachers and others to collaborate and learn using music as the backdrop for a truly worldwide educational experience. More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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The University of the Ozarks is a small liberal arts university that allows students the opportunity to receive a world class education while being nurtured by both staff and the student body. First generation college students, aspiring athletes and... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Looking to spark the imagination of students after the last bell rings for the school year? Summer reading can do just that and, with the right program, can make the months fly by. Kids Read Now is a K-3 summer reading program based upon the best pr... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Literacy-Based Program Brings the Power of Storytelling to the Fight Against Bullying For over 20 years, educators have been using Chicken Soup for the Soul books in the classroom. Now Chicken Soup for the Soul has teamed up with education expert... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Wright Solutions Group is making data personal; they are using technology in a new way to ensure that teachers, administrators and parents have the exact data they need, when they need it to help improve learning outcomes for every child. Utilizing ... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Are you looking for a proven, replicable way to increase learning outcomes in your school or district beginning immediately? Erika Twani of the Learning One to One Foundation wants to explain how you can transform your district in a sustainable wa... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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If you’re ready to bring the world to your classroom, FieldTripZoom brings the educational experience to life with ease. Museums, zoos and historical sites are ready to visit your classroom live with FieldTripZoom - an online service that allows... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Following the Sandy Hook tragedy, Principal Jeff Green was in his office reviewing his school safety plan and realized three things: More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Learnerati is a research driven educational practices company dedicated to creating more effective learning experiences for all students. Learnerati helps educators restructure their approach to not only instruction but educational management. More >> Relevant Tags: SEEN Company Profile
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One of the major areas of concentration across the country today is the safety and security of your students and the schools campus environment. The management of student movement, campus activities, facility visitors and proper planning in case of ... More >> Relevant Tags: SEEN Company Profile
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Bridg-it is designed to work with all the stakeholders in a school community to help ensure a safe positive learning environment. It is a sustainable solution to bullying using technology and data science to prevent and resolve incidents of bull... More >> Relevant Tags: SEEN Company Profile
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Today’s learners need an understanding of our global society, and their place in it.
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There are many theories on how to improve our education outcomes: increase in-school hours, smaller school/class size, different teachers’ compensation models, introduce technology, and so on.
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Our more complex, interconnected world demands a new way of thinking. The ability to understand and manage complex systems is an essential skill for today’s learners. This type of thinking, known as Systems Thinking, gives students the ability to su... More >> Relevant Tags: SEEN Company Profile
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As the #1 pepper spray brand trusted by police and consumers worldwide, SABRE Security Equipment Corporation knows about keeping people safe, and taking down attackers. With free safety resources as well as products twice as potent as the average pe... More >> Relevant Tags: SEEN Magazine Articles
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Serving America’s schools for more than 56 years, School Specialty continues to lead the way in providing educators with performance based solutions through the advent of SSI Guardian, a full service safety and security consulting firm.
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The digital transformation of our schools has dramatically altered the landscape of education and resulted in an unprecedented rise in the collection and use of student data. Today’s classrooms use cloud-based content and teaching systems as well as... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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Teen Science Cafés: Raising Interest in Science and Science Careers Science Cafés for adults have become a global phenomenon in which scientists and the lay public engage in conversations about relevant and intriguing science. In 2007, Science Education Solutions, Inc. of Los Alamos, New Mexico, with a grant from th... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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FISH! For Schools: The foundation of a positive school culture Sometimes the best lessons come from the most unlikely teachers.
Years ago, filmmaker John Christensen was shopping at Seattle’s Pike Place Market when he noticed a large crowd surrounding a small fish market. The fishmongers tossed salmon ... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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A goal of education is to expand students’ sense of their possibilities and roles in the world. Argument writing plays a role in students’ identities in their careers, as college students, and as citizens.
The National Writing Project received... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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Emergency and continuity plans have always been vital to the well being of a school district or university, but prior to 2004, the tools and methodologies available were not entirely adequate. Specifically, there were no viable web-based planning ... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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There’s a new protein drink on the market. In a sea of false promises and ‘filler’ poducts, CleanShake is a company that guarantees products with 100% organic ingredients, which contain absolutely no soy, gluten, artificial flavors, artificial color... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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Today, schools are mired in paper records. When the process of filing paper started decades ago it might not have seemed like a problem. However, the mountain of documents has only grown and for most districts it has become unmanageable. That’s wher... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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The SoyNut Butter Company, we strive to deliver natural, great tasting products that can be enjoyed by all. We are committed to meeting consumers’ needs by offering a variety of delicious and healthy alternatives to make mealtimes and snacks enjoyab... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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Over the past eight years, Eklund Consulting has surveyed thousands of in-service teachers. Only 25 percent of those surveyed reported that they would recommend teaching as a career to young people. According to Founder and President Nathan Eklund: ... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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Schoolbelles is a family owned school uniform business that treats everyone like family. That’s not just a marketing slogan or a catchy motto; Schoolbelles treats all their customers as though they were doing business with their own family members. ... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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Every school district wants to make wise financial decisions.
But in a field where budget deficits, funding cuts, healthcare compliance costs, and layoffs are becoming even more commonplace, many districts are faced with difficult choices that aff... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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Nearly every school in the country does some sort of orientation for their incoming students. But in many schools this consists primarily of a tour of the building, counselors discussing course options and administrators lecturing students on school... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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With cyberbullying on the rise and the potential consequences of this cowardly intimidation ever more worrisome, it’s time to engage in the war against cyber abuse.
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Superintendents, school boards, technology directors and others are at a technology crossroads. Textbooks are rapidly being replaced with digital curriculum, and most districts are somewhere in the process of supplying devices for every learner, tea... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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More and more districts are asking themselves the same question: Why buy a Student Information System (SIS) from one company, a Special Education System from another company, a Data and Assessment Management System from yet another company, and then... More >> Relevant Tags: COMPANY PROFILE
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The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) will grow 17 percent by 2018—nearly double the growth for non-STEM fields. By 2018, the U.S. will have more than 1.2 million unfilled STEM jobs ... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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The Condition of College and Career Readiness report ( www.act.org/newsroom/data/2014/index.html ) released this past August by ACT represents 1,845,787 students—or 57% of the 2014 US graduating class—who took The ACT ® . Since 2010, the number of A... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Designed for students in grades three through high school, Think Through Math (TTM) is a learning system that provides quality math instruction while supporting students and teachers in unprecedented ways, including immediate student access to stat... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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Universities, more specifically; university professors, administrators, and students are boldly going where they haven’t gone before. Beam Smart Presence Systems are arriving on campus, and universities are discovering how Beam connects students and... More >> Relevant Tags: PROFILES
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As a new school year kicks off, schools across the nation are installing panic buttons for an extra layer of security. “Banks have silent alarms they can use to notify authorities if a robbery is taking place. We can equip schools with similar techn... More >> Relevant Tags: school, panic, reviews, education security, button, schools, panic button, panic buttons, button system, our mission, school district
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Protecting our schools can be incredibly complicated and tragically imperfect. SafePlans understands safe and prepared schools are a consequence of collaborative efforts among schools leaders and their commentary stakeholders, all other concerns – i... More >> Relevant Tags: schools, safeplans, education, reviews, emergency, plans, product reviews, our mission, even safer, current issue, special features, four phases
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World’s Finest Chocolate is family owned and based in the heart of Chicago. With over 65 years of experience, we pride ourselves in being one of nine American companies that manufactures chocolate directly from the bean.
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Forward Collisions
Mobileye is an exciting technology that is seeing great success at reducing accidents and modifying driver behavior.
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Interview Stream Video Tools Help Students Ace Interviews; Speed Hiring & Admissions It's a Tough World
Today's job market is very competitive as employers look for the most qualified candidates and the "best fit" for their organization. Companies face many challenges in hiring due to shortages of required skills in the labor fo... More >> Relevant Tags: video, interview, students, education, interviewing, product, candidates, interviewstream, product reviews, video interviewing, our mission, company profiles, special features, interview stream, use video
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed a lot of talk lately around the subject of “Big Data” in education. The promise of Behavior Modeling and Predictive Analytics is alluring to data miners and data scientists. For most ed... More >> Relevant Tags: data, education, reviews, product, information, product reviews, our mission, data four, four letter
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It's no surprise that technology is a core part of education. Teachers rely heavily on software to organize lessons and teach students critical skills. However, software must be updated routinely in order to stay fully protected against the dangers ... More >> Relevant Tags: reviews, education, software, pdq, arsenal, admin, product reviews, admin arsenal, our mission, adminarsenal, company profiles, pdq deploy
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Our nation’s schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Between natural and man-made disasters, our schools need to be better prepared to protect students and staff from threats including armed intruders, ab... More >> Relevant Tags: reviews, education, school, product, geos safety, product reviews, school safety, our mission, save lives, lives geos, geos school
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Our National Challenge: Create a Relevant System that Serves Today's Students Shareen dropped out of school at age 14. After spending three hard years, she decided to return to school so she could support her daughter. In her Educurious classroom, she found support and encouragement to begin to read again. Leveraging The Educ... More >> Relevant Tags: education, reviews, learning, product, educurious, shareen, product reviews, chris markus, our mission, real world
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Pasi Stahlberg, education guru from Finland states that “Visitors to the Finnish schools are surprised at how much the responsibility of learning in Finnish schools is with the pupils”.
Dr. Stahlberg indicates key strategies for success in F... More >> Relevant Tags: learning, students, education, student, reviews, assessment, data, product reviews, all learning, assessment learning, creating empowering, finnish schools, our mission, school improvement
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The need in our nation for radically improving schools exists now more than ever. As of July 2013 there were over 6,380 schools identified as Priority or Focus schools. These schools face overwhelming challenges to increase student achievement with ... More >> Relevant Tags: school, schools, improvement, learning, leadership, reviews, district, education, school improvement, product reviews, leadership learning, common core, learning center, leadership team, turning around
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Located in Wood-Ridge, NJ, Academia Furniture evolved from family businesses begun over 100 years ago. Proudly, we continue those same, demanding standards – real people providing real quality, real service and real solutions. More >> Relevant Tags: education, furniture, academia, classroom, academia furniture, wood ridge, classroom today, real people, real service
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Placing the solution for healthy school vending into the hands of ambitious students has proven to provide a dramatically greater fundraising capacity than schools have ever enjoyed from outsourced vending professionals. More >> Relevant Tags: school, vending, education, vend, students, vend ucation, school vending, high school, vending machines
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When Tim Spinner was in college, coverage of the Columbine shootings dominated the media and a professor predicted, “Teachers will one day wear bullet proof vests.” Spinner thought the claim was far fetched. He never expected school safety to domina... More >> Relevant Tags: school, pepper, spray, security, education, schools, safety, pepper spray, non lethal, security international, mace security, school safety, tim spinner, safer schools
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