Blogs

Beef Up Your Backup for Seamless Continuity
Dale Basye
September 1, 2021

Continuity helps the entire school or district persist in a crisis. Backing up data is the first step in continuity and ensures that IT and communications work.

Create a Disaster Recovery Plan
Dale Basye
August 12, 2021

By taking into account your infrastructure, potential threats and vulnerabilities, and most critical assets, establishing a disaster recovery plan can help schools and districts bounce back after data disasters.

Finding Balance to Find Your Purpose: Part Three
Naomi Harm
July 29, 2021

Gratitude is the quality of being thankful, and models the readiness to show appreciation for—and to return a gift of—kindness. Here are many successful practices to start implementing gratitude into each day of the week!

A Recipe for Disaster Recovery
Dale Basye
July 26, 2021

Considering all of the potential threats to K–12 data, disaster recovery is crucial for schools and districts to retrieve and reclaim vital information, and to maintain operations; avoiding catastrophic shut downs.

Finding Balance to Find Your Purpose: Part Two
Naomi Harm
June 29, 2021

Icebreaker activities are some of my go-to strategies for team building and/or difficult conversations. These techniques help us all to become more aware and respectful of everyone's thinking routines. 

Minding the Gap: Gaining Insight on Learning Loss
Tod Johnston
June 10, 2021

Schools have a tremendous opportunity to use pandemic relief funds to not only help students complete their unfinished learning, but also to reimagine and reinvent what learning looks like for their students. 

Finding Balance to Find Your Purpose: Part One
Naomi Harm
May 20, 2021

Prioritizing your learning commitment in yourself can help foster more empathy-based interactions with your peers and family members, resulting in action-based outcomes, as you listen, consider, and learn from the individuals closest to you in your learning community.  

Go With the Plan: The American Rescue Plan Act and K-12 Education
Dale Basye
April 30, 2021

While the typical woes surrounding education have tended to be around funding, now—with the American Rescue Plan Act—schools and district have the funds to reimagine modern learning to accelerate recovery from months of lost learning opportunities. 

Audio's Time to Sing
Steven Burt
March 25, 2021

Audio is having its moment. That is, even before the start of the pandemic in 2019, audio usage—in terms of delivery vehicles such as streaming services and podcasts—has been dramatically on the rise. According to Tencent Music Entertainment, online music subscription increased by 70% during the first quarter of 2020.

Three Digital Learning Tools That Showcase Technology’s Potential
Lisa Fisher
February 2, 2021

We are awash with products that aim to revolutionize the way all humans—not just students—learn. However, which of these will have meaningful impact, and which will simply be a quick flash in the pan?

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