Wouldn’t it save time and reduce errors if the data could be entered in one place and simultaneously entered or updated in another software?

Digital Learning Programs go beyond teaching a class remotely, and are inherently, an entire school experience delivered online. As we navigate schooling and learning environments in a post-pandemic world, administrators and school leaders have to plan for any possibility in education. We have realized that a school needs to be better at delivering its services online.

Summer’s calling, a new normal is on the horizon, and the only thing standing in the way is a couple more days of school.  No one, not one teacher or one student, escaped a steep learning curve when it came to remote teaching and learning. Much of our experience has been molded by trial and error, failure and success, frustration, and elation.  Adopting technology into a classroom can enhance many valuable lessons, but one thing to remember over all else, is that technology is only helpful if it works well.  That takes a systems-thinking approach, making sure that all the pieces, the technology, the teacher, the student, the school, all have their role; hope as we might, no technology is a silver bullet answer for any problem. 

Every four years, our nation enters the Voting Season.  It’s a mad-dash for support, for donors big and small, for sound-bites, good news, bad news, and any news in between for candidates running for elected offices.  And every four years, Americans head to the polls, or so we think.  Voting numbers in the United States are significantly low, placing us 26th among 32 developed voting nations.  Presidential elections generate a lot of buzz, but in reality, about only half of the United State’s Voting Age Population (VAP) show up that Tuesday in November.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts unveiled Bill S.2350, known as the Student Opportunity Act. This bill seeks to significantly overhaul the way the state allocates funding to public schools, bringing $1.5B dollars into public schools through a change in the funding formula. Needless to say, it’s a huge investment necessary for continued success of Massachusetts schools, and for improving the Opportunity Gap, Achievement Gap, and Learning Gap. 

Lesson plan libraries are the unicorns of the education world - hard to find, but once you have it, big changes are around the corner.