As any K-12 administrative staff member knows, the student enrollment process can cause a lot of headaches. A typical school can process a dozen forms for every new student. And when these forms are on paper, it can take an excessive amount of time. Parents share in the frustration of paper based forms as well. Continue reading

Ever-tightening budgets have become a given for district administrators. This means that every year, administrators and educators are faced with the challenge of finding new ways to keep costs down while maintaining a productive, enriching educational environment for their students and staff. Here are 3 potential ways to reduce education costs for your district, without Continue reading

Ever-tightening budgets have become a given for district administrators. This means that every year, administrators and educators are faced with the challenge of finding new ways to keep costs down while maintaining a productive, enriching educational environment for their students and staff. Here are 3 potential ways to reduce education costs for your district, without Continue reading

The rapid pace of advancement in the educational technology sphere means that every year brings an exciting new range of possibilities for improving the way districts, teachers and students perform and interact with one another. Here are 5 key EdTech trends to look out for in 2017:   OER Grows Up OER (open educational resource) Continue reading

The concept of Common Core is to create consistency in education across schools in the U.S., regardless of location. Most of the states have adopted this initiative, which provides rules that must be followed to provide a standard education. To emphasize the actual processes of, for example, mathematics, instead of just the answers, Common Core Continue reading

The Basics Simply put, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is a set of high-quality educational standards for K-12 math and English language arts/literacy (ELA). The standards include learning goals which list what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each school year. The Common Core standards were created Continue reading

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), essentially constitutes a wholesale rewrite of the largely unpopular No Child Left Behind Act. The new law goes into full effect beginning in the 2017-18 school year. While many in the education sector might be aware of the broad details of ESSA (i.e. that it promotes a more “well Continue reading

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law on December 10, 2015 and largely replaced the No Child Left Behind Act as well as introduced some big changes to the role of the federal government in U.S. educational policy. ESSA takes full effect in the 2017-18 school year. Here are the key elements Continue reading

SharePoint is a robust content management platform, but it does not provide users with all the tools they need to process information and documents quickly, efficiently and accurately. Five of the most commonly reported pain points with SharePoint are confusing navigation, user adoption, content management, workflow, and document capture. By adding Content360° to a SharePoint Continue reading