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Aperture Education Hosts Webinars Focusing on the Social Emotional Health of Educators

Free webinars provide strategies and resources for teachers and administrators

Charlotte N.C. (Aug 11, 2020) — In order to support the social-emotional health of students, educators must make sure they are taking care of their own social-emotional needs as well. To help them, Aperture Education is hosting two free webinars at 2 p.m. EST August 19th and August 27th, 2020 focusing on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for teachers and tips on how administrators can make adult social-emotional learning a priority. The webinars will delve into why SEL for educators is so important and provide tools and resources to help make it a priority in schools this year.

Aperture Education Partners with Move This World to Provide its Customers with Additional Social-Emotional Learning Strategies

Partnership allows Aperture customers to access short videos from Move This World to teach social emotional skills to students

Charlotte N.C. (Aug. 10, 2020) — Social-emotional learning (SEL) companies Aperture Education and Move This World have partnered to provide Aperture’s customers with additional resources to support the development of students’ social-emotional skills. Aperture customers can now access a sampling of short videos created by Move This World that help develop and strengthen students’ social-emotional skills such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision making. The videos will be added to the hundreds of social and emotional learning Growth Strategies Aperture already offers through its DESSA Comprehensive SEL System.

Flinn Scientific Launches New Solutions to Support Hands-on Science in Any Learning Environment

360Science™ and Science2Go help students learn important scientific concepts in a safe, effective, and engaging way

Batavia, Illinois, July 29, 2020 — Flinn Scientific, a flagship provider of science lab materials and safety and STEM solutions for the K-16 education market, is launching two new solutions – 360Science™ and Science2Go – to support hands-on learning this coming school year. Now, regardless if learning is taking place in a virtual, hybrid, or in-person environment, educators will have the resources needed to teach students about important scientific concepts and phenomena in a safe, effective, and engaging way.

Impero Wins a 2020 Tech & Learning Award of Excellence

Impero’s student safety tools recognized in the Best Enterprise Solution category

Austin, TX, July 13, 2020 – Student safety leader Impero was named a winner of the 2020 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence. Impero’s student safety tools, which include Impero Education Pro and Impero EdAware were recognized in the Best Enterprise Solution category.

Impero Software Appoints Richard Cremona to its Board of Directors

Austin, TX, June 23, 2020 – Student safety leader Impero has named Richard Cremona to its board of directors.

Cremona, who is based in Chicago, will bring his vast experience in business, security and technology to Impero to support its continued expansion worldwide. Cremona has extensive experience in leading technology companies. Most recently, he served as chief executive officer and vice chairman of the board of the OpSec Security Group, a global leader in authentication and brand protection solutions. He has also held senior level positions with AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Sprint Communications, Openwave Systems and Kentrox throughout his extensive career.

PBLWorks Creates New eBook Featuring 21 Projects to Help Families Keep Children Engaged in Learning this Summer

“This Teachable Moment” eBook provides an introduction to Project Based Learning and ready-to-go projects for children of all grade levels

Novato, CA (June 17, 2020) –The COVID-19 school closures have caused many parents and caregivers to wonder whether their children have fallen behind in learning, and how they might catch up. To support these families, PBLWorks, the leader in Project Based Learning, has created a free eBook packed with ideas and resources to help parents re-engage their children in learning throughout the summer.

Apperson Offers Early Bird Pricing for its Online Character Education Program – The Character Tree

Discounted 2020/21 subscriptions allow teachers to provide students with character skills, whether they are in classrooms or teaching remotely

Renton, WA – June 16, 2020 – After a successful launch in 2019/20 that garnered more than 18,000 subscribers, The Character Tree is now providing character education to thousands of student who are learning from home. To keep this character development moving forward, whether students are in classrooms, learning from home, or in a hybrid learning program, Apperson is offering The Character Tree at a discounted rate for the 2020/21 school year. The program features video lessons highlighting the positive character traits of prominent figures, as well as educator and student resources. To subscribe and to view video samples visit https://charactertree.com/.

Impero Launches Website-Filtering Software to Further Protect Students Online

Impero Web:check scans approximately 150 million new URLs every day, catching and filtering on average 408,000 web pages for inappropriate content

Austin TX, June 9, 2020 –– Student safety leader Impero today launched Impero Web:check, a real-time web content filtering solution for schools. Powered by Netsweeper, Impero Web:check analyzes web content in real-time, protecting students from inappropriate or malicious content both in and out of the classroom.

The Character Tree Hosts Webinar on how to Incorporate Character Development across the Curriculum

Free June 11, 2020 webinar features early elementary school teacher Sara VanderWel who plays the role of “Miss Sara” in The Character Tree videos

Renton, WA. (June 2, 2020) — Character education in the early years can help set students up for success in school, and in life. To help teachers incorporate character lessons throughout the school day, The Character Tree, an online video resource for character development, is hosting a free webinar at 3 p.m. Eastern Time/noon Pacific Time on June 11, 2020.

Curriculum Associates’ Updated i-Ready® Personalized Instruction Aligns to WIDA PRIME V2 Correlation Criteria for English Language Learners

Online reading and mathematics program now includes more than 1,150 culturally responsive lessons to support English Language Learners (ELLs)

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., June 2, 2020—Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Personalized Instruction for Grades K–8 recently met all key correlation criteria for the WIDA Protocol for Review of Instructional Materials for ELLs (PRIME V2). This third-party review signifies that the program, which has been significantly updated to further meet the needs of ELLs, is correlated to the WIDA Standards Framework, connected to English Language Development Standards, and relevant for both US domestic and international audiences to meet the academic needs of ELLs. Today, i-Ready Personalized Instruction is composed of more than 1,150 lessons, nearly 75 percent of which are new from within the last three years.

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