“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” —Roger Lewin
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2013 – PresenceLearning, the leader in online speech therapy services for K-12 students, was recently awarded a 2013 Best Educational Software Award (BESSIE Award) from The ComputED Gazette. The 19th annual award program named PresenceLearning as the winner of the best Multi-Level Special Education category.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2013 – To share the latest recommended practices that can transform special education programs and service delivery in public school settings, PresenceLearning, the leader in online speech therapy services for K-12 students, is hosting a free webinar on Thursday, May 9th at 1 pm ET (10 am PT). To register for the webinar “Leadership Challenges for Superintendents: Transforming Special Education in a Challenging Fiscal Environment,” visit http://pages.presencelearning.com/spedahead11.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25, 2013 – PresenceLearning, the leader in online speech and occupational therapy services for K-12 students, recently received $8 million in funding to continue the growth of its online therapy services, as well as to expand development into new products and offerings for the special education market.
Read more: PresenceLearning Raises $8 Million in Series B Funding
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2013 – Teachscape, the leader in delivering Web-based professional learning content, innovative classroom observation and evaluation technologies, and expert services to improve teaching practice, was named the winner of the inaugural Return on Education (ROE) Innovation Award in the Teacher Support category. Presented by Arizona State University, the Clayton Christensen Institute and GSV Advisors, the award was given at the 2013 Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, AZ.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2013 – To relieve its chronic shortage of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and to allow the district to devote more resources to early intervention services, Sparta Area School District partnered with PresenceLearning, the leader in online speech therapy services for K-12 students. By using PresenceLearning’s online speech therapy services, the district can allocate more time to early intervention services to shorten the amount of time a student spends in special education—or prevent it entirely.
Read more: Online Speech Therapy Enables Wisconsin District to Bolster Early Intervention Efforts
BEAVERTON, Oregon, April 18, 2013 – Vernier Software & Technology named Jonathan Aurnou and Peter Shimer from the University of California Los Angeles, and Nelson Nunalee from Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina, as the winners of the 2013 Vernier Engineering Contest. These winning educators were selected by a panel of Vernier educational experts for demonstrating truly creative teaching using Vernier sensors with National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW™ software.
LONG BEACH, Calif. – April 16, 2013 – Epson America, Inc. continues to demonstrate its leadership in the projector market and today announced it continues to hold the number one position in North America for 2012. According to PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, Epson continued its momentum in the projector market by growing its overall North America market share to 34 percent in 2012, which represents a three-point increase year-over-year – the largest share growth of any manufacturer1.
Read more: Epson Extends North America Projector Market Leadership to 34 Percent Market Share
BEAVERTON, Oregon, April 10, 2013 – Vernier Software & Technology and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) awarded seven educators – including two middle school teachers, four high school teachers and one college-level educator – with 2013 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards. Each of these winners was selected by an NSTA-appointed panel of experts for their innovative use of data-collection technology.
Cincinnati, OH – April 9, 2013 – To help Colorado charter schools make informed purchasing decisions, the Colorado League of Charter Schools has created the Preferred Service Provider (PSP) Program to present its members with credible service providers within their stated areas of expertise. PublicSchoolWORKS, a Cincinnati-based company that offers the one and only comprehensive, fully-automated risk management system available for schools, has been designated as a Preferred Service Provider for Colorado charter schools. PublicSchoolWORKS is one of the first companies to be recognized by the PSP program.
Read more: Colorado League of Charter Schools Names PublicSchoolWORKS a Preferred Service Provider
WILMINGTON, DE, April 9, 2013 – The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) specification for tagging educational content has been adopted by Schema.org, the consortia formed by Microsoft Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex to collect and document web microdata standards to improve search results. Anyone who publishes or curates educational content can now use LRMI markup to provide rich, education-specific metadata about their resources with the confidence that this metadata will be recognized by major search engines.
Read more: World’s Leading Search Engines Recognize LRMI as Education Metadata Standard