Use this evaluation guide as a tool to help you select the website partner that is best for your district. You will discover seven key considerations to keep in mind, along with questions that are critical to ask potential partners when making your decision.
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Parents want to be informed about every part of their child’s academic experience. To help students be successful, parents need critical data like assignments, grades, and attendance. Providing that valuable data from your SIS and gradebooks, and adding it to your communication channels, will help you strengthen student support and parent engagement.
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Within our American system of education, a trust-based relationship between parents and their child's school is absolutely essential. Parents rely upon that relationship every day when they send their child to school with a hopeful aspiration that what happens during the school day will result in their child being well-prepared for further college or career success.
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Like most technology companies, we at Blackboard track what’s taking place in other industries. We do so both to inform our own innovation, and also to help us anticipate learner, educator and administrator expectations. While in its early stages, the path to personalization in EdTech will be informed, in many ways, by the journey other industries have taken. Let’s take a look at a few examples.
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The closer communication gets to the classroom, the more relevant it is to a parent. Grades, behavior updates, upcoming assignments, and student successes are extremely important to parents because they directly relate to their child. Sharing this kind of information should be done in a collaborate and safe environment. Use this guide when selecting a vendor for a two-way communication tool for your teachers and parents. Conversations between these two stakeholders is crucial to ensuring the success of your students.
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Between March 2020 and March 2021, the United States federal government passed three relief packages that included more than $190 billion of funding for K-12 education. Use this worksheet to identify the challenges your district is facing and how they align with solutions and allowable uses of funding.