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Lightspeed Classroom Management™
Creating a Seating Chart in Lightspeed Classroom Management™
Did you know you can create a seating chart with Lightspeed Classroom Management?
Lightspeed Classroom Management™
Minimizing Classroom Distractions
Classroom distractions are as old as classrooms themselves, and minimizing classroom distractions has been the bane of teachers’ existence for as long as every teacher can remember. Visual 2.
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Lightspeed Alert™ Adds Spanish Language Capabilities
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey, 15 percent of the nation’s K-12 students speak Spanish at home. That’s nationwide.
Cybersecurity
Stats to Build Your K-12 Cybersecurity Funding Narrative
As school districts begin to set budget parameters for the coming year, K-12 cybersecurity funding remains highly important.
K-12 Education Trends
How-to Action Plans to Navigate Developing K-12 Education Trends
Educators are quite familiar with overcoming challenges, as the last four years have presented more disruption to school districts than at any time in recent history.
Transferrable Leadership Principles from a Career in Disruption
“Leadership is about adding value.” It’s a statement from a leader I had the privilege of working for early in my career, and since then I have made it part of my ethos. In joining Lightspeed...
Lightspeed Classroom Management™
Eliminating Distractions in Digital Learning
Even before the advent of digital learning and the proliferation of technology devices at school, eliminating distractions in K-12 classrooms has always been top of mind for educators.
Cybersecurity
K-12 Cybersecurity Stats to Support Your District Funding Narrative
In recent years, K-12 school districts have adopted advanced networking technologies to facilitate digital learning and make learning more efficient and effective.
Cybersecurity
Responding to a Cyberattack
Responding to a cyberattack has become an all too frequent task for school districts across the country. As a result, cybersecurity is a responsibility for everyone involved in K-12 education.
Cybersecurity
What Teachers and Staff Should Know About Cybersecurity
In a school day when there never seems to be enough time, teachers often overlook their roles in cybersecurity.
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