Here’s a cool tool that confronts the problem posed by this question: Are you sure who is picking up your kids at leaving time? It’s a necessity, and as far as schools go, it’s a bit of an historical problem. The challenge: To respond to all the factors involved in this process in the simplest, most workable way possible.

• Families: Parents’ time tables may not be the same as their kids, therefore they have to ask third parties.
• Teachers: If they want to be agile, they must remember last minute changes, whatsapps, mails, calls, familiy circumstancies, and on and on.
• Schools: While well-intentioned, they are not registering these kinds of transactions.

The goal of Qualla is to simplify this process in a way that is as workable, practical, and as efficient as possible, making the school pickup process more effective, easier and safer.

Therefore, they created an app that addresses all of these factors in just a click. Testing this with the market, the people behind Qualla realized that this method was valid for several other functionalities, and today they solve such complex processes as: canteens, school bus, authorizations, arrivals, pickups and more, and with an extended road map.

With an agile one-click solution providing an easy user interface with no learning needed— and a secure interface where each transaction is automatically registered — has allowed Qualla Kids Pickup System to differentiate themselves and establish relationships with other trusted partners. From September of 2022, they’ve recorded more than 1.3 Million transactions, over 20,000 users and a satisfaction rate of 98%. For these reasons and more, Qualla earned a Cool Tool Award for Best Communication Solution (Finalist) as part of The EdTech Awards 2024. Learn more. 

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Today’s newsletter begins:

It’s back to school season here in Austin. We dropped our youngest off at fourth grade this week and walked our firstborn to middle school. How is this possible? I’ve been keeping my mind off the inexorable passage of time by putting the finishing touches on a book proposal and carving stamps from Pink Pearl erasers. (I have always loved shopping for school supplies. If you need a little retail therapy, here’s a list of the gear I use in the studio.)

I named it after an old eastern saying that I can’t quite pin on anybody specific: “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

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PowerSchool Analytics & Insights, a leading K-12 analytics and data management solution, offers rich analytics that provide educators the actionable insights they need to improve student outcomes. It delivers actionable data and insights to school/district/state education agencies with solutions that help support the needs of the whole child, including:

• Student learning outcomes (attendance, behavior, and coursework)
• Early warning and intervention
• Social emotional learning (SEL) reporting
• College, career, and life readiness (CCLR)
• Talent analytics
• And multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS)

PowerSchool Analytics & Insights is a single solution to conveniently track, manage, and monitor all aspects of a district’s student, school, classroom and teaching data and performance metrics. It leverages predictive analytics and AI/machine learning capabilities to ensure that students are more quickly getting the personalized support they need. Analytics & Insights includes the most comprehensive K-12 MTSS solution on the market. It is a single, secure tool that establishes personalized student plans to intervention teams, provides teams with critical data needed to identify at-risk students, enables teams to assign and monitor interventions, and track progress toward goals. It provides a single solution to analyze, collaborate, and act on all the critical student data—including historical information—required for their MTSS practice.

As schools and districts continue to digitally transform their operations, PowerSchool’s Analytics & Insights solution offers rich analytics that provide educators actionable insights they need to improve student outcomes. For these reasons and more, PowerSchool Analytics & Insights is a Cool Tool Award Winner for “Best Learning Analytics / Data Mining Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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Lingoda is one of the world’s top online language schools. Founded in Berlin, Germany in 2013, they provide convenient and accessible online language courses in German, English, Business English, French and Spanish to over 100,000 students worldwide. Their small group and 1-on-1 private classes are taught by over 1,500 qualified, native-level teachers. With almost 550,000 classes available per year and accessible 24/7, their mission is to build bridges around the world through language learning. “By speaking someone’s language you learn about them. Their culture and their ideas. Breaking down the language barrier bridges cultural differences, fosters a world of inclusion and is a first step in helping to address humanity’s challenges.”

The company believes in a communicative approach to language learning: mastering a language means being able to speak it with confidence. Their CEFR-focused learning materials (this stands for Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) are designed by linguistic experts and focus on meaningful topics that are applicable to students’ interests, careers and everyday lives. Thanks to their extensive rotating roster of teachers and their small group classes, students are exposed to a variety of regional accents and expressions within the same language and have the opportunity to practice speaking in every lesson.

For these reasons and more, Lingoda is a Cool Tool Award Winner for “Best Language Learning Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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Built from BellXcel’s 30-plus years of practitioner experience and extensive research and evidence by independent third-party organizations including RAND, Arly is unlike any youth programming solution on the market today. It provides everything needed to start a program from scratch or improve a current one including budget templates, job descriptions, and pre-populated tasks—all through a single entry point.

The content-rich learning library provides professional development courses for teachers, program administrators, and site leaders including a certificate and transcript log for tracking. Data dashboards capture attendance, emergency information, and program activities for stakeholder reporting and analysis. Users can toggle between multiple sites and programs from the homepage.

Software upgrades this past year so far include an end-to-end online enrollment and a native app for family communication. The integrated parent-to-program communication app allows for direct messages, photo sharing and announcements, and real-time language translation.

Thousands of administrators have reached nearly a half million children with Arly.

Here are some additional stats that demonstrate its success:

• 91% of teachers reported it helped them improve their professional development skills.
  • 100% of participants said it positively impacted their approach to the school year.
  • Average participant gains 2+ months in reading and 2.5+ months in math.
  • 92% of admin staff they had further developed their professional skills.

Platform features include:

• Program planning
• Online registration – including e-commerce
• Family engagement – including parent-to-program iOS and Android app
• Management Tools & Resources – including staff iOS and Android app
• Measurement & Reporting
• Enrichment Curriculum
• Professional development

For these reasons and more, Arly by BellXcell is a Cool Tool Award (finalist) for “Best Administrative Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards from EdTech Digest. Learn more.

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