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Classroom Management Software and its Importance in Digital Learning

Technology plays a growing role at K-12 school districts as digital learning becomes the standard. As enabling technologies help students learn, they also empower teachers to better facilitate improved student learning outcomes. Classroom management software has risen to empower teachers, and solutions come with two major benefits. First, they enable more effective instructional delivery in […]

7 Time-Saving AI Applications for Teachers

AI applications for teachers Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the hottest topic among educators over the past year since ChatGPT made its mainstream debut last November. Much of the...

Understanding the MTSS Tiered Framework

What is MTSS? It’s never been easy to be a kid, and a persuasive argument can be made that it’s as difficult as ever in today’s technology-enabled environment. As primary and secondary sc...

Improve Classroom Management Efficiency with Lightspeed Systems’ New “Merge Classes” Tool

We’re excited to announce the launch of our highly anticipated Merge Classes feature in Lightspeed Classroom Management™! With this new tool, teachers can easily combine classes to monitor and...

Generative AI and Academic Integrity

How Schools Currently Integrate Generative AI into Classrooms

Over the past year, no topic has been more discussed among K-12 educators than artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, generative AI in education.

Webinar Review: Confronting the New Reality of Todays Student Mental Health Crisis

What is your school district’s biggest student safety and wellness challenge?Is it staffing and resource shortages? District liability concerns? Together.” campaign.

Webinar Review: Confronting the New Reality of Today’s Student Mental Health Crisis

What is your school district’s biggest student mental health and well-being challenge? Is it staffing and resource shortages? District liability concerns? Perhaps it’s an inability to keep up...

Best Practices for Securing a School District’s IoT Devices and Infrastructure

Are your school district IoT devices secure? The rise of mobile technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) has had an enormous impact on K-12 schools, both inside and outside the class...

7 School Web Content Filter Features That Save IT Directors Time

As a school district IT professional, you have a web content filter deployed to be in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). However, your role as a school district IT p...

District Best Practices for Managing App Approvals and Creating an Approved App List

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, technology plays a pivotal role in enhancing the teaching and learning experience. Educational apps have become valuable tools for educators t...

Generative AI’s Potential to Inflate the Digital Divide

While not new, generative AI (artificial intelligence) has rapidly ascended to the top of the K-12 education scene this year, creating fervor amongst a community with much to resolve…

What Texas School Districts Need to Know About the SCOPE Act (Texas House Bill No. 18)

On June 13, 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas House Bill No. 18, the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act, also known as the SCOPE Act. The SCOPE Act requires c...

Internet Connectivity & Its Impact on Closing the Digital Divide

An important issue in today’s digital learning-fueled K-12 educational environment is the concept of digital equity and closing the digital divide. According to the Federal Communications Commi...

Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Within K-12 education, there is no greater priority than student welfare. Student welfare is the mission that brought so many of us to the space. Everything else pales in comparison. Student we...

From High to Low: Use Lightspeed Alert’s New Monitoring Preferences Feature to Choose Alert Levels

Lightspeed Alert™ scans vast amounts of information and flags potentially concerning text or images, creating alerts that district and school staff then follow up on in the real world.

8 Tips to Make Web Content Filtering More Effective at Your School

Lightspeed Systems has been a leader in the web content filtering category for over twenty years, and when you have been in a space for that long, you uncover a lot of tips to share with others...

20 Ways Teachers Save Time with Lightspeed Classroom Management™

With the mass proliferation of digital learning tools in recent years, digital distractions run rampant. Educators need to ensure students use them properly to advance their learning. Classroom...

Digital Equity & Ensuring All Students Succeed

Technology-enabled education has been on an upward trend for well over a decade. The global COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated the adoption by school districts across the entire K-12 spectrum....

7 Strategies to Improve Student Safety with Technology

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and throughout the month, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members will unite to promote suici...

Lightspeed Alert™ Adds Powerful New Machine Learning Capabilities to Increase Accuracy

From violence and thoughts of death in Hamlet to the dramatic double suicide at the end of Romeo and Juliet, the works of Shakespeare are filled with troubling themes. Student assignments about...

What is Generative AI and Why is it Important to Educators?

While sometimes feared, technology is often a perfect match for us humans. Technology, of course, is dependent on humans creating it. Once created, technologies, when properly applied, increase...

分断からつながりへ: 近隣レベルのデータを通じてコミュニティ内のインターネット格差に取り組む

リアルタイムデータにより、K12 の生徒がキャンパス外にいるときにインターネットアクセスが常に悪い (またはまったくない) 状況に直面する特定の近隣地域や地域のパターンが明らかになります。

How to Access and Leverage Student-Level Data to Close the Homework Gap

Analyzing data enables us to quickly understand, pinpoint, and solve challenges.

Meet the Lightspeed Classroom Management New User Experience

Lightspeed’s cloud-based Lightspeed Classroom Management software has a fresh new look and improved functionality designed to save teachers time and place increased focus on instruction. The re...

Why the Digital Divide in Education is So Hard to Solve, and How Technology Can Help

Solutions for solving the digital divide in education with technology What is the Digital Divide in education? First, we need to understand what the “digital divide in education” is. The...

Ensuring Effective and Ethical AI Use in Education

Monitor AI App Usage in Your Classroom with Lightspeed Tools Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world we live in and has the potential to revolutionize the way we l...

Closing the Homework Gap: Confronting the Digital Divide in Education with Data-Driven Solutions

What is the Digital Divide in education? The digital divide in education refers to unequal access to technology and digital resources for learning. Disparities in digital access, also ref...

Introducing the Digital Equity module, powered by Lightspeed Digital Insight

I joined Lightspeed Systems last year, inspired by the opportunity to help districts create a safe and secure learning environment at a time when technological advancement was, and still is, gr...

The Best of Cloud, Agent, and Inline Filtering—All in One

Lightspeed Filter™ - content filtering for K-12 In today’s digital age, students can access a wealth of information on the internet, including harmful and inappropriate content. With the...

Ryde School with Upper Chine uses Lightspeed MDM™ to save valuable time

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