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The Literacy of Digital Monitoring at School

The safeguarding of students within education continues to grow in both importance and breadth, necessitating a nuanced understanding of how digital monitoring in schools can support staff. The...

What’s a Teacher to do in Managing Classroom Distractions?

Effectively managing classroom distractions has been a challenge for teachers for generations. Only now, in an era of the digitally empowered classroom, effectively dealing with classroom distr...

Safer Internet Day: Promoting Digital Citizenship All Year Long

As we mark Safer Internet Day this year, it’s crucial to reflect on the evolving digital landscape that school students navigate daily.

Shooting for the Stars: Teachers Who Matter

Teachers who matter play a crucial role in shaping the lives of their students, and many of us can vividly recall that one special teacher who made a lasting impact. In my case, it was my 5th-g...

Strengthen Your Protection of Students on BYOD and IoT Devices with Lightspeed Filter™

Protection of Students on BYOD and IoT Devices BYOD (bring your own device) and IoT (internet of things) devices have spread into all aspects of daily life, from the professional workplac...

Creating a Seating Chart in Lightspeed Classroom Management™

Did you know you can create a seating chart with Lightspeed Classroom Management? If you didn’t, then you’re certainly not alone! When I speak to teachers about 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. It’s simply...

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.

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. Unfortunately, budget shortfalls are commonplace for a great many di...

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 S...

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. However,...

Responding to a Cyberattack

6 Steps to Take Before Going to Your Insurance Carrier Responding to a cyberattack has become an all too frequent task for school districts across the country. As a result, 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. It can only be expected, as teachers have a lot on their proverbial plates. Engag...

10 Top Teacher Time-Saving Features of Lightspeed Classroom Management™

Save time with Lightspeed Classroom Management Classroom management software empowers teachers, offering two primary benefits. First, classroom management solutions enable teachers to bet...

5 Ways to Support AI Policy Decisions with Lightspeed Systems

Generative AI has been the hottest of K-12 education topics for most of the past year, and most districts are in the process of making AI policy decisions to navigate the perceived tumultuous waters of artificial intelligence. So, what is next, what tools do you have at your fingertips to inform and support AI policy […]

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...

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