Learn Launch: promoting a diverse workforceOur home town of Boston, Massachusetts is fortunate to also be the home of some of the biggest names in education publishing, like Pearson, Scholastic, and HMH. And Since 2012, an organization called Learn Launch has made Boston into a center for ed-tech entrepreneurship, too. Learn Launch is also committed to building a diverse [...]
You asked and we listened!Now you can generate individual itemization reports for each student who took a Quick Key Quiz or Test. You asked for this because you wanted to be able to staple these individual reports to students' tests or email them their results reports. Now you can.Now I'm asking you to do some things: If you [...]
Are you a new teacher? Imagine this: One morning, after Thanksgiving, you walk into class, take a look through the turned-in homework assignments on your desk, and you discover that some of your students have fallen behind so far that they can't catch up without some serious outside-of-classtime tutoring! Oh. No. Veteran teachers have figured [...]
Is Assessment for Learning any different from testing? Yes indeed! According to the National Council of Teachers of English, "Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term “formative [...]
If you love learning about new teaching technologies that help you be creative and student-focused in a data-driven world, you might want to sign up to the email newsletter of Enio De Aragon's blog. Enio, who works at one of Brazil's most important education organizations, keeps a running list of technology tools, and he regularly adds [...]
Jeff Davis, host of the radio show Radio Entrepreneurs, interviewed Isaac D. Van Wesep - Quick Key's President and CEO - on Wednesday August 17, 2016. Isaac was invited to the show to talk about how the Quick Key team was able to combine traditional angel funding with a Kickstarter campaign to launch a niche professional productivity [...]
If you teach 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade and you are looking for Common Core aligned lessons and assessments, you may find joy at Lesson Friend. Lesson Friend has hundreds of resources for each grade level in a range of subjects including math, social studies, science, vocabulary, typing / keyboarding skills, grammar, spelling, writing, reading, and health. [...]
Teach For America chooses Quick Key as perfect solution for national student survey initiativeActionable results allow teachers to continuously improve classroom practice and student learning experiences CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (August 08, 2016) Quick Key, the mobile assessment software that improves student performance and eliminates hand grading, and Teach For America (TFA) have partnered to implement the time-saving [...]
What's not to love about Maureen Davis's "Engage Students" blog? Davis is an instructional technology specialist, and her blog contains a wealth of technology reviews as well as "Live Binders" which allow teachers to share resources with each other and their students. If you use Google Classroom, Maureen has dozens of helpful tips on how to use Google [...]
EZ Graders go mobileEZ grader is how Teresa Boulnois - a seventh grade ELA teacher in Charlotte, NC - describes Quick Key's mobile grading app platform. According to Boulnois, "When other teachers in the middle school ask me how I can do exit tickets every day in my class, even though I only get the Chromebook cart twice a week, [...]