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Classroom Experience
How to Set Up Your Gradebook
Being the beginning of the school year, it’s time to prepare class gradebooks in the FACTS Student Information System (SIS). Some schools allow teachers to set up their own gradebooks, and some schools prefer to do so on a school-…
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Four Recruitment Tips for Parents
Parents are advocates for their child’s K-12 private school. They believe in your school’s teachers, values, and quality of education. So how can you help them promote your school to other families? There are four easy things they can do…
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Sprinting Toward Success: A Student’s Story
In the Dominican Republic, Yolanda Ayobar Delgado loved running with her brother through the main road of her village, Cucarita, high up in the mountains. Then Yolanda was granted the opportunity to study in the United States as part of…
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End of Year Progression
While students are running off to summer break, teachers are preparing their FACTS Student Information System (SIS) database for next school year. Fear not! We’re here to help you wrap up 2018-2019 and get things ready for the next school…
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3 Report Card Mistakes (and Fixes)
With summer right around the corner, now’s the perfect time to get answers to common FACTS SIS Report Card questions. Why does the Report Card show duplicate classes or classes that a student has dropped? Classes will show for students…
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3 Tips for Database Cleaning
Time to spring clean your FACTS Student Information System (SIS) database! Here are three tips to tidy up. Remove duplicates. Duplication happens when families or family members are not correctly linked in the synchronization process of online application and enrollment….
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Tips to Utilize Parents in the Classroom
When you think about classroom management, what comes to mind? You may think of the relationship between the teacher and the student — but what role does the parent play? The importance of parental involvement is at an all-time high…
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Why Principal Prefers Video Observations
St. Columba is a PreK-8 school with about 250 students. They have one section per grade level, 15 teachers, three aides and a very limited, but dedicated support staff. The principal at St. Columba must serve in all capacities —…
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Instagram in the Classroom
Integrating Instagram into the classroom is a fun way to get students engaged. Here are some of the most creative classroom uses of Instagram that we’ve come across: EdWeek has a roundup of several ideas. The Art of Education discusses…
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Digital Citizenship Plays a Role in the Classroom
How the tools schools need are changing For many generations, we have been teaching civics in our schools; students are taught how our government works and who we are as a nation. We want students to feel empowered to become…
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Teaching Kids to Code
Learning to code at an early age has immediate positive effects both in the short- and long-term. There is a still a skill shortage in the computer science industry. Students who start coding when they’re young have a greater chance…
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Teaching With Movies
Want to engage your students in new and exciting ways? Try creating or using lesson plans that center around movies or TV shows! The following are some great films/TV shows for you to show in your classroom, with links to accompanying lesson…
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