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Global Resources
Education trends and best practices from around the world.
Elevate Back-to-School Series: Extra Credit, Curving Assignments, and Penalty Points
Learn about Advanced Grading Options in the FACTS SIS Gradebook If you’re a teacher, you may be wondering how you utilize advanced grading functionality like adding extra assignments or curving assignments within FACTS SIS. Or, you may need to place
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How K-12 Marketing and Finance Work Together
For private schools, marketing and finance teams share a single goal: improve revenue for the organization. Marketing teams primarily do this by helping increase enrollment (bringing in new revenue). Meanwhile, finance teams and members of the business office help maintain
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Using the FACTS SIS Resource Center
Preparing for fall is one of the busiest times of the year – at your school and here at FACTS. To help you knock out your back-to-school to-do list, we’ve created an easy way for you to access resources and
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Social-Emotional Learning – Online and In Person
The importance of social-emotional learning “How do you feel each day in school?” In a joint initiative between the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the Born This Way Foundation, the Emotion Revolution study asked more than 22,000 middle and
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To App or Not to App?
How to Evaluate Tech Tools and Reach the Right People Apps are great. No one can deny the excitement of having an app: your app, with your school’s name on it. As you’re swiping through your phone, you brush past
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Addressing Learning Loss in 2021
Using Classroom Intervention to Address Learning Loss Every educator expects some summer slide with students. But combined with the shift to remote learning caused by COVID-19, learning loss in summer 2021 will likely be even more considerable. To address that
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Prep for the Return to In-Person Learning
Getting Back to the Classroom Compared to where we were last summer, things certainly seem to be looking up. Restaurants and stores are slowly re-opening, people in the U.S. are receiving vaccines every day, and many schools look poised for
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Virtual Admissions: Fad or Forever?
As schools continue to open and return to normalcy, are those virtual open houses, tours, and admissions practices still relevant? Read this article to learn more about virtual admissions being a fad or forever.
Building a School Software Ecosystem
Schools globally demonstrated extraordinary agility in 2020. For many, the impacts of COVID-19 highlighted that the systems and software they use to run their school is, in many senses, holding them back. School shutdowns and a move to remote learning
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