Protecting Students and Their Privacy

August 24, 2022

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic sent schools online, the growing presence of technology in classrooms has moved student safety and privacy topics to the forefront of conversations in districts across the country. Access to devices and the internet has created countless opportunities for enhancing learning, creating efficiencies for educators, and multiplying resources available to school communities — but the internet is a vast and varied place. The need for online safety is especially clear when considering the U.S. Surgeon General’s advisory highlighting the urgency of the nation’s youth mental health crisis.

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OTHER WHITEPAPERS

RIBA Education White Paper

whitePaper | January 9, 2023

This White Paper outlines the problems facing architecture students today and provides clear steps that should be taken to recruit and maintain a competent, skilled and diverse pipeline.

AN INTRODUCTION TO LEARNING IN THE METAVERSE

whitePaper | April 30, 2022

You’ve likely seen the word Metaverse in the media. The opportunities for this “next iteration of the internet” are exciting, especially for learning. In the Metaverse, we imagine students building skills and exploring in shared virtual spaces without the boundaries of the physical world.

Implementing school system reform in 2022/23

whitePaper | June 2, 2022

The Schools White Paper – Opportunity for all: Strong schools with great teachers for your child – sets out our long term vision for a school system that helps every child to fulfil their potential, founded on achieving world class literacy and numeracy. Our targets are that, by 2030, 90% of primary school children are meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; and that the average GCSE grades in both English language and maths are raised to 5.

Keys to Unlocking Success

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

In March 2020, K–12 schools around the United States temporarily closed their doors in an attempt to both circumvent the possible widespread transmission of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that sparked a worldwide health crisis (Van Lancker & Parolin, 2020) and abide by mandated shutdowns and stay-at-home orders that governors, legislators, and local leaders enacted across the country.

SCHOOL STATUS AND THE EPSTEIN MODEL OF PARENT INVOLVEMENT

whitePaper | November 26, 2022

When you consider a student’s academic achievement, it becomes readily evident that no one person alone contributes to success. This idea is at the core of Joyce Epstien’s theory of parent involvement. Specifically, students are most successful when parents, educators, and community endeavor together to support learning and development (Epstein, 1995).

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Protecting Students and Their Privacy