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Battelle Funds More than 100 Ohio STEM Classroom Grants

BOOTH #1752 The Ohio STEM Learning Network (OSLN) will reach 51,000 Ohio students this year with awards, funded by Battelle, to 151 Ohio classrooms. The grants will create sustainable, STEM learning projects in public and private K-12 schools across 55 Ohio counties.

“The schools and educators awarded today will create powerful new experiences to amaze and inspire students,” said Kelly Gaier Evans, Director of the Ohio STEM Learning Network. “We invest in these programs to foster the next generation of Ohio innovators.”

The grant program fosters the growth of OSLN as a public-private partnership between the non-profit research institute and the State of Ohio. Providing more access for all students to experience quality science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education is Battelle’s top philanthropic

By Kristina Davis, Educational Specialist, and Rusty Nye, EDU Product Manager, UBTECH Education Have you seen MeeBot dance? Programmed ChampBot to throw a ball? Completed AR Missions with Iron Man? If so, you’ve interacted with JIMU robots from UBTECH Robotics.

UBTECH Robotics is a global leader in intelligent, humanoid robots for business, industry, educators and consumers. Our newest robotic solution, ADIBOT, is a cost-effective disinfection solution for schools, medical centers, hospitals, hotels, government offices, fitness centers and businesses. These robots use 360degree radiant light coverage and UV-C disinfection to inactivate harmful pathogens in areas where people need and want to be without the use of harmful

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Teaching Strategies Launches First-of-its-Kind Coaching App

PowerSchool Expands Naviance to Improve College, Career, Military and Life Readiness

Teaching Strategies, a leading developer of early childhood curriculum, assessment, professional learning and family engagement solutions, announced the acquisition of Noni Educational Solutions, a trauma-focused edtech start-up that has developed a groundbreaking, app-based resource designed to support preschool-5th grade teachers working with children who have been impacted by trauma.

The solution, called noni™ for Teachers, was developed in partnership with Adventist HealthCare The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness, a pioneer in research on best practices for supporting children impacted by trauma and adverse childhood experiences.

“Even prior to the pandemic, more than two-thirds of children had experienced at least one traumatic event by the age of 16,” said Jimmy Venza, Ph.D., child psychologist and executive director of the Lourie

PowerSchool, the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, announced it has expanded Naviance to improve college, career, military and life readiness for students of all ages. This builds on the momentum of the last year where Naviance saw strong growth in both usage and engagement by students, educators and families.

These updates will offer more functionality for Naviance users thanks to deepening integrations with core systems and additional functionality from a new acquisition. Specifically,

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Newline Interactive Announces Z Series, the Interactive Touch Display Built for Unified Communications Newline Interactive, the leading provider of quality interactive touch displays and collaboration solutions, announced the release of its newest line of ultra-high-definition interactive displays, the Z Series.

Designed for unified communications and collaboration, the new Z Series features Capacitive Touch (PCAP) with up to 40 points of contact; USB Type C connectivity with 65 watts of power delivery; a powerful Android 11 based operating system; embedded 20-Watt 2.0 channel speakers; anti-microbial, anti-fingerprint and anti-reflective glass; user profiles to help eliminate the hassle of device and user switching; and many more exciting features and upgrades.

Additionally, the Z Series will be available as both UC Ready and non-UC

versions. The UC Ready Z Series comes with an onboard computer (OPS) integrated into the display, a flexible 4K wide angle camera and a built-in 8 mic array for the perfect all-in-one unified collaboration solution.

“We are excited to introduce the Z Series to our lineup of interactive displays. The Z Series is specifically built for Unified Communications and offers exciting features like an integrated mic array and optional camera module to make collaboration a breeze for teams,” said Newline Interactive President Chris Bradford.

Newline Interactive’s Z Series will be in stock and ready to ship Summer 2022.

Find out more information and how to place an order for the Newline Z Series at www.newline-interactive.com/usa.

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About Newline Interactive Headquartered in Allen, Texas, Newline Interactive is a leading supplier of interactive touch screens and innovative software that increases productivity and enables collaboration. Newline Interactive develops products that help organizations in a wide range of vertical markets including financial services, education, healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, municipalities and legal services.

For more information, visit booth #1248, go to www.newline-interactive.com, call 888.233.0868 or email sales@newlineinteractive.com.

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Dynamic Learning with ELMO Learning isn’t static. It’s dynamic.

Keeping that in mind, ELMO’s commitment to serving education served as motivation to expand its educational product focus to be a complete ecosystem of connected solutions that streamline a classroom’s workflow to create a more immersive learning experience for students with the document camera at the helm. The critical component of this mission is “connectivity.”

ELMO’s products are designed to interact seamlessly with one another and other devices, allowing teachers to create dynamic learning in their in-person and hybrid classrooms. Although ELMO is not at ISTE this year, its commitment to providing teachers with empowering tools that are user-friendly and engaging continues to drive its mission moving forward, as the learning environ-

ment is ever-changing.

Producing the most innovative and helpful tools to help connect minds is ELMO’s focus as a company currently.

ELMO’s family of award-winning document cameras range from portable, wireless and the best-selling TT series, to high-end platform cameras for giant lecture halls where every detail matters. Teachers can walk around the room or even go outdoors, capturing images using ELMO’s wireless document cameras, or use a 4k camera to zoom in on the tiniest detail of a specimen for a biology lesson.

With document cameras being the cornerstone of ELMO’s product line for

Gutenberg Technology Honored as Gold Stevie Award Winner in 2022 American Business Awards Gutenberg Technology (GT), which powers content management, development and distribution at scale for education publishers, higher education institutions and content heavy corporations worldwide, announced that they have been chosen as the winner of the Gold Stevie® Award in the Content Authoring Development or Curation Solution category in The 20th Annual American Business Awards®.

The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nomi-

nations – public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, large and small.

More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.

GT’s platform facilitates a much faster and more flexible approach to managing, creating, updating, reusing and distributing content at scale. The platform’s simple and collaborative interface enables users to work on a project simultaneously, preview in realtime and distribute the content at the

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education, its newest ELMO Interactive Display has arrived to supercharge the classroom even more. This interactive panel comes in 75” or 86” if you want to make a giant impression on your students. It links curious minds to visual learning with seamless screen sharing in 4k Ultra HD display, one-click document camera projection to the panel screen, the ability to annotate directly on an image with industry-leading push of a button to a thirdparty LMS, web/mobile bookshelf, print and more.

Whether it’s a print textbook for a publisher, courseware for an online university, or a product guide for a manufacturer of complex machinery, GT’s platform streamlines and automates much of the development and distribution process.

“How quickly can a customer deliver a product to market? How fast can they react to market changes, new competitors and new learners’ demands?

How rapidly can they do all of this at scale? How easily can they achieve maximum operational agility?

“These are some of the crucial challenges we help our customers address.

Publishers, universities and corpora-

intelligent touch technology and many other helpful features that keep students engaged. It pairs with ELMO’s CRA-2 Wireless Tablet, enabling teachers the freedom to walk around the classroom making notes directly onto the tablet and visualizing them on the screen from anywhere in the classroom.

This ELMO ecosystem of connected classroom solutions will inspire, engage, inform and connect minds in your classroom. Get connected with ELMO. For more information, go to www.elmousa.com or call 516.501.1400. tions are under intense pressure to move faster in order to compete more effectively in their core markets or upskill and enable their employees more effectively. This is the era of digital-fast – digital-first is already history. We’re pleased to have been honored with this award from among such an impressive group of nominees,” said Gjergj Demiraj, President and CEO of GT. Said one Stevie Awards judge, “GT greatly improves the publishing cycle.

The tool looks sharp and has a clear impact on the cost and time required to publish content.”

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Amplify Acquires Desmos Curriculum to Build the Future of Math Instruction Amplify, a next-generation publisher of curriculum and assessment, announced that it has acquired the curriculum and instructional technology of Desmos, the acclaimed developer of digital math tools and curriculum. The deal is the culmination of a close partnership between Amplify and Desmos over the past two years.

Desmos’ worldrenowned calculators will remain independent as part of a separate Public Benefit Corporation called Desmos Studio that will focus on the development of free, best-in-class online calculators and other tools.

The Amplify and Desmos curriculum teams will now deeply integrate the technology and content they’ve both been developing and piloting for several years. The resulting combined program, based on IM K–12 Math™, will bring together Amplify’s proven ability to deliver the highest quality STEM curriculum to millions of students and the groundbreaking digital tools and instructional approach of Desmos.

Desmos technology will also power new modes of creative, collaborative learning in the next generation of

Amplify’s science and literacy core programs.

Now a part of Amplify, teacher.desmos.com will be called Desmos Classroom and will continue to provide free lesson-building tools and lessons to teachers around the world.

Users can expect more instructional content, professional learning resources and classroom learning tools, continuing to enhance Desmos Classroom as the most powerful free resource for math educators.

“We have admired Desmos for more than a decade, watching them sail from strength to strength on a current of excellence and teacher enthusiasm.

The past two years of working closely together reinforced a shared vision for improving math education,” said Larry Berger, Amplify’s chief executive officer.

“We will now merge our math curriculum development efforts, with the goal of building a new kind of teaching and learning experience that helps every student love learning math and gain access to math’s power and beauty.”

Desmos Studio will become a separate Public Benefit Corporation led by

EdTech Show Daily original Founder and Chief Executive Officer Eli Luberoff and will continue to build and grow the Desmos suite of calculators and other tools and the community that relies on them. The calculators will remain free to teachers and students globally and available for companies to license for use in their products.

Its partnerships with over 75 organizations around the world will provide Desmos Studio with the resources to continue intensive research and development around Desmos calculators and other tools long into the future.

“We chose this unique deal with Amplify because, in our years working together, it’s become clear that Amplify shares our pedagogical vision and our commitment to quality and recognizes what’s made Desmos special. We know that Amplify’s exceptional team can help us continue to improve while bringing our curriculum and activities to as many teachers and students as possible,” said Eli Luberoff, founder and chief executive officer of Desmos. “As an independent entity, Desmos Studio will continue to improve the calculators that teachers and students know and love.

The Desmos calculator is now embedded in math classrooms across the world and for that reason should be managed as a resource for the public good, which means keeping it free for educators and students while continuously improving it for years to come.”

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these updates include: Streamlined integration between course scheduling in PowerSchool SIS and Naviance’s Course Planner. This allows students to put together a multiyear course plan for their middle and high school courses aligned with their post-secondary plans. Available for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year, students will experience greater alignment between student course plans, graduation requirements and overall future preparedness.

Increased connectivity between Naviance and Schoology Learning, the leading K12-focused learning management system and a core component of PowerSchool’s Unified Classroom® solution. Available for the 2022-2023 school year, teachers and students can access the Naviance College, Career and Life Readiness Curriculum, an interactive, self-paced learning experience with lessons on social-emotional learning, financial aid, interpersonal skills, college search and career exploration.

Additionally, with PowerSchool’s recent acquisition of Headed2, students of all ages will benefit from state-specific career and technical education exploration, along with career and military pathway planning. The robust system designed to support life readiness for elementary students is already used by millions of individuals each year with state-specific portals for all 50 states

About Amplify A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Its core and supplemental programs in ELA, math and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively and for themselves. Its formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of its programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit www.amplify.com.

About Desmos Desmos wants to build a world where every student learns math and loves learning math, where a student’s access to the power and beauty of math doesn’t depend on their place of birth, race, ethnicity, gender, or any other aspect of their identity. Its free suite of calculators are used annually by millions of teachers and students around the world and its activities and curriculum power the daily work of hundreds of thousands of teachers and millions of students. For more information, visit www.desmos.com.

and statewide contracts with California, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

“By extending college, career and life readiness tools to elementary learners, we are helping all K-12 students explore opportunities and dream of possibilities, which can help close equity and access gaps that often come from biases engrained in students from a young age that can follow them beyond high school,” said Marcy Daniel, PowerSchool Chief Product Officer.

“With these updates to Naviance, we are providing students with the interoperable tools they need to more easily access and learn about their path after high school.”

Over the past year, Naviance has seen strong growth in usage and overall impact on student success, including a 15% increase in student usage yearover-year. Engagement between students and key stakeholders has also been on the increase; in 2021, Naviance facilitated 1.3 million connections between students and colleges and universities, up nearly 10% year-overyear. Additionally, utilizing Naviance over the past year, students completed 47 million personalized college searches, allowing them to select from more than 90 different search criteria to find the perfect college fit (up 14% yearover-year).

Learn more about Naviance by PowerSchool at www.powerschool.com/ solutions/naviance-by-powerschool.

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chemicals or costly downtimes.

UBTECH Education is a division of UBTECH Robotics. Our classroom solutions establish the strong foundation students need to thrive: a high-quality STEM education integrated with the development of 21st-century skills and computational literacy.

We offer vertically aligned robotics kits for elementary to high school with the UKIT Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. UKITs are assemblybased kits that students use to build Battelle (Cont’d. from p. 1)

priority.

“Battelle is proud to expand its impact in STEM education to support more educators across Ohio,” said Wes Hall, Vice President of Philanthropy & Education. “This program creates connections to the statewide network and STEM opportunities for thousands of new students.”

Teaching Strategies (Cont’d. from p. 1)

Center. “In the aftermath of these past two years and the resulting stresses placed on families and children, that statistic is only likely to worsen.”

“Now more than ever, teachers need and deserve our support for traumainformed instruction and coaching,” said Teaching Strategies CEO John Olsen.

“We’re excited to welcome Noni Educational Solutions to the Teaching Strategies family. noni for Teachers fills a gap not met by any other solution in the market and gives educators the tools and support they need to care for children impacted by trauma and help them regulate behavior so they can learn.” noni for Teachers is an app-based digital coach and collection of classroom teaching resources that guide teachers through providing traumainformed instruction. The app uses realtime responsive technology, serving up immediate guidance based on teacher input and giving teachers the ability to track and even predict child behaviors that stem from exposure to toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences.

“We know from decades of research on working with young children who have been exposed to adverse childhood experiences that the teacher-child relationship can actually act as a buffer against the negative impact of trauma,” said Kai-leé Berke, co-founder of Noni Educational Gutenberg Technology (Cont’d. from p. 4)

process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

“We are so pleased that we will be able to stage our first ABA awards banquet since 2019 and to celebrate, in person, the achievements of such a diverse group of organizations and individuals,”

robots with high-quality 3D build instructions while engaging in the engineering design process. Once complete, students program using block coding and easy interaction with a mobile-compatible app or block and text coding via a browserbased programming environment.

UKIT solutions are intended to be easy to implement while offering endless possibilities.

Our integrated STEM curriculum is standards aligned and uses our UKIT robotics sets to make STEM, computer science and cross-curricular concepts

exciting, accessible and relevant for all levels of learners. Our detailed teacher guides and interactive digital student notebooks provide educators the support and resources they need to feel confident working robotics lessons into their instruction.

We help kids develop real-world skills to solve real-world problems. Our UKITs and curriculum enable educators to inspire students to build, code and deepen STEM learning in classrooms, libraries and before- and after-school programs. No matter your needs – we’re ready to help support you in

Awarded classrooms will receive grants of up to $5,000. In total, $687,500 will be awarded. Projects align to one of four focus areas: Community Problem Solving, STEM Career Exploration, Building STEM Mindsets and Design Thinking and Infrastructure.

committed to helping the State of Ohio inspire and train the next generation of innovative leaders. The network operates as a public-private partnership between the Ohio Department of Education and Battelle.

About the Ohio STEM Learning Network The Ohio STEM Learning Network is Solutions and an author of many of Teaching Strategies’ curriculum and assessment resources. “Having personally experienced traumatic circumstances as a young child and eventually teaching and caring for young children who had also had exposure to adverse childhood experiences, I know firsthand what teachers face as students return to the traditional classroom. Addressing the lifelong mental and physical challenges that can result from trauma is essential to a student’s success and we must ensure our educators have the support to do so.”

The app also provides intervention and prevention plans, whole-class guidance, support for partnering with families of trauma-impacted children, builtin teacher professional development around trauma and adverse childhood experiences and resources that address teachers’ own self-care and mental wellness.

The app and teaching resources will be available for immediate purchase by schools and programs. It seamlessly joins Teaching Strategies’ family of solutions to support socialemotional learning in early childhood education including The Creative Curriculum®, Al’s Pals™, GOLD®, ReadyRosie® and professional development courses.

About Teaching Strategies Driven by research that shows a child’s said Maggie Miller, president of the Stevie Awards.

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2022 Stevie winners are available at www.stevieawards.com/ABA. About Gutenberg Technology Gutenberg Technology (GT) trans-

About Battelle Every day, the people of Battelle apply science and technology to solving what matters most. At major technology cenfirst eight years form a critical foundation for success in school and in life, Teaching Strategies has been an advocate for the early education community for over 40 years. Today, Teaching Strategies connects teachers, children and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, informative data, stronger family partnerships and professional learning through the leading early learning platform and resources. Its products, including the most widely-used curriculum and assessment solutions The Creative Curriculum and GOLD, are found in over 270,000 classrooms and reach over 2 million children each year. To learn why thousands of early childhood programs and many states choose to partner with Teaching Strategies to help ensure children’s success in school and in life, visit www.teachingstrategies.com and follow on Twitter @teachstrategies.

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whatever way we can with our wide variety of robotics kits, AI curriculum and professional development offerings.

With UKITs, educators have the ability to integrate science, engineering and coding through fun, hands-on learning. Stop by booth #1752 to receive live demos, meet with our team and learn how you can be entered to win an Intermediate UKIT Class Pack.

For more information, visit booth #1752, go to www.ubtecheducation.com or email info@ubtecheducation.com. ters and national laboratories around the world, Battelle conducts research and development, designs and manufactures productsand delivers critical services for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio since its founding in 1929, Battelle serves the national security, health and life sciences and energy and environmental industries. For more information, visit www.battelle.org.

Tia Disick, lifelong early education professionals, the company is focused on developing innovative ways to leverage the power of technology to support building the kind of safe, secure relationships between teachers and trauma-impacted young children that lay the foundation for successful content learning. Learn more at www .nonieducationalsolutions.com.

About Noni Educational Solutions Noni Educational Solutions is an education technology start-up that is developing support and resources for teachers and caregivers who have children in their classrooms who have been impacted by adverse childhood experiences. Their mission is to support teachers across the country in providing trauma-informed, relationshipbased, responsive care to young children. Co-founded by Kai-leé Berke and

About Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness The Lourie Center is a private, non-profit agency with a mission to improve the social and emotional health of young children and their families through prevention, early intervention, education, research and training. It was founded in 1983 by the late Dr. Reginald S. Lourie, a world-wide leader in the fields of pediatric child psychiatry and infant mental health and his renowned colleagues, including Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Stanley Greenspan, as an outgrowth of their six-year clinical research project funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Decades of extensive research confirm the impact of The Lourie Center’s programs for traumaimpacted young children, including an 80 percent success rate in transitioning children to public school; academic and social gains; and reduced suspension and expulsion rates. Learn more at www.louriecenter.org.

forms how companies create, re-use and deliver content at scale to multiple and changing digital and print experiences. Founded in 2010 and with offices in Paris and Boston, the company’s end-to-end content management platform enables organizations to author, transform, and distribute print and digital content from

a single workflow – dramatically reducing cost and time to market.

The world’s largest publishers and educational institutions rely on GT to transform legacy content into new, engaging web and mobile products.

To learn more, visit www.gutenbergtechnology.com or go to LinkedIn or Twitter.