Applications for District Administration’s Top EdTech Products Awards are now live. Here’s what we’re looking for. DA is searching for the 20 most innovative, impactful and forward-thinking edtech solutions of the year, including startups. Winners will earn a spotlight at next year’s Future of Education Technology Conference, a digital badge, a marketing toolkit and inclusion in FETC conference promotions.
As she started her vocabulary lesson this week at Blythe Academy, second-grade teacher Tonya Long asked her students if they had pencils. A few hands shot up, and the students trotted to the front of class to grab their No. 2 Ticonderogas. In Long’s classroom, not a Chromebook was in sight.
SmartBrief has named ClassLink a winner of its 2026 Reader’s Choice Awards, recognizing the ClassLink Suite across two categories: Safety & Security and Cybersecurity. This distinction highlights ClassLink’s commitment to protecting students, school data, and the digital environments where learning happens every day.
Every year, district technology leaders face the same high-stakes challenge: getting systems, access, and support in place before the first day of school. It’s complex, time-sensitive, and only getting harder. On April 30, the 2026 BTS Summit brought together school and industry leaders for a different kind of conversation built on collaboration.
CoSN and AASA today honored Dr. Teresa Brown, superintendent of Madison Consolidated Schools in Indiana, with the 2026 EmpowerED Digital Superintendent of the Year Award, sponsored by ClassLink. The award recognizes an exceptional district leader who champions technology across the classroom and district to drive meaningful transformation.
ClassLink celebrated the exceptional achievements of schools and individuals last week at its annual conference, CLON 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. Celebrating outstanding schools is at the heart of the Awards of Excellence. We recognize school systems for their commendable use of ClassLink in three key areas: implementation, engagement, and analytics.
Every once in a while you attend a conference that reminds you what education could look like if the right people kept showing up for the work. That’s what the ClassLink Conference — CLON 2026 — felt like. Conferences in education can sometimes drift into predictable territory: presentations, product demos, and conversations that stay safely inside the boundaries of the status quo.
ClassLink announced over two dozen capabilities and one brand-new product at CLON 2026, the company's sixth annual conference. The announcements are organized around three themes: Access, Automation, and Analytics. The headline was ClassLink Insights, the first learning analytics platform to connect edtech usage with student assessment scores.
Winners of the second annual technology awards program from the Center for Digital Education (CDE) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA), announced Jan. 30, were recognized for upgrading infrastructure, training faculty and staff, and implementing tools to assist with learning — from AI insights on math work to bringing outside experts into the classroom via video call.
