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.
Tech & Learning has named ClassLink a winner of its Awards of Excellence: Best of 2025, recognizing the full ClassLink Suite across all three education categories. This distinction highlights ClassLink’s ability to support learners, educators, and institutions at every stage of the educational journey.
Delaware began using the Ed-Fi Data Standard more than ten years ago. Early on, the Department of Education’s (DOE) technology team used it behind the state’s data warehouse to support educator dashboards. As the work evolved, the state started to see where data quality was breaking down.
For schools using Apple School Manager, rostering students and staff used to mean manual SFTP uploads and less time for other tasks. Now, ClassLink and Claris, an Apple Company, have partnered to solve this problem. Through this new partnership, ClassLink customers can use Claris Connect for Apple School Manager to sync rosters via API, delivering faster, more reliable, and fully automated account management.
USA EdTech has arrived at BETT 2026, showcasing a wide range of leading education technology from across the United States. The cohort of U.S. representatives continues to grow each year, with USA EdTech attending the event for the past four years.
