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A bunch of education associations and education technology companies have weighed in on updates to a rubric for helping school districts determine their readiness for online learning. "Back to School Rubric v2.0" will also assist schools in identifying areas for improvement.

Like campers to a crackling fire, district leaders will want to draw close to hear how Liverpool Central School District in New York slipped seamlessly into remote learning while hundreds of districts nationwide struggled to make the switch. With nearly 7,000 students and 700 teachers, Liverpool had never tackled remote learning before March 23, 2020.

SETDA, in partnership with ClassLink and CoSN, has released the Back-to-School Rubric v2.0, a powerful new tool designed to help school districts self-assess readiness for remote and in-person learning in the fall. The updated rubric provides a framework for school districts to use and adapt when reviewing their plans for the upcoming school year.

Tech & Learning Magazine announced this week that ClassLink won two 2020 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence. ClassLink is a winner in both the Software and Enterprise categories. The Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence recognize outstanding education technology products that improve the way educators work and students learn.

Teachers and students who transitioned to remote instruction in the four months since the onset of COVID-19 accessed 89 percent more ed-tech tools on average each month than they did for the full 2018-2019 school year, including tools they had never previously used.

Johnston County Public Schools will use funds from the CARES Act to pay for a ClassLink contract for the next two years. ClassLink provides a single click sign-on solution that gives students access to all Johnston County Public Schools online learning resources and applications. It also eliminates the problem of too many passwords.

A school district invests heavily in the adoption of digital learning resources, but are frequently unsure how often and who is actually using them. This cool tool gives decision makers the digital resource usage data they need, providing an easy-to-use dashboard summarizing usage information by district, classroom, and user, allowing district leaders instant access to the answers they seek.

ClassLink was recently chosen as the winner of the 2020 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Award for the Administrative Solution category. Administered by EdTech Digest and celebrating their 10th Anniversary, the EdTech Awards are the largest education technology recognition program.

For Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut, distance learning began on March 13. Going to this new environment required us to create a distance learning plan, design memorandums of understanding with our union partners, create work assignments, establish food distribution sites and communicate with all stakeholders.