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This month in our LinkedUp Podcast highlight, we're covering Episode 63: Implicit Biases and Their Ramifications. In this episode, Dr. Alan Phan (Founding Head of School, Royal Embassy Academy) shares what exactly implicit biases are, how we can recognize them and what we can do to combat them in our daily lives and work.

In part two of our Planning for Sustainability series, we look at how monitoring general digital access trends (daily ClassLink logins) and establishing processes can help you establish and maintain device access (even when funding declines).

We’re trying something new at LinkedUp! Each month we’re highlighting a recent podcast on the ClassLink blog because the information and ideas discussed are just so powerful and useful to educators they deserve a second look. This month we picked K12 Cybersecurity: Protecting Our Schools (Episode 59).

The years 2020–2023 are proving to be unprecedented in the world of educational technology. Some say that the amount of available federal funding will be the most we will ever have in educational technology! With that amount of funding, many school districts can build up their technology fleet and infrastructure systems of support.

Do you want to analyze and increase app usage across your entire organization? A great place to start is providing your instructional support staff (technology coaches, math coaches, and other staff supporting teachers and students) with the ability to see your ClassLink Analytics data. 

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

I know many of you are looking for ways to automate identity management so you can save time and—most importantly—ensure everyone has access to what they need when they need it. With that in mind, I want to share a conversion I had with Vestavia Hills City Schools CTO Keith Price and System Specialist Brendan Lovelady about how ClassLink has greatly improved identity management in the district.

ClassLink’s approach to vendor partnerships creates an environment where plug-and-play and interchanging apps aren’t just possible—they’re seamless. That approach is consistent with an educator’s mindset. As they learn, grow, and try new things, there is always an opportunity for new technologies to come into play.

Cybersecurity concerns are on the rise in schools across the country. To help all ClassLink schools keep their data safe, we will roll out a software update in early 2022 that requires all tenant admins to enable multi-factor authentication on all tenant admin user accounts.