Category Archives: News
Event a Success at Avenues: The World School
Over the weekend Teq co-hosted the Digital Learning Summit with Avenues: The World School. The sold-out event provided teachers and administrators with the inspiration, strategies, and confidence to actively pursue a transformation in teaching and learning practices.
To see and hear more, check out this video!
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Tagged Avenues: The World School, Digital Learning Summit, Professional Development
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Improving Student Achievement in the Bronx
Teq has been working with the Archdiocese of New York for months on a targeted plan to help teachers and students enhance student achievement in mathematics for grades 4, 6, and 8.
From the planning stages to execution, this video showcases the work of Curriculum and Professional Development Mentor Marc Brea and the professional development … Read more
Custom Professional Development for the JEP
Classroom instruction isn’t one-size-fits-all and professional development for teachers shouldn’t be either. That’s why Teq recently partnered with the Jewish Education Project on a custom PD program, meant to give teachers training specific to the needs of their schools and students.
Instructional Technologists Gershom Tave and Ben Cebulash first got teachers certified on interactive whiteboards, and … Read more
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Tagged interactive whiteboards, Jewish Education Project, pd, Professional Development
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Ideas from the Celebration of Technology and Learning
Teq Instructional Technologist Joe Sanfilippo isn’t shy of cameras. In addition to conducting several PD sessions at the Celebration of Technology and Learning in New Jersey on March 9, he got some face-time on-camera while interviewing participants about what they are doing to incorporate social media into classroom preparation and instruction.
Posted in Classroom Tools, Events, News, Social Classroom, Technology, Tips
Tagged Edmodo, new jersey, NJEA
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Student Safety: A Top Priority for Administrators
Superintendents like Dr. David M. Browne think about student safety all the time. In a world where tragedies like those at Sandy Hook are a reality, it seems administrators can’t think about safety enough.
Browne, superintendent of schools at Randolph Township in New Jersey, weighed the options last summer – well before Sandy Hook – … Read more
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Tagged Audio Enhancement, new jersey, news, Randolph Township, SAFARI Montage, SAFE System, VIEWPath
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NYC Grant-Funded STEM Project a Success
New York, NY — About a dozen New York City teachers worked together recently to build wooden structures used to fling balls of wadded paper across a classroom. They weren’t developing new ways to frustrate janitors, the group was learning new ways to create accessible lessons in the areas of Science, technology engineering and Math … Read more
NYS Schools to Receive $87 Million from Microsoft
New York State Education Commissioner, John B. King Jr., made the announcement earlier this week that, due to a settlement agreement with Microsoft, over $87 million have been made available for New York State schools. Fund vouchers will be allocated to eligible schools through the New York State School Technology Voucher program, and are … Read more
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Tagged funding, John B. King Jr., Microsoft, news, NYS, NYSED, Technology Readiness Tool, Technology Voucher Program
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At Home at Mohonk
Teq Sales Representative Ryan Meehan just spent his fifth year at the NEIT Conference at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York. NEIT is a yearly gathering of technology specialists and librarians from New York area independent schools. In this video he talks about why he loves the conference.
Teacher Spotlight: Monica Burns
Our instructional technology specialists meet a lot of amazing teachers while out and about conducting sessions and certifications. Monica Burns, a fifth grade teacher at PS 208 in Manhattan, NY is one of those teachers.
Burns completed a SMART Board Certification with Teq last Fall. Since then she has been hard at work incorporating iPads … Read more
Meet Teq’s Newest Learning Partner: NAO
Teq instructional technologists recently concluded their first round of training on Teq’s newest product offering, NAO — an academic robot that promises to be an exciting new learning tool in the classroom.
NAO (pronounced “now”), 23 inches tall, will help schools address the critical shortage of STEM professionals especially in the fields of engineering and … Read more
