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Data Privacy, Security, & Trust: What Elevate K-12’s SOC 2 Certification Means for Districts

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For the school districts we work alongside, this milestone offers added peace of mind: Elevate’s systems are built to keep data safe, available, and confidential, just as your IT, legal, and data privacy teams expect. But compliance doesn’t stop at certification. We’ll continue to share updates and insights as our privacy practices evolve.

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From Reflection to Transformation: Embedding Antiracism into Everyday Practice

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School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. Regular reflection and discussion allow educators to process experiences, ask tough questions, and track their personal growth. Who is left out? Are we reinforcing or disrupting inequity?

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From Reflection to Transformation: Embedding Antiracism into Everyday Practice

k12 Digest

School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. Regular reflection and discussion allow educators to process experiences, ask tough questions, and track their personal growth. Who is left out? Are we reinforcing or disrupting inequity?

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How today’s tech departments are moving into the future

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We’ve pushed back on that because it puts districts in a interesting spot because that’s what we use even though it’s confidential data. Teachers would ask us questions we don’t know how to answer. They did phase out the ability for families to use free and reduced lunch as a qualifier. Another support I would offer is EveryoneOn.org.

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Leveraging AI to help special education teachers

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For both novice and veteran teachers, Poe.com provides access to a behavior intervention bot in real-time to help with questions that might arise with paperwork or strategies for student behavior. MagicSchool.ai In this case, AI can essentially serve as an on-demand instructional coach for special education teachers.

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How to find an LMS that supports student privacy and data security

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Our student information system (SIS), for instance, stores dates of birth, addresses, and other confidential data. The question becomes, “How protected should that information be? From there, things start to get a little fuzzy and include math applications that track how well a student is learning multiplication tables.

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What is COPPA?

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COPPA has a number of requirements, but some key ones are that tech companies making apps, websites, and online tools for kids under 13 must: provide notice and get parental consent before collecting information from kids; have a “clear and comprehensive” privacy policy; and keep information they collect from kids confidential and secure.