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4 Tips For Creating Your Very Own Personal Learning Network

  Today, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is how to provide opportunities for edugagement, the engagement of students in the classroom, with relevant learning opportunities. While we are…

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Apps and their Potential, and Privacy Concerns, in Education

  As of writing this, of 49.4 million children enrolled in K-12 schools in the U.S. As of 2012, 75% of high school students and 60% of middle school students…

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Top 20 STEM Careers

Today, nearly 10% of all jobs in the U.S. are STEM related, requiring skills in math, science, and engineering. What’s more interesting, nearly all of those STEM jobs have annual…

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EdTech Spotlight: Boston Public Schools, Massachusetts

 According to a new survey from the Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN), in 2014 alone the edtech industry saw a significant jump in market share from $7.9 to $8.38 billion…

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Top 10 Technology Trends In The Classroom

As we all know, technology in the class room is on the rise and is almost considered a “must-have” for the avant-garde educator. But, how do we know which technologies…

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Westwood Schools holds MAD-shark tank!

This week, our team ventured to Camilla, Georgia, the home base of teaching superstar Vicki Davis and the Westwood Schools, to participate and film a “Shark Tank” event held by…

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Crescerance Goes to the United Nations!

Hello Everyone!   How are you all?   Recently, Alefiya, our CEO, was actually in New York to speak on a Technology in Education panel at the United Nations. The…

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April 2015 School App Feature Update

Greetings from Crescerance!You may already be aware of the product release that kept us busy this last weekend. Here’s a quick summary of all the new features now available for…

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Lakeview Academy MAD-scouts Win 2nd Place with their Yotopia App!

Lakeview’s Robotics Team performed well at this years 2014 Northeast Georgia First Lego League Qualifier, hosted at Athens Academy. They were awarded the 2nd Place “Champions Award” for embracing gracious…

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MAD-learn is now aligned to the ISTE Standards!

MAD-learn: The Process Sessions begin with an ideation phase, in which a whole group brainstorming activity helps students consider ideas about what their mobile app should be about. Normally these…

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Hall County prepares for winter with Inclement Weather Reporting

Hall County Schools in Northern Georgia is leveraging a suite of powerful and innovative mobile communications tools from Crescerance, an Atlanta based company, for the upcoming school year, including a…

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Advice for Successful Open House and Back to School Nights

As summer comes to a close, schools are preparing for open house and back to school nights. It’s a great opportunity for teachers to not only make good first impressions…

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