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Hāpara partners with Ashland University to offer graduate credit for its Champion Program
Hāpara has taken the next step to partner with Ashland University and offer educators graduate credit for completing Hāpara’s Champion Program courses.
Learn more about how Hāpara meets all of your digital teaching and learning needs and powers awesome learning.
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Learn from the best: Hapara Champion blog roundup
The Hapara Champion program brings together educators from around the world to learn more about the pedagogy behind Hapara’s tools and to support each other in making the shift to digital learning. Since its launch in 2015, the program has had over 300 graduates, many of whom are still connected and learning from each other every day.
Leading PLCs to Develop Shared Understandings
How to set up PLCs in your school and use Hāpara Workspace to lead PLCs that empower educators.
Make summer professional learning more flexible with Hapara Workspace
One of our favorite things about Hapara Workspace (other than how easy it makes it to provide differentiated digital learning experiences) is that it can serve as a hub for collaborative learning for teachers as well as students.
Hapara’s ISTE 2017 sessions not to miss
This year at ISTE we’re trying something different. We’re skipping our big Hapara booth and sending a team of staff who will be in the Google and Microsoft partner booths. We’ll also be on the floor meeting with new and existing customers!
Streamline digital learning with Hapara & Google Classroom
Want to streamline digital learning in your school? Here's why you should still use Hāpara if you're already invested in Google Classroom.
Three ways to make the shift to personalized learning
Over the past few years, technology has enabled educators to shift towards creating personalized learning experiences and allowing learners greater agency in the classroom. But what about teachers?
One year in – five lessons from the Enhanced Learning Model
One way that Wolf Creek Public Schools is working to provide learning experiences that resonate with our students is through the implementation of the Enhanced Learning Model (ELM). This learning model blends high quality digital course content with face-to-face teacher supports in the classroom.
What to read this summer – Hapara’s summer reading list for educators
One of our favorite summer pastimes is tackling our summer reading lists (they’re not just for kids!), so we put together a list of some of the titles we’ll be tackling this summer and that we think the educators in our lives will enjoy as well.
Removing Barriers – Allowing Learners Choice in Place and Time
Learn what Wolf Creek Schools in Alberta, Canada has done to remove barriers and enable learners to finish high school in ways that suit their lifestyles.
How to get started with Hapara Workspace
Digital learning environments provide unique ways to engage learners and to create more personalized learning experiences, but it can be tough to know how to get started. We’ve put together this Workspace Cheat Sheet to help you set up a digital learning environment that engages all of the learners in your classroom.
Digital Learning Environments for All Learners
Digital learning environments can provide unique ways to engage students and provide more personalized, student-centered learning.
Using High Yield Strategies with Student Portfolios
High-yield strategies of collaboration, feedback, reflection and checking for understanding when using digital portfolios. Watch the webinar to learn more
Realizing the Potential of Your Google Classroom
Industry expert, Tech & Learning Magazine takes a look at the state of Google’s foray into education, where this cloud-based productivity resource is providing the foundation to transformational education practice, and what the ecosystem that supports K12 instructional management looks like.
Instructional Management – 50 Years in the Making
Download this Special Report to learn why K12 schools around the world choose Instructional Management to meet their teaching and learning goals.
Digital Citizenship for Today’s Classroom
This report will make the case for the inclusion of curriculum addressing digital citizenship, digital commerce, digital etiquette, digital rights and law, online security, as well as health and wellness issues associated with using connected devices.
Real-world, Hands-on, and Project-based – An Instructional Leader’s Guide to Authentic Learning
Authentic learning projects big and small - See how educators around the world get learners excited, engaged and ready for more.
The Personalization of Learning
How personalized learning has changed learning outcomes at OCSB and how technology has helped increase student agency. Watch the webinar to learn more.
Data and Your Digital Adoption
Utilize these strategies for using data to inform decision making around technology rollouts, learning initiatives and professional learning.
Authentic Writing and Literacy
Acquire strategies for engaging learners in authentic writing tasks, and digital tools for creating deeper literacy learning experiences.
We’re off to see the wizard: visualizing the road to digital adoption
Your school district has decided to go all in on education technology. Your teachers are using G-Suite and/or other cloud-based tools in their classrooms, and every learner has a device. Maybe you’ve even seen slides about the SAMR model.