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How The Briarwood School uses Hāpara Filter to keep learners safe online
Explore how a school supporting learning differences uses Hāpara Filter to keep learners safe online and provide mental wellness interventions.
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Using technology to rethink summer learning
Summer is a time for learners (and teachers!) to relax and reset. It’s important to keep kids learning, but summer assignments have to be highly engaging to have any real impact.
District offers secure exams with Hapara and G Suite
What if you want your secure examinations to be learning experiences and opportunities for learners to express their creativity, and to demonstrate a wide spectrum of their understanding and capabilities? Add the challenge of using Google Apps, and web content. Then what?
Hapara student voice podcast
Hapara Certified Educators Jennifer Struebing and Lisa Harrison spoke with Larry Jacobs of Education Talk Radio to share how they use digital tools to raise student voice in their respective schools.
Hapara Workspace as professional learning hub
Workspace has commanded the attention of our global community of education innovators. Within two weeks of the release of Workspace in August, individual Workspaces had aggregated more than one million views.
Three ways to magnify student voice in the digital classroom with Hapara
For some, the phrase student voice invokes images of endless student government meetings where the debate about school lunch ends up right where it started. For others, a strong and healthy culture of student voice is the key to motivating students to work hard, be creative, and take care of each other.
Student agency Hapara Certified Educator podcast
Two Hapara Certified Educators, +Aida Awad, and +Evyan Wagner, share their thoughts on student agency with Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio.
Hapara Certified Educator Spotlight: Aida Awad, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
The Hapara Certified Educator (HCE) program is designed to help edtech integrators, professional developers, instructional coaches, and teacher-innovators adopt best practices in leveraging Hapara Instructional Management.
Hapara is EdtechDigest Cool Tool finalist
Hapara’s Instructional Management solution for digital learning with Google Apps was chosen as a finalist for EdtechDigest’s Cool Tool Award.
Hapara Certified Educator Spotlight: Anthony Speranza, Melbourne, Australia
Anthony Speranza is a member of our Hāpara Certified Educator (HCE) program designed to help edtech integrators, professional developers, instructional coaches, and teacher-innovators adopt best practices in leveraging Hapara Instructional Management.
Hāpara plays nicely with your K-12 LMS and Google Classroom
Explore how Hāpara integrates with the most popular LMSs and Google Classroom to streamline teaching and learning.
Crossing the chasm of GAFE adoption
In their first and second year using Google Apps for Education (GAFE), many organizations evaluate the success of their implementation based on...
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Why reinvent the wheel when you can borrow from the experts? Check out this curated collection of Hapara Workspaces were designed and shared publically by Hapara-using educators from around the world.
Hapara Workspace sharing competition: Workspace of the week
Using the new Public Sharing feature in Hapara Workspace, teachers can elect to share the Workspaces they have created with friends, colleagues, and educators around the world. Hapara-using recipients can then copy the shared Workspace into their own Hapara instance, and customize or modify as needed.
Teachers share all – Hapara Workspace
Teachers share lesson plans. They also share resources. And in a number of platforms, they will share guides on how best to put a lesson into practice. Now, all of that is wrapped into one package with shareable Workspaces from Hapara.
Microteaching improves student achievement
Canadian researcher, Michael Fullan, recently visited the schools where Hapara was founded. Here is a video about what he learned about student achievement with microteaching.
iNACOL Blended Learning Award – and the winner is…
The Manaiakalani Cluster has received numerous awards in the past, but the INACOL blended learning award marks the first time that the cluster received such significant international recognition.
Video: Learner Agency and PBL at HPSS
Examine how the educators and learners at Hobsonville Point Secondary School in the northern suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand are building a culture of empowerment and creativity.
Hapara’s sticky new edtech workspace crests one million views in two weeks
We designed Workspace with the same force factors that drove us to build our Dashboard for Google Apps in 2010 and our Highlights (previously Interact) for Chrome tool in 2012; to meet the needs of teachers and learners pushing edtech to its max in support of differentiation, personalization, and collaboration.
Hāpara Workspace is on the way
The excitement is building. After months of alpha release, we’re pleased to announce our newest product Hapara Workspace, will be available to your teachers in just a few short weeks! To help you prepare, we’ve created a number of tools to help guide your teachers and learners.
Google groups, organization units and subdomains – explainer
Technology directors and facilitators new to the Google Suite game must master a new vernacular. When managing a Google Suite domain, three things you must quickly learn about are groups, organization units (OU’s), and subdomains. Each has a host of different applications, some overlapping, and can be used to assist a school system with data maintenance and customization.