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How to improve classroom behavior management for better learning
Discover how to improve classroom behavior management with strategies and digital tools like Hāpara, ensuring safe and engaged digital learning.
K-12 funding and tech purchases: A guide for school leaders
Are you struggling with K-12 funding challenges? Explore strategies to help you stretch your budget and invest in the right technology for classrooms.
November 2025 product update: Tips for streamlining teacher workflows to finish 2025 strong
Discover Hāpara’s November 2025 product updates featuring the new Overview Panel, Student Browsing History, streamlined Class View, and Instant Close Tab.
How Ohio Senate Bill 29 impacts student privacy data in K-12 schools
Learn how Ohio Senate Bill 29 protects student data privacy in K-12 schools with new rules on transparency, parental rights and secure data practices.
October 2025 product update: Student browsing history
Check out the October Hāpara product update featuring student browsing history, Microsoft Edge integration and a digital hall pass.
Microsoft classroom management software: Everything you need to know
Manage distractions with Microsoft classroom management software like Hāpara Highlights. Explore how visibility into student Edge browsing keeps learners on track.
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What we learned at ISTE 2018
This year at ISTE 2018 we sent our good friend Julian Daher out with a camera to learn more about the latest trends and biggest ideas that were brought up in ISTE sessions.
End-of-year procedures for 1:1 districts
1:1 and other tech programs add a few additional to-dos to your end of year procedures. Especially when your programs are new, it’s easy to feel like you missed a step or forgot to do something important. Creating a list of everything you need to do to close out the year and get prepped for next year is key.
A beginner’s guide to ISTE
ISTE is a conference like no other. It will inspire you, motivate you, energize you, and refresh your practice, but it can also be quite daunting. As someone who has attended five of these in the last 10 years, I have learned a few tricks to make the experience a bit easier.
Deep learning: co-constructing success criteria
Our friend and Hāpara Champion Trainer Julian Daher continues to share his expertise on Deep Learning in the latest video in our Teaching with Technology series. This week, Julian discusses one of his favorite practices - co-creating success criteria with learners.
Collaborative professional development with Hāpara Workspace
Ever since Hāpara allowed the inclusion of teachers as students in Workspace, Heather Rentz and I have been utilizing it to create collaborative professional development sessions for teachers across our school district.
Deep Learning – Pedagogical Practice with Julian Daher
In this first deep dive video, Julian shares how Deep Learning pedagogies have shifted the way he teaches French reading comprehension. He also explains how digital tools like Hāpara Workspace and Google Read and Write make these shifts possible.
Fostering Teacher Collaboration in a Digital World
Today, highly effective educators and schools push teacher collaboration so that it has become a norm. The internet has revolutionized education by changing the question from why should we collaborate to how can we foster professional collaboration in a digital world?
Teaching with Technology: An Intro to Deep Learning
We're back with our next Teaching with Technology video with Julian Daher! This week, Julian gives us an intro to Deep Learning and what it looks like in the Ottawa Catholic School Board.
Building meaningful relationships in a digital classroom
In a digital classroom, it is true that, if not used intentionally, technology can add a cold and disconnecting element to our classrooms. However, it also possible for technology to be used in ways that add value to our relationships and bring teachers and students closer to together.
Hāpara stands for student voice
If you visited Hapara.com on Saturday, March 24, 2018, you may have noticed things looked a little different. We decided to blackout our website to show our support for student voice.
Teaching with tech: Second language immersion
We're back with the second video in our Teaching with Technology series! This week, Hapara Champion Trainer and OCSB educator Julian Daher lets us in on how he incorporates tech tools into his French as a second language immersion classes.
Creating a climate for student collaboration and feedback
My vision for my classroom is to foster an environment where students are comfortable making mistakes and sharing work with peers. The question then becomes, how do I do this? How do I shift from researching and implementing effective feedback strategies to using them to transform my classroom?
A better way to manage the digital classroom
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Safe and engaged digital learning
Quick implementation and easy management
Professional learning and training to fit your needs
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