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June 2025 product update: Spanish translation and Microsoft Edge monitoring coming soon
Explore the June Hāpara product update with announcements about a new Spanish user interface and Microsoft Edge browser monitoring.
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Implementing Georgia HB 340: Tips for school administrators
Explore how Georgia HB 340 helps K-8 schools reduce distractions and boost focus by managing personal devices. Discover strategies for smooth implementation.
Teacher resistance and edtech fatigue: How schools can avoid it
Discover how to turn teacher resistance into buy-in and tackle edtech fatigue with effective strategies that create long-lasting technology adoption.
Disadvantages of online learning and how to overcome them
Discover the disadvantages of online learning and how to overcome them. Learn strategies to keep students engaged, focused and safe in digital classrooms.
K-12 educational technology: How districts can roll out new tools
Discover how to successfully implement K-12 educational technology. Use this step-by-step guide for planning, training and ongoing support.
Classroom management trends: How IT leaders can support teachers
Explore top classroom management trends and how IT leaders can support teachers with the right technology. Learn how Hāpara helps create effective digital classrooms.
Exploring key classroom management theories and their applications
Learn about essential classroom management theories and how they can be applied in classrooms to create a productive learning environment.
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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?
New video series: Teaching with Technology with Julian Daher
We are excited to announce a new video series with Hapara Champion Trainer Julian Daher from the Ottawa Catholic School Board on teaching with technology. Julian will be sharing short videos with us every week to show what teaching with technology looks like in his classroom, and how he uses both online and offline tools and methods to support learners.
Deeper Learning in the Digital Age
Join Hapara’s Chief Executive Officer, Wayne Poncia, as he takes a close look at deep learning – explaining what it is, what it looks like in the classroom and how you can help students take their learning further with the help of digital tools.
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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