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Classroom monitoring and web filtering in K-12
Student web filtering tools and classroom monitoring work together to keep K-12 learners safe, focused and on task during screen time.
Hāpara Hall Pass Product Updates: October 2026
Explore Hāpara Hall Pass updates for October 2026, including scheduled passes, 90-day history, data exports and faster kiosk sign-in.
Screen time in K-12 Texas classrooms: Making digital learning meaningful
As Texas debates screen time in K-12 classrooms, learn what’s changing and how districts can ensure screen time is meaningful.
Five hall pass patterns K-12 school districts should not ignore
Discover five hall pass patterns that help K-12 schools strengthen hallway safety, protect instructional time and support students.
Why tracking student movement in schools protects students and your K-12 district
Tracking student movement in schools helps administrators investigate incidents, improve supervision and show stakeholders how your district protects students.
September 2026 Product Updates
Learn about our latest Hāpara back-to-school updates and tips for K-12 admins and teachers.
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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.
The Evolution of Monitoring
The evolution of monitoring. Watch the webinar to learn how to implement a student-centered digital learning philosophy.
Offering student choice with playlist-based instruction
In essence, playlists give students choice over when, how and what they do to reach an academic objective. In a traditional lesson, students have two choices: follow the teacher’s directions verbatim, or choose to misbehave. That’s not much of a choice at all.