Pivot Learning Partners Launches Edmodo Community at CUE Conference
Palm Springs, CA - On March 22, 2012 at the CUE Annual Conference (Computer-Using Educators), Pivot Learning Partners and Edmodo announced the launch of Pivot Learning's Edmodo Educator Community, bringing new opportunities to educators within the emerging area of online social networking.
- San Francisco, CA (1888PressRelease) March 28, 2012 - This includes secure online environments where district teams can collaborate and share best practices around important pedagogical issues like Response to Intervention strategies (RTI2), longitudinal assessment benchmark templates and Common Core curriculum units that Pivot Learning has been piloting.
"By using the Edmodo platform, we look forward to offering our clients technology solutions for collaboration on such critical issues that might range from per-pupil budgeting to the Common Core State Standards," said Merrill Vargo, Executive Director of Pivot Learning Partners. "Edmodo and Pivot share a common goal - to build the education organizations of the future - and both organizations have demonstrated the willingness to be on the cutting edge."
The two organizations will work together to blend research-based pedagogy, data-driven learning and social networking. Using Pivot Learning's extensive library of best practices, guidelines and frameworks, educators can create and develop professional learning communities and networks (PLCs/PLNs), and tap into an online community resource expert on key education topics.
Teachers and district leaders will be able to add content shared within the community to their own libraries for later use in their classrooms, PLCs and groups. They can also click through to the collection of Pivot Learning's Best Practice content and browse the items stored within it.
This partnership comes on the heels of Edmodo's announcement that they will allow third-party publishers and developers to create educational apps that integrate directly with Edmodo. Jill Florant, Edmodo's Senior Engagement Manager is excited about the synergy of work ahead. "Pivot brings the expertise, experience and tools needed to support school districts in analyzing, designing and implementing customized solutions".
About Edmodo
Edmodo provides over 6.5 million teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner.
About Pivot Learning Partners
Pivot Learning Partners is a non-profit organization that has built long-term relationships with California school districts since 1995 to create educational systems that are more equitable, more efficient, and more effective. Using a research-based theory of action, Pivot Learning supports school districts in analyzing, designing and implementing customized solutions that draw on best and next practices to develop leaders and redesign systems that reflect a vision of the educational organizations of the future.
Contacts:
Edmodo
SutherlandGold Group for Edmodo (Press)
Lisa Gonzales, 415-848-7169
lisa ( @ ) sutherlandgold dot com
To learn more about Edmodo,
visit: www.edmodo.com
Pivot Learning Partners
Liam Bayer, 415.644.3426
Communications Coordinator
lbayer ( @ ) pivotlearningpartners dot org
To learn more about Pivot Learning Partners,
visit: www.pivotlearningpartners.org.
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