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Skyward Case Study,  As any teacher will attest, the most chaotic time of every class is the beginning. Monotone responses of ‘here’ and ‘present’ are heard throughout the room while students are settling in. Combine that with any students who arrive late, and teachers lose even more instructional time by stopping class to check in students. […]

  This year at the Kansas User Group our President, Dan Hoerl, had the opportunity to present on our Tardy Kiosk and Positive Attendance solutions that integrate directly with Skyward software.If you didn’t get a chance to stop by and see the presentation and would like to see the recording of it, contact us at […]

  Our Positive Attendance devices have been updated! Some benefits of the new design are: If adhered to wall the scanner is placed higher on the bottom of the keypad to make scanning barcodes on phones or badges easier. Simplified to make the keypad and scanner the main use. *New design shown on left

  We had a good time at the Wisconsin Skyward User Group this year!It was great to hear from Sauk Prairie how our solutions have improved and automated daily processes around their school. If you are interested in watching a recording of their session, please contact us at sales@k12sta.com  

  Back in 2012 John Reiels, Director of Technology at Nicolet High School in Wisconsin, was looking for a better and more efficient way to take attendance at his school, particularly for theirresource period for students. “The resource period is 35 minutes long so we wanted to make sure the students get 35 minutes of […]

  This year at iCon we were honored to have our solutions highlighted in two school district’s presentations. In case you missed them, we’ve got you covered with a recording of Nicolet’s presentation, Whats in a Minute?, highlighting how the Tardy Kiosk and Positive Attendance has shifted their school culture and in the video below […]

  Fall 2017, MSD of Pike Township in Indiana launched Tardy Kiosks across all their schools. The Tardy Kiosk was developed back in 2015, School Technology was already offering schools a more efficient way to keep track of attendance with Positive Attendance devices. The idea of also tracking tardies using student IDs in a similar […]

  Take a look at our Support Portal, a new resource to learn ways to troubleshoot hardware issues, along with a forum where you can share and ask questions about different ways to make our products work best for your schools.   On the top right side of our website’s menu there is now a […]

Skyward Advancing K12 article by John Jennings, The simple act of taking attendance via roll call is ingrained in our cultural psyche. Who can forget this classic Ben Stein deadpan from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? It’s almost unfathomable to those of us who grew up waiting for our turn in the alphabet and correcting our substitute […]

Skyward Educator Newsletter article by Lauren Gilchrist, “How can technology give us the freedom to expand our offerings and expand opportunities for our students?” Those are the words of Shane Been, the forward-thinking assistant principal at Sauk Prairie High School. I know “innovative” is an overused buzzword, but it truly does apply to the leadership […]