
16 Jan
2018
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 […]
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01 Jan
2018
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 […]
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01 Jun
2017
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 […]
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17 Mar
2017
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 […]
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15 Aug
2016
Ocala Star Banner article by Joe Callahan, Vanguard High School attendance clerk Tara Johnson is always waiting for the stragglers. Most every day, about 70 of the school’s 1,700 students arrive late for class. Two years ago, students stood in line and, one by one, had to face Johnson. They would explain about waking up […]
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17 Aug
2015
Skyward Educator Newsletter article by Lauren Gilchrist, The Story Behind Positive Attendance In 2013, two separate members of the Skyward community had the same idea. Sauk Prairie High School and Nicolet High School were both looking for more efficient ways to take attendance to support their personalized learning objectives. They wanted to empower students to […]
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