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  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]