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Pear Deck’s app helps teachers engage in real time with every student
Pear Deck, an interactive presentation Google app for the classroom, is live worldwide. The tool has been in beta since March, with thousands of users in select school districts across the country. Now the final version is available in the Google Chrome Web Store.
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ActiveGrade founders create new education startup Pear Deck
With increasingly fast Internet speeds and a growing ability for real-time interactions, innovations in technology are changing the game in traditional education. Now Iowa City, Iowa-based startup Pear Deck is harnessing that technology to help teachers better engage with their students. “What makes it really exciting is that one of the problems for any teacher,…
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Post-acquisition ActiveGrade team of three stays intact, takes on new roles
Less than five months after its acquisition, Iowa City-based startup ActiveGrade is releasing its first new features under the Haiku Learning Systems platform. Originally designed as an electronic platform to help educators track student development, ActiveGrade merged with the cloud-based platform in February, significantly expanding its market and the features available …
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Lessons from the classroom on company culture
(Guest post by Michal Eynon-Lynch.) Creating a positive company culture is much like creating a positive classroom culture. As former teachers and camp counselors, this is something we enjoy actively considering. When intentionally attempting to improve company culture, I recommend following these three tips: 1. Laissez-faire it up 2. Hire well 3. Make it enjoyable.…
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ActiveGrade names advisory board, co-founder confirms $200k raise
ActiveGrade, a startup established to help educators better track pupils’ development, has assembled a group of educators tasked with keeping a similarly watchful eye on the company’s own progress. Iowa City-based ActiveGrade last week unveiled a seven-member advisory board, which is made up of educators and teacher leaders from across the country. The group will…
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Ex-teachers look to sharpen focus of student feedback with ActiveGrade
It wasn’t long ago that Michal Eynon-Lynch (far left) and Riley Eynon-Lynch (near left) made their living as teachers, educating students on subjects like math and science, history and humanities. Now, the wife and husband are getting an education of their own — on bootstrapping a startup. The Eynon-Lynches, along with designer Dan Sweeney, make…