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Internet Safety Month

When school lets out for the summer, it is likely that students will be spending more time – not less – online. They’ll just have more down time to spend on things like games, and more fun times to share with online friends. Are they prepared?  Education and empowerment is the best way to protect our children online, and that teaching a well-rounded curriculum centered around the concepts of media literacy and cyber citizenship best prepares students to succeed in this constantly evolving and complicated online world.

Internet Safety Month is a time each year designated for all of us (educators, parents, mentors) to raise awareness about online issues and promote e-Safety. With that in mind, several items in the news lately focus our attention on the subject of online privacy. Do your students know how to protect their identity?

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Study Finds Tri-Creek Best and Leanest in Lake County

The Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., recently released a study about educational productivity.  Tri-Creek School Corporation was identified in its highest category and the highest in Lake County for return on investment. 

“Our leadership teams seek out the best research and ideas and determine what will help us reach our goals for student learning.  We train the teachers, and they work the magic,” says Superintendent Alice Neal.  “We have always ‘run lean’ compared to many other districts, and our employees in all categories have always stepped up to make good things happen for kids.”

The project measured the academic achievement a school district produces relative to its educational spending, while controlling for factors outside a district’s control such as cost of living and students in poverty.

According to the Center study, to increase productivity, school leaders need to fundamentally reinvent the way that they do business and create an outcomes-based school culture that sets high goals and gives employees strategies to achieve. 

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