Enabling Analytics for Improvement ‒ Lessons from Year 2 of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative
How to do you keep the momentum rolling for initiatives? First, you need to understand your current success: what's working and where can we improve? Second, you need to communicate that success to parents, teachers, principals, and anyone one else with a stake in student progress. Fresno Unified's Personalized Learning Initiative, in partnership with #Microsoft, Digital Promise, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, integrated learning analytics to do just that. In this year 2 report, the results speak for themselves: The initiative is accomplishing its goals of closing achievement gaps and preparing students for "as yet imagined futures." Let's keep this momentum going to improve the lives of all students!
Customer story: Xiaoyi Technology
When global camera company Xiaoyi Technology set out to modernize its IT infrastructure in the cloud, it chose Microsoft 365. Since adopting Microsoft 365, the company has been able to boost productivity, maximize productivity and enhance customer experience by automating time consuming processes. See the difference, and contact Global Solutions IT, Inc to see how we can help your company modernize IT with Microsoft 365.
Customer Story: BP deploys Microsoft 365 to improve user experience and security
In an ever-changing security landscape, how do you keep users, devices, and data across 80 countries protected? For BP, they use Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection that can compile information and identify possible threats more effectively than ever before. So effective in fact, that they put it on all 30,000 Windows 10 devices they have deployed across the world. And this is just one of the many security tools from Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5 that BP is relying on to remain secure as they continue to transform their company. Learn more about their security journey in this video.
J. Walter Thompson breaks new ground with Microsoft collaboration tools
"Given we're such a distributed business across many different countries, we've really embraced those virtual forms of communication." Even before COVID-19 and social distancing, employees at this global marketing communication company used Microsoft Teams to stay connected around the world. Watch the video to discover the importance of staying connected and collaborating virtually so business can run smoothly.
Fresno Unified, the futures challenge, and 21C Learning Design
How do we transform our communities? We start by developing youth to be self-motivated to continuously learn and actively solve real-world problems. Fresno Unified School District recognized the value in investing in their youth when they implemented the Personalized Learning Initiative. The schools have discovered that by placing an emphasis on student choice and very intentional integration of technology in the classroom, they are indeed equipping students who are ready to tackle the challenges that come with bettering their community and those they will face in the workplace. What benefits might you see when you bring today's technology into your classroom? Contact us to learn more.
Grade assignments in Teams
Educators seek robust learning opportunities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with remote learning at the forefront of viable options. To support a swift transition, Microsoft and its partners continue to offer free tools like Office 365 and Teams to schools. Teams brings together conversations, content, assignments and apps all in one place. Some schools already use Teams and others are researching options for their students. We understand you may have questions on how your school can leverage remote learning and we encourage you to view upcoming and on-demand Teams webinars to learn more - sign up here.Is Cloud Hosting the Best IT Solution for Your Business?
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