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John Hunter Named in Time Magazine as Top 12 Education Activist of 2012!

John Hunter Named in Time Magazine as Top 12 Education Activist of 2012!

What do an old-school game designer, the current NCAA chief and Maggie Gyllenhaal have in common? They’re all on TIME’s list of the 12 education activists to watch in 2012. Those named to TIME’s 11 for ’11 made waves last year, and this…

Tech Gets Tough on Bullies

Tech Gets Tough on Bullies

PSS was recently featured in THE Journal with their new behavior program, Review 360. It seems classroom behavior doesn’t get much media attention until bullying results in serious injury or worse.

John Hunter Named The Best of TED 2011

John Hunter Named The Best of TED 2011

In the special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post count down 18 great ideas of 2011, with original blog posts that they think will shape 2012. John Hunter was honored…

Join us – contribute!

Join us – contribute!

The next 12 days hold one of my favorite annual traditions. Each year we look around in the less-obvious places for ideas, organizations and people we believe in. Then, during the 12 days following Christmas and into the New Year, we donate a piece of our profits each day on behalf of each of our clients…

Radio Without Borders to feature John Hunter & Chris Farina

Radio Without Borders to feature John Hunter & Chris Farina

Public radio listeners, tune into Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders for an interview with John Hunter and Chris Farina, December 7, at 4:00 PM Eastern…

ABC takes the trip to Los Banos, CA, features Letters Alive by Logical Choice

ABC takes the trip to Los Banos, CA, features Letters Alive by Logical Choice

Last fall we re-started media relations and content development services for an old friend – Logical Choice Technologies (LCT). If you’ve been following our work in education, you might make the connection: Logical Choice is the largest seller and servicer of Promethean classroom technology products in the USA, and one of our earliest education clients. [...]

Evernote voted Best in Tech Today by Scholastic

Evernote voted Best in Tech Today by Scholastic

Iowa Schoolteacher Russ Goerend shares a “Best in Tech” perspective with Ken Royal at Scholastic on how his school uses Evernote to capture student learning “in a more authentic way”…

Rural North KY school gets high tech bonanza

Rural North KY school gets high tech bonanza

MORNING VIEW, Ky. – It’s was like an early Christmas at Piner Elementary School, as dozens of laptop computers and other high tech gear were unveiled to the students Tuesday…

CBS Austin: Teachers say smart pens contributing to smarter kids

CBS Austin: Teachers say smart pens contributing to smarter kids

Over the years, computers have increasingly written good old pen and paper out of the equation. But now they’re back, and are perhaps better than ever.

Telemundo Austin: Los maestros dicen plumas inteligentes que contribuyen a los niños más inteligentes

Telemundo Austin: Los maestros dicen plumas inteligentes que contribuyen a los niños más inteligentes

Martha Escobedo, a 5th grade teacher at AISD’s Pleasant Hill Elementary, shows off her Livescribe smartpen to Telemundo Austin.

How it all comes together

How it all comes together

Want a sneak peek at Sensible City’s awesome inner workings? Andrea put together this video to capture our values in action – how our results come from attitude over tactic. Enjoy!

Fox 59 Coverage from Authorspeak 2011

Fox 59 Coverage from Authorspeak 2011

Educators from across the U.S., Canada and the world converged in Indianapolis last week for the first-ever authorspeak, a gathering of 96 authors presenting their latest research and work as it relates to education’s top challenges.

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