Partners

Te Kete Hono SchoolTalk

SchoolTalk is a cutting-edge, not-for-profit, learning management system that codifies and brings together the critical teaching practices of the Teaching, Learning and Assessment cycle. It creates a rich record of learning that is visibly and collaboratively used by teachers, learners, and parents to develop effective teachers, support student agency, and strengthen home/school partnerships.

Te Kete Hono's vision: “Powerful collaboration driving educational improvement and equity for all learners” reflects their aim of being a catalyst for improvement and equity by turning innovative school leadership into educational systems, products and services that can be impactful at scale.

By joining forces, Edge Learning Solutions and Te Kete Hono bring New Zealand schools a ”best of breed” solution combining both student and learning management systems. The integration of the two cutting edge cloud-based systems creates an offering for the New Zealand education sector that is not currently available. .

Edge Learning Solutions / Educa Partnership

Involving caregivers in their child’s learning journey is an important part of every child’s educational growth and development. To further enhance these opportunities Edge Learning Solutions is delighted to announce a partnership with Educa, a company that provides an interactive online web-based portfolio with enhanced capability to collaborate between school, students and caregivers. We are extremely excited to be able to offer our schools access to this world class tool.

Educa is a New Zealand based education software company that has developed a student portfolio solution specifically designed to connect caregivers to their child’s learning environment. They initially developed the student portfolio for the Early Childhood Education sector, however due to the success they have had they have been asked to make it available to the school market. At present Educa is used in New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom and the United States.

One of Edge Learning Solutions first schools to use Educa was St Mary’s in Rotorua. Team Leader Karen Tabuteau explains how they are using Educa and what a difference it has made:

"Educa is exactly what we have been looking for. We've tried a number of options for sharing learning and engaging parents and this is by far the best. It's simple to set up and use and our teachers love it. Can quickly and easily add links to curriculum and key competency goals and families can also post learning stories. Most important of all - our parents love it and are engaged in their child's learning”.

If your school is interested in strengthening the collaboration between your school and caregivers and would like to know more about Educa please visit their website (www.geteduca.com) or email services@edgelearning.co.nz.

VisTab School Management is a simple and easy to use sign-in procedure for your school. It records the relevant information for pupils leaving during the day and visitors and relievers coming and going, allowing the school to access critical information for health & safety or in the event of an emergency evacuation.

The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) creates high quality, consistent catalogue records for school libraries. With direct integration into the Edge Learning library management system, SCIS makes cataloguing simple, saving school libraries time and money.

Benefits of a SCIS subscription include:

· Simple and efficient downloading of catalogue records and book cover images

· Access to almost 1.6 million bibliographic records, including books, websites, apps, e-books and digital videos

· Enhanced content including educational-specific subject headings, full and abridged Dewey classifications, summaries and more

· SCIS cataloguers are located across New Zealand and work directly with local publishers and distributors, providing a high 90% record hit rate

· Optional subscription to Authority Files which contain ‘see’ and ‘see also’ references to improve search results

Further explore the benefits of SCIS in this Case Study: Riccarton Primary.

To learn more, visit www.scisdata.com or email help@scisdata.com.

Schoolground.co.nz uses the market leading ‘Sporty’ platform to provide your school with a modern new website that reflects your school values and identity – and looks great!  If you currently have a WordPress headache or your school website simply needs a refresh, the team from Schoolground can help. There’s even a special 15% discount offer for schools using Edge Learning Solutions.

Schoolground.co.nz is proudly New Zealand owned and already provides websites for hundreds of Kiwi schools. The website builder is truly WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) so it’s easy for you to update. You can manage text and photos directly from your web pages, and drag & drop content until it looks just the way you want. Importantly, websites from Schoolground are automatically responsive to work well on mobile phones and touch-screen devices.

There are many other optional features of the platform, including integration with major regional sports organisations. So if your school is registering players or entering teams online into local competitions for netball or rugby, you’re probably already using the Sporty platform. Take it to the next level by having Schoolground.co.nz upgrade your school website to a fully integrated solution.

Special integration options with Edge Learning Solutions are also currently in development – so watch this space.