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Get your district registered today - Speak Up 2017 began on Monday! Let your voices be heard! From the site - Speak Up 2017 Opens Monday ! Speak Up is the research tool districts use to learn what students, educators, parents and the community have to say about education issues. This will be the 15th year Speak Up has supported education leaders in including the voices of their stakeholders in annual and long-term planning. Educators from more than 30,000 schools have used Speak Up data to create and implement their vision for the next generation of learning. You can too! Get registered ! Get started ! View & view the 2017 surveys today! Speak Up will be open for stakeholder participation from October 16, 2017 through January 19, 2018 . Data will be delivered to registered schools and districts in February 2018. If you have any questions, please let us know!

One of the best new(er) features of Google Classroom is the ability to share a student's work/assignments with guardians/parents.  A couple things to understand about guardian accounts: Guardian accounts are tied to the student accounts - so if one teacher adds the guardian, it is automatically available to other teachers that turn on this feature in their class Guardians cannot actually see inside the class - this would violate FERPA.  They get a summary email with information only about their own student. In order to turn this feature on within your Class, you need to click on the Students tab at the top.  You will then see the option on the left side of the screen - there is a toggle button to slide in order to enable this feature: When you toggle it, you will see the following screen which gives you the option to turn it on in just this class or in all your classes: One you add the guardian access to the class, your students will be listed with the option ...