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SideKick is a winner in District Administration's Readers' Choice Top 100 Products for 2010.

We're super excited to be on District Administration's Readers' Choice Top 100 Products for 2010. Other innovative products being used in the classroom included Apple's iPad, Microsoft's Partners in Learning, Thinkfinity, and Moodle, which makes this a truly great recognition and we're honored.
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SideKick Product Spotlight

Spotlight: Shift Lesson Plans
Isn’t it interesting how a seemingly small feature can make a huge difference? This seems to be the case with SideKick’s new "Shift" feature. At first glance you may not even notice it’s there, but mouse over a day of the week and “Shift Lessons” appears. Click on it and this feature allows teachers to shift all of their lessons forward a day or back a day. This is most convenient when school is cancelled due to inclement weather. When you come back to school you can shift all your lessons forward a day and you can continue as normal.

Spotlight: File Cabinet
SideKick's new File Cabinet allows you to store your lesson plans in a folder structure for easier re-use in the future. When you create a lesson, you have the option to save that lesson to a folder in your File Cabinet. From your File Cabinet, you can create new folders and organize lessons into the folders quickly and easily. You can also view the lesson details and assign a lesson to your calendar from this page. Teachers have the freedom to organize plans in a manner that works best for their classroom.

September 24th, 2010

Western Heights Public School teachers exceed 100,000 lesson plans using SideKick.

We would like to congratulate all of the Western Heights Public School teachers for exceeding 100,000 lesson plans using SideKick. Western Heights has been using SideKick since the beginning of the 2008 school year. It's been a pleasure working with their staff and we look forward to the next 100,000.

September 5th, 2010

Common Core Standards Available

SideKick now offers the Common Core State Standards.The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The standards were developed in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and experts to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce.

January 5th, 2010

What is SIF and why is it important for your district?

SIF is an acronym for Schools Interoperability Framework. According to the SIF website (http://www.sifinfo.org), the SIF Implementation Specification is based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) endorsed Extensible Markup Language (XML) which is not linked to a specific operating system or platform. Read more

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