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EdTech, Safety, and Filtering Q and A with Debbie Karcher

Former CIO of Miami Dade County Schools (and ed-tech rockstar) Debbie Karcher has joined Lightspeed! We kicked things off with a little Q&A with Debbie to talk ed-tech, student safety,

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World Class Technical Support from Code Ranch

If you follow Lightspeed on Facebook or Twitter, you’ve seen our newest office, Code Ranch, be built from an empty field into a state-of-the-art multi-building campus outside Austin, TX.

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A Better Kind of Classroom Management Software

“The teachers have fallen in love with Relay Classroom! We cannot live without it!”

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The Revolutionary New Way for Schools to Optimize Tech Use: Introducing Lightspeed Analytics

Education is increasingly going digital. School leaders used to dream of putting a device in each student’s hands; now, 74% of K-12 schools have more than one device per student.

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New Year, New Filter: How to Get Smarter Filtering in 2019

We’ve been talking to a lot of schools about filtering, and here’s what they say they want to do in 2019:

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Do Tumblr’s New Policies Make It Appropriate for K-12 Schools?

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How Lightspeed Revolutionizes SSL Decryption in Schools

“I made one small error in a PAC file and my whole school lost internet access.

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How Lightspeed Keeps Students Safer

Web filtering in today’s schools is about more than blocking and allowing websites; it’s also about keeping students safe — from inappropriate content as well as from things like…

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Top 5 Ways to Boost Cybersecurity in Your School Today

This is a scary time in cybersecurity for K-12 schools.