Also, Georgia STEM High School Merges Music and Coding

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K-12 EDTECH NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 19, 2019

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Efforts to keep students safe extend beyond school walls — both in the real world and online. Today, it’s common for K-12 schools to coordinate physical and digital security efforts with local law enforcement, first responders and other community organizations. This white paper identifies strategies to improve collaboration between K-12 schools and their communities to keep students and staff safe and campuses secure.
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Michigan Teacher Helps Young Students Learn to Code
Working with students as young as first grade, Nancy VanEenenaam, a technology education teacher at Holland Township’s Eagle Crest Charter Academy, helps children through the beginning stages of coding. READ MORE

Georgia STEM High School Merges Music and Coding
Computer science students at Paul Duke STEM High School, located in Gwinnett County, recently showcased some new skills in a competition that teaches how to write code that makes music. READ MORE

Ohio Puts $20M Behind New Computer Science Scholarships
The scholarship money will be available to 35 colleges, with the goal of strengthening the state’s workforce in technology related fields such as computer science fields like coding and cyber security. READ MORE

State Pushes New York School to Revise its Security Policy
The chief privacy officer for the New York State Education Department presented the Lockport School Board with proposed revisions to its facial recognition surveillance system policy. READ MORE

N.C. Schools Win Grant for Long-Distance Internet Learning
The school district has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant for a distance learning strategy, enabling virtual reality field trips and Internet collaboration with other school districts over great distances. READ MORE

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