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Empowering Students & Teachers to Thrive | Business Ninjas: WriteForMe and Shmoop

Feb 28, 202337 minSeason 1Ep. 294
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Join our resident Business Andrew together with Andy Rahden, CEO of Shmoop, an education technology company that builds engaging learning experiences to ease the stress of the learning environment. Using learning sciences and user centered design to create award winning personal learning tools for all students, educators and schools. Focused on the whole student, shmoop’s academic rigor includes humor and storytelling to drive engagement and improve student outcomes beyond academics. Being a thought leader in education, institutions recognize Shmoop as providing cutting-edge education solutions.
 
Shmoop is a cloud-based classroom management software that helps teachers communicate with students via discussion boards, provide them with study guides and academic resources, create assignments, and record progress in a gradebook. The application allows teachers to create virtual classrooms, customize courses, and invite students using email addresses. It includes a student engagement solution, Heartbeat, which enables tutors to measure candidate’s cognitive and metacognitive skills such as vocabulary, reading and writing, debating, social awareness, working memory, and sound and visual processing. Using Shmoop’s test readiness module, mentors can identify learning gaps, strengths, and areas of development on an individual basis. Shmoop allows mentors to set up exam schedules along with due dates, providing students’ with a timeline for completing tests. Administrators can also view the overall school and district performance and receive classroom reports on student’s mastery levels. Learn more about them and visit their website https://www.shmoop.com

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