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Check out this Hilight Bulletin Board put up by one of our incredible Louisiana schools!!!! Our digital bulletin boards help to amplify every message sent so all staff across a district can celebrate, but having these on-the-ground visuals can be such a game-changer for making it as easy as possible for staff to remember to take a moment to share the great work happening every day. Grateful for ingenius educators like Brittany at ICS!!! 💜✨🙏 #teachers #educators #teacherappreciation #schoolleadership #recognition #smallwins

Check out this great conversation hosted by Catalyst @ Penn GSE on Gamification in education and Game-Based Learning! Featuring one of our co-founders, Claire Smith, founder of Games & Learning, Michelle Miller, and founder of KidVestors®, Courtney Pettway, this episode dives into how incorporating game mechanics into tech tools and systems can boost engagement, trust, and community in a classroom, school, and even district! Thank you, John Gamba, for including Hilight in this conversation! ✨ https://lnkd.in/g48F3bMh

Beyond excited to be heading to NYC as one of the finalists in the 2024 #MilikenPennGSE competition hosted by Catalyst @ Penn GSE!!! It's been a whirlwind these past few months as a part of the Catalyst accelerator, and we've learned so much alongside all of the incredible founders. Looking forward to the final month ahead and getting up on stage with our fellow finalists: Games & Learning, Honest Game, Saturday Art Class, Say It Labs, Start Lighthouse, and trubel&co. ✨ Thank you to John Gamba, Rita Ferrandino, and the team at Catalyst and PennGSE for being so accessible and supportive!

Hilight's cofounders, Claire Smith and Krissy Taft, were on Rod Berger PsyD's podcast, “On Balance” (https://bit.ly/3SvWhvb)!! We are super grateful to Dr. Berger for having us and for asking us such thoughtful questions. We got to talk to Dr. Berger about “The Power of Recognition” (the name of the episode!), and why we so strongly believe in Hilight’s impact and mission to help with #educatorburnout and #teachermorale. We also got to share our experiences as #womencofounders and women in STEM going from the classroom (Claire) and software engineering in the healthcare industry (Krissy) into starting and growing an #edtech company. Speaking with Dr. Berger was such a privilege. Thank you for having us, and thank you to Strategos Group for connecting us! Definitely check out his podcast, “On Balance” (https://bit.ly/3SvWhvb)! ✨

Joy Jam starts today!! 🎈Grateful for all of the work Eastern Hancock Schools is doing to bring joy to the people who bring joy to SO many students all year long. Happy Hilight can play even a small part in supporting this impactful conference! 💜 #JoyJam #TeacherDevelopment #schoolleadership

Krissy Taft finally got to meet up with Jason Young, one of our amazingly supportive investors from Long Term Impact, at the Catalyst @ Penn GSE Summit Last week. After only meeting on Zoom for the last 6 months, the first thing Jason said to Krissy was "I had no idea you were so tall!". She gets that a lot...

"There’s another part to keeping good teachers in the classroom once they get there: making them feel valued and professionally fulfilled." Pay is huge, but purpose is huge, too. Important data shared here by PeopleBench on what's behind our current teacher retention crisis. #teachers #retention #insight #improvement #impact #buildingbettereducationworkforces

Teachers and School Leaders!! You HAVE to check out Jay Jam - a conference designed to share specific tools and strategies for spreading joy throughout your school school district all year long!! And ✨ great news ✨ it's FREE to register with the code: BRINGTHEJOY Read more about all of the amazing work that George Philhower and Eastern Hancock High School are doing to put on this incredible event here: https://lnkd.in/gX6x_ufH #joy #indiana #teacherappreciation

Last week, Team Hilight was invited to participate in Louisiana PBIS Region 1's first PD of the summer: Relationship-Based Classrooms 💜 Over SEVENTY teachers made the trip out to Chalmette on their FIRST WEEK OF SUMMER to learn new tools and strategies for strengthening relationships with students for a powerful 2-hour session led by Donna Porter, M.S., CCC-SP and DJ Batiste. Just like Donna and DJ said, "Teaching is hardest job. They are willing to try and try and try and try." Loved spending the day discussing the importance of "connection before content" with specific strategies like the 'Noticing Board' pictured below 👀 #teachers #Louisiana #relationshipsbasedclassrooms

Announcing an exciting new case study on the impact of Hilight's partnership with Coffee County School System this year. We're so excited about this case study because it proves that when you make intentional efforts to make sure your teachers and staff feel VALUED, it has ENORMOUS impacts on literally every other initiative you're leading in your district. This year, Coffee County has seen: 🧑🏫 The fewest number of staff members leave their district in over a decade 📊 14% decrease in total discipline 🚌 13% decrease in bus discipline 👩🎓 11% decrease in student absenteeism Also important, Coffee County High School won the State Championships in football 🏆🏈😏 AMAZING things can happen when we make sure our teachers KNOW that the hard, heart work they are doing every day is making a huge difference. Our team is totally inspired by everything we've learned from partnering with Superintendent Dr. Morris Leis, Mr. Lee Mobley, and the entire staff team at Coffee. So grateful our co-founders Claire Smith and Krissy Taft met Dr. Leis at the Institute for Education Innovation's speed-dating event at ASU+GSV Summit and HONORED to be supporting the incredible work happening in Coffee County again next year 🙏💜✨ Check out the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/gzQXNnGw A huge thank you Carrie Conover and @Taylor Martin at educators 2 educators for all the expertise, research, and interviewing you did to put this case study together. #edtech #superintendent #education #teachershortage #studentabsenteeism