Cool Tools: Swing Education
10/28/2024 – EdTech Digest
There is a significant shortage of full-time teachers around the country these days. So, to keep classrooms staffed, schools use substitute teachers to fill in for teachers […]
‘She Brings Light’: Tinley HS Teacher Wins ‘Heroes Of The Classroom’
10/28/2024 – The Patch
A Bremen District 228 teacher has locked in the grand prize in a contest recognizing teachers for their hard work, resilience and dedication […]
Lauren Brazel of Tinley Park High School is Named the Grand Prize Winner of the Heroes of the Classroom Program Presented by Kleenex®
10/28/2024 – eSchool News
As the Grand Prize winner, Ms. Brazel receives a check for $5,000. Her school also receives a $5,000 check and a one-year supply of […]
Lauren Brazel of Tinley Park High School is Named the Grand Prize Winner of the Heroes of the Classroom Program Presented by Kleenex®
10/28/2024 – Education Report
Lauren Brazel of Tinley Park High School near Chicago is the 2024 Grand Prize winner of the national teacher recognition program,
Report: For Traditional Online College Managers, The Party Is Over
By Derek Newton
10/17/2024 – Forbes
Online Program Management companies (OPM) used to help colleges and universities start, and later manage, their online courses and degree programs, handling nearly […]
Has the OPM Market Already Imploded?
By Liam Knox
10/10/2024 – Inside Higher Ed
Colleges’ interest in partnering with outside companies to run their online programs has plummeted, according to
Ten Teachers Named as First Prize Winners of the Heroes of the Classroom Program Presented by Kleenex®
10/01/2024 – EWA
Teachers from states across the country including California, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Utah are First Prize winners in the national […]
Utah County math teacher nominated as a finalist in national contest
By Cassidy Wixom
10/06/2024 – KSL.com
Beverly Cannon teaches at Utah County Academy of Sciences and is a finalist in Kleenex’s Heroes of the Classroom competition.
Cannon was […]
Ten Teachers Named as First Prize Winners of the Heroes of the Classroom Program Presented by Kleenex®
10/2024 – Ace-Ed
Teachers from states across the country including California, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Utah are First Prize winners in the national teacher recognition […]
GTCHS teacher “Hero of the Classroom” national top 10 finalist
10/07/2024 – Upstate Biz SC
Greenville Technical Charter High School is excited to share that our very own Valerie Dix, a dedicated educator and last year’s South Carolina […]
Can You Hear Me Now: Jennifer Harrison Of Pando Public Relations On Five Strategies Leaders Use to Diminish Distractions & Win in the Attention Economy
07/07/2024 – Authority Magazine
My career has been dedicated to public relations for EdTech and AI companies in education and corporate training partly because the work is so […]
Ep 60 SmartTechCheck Moment — Interview with Turnitin’s Annie Chechitelli
05/16/2024 – SmartTechCheck Moment
My exclusive podcast interview with Turnitin’s Annie Chechitelli and her company’s mission to help identify misuse of generative AI by students by the high […]
Turnitin: More than Half of Students Continue to Use AI to Write Papers
By Kate Lucariello
05/08/2024 – Campus Technology
Since its launch in April 2023, Turnitin’s AI writing detection tool has reviewed over 200 million papers, with data showing that […]
Watch: Students using AI service to write school papers
04/25/2024 – NBC Bay Area
If you are the parent of a junior high or high school student, you may be familiar with Turnitin, a service that scans […]
New Data Reveal How Many Students Are Using AI to Cheat
By Arianna Prothero
04/25/2024 – EdWeek
These numbers have not changed much from when Turnitin released data in August of 2023 about the first three months of the use […]
How much are students using AI in their writing?
By Anna Merod
04/15/2024 – K-12 Dive
As schools spent the last year amping up their reliance on AI detection tools like Turnitin, the company shared data […]
Why Students Should Learn How to Use ChatGPT
03/25/2024 – Cheddar
Annie Chechitelli, chief product officer at Turnitin, breaks down how students and teachers alike can learn from artificial intelligence – while still maintaining academic integrity. […]
Software finds students wrote 22+ million papers with AI last year
By Matty Merritt
04/09/2024 – Morning Brew
The hardest worker in academia today is ChatGPT. Over the last year, high school and college students turned […]
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
By Amanda Hoover
04/09/2024 – WIRED
Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism […]
Fast Company – Most Innovative Companies 2024 – No. 5 Swing Education
03/19/2024 – Fast Company
Swing Education has been awarded in the top 10 Most Innovative Companies 2024 from Fast Company…. See the entire list here.
How this edtech company makes it easier—and more appealing—to become a substitute teacher
By Pavithra Mohan
03/19/2024 – Fast Company
Since the teacher shortage in the U.S. was intensified by the pandemic, Swing Education, a 9-year-old marketplace and app that connects schools […]
TAKE ON NEW CHALLENGES TO ACCELERATE YOUR LEADERSHIP GROWTH: INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS CAREN, CEO OF TURNITIN
03/2024 – Adam Mendler Blog
Adam: What do you believe are the defining qualities of an effective leader?
Chris: Effective leaders have clarity of goals, the strategy […]
What We’ve Learned After the Launch of ChatGPT
By: Patti West-Smith
02/05/2024 – The Learning Counsel
After working in education for more than 20 years as a teacher and administrator in both secondary and higher education, […]
5 Benefits to Expect from Clinical Rotation Management Software
By Aaron White
02/04/2024 – Electronic Health Reporter
Smart technology that manages workplace learning assignments like clinical rotations gives institutions many advantages; for example, InPlace Software handles every step […]
Excellence in Equity Awards – Meet the 2023 Industry Winners
Jan/Feb 2024 – Equity & Access Pre-K12
We want to congratulate our clients ReadSpeaker (page 23) and Swing (page 56) on winning the 2023 Excellence in Equity Awards…. […]
Substitute teachers can serve as mentors; we need more of them
By Thelonious Brooks
12/20/2023 – EdSource
The best substitutes are passionate mentors who play a role in student success. As a substitute teacher with 14 years of experience in […]
How Swing Education Is Rethinking Substitute Teacher Recruitment
Amanda Del Signore
12/12/2023 – The Stevie Awards Blog
Stevie-winner Swing Education is an online staffing marketplace that connects substitute teachers with schools.
Founded in 2015 […]
Being a sub made me a better teacher
By Torrey Barlow
11/20/2023 – Chalkbeat First Person
My own path into teaching took a detour when COVID forced me to complete my student teaching online. […]
MedCerts Combines Conversational AI, Generative AI and Natural Language Processing for a Revolutionary New AI Addition to Online Health Care Training
By Mike Allen
11/09/2023 – Training Industry
MedCerts has launched its first Conversational AI /Generative AI healthcare training programs available on the market today. A subsidiary […]
Why the Seven Stages of Assessment Cannot be Taken Lightly
By Chris Beauchamp
10/10/2023 – Learning Guild
Failing an exam may prevent someone from advancing in their career as a physician, chiropractor, engineer, pharmacist, financial planner, or network administrator. […]
Episode 242: The Swing Education Approach to Subbing
10/20/2023 – My Edtech Life
I am excited to welcome Mike Teng, the visionary behind Swing Education, as our special guest tonight. I’m […]
Addressing Teacher Shortages: The Role of Substitute Teachers and Swing Education
By Rachelle Dene Poth
10/03/2023 – Rachelle Dene Poth Blog
Earlier this year, I learned about Swing Education, which is a centralized platform that connects substitute teachers with schools […]
Swing Education: Connecting Substitute Teachers With Schools In Need
By Amit Chowdhry
09/28/2023 – Pulse 2.0
Formation Of Swing Education
How did the idea for Swing come together? Teng shared:
“What I began to really understand about teachers is that […]
Linguists Say These Tips Help New Languages Stick
By Derek Newton
08/23/2023 – Edtech Review
To language teachers, linguists’ careers and day-to-day work lives may be interesting. But their thoughts on teaching […]
AI Can Teach Students a Powerful Lesson About the Truth
By Rachna Nath
09/07/2023 – Education Week
After the release of ChatGPT last November, the education world was taken by a wave of uneasiness and doubt. I realized […]
Edtech Is No Longer A Funding Fave
By Joanna Glasner
08/09/2023 – Crunch Base
As U.S. school districts grapple with teacher shortages, another startup, Swing Education is scaling up a platform to […]
It’s Time To Question How We’re Addressing the Teacher Shortage — New Edtech Can Help
By Mike Teng
08/04/2023- Edtech Digest
The current teacher shortage is a great example of what can happen when entrenched models of how schools should operate are unable to […]
Turnitin AI Detection Rates: 3.3% of 65M Papers Reviewed Were Flagged as Majority AI Writing
By Kristal Kuykendall
07/25/2023 – Campus Technology
Of the more than 65 million student papers reviewed for AI writing by Turnitin’s detection tool since April, more than […]
Turnitin says one in 10 university essays are partly AI-written
By Tom Williams
07/25/2023 – Times Higher Education
One in 10 essays checked by Turnitin’s new detection software has been found to contain substantial amounts of writing likely to have been generated […]
Swing Education looks to change the way schools handle teacher shortages
By Andrew Mendez
07/21/2023 – Bay Area Inno
Editor’s note: As part of the Bay Area Inno Awards, the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal […]
Data scientist lends insight to education in the era of AI writing
By Eric Wang
07/18/2023 – SmartBrief
As far as I can tell, none of us were around for the invention of fire. But all of us today are living […]
Effective SEL instruction isn’t possible without this key element
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07/13/2023 – eCampus News
SEL is the process by which students learn the skills they need to understand and manage their emotions, set and achieve […]


































