Introducing Firefly on Teams - A new generation of tools for Microsoft schools
With many schools using Microsoft Teams with their students, we are delighted to announce the release of Firefly on Teams, our first joint venture since joining forces with the Firefly Learning team...
Epraise joins Firefly Learning
We are delighted to announce the exciting news that Firefly and Epraise are now part of the same family. By working together, we believe that our shared desire to improve the education experience for students, teachers and parents can be accelerated...
Return to school: How epraise can help part 2
Over the last year schools around the world have had to adapt quickly to the ever-changing situation presented by the spread of coronavirus. They have had to rapidly adopt systems to help support their school communities under unprecedented circumstances...
Return to school: How epraise can help part 1
After many months of working and learning from home, schools in the UK will be returning for all students from the 8th March. There will be all kinds of emotions felt around this time, excitement to catchup with friends again, anxiety about missed...
Remote parents' evenings
Parent's evenings are an important part of the school calendar; one of the few chances a parent and a teacher have to sit down and discuss how things are going. But what do you do during the global Covid-19 pandemic, when parents aren't allowed into a school? We have a few ideas...
Rewards systems: Running a shop
Students work exceptionally hard, they hand in their homework on time, they’re well-mannered, timely to class, and in turn (in most cases) receive recognition whether that’s through acknowledgement by a statement of praise or through a system of rewarding like points or stars added to a chart...
Lockdown: Around the world
Coronavirus has had an unprecedented effect on our educational system here in the UK, from people calling out for online resources to systems relying on parents to tutor their children. At epraise we don’t just work with schools in the UK, which got us wondering what schools in other parts of the world are doing...
Lockdown: An edtech perspective
It's now two months since the UK's Covid-19 'lockdown' began and although the end is nowhere in sight and we're not expecting schools to fully open any time soon, we thought it would be interesting to look back at how these circumstances have affected epraise and what actions we've taken to respond...
The impact of praise and recognition
With the need for more positive reinforcement while children adapt to a new remote learning routine, we explored the key educational studies to understand the impact that recognising achievements has on young learners, including the ‘do’s and dont’s’ of praise for schools to be aware of...
The rise of parental engagement
When I first started teaching, parental engagement consisted of yearly reports, yearly parents’ evenings and a phone call home to the same few parents every other week. Parents had no access to live student data and had no way to communicate directly with teachers other than picking up the phone...