Kajeet ExtraCurricular

Using School Bus WiFi to Provide Internet Access for Distance Learning

April 16, 2020

As many districts transition to distance learning for the remainder of the 2019–2020 school year, digital equity for students has become more imperative than ever. For students without Internet at hom...

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School Bus Tech 101

November 20, 2019

Even a 39-minute bus ride – the average bus ride time according to a recent Kajeet survey – requires more than a physical bus, the driver, and students. Today’s school bus fleets have expanded to incl...

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What Can Title I Funding Be Used For

October 23, 2019

You did it. With hard work, ingenuity, and support from stakeholders in your school and community, you secured Title I funds that could possibly transform the way your K-12 students learn and thrive. ...

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National School Bus Safety Week

October 22, 2019

This blog was originally written on October 16, 2017. Did you know the third full week of October is National School Bus Safety Week? The National Association for Public Transportation (NAPT) brings t...

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5 Reasons Why Chromebooks in the Classroom Benefits Students

October 18, 2019

As of 2019, 85 percent of schools and school districts across the United States have a Chromebook program in place. Perhaps you see this happening in your own school, but let’s dive into how Chromeboo...

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How to Make Sense of Title I Funds

September 30, 2019

As of 2019, there are 26 federal grant-making agencies and over 900 federal technology funding programs that can help under-funded schools in low-income districts purchase new technologies for their s...

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National School Bus Safety Month

September 9, 2019

Did you know that September is officially designated National School Bus Safety Month from a unanimous U.S. Senate vote? School Transportation News (STN) reports, “[The bill] encourages broadcast and ...

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Keep Your School Buses Running with Remote Telematics

June 5, 2019

On average, school bus technicians are responsible for maintaining 21 school buses, including the maintenance, repairs, and inspection of each part of the school bus, according to the School Bus Fleet...

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4 Steps to a Safer School Bus Ride

May 7, 2019

More than 25 million students take the school bus every day, according to the American School Bus Council. It is the job of schools and transportation departments to ensure all of those students arriv...

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3G, 4G, 5G: What the Ever-Evolving Wireless Networks Mean for K-12 Education

April 16, 2019

Ninety-two percent of school districts currently meet the FCC’s E-Rate Modernization Order of providing 100 Mbps (megabits per second) per 1,000 students for all of their schools, according to the Con...

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The Internet of Things in K-12

December 21, 2018

From smart toys and clothing to smart homes and cities, the Internet of Things (IoT) is quickly becoming integrated into all aspects of our lives, and its influence and reach are only going to keep ex...

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Funding Connectivity Through Community Partnerships

December 6, 2018

The number one challenge facing K-12 IT leadership for planning and implementing technology enabled environments is budget constraints and a lack of resources, reports the Consortium of School Network...

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Announcing the Kajeet Connect Suite: Reliable Internet Access Moves on Campus

November 26, 2018

Kajeet has historically focused on closing the Homework Gap outside the classroom, but digital equity begins in school with reliable, safe Internet access. Kajeet is excited to announce a new suite of...

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[Infographic] Top Tech for School Buses

August 27, 2018

The school bus is changing, welcoming new technologies that bring buses into the 21st century. But which technologies are education transportation professionals focusing on first? With so much technol...

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Redesigned Cloud Portal to Safeguard Student Internet Access

August 6, 2018

Since 2016, there have been over 353 reported cyber incidents in K-12. This number from K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center has increased by 20 since the last time we referenced the Cyber Incident Map....

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The Changing Role of the Bus Driver

July 30, 2018

School buses transport an estimated 26 million students each day, according to the American School Bus Council. But what that statistic really means is there are thousands of bus drivers responsible f...

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How Cameras Make School Buses Safer Than Ever

June 26, 2018

Something happens on your school bus – a fight between students, or maybe a traffic accident involving a passing automobile. Parents, administrators, and community officials investigate the situation....

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Improving Cybersecurity in K-12

May 21, 2018

In three years, there have been 333 cyber incidents in K-12, according to the “K-12 Cyber Incident Map,” maintained by EdTech Strategies. Security remains a top concern amongst educators who are tryin...

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MakerBus Takes STEM On the Road

May 8, 2018

You may have heard of the growing popularity of makerspaces in schools, but have you ever thought about a makerbus? Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Georgia decided to take makerspace on the road to...

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The Connected Bus: 8 Technologies for the Next Generation School Bus

April 26, 2018

When you picture a school bus the first thing that probably comes to mind most likely is a big yellow bus driving around with noisy students in the back. Remember the kids who sat in the back of the b...

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[UPDATED] Top Educational Websites Your Students Actually Visit

April 17, 2018

There you have it, the top 10 educational websites students visit from 2018 (Jan. 1 through April 4, 2018). Here's how Kajeet pulls these stats together every year. Students who access wireless Intern...

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Kajeet and Google Power Rolling Study Halls

April 2, 2018

Kajeet is proud to announce its work with Google to provide filtered WiFi access on school buses for Google’s Rolling Study Halls program. This Google initiative is designed to transform the school bu...

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With E-learning, School Doesn’t Stop for Bad Weather

March 15, 2018

Here’s how it goes: You get up in the morning and find the world outside your windows white with snow or shaking in hurricane-force winds. You turn on the television, check your phone for updates. You...

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New GPS Feature: Locate Your Kajeet SmartBus

February 20, 2018

Kajeet is proud to announce the newest feature to our SmartBus™ solution, Global Positioning System, or GPS for short. Transportation directors and their teams now have the capability to locate their ...

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How Does School Bus Wi-Fi Work?

January 8, 2018

Riding the school bus is the start, or completion, of a school day. And now, with today’s digital tools, it is easy to extend the classroom to the bus with filtered Internet. But that might sound daun...

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Texas Technology Lending Grant

January 2, 2018

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) established the Technology Lending Grant, for local education agencies (LEAs), to implement technology lending programs, including loaning equipment necessary to acces...

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Wisconsin Districts Succeeding with Kajeet

November 20, 2017

Over 800 school districts across the nation partner with Kajeet to help close the Homework Gap. One state in particular is working (and funding) student access outside the classroom. The Wisconsin Dep...

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[Webinar] Why Internet Outside the Classroom Should be Part of Your 1:1 Strategy

October 12, 2017

My school is thinking of going 1:1, but where do we start? How do we start? For some educators, rolling out a 1:1 program can seem daunting even after you have funds in place. And many districts imple...

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School Bus Wi-Fi, a Home Run for Student Athletes

September 28, 2017

Eight million (or 7.9 million to be more exact). That is the number of U.S. high school students who participate in sports at their school, a number that has increased in the past 27 years, according ...

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How to Make a Technology Bus

September 15, 2017

Newington Public Schools (NPS) in Connecticut provides technology to all of their students, but the surrounding areas are not as fortunate. Students in neighboring school districts lack access to the ...

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How Much Data Does a Student Need?

August 15, 2017

To close the Homework Gap, just how much data does a student need? This is not a simple question, but it is an important one that is addressed in the CoSN Digital Equity Toolkit. The Data Usage Answer...

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An Updated Look at 2017 Ed Tech Trends

July 5, 2017

It feels like the school year just ended. But in a short while, students will be returning to classrooms across the country to begin another. It’s not just summer that passes quickly, though; so do de...

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Rolling Into Bus Conferences: STN and NSTA

June 29, 2017

It’s summertime. A time when most people think of basking in the sun, beach trips, and buses. Wait, what? If you’re in the transportation department of school districts across the nation, then you kno...

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Bus Wi-Fi: Saving Time for Your Students

June 22, 2017

The average K-12 student spends 40 minutes per day riding the school bus. With 180 school days in an academic year, that means on average a student spends 120 hours per year on the bus. To put that in...

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Extend the Classroom with Wi-Fi on Your Buses

May 23, 2017

With 26,000,000 student bus riders across the nation, how can we extend the classroom to help them succeed? Kajeet, in conjunction with School Transportation News, conducted an online survey of over 3...

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Improve Bus Behavior with Wi-Fi

May 8, 2017

School buses have always had issues with misbehaving students. Picture it. You have 50 or 60 students from various grade levels in a confined area, before or after school, with little adult supervisio...

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Why Smartphone Access Isn’t Enough for Students

May 1, 2017

Ninety-four percent of families report having some kind of Internet connection, according to a survey by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. But what does the “some kind” of connection act...

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Save Money: Suspend Your School-Loaned WiFi Hotspots During Summer

April 20, 2017

In the sprint to the end of the school year, educators and students are pushing to finish strong—final tests, final grades, and a final push for success. Behind the scenes school staff members are str...

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Do Cell Phones Belong in Elementary Schools?

January 9, 2017

It’s hard to believe that, not long ago, cell phones were a rare sight. Now, they’re everywhere—including in our elementary schools. And their appearance in the small hands of the nation’s youngest st...

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Off-Campus Learning Best Practices: Develop a Connectivity Plan

October 25, 2016

Now that you have your team in place, it’s time to start planning. Creating a plan shouldn’t seem like a daunting process. In fact, having a plan in place with goals, objectives, action items, timelin...

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How Smart Buses Help Make Smart Students

October 4, 2016

Imagine, it’s late afternoon. You’re a school bus driver trying to navigate your vehicle along rural roads in a downpour. Behind you, students are yelling and climbing. There’s even a couple of kids w...

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Off-Campus Learning Best Practices: Engage Parents

September 28, 2016

Securing parental approval and support for the technology in the home is crucial, and districts are finding a few key steps, such as strong communication and asking for input, can help their tech init...

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What Makes Kajeet “More than Just Internet”

September 26, 2016

More than just Internet. Four simple words that, for us here at Kajeet, sum up our mission and our goals. These words are also a brand promise from us to you: that with our safe, mobile broadband acce...

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5 Powerful Ways for Schools to Market their Tech Programs

September 14, 2016

You can have the most exciting tech initiative out there. But if no one knows about it, then it may as well not even exist. The truth is: If you want parents, teachers, and decision makers to get behi...

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Off-Campus Learning Best Practices: Identify the Team

September 9, 2016

Relationships and communication with cross-functional teams in your school district are critical to the success of any off-campus learning program. Establishing an interdisciplinary team to plan and m...

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Kidsave: Connecting Children to Families, Changing Lives and Creating Miracles

July 29, 2016

KIDSAVE STORY Kidsave's vision is a world where every child is nurtured from birth, where the loss of human potential due to neglect is absent, and where people everywhere care enough that all childre...

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South Carolina District Begins Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences

May 2, 2016

Students practice student-led conferences in the classroom in South Caronlina's Richland School District Two. The First Push “Ms. Williams, my mom said she is coming tonight to meet with you. Am I in ...

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Student Interpreters Make the Difference for Classmates

April 19, 2016

Reprinted with permission from You & Two. By the middle of the first week of October, student interpreter Denis has given several tours to new students in Spanish, translated a parent letter and i...

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New Dashboards Provide Visibility into Broadband Usage at Home

April 11, 2016

As districts work to close the Homework Gap, each district has its own strategy based on free-and-reduced-cost lunch numbers, geographic size and culture. For districts that are providing Wi-Fi on sch...

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Checking Out Wi-Fi for Students is Easy

November 9, 2015

As more school districts launch 1:1 initiatives and invest in digital curricula, the issue of Internet access at home for students becomes more important than ever. Whether your teachers are assigning...

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Providing Free Wireless Hotspots Helps this District Close the Equity Gap

September 29, 2015

Originally posted in eschoolnews. By Robert Dillon, Affton School District The achievement gap. The literacy gap. The nutrition gap. The preschool gap. It seems like our education system talks and tal...

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School Bus Ride-Along with Miami-Dade Superintendent

August 24, 2015

By Charles Askew, Kajeet Senior Director, Eastern Region As a former district and school administrator, I recognize the beginning of school as always being stressful--from getting the building(s) read...

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Kajeet at ISTE 2015

July 8, 2015

The enthusiasm and excitement from the ISTE conference was contagious, and our team came back from Philadelphia super charged! We met more than 300 of our customers and biggest fans. Bus to ISTE The f...

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Use It - Don't Lose It!

June 3, 2015

Year-End Funds Can Be Used to Pilot Kajeet SmartSpot® Program With most school district’s fiscal year-end coming up on June 30th, there is still a window of opportunity left to make purchases for your...

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YouTube for You and Your Students

April 10, 2015

Frustrated by the double-edged sword that is YouTube? As an educator, it can be a great resource for your students, filled with educational videos, how-to demonstrations and learning tutorials. But it...

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Top 10 Educational Websites

January 27, 2015

Which Educational Websites Are Your Students Visiting the Most? With more and more websites promoting educational content and helping teachers augment lesson plans and encourage online learning, which...

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How Does Access to Technology Increase Student Engagement?

January 21, 2015

Results of a Two-Year Study with Chicago Public Schools The results from a two-year study assessing the impact of mobile devices on teaching and learning are here! The Making Learning Mobile 2.0 study...

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Connecting Kids in South Carolina

October 1, 2014

We are now connecting students to the Internet at home in 37 school district in 20 states! More than anything, we love to hear about the children being helped with our solution. South Carolina’s Richl...

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Take the Survey on Connectivity; Win 10 Kajeet SmartSpot Devices

September 18, 2014

THIS SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED RESPONSES. The Kajeet SmartSpot -- a portable MiFi device by Novatel Wireless -- enables off-campus connectivity by providing managed broadban...

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Use Title I Funds for Internet at Home

July 23, 2014

As more schools implement digital and web-based learning and assessment programs, requiring students to work on assignments outside of the classroom, the poorest students are struggling to keep up wit...

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Making Learning Mobile in Chicago

May 13, 2014

Together with Project Tomorrow®, a national education nonprofit, Kajeet conducted a year-long study on the impact of mobile devices on teaching and learning. The Making Learning Mobile study took an i...

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Safe Mobile Broadband: A Necessary Equalizer for Low-Income Students

May 13, 2014

In the wake of technology’s ever-expanding potential, the safe mobile broadband of Kajeet SmartSpot™ is reconciling a digital schism in education and bridging the gap between privileged and low-income...

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