295: Texthelp with Joni Degner
Founded in 1996, the Texthelp Group is a global technology company helping people all over the world to understand and to be understood. It has led the way in creating innovative technology for the education and workplace sectors for the last three decades.
Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability or language are no longer barriers. It is focused on helping all people learn, understand, and communicate through the use of digital education and accessibility tools.
With over 50 million users worldwide, the Texthelp suite of products includes Read&Write, Equatio®, WriQ®, OrbitNote®, ReachDeck® and FluencyTutor® which work alongside existing platforms such as Microsoft Office and G-suite, enabling them to be integrated quickly into any classroom or workplace with ease.
In 2021, Texthelp acquired the Lingit Group, Wizkids and Don Johnston Inc. By combining capabilities and knowledge across the group, Texthelp can now provide a whole suite of literacy and numeracy support to a greater number of end-users across more geographies.
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twitter.com/texthelp
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#UDLCHAT
www.novakeducation.com/udl-now
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294: Technology that supports autism and IDD care delivery at home, school, and work with CentralReach
CentralReach – Our mission is to provide the leading software and services platform to help children and adults diagnosed with autism and related IDDs – and those who serve them – unlock potential, achieve better outcomes, and live more independent lives.
Chris Sullens is the Chief Executive Officer of CentralReach and is leading the company in its mission to provide an end-to-end platform of software and services that enable Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) clinicians and educators to produce superior client outcomes for people with autism and related disorders. Chris Sullens brings decades of experience to the company and has a proven track record of building strong company cultures and taking customer-centric technology companies, like CentralReach, to the next level. Since he joined, CentralReach has won 20+ awards including Deloitte Technology Fast 500, NJBIZ Fast 50, Silver Stevie for Most Innovative Company of the Year, NJBIZ Best Places to Work, and Best in Biz Company of the Year – demonstrating the positive effects of the investments the company is making in its people, process, systems and client satisfaction initiatives.
Joanne Hill Powell,Ph.D., BCBA-D – LiftEd by CentralReach, Director of Special Education Strategy & Business Development
LiftEd equips classroom educators, school-based clinicians, administrators and parents with evidence-based data collection, instructional planning, progress reporting, and family engagement cloud software tools that help students with learning disabilities achieve success in the classroom, and in life.
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www.linkedin.com/company/centralreach/
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293: How to utilise your alumni with Future First
Future First are the UK education charity helping young people in state schools and colleges broaden their horizons by connecting them with former pupils. Their mission is to see every state school and college supported by a thriving and engaged alumni community, which improves students’ motivation, confidence and life chances.
Future First provides schools and colleges with the technology, tools and support needed to mobilise their past pupil networks. Alumni can support the whole school community and delivery of school improvement plans, including meeting Gatsby Benchmarks, Baker Clause and PHSE goals.
For too many young people, their start in life is limiting their future. They do not have access to relatable role models to help them understand what they can achieve, nor the networks, knowledge and tools to help them to get there.
Alumni can act as relatable role models, showing students a world beyond their current experience and expectations: a future that could be theirs.
Hear more from Programme Innovations Director – Leon Ward
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@futurefirstorg
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292: Do the arts perform at school? with Artis Foundation
The Artis Foundation’s mission is to transform lives through the arts by creating magical, high quality learning opportunities to help children flourish.
Rebecca Boyle Suh is a passionate advocate of integrating the arts throughout learning and has particular interests in primary education and raising girls. In 2004 Rebecca established Artis, a social business dedicated to transforming education through the performing arts reaching thousands of children every week.
Co-Founder & Executive Chair of Artis Foundation, a charity focussed on social mobility and wellbeing through the arts, Rebecca is also Director of a sculptor’s studio based in London and Seoul, was previously Co-Chair of Heartlands Community Trust in Haringey, and has set up girls leadership book clubs in her community.
Rebecca began her career at IMG Artists, an international arts management company, working in New York, London and Paris. As a Fulbright scholar at Yale University, Rebecca earned an MA in musicology, and prior to that a BMus from Goldsmiths College.
Do the arts perform at school? The economic case for delivering a curriculum-based performing arts programme in primary schools.
A report for Artis Foundation in association with Amit Kara & Sadia Sheik, June 2022, as mentioned by Rebecca can be viewed here.
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twitter.com/ArtisFdn
www.instagram.com/artis_foundation/
www.facebook.com/ArtisFdn
www.linkedin.com/company/artis-education
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291: Tiney – Your modern community of exceptional childminders with Brett Wigdortz
Brett’s lifelong mission is to help every child access an excellent education. He is the co-founder and CEO of Tiney.co, a digital platform and operating system enabling micro-entrepreneurs to launch and run childcare businesses from their homes and giving families access to quality, affordable and flexible early years education. He is also the non-executive chairman of the National Citizen Service Trust, the largest youth programme in the UK for those on the cusp of adulthood.
He wrote the original business plan for Teach First and led the organisation for fifteen years, helping to build it into one of the UK’s leading movements to tackle education inequality and the largest graduate recruiter in the country. He is co-founder and was Deputy CEO of Teach For All, which has brought the model to over 50 countries around the world. He is also a trustee & co-founder of Teach First Israel and the UK Fair Education Alliance and on the board of Bite Back 2030 aiming to reduce youth obesity. He received an OBE for services to education in 2012.
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www.facebook.com/tiney.co/
twitter.com/tineyco
www.instagram.com/tineyco/
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