Stephanie Castilla, technology integration specialist at the Highlander Institute, and RI Tech Ten award winner, answered five questions about technology and education in today’s Providence Business News.       Stephanie Castilla, technology-integration specialist at the Providence- based Highlander Institute and co-founder of Metrx LLC, talks about her Tech10 overall achievement award, the best tech-tools…

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The Highlander Institute recently received a $50,000 gift to develop tools that help teachers efficiently implement Response to Intervention (RTI) processes and services in their classrooms and schools.  These tools will directly impact teachers and increase the power of their instruction; however, the ultimate goal behind the tools is to improve the academic trajectories of struggling…

Tech startups have to start up somewhere. Ambitious entrepreneurs, well aware of a smartphone apps’ ease of delivery, set sights high—regional, national and global—right out of the gate. Several such startups are being developed right here in Rhode Island. One locally grown touch-screen application has already started to increase the rate at which teachers can…

Creative Curriculum Sparks Results at Highlander Oct 3, 2011 By Alli-Michelle Conti, Contributing Writer Charter schools are a chance to involve entire communities. Highlander Charter School takes that notion and runs with it. Other area public schools are, in fact, looking to them as a model. At the forefront of their innovation is touch technology,…