Hero K12 Press Kit
Official Press Releases
October 2017: Hero K12 and BV Acquire SchoolMint in Continued Expansion of EdTech Platform
June 2017: Hero K12 Announces Equity Partner, $150M of Available Capital for Expanded EdTech Platform
April 2017: Hero K12 Looking to Grow, Hires New Chief of Strategy
About Hero K12
With Hero K12, schools create a positive school climate and culture. Hero is a school-wide system to capture and collect data, and with the data, allow schools to replace traditional discipline policies with initiatives that emphasize and recognize positive behaviors. Classroom teachers, administration, parents and the students themselves all have significant impact on learner development. Meet school heroes and see their turnaround stories at Herok12.com
Logos
Hero K12 logo, black. Download the high-res version here →
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Social Networks
Approved Quotes
"Hero K12 users tell us that having an integrated solution will help them connect with all education stakeholders to foster a collaborative effort around better behavior and safer schools”
- Mark MacDonald, CEO of Hero K12.
“Hero creates an environment where students are excited to go to school everyday.”
- Dr. Nikolai Vitti, Former Superintendent Duval County Public Schools
“Hero has shifted the focus of our day. When you focus on the positives instead of the negatives, everyone seems happier.”
- Karessa Parish, Teacher and Campus PBIS Coordinator, Cedar Creek Middle School
"Hero has made a dramatic impact on our school and classrooms in just one semester. We now have a way to track, hold students accountable, and focus on positive behavior that is efficient and accurate. The parents love the quick messages they get and our teachers are happy. If you want to look at data, our tardy to class daily rate is down to about 20% of what it was initially!."
- Renee DiBiasio, Assistant Principal, Cleveland School of the Arts
"You’re seeing students make the right decisions more often and more frequently because they are incentivized [with Hero points] to do so.” - Dr. Nikolai Vitti, Former Superintendent Duval County Public Schools
Going school-wide [with Hero] makes it easy for me to streamline the PBIS process for my teachers and communicate that to the students." - Roger Snow, Assistant Principal, Ben Lomond High School
"Hero in cooperation with a Hero points student store has had an incredible impact on the "fence sitters" in our student population."
- Mr. Harris, Math Teacher, Indian Springs High School
"I can see the classes that are consistently recognizing their students with Hero points and there is a direct correlation with the positive classroom culture." - Thomas Schroede, Principal, Margate Elementary
"Students want boundaries, to know how to fit into their world. They want to know the limits. Hero allows us to establish and keep the boundaries firms, consistent, and fair."
- Dr. John F. Boldt, Principal, Southern Wayne High School
Images
Product Photos:
Hero K12 Administrator view of the Dashboard. Download the jpg here →
Hero K12 Classroom / Teacher view of the Dashboard. Download the jpg here →
Hero K12 for your iOS device. Download the jpg here →
Hero K12 application for Parents & Students. Download the jpg here →
The Hero application in action. Download the jpgs here → and here.
Hero school photos:
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Customer Success Stories
Somerset Academy: How mobility helped change the culture of discipline at SomersetHialeah Educational Academy: How positive interactions help to do the most with the least
Cleveland School of the Arts: How one school decreased tardies, detentions and paperwork
McLane Middle School: How one school structures their positive behavior program and student incentives
Indian Springs High School: Proved that even challenging urban schools can benefit from a positive behavior program.
Cocoa High School: Dramatically reduced negative behavior with restorative practices and a paperless referral system.
Valley High School: Improved their school culture and shed their priority school label.
Videos
About Hero K12:
Awards
December 2017: Influitive 2017 Winner - Best Advocate Experience
October 2017: The Edvocate 2017 Finalist - Best Classroom/Behavior Management App or Tool
Media Coverage
SmartBrief: Change the FocusThe Edvocate: Positive Reinforcement is Key Element in Preventative Behavior Management
TeachThought: How One Principal Turned School Culture Around—Twice
The Edvocate: Six Keys to Success for Implementing an Online Behavior Management Program
EdSurge: Hero K12 Mints its First Acquisition: School Enrollment Startup, SchoolMint
The Edvocate: It Takes a "Hero" to Remake a School's Culture
EdTech Digest: The Right Conditions for Learning
KXAN News: Cedar Creek Middle School Seeing Results with New Focus on Positive Behavior
Huffington Post: Public Schools Actually Embrace Innovation - Five Examples of States, Districts Making Tech Work
EdSurge: Fueled by Big Rounds, US Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017
TeachThought: High School Improving Discipline by Gamifying Good Behavior
The Tech Edvocate: Trailblazing companies in EdTech: Hero K12
The Journal: Hero K12 uses positive reinforcement to correct bad classroom behaviors early on
The Edvocate: 2017 EdTech 10: A ranking of global EdTech companies
EdSurge: With $150M to spend, Hero K12 goes shopping for new education technology companies
PR Newswire: BV Investment Partners announces strategic investment in Hero K12
eSchool News: Technology flips a school's culture from negative to positive
The Edvocate: New metrics measure success at Kaneland High School
Huffington Post (mention): Can this man save Detroit Public Schools?
The Edvocate: 2017 EdTech 20: A ranking of 20 global EdTech influencers
Education Week: Problems with unruly classroom behavior? There's an app for that
Local news coverage:
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