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At Sturgis Public Schools, we prepare students for the future by making technology a meaningful part of everyday learning. Our classrooms integrate modern digital tools that enhance instruction, encourage creativity, strengthen collaboration, and keep students actively engaged in their education. By providing equitable access to high-quality technology and digital resources, we help students develop the confidence, critical thinking, and digital literacy skills they need to succeed in college, careers, and an ever-changing world. From personalized learning and interactive lessons to online collaboration and responsible digital citizenship, technology empowers our students to become lifelong learners and future-ready leaders.

How Educational Technology Supports Learning

Reading & Literacy

  • Accelerated Reader (AR): Encourages students to build strong reading habits while tackling comprehension. 
  • Flocabulary: Uses music and engaging videos to build vocabulary and reading comprehension. 
  • Freckle ELA: Adaptive practice that helps students strengthen reading comprehension, vocabulary, and language skills. 
  • Lalio: Interactive literacy instruction designed for developing readers. 
  • myOn & myOn News: Thousands fo books available anytime, anywhere along with age-appropriate news articles on global topics and current events. 

Personalized Learning & Assessment

  • Freckle Math: Adaptive practice that that adjusts to each student's skill level, providing just the right amount of challenge and support through engaging activities and immediate feedback to build strong mathematical foundation. 
  • Freckle Science & Social Studies: Offers adaptive practice that reinforces key science and social studies concepts through engaging, standards-aligned activities.
  • Renaissance STAR Suite: Benchmark assessments used three times a year that help teachers monitor student growth and personalize instruction in math and reading. 

Classroom Learning

  • Google Classroom: Teachers organize assignments, provide feedback, and communicate with students. 
  • Google Workplace: Students and teachers can collaborate using docs, slides, sheets, and drive. 
  • Nearpod: Interactive lessons that keep students actively engaged through the use of live polling, questions, and activites. 
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Two young students in a science lab wear safety goggles and conduct an experiment with blue liquid.
Close-up of hands working on an electronic circuit board with wires and components.

STEM X

Challenging Tomorrow’s Innovators Today

STEM X is an accelerated learning opportunity for qualifying students in grades 3-5 who demonstrate advanced academic achievement and strong problem-solving skills. 

Students participate in: 

  • Technology-rich learning
  • Hands-on STEM learning
  • Project-based learning
  • Collaborative challenges 
  • Create problem solving 

Learning Without Limits

Educational technology opens doors to learning beyond the traditional classroom while helping students develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly digital world. Sturgis Public Schools provides flexible learning opportunities and teaches students how to use technology safely, responsibly, and confidently.

Online Learning Opportunities 

Whether students need credit recovery, schedule flexiblity, flexible learning, or expanded course offerings, Sturgis Public Schools offers online learning opportunities through: 

These programs provide additional pathways to help students achieve their educational goals. 

Digital Citizenship & Internet Safety

Technology is powerful, and learning to use it responsibly is just as important as learning to use it effectively. 

Sturgis Public Schools teaches digital citizenship using the NetSmartz curriculum, helping students build safe, respectful, and responsible learning habits. 

Student recieve age-appropriate instruction during key transitional years: 

  • Kindergarten
  • 3rd Grade
  • 6th Grade
  • 9th Grade
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Preparing Students for the Future

Technology changes quickly, but the skills students develop today will help them tomorrow.  At Sturgis Public Schools, we’re committed to helping every student become a confident learner, critical thinker, responsible digital citizen, and future-ready graduate.