PHOENIX, AZ, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — For several students, an absent teacher means a break from learningespecially when an unqualified substitute teacher walks by means of the door. But that’s no longer the case within the Balsz School District.

Balsz is now installing the most up-to-date software program from eSchool Solutionsknown as SmartFindExpressthat matches classrooms using the highest qualified subs.

Here’s how it works. Each and every district sets parameters by way of the eSchool Solutions software program to control how substitutes are selected for each and every class, taking into consideration their skill sets, location and contract guidelines. Teachers can then call in sick or schedule days off along with the automated program matches their class using the greatest possible substitute.

Quality is crucial. While most school districts are turning to automated software program systems to pair substitutes to classes, these other programs only find the first available person, who may possibly not necessarily be the best fit for that particular job. This can result in a sub unfamiliar with foreign languages, for instance, subbing for a Spanish class. SmartFindExpress ensures that the right sub is placed in the proper classroom.

“On any given day, 7 to 14 percent of K-12 teachers are absent,” stated Lisa Welton, vice president of advertising for eSchool Solutions. “Our software program is all about reducing what we call ‘lost understanding days,’ which students can encounter when not supervised by the very best achievable substitute.”
SmartFindExpress is faster and less costly than past manual methods of finding subs, given that it frees up school administration to function on much more pressing issues, while still maintaining the highest high quality of classroom-sub matchups.

New this summer. Teachers and substitutes will probably be in a position to monitor and control the entire procedure all by way of a new iPhone app. For instance, teachers will likely be able to give important classroom instructions towards the subs via the app. Teachers can even call in sick, and substitutes can view available jobs all through their iPhone.

To learn far more about eSchool Solutions, SmartFindExpress as well as the iPhone app check out http://www.eschoolsolutions.com/ or call 800-776-8774.

About eSchool Solutions

eSchool Solutions will be the leading provider of integrated technologies solutions for the preK-12 education industry. In 1987, the Orlando-based company revolutionized substitute management for school systems, completely changing the way districts managed substitutes and employee absences. Now, as a total solutions provider, eSchool Solutions offers a full suite of merchandise and services developed to boost administrative efficiency and support school districts work smarter. The company serves more than 500 school systems, encompassing 29,000 schools in North America.

Contact:
Lisa Welton
Vice President of Marketing
Ph: 407-835-9899
lwelton@eschoolsolutions.com

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WOODBURY, NY, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Learn360 (www.learn360.com), a leading interactive media-on-demand service for K-12 educators, is now offering the lowest REMC bid cost for video streaming to Michigan schools through the REMC Statewide $AVE Bid Project. Eligible educational entities statewide now have the opportunity to share Learn360′s virtual classroom applications and robust database of more than 8,300 educational titles from respected publishers. Learn360 was awarded the contract by way of a competitive bid method.

“Our state’s schools are thrilled to have online tools and resources at their fingertips,” said Mike Oswalt, Calhoun Intermediate School District Assistant Superintendent of Regional Technologies Services and 2009/10 President, REMC Association of Michigan. “Digital content material has become increasingly essential in the 21st century classroom and Learn360 is generating this top quality content available through a cost-effective program. The REMC Association of Michigan is committed to offering Michigan schools cost-effective good quality choices, like Learn360, that contribute to the productive education of 21st century learners.”

“This may be the first year that Learn360 has been selected as an awarded vendor for the REMC Statewide $AVE Bid Project and already the response has been considerable,” said Chris Sanborn, president and COO of Learn360. “Now will be the ideal time for schools to consider switching to Learn360 for all of their digital classroom demands. Not just does Learn360 offer the highest top quality streaming media for the classroom, but our library of titles and publishers has vastly expanded in recent months to give every K-12 classroom with the content material necessary for a total studying encounter.”

Learn360 delivers educators a wide variety of digital video titles, both full-length and clips, and thousands of images, articles, audio files and podcasts across curriculum areas. These trusted resources are provided by best educational publishers such as the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (over 25,000 articles); AETV, which includes A&E, Biography and History Channel; Weston Woods, PBS, WGBH, Lou Reda, GPN, Sunburst Visual Media, National Geographic, the Reading Rainbow series, and thousands of audio files from Scholastic Audio, amongst numerous others.

Furthermore, Learn360 lately developed a brand new Moodle Integration that will permit schools utilizing Moodle to access Learn360 content material having a single log-in to their Moodle account. The single sign on feature seamlessly connects the open source management technique with Learn360′s subscription-based content material, giving educators a far more total and diverse learning atmosphere.

“The Moodle Integration is actually a vital tool for a lot of Michigan schools,” stated Sanborn. “We are proud to offer this in conjunction with the high-quality content material and functionality our clients have come to expect from the Learn360 brand. Now, consequently of the REMC Statewide $AVE Bid Project, Michigan educators can have all of the functions of Learn360 with Moodle, at an all-inclusive cost that fits inside their spending budget.”

In addition towards the Moodle Module, Learn360′s substantial growth in rich and varied content all through the past two years consists of quite a few new characteristics and functionality that have enhanced the service. MyLearn360 allows users to craft quizzes and assignments, as well as easily upload and share user-created content material. Enhancements to Learn360′s infrastructure incorporate considerable improvements in speed for far more effective downloading and content material accessibility. All of Learn360′s content and user-created content may be integrated into podcasts, presentations, learning-based activities and quizzes each inside and outside of the classroom.

Learn360 Version three.0 and collaboration with Moodle makes these digital assets even much more accessible and effortless to share among on the web environments, such as virtual classrooms engaging students at home. A totally free 30-day trial of Learn360 is available by signing up at www.learn360.com

ENCINITAS, CA, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — The Grauer School announced a series of student honors and achievements as the 2010 academic year came to a close in the graduation and commencement ceremonies on Friday, June 11, 2010. The 19th Annual Headmaster’s Award/Highest School Honor was bestowed on Dylan Whitmore, a graduating Senior who demonstrated resourcefulness and exemplified expeditionary understanding during the seven years he studied there, entering at 6th grade. Dylan will continue his studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to study aeronautical science and government. The Trustees Annual Service Award for community service was given to 10th graders Summer Kiesel and Corinne Smith. Graduating Seniors Thomas Hopper, Lauragrace Barnes and Spencer Bromley had been presented using the Leading Music Awards and a representative from the Daughters of the American Revolution honored 11th graders Audrey Grauer and Madison Swoy (each class of 2011) for their service and citizenship.

During the ceremony, the school inducts high school students into the National Honor Society. To qualify, a student must have a three.75 cumulative grade point average, have competed at least 12.five hours of community service and must be a student in very good standing. Selection for membership is by a faculty council and is according to outstanding scholarship, service, leadership, character and citizenship. Once selected, members have the responsibility to continue to demonstrate these qualities. Inductees for 2010 (Class of 2013) are: Sydney Ellis; Kelsey Ellison; Keanna Gottlieb; Alicia Holliday; Caia Jaisle; Summer Kiesel; Lauren Predki; Rayna Shah and Stewart Wirick.

In each grade, students were also selected to obtain the President’s Gold (Highest) Award for Educational Excellence. As a way to qualify, students must have a 3.75 and more than grade point average and demonstrate excellent citizenship. The award is given to Middle School and High School students. The awards were presented to: 6th graders Julia Chuang, Natalie Espinosa, Parker Johnson, Brandon Pang, Skylar Pia, Natasha Sachs, Mikayla Stuart and Samuel Sugarman; 7th graders Kahol Baniadam, Chris Ellis, Kaylee Helmbacher and Nicholas Higgins; 8th graders Christopher Apodaca, William Braymen, Nicholas Rothbacher, Shelby Smith and Savanah Stewart; 9th graders Sydney Ellis, Kelsey Ellison, Keanna Gottlieb, Alicia Holliday, Caia Jaisle, Summer Kiesel; Lauren Predki, Rayna Shah, Stewart Wirick and Casper Messamann; 10th graders Michael Burton, Nicholas Getz, Mathew Higgins, Summer Kiesel and
Madeleine Murphy; 11th graders Audrey Grauer and Jieun Lee; 12th graders Lauragrace Barnes, Michelle Kao, Kaitlyn Kaseno, Taryn Predki, David Samaniego, Cindy Zhang and Dorren Shou.

According to Head of School, Dr. Stuart Grauer, “The extraordinary achievements of our
students add fuel towards the small schools movement regionally and nationwide—schools of below 200 provide each and every student with unrivaled mentoring and access to individual chance. At a time when budgets are shrinking and students are disappearing into class sizes of 40 and up, The Grauer School remains focused on leadership development and mastery understanding. These are lucky kids.”

WASHINGTON, DC, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), the market place leader in providing on-line tutoring and academic support to students, has announced that it has selected Wendt Partners, a strategic brand consultancy headquartered in Arlington, Va., to guide the company by way of a strategic brand development initiative. The branding initiative will seek to position SMARTHINKING and its market-leading services with a focus on the student knowledge, along with the roles that a wide variety of partners, which includes tutors, faculty and academic support staff, play in helping students succeed in school and college life. Wendt Partners will develop and enhance visual identity components; produce a total on the web and print communications platform; consult with SMARTHINKING on content material development and market positioning; design and deploy a comprehensive new corporate website; and assistance a wide range of strategic marketing, organization development and public relations priorities.

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“Wendt Partners’ work on behalf of our brand method was extremely thorough, and it engaged all of our staff and stakeholders in a dynamic and beneficial company method,” says Kathy Clark, CEO of SMARTHINKING. “We are excited to be continuing our partnership with them to turn this technique into a complete communications program that will assist to support and accelerate our growth.”

“It is exciting and rewarding to function having a client by way of all three stages of our strategic branding methodology — from organization technique to identity development and on to integration and deployment — as we are with SMARTHINKING,” said Douglas Wendt, president of Wendt Partners. “We look forward to our continued function with the employees and partners of this dynamic industry leader.”

ABOUT SMARTHINKING:
SMARTHINKING may be the industry leader in delivering on the web tutoring and academic support to bolster student efficiency, persistence and retention. Its services had been honored using the Software program & Details Business Association (SIIA) CODiE award for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home. Schools, colleges, universities, libraries, government agencies, textbook publishers and other education providers partner with SMARTHINKING to boost student achievement and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects students to e-structor -certified tutors for assistance in math, writing, science and enterprise, up to 24/7, on any World wide web connected computer. SMARTHINKING’s corporate office is situated in Washington, D.C. For much more information, go to www.smarthinking.com.

ABOUT WENDT PARTNERS:
Wendt Partners is really a strategic consulting and communications firm that develops potent branding and marketplace positioning strategies that become directly embedded within the business and management models of client organizations by way of our Implement Innovation ™ approach. The firm brings together four important professional services to give this capability to executive leaders: strategic consulting, branding & messaging, organizational development and integrated communications. Clients contain a wide range of leading organizations in the association, business-to-business, education, nonprofit and technologies sectors. The firm maintains offices within the Washington, D.C. and Harrisburg, PA regions, and serves clients nationwide. For far more details on Wendt Partners, please pay a visit to www.wendtpartners.com.

Brittney Storm
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
brittney@mmipublicrelations.com
www.twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com

DUBLIN, OH, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — MindLeaders, a understanding and talent development company based in Dublin, Ohio, has released new courses to add to their award-winning catalog of much more than 4,000 e-learning titles. The new additions focus on making use of and gaining certifications in Adobe and Microsoft goods.

The new courses are in the following series titles:
- Dreamweaver CS4
- Flash CS4
- Internet Explorer 8
- Microsoft .NET three.five ASP.NET Apps MCPD 70-564
- Microsoft .NET three.5 Enterprise Apps MCPD 70-565
- Microsoft .NET three.5 Forms Development MCTS 70-505
- Photoshop CS4
- Windows 7 Configuration MCTS 70-680
- Windows 7 Upgrade
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Admin MCITP 70-647
- Windows Server 2008 Server Admin MCITP 70-646

All MindLeaders clients who hold subscriptions to course packages will have these courses available to them now. Detailed details about these courses can be found in the MindLeaders catalog at http://www.mindleaders.com/catalog.

WINCHESTER, MA, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Chas Burr, Graduate Program Director at Regis College, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in program direction and higher education.

As the Graduate Program Director for the Wellness Product Regulations program, Mr. Burr is responsible for students and faculty in a growing department that offers the Master of Science degree with specialization alternatives in Product Regulation or Clinical Research. Mr. Burr has devoted his career to medical technologies, which includes graduate study at MIT, five years in a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School, and twenty years with Hewlett-Packard Medical Goods Group. Considering that 2002, Mr. Burr has been consulting to the medical device business and teaching graduate courses. In 2006, Mr. Burr assumed responsibility for the Wellness Item Regulation program in Regis College’s School of Nursing, Science, and Wellness Professions.

In 1973, Mr. Burr received a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1977 an MBA from Harvard University. He is really a Fellow of the Regulatory Affairs Experts Society plus a Senior Member of the American Society for High quality.

For more details about Regis College, go to http://www.regiscollege.edu.

GILBERT, AZ, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Diana Friday, Gifted Specialist for the Queen Creek Unified School District, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in education.

Specializing in economics and mathematics and Language Arts instruction, Ms. Friday has been a gifted specialist for 25 years. At the Queen Creek Unified School District, she evaluates and creates the curriculum for gifted kindergarten by way of sixth-grade students. Additionally, Ms. Friday serves as a consultant for the National Writing Project. She attributes her good results to her perseverance.

In 1999, Ms. Friday received a Master of Education from Georgia State University. She is really a member of the National Association for Gifted Children National Science Teachers Association as well as the Arizona Society for Economics Teachers (ASET) exactly where she serves as a board member for elementary education. She was recognized having a Teacher of the Year Award for Economics, in 2010. In the future, Ms. Friday hopes to continue operating using the Royal Flamingo Society.

For far more details about the Queen Creek Unified School District, check out http://www.qcusd.org.

CHEYNEY, PA, June 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ –Dr. Judith D. Ray, Associate Professor at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in greater education.

Dr. Judith D. Ray is a respected authority on myriad subjects, foremost of which are biomechanics, recreational marketing and advertising, management and law. She has devoted most of her 32-year career to Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches, conducts research, manages grant acquisitions, and counsels students. Dr. Ray considers staring down various obstacles to finally total her Ph.D. – a feat that took no less than three decades – to be her proudest private and professional accomplishment. She attributes her good results to sheer tenacity.

A product of the University of Minnesota, Dr. Ray earned her Ph.D. in biomechanics in 1996. She also obtained a master’s degree in biomechanics in 1976 from Washington State University along with a master’s degree in education in 1972 from Washington University. She aspires to go into business for herself inside the next five years.