EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
prnewswire | November 12, 2020
Cygnus Education, a full-service performance marketing and enrollment management solutions provider dedicated to serving higher education institutions, has hired Don Alava as Executive Vice President of Marketing Services. Don will lead all marketing efforts aimed at strengthening Cygnus Education's position as a performance marketing leader in the higher education vertical. He brings more than 27 years of marketing leadership, driving advertising innovation and building award-winning online marketing strategies. Before coming to Cygnus, Don was VP of Marketing at a number of institutions including Universal Technical Institute and Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, together serving more than 20,000 students at 38 campuses. In this capacity, he created digital marketing strategies across multiple channels, as well as advanced marketing analytics and attribution modeling.
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TALENT DEVELOPMENT
PowerSchool | February 17, 2022
PowerSchool, the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, today announced that Visalia Unified School District (VUSD) in Tulare County, California, has added multiple PowerSchool solutions to drive enhanced educational outcomes. VUSD has added PowerSchool Unified Classroom® Performance Matters and PowerSchool Unified Insights as anchors in its robust tech stack after enjoying many years as a PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) user. The district previously benefitted from implementing PowerSchool’s Unified Classroom® Schoology Learning toward the start of the pandemic. With the implementation of Performance Matters, Visalia will enhance its ability to create and distribute personalized assessments and monitor student performance.
“Prior to Schoology Learning, we did not have a uniform LMS. With Performance Matters, we are able to have one assessment tool for the district and Unified Insights provides a robust data visualization tool,” said Andre Pecina, Administrator Curriculum and Instruction, Visalia Unified School District. “The value for us at the district-level is that the implementation team was a thought-partner for us. It was more than just checking off completed tasks, but also taking time to think through issues and provide additional questions and/or solutions."
Performance Matters enables VUSD schools to build and deliver formative and comprehensive assessments. The results can be viewed alongside performance on third-party assessment, attendance, behavior, and even SEL survey data to ensure that instruction is specifically designed to address learning loss and accelerate learning gains.
The PowerSchool SIS was a mainstay for VUSD, but it was not until the pandemic that Schoology Learning became the district’s main Learning Management System (LMS). In choosing an LMS, VUSD was looking for the ability to store and deliver training content, track participation, assign trainings, report activity and results, mobile access, strong support, and ease of use. Most importantly, the district wanted a platform to help keep students engaged and motivated. Since implementing Unified Insights, Visalia has been able to unify all district data, make data-informed decisions, and gain access to dashboards with reporting and analytics.
“Visalia Unified School District has been a longtime PowerSchool customer that has more recently seen the value in combining our solutions for maximum impact. Leveraging multiple PowerSchool solutions with world class interoperability allows districts like VUSD to work smarter and truly reap the benefits of technology integrated to improve educational outcomes.”
Maulik Datanwala, Chief Operating Officer, PowerSchool
Visalia Unified School District is nestled close to the Sierra mountains in the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley. Established in 1885, VUSD serves 32,000 students, and employs 3,000 staff who provide educational services across 214 square miles. This includes 26 elementary schools, a newcomer language center, five middle schools, four high schools, adult education programs, and charters.
About PowerSchool
PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students globally and more than 13,000 customers, including over 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in over 90 countries.
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Tinyhood | June 10, 2021
Tinyhood, the largest online education platform for parents, gives their most popular online class Infant CPR and Choking for Babies 0-12 months FREE for the next 48 hours in honor of National Safety Month and to round up CPR Awareness Week.
The online class, delivered by a certified CPR instructor and Registered NICU nurse, is designed specifically for parents and caregivers and includes detecting and performing CPR on an unresponsive or choking newborn. The lesson also includes practical, real-life situations so that parents and caregivers know exactly how to react in any circumstances.
70% of Americans are unaware of the life-saving technique of CPR. Ordinary people, not only physicians and EMTs, trained to conduct infant CPR can double or triple a baby's chances of survival.
Industry specialists present Tinyhood's courses to provide parents with the most trustworthy information. The platform was designed with the modern, busy parent in mind. All courses are completely customizable and feature two years of access, allowing parents to study at their speed and in the comfort of their own homes.
About Tinyhood
Tinyhood is the leading online learning platform for modern parents, providing them with reliable information and ways to help them feel empowered throughout their parenting journey. Every Tinyhood course is taught by a recognized expert and covers subjects ranging from pregnancy to toddlerhood. The courses are entirely adaptable, allowing parents to view them at their own pace, on their own time, and in the comfort of their own home. Each course also includes interactive checklists and guides, a private community, and professional office hours to assist you in troubleshooting as you go. Children do not come with handbooks, but this comes close.
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