SchoolCity helps districts across the United States create their own academic success stories with revolutionary assessment, accountability, and data management solutions.

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About Us

Our City was built for Smart Assessment and Student Success

SchoolCity helps districts across the country create their own success stories with revolutionary assessment, accountability and data management solutions. Based in California's Silicon Valley, SchoolCity has been working with schools nationally to increase student achievement since 1999. Our integrated product line warehouses critical data within a user-friendly dashboard system allowing teachers to enact change where it matters most: the classroom. Our team of educators and technologists apply a nuanced knowledge of teaching and learning to help over 700 districts turn data into action in their school improvement efforts. SchoolCity is your one-stop destination for meaningful data management. We exist so that your students may achieve.

SchoolCity's Management Team

Vaseem Anjum

Founder, President and CEO

Vaseem Anjum is the founder, president and CEO of SchoolCity Inc., a Silicon Valley based Education and E-Learning Company. He brings a wealth of experience in engineering, business and management from the many companies he has since started. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysore, India and his Masters degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University, USA. Prior to starting SchoolCity, he founded several internet based companies including N-Square Inc., Internet Commerce Solutions, BizPivot.com Inc., an internet consulting company with an offshore development center in India and Enabling Technologies, the latter being merged with Avaz networks and later acquired by Quartics (www.quartics.com). As design manager at NEC Electronics, US, he successfully managed and built four new microprocessor PCI chipsets for the 32 bit and 64 bit VRSeries embedded processors. Outside of SchoolCity, Mr. Anjum has been a board member of a K-8 school and on a school site council for a middle school. He is very passionate about charter schools and is working on starting a charter high school in the bay area.

Erika Benadom

Vice President, Product and Solutions

Erika Benadom brings 17 years of public education experience to SchoolCity, beginning as a seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher in the urban district of Lennox. She supported teachers in Lennox by providing professional development for the Technology Literacy Challenge Grant, which was recognized by the Smithsonian Institute for its ingenuity in integrating technology into the curriculum. As the Director of Technology for this district, Ms. Benadom institutionalized an online student information system when such products were just emerging on the market. Ms. Benadom dedicated her last two years in public education to bridging the gap between assessment and instruction. Because she understands how to systematically implement programs in public education institutions, she brings the educator mind to the product and continuously asks herself how a teacher, principal or district administrator would engage educational data in the product. As a member of SchoolCity, she is excited to support educators across the country in developing and implementing assessment models that include a blend of formative, performance based, and summative assessments.

Daniel Luna

Director, Strategic Business Development

Daniel Luna comes to SchoolCity with over 15 years of education and K-12 technology experience. As Director of Strategic Business Development, he leads SchoolCity's efforts in partnerships and strategic planning-ensuring SchoolCity will always be ready to adapt and grow with its customers' needs. A graduate of both Stanford and Harvard Universities, with degrees in Public Policy, he brings an understanding of the interplay between district needs and accountability requirements. Previously to joining SchoolCity, he led account management teams in other K12 software companies and worked with large urban districts such as Houston Independent School District and Washington, DC.

Partners

Technology Partners and Educational Alliances

In order to deliver world-class solutions to the K-12 marketplace, SchoolCity has established strong relationships with outstanding educators, consultants, service agencies, non-profit organizations and technology providers.

Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE)

SCCOE is a large California Service Agency providing instructional, administrative, human resources, business and technical support services to 32 school districts serving more than 200,000 students. SCCOE uses SchoolCity's software products remarketing them under the brand, SChoolPlan™ to more than 60 districts and hundreds of schools across the state of California.

www.sccoe.org | SchoolPlan Story

The Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™)

NWEA™ is a global not-for-profit educational services organization with over 30 years experience developing adaptive assessments, professional development and educational research. Using their mission of Partnering to help all kids learn as a guide, NWEA™ advocates for a kid-centric education policy based on highly accurate, reliable data. SchoolCity is proud to offer The Formative Assessment Item Bank owned by NWEA™ to school districts throughout the country.

www.nwea.org

Education for the Future (EFF)

Education for the Future is a not-for-profit initiative located on the California State University, Chico campus. EFF works with schools, districts, educational service agencies and State Departments of Education on systemic change and comprehensive data analyses that lead to increased student learning. Dr. Victoria Bernhardt, EFF's Executive Director is a recognized expert and national leader in school improvement planning and data analysis for K-12. EFF partnered with SchoolCity in 2007 to develop a web-based version of their popular "School Portfolio" system and process.

eff.csuchico.edu

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

At nonprofit ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by creating assessments based on rigorous research to provide fair, accurate and meaningful assessments. Founded in 1947, ETS serves the K-12 market by providing customized large-scale assessments, high-quality item banks, and innovative professional development programs. SchoolCity and ETS have entered into a strategic alliance to combine the STARS™ Suite proven analysis and reporting system with the ETS item banks to help educators develop and administer quality, customized assessments.

www.ets.org

Knowledge Delivery Systems

Founded in 2004, the mission of Knowledge Delivery Systems (KDS) is to empower educators to transform teaching practice and support the needs of 21st century learners. KDS assembles dynamic online professional development course suites by focusing on industry best practices and leveraging the expertise of renowned presenters. Through the use of powerful new technology, KDS engages educators in unparallel learning experiences. KDS maximizes scale, reaching a larger number of educators simultaneously and provides tracking and accountability with evaluation and reporting tools.

SchoolCity STARS™ customers now have access to a wide variety of online video-based professional development options to meet their individual, school, district, and statewide needs.

www.kdsi.org | KDSI & SchoolCity

Learning Plus

Formed in 1999, Learning Plus is a nonprofit organization founded by educators focused on providing support for districts, schools and classroom teachers through increasing teacher understanding of successful strategies and practices. Learning Plus has two divisions: Standards Plus and Professional Development. Our professional development focuses attention on supporting districts and schools in understanding critical data and how to turn that data into instructional strategies to create success in the classroom. We have a full array of complimentary services devoted to creating quality assessments, analyzing data, identifying appropriate supplemental materials and establishing effective intervention programs. For further information contact us at www.learning-plus.org.

www.learning-plus.org

Educational Data Systems

In business since 1974, Educational Data Systems provides test processing, data processing and analysis, test reporting, psychometric analysis, and program evaluation services to state departments of education and California school districts.

www.eddata.com

Academic Benchmarks

Academic Benchmarks is the leading provider of K-12 standards for education service providers, curriculum publishers, software developers, and educators. SchoolCity considers Academic Benchmarks the single best source of state standards in the industry. Our partnership ensures that all our products have the most current and up-to-date standards available.

www.academicbenchmarks.com

Action Learning Systems, Inc.

Action Learning Systems (ALS) helps schools and districts focus on-and meet-their ultimate goal of increasing student achievement. They help school communities find strategic solutions by offering standards-based instruction and materials, research-based strategies, training and coaching, and intervention programs. They provide coherence across curriculum, instruction, and assessment so that every element of a school works collectively to improve student achievement.

www.actionlearningsystems.com

Tyler Technologies

Tyler Technologies is the largest software company exclusively serving the public sector with more than 6,000 clients. Their education products include among others, an award winning web-based student information system called TEMS™ and a widely-used financial and human resource management system called MUNIS™. Built on the Microsoft .NET platform, TEMS™ and MUNIS™ allow school administrators, teachers, and parents to work together. What better way to foster better communication, and meet education goals? SchoolCity partners with Tyler and integrates our products in order to provide a complete turn-key solution to education, we call it 'Solutions from the Classroom to Boardroom'.

www.tylertech.com

The SchoolCity Customer Experience

Shared Success

An integral element to SchoolCity's success is our customers' experience. Your success is our success! What does success look like? Success takes various forms, among them: high product adoption rates, teachers using data on a regular basis to inform and improve instruction, students learning about how they themselves can use test results to improve, data-savvy PLCs, and improved instructional leadership from site- and district-level administrators. Ultimately, success is best defined as increased student achievement. Our products and services are designed for your success.

Practically speaking...

SchoolCity utilizes a tiered level of support to assist our customers. We believe that customer service requires a thoughtful balance of online, hands-on, and phone-based interactions. Members of your Support Team can be reached 24-7 via an Online Support Center. Along with speedy service, online support allows you to keep track of all submitted issues and response times alongside their related resolutions. Of course, you can also get telephone support, M-F, 8:00 a.m. - 6 p.m. (PST)

Implementation & Training

Our philosophy is to engage you at every step of the implementation and training process so that you and your colleagues become confident users of our products. We provide you with the knowledge needed to fully utilize all the elements of our product(s). Our goal is to make our products as easy and natural to use as possible. Getting quality, meaningful data, after all, should be easy. Making informed decisions and acting on them in the classroom - that's the hard part and where you should be spending most of your energies! We'll help you there, too.

Professional Development

Want to learn more about using data to inform instruction? You can let SchoolCity's team of experienced educators customize professional development sessions as per your district's needs. Or, your district can choose from Knowledge Delivery System's dynamic online professional development course catalogue. KDS' renowned presenters are second to none, and offer districts a cost-effective means of reaching a larger number of educators simultaneously while providing evaluation and reporting tools.

Either way, we'll help your teachers and PLCs use data more effectively to improve instruction. Just contact us to arrange a consultation.

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