SchoolCity adds new Online Professional Development Service


Mountain View, CA - SchoolCity Inc., a leading K-12 software provider announced a new Online Professional Development (PD) service available to their customers. The PD services can be accessed directly or from within their STARS™ Assessment, Analysis and Reporting Suite. This service is provided through a unique partnership with Knowledge Delivery Systems (KDS), a respected online Professional Development Services firm. SchoolCity's PD services includes teacher recertification, salary advancement, specialized, graduate and Masters courses via streaming video. SchoolCity’s CEO, Vaseem Anjum comments, "Our goal as a company is to continually provide our customers with the very best tools and resources available in order to improve instruction in the classroom. This new Online Professional Development service offering will help our educator/customers achieve this goal as well".
 

SchoolCity's Spring 2010 Newsletter


Click the link below and read articles on the following... How SchoolCity's tools meet "Race to the Top" requirements; How the STARS™ Suite simplifies program evaluation for districts; How California districts now have updated API and AYP figures; and all about SchoolCity's new Online Professional Development services.

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Aberdeen School District (WA) presents SchoolCity Assessment Pilot Results at NCCE Conference


Mountain View, CA - Tita Mallory, Director of Curriculum & Instruction from the Aberdeen School District (Washington State) will present the results of a Data and Formative Assessment Pilot they conducted using solutions from SchoolCity Inc. Aberdeen's primary Pilot Goal was to "Use standards-based assessments to improve instruction in the classroom". The presentation will be during the annual Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) conference at the Seattle Convention and Trade Center (Thursday, March 4th from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, room 4C2). In addition, Dana Anderson, Assistant Superintendent from Education Service District 113 (Olympia, WA) will discuss benefits of using assessment data to improve instruction for districts in general.

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SchoolCity Inc. Partners with Intel-Assess to Improve Assessments for California K-12 School Districts


Mountain View, CA - SchoolCity Inc., a leading provider of assessment and analysis software solutions to the K-12 Education market announced today they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Intel-Assess, Inc., an assessment content solution provider based in San Francisco, CA. Under the terms of the agreement, SchoolCity will distribute Intel-Assess' Item Bank and suite of services to California school districts as a part of their STARS™ Assessment, Analysis and Reporting Suite.
 

ETS and SchoolCity Join Forces to Deliver Integrated Instructional Improvement Systems to K-12 School Districts


Princeton, N.J. (June 8, 2009) - SchoolCity Inc., a leader in designing and delivering solutions to the K-12 market since 1999, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Educational Testing Service (ETS) to distribute ETS® item banks. The agreement blends the core competencies of each organization - data analysis, reporting and unparalleled assessment development - to deliver a unique channel for analyzing multiple areas of a school district.
 

SchoolCity Inc. announces partnership with Learning Plus Associates


Mountain View, CA SchoolCity Inc. announced they have partnered with Learning Plus Associates (LPA), a supplemental curriculum publisher and professional development nonprofit, based in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. The partnership allows SchoolCity to expand their professional development offering, adding value to their educational planning, assessment and analysis software suite. Efforts are also under way to integrate LPA's intervention mini lessons and assessments into SchoolCity's software. "Plain and simple, this partnership enhances both our organizations' ability to help educators meet AYP and improve student achievement", says Vaseem Anjum, SchoolCity's President and CEO. Both organizations are focusing initial efforts on three primary states, California, Texas and Hawaii. Plans to include additional states are currently in the works.
 

SchoolCity Develops Planning tool with Dr. Victoria Bernhardt


June 2008, SchoolCity Inc. and Education for the Future (EFF), an educational consulting non-profit announced the release of a new web-based school improvement planning tool to the K-12 education market. The tool called SchoolPortfolio™ is scheduled to be released in June 2008 and is based on the work of Dr. Victoria Bernhardt. The product will be used by schools and districts attending her summer training institutes across the country and then available for general purchase. SchoolPortfolio™ was built using Microsoft's .NET framework and is currently an ASP solution.
 

SchoolCity Helps State DOE with Assessment Scoring


May 2008, Washington State's Department of Education recently found they had a challenge with scoring some of their state assessments. They realized their current scoring process for the WASL (Washington Assessment for Student Learning) would not return scores for a certain sub group of students in time for graduation day.

To help, they reached out to their Education Service District #113 (an Education Service Agency) in Olympia Washington. ESD#113 reviewed the problem and called in SchoolCity, a Silicon Valley-based K-12 software company. SchoolCity and ESD#113 worked feverishly to design a solution in time.

Within a short time, a complete process to score, scan and return results had been designed and tested by the software company's engineers. Score sheets started rolling in and SchoolCity's system scanned and returned the results within 24 to 48 hours, way ahead of estimates. SchoolCity's staff was very proud to work on this project and pleased that it allowed proficient students to attend their graduation ceremonies on time.
 

SchoolCity Presents at National Finance Conference


April 2008, Doreen O'Donovan of SchoolCity, Inc. and Ashlyn Aiko Nelson of Stanford University presented some ground breaking research at the American School Finance Association 2008 Conference in Denver, Colorado. The topic of the presentation was, "Examining Variation in Categorical Funding Expenditures for California Schools".

This presentation highlighted a study recently done by researchers at Stanford University combining for the first time, budget/financial expenditures with student achievement data on a large scale. SchoolCity provided the financial data from more than 60 district clients in California through its partnership with the Santa Clara County Office of Education.

SchoolCity continues to work on this project to ultimately bring a method of determining Return on Investment (ROI) for educational programs and services.
 

SchoolCity Delivers Reporting Tool to NY City Department of Education


September 2007, Through a partnership with Harcourt Education, SchoolCity Inc. designed and delivered a web-based reporting tool to support Harcourt's English Learner Assessment contract with the New York City Department of Education. This solution is expected to report assessment results on more than 90,000 English Language Learners in New York City. The tool was built using Microsoft's .NET framework.
 

SchoolCity Partners with Education for the Future


July 2007, SchoolCity Inc. and Education for the Future (EFF) announced a strategic partnership. Both entities will work together to develop web-based solutions based on the work of Dr. Victoria Bernhardt, EFF's Executive Director.

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.