Our clients are doing great things with our products and we would like you to know about them. Please feel free to look through some of the stories and links below to learn more.
Hancock Place School District, Missouri
Administrators at Hancock Place School District in St. Louis, Missouri, realize that the key to quality curriculum is in-depth discussion and collaboration, and that takes time. Realizing this, Assistant Superintendent Lisa Charles decided to add a technology tool to help them save time and develop curriculum to lead her district to success.
"BuildYourOwnCurriculum and BuildYourOwnAssessment have helped us organize our curriculum into units, within a given time-frame, in a user-friendly format," said Charles. "In addition, we are in the process of developing quality quarterly assessments."
- Lisa Charles - Assistant Superintendent, Hancock Place School District
Little Chute Area School District, Wisconsin
"The biggest benefits of BYOC are support, ease of use, and School Software Group's willingness to participate in user group meetings—listen to the people who are using the product—and make modifications based on needs, without destroying the integrity of the original intent."
- Jennifer McDermot - Curriculum Director, Little Chute Area
Saint Paul Public Schools, Minnesota
"We invest a great deal of educator time and funding in our curriculum development initiatives. It’s critical that we have the ability to make this information available consistently to our faculty, students, and their families. Print-based binders with curriculum documents that sit on the shelf simply do not answer our 21st-century needs for making curriculum open, interactive, accessible, and available to focus the work of teachers, students, and administrators alike.”
- Micheal Thompson - Director of Curriculum, St. Paul Public Schools
Menasha Joint School District, Wisconsin
"Our teachers wanted to create a curriculum that would be easy to use, and would give them a reason to delve into it daily or at least weekly. If not, curriculum would be little more than an electronic version of that 'dusty
book sitting on the shelf.'"
- Dr. David Gundlach - Curriculum and Technology Director, Menasha
Pattonville School District, Missouri
"BuildYourOwnCurriculum was head and shoulders above the other options we looked at. Number one — it's easy to use. Number two — they have a good support team who continue to deliver support to our district. And number three — it meets the needs of our teachers in the classroom; they have material available at their fingertips."
- David Miller - Coordinator for Assessment & Library Services, Pattonville
Kiel Area School District, Wisconsin
"Kiel Area School District in Wisconsin is the 'little engine that could'. A small, rural district, Kiel is 'large in vision and vast in technology' according to its nominator. Kiel has accomplished many important outcomes despite limitations of time and funds. They have a state-of-the-art distance learning lab, video production labs, staff and student electronic portfolios data and curriculum warehousing, wifeless technology and paperless school board meetings.
Kiel has also had a national focus on its online learning program to ensure that its results can be transferred to other districts and has created a joint computer lab for use by recently dislocated workers and our students with a local technical college.
Among the many valuable programs at Kiel, Build Your Own Curriculum (BYOC) is a web-based curriculum program, which provides teachers a framework to organize their curriculum, instruction, and assessment. BYOC provides a view of courses and curriculum by state and/or local standards, through user-defined teaching objectives.
This flexibility plus anytime/anywhere access by parents to student information make Kiel a truly "big" district that wins the CoSN 2007 Award for educational technology innovation."
- Kevin Hogan - Executive Editor, Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine
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