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2008 Intel® Schools of Distinction Award
Six Winning Schools presented with Spectrum K12 & CORE ECS Award at Ceremony September 9, 2008
Spectrum K12 School Solutions, Inc. & CORE ECS Proud Sponsors of the 2008 Intel® Schools of Distinction Award
TOWSON, MD. – September 10, 2008 – Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc, & CORE ECS the leading provider of comprehensive data management solutions for special populations in K-12 education today announced their sponsorship award package for the six winning schools of the 2008 Intel® Schools of Distinction Award. Spectrum K12 & CORE ECS joined the Intel Foundation and other sponsors as they honored each school’s extraordinary commitment to educational excellence and innovation.
Spectrum K12 & CORE ECS presented their Schools of Distinction Sponsorship Award Package to the recipient schools at the Intel awards gala on Monday, September 8th in Washington DC. The Award package included:
Two days of Spectrum’s “Standards based Goals and Objectives” professional development training, a rich, collaborative, interactive training delivered by CORE ECS professional trainers, designed to support challenges districts face in personalizing learning for all children.
A. Aligning Student Focused IEP Goals to State Content Standards
Aligning Student Focused IEP Goals to State Content Standards provides the skills and tools to analyze relevant data to establish a student’s baseline, develop a data based present level of academic achievement and functioning performance, develop individualized goals based on state standards, write goals that are instructionally easy to implement, select appropriate progress monitoring procedures, align student focused goals to the general education curriculum, utilize goal banks more effectively and ensure state and federal compliance.
B. Aligning Student Focused IEP Goals to State Content Standards
Participants will have an opportunity to apply best practices learned in the previous session to relevant situations in their classroom or district. Leaving with the ability to: develop state and federally compliant goals, objectives and benchmarks, establish and define the child’s present levels of performance collaboratively, state how the disability affects a child’s performance, determine present levels of educational performance using formal and informal data including data collected in the RTI process, write measurable student focused and standards based goals, develop measurable objectives that incrementally define achievement, write goals, objectives and benchmarks that can be instructionally implemented, collect data that accurately measure student performance and have an expanded set of skills to develop goals aligned to state standards.
The winning schools for Mathematics Excellence are Sojourner Elementary School,
Milwaukie, Oregon, Delay Middle School, Lewisville, Texas and Sabino High School
Tucson, AZ.
The winning schools for Science excellence are Laguna Elementary School, Scottsdale, Arizona, Key Peninsula Middle School, Lakebay, Washington and Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, New York.
“Spectrum K12 is honored to be a sponsor of the 2008 Intel School(s) of Distinction Awards. The schools that were presented with this prestigious award have worked extremely hard to achieve high academic standards for all students,” states Jim Marshall, CEO of Spectrum K12. “We recognize and commend the winning schools as they understand the tie between school excellence and the desire to have special education, at-risk and ALL students achieve to their ability.”
About Spectrum K12 School Solutions
Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc. is the leading provider of Response to Intervention (RTI) and special education IEP software serving 11% of the U.S. K-12 student population including 20 of the top 100 school districts in the United States. Our EXCEED™ software is an integrated, student-centric student achievement management platform allowing teachers to drive day-to-day activities, research based interventions and outcomes to help all students achieve success. EXCEED monitors academic and behavioral progress, displays efficacy and fidelity, and surfaces achievement gaps at the student, class, grade, group or district level. Our patented software has enabled personalized learning for over 5 million children in 29 states in support of our mission to close the achievement gap and Move Every Child Forward™. For more information visit http://www.spectrumK12.com.
About CORE ECS
CORE Projects & Technologies Ltd. is a leading provider of best of breed end-to-end solutions in the education domain worldwide. Listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and named The Fastest Growing IT Company in the State of Maharashtra, India, CORE is an ISO 9001:2000 certified Company, achieving over 100% annual growth.
CORE’s offerings in the education domain include products and solutions in the areas of School Management Systems, Assessment Systems, Accountability Systems and IT Infrastructure Systems. CORE has recently acquired companies in the US and UK, thus consolidating its position as a dominant player in the education sector. These acquisitions bring with them complementary solutions and services, ensuring CORE is well on its way to becoming an end-to-end solutions provider in the global education space, providing school administrators with the tools needed to offer quality education to students worldwide.
CORE’s education customer base is spread across the USA, UK, Africa, Sri Lanka, Bahamas, Caribbean and India. In India, CORE maintains a prestigious contract with the State Government of Jharkhand under the “Education for All” program (Sarva Shikhsa Abhiyan). For more information visit http://www.coreprojectstech.com
To learn more about Intel’s global commitment to education, visit http://www.intel.com/education. For more information about the Intel Schools of Distinction Awards, visit http://www.schoolsofdistinction.com.