Claremont Graduate University accustomed a new four-year $800,000 admission from the US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to abutment CGU’s recently-accredited CCTC appropriate apprenticeship internship affairs to adapt agents for acceptance with moderate/severe disabilities.
The PULSE Pipeline Project: Phase Two (Preparing Urban Leaders in Special Education) is led by Project Director Susan M. Robb, assistant of apprenticeship in the School of Educational Studies, who guided the antecedent PULSE Phase One 2004-2008. Phase One, which concludes its allotment in September, targeted “Teachers of High Incidence Disabilities,” acknowledging over 90 intern agents against abounding Mild/Moderate Special Education accreditation over the endure four years.
PULSE: Two will abode activity participants as moderate/severe intern agents in schools in the culturally and linguistically assorted Los Angeles basin and the Inland Empire (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties). This activity accurately recruits and supports individuals from this close burghal area, CGU’s prime account region. Project elements cover concentrated application efforts for those from historically under-represented groups to advice advance the accumulation of appropriate apprenticeship casework to acceptance with abstinent to astringent disabilities. According to accompaniment data, the acceptance of these acceptance has added by 22% in California over the endure 5 years.
How the affairs works: Project participants will be academy graduates who crop coursework arch to the California State Credential for Education Specialist-Level I and Level II: Moderate/Severe, an English Learner California Authorization, and a Master’s in Education. After antecedent pre-service fieldwork and advance instruction, participants advise with an intern credential with acute acreage abutment (meeting highly-qualified requirements), afore acceptable absolutely active in appropriate apprenticeship in predominately diverse, burghal elementary and accessory schools.
CGU monitors and advises accountable amount acquiescence for anniversary applicant and anniversary teaching position. Partnerships with the administrators and appropriate educators in 10 districts accept been developed to agreement adapted teaching placements, ensuring maximally admiring placements and opportunities for activated analysis and connected learning.
Background on the Project
In 2006-2007, the Department of Education abstracts adumbrated that added than 679,600 acceptance with disabilities lived and abstruse in California with an estimated 110,314 acceptance with abstinent or astringent disabilities defective to be accumbent with the new teaching standards appropriate by No Child Left Behind. Since 2002, there has been a basal access (.06%) in absolute amount of K-12 appropriate apprenticeship acceptance in California. However, during that aforementioned time, acceptance with abstinent or astringent disabilities (autism, affecting or behavioral disorders, bookish disabilities) added from 90,512 acceptance to 110,314 students, a 22% increase.
In addition, The Center for Teaching and Learning, a nation apprenticeship analysis group, letters that high-minority schools accept an boilerplate of 18% under-prepared appropriate apprenticeship agents if compared to 7% in low boyhood schools. California ranks accomplished in accompaniment citizenry assortment and is three times added assorted than the civic average.
What makes PULSE: Two so important is that the charge for fully-qualified appropriate apprenticeship agents in the LA Basin and the abutting Inland Empire is even added adroit than it is either nationally or above added regions of CA. Twenty-five percent of the state’s appropriate apprenticeship acceptance apprentice in one of the 64 academy districts area CGU has intern partnerships. Eleven of the districts in this arena are a allotment of the 40 better academy districts in the accompaniment (CDE, 2007). The CGU campus is amid strategically in this region, “straddling” both the LA Basin and the Inland Empire. It is estimated that bourgeois appraisal of the amount of agents bare annually for M/S placements in the CGU across would be 23% of canton charge totals or 322 agents in the three canton CGU account region.
PULSE: Two targets the afterward objectives
• Recruit above cadre from under-represented groups to serve the assorted cultural and linguistic needs of acceptance with moderate/severe disabilities;
• Prepare 66 high-quality appropriate apprenticeship agents application a standards-based curricula and evidence-based apprenticeship inclusively with accepted apprenticeship candidates;
• Instill participants with amount competencies in appropriate apprenticeship that absorb attempt of amusing amends and accountability, ensuring accountable amount concentrations all-important for acquiescence with NCLB and IDEA ’04 and the alertness of high-quality teachers;
• Integrate able coursework for K-12 acceptance who accept different culture, linguistic, and assorted exceptionalities (CLDE accomplishment competencies) so interns acquire an EL Authorization and can axle culturally assorted acceptance with moderate/severe disabilities in across-the-board settings;
• Provide optimum abutment for alpha appropriate educators through a proven, awful able internship archetypal advised afterwards aboriginal PULSE One Project; and
• Create an institutionalized activity of moderate/severe appropriate apprenticeship administration cadre for the CGU appropriate apprenticeship doctoral program.
Project outcomes will include
• 66 activity graduates who accept completed their Level I Credential, EL Authorization, and Master’s amount requirements acknowledging with NCLB and IDEA requirements and competencies;
• 45 of the 66 activity graduates will aswell complete the added Level II credential requirements during the project;
• application of baddest participants to accompany a PhD in appropriate apprenticeship at CGU, architecture a abiding activity ladder for administration in the across of moderate/severe disabilities
• account appellation of over 65% annually for apprentice support; and
• the institutionalization of the Moderate/Severe Education Specialist Internship Program, a anatomy to credential 15 candidates annually, targeting some 50% whom are from under-represented groups.
About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top alum schools in the country. Our nine bookish schools conduct leading-edge analysis and accolade masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor calmly defined, assorted adroitness and acceptance analysis and abstraction above the acceptable conduct boundaries to actualize new and applied solutions for the above problems afflictive our world. An absolute academy adherent absolutely to alum analysis and study, Claremont Graduate University is the top alum academy in Southern California.
Contact:
Nick Johnson
Claremont Graduate University
Asst. Dir. Media Relations
150 E. 10th St,
Claremont, CA 91711
909.621.8396
nikolaos.johnson@cgu.edu http://www.cgu.edu/
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Monday, December 21, 2009
08 User Conference Aids in Expanding Interactive Patient Education Systems into Hospital’s Workflow
Technology is a analytical affair if discussing the continuum of affliction for a patient, abnormally in the hospital ambience area accessories are assured to see increases in Joint Commission acquiescence standards. Nowhere was that added axiomatic than at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott endure anniversary area TeleHealth Services captivated their covering accommodating apprenticeship accident of the year.
The TIGR User Conference, a appointment area best practices, assets and adventures with accommodating and agents apprenticeship systems can be shared, had admiral from added than 50 of the nation’s arch hospitals appear to apprentice added about maximizing alternate accommodating apprenticeship systems in their circadian workflow. The sessions focused on enabling attendees to advance and bear solutions that advantage the abounding capabilities of the alternate on-demand systems. Keynote speaker, and one of the nation's arch authorities in pediatric nursing and Joint Commission standards, Francine Westergaard said: “It’s auspicious to see an educational action like the TIGR User Conference appear into to such a able abstraction aural the healthcare community.”
The accident began with a keynote abode from Westergaard on the accent of apprenticeship in the accreditation processes. Said Westergaard: “Hats off to TeleHealth Services for accepting visionaries aural the healthcare industry, and accepting amenable accumulated ally in bringing an educational endeavor of such authority and accent to the healthcare technology community.”
The affairs featured analytic and abstruse acquirements advance to enhance the capabilities of the arrangement aural the facility. The abstruse clue focused on the solutions ability and how to capitalize on rapidly evolving opportunities such as EMR interactivity, High- Definition (HD) agreeable and acquittal management. The analytic clue concentrated on maximizing the on-demand system’s amount and appliance in convalescent the hospital’s above of affliction initiatives. Ruth Gonsoski, Perinatal Program Manager at Northridge Hospital said, “Our TIGR arrangement serves as the cornerstone for our facility’s drive for admirable service. Since the accomplishing of our TIGR accommodating apprenticeship arrangement our OB assemblage won the a lot of bigger OB assemblage for admirable account in 2007. This was the alone OB assemblage accustomed out of 283 hospitals advised for the award. The TIGR arrangement played an basic role in acceptable all 19 Avatar awards for service, above of affliction and accommodating apprenticeship arete throughout the CHW system. Venues like this acquiesce for anticipation accord amid arch hospitals to altercate adroit new means to advance the arrangement to added our accommodating and agents achievement aptitudes.”
The final allocation of the class was a console of alternate accommodating apprenticeship arrangement practitioners in which attendees could accretion angle and acumen on best practices for carrying a accommodating adverse solution. The console featured users in assorted stages of accomplishing and provided a abundance of agreeable ambidextrous with capacity from centralized and alien artefact awareness, avant-garde uses of the system, coaction the functionality into circadian workflow, and assessable metrics on the allowances that alternate accommodating and agents apprenticeship systems provide. George Fleming, President and CEO of TeleHealth Services said, “From all the acknowledgment we accept received, audition the perspectives of our panelists was a huge advantage for all involved. The technology is evolving, giving us added patient-friendly, simple and able solutions to aid in carrying above affliction aural a medical setting. Patients and providers are all-embracing affiliated bloom systems to advance care, advice and above of life.” With a mix of healthcare executives, educators, and agents alive with an on-demand solution, synergies on maximizing the solution’s abeyant in a amount of cantankerous anatomic areas resonated for anybody in attendance. It fabricated the allowances of an alternate accommodating apprenticeship arrangement an accessible reality.
TeleHealth Service’s TIGR® casting of articles cover cutting-edge alternate communications and advice systems that bear accommodating amenities and accommodate the assessable metrics to drive ability above initiatives and achievement standards. By carrying the a lot of scalable and all-encompassing alternative of able advice and educational tools, TeleHealth Service’s TIGR and TigrNet customizable platforms advance accommodating achievement scores, accommodate abutment for analytic staff, advice automate workflow and aid in analytic accountability. By application a accustomed accumulation channel, patients and agents can acceptance admired education, advice and ball assets to advance the accretion process.
About TeleHealth Services:
TeleHealth Services, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, is the nation's arch provider of chip communications solutions for the healthcare market: bedside acceptance to entertainment, apprenticeship and services; accommodating and agents video-on-demand apprenticeship systems; hospital-grade televisions and accessories; apprenticeship and ball content; arrangement installation, aliment and costs services. TeleHealth Services is a analysis of Telerent Leasing Corporation, which has been headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, back its founding in 1957. Telerent itself is a wholly-owned accessory of ITOCHU International, Inc., a U.S. aggregation based in New York City and a Global 500 corporation.
For added advice on TeleHealth, alarm 800-733-8610, or appointment at http://www.telehealth.com/.
Contact:
Matthew K. Barker
Director of Marketing
TeleHealth Services
919-772-8604
matt.barker@telehealth.com
The TIGR User Conference, a appointment area best practices, assets and adventures with accommodating and agents apprenticeship systems can be shared, had admiral from added than 50 of the nation’s arch hospitals appear to apprentice added about maximizing alternate accommodating apprenticeship systems in their circadian workflow. The sessions focused on enabling attendees to advance and bear solutions that advantage the abounding capabilities of the alternate on-demand systems. Keynote speaker, and one of the nation's arch authorities in pediatric nursing and Joint Commission standards, Francine Westergaard said: “It’s auspicious to see an educational action like the TIGR User Conference appear into to such a able abstraction aural the healthcare community.”
The accident began with a keynote abode from Westergaard on the accent of apprenticeship in the accreditation processes. Said Westergaard: “Hats off to TeleHealth Services for accepting visionaries aural the healthcare industry, and accepting amenable accumulated ally in bringing an educational endeavor of such authority and accent to the healthcare technology community.”
The affairs featured analytic and abstruse acquirements advance to enhance the capabilities of the arrangement aural the facility. The abstruse clue focused on the solutions ability and how to capitalize on rapidly evolving opportunities such as EMR interactivity, High- Definition (HD) agreeable and acquittal management. The analytic clue concentrated on maximizing the on-demand system’s amount and appliance in convalescent the hospital’s above of affliction initiatives. Ruth Gonsoski, Perinatal Program Manager at Northridge Hospital said, “Our TIGR arrangement serves as the cornerstone for our facility’s drive for admirable service. Since the accomplishing of our TIGR accommodating apprenticeship arrangement our OB assemblage won the a lot of bigger OB assemblage for admirable account in 2007. This was the alone OB assemblage accustomed out of 283 hospitals advised for the award. The TIGR arrangement played an basic role in acceptable all 19 Avatar awards for service, above of affliction and accommodating apprenticeship arete throughout the CHW system. Venues like this acquiesce for anticipation accord amid arch hospitals to altercate adroit new means to advance the arrangement to added our accommodating and agents achievement aptitudes.”
The final allocation of the class was a console of alternate accommodating apprenticeship arrangement practitioners in which attendees could accretion angle and acumen on best practices for carrying a accommodating adverse solution. The console featured users in assorted stages of accomplishing and provided a abundance of agreeable ambidextrous with capacity from centralized and alien artefact awareness, avant-garde uses of the system, coaction the functionality into circadian workflow, and assessable metrics on the allowances that alternate accommodating and agents apprenticeship systems provide. George Fleming, President and CEO of TeleHealth Services said, “From all the acknowledgment we accept received, audition the perspectives of our panelists was a huge advantage for all involved. The technology is evolving, giving us added patient-friendly, simple and able solutions to aid in carrying above affliction aural a medical setting. Patients and providers are all-embracing affiliated bloom systems to advance care, advice and above of life.” With a mix of healthcare executives, educators, and agents alive with an on-demand solution, synergies on maximizing the solution’s abeyant in a amount of cantankerous anatomic areas resonated for anybody in attendance. It fabricated the allowances of an alternate accommodating apprenticeship arrangement an accessible reality.
TeleHealth Service’s TIGR® casting of articles cover cutting-edge alternate communications and advice systems that bear accommodating amenities and accommodate the assessable metrics to drive ability above initiatives and achievement standards. By carrying the a lot of scalable and all-encompassing alternative of able advice and educational tools, TeleHealth Service’s TIGR and TigrNet customizable platforms advance accommodating achievement scores, accommodate abutment for analytic staff, advice automate workflow and aid in analytic accountability. By application a accustomed accumulation channel, patients and agents can acceptance admired education, advice and ball assets to advance the accretion process.
About TeleHealth Services:
TeleHealth Services, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, is the nation's arch provider of chip communications solutions for the healthcare market: bedside acceptance to entertainment, apprenticeship and services; accommodating and agents video-on-demand apprenticeship systems; hospital-grade televisions and accessories; apprenticeship and ball content; arrangement installation, aliment and costs services. TeleHealth Services is a analysis of Telerent Leasing Corporation, which has been headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, back its founding in 1957. Telerent itself is a wholly-owned accessory of ITOCHU International, Inc., a U.S. aggregation based in New York City and a Global 500 corporation.
For added advice on TeleHealth, alarm 800-733-8610, or appointment at http://www.telehealth.com/.
Contact:
Matthew K. Barker
Director of Marketing
TeleHealth Services
919-772-8604
matt.barker@telehealth.com
SMARTHINKING Announces New Subject Material And Extended Hours Of Service
SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students, has appear the availability of apprenticeship in new capacity and continued hours of account for the abatement 2008 semester. SMARTHINKING has continued hours for writing, accepted allure and physics apprenticeship to ability a beyond admirers with greater availability. Tutoring casework for these capacity were aforetime offered Sunday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 2 a.m. and are now accepting continued Sunday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. As always, apprenticeship casework for basal algebraic skills, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus are accessible 24 hours a day, seven canicule a week.
The aggregation has aswell developed a new amalgamation acknowledging beat capacity which includes amoebic chemistry, algebraic above calculus II, beat statistics and finance. This new amalgamation is advised to accommodate campuses added abutment in these areas of study. For added advice on the company, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
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News Facts:
•SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students, has appear the availability of apprenticeship in new capacity and continued hours of account for the abatement 2008 semester.
•SMARTHINKING has continued its hours for writing, accepted allure and physics apprenticeship to ability a beyond admirers with greater availability.
•Tutoring casework for these capacity were aforetime offered Sunday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 2 a.m. and are now accepting continued Sunday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.
•As always, apprenticeship casework for basal algebraic skills, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus are accessible 24 hours a day, seven canicule a week.
•The aggregation has aswell developed a new amalgamation acknowledging beat capacity which includes amoebic chemistry, algebraic above calculus II, beat statistics and finance.
•This new amalgamation is advised to accommodate campuses added abutment in these areas of study. For added advice on the company, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
Quotes:
“We are admiring to action new capacity and continued hours of account to acceptance and institutions,” said SMARTHINKING CEO Burck Smith. “The added availability will acquiesce SMARTHINKING to abetment added acceptance in accomplishing greater bookish success.”
About SMARTHINKING:
SMARTHINKING is the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students. Their casework were accustomed with the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE accolade for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home. Schools, colleges, universities, libraries, government agencies, arbiter publishers and added apprenticeship providers accomplice with SMARTHINKING to access apprentice accomplishment and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects acceptance to e-structor®-certified advisers for abetment in math, writing, science and business, up to 24/7, on any Internet affiliated computer. SMARTHINKING’s accumulated appointment is amid in Washington, D.C. For added information, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
The aggregation has aswell developed a new amalgamation acknowledging beat capacity which includes amoebic chemistry, algebraic above calculus II, beat statistics and finance. This new amalgamation is advised to accommodate campuses added abutment in these areas of study. For added advice on the company, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
Related Links:
www.smarthinking.com
www.mmimarketing.com
News Facts:
•SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students, has appear the availability of apprenticeship in new capacity and continued hours of account for the abatement 2008 semester.
•SMARTHINKING has continued its hours for writing, accepted allure and physics apprenticeship to ability a beyond admirers with greater availability.
•Tutoring casework for these capacity were aforetime offered Sunday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 2 a.m. and are now accepting continued Sunday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.
•As always, apprenticeship casework for basal algebraic skills, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus are accessible 24 hours a day, seven canicule a week.
•The aggregation has aswell developed a new amalgamation acknowledging beat capacity which includes amoebic chemistry, algebraic above calculus II, beat statistics and finance.
•This new amalgamation is advised to accommodate campuses added abutment in these areas of study. For added advice on the company, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
Quotes:
“We are admiring to action new capacity and continued hours of account to acceptance and institutions,” said SMARTHINKING CEO Burck Smith. “The added availability will acquiesce SMARTHINKING to abetment added acceptance in accomplishing greater bookish success.”
About SMARTHINKING:
SMARTHINKING is the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students. Their casework were accustomed with the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE accolade for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home. Schools, colleges, universities, libraries, government agencies, arbiter publishers and added apprenticeship providers accomplice with SMARTHINKING to access apprentice accomplishment and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects acceptance to e-structor®-certified advisers for abetment in math, writing, science and business, up to 24/7, on any Internet affiliated computer. SMARTHINKING’s accumulated appointment is amid in Washington, D.C. For added information, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
SMARTHINKING To Exhibit At 13th Annual Association Of Colleges Conference
SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students, has appear that its assembly will participate in the 13th International Convention of the Association of Colleges (AoC) Nov. 18-20 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England. AoC is the primary appointment for admiral and administrators in the acreage of college apprenticeship and about draws about 1,500 assembly from all over the apple including universities, colleges and added acquirements providers as able-bodied as business and key government agencies.
The affair for AoC 2008 is “Changing Landscapes” and the accident will affection an alternate affairs of speakers, seminars, awards and amusing activities. The appointment will reflect on a alteration area and beset above developments in regulation, funding, all-embracing issues and authoritative change.
At AoC, SMARTHINKING will display its award-winning, live, online apprenticeship casework which are delivered to acceptance 24 hours a day, seven canicule a week, in the capacity of math, writing, science, business, ESOL and Spanish. In 2007, SMARTHINKING was accustomed with the coveted Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home. To date, the aggregation has provided added than 1 actor apprenticeship sessions to academy students. For added advice on AoC, amuse appointment www.aocannualconference.co.uk.
Related Links:
www.smarthinking.com
www.aocannualconference.co.uk
www.mmimarketing.com
News Facts:
•SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students, has appear that its assembly will participate in the 13th International Convention of the Association of Colleges (AoC) Nov. 18-20 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England.
•AoC is the primary appointment for admiral and administrators in the acreage of college apprenticeship and about draws about 1,500 assembly from all over the apple including universities, colleges and added acquirements providers as able-bodied as business and key government agencies.
•The affair for AoC 2008 is “Changing Landscapes” and will affection an alternate affairs of speakers, seminars, awards and amusing activities.
•The appointment will reflect on a alteration area and beset above developments in regulation, funding, all-embracing issues and authoritative change.
•At AoC, SMARTHINKING will display its award-winning, live, online apprenticeship casework which are delivered to acceptance 24 hours a day, seven canicule a week, in the capacity of math, writing, science, business, ESOL and Spanish.
•In 2007, SMARTHINKING was accustomed with the coveted Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home.
•To date, the aggregation has provided added than 1 actor apprenticeship sessions to academy students. For added advice on AoC, amuse appointment www.aocannualconference.co.uk.
Quotes:
“We are analytic advanced to accessory the Association of Colleges Conference,” said SMARTHINKING CEO Burck Smith. “This is a abundant befalling for SMARTHINKING to advertise its arch online apprenticeship casework to an all-embracing audience.”
About SMARTHINKING:
SMARTHINKING is the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students. Their casework were accustomed with the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE accolade for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home. Schools, colleges, universities, libraries, government agencies, arbiter publishers and added apprenticeship providers accomplice with SMARTHINKING to access apprentice accomplishment and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects acceptance to e-structor®-certified advisers for abetment in math, writing, science and business, up to 24/7, on any Internet affiliated computer. SMARTHINKING’s accumulated appointment is amid in Washington, D.C. For added information, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
The affair for AoC 2008 is “Changing Landscapes” and the accident will affection an alternate affairs of speakers, seminars, awards and amusing activities. The appointment will reflect on a alteration area and beset above developments in regulation, funding, all-embracing issues and authoritative change.
At AoC, SMARTHINKING will display its award-winning, live, online apprenticeship casework which are delivered to acceptance 24 hours a day, seven canicule a week, in the capacity of math, writing, science, business, ESOL and Spanish. In 2007, SMARTHINKING was accustomed with the coveted Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home. To date, the aggregation has provided added than 1 actor apprenticeship sessions to academy students. For added advice on AoC, amuse appointment www.aocannualconference.co.uk.
Related Links:
www.smarthinking.com
www.aocannualconference.co.uk
www.mmimarketing.com
News Facts:
•SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students, has appear that its assembly will participate in the 13th International Convention of the Association of Colleges (AoC) Nov. 18-20 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England.
•AoC is the primary appointment for admiral and administrators in the acreage of college apprenticeship and about draws about 1,500 assembly from all over the apple including universities, colleges and added acquirements providers as able-bodied as business and key government agencies.
•The affair for AoC 2008 is “Changing Landscapes” and will affection an alternate affairs of speakers, seminars, awards and amusing activities.
•The appointment will reflect on a alteration area and beset above developments in regulation, funding, all-embracing issues and authoritative change.
•At AoC, SMARTHINKING will display its award-winning, live, online apprenticeship casework which are delivered to acceptance 24 hours a day, seven canicule a week, in the capacity of math, writing, science, business, ESOL and Spanish.
•In 2007, SMARTHINKING was accustomed with the coveted Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home.
•To date, the aggregation has provided added than 1 actor apprenticeship sessions to academy students. For added advice on AoC, amuse appointment www.aocannualconference.co.uk.
Quotes:
“We are analytic advanced to accessory the Association of Colleges Conference,” said SMARTHINKING CEO Burck Smith. “This is a abundant befalling for SMARTHINKING to advertise its arch online apprenticeship casework to an all-embracing audience.”
About SMARTHINKING:
SMARTHINKING is the bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students. Their casework were accustomed with the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE accolade for Best Instruction Solution for Students at Home. Schools, colleges, universities, libraries, government agencies, arbiter publishers and added apprenticeship providers accomplice with SMARTHINKING to access apprentice accomplishment and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects acceptance to e-structor®-certified advisers for abetment in math, writing, science and business, up to 24/7, on any Internet affiliated computer. SMARTHINKING’s accumulated appointment is amid in Washington, D.C. For added information, appointment www.smarthinking.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
‘Play It Smart’ Community Program Combines Hoops with Learning
Centennial College’s Play It Smart affairs is analytic for 160 active kids who ambition to apprentice some basketball abilities and besom up on their algebraic and English studies, too.
The chargeless association beat affairs offers a mix of academy apprenticeship in English, algebraic and science, as able-bodied as some basketball apprenticeship and abode alliance play on a able court. The 20-week program, which will crop abode every Saturday morning amid September 26 and next April, is recruiting Scarborough accouchement amid the ages of 7 and 13.
"For some of the kids, the allotment absolutely isn't the basketball," says organizer and business assistant Vern Kennedy of endure year’s countdown program. "It’s an befalling to get some added advice in English and math. We had one adolescent babe who was accurately absorbed in acquirements how to address well."
Each Saturday, participants will accept 30 or 60 account of apprenticeship in a accountable they charge advice in, again the apprenticeship moves assimilate the balk for a half-hour of basketball apprenticeship and a half-hour of house-league play. Kennedy adopted the abstraction from his acquaintance Claude Nembhard, who has accomplished basketball to accouchement in North York and York Region.
Centennial would like to draw kids from the Malvern neighbourhood in northeast Scarborough, with a appropriate accent on boys and girls in grades 7 and 8. The adolescence will be bused from the Malvern Town Centre to Ashtonbee Campus at no cost. Corporate sponsors such as Telus, Canadian Tire and Boston Pizza are altruistic banknote and articles to advice acquit costs.
"The Centennial College Student Association provided our advance advisers and they did a absurd job," says Kennedy. "I can't say abundant about the adroitness and charge apparent by our own academy students, who gave up 20 mornings to plan with these kids."
Kennedy, who teaches business and advertising, says introducing youngsters to a academy campus now will advice them feel beneath abashed by post-secondary apprenticeship in the future.
For added advice and to annals a adolescent in this chargeless association colleges program, amuse appointment www.centennialcollege.ca/playitsmart or alarm 416-289-5000, ext. 3273.
The chargeless association beat affairs offers a mix of academy apprenticeship in English, algebraic and science, as able-bodied as some basketball apprenticeship and abode alliance play on a able court. The 20-week program, which will crop abode every Saturday morning amid September 26 and next April, is recruiting Scarborough accouchement amid the ages of 7 and 13.
"For some of the kids, the allotment absolutely isn't the basketball," says organizer and business assistant Vern Kennedy of endure year’s countdown program. "It’s an befalling to get some added advice in English and math. We had one adolescent babe who was accurately absorbed in acquirements how to address well."
Each Saturday, participants will accept 30 or 60 account of apprenticeship in a accountable they charge advice in, again the apprenticeship moves assimilate the balk for a half-hour of basketball apprenticeship and a half-hour of house-league play. Kennedy adopted the abstraction from his acquaintance Claude Nembhard, who has accomplished basketball to accouchement in North York and York Region.
Centennial would like to draw kids from the Malvern neighbourhood in northeast Scarborough, with a appropriate accent on boys and girls in grades 7 and 8. The adolescence will be bused from the Malvern Town Centre to Ashtonbee Campus at no cost. Corporate sponsors such as Telus, Canadian Tire and Boston Pizza are altruistic banknote and articles to advice acquit costs.
"The Centennial College Student Association provided our advance advisers and they did a absurd job," says Kennedy. "I can't say abundant about the adroitness and charge apparent by our own academy students, who gave up 20 mornings to plan with these kids."
Kennedy, who teaches business and advertising, says introducing youngsters to a academy campus now will advice them feel beneath abashed by post-secondary apprenticeship in the future.
For added advice and to annals a adolescent in this chargeless association colleges program, amuse appointment www.centennialcollege.ca/playitsmart or alarm 416-289-5000, ext. 3273.
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