Fantastic news - well done all! On 28/05/10 17:53, David Welsh wrote: > Tom and the SchoolTool Team (Mark, Jeff, Alan, Douglas, Ignas, et al) -- > > Yes indeed, you have captured the broad strokes of the excellent > SchoolTool/CanDo news coming out of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The > NOVA project aims to couple SchoolTool/CanDo with Student Portfolios > using TaskStream (www.taskstream.com <http://www.taskstream.com>) in > the area of Automotive Technology to demonstrate the power of > standards-based evaluation and reporting. They have a significant > grant and their goal is lofty: To build a demonstration project that > can be replicated in many other places. It is a very significant project. > > The number of School Districts (each containing multiple schools) > reporting interest in implementing SchoolTool/CanDo NEXT YEAR in the > Virginia Commonwealth now totals 38 -- an almost overwhelming response > that shows that SchoolTool/CanDo is hitting critical mass, and that > the feedback from our second year of piloting across Virginia must be > quite positive. > > And yes, SchoolTool was nominated by my district -- the Arlington > Public Schools -- as our top business-industry partnership from this > past year, and subsequently was recognized among all projects > submitted as the top business-industry partnership in the > Commonwealth, earning you a "2010 Creating Excellence in Career & > Technical Education Award" (banquet in June with VA Governor > attending/presenting). > > My sincere congratulations to Tom Hoffman, Mark Shuttleworth, Jeff > Elkner and the entire team. These evolutions and recognitions of our > work are the result of multiple years of effort, creativity, > collaboration, passion and innovation... in other words, we're really > in a pickle now!!! > > --David Welsh > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Tom Hoffman <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Got a phone call from David Welsh yesterday with three pieces of > good news. > > 1) The Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) which collaborates > extensively with the Arlington Career Center through their Governor's > Academy, and is the second largest community college in the US with > over 72,000 (!?!) students, is going to start using CanDo as part of a > new initiative in career and technical education. > > 2) After this year's deployment of CanDo in Virginia Career and Tech > Centers in five counties, thirty eight sites have requested using > CanDo next year. I think we have a little unit mismatch > counties/sites, but regardless, it is a lot more, and clearly the > schools who are using CanDo are talking to the ones who aren't, and it > is growing. > > 3) SchoolTool and CanDo have won a statewide award for educational > partnerships in Virginia, out of, iirc, seven regional nominees. > > Now I just have to get David to fill in and write down a few more > details about some of this so I can get ready to have some excellent > PR to flog going forward. > > --Tom > >
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