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Press Releases  Bloomfield, NM Schools to Streamline Operations through New Online Administrative and Instructional Programs Rural New Mexico School District Licenses Concert™ Instruction and Assessment, and Concert Business Web-based Applications for Both the Classroom and Business Office Developed by Pearson Education Technologies, the Concert online education community is the first all-inclusive family of integrated Web-based applications for K-12 education. Concert links together all the functions of a school district, enabling school district leaders to manage their entire educational enterprise effectively and efficiently. "In a small school district like ours, many
people wear many hats. We need to make it as easy as we can for
people to do their jobs—without
having to learn multiple systems," said Sondra Adams, director
of technology for the Bloomfield School District. “Implementing
Concert on the instruction and business sides concurrently will
help us streamline our operations and provide people with easy
access to the information they need to make data-driven decisions.” Concert Instruction and Assessment Concert Instruction & Assessment combines standards-aligned instruction, lesson planning, assessment, and educational content to help students, parents, teachers, and administrators achieve success. According to Adams, the Bloomfield School District will use Concert Instruction and Assessment to provide teachers with access to online lesson planning and curriculum resources in the classroom and at home—whenever they need them. In addition, the district will utilize Concert to meet state requirements in testing, performance, and data-driven decision making. “The state of New Mexico is moving toward performance-based
education and performance-based budget planning. They call it ‘PB
squared,’” said Adams. “As a result, we need
to be able to better track our testing and provide teachers with
long-term assessment results on every child so they can make better
instructional plans. Concert Instruction and Assessment will allow
us to pull lesson planning, instruction, assessment and student
performance management into one system to help us become more efficient
and effective in our instruction. Concert Business will help us
gather the data we need for the performance-based program budgeting
piece required by the state.” Concert Business Concert Business is a Web-based suite of integrated applications designed specifically for the K-12 business office. Part of the Concert online education community, Concert Business is comprised of three application suites: Finance, Procurement, and Human Resources. “Concert Business will help us streamline labor-intensive processes, electronically distribute more information to more people, and reduce paperwork and printing issues. In addition, by tying human resources to finance and procurement, it will eliminate duplicate data entry and potential errors,” said Adams. The Bloomfield School District will begin to roll out Concert
Instruction and Assessment and Concert Business in 2003. Pearson
Education Technologies will provide implementation management,
installation, training, and support services. About the Bloomfield School District The Bloomfield School District serves 3,315 preK-12 students
across eight schools. Bloomfield Schools’ attendance area
covers approximately 1,500 square miles. The district’s
student population is approximately one-third Caucasian, one-third
Hispanic, and one-third Navajo. More than 60 percent of students
receive free and reduced-price lunches. About Pearson Education Technologies With more than 40 years of experience in developing, delivering, and supporting curriculum, assessment, and enterprise data management products, Pearson Education Technologies is the leader in offering comprehensive solutions for preK-12 education. Reaching more than 10 million students annually, our products include the SASIxp™ student information system, SuccessMaker® Enterprise and NovaNET® comprehensive courseware systems, and Concert™ Instruction & Assessment, the online education community. Pearson Education Technologies is part of Pearson Education (NYSE: PSO), the world's leading integrated education company. For more information about Pearson Education Technologies, call
1.877.EdTech1. Contact Matt Murphy, Corporate Communications Manager
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