FileMaker Press Release
Data-Driven Decision-Making and Budget Management FileMaker Pro Solutions Featured at 2007 Consortium for School Networking Conference (COSN)
Two conference sessions demonstrate how educators and administrators using FileMaker Pro in a variety of ways—including the iPod— tackle today’s key K12 challenges
On Thursday, March 29, 4:45 – 5:30 p.m., a session
entitled “Using Data-Driven Decision Making to Meet
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Goals” will be presented
by Bob Barboza, educator on special assignment for The School Tools
Design Group. Attendees will learn how educators from California
and Florida are collaborating in a new school productivity action
research project to find innovative ways to use database technology
and current action research to meet their adequate yearly progress
(AYP) goals. The session will summarize a five-year phase of
researching and testing lesson planners, electronic portfolios,
electronic individual educational plans (IEPs), and observation
tools for administrators, teachers, and parents, culminating in the
development of one integrated teacher and administrator
productivity tool which is used to manage instruction.
Anthony Dragona, business administrator, Union City Board of
Education, Union City, New Jersey, and Grace Poli, media specialist
for Jose Marti Middle School, Union City, New Jersey, will
present “Streamlining Resource Allocation to
Improve Student Performance,” 9:30-10:15 a.m, Friday,
March 30. The session will detail how the Union City School
District achieved optimal teacher and resource matching using a
FileMaker Pro database solution for data-driven decision-making.
Using their FileMaker Pro-based solutions, the school district
improved performance against state requirements and achieved
compliance with Federal “No Child Left Behind”
guidelines.
Ms. Poli will also present the results of having employed
FileMaker Pro database technology and iPods to improve student
performance.
FileMaker database software helps schools in collecting, managing
and reporting on student and administrative data. More than 10,000
K-12 schools use FileMaker in their data-driven decision-making
processes to achieve greater operational efficiency, comply with
federal and state reporting requirements, and track student
performance.
Teaching Pre K-8 Magazine recently selected FileMaker Pro 8.5 as
its “Editor’s Choice” award as the
top educational database software. The software also recently
received a 2006 Legacy Award from Technology & Learning
Magazine.
Educators can download a 30-day free trial of FileMaker Pro 8.5
which includes the K-12 Education Starter Kit, featuring five
education starter solutions, a K-12 resource guide, and a student
assessment white paper at
www.filemakertrial.com/k-12
. Trial CDs will also be distributed in the FileMaker booth while
supplies last.
About FileMaker, Inc.
FileMaker Pro is used by millions of individuals and workgroups
around the world to be more productive and efficient. Business,
education and government customers rely on FileMaker to manage
people, projects, images, assets and other information. In addition
to being the number one-selling easy-to-use database software, the
award-winning FileMaker product line also includes low-cost
Applications that automate basic business tasks, ready-to-use
Starter Solutions, and tools to create and share solutions from the
desktop to the web. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Inc.
Customer contact:
800-325-2747
http://www.filemaker.com
Media contact:
Kevin Mallon
408-987-7227
kevin_mallon@filemaker.com
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