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 A Kentucky School District was commended for their professional development initiative, and implementation of the software product pdCentral.
pdCentral is an innovative program to manage and provide data which is used as a tool to better facilitate the overall district professional
development experience, as well as individual school professional development programs. This made for a well rounded and comprehensive professional
development experience that is both meaningful and functional…
…Through the use of this software product, the district was able not only to monitor professional development,
but also to evaluate the understanding of and its effective use in the classroom setting on student performance. They were also able to
monitor whether the professional development was tied to both the comprehensive district/school improvement plan.” - Review of pdCentral v1.0
Kentucky School District Audit - 2006
Kentucky Department of Education, Frankfort, KY pdCentral System The KiZAN pdCentral system allows you to more comprehensively monitor and manage your Professional Development and insure your organization is realizing maximum value. | Features | Benefits | | Web-based product | - Accessible from any computer with Internet Explorer and Internet access.
- No need to worry about data backups.
- No additional installations or configurations needed.
| | Online proposals, routing, and approval of new professional development requests | - Paperless approval process.
- Manage all new professional development requests in one location.
- Professional development providers are notified instantly of their approval status.
- EILA proposals have their own pre-approval process for EILA code assignment.
| | Advertised list of all approved professional development available | - No need to distribute paper catalogs to district employees.
- All approved professional development is instantly advertised, giving users constantly updated list of available professional development.
- Participants can register online with no form to be completed.
- Participants can wait list if a professional development session is full, with automatic registration when a seat becomes available.
| | Individual profiles, growth plans, and credit history | - View online your earned and potential credit history.
- Manage your entire profile, including certification status, biography, and growth plan.
- Completion certificates available online for all completed professional development.
| | Reports with easy filtering, printing and exporting capability | - Generate reports for an individual professional development session, a school, or an entire district.
- With one click reports can be easily printed.
- All reports can be exported to Excel or PDF for additional analysis.
- Find out what participants need additional follow-up after attending a session.
| | Rosters, Evaluations and Document Libraries | - Assign online documents to new professional development requests, including configuring security so only certain people can see the material.
- Online roster where credit options, participants and attendance can all be managed.
- Sign-sheets can be printed easily for the day of the session.
- Online evaluations must be completed by participants in order to receive credit for attending the session.
- Statistical reporting on all completed evaluations.
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Breaking News about SQL Server 2008 R2
3/1/2010 1:33:29 PM
New features and pricing changes set for April 1, 2010
As you may know, the next version of SQL is set to release. This latest version, now referred to as SQL Server 2008 R2, will offer some significant technological advances. Three of those noteworthy changes are as follows: - Ability to save hundreds of millions of rows of data in a single web page with real-time updating and charts. Finance and actuarial teams have been clamoring for this.
- Create ‘pure’ data by enforcing policies, rules, etc. on information from users before it gets pushed to production data sources – SQL Server or not. I can see how this would help make decisions more accurate, timely, and confident.
- Ability to now view database and resource performance in a dashboard rather than relying on logs and analysis. The IT folks can more quickly add, reallocate/remove, and optimize resources.
SQL Server 2008 R2 will also have a price change beginning April 1st. In summary, here is a quick snapshot of those changes: - Standard Processors are targeted for 25% increase
- Enterprise Processors are targeted for 15% increase
- Datacenter and Parallel Data Warehouse Processor licensing – 2X compared to Enterprise
It is our job to make sure your organization has full visibility to these changes and has a solid plan for the next 12 months. If you would like to further discuss how it may apply to your situation and determine what, if anything, we should do about it, contact KiZAN for a personal consultation.
Mike Spence
KiZAN
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