PDCentral

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.
      All news

      KiZAN is hiring Marketing Associates

      12/14/2010 2:53:58 PM

      KiZAN is Hiring Marketing Associates

      KiZAN Technologies is an information technology (IT) professional services firm with headquarters in Louisville Kentucky. Our mission is to be the first choice for creating and deploying leading-edge information technology solutions and for educating information technology professionals.

      KiZAN is seeking two highly energetic, goal oriented, assertive and competitive individuals with exceptional rapport building skills to contact potential customers/prospects by telephone. The successful associates in this role will become the main source of new business leads for KiZAN.  Our successful candidates will set appointments for KiZAN team members by leveraging the telephone and by supporting marketing programs.  The majority of the work (over 75%) will be accomplished through telephone calls to potential customers. The purpose of these roles are to create NEW opportunities for KiZAN with NEW accounts only.  

      Some of the Requirements are: 

      • Post high school education at an associates degree level or equivalent experience.
      • Telephone sales/service desk experience with any of the following:  IT services and products, managed IT services, or IT consulting.
      • Possess a track record of quality performance with telephone sales or telephone customer service.
      • Excellent communication skills are required, both written and oral along with strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills.
      • Proficient with general office applications; knowledge of Microsoft Office preferred.
      • Ability to multi-task and adapt to changes quickly.
      • Typing skills to ensure quick and accurate data.
      • Self-motivated with the ability to work in a fast moving environment

      If you are interested in joining our award-winning team, then let us know!

      Please email your resume to:  MikeS@kizan.com

      Mike Spence

      KiZAN.com

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