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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>> 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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