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Mariner Hosts Interactive Webinar Series for K12 Educators

February Session Features Teacher Portal that Improves Effectiveness and Collaboration

February 22, 2011 – Charlotte, NC – Aimee Nichols, educational consultant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will lead this month’s interactive webinar hosted by Mariner on February 24th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (see registration information below). Central office staff, principals, teachers and school board members are invited to participate in the webinar featuring SeeChange™ Instruction. This webinar is the third in a series of five that presents the elements that make up Mariner’s SeeChange™ Performance Management System. Ms. Nichols will share how SeeChange™ Instruction enables teachers to spend more time teaching and less time aggregating and disaggregating data. In addition, it fosters collaboration among educators, improving teaching effectiveness.

“SeeChange™ Instruction brings useful information together for teachers, providing them the details they need to be prepared to address the students’ needs on an individual basis in the best possible way,” said Ms. Nichols. “Teachers no longer need to spend valuable time in search of the information they need to perform their analyses – such as student performance evaluations – because the SeeChange™ Instruction portal gives them access to comprehensive information in a format that makes it easy for them to put it to use.”

“By providing useful data to teachers in an easy to use format, we allow teachers to focus their energies and creativity on inspired instruction for all students” said David “Fitz” Fitzgerald, Mariner’s Education Group Vice President. “Greater student achievement is a portion of what can be accomplished as SeeChange™ Performance Management is practiced across the entire district. Focusing on transparency, accountability and improvements in every area - from administrators to parents – opens the door to helping students reach their full potential.”

See the reaction of teachers and board members as they are introduced to SeeChange™ Instruction.

This month’s webinar is part of a five part series that shows educators and district leaders how data can be organized and presented in dashboards to positively affect student learning and district operations.

Mariner's Education Group is a leading provider of performance management dashboards and scorecards for K12 school districts including superintendents, administrators, teachers, school boards and parents. Visit our website for more information.

Upcoming Web sessions:

February 24

SeeChange Instruction
Aimee V. Nichols is currently an educational consultant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has a B.S. and M.S. from The Florida State University and a M.S.A. from UNC Charlotte. She is a former principal and teacher and is currently working as a consultant. She has been a part of the SeeChange™ solution development team as an educator and as a subject matter expert. Read Aimee’s profile on LinkedIn.

This component provides principal and teacher portals to ensure alignment. Session geared for central office staff, principals, teachers and school board members.

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March 17
SeeChange Plans
This component helps districts create a cycle of continuous improvement including district strategic planning and individual school improvement planning. Session geared for principals, superintendents and central office staff. Watch a preview
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April 21
SeeChange Community
This component gets everyone involved in helping students learn. Session geared for central office staff, principals, teachers and school board members.
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To sign up for the February 24th, as well as the remaining web sessions, please go to: http://www.mariner-usa.com/news/briefEvents.aspx

Archives of the SeeChange™ Performance Management System series are available as each session is presented. View SeeChange Overview and SeeChange Data Foundation.

About Mariner
For more than a decade, Mariner has helped clients in the education, utility, healthcare and other industries organize, use and share data to improve productivity, collaboration and decision making. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with specializations in Business Intelligence and Data Platform Solutions, Mariner leads organizations in translating strategy into action. The company’s mission is to help clients achieve financial and operational goals by making improvements in organizational alignment – from senior managers to front line workers. By adhering to its mission, Mariner has emerged at the forefront of performance-based, improvement-centered technology solutions. Mariner’s success in helping clients to leverage their data through the use of business intelligence, data warehousing, business scorecards and performance management dashboards, it has earned recognition as Microsoft’s 2010 US Public Sector K12 Education Partner of the Year, TDWI’s 2009 Best Practices Implementation Partner Award Winner and Microsoft’s 2008 Worldwide Partner of the Year in Performance Management Solutions. Mariner-Insight to Achieve. www.mariner-usa.com.

For additional information:
Contact Sally Phillips, Director of Marketing, Mariner
Tel. 704.943.5222
Email sally.phillips@mariner-usa.com

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