SAS® education and administrative technology prominent at CoSN 2011

Topics include 1-to-1 learning, analytics, hosted administrative solutions, online curriculum

NEW ORLEANS, LA  (Mar. 14, 2011)  – The many ways SAS^® technology improves K-12 education highlight this week's Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) annual conference. Education leaders will discuss SAS® Curriculum Pathways® online resource deployments in 1-to-1 learning environments and uses of SAS K-12 administrative solutions to improve district and school performance. 

• Randie Allen of Coronado Unified School District will discuss how analytics and reporting support transparency and accountability and ensure compliance. Coronado uses a hosted SAS solution to integrate historical data sources and better communicate performance to leadership. Facing a growing student population and budget cuts, district leaders can improve resource allocation and decision making. 
• Winston-Salem/Forsyth County (NC) Schools is transforming teaching and learning using the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education to gain a holistic view of district data. Betty Weycker, WS/FCS Assistant Superintendent of Technology, will detail the district’s secure data warehouse containing testing and Adequate Yearly Progress results. WS/FCS’s data initiatives speed reporting and analysis to improve project and program evaluation.  
• Dr. Matthew Constant, Director of Instructional Technology for Daviess County (KY) Public Schools, will discuss the 1-to-1 learning program that established the laptop as an indispensable learning tool for 3,100 high schoolers. He will highlight the use of SAS Curriculum Pathways across disciplines. 

With the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education, school and district leaders can consolidate and analyze vast amounts of raw data, turning it into usable insight. Bringing together data on student achievement, finances, human resources, facilities, transportation and other information provides a clear picture of the organization. 

Said Weycker, "School administrators can spend their time interpreting data instead of collecting it, and relay targeted student information to classroom teachers that helps them focus on the needs of individual students."

SAS provides a data-driven approach to improving performance – without new staff, costly hardware or lengthy implementations. The hosted solution integrates data across a district and equips all decision makers with self-service reporting. Users can develop scorecards that support transparency and strategy maps that make performance measurement relevant and meaningful. 

"We were able to customize our SAS system to fit our needs. It consolidates and surfaces the data ready for analysis and reporting. The hosted environment means we can allocate our IT resources strategically to support instructional priorities instead of administration," said Allen.

SAS Curriculum Pathways, used in all 50 states by more than 50,000 teachers and 10,000 schools, provides standards-based content for middle and high schools in core academic disciplines – English, mathematics, social studies, science and Spanish. The offers more than 1,200 academic resources, including lessons, engaging activities and interactive teaching tools, plus links to more than 4,000 academically appropriate websites.

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