Learning Pays.com to Give Away $5,000 in Education Technology Services in Honor of the Florida Teacher of the Year.Business Editors/Technology & Education Writers FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000 Learning Pays.com (www.LearningPays.com), a leading education technology company, announced it will award $5,000 in technology and training services to the respective school of the Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and Teacher of the Year. The presentation will be made at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18 at the reception following the Florida Teacher of the Year announcement in Orlando. The reception, sponsored by Learning Pays, will be held at the Radisson Hotel (5780 Major Blvd, Orlando). Florida Education Commissioner Tom Gallagher
Tom Gallagher (born February 3 1944) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. will introduce Learning Pays CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder Mark Thimmig, who will then present the services certificate to the Florida Teacher of the Year on behalf of his or her school. The five semifinalists are: -- Joseph Balchunas of Fairway Elementary School in Miramar -- Anete Vasquez of Palm Harbor University High School in Palm Harbor -- Susan Roark of Chester A. Moore Elementary School in Fort Pierce -- James Manos of Lecanto Middle School in Lecanto -- Joli Hartzog of Roulhac Middle School in Chipley "We salute all of these teachers for their commitment to excellence and love of teaching," said Thimmig. "They make the world a better place for all of us by positively influencing our future leaders Future Leaders is a UK schools-led charitable organisation that aims to widen the pool of talented leaders especially for urban challenging secondary schools. It was founded in March 2006 by Nat Wei, a former founder of Teach First. -- today's students. We hope our contribution will add new technology tools to the Teacher of the Year's proven methods for boosting student achievement." Learning Pays.com is a comprehensive e-learning technology company whose mission is to provide tools and services that help improve student achievement, lower costs and streamline school operations. Its core product, The School Tool(SM), links parents, students and teachers securely and privately online. The Web-based tools include an interactive calendaring system, online registration for school activities, school-related e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , access to homework and progress reports, same-grade chats and links to real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. Web-cameras at school events. The company's e-solution's program assists educators with student administration, accounting, and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. . Learning Pays also has an e-services consulting division that provides schools with technological analysis, installation services and the industry's first grants consulting-service. The Fort Lauderdale-based company was founded in 1999. For more information, visit www.LearningPays.com. |
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