School Town and netTrekker Partner to Enhance 21st Century Learning Skills
School Town’s Learning Environment Integrates with Educator-Selected Resources from netTrekker Empowering Teachers, Students and Parents
Cincinnati, OH, June 29, 2009 – School Town, an innovator in 21st Century learning skills for K-12 education, and netTrekker, a leader in the delivery of digital K-12 educational content, today launched a joint instructional solution that meets the challenges of 21st century learning. School Town’s learning environment engages students, parents and teachers in personalized learning and is now —with a single login—fully integrated with netTrekker’s contextually relevant, safe, and easy-to-use educational database of over 300,000 educator-selected digital resources.
Through the partnership, School Town and netTrekker empower teachers to deliver engaging personalized assignments, students to learn time management, collaboration and other 21st Century Skills, and parents to participate in their child’s education.
School Town integrates netTrekker at the assignment level so educators can link to netTrekker’s valuable database of educator-selected digital resources for specific assignments. Educators can easily link to any of netTrekker’s tools such as “My Portfolio” or state or provincial standards aligned digital resource content with a single click. Assignments can be differentiated at both group and individual levels with straightforward tools that allow teachers to provide varying resources in a much easier, and less time-consuming manner than today's approaches provide.
Students can log into School Town to access the assignment and netTrekker resources from anywhere. School Town allows students to submit their assignment, safely interact with their teacher and securely collaborate with other students in their classroom. The partnership allows netTrekker to distribute School Town’s platform and School Town to distribute netTrekker.
The integrated solution was conceived with leadership from the New York Public Schools department of education as part of their grant for 21st Century classrooms. Several New York City model schools have adopted the integrated educational resources of School Town and netTrekker.
About School Town
Founded in 2007, School Town is an innovative company serving K-12 education. School Town’s 21st century learning environment improves student achievement, gives teachers more time and insight, and provides parent access to their child’s performance. The platform was designed by K12 teachers to engage students in personalized learning and to keep parents informed. Students build technology literacy skills by using private and secure web2.0 tools as part of the extended classroom. School Town solutions deliver value in these important areas: technology literacy, resource integration, collaboration, organizational skills, personalized instruction, response to intervention, cyber-safety, online media storage and reduces paper consumption. School Town gives teachers more time, better insights, and allows individualized instruction. Ultimately, School Town helps students, teachers, and parents work together to improve every child’s education. For more information please visit www.schooltown.net or call 312-543-9010.
About netTrekker
netTrekker is a leader in the delivery of digital K-12 educational content. The company is dedicated to enhancing the education of today’s youth with highly effective technologies that deliver the rich educational value of the Internet to every child in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. netTrekker is the #1 educational search tool and was first to market with a standards-based solution utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks (www.AcademicBenchmarks.com), the premier provider of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools, and integration products. Peers, educators, and parents have honored netTrekker over 25 times for its contribution to education. In 2007, netTrekker was named the Best Education Solution in SIIA's CODiE award competition, and was named to the 2007 Inc. 5000 and 2006 Inc. 500 lists as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. The company was founded in 1999 by Robert Reinders and currently serves over 12 million students, 600,000 teachers, and 22,000 schools in all 50 states, and 12 Canadian provinces and territories. For more information visit www.netTrekker.com or phone 877-517-1125.
CONTACT:
For netTrekker:
Audrey Mann Cronin
Mann Cronin PR
914-861-2009
914-260-9651
audrey@manncroninpr.com
For School Town:
Michael Kritzman
312-543-9010
mkritzman@schooltown.net