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Helios Tech Presents on Technology for HR and Compliance Reporting at the Charter
Schools Conference 2009
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For Immediate Release
Contact:
800.345.1947
info at heliosedu.com
Long Beach, CA – March 11, 2009 – Charter School Conference attendees
took away useful information from a workshop on "Technology Solutions for HR and
Compliance Reporting". The workshop presented by Helios Tech focused on how technology
can help tackle the arduous tasks of generating reports and managing HR data.
The workshop focused on issues such as recommendations-driven evaluations.
Helios software allows teachers, administrators, and the school work together, achieving
teacher effectiveness. Thus, Helios is a recommendations-based, collaborative model.
Such a model will help schools plan effectively for professional development and
foster HQT targets. Participants walked away with a free evaluation rubric
created by Helios Tech based on this model. One participant suggested: “Completed
evaluations can yield very useful results. Once aggregated, an evaluation summary
can show which elements or recommendations were cited the most for all teachers
together”. The workshop covered professional development tracking as well.
Compliance reporting is a big pain for schools, with increasing regulation from
local to the federal level. Bigger public school districts with relatively larger
budgets are able to devise tools and hire staff to deal with the mammoth tasks.
However, charter schools need cost-saving, low budget support so they can effectively
meet compliance needs. Helios relieves charter schools of this pain.
Presenters cited case studies of prominent charter schools that Helios Tech has
worked with and the benefits these charter schools received from Helios. Helios
Tech client schools have able to share information and knowledge across alternative
platforms demonstrating how Helios helped them go through WASC accreditation and
audits.
Participants also saw a demo of Helios along with its latest 2009 features of electronic
document management and the new QEIA reports. "This looks like a very useful tool
for complete HR management and is a must-have for us charter schools," commented
a participant from ICEF charter schools.
The session included technology funding resources. Presenters drew material from
Stanford Research Institute's research in 2002 on Teacher Information System as
well as various other studies. The conference is attended by representatives of
charter schools all across California - a state that has one of the highest charter
school population at 621 charter schools.
Schools and researchers can read the
presentation notes and white paper here. Download the
evaluation rubric here.
Helios presenter William Arguello presents Session 1 at the Conference Workshop
Workshop presentation in progress on HR and Compliance strategies
Participants viewing the demo of Helios
Helios Tech presenters helping attendees with questions
About Helios Tech – Helios Tech is a provider of pioneering web-based
solutions for education management. The flagship product Helios enables schools
and universities to manage human resources and reporting more efficiently and comply
with crucial federal and state regulations. With over 100 built-in reports and easy
to use features, Helios elevates critical functions such as employee and student
intern evaluations, and compliance reporting to a whole new dimension of effectiveness.
DocWonder module helps manage and access paper documents quickly.
Schools and universities save nearly 75% time in managing credentials and compliance
data with Helios. Helios helps comply with No Child Left Behind, Williams law, QEIA,
CBEDS, Assignment Monitoring and Title I. Helios enables universities with teacher
education programs to manage and evaluate their students more effectively. The company
is an approved IT provider by the California Department of Education under its Microsoft
K-12 voucher program.
For more information, contact Yash Sharman at 800.345.1947 or ysharma at heliosedu
dot com or visit www.heliosedu.com.
Helios costs you nothing - It actually saves you dollar costs significantly! For
a free trial/demo, call 1.800.345.1947.
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