Prasolus Opens Office in Dallas with Plans to Radically Improve the Quality of Education for K-12 Students
Released on = November 2, 2006, 7:31 am
Press Release Author = Anna Clark
Industry = Education
Press Release Summary = Prasolus offers the only educational enhancement process to integrate digital devices into K-12 classrooms that enable teachers to dynamically tailor the curriculum to each individual, dramatically improving test scores and student engagement.
Press Release Body = DALLAS, Texas - November 6, 2006 - Prasolus, the only company to design and implement a digital process enabling K-12 teachers to dynamically tailor their curriculum to each student, is pleased to announce the formation of a new branch office in Dallas. This new Prasolus Dallas location will better serve participating North Texas school districts.
Prasolus' new offices are located on the 7th floor of The Crescent at 100 Crescent Court in Dallas. Prasolus will employ eight staff in the 2,200 square-foot Dallas offices, which feature a multifunctional room for teachers' and administrators' professional development and parental engagement workshops. During the academic year 2006-2007, Prasolus will allocate $100,000 to building a presence in the Dallas area. Prasolus plans over $300,000 in expenditures in Dallas during academic year 2007-2008.
Dr. Joe Nichols founded Prasolus to accelerate the learning, engagement, and achievement of K-12 students. Prasolus was conceptualized when his doctoral dissertation research led to the discovery of an ever-widening divide between traditional "paper-based" teachers and what he terms "digital learners." Dr. Nichols and a dedicated team created the Prasolus methodology to bridge generational and socio-economic gaps that exist between teachers and students, thus reducing the "frustration index" of educational practitioners and increasing the engagement of students.
School districts currently using Prasolus have already reported improved performance on benchmark exams and greater success rates on TAKS test. In one case, a Chemistry teacher, whose class typically scores in the bottom 25th percentile, observed a 93% passage rate on his students' performance during the 11th grade exit-level science TAKS test.
Prasolus' results-driven process enables teachers to cover the approved curriculum in greater depth and breadth, greatly increasing teacher efficacy. Prasolus increases student attendance and decreases discipline problems. In short, Prasolus helps more kids do more work, more enthusiastically, more quickly, and more accurately. Three Texas superintendents have declared Prasolus, "the future of education."
"Those individuals who seek to achieve a 'new normal' and create positive generational impacts are rapidly embracing our unique and supportive processes utilizing technology and are quickly becoming catalysts for change in the most progressive school systems," said Nichols. "This new branch offers the Dallas and surrounding areas the ability to tap into our resources in a collaborative manner and technologies with amazing results for the children, digital learners that they are."
Prasolus offers a 60-day intensive pilot program called the "District Discovery Phase" for school districts interested in trying out Prasolus, at a cost ranging from $35,000 to $50,000, which includes an appropriate volume of the following internal user resources (a) Student Engagement and Learning Gear, (b) Teacher Freedom and Mobility Bundle, and (c) Administrator Access and Involvement Tool.
Prasolus will be implemented in school districts throughout Texas via a business model that resembles a franchise. The Prasolus opportunity has been designed for application to K-12 school environments nationwide, with international potential. The Prasolus process will be applied to educational environments in Vietnam and Mexico beginning in 2007.
About Prasolus Prasolus is an education enhancement process utilizing supportive training and leading-edge technology to bridge the ever-widening divide between traditional paper-based teachers and digital learners. Prasolus equips K-12 classrooms with relevant, digitally-based tools to provide teachers with instantaneous meaningful feedback on students' learning of concepts being taught. Prasolus' web-based application called "EDDY" is the only program that allows teachers to dynamically tailor the curriculum to meet individual learning needs, dramatically accelerating the learning, engagement, and achievement of each student.
The company can be found online at www.prasolus.com.
Web Site = http://www.prasolus.com
Contact Details = Anna Clark 9191 Garland Rd., #1125 Dallas, TX 75218 (214) 597-0367 anna@blabbermouthpr.com