CoreFour, Inc. focuses on enhancing family engagement in education to boost student achievement, highlighting the impact of parental involvement as significant as tutoring. The Family Engagement in Education Act of 2011 aims to strengthen this connection, recognizing the dissatisfaction educators have with current communication and management tools. EDSBY is introduced as a solution that integrates social networking with classroom management and is designed for efficiency, scalability, and improved communication among educators, students, and parents.

1. © 2011 CoreFour, Inc.

2. BROUGHT TO YOU BY COREFOUR INC.
Started in 2010
Four founders
Together for 25+ years
Proven track record
Creating globally successful products

3. OUR
FOCUS
DRIVING ENGAGEMENT
IN EDUCATION

4. ENGAGEMENT WORKS
“Just asking your child how was their school day
and showing genuine interest in the learning that
they are doing can have the same impact as hours of
private tutoring.”
Andreas Schleicher, Head of Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD

5. THE HIGH LEVEL
MISSION
“Do what's necessary to give every child a chance to
succeed. That responsibility begins not in our classrooms,
but in our homes and communities. It's family that first
instils the love of learning in a child.”
(President Barack Obama: State Of The Union Address, January 2011)

6. FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
ACT OF 2011
To strengthen families' engagement in the education of their children
“Family engagement can raise student
academic achievement so substantially that
schools would need to increase spending by
more than $1,000 per pupil to gain the same
results.”
Sponsors: Rep. Todd Platts (R-PA19), Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4)

7. BUT…
WHO HELPS US GET
THERE?

8. TODAY’S
PARENT
COMMUNICATION
CHANNEL

9. TODAY’S
ASSESSMENT
MANAGEMENT TOOL

10. TODAY’S
PERFORMANCE
TRACKING TOOL

11. EDUCATORS ARE DISSATISFIED WITH
TODAY’S SOlUTIONS
Dissatisfaction
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Tracking student attendance
Managing grades
Parent access to grades & progress
Generating student performance reports
Speed of entering and retrieving data
Adequacy for both teachers and students
Ease of use
Education Community Attitudes Toward SIS/LMS Solutions, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
survey of 1,010 teachers and 716 administrators and technology leaders in 2011
70%
80%
90%
100%

12. TRANSFORMATIVE
TECHNOLOGIES HAVE
EMERGED

13. THE NATURE OF
“ENGAGEMENT”
IS CHANGING

15. WHO CAN HELP US
APPLY
THE NEW
TECHNOLOGIES?

16. PLEASE GIVE A
WARM WELCOME
TO…

17. Edsby blends SOCIAL
NETWORKING
and CLASSROOM
MANAGEMENT
into the world's best
EDUCATION
ENGAGEMENT
PLATFORM.

18. EDSBY HELPS
EDUCATORS
"I really, really want my kids to do well.
In class, in school, in life. But I don't
really have any time at all to do any
extra work. And the systems I have to
work with are so hard to use I just sort of
give up."

19. EDSBY HELPS
LEARNERS
“I lost my math assignment again and
my mom got really mad. And I think that
printing stuff and sending it home is
really bad for the environment.”

20. EDSBY HELPS
PARENTS
"Last term Julie almost failed
math, and the first we knew
was when we saw her report
card. Can't we get information
like this sooner?"

21. EDSBY HELPS
ADMINISTRATORS
"I want to make a difference, to
provide leadership. But I sometimes
feel like I'm in an impossible
position. And when parents call,
I don't always have the answers."

22. EDSBY HELPS
OVERCOME
The compartmentalization of learning

23. EDSBY HELPS
BUILD
Professional Learning Communities

24. EDSBY LIVES IN THE
CLOUD
runs on advanced cloud servers
designed for extreme speed and scalability
built for district-wide deployment

25. EDSBY IS TIMELY
One-to-one computing is on the rise
Teachers need efficiency and are seeking out
collaboration tools

26. IDENTITY
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
EDSBY
BELIEVES IN…
INTEGRATION,
NOT
DUPLICATION
SIF
OpenID/Oauth
Active Directory
LDAP
SMTP
mailto/callto
STUDENT
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
GROUPWARE
SYSTEM
LEARNING
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

27. www.edsby.com