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Lotus Connections Enables Better Student Education at a

Large Metropolitan School District

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Customer Information

Large Urban School District

1400+ schools

90,000 Teachers, Principals and Administrators

1,000,000+ students

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Customer Challenges

Need one, easy to view location and provide principals and teachers innovative ways of working together to give the highest quality education and support to all students

Need tools to give educators and parents clear insight into critical student performance information

Need to improve instruction and increase student achievement

Need to speed the location of key expertise across the schools to address specific student challenges

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Participants

Solution: Leverage Lotus Connections services within a Portal application for Educators and Parents

Provides educators and parents access to exam results and will be designed to help teachers identify and share effective practices and skillsets

Example Use Case

A teacher trying to help a student struggling with geometry

The teacher can search for best practices on geometry instruction and get contact information for teachers across the school system identified as having strong skills in that area

The teacher could see important content from those expert teachers and collaborate with them to learn how to address their student’s issues most effectively

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Business Value

Improve access and visibility of best practices, methods and content for teachers

Reduce the time and effort to find critical expertise across a school or the broader education system

Reduce the time for new teachers and administrators to become productive and connected with their peers

Increase the interaction and collaboration across teachers, principals, and administrators

Provide the foundation platform for future expansion to online connection with parents and students