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Teaching Strategies Launches Pre-K Curriculum that Pairs Play with Explicit Math and Literacy Instruction

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Informed by Strong Research and Educator Insights, New Curriculum Designed to Meet the Unique Needs of Young Learners, Teachers, and Families in the Critical Year Before Kindergarten

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Teaching Strategies, the leading developer of early childhood education solutions including the nation’s top-rated, most widely-used curriculum, The Creative Curriculum®, has launched a first-of-its-kind curriculum tailored to meet the needs of young learners, teachers, and families in the critical year before kindergarten. 

The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K leverages a whole-child approach that combines learning through hands-on, play-based studies with daily, explicit, and focused reading and math instruction to ensure students build the fundamental skills and experiences that will set them up for long-term academic success. It is rooted in decades of research on developmentally appropriate practices in learning and informed by over 45 years of insights from early childhood educators.

“We know children begin building a foundation for success in reading and math long before they enter kindergarten. We also know children learn best through inquiry and investigation,” said Dr. Nicol Russell, chief academic officer at Teaching Strategies. “That’s why we have evolved our curriculum to make more explicit to the teacher the daily focus on literacy skills like phonological awareness and mathematical concepts like connecting numerals and quantities and to do so in ways that are still enjoyed by children and nurture their social and emotional development.”

Among the highlights, The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K:

Embraces the science of reading. Today, just one in three fourth-grade students across the nation is proficient in reading, signaling an urgent need to build a strong foundation of reading and writing skills even before kindergarten. Rooted in the science of reading, the curriculum:promotes functional literacy through project-based studies that give children authentic reasons to read and write;develops children’s phonological and phonemic awareness through developmentally appropriate engagement;individualizes learning for each child through intentional, small-group language and literacy experiences; andprovides meaningful read-alouds and book discussions that nurture a love of reading.Addresses each child’s diverse, unique needs. The curriculum supports educators to create a classroom filled with experiences that honor children’s diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. It also provides valuable insight into a child’s progress and development to help meet the needs of every learner, including those with disabilities.

Inspires joyful learning. The project-based, hands-on curriculum is designed to spark children’s discovery, inquiry, and curiosity, while also building the confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills essential for academic and life success.

Saves teachers valuable time. The curriculum includes a user-friendly, digital platform that streamlines everyday tasks to help teachers maximize their time with their students. The curriculum allows teachers to:plan lessons for up to an entire year in a few clicks;view and customize daily resources;individualize instruction for all students with guided recommendations;document children’s learning progress in real time; connect with their peers through an online professional learning community of over 100,000 engaged educators; andreceive in-the-moment guidance from hundreds of microlearning videos as they prepare to facilitate activities.Connects the home and classroom. The curriculum makes it easy for educators to share classroom resources directly with families to help them support their children’s learning at home. Families have access to a mobile app that allows them to communicate with teachers, view those resources, and view videos of how to model activities with their children.

The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K builds on the strong foundation laid by The Creative Curriculum®, which is used by 90% of Head Start programs and by 4 out of 5 of the largest school districts. The curriculum is part of a connected ecosystem of early education solutions, which also includes assessment, reporting and analytics, family engagement, and professional development offerings.

About Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies® is the leading provider of early childhood curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement solutions. Its products, including the most widely used curriculum and assessment solutions, The Creative Curriculum® and GOLD®, are found in over 270,000 classrooms and more than 80 countries around the world and reach over 4 million children each year. A trusted partner and advocate for the early education community for 45 years, today Teaching Strategies connects teachers, children and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, insightful data, stronger family partnerships, and robust professional learning through SmartTeach™, the leading early learning platform. Learn more at www.teachingstrategies.com.

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Sifflet Achieves Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery Designation

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Getting the clarity needed to scale a complex data stack with Sifflet x BigQuery

PARIS, Oct. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sifflet has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery Designation. This milestone marks a significant step in its mission to give every data producer and user clarity into the health and quality of data, so everyone can make better business decisions.

 

 

Sifflet benefits include:

Proactive Data Quality Oversight: Sifflet’s integration with BigQuery establishes an additional layer of observability and allows companies to maintain the quality of your data, detecting hidden issues and addressing them proactively before they impact business operations.Enhanced Data Accessibility: With Sifflet, data teams can easily find and utilize your BigQuery data, reducing barriers between data producers and data consumers. This enables seamless collaboration and data-driven decision-making across the organization.In-depth Insights into Data Lifecycle: Connecting a BigQuery environment to Sifflet provides additional valuable insights into the creation, transformation, and consumption of data. This holistic view enhances the ability to manage and optimize data initiatives.

This integration has been enabled through a few key features that makes the data observability experience more effective:

BigQuery Metadata Enrichment: Sifflet further enhances BigQuery metadata with automated tagging, descriptions, field-level lineage computation with upstream and downstream systems, and actionable data asset monitoring.External Table Support: Sifflet allows to monitor external BigQuery tables based on Bigtable or Cloud Storage data. This enables end-to-end lineage on Sifflet no matter where the data is located.Optimized monitoring queries: Sifflet leverages multiple BigQuery capabilities, such as partitioning and metadata APIs, to run highly optimized queries when monitoring BigQuery assets (even when querying complex types like nested and repeated fields).

Achieving the Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery Designation means that Sifflet has met essential functional and interoperability requirements for integrating with BigQuery. This designation not only validates Sifflet’s integration but also ensures that Sifflet’s products work seamlessly with BigQuery.

Throughout this program, Sifflet has collaborated closely with Google Cloud’s partner engineering and BigQuery teams, refining the integration and developing joint roadmaps for future advancements such as expanding the partitioned tables support and adding support for share tables, ML models, and OAuth connectivity.

“The integration of Sifflet with Google Cloud’s BigQuery has transformed our approach to data observability at Carrefour Links. Thanks to Sifflet’s proactive oversight, we can identify and resolve potential issues before they impact our operations.” mentioned Medhi Labassi, CTO at Carrefour Links. “Additionally, the simplified access to data allows our teams to collaborate more effectively, fully harnessing the insights provided by BigQuery.”

This collaboration opens up new avenues for innovation and growth, as Sifflet is committed to further enhancing its capabilities and delivering even more value to customers through continued collaboration with Google Cloud. Sifflet’s goal remains steadfast: to support organizations everywhere with data they can rely upon.

To learn more about Sifflet’s expertise with Google Cloud and how Sifflet can benefit your organization, visit our website. For more information about the Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery program and its benefits, click here.

Sifflet gives organizations the clarity they need to scale a complex data stack with confidence. With a focus on innovation and collaboration, Sifflet leverages the power of BigQuery to provide unparalleled data observability and performance. With a rapidly growing customer base that includes leaders like Carrefour, BBC Studios, Servier, Penguin Random House and Etam, Sifflet has proven its value by providing essential tools for data cataloging, lineage tracking, and quality monitoring. The company’s recent momentum, paired with industry recognition for best ROI and fastest implementation, highlights its strong trajectory and commitment to simplifying data operations for companies worldwide.

 

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CONTACT: Romain Doutriaux, romain@siffletdata.com 

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Subject Line: Hunter Strategy Secures $631K Contract with NOAA for Data Flow Risk Assessment

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Hunter Strategy, LLC, a HUBZone-certified small business specializing in technology and cybersecurity solutions, has been awarded a $631,054.45 contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The 36-month contract focuses on providing Data Flow Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Target Modeling services for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).

The firm-fixed-price contract (Award ID: 1332KP24P0007) was competitively awarded under a small business set-aside, with Hunter Strategy selected among two bidders.

Kevin Belanga, Chief Growth Officer of Hunter Strategy, stated: “This contract with NOAA represents a significant opportunity for Hunter Strategy to apply our expertise in supply chain risk assessment and data modeling to support critical environmental monitoring systems. We’re excited to contribute to NOAA’s mission, enhancing the security and efficiency of their data management processes. This partnership aligns perfectly with our commitment to delivering innovative solutions that address complex challenges in the public sector.”

The project involves a various assessments of NESDIS’s data supply chain, identifying potential risks and developing targeted threat modeling strategies for NESDIS Systems. Hunter Strategy’s work will play a crucial role in enhancing the security and efficiency of NOAA NESDIS Systems. This award further establishes Hunter Strategy as a trusted partner for government agencies seeking advanced technology and cybersecurity solutions.

For more information about Hunter Strategy and its services, please visit www.hunterstrategy.net.

About Hunter Strategy:
Hunter Strategy is a HUBZone-certified small business delivering innovative technology and cybersecurity solutions to government and commercial clients. Focusing on security services, cloud solutions, and technology research, the company has built a reputation for technical excellence among federal customers and tailored services in highly regulated industries.

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Follow-Up Visits Can Significantly Reduce Post-Discharge Mortality and Readmissions for Highest Risk Patients

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today at NCQA, a leading health quality innovation conference, Houston Methodist and Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) jointly discuss the impact of focusing follow-up appointments on patients at high risk.

Houston Methodist and HDAI jointly discuss the impact of focusing follow-up appointments on patients at high risk

HDAI’s analysis of both Houston Methodist’s patients and a national dataset of over 10M Medicare patients demonstrated the effectiveness of targeted follow-up appointments for reducing mortality and readmissions for the top quintile of patients at risk of readmission and 30-day mortality within the first 14 days after discharge.

The data showed a distinct inverse correlation – when 14-day follow-up rates for patients increase, those patients are less likely to die post-discharge or readmit. For patients seen later than 14-days post-discharge or who are at lower predicted risk, there is small to no effect on mortality and readmissions.

Stuart Dobbs, M.D., Chief Quality Officer at Houston Methodist Hospital, states, “What we learned is another reminder that what you don’t know, you can’t measure, and what is not measured, usually is not improved. We have some of the lowest inpatient mortality rates in the country. However, our post discharge mortality rates were about average compared to large academic medical centers. We are now focused on scheduling high risk patients with a follow-up visit (within 14 days or less) prior to their hospital discharge.”  

Brenda Campbell, RN, Senior Consultant Houston Methodist Health System Innovations, added, “Risk stratification tools can assist organizations in prioritizing care based on the unique needs of patients while managing limited resources.”

HDAI’s HealthVision intelligent health platform was embedded in Houston Methodist’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) so that clinicians on the floors and in specialty clinics could identify and schedule appointments for the most impactable, high-risk patients before discharge. In addition to using the risk-ranked rosters, the clinicians use the patient chart summary to quickly assess any specific risks and key drivers of health, summarized and updated in real-time, to facilitate personalized care planning.

“By leveraging real-time EHR integration of advanced predictive analytics and generative AI, clinicians on the floors are identifying high-risk patients along with granular underlying drivers of risk to help create targeted follow-up plans,” adds Nassib Chamoun, Founder and CEO of HDAI and a co-presenter at NCQA. “It’s not about seeing more patients, which is not feasible with scarce resources, but about focusing on the right patients while also reducing the administrative burden on clinicians. Our collaboration with Houston Methodist highlights the transformative potential of data-driven approaches in enhancing patient care and optimizing health outcomes.”

The program is expanding to all the Houston Methodist hospitals with focus on continuously improving the processes and technology necessary for consistently high rates of post-discharge follow-up programs for patients with the greatest need.

About Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI)
HDAI, a HealthTech company, has created the first Intelligent Health Management System, HealthVision™. Powered by predictive analytics and generative AI, HealthVision allows clinicians to work smarter, not harder, helping to fight clinician burnout, improve care coordination, and lower overall costs. For more information, please visit: www.hda-institute.com and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/hdai.

Company contact: Carola Endicott, carola.endicott@hda-institute.com, 617-699-0725

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