MALVERN, Pa., June 25, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- Frontline Education today announced it is working
with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), to bring voice-activated
access to data and insights to the K-12 education
community. The new
Frontline Education skill for Amazon Alexa will
help drive a strategic human capital management focus for districts
across the country.
The Frontline Education skill for Amazon
Alexa provides easy, on-demand access to critical data and
actionable insights, hosted on AWS, through Alexa-enabled
devices, allowing education leaders to make informed decisions
about attracting, engaging, growing and retaining educators – an
enormous and increasingly complex effort due to the nationwide
teacher shortage and retention issues. K-12 school
systems nationwide need fast access to their data in order to
operate efficiently and effectively on a daily basis and
voice-activated district flash reports provide instant
access. After enabling the skill, educators and district
leaders will be able to easily access the data
and actionable insights by saying, "Alexa, open Frontline
Education."
"Frontline is excited to work with Amazon Web Services,
providing K-12 education leaders with easy, on-demand access to
data and actionable insights that enable informed decision-making
and drives strategic alignment to their goals," said Tim Clifford, president and CEO, Frontline
Education. "Through Amazon Alexa, we are making critical education
data, insights and comparative benchmarking metrics more
accessible for district leaders in support of their human capital
management initiatives."
Frontline Education is unveiling the new technology at ISTE 2018
in Chicago, the largest
educational technology conference in America. An
advanced demonstration of this new offering, which is
slated for official release in early 2019, will be available
at the Frontline Education booth #1880 at the ISTE
conference.
Frontline Education is the nation's leading provider
of dedicated K-12 human capital management solutions.
The Frontline Insights Platform delivers integrated insights and
award-winning administrative solutions to more than 12,000
educational organizations, 80,000 schools and millions of
educators. With access to millions of aggregated records,
Frontline provides key insights, trends and benchmarks
for the K-12 education community.
"When administrators have better access to key data, they can
more effectively engage with students and educators to facilitate
better student outcomes," said Andrew
Ko, Director of Education, Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon
Web Services, Inc. "We're pleased to be working with Frontline to
provide easier access to information that school administrators
need each day, saving them time and allowing them to make critical
decisions faster."
A pilot program with several school districts will
launch in Fall 2018. Participating districts are able to
request District Flash Briefings, from data hosted on AWS,
through their Alexa-enabled device. Instantly, Alexa provides
real-time updates on key performance indicators from teacher fill
rates and application status to professional development and
evaluation management data. Additionally, Alexa may be prompted to
provide comparative metrics regionally as well as state or
nationwide.
Benchmarking data from the Frontline Research & Learning
Institute is validated and has been recognized as
nationally-representative by the Johns Hopkins
University Center for Research & Reform in
Education.
The new Frontline skill for Amazon Alexa will continue to
evolve with more key insights and functionality
including predictive artificial intelligence capabilities to
support the K-12 education community, including a focus on
professional growth and support for individual
educators.
About Frontline Education
Frontline Education is an integrated insights partner serving
more than 12,000 educational organizations, over 80,000 schools and
millions of educators, administrators and support personnel in
their efforts to develop the next generation of learners. With
nearly 20 years of experience serving the front line of education,
Frontline Education is dedicated to providing actionable insights
that enable informed decisions and drive engagement across school
systems.
Bringing together the best education software solutions into one
unified platform, Frontline makes it possible to efficiently and
effectively manage the administrative needs of the education
community, including their recruiting and hiring, absence and time
management, professional growth, special education and employee
records management. Frontline Education corporate headquarters are
in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with
offices in Andover,
Massachusetts, Austin, TX, Rockville Centre, New York, Salt Lake
City, Utah and Chicago,
Illinois.
Learn more at www.FrontlineEducation.com
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