NP Solutions Founder Elected to Foundation for Early Educations Board of Directors

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 17, 2010

The Foundation for Early Education (FEE), a California non-profit supporting Early Childhood Education organizations, has named Michael Golub, president and founder of NP Solutions (http://www.NPSol.com), to its Board of Directors. As a board member at large, Mr. Golub will help FEE and allied educational organizations implement best practices for accounting and financial management. Founded in 2001, FEE provides leadership training for administrators of early childhood development programs, charter schools, and other child-focused learning.

Golub sees a clear purpose in his participation. My goal is to help FEE develop a reliable set of best practices for non-profit accounting and financial management. In doing so, the organizations that are served by FEE, including early childhood development programs and charter schools, will have the tools and guidance they need to achieve their institutional goals and directives.

As founder of NP Solutions (http://www.NPSol.com), Golub brings a unique perspective to the board at FEE. Weve been helping non-profit organizations and governmental agencies meet their fund accounting, fund raising, payroll, and HR needs for more than 20 years. Even though NP Solutions implements non-profit software like Sage MIP Fund Accounting and Sage Fundraising 50, Golub is quick to point out, Were not just software vendors. Were completely immersed in the sector and understand the unique challenges of grant fund management, cost allocations, and other aspects of true fund accounting.

Golubs experience providing business consulting and technology services to Early Childhood Development programs, charter schools, and Head Start agencies will fill a need on the board at FEE. Golub adds, While the board members come from diverse backgrounds, they were in need of someone with extensive experience in non-profit finance and accounting. I think my role on the board will round out a wonderfully talented group of folks that are focused on giving back to the non-profit community. It will be very fulfilling work for me personally and Im really looking forward to it.

About NP Solutions

NP Solutions, Inc. is the leading reseller of the Sage MIP Non Profit Series accounting software in Southern California and Nevada. We specialize in serving the non-profit community, especially social service organizations, charter schools, research facilities, governmental agencies, religious foundations, and museums. We have over 140 clients; many in San Diego but we also have many clients in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Las Vegas.

Learn more at http://www.npsol.com.

About the Foundation for Early Education (FEE)

Founded in 2001, the Foundation for Early Education (FEE) is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization whose mission is to ensure the success of Californias children by providing early education research, leadership training and advocacy through public awareness. FEE formed its board of diverse individuals from the education, early care, and non-profit organizations in 2006. The Foundation works in partnership with the Child Development Policy Institute (CDPI) by providing information to CDPI to make the best informed budget and policy decisions and child advocacy positions to take in Sacramento that benefits the children of California. The Foundations research and information will inform CDPIs decisions and a highly skilled, informed field of early education professionals will be able to support CDPI in its efforts to advocate on behalf of children in California.

Learn more at http://www.foundationforearlyeducation.org.

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College Readiness Starts in pre-K with Waterford Early Learning

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) May 05, 2011

As the 42 states transitioning to the Common Core State Standards develop plans to make the monumental move to fewer, higher, and clearer learning benchmarks, more than one million of our youngest learners already have a jumpstart on success with Pearsons Waterford Early Learning program.

With content aligning to the Common Core State Standards, the educational software takes individualized learning to the next level for Americas youngest students through technology that adapts to each childs level of understanding, changing as the childs knowledge grows.

Bob Roliardi, President of Pearson Digital Learning, said, Educators nationwide are turning to Waterford to ensure that their preschool through second grade students build the early foundations in reading and math that will lay the groundwork for continued achievement with the Common Core State Standards. We know that language acquisition is particularly rapid in children aged three to five, and with personalized learning paths, those essential skills, along with mathematics preparedness, can be fostered for life-long success.

Roliardi added that the Waterford curriculum is based on a rigorous analysis of state standards across the country, the Common Core State Standards, and recommendations from leading educational organizations including the National Reading Panel and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Specifically, Waterford Early Learning aligns to the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards by offering:

More than 10,000 activities designed to help students progress from the initial introduction of critical early literacy, writing, language arts, and meta-cognitive skills to demonstrated mastery.
Diverse reading selections, including leveled books early learners can read on their own, biographies, folktales, poetry, and informational text, to ensure students learn to read and read to learn.

Waterford Early Learning supports the teaching of the Mathematics Common Core State Standards in the following ways:

710 comprehensive, objective-based math and science lessons that encourage students to be critical and creative problem solvers.
A balanced approach to mathematics instruction that helps students to develop computational fluency, conceptual understanding, mathematical reasoning skills, and the ability to talk and write about mathematical concepts.

The proven instructional strategy of combining reading, listening, visual learning, and interactive simulations all comes together in Waterfords reading and mathematics self-paced curriculum courses, Roliardi said. When a student struggles, the program gently guides him or her to correct the response. At the same time, Waterford automatically marks that skill for targeted remediation, offering a variety of ways for the child to progress and gain mastery of the subject matter. Even at the earliest ages, Waterford Early Learning is working to make sure that every child is college- and career-ready.

Waterford Early Learning engages students with full-motion video, animation, entertaining songs and interactive activities, and qualifies for many common education funds including Title I, EETT, IDEA, 21st Century Learning, Title III, Head Start and school improvement funds.

About Waterford Early Learning

Waterford Early Learning is designed to help all children build the foundation for a lifetime of learning. Waterford Early Learning individualizes reading, math, and science learning to meet each child's unique needs. For more information about Waterford Early Learning and the Common Core, go to http://www.pearsonschool.com/waterford or http://www.pearsoned.com/commoncore.

Pearson and the Common Core State Standards

Pearson, the leading education, technology and services company, is creating a complete new system of instruction built around the Common Core Standards. Teachers and students will access the latest and most effective digital learning technologies as they prepare to meet the internationally benchmarked college readiness goals articulated by the Common Core Standards. The new instructional system will engage both teachers and students within a learning model that enables teachers to assess students unobtrusively, diagnose their learning needs swiftly, prescribe personalized learning, and monitor student progress for continuous improvement in student achievement and teaching effectiveness. Pearson has as its mission to work side-by-side with states, districts, teachers, students and parents to ensure that every child is prepared for college and career. For more, visit. http://www.pearsoned.com/commoncore.

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Kate(dot)miller(at)pearson(dot)com - 800-745-8489

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