February 25-28, 2005

Principals from across the country at NASSP (San Francisco, California) see benefit in VisionTree™ Software to increase students knowledge retention and enhance professional development

Over 2,500 middle level and high school principals, assistant principals, and aspiring school leaders converge in San Francisco for yearly conference entitled "Take Charge of Learning"

SAN FRANCISCO — February 25-28, 2005 — VisionTree™ Software (www.visiontree.com), makers of relevant decision making software solutions for individuals and organizations, attended the National Association for Secondary School Principals Conference in California to demonstrate the great benefit of VisionTree for the educational community.

The NASSP Conference draws more than 2,500 visitors every year and features over 200 sessions with key note speakers ranging with topics on technology integration to analyzing best practices and effective teaching techniques.

Principals from across the country tested VisionTree Professional and VisionTree Classroom and were able to get a live demo of the program between their sessions. Both programs received an overwhelmingly positive response with over 75% of visitors saying they would like to have this in their school or district based on a post-demo questionnaire.

“I can see immediate application at my school,” said Phil Smothermon, Assistant Principal at Bancroft School based in San Leandro, California. “It is a constant challenge to gather a true group consensus and be able to take decisive action in a shorter amount of time; this platform would definitely help solve these problems.”

Immediately after the conference, VisionTree was adopted by a number of schools including sites in California, Iowa, Maryland and Kansas. School districts have been using VisionTree to make better and faster decisions for strategic planning, selecting a student information system, curriculum alignment, new hire decisions and resource management.

In an era of increasing responsibilities to improve performance and the federally mandated documentation and reporting requirements, school districts must increase their efficiency and effectiveness of their time and resource management. VisionTree offers solutions to help the educational community development improvement plans, track performance and align their decisions and plans towards achieving their goals outlined by their district and NCLB.