Well it's another challenging school year and educational reform is at the forefront for students, teachers, parents, administrators, and board members. The stakeholders are getting ready and they want accountability as to what their investments of time, money, inspiration, perspiration and management are achieving. What are you doing to meet their needs? Can your curriculum be aligned to the standards and benchmarks designed to meet the state goals and are student assessments linked to benchmarks and reported in relation to adopted standards? You and your staff have been busy getting ready, now is the time to perform.

SYNECTICS, Ltd. has also been busy and can perform to meet your needs. Our Teacher's Instructional Management and Mapping System - TIMMS™ has been further developed to include assessment and a more integrated, easy to manage networking system, Windows NT^®. This makes it easier for you to get to performance and productivity versus more administrative duties for curriculum and assessment staff and more administrative time for teachers. As performance-based educational requirements are defined and implemented as a result of educational reform, TIMMS™ and SYNECTICS are the answer for productivity, quality, flexibility and ease of use.

TIMMS™ is designed as a modular system that operates on your existing or soon to be installed local and wide area networks. It operates on PCs or Macs connected with Ethernet and Windows NT networks. TIMMS™ can be implemented as a wholly integrated curriculum management system or it can be installed in phases or modules. It can be installed at a district curriculum office for initial setup, testing and training, or it can be set up at a pilot school to get immediate functional results for assessment and reporting.

TIMMS™ brings curriculum management, assessment, and reporting to the teacher's desktop! (See TIMMS™ design specifications for information on modules and functions.)

Teachers designed TIMMS™ to be functional and easy to use. Little in-service training and no computer technology experience are needed. Whether teaching PE, music, language arts or science, teachers use it as their administrative and classroom tool to increase their productivity and insure quality education is available to their learners. The appropriate curriculum, resource and assessment by development level are linked to standard resources and curriculum information provided by district, state or national or even international educational standards. It also allows teachers to communicate with each other and their support staff to develop new ideas, add resources and assessments, and develop consistency in monitoring group or individual student progress.

Flexibility to adapt to the changing and demanding educational opportunities and needs is an absolute requirement in a support system such as TIMMS™. Education and training is dynamic and lifelong. New and innovative resources and techniques are both evolutionary and planned and are revolutionary and chaotic. TIMMS™ is able to deliver new curriculum and changes instantaneously to all users, including administrators, curriculum and assessment staff and teachers. It has various security levels to allow it to be locally or remotely accessed by parents and students to allow them to directly review goals and progress.

TIMMS™ is programmable to fit the educational needs of any organization. It can take existing curriculum and align and link it consistently and accurately. It can be used to build a new or revised curriculum and can be linked to established curriculum data base systems to assure compliance with state and national standards. SYNECTICS provides consulting and development to make this a simple but powerful way to quickly meet state and district needs. This also allows TIMMS™ to provide evolving links to vocational, business, and higher education educational programs so that learning is seamless in transitions to new jobs or learning institutions. SYNECTICS is able to download student, teacher and other pertinent data from existing systems and create and upload reports to satisfy most stakeholders' needs, including student specific report cards and individual educational profiles.

With Internet links to other electronic resources, TIMMS™ provides a secure, positive list of useful sites and resources for students to access. Using at home systems, TIMMS™ is accessible by students, teachers, parents and all those stakeholders that you have been thinking about all summer. Now is the time to open doors to unlimited educational experience - with TIMMS™. TIMMS™ supports cross platform use via L:AN, WAN, Internet and Intranet using Citrix Thin Client technology. Student portfolio management is being designed to support electronic records management.

SYNECTICS provides TIMMS™ as a stand-alone system or in modules. In addition, our staff provides planning and evaluation of curriculum systems as well as the technology base for computers, networks, and resources. We have designed and installed fiber optics networks as well as integrated data information from existing records systems. Our consultants include curriculum and policy experts in education as well as technology.

Curriculum Planning & Consulting	Assessment
Resource Matching and Linking	Report Cards
Custom Educational Programming	Training
Technology Planning	Student Records Management
Community Goals	Student Electronic Portfolios

TIMMS™ operates on Microsoft Windows NTÔ and Ethernet WANs for PC and Apple client workstations.

Jim Miller, President

Lee Zobrist , Director of Marketing

For an in-depth look at TIMMS Design, go to TIMMS Design Summary

For background on SYNECTICS, Ltd. go to An Introduction to SYNECTICS, Ltd.

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