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Smart Horizons Career Online Education Announces Partnership With Anthem College to Launch Anthem High School
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Anthem High School to provide adult learners the opportunity to earn their high school diplomas
Pensacola, FL (PRWEB) February 22, 2012
Smart Horizons Career Online Education (SHCOE) has taken a significant step forward in their mission to re-engage adult learners into the education process by partnering with Anthem College Online to launch Anthem High School.
Anthem College Online (http://www.anthemcollege.edu) is the online school for Anthem College—one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious career college systems. Anthem High School will provide students who lack a high school diploma the opportunity to earn their diploma and a credentialed career certificate in preparation for enrolling in one of the numerous degree programs offered by Anthem College.
“Anthem College is one the nation’s leaders in career education and they see a natural partnership with SHCOE since we share a common goal,” said Dr. Richard Goldman, Chairman of the Board for SHCOE. “That goal is to prepare thousands of people to have success in our economy as individuals and also, collectively, to improve our economy by providing skilled workers for many sectors in the United States. Anthem College and Anthem High School truly serve as a model for improving people’s lives and for improving our economy.”
Headquartered in Pensacola, FL, SHCOE (http://www.shcoe.org) was founded in 2009 and became the world’s first AdvancED/SACS accredited online school district in February of this year. In addition to acquiring their high school diploma, SHCOE students can choose from among the following career certificates: Childcare, Transportation Services, Office Management, Homeland Security, Protection Services, and General Career Preparation.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Phoenix, AZ, Anthem College Online offers diplomas and/or degrees in the following fields: Accounting Technology, Business Management, Criminal Justice, Health Information Management, Healthcare Management, Medical Assisting, Medical Office Administration, and Paralegal.
In addition to Anthem College Online, Anthem College features college campuses in Phoenix and 11 other metropolitan areas around the United States. Anthem College is a part of Anthem Education, which includes a total of 23 college campuses that offer strongly career-focused coursework to help students gain a competitive edge for entry-level positions in business, technological, healthcare and paralegal fields.
“Anthem College Online is very excited to be partnered with Smart Horizons Career Online Education in an effort to offer adult learners the opportunity to earn their high school diploma,” said Darcy Richardson, Division President for Anthem College Online. “During this difficult economic time, more and more adults are realizing that to provide a better life for themselves and their families, education is a critical component. It is exciting to provide students with a path to reaching their educational and career goals, beginning with Anthem High School.”
Smart Horizons Career Online Education, founded in 2009 and located in Pensacola, Florida, is a private, AdvancED/SACS accredited online school district. AdvancED/SACS District accreditation signifies that SHCOE and all of its schools are fully accredited and that SHCOE is recognized across the nation as a quality school system. Smart Horizons Career Online Education offers 18–credit, career–based high school diploma programs that are designed to prepare students for entrance into the workplace. Career certificate offerings include Childcare Education, Office Management, Protection Services, Homeland Security, Healthcare (coming soon), Transportation Services, and Professional Skills.
For more information, visit our website at http://www.shcoe.org, call our office at 855–777–4265 or email us at info(at)smarthorizonsonline(dot)org
Contact: Dr. Howard Liebman, Smart Horizons Career Online Education, CEO & Superintendent, 305–962–6489 or hliebman(at)smarthorizonsonline(dot)org
About Anthem College
Anthem College was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1982. Since then, additional Anthem College campuses have been established in 11 other metropolitan areas, in addition to an online school. Anthem College is part of Anthem Education, a group of 23 campuses and Anthem College Online. You can read more about Anthem Education history. Anthem College is strongly career-focused to help students gain a competitive edge for entry-level positions in business, technological, healthcare and paralegal fields. Students who already hold a diploma or degree can enroll in a program that can expand their skills and help them progress further in their chosen fields. For more information, visit our website at http://www.anthem.edu/ or call our corporate office at 1-866-381-6397
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Bill to change costs under online education law advances
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A Senate committee approved a bill Wednesday that aims to adjust costs under an online education law passed last year, but not before hearing a number of objections to both the changes and the original law itself.
Under the original law, public school students in grades 9-12 may take up to two classes online, offered by other school districts and charter schools, instead of at their regular high schools. For each full-year course a student takes from a provider outside his home district or charter school, the student’s home district or charter must send about $727 to that provider.
SB178 would change the amount of money districts and charters would pay providers. Under SB178, districts and charters would instead owe between $400 and $700 for each full-year course, depending on the type of class. Also, providers would get bonuses of $50 to $100 for each student who scores well on end-of-course tests.
"A little bit of bonus can move the world," said bill sponsor Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper. He said he also had planned to amend the law to allow private schools and companies to act as providers, but realized there’s no need, as some school districts are already contracting with private entities to offer online courses.
"This is just incredible to me to see what these professional educators have done in response to the freedom to compete in an online world," Stephenson said.
Many, however, questioned and criticized the proposal Wednesday.
Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, along with several other speakers, asked why the state should set prices as opposed to allowing districts and charters to negotiate costs with providers. He also questioned whether the online courses would end up costing more than traditional school classes, though he said he supports the direction of the bill.
Stephenson responded that the online courses would cost less. He also said that he hopes, in the future, to let prices be decided in the free market and allow students to have education savings accounts that they could spend on the classes of their choosing. But he said, "To keep from strangling this in its infancy we need to provide for some way of having this tiered structure."
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Several charter school leaders also expressed concerns about a portion of the bill that prohibits counselors from advocating for one online course over another. They said they worry that lack of guidance could lead students to take online courses that don’t meet their schools’ standards of rigor.
Also, a number of people criticized the original law behind the bill.
Patrick Colclough, Granite online credit coordinator, said if online providers get bonuses for high-scoring students then traditional programs should get those bonuses as well "if we’re going to level the playing field in education."
He also said "it is really important the public knows we are funneling public dollars to private entities."
Others, however, spoke in favor of the bill. "We believe it will lead to higher quality instruction and progress in academics," said the Sutherland Institute’s Matt Piccolo.
And Robyn Bagley, a founding board member of the Open High School of Utah, which she said has served about 50 students through the program this year, said "This is about choice — choice for parents, schools, students and empowering them with options that will best meet their needs." Bagley, who is also Parents for Choice in Education board chair, said she was "fascinated" to hear charter officials testifying against the bill, as similar arguments have been used in the case against charters.
Stephenson said he’s open to tweaking the bill when it hits the Senate floor to address some of the questions raised Wednesday.
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Mike Teel has taken a step up in his college football coaching career.
Teel, the all-time leading passer in Rutgers history, was named quarterbacks coach at Wagner College on Feb. 13 after serving as the quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator at Kean last season, when the Cougars were 10-2 and ranked 10th nationally among Division III teams.
"Our quarterbacks will benefit from Mike’s wide array of experiences," said veteran Wagner coach Walt Hameline. "Mike is serious about the game, eager to make coaching his life’s work, and I believe the success he enjoyed and his name recognition in this region will resonate in recruiting."
A three-year starter and two-time captain at Rutgers, Teel never lost a game at Don Bosco. He’s been the quarterbacks coach at the Phil Simms Quarterbacks Camp since 2000 and has served in the same capacity at the Greg Toal Ironman Football Camp and All American Football Academy since 2010.
Greg Schiano, Teel’s college coach, is not surprised his former player has become a coach.
"Mike was a great player for us and even in his playing days you could already see that he would make a fantastic coach," Schiano said. "This is a great opportunity for him to fulfill that promise and I know that he will do a phenomenal job. Wagner is lucky to have a bright young mind like his."
Milligan milestone
Former Don Bosco star Georgio Milligan has become the leading scorer in Franklin & Marshall history. He scored a game-high 26 points in a 63-53 victory over Dickinson, upping his career total to 1,807 points. James McNally had held the record with 1,796 points.
Brianne Traub, the former Eastern Christian star from Wayne, is the first freshman in the 25-year history of the University of Sciences’ women’s program to score more than 400 points in a season. Traub is the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Rookie of the Week for the eighth time. She’s averaging 17.6 points.
Vaughn Gray of Elmwood Park is a key reserve for George Mason (23-6). The 6-foot-5 freshman, who prepped at Don Bosco and St. Benedict’s, is averaging 3.4 points and 1.3 rebounds.
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Marblehead-Swampscott trio to help college-bound students
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Phil Sloan, a Swampscott-based sports lawyer, has teamed up with his former Harvard College classmate, an independent educational consultant and life coach, Steve Maislin, and Marblehead-based financial consultant and college-planning expert Jim Femia, to launch CollegeBound Coaching and Campus Connections.
The new company will help high school students with preparing for college as well as the admissions process.
“We differentiate ourselves from other college admissions advisory services in that we believe that teenagers are more in need of ‘student life coaches’ than high-priced babysitters to walk them through the college admissions process,” said Sloan.
While they offer traditional college admissions counseling, financial aid consulting and essay-writing services, Sloan noted, “It is our ‘student life coaching’ approach which makes us different; that, and the fact that we employ college students to provide more relevant, more affordable college preparation and admissions services.”
Sloan continued, “When we began working with high school seniors over the past year, we heard over and over again how much they wished they had begun focusing themselves sooner to what it was going to take for them to get into college. We decided to focus ourselves on helping teenagers as early as possible to set and achieve measurable goals along the way.”
Working closely with Maislin, a certified life coach trained in college admission counseling, Sloan said he has developed a new and innovative methodology to set and attain measurable goals through core life skills such as prioritization and time management. Their interdisciplinary approach, which they have termed “student life coaching,” combines extensive research in educational consulting, adolescent and sports psychology, leveraging the combined experience of their growing network of professional partners.
“We are not claiming to work miracles,” said Sloan. “We simply work closely with teenagers and their parents to figure out how best to help them to meet their goals, in and out of the classroom. In today’s world, where students are pulled in so many different directions, so much of that a result of social networking and texting, maintaining focus and working towards goals can be nearly impossible for the average teenager.”
Sloan added, “Many parents are frustrated that they are unable to communicate more effectively with their teenage children. We strive to connect with this often difficult-to-reach age group, underlining the importance of balancing their time between schoolwork, athletics, community service and other extracurricular activities with social time, so as to better position themselves in the fiercely competitive college admissions process.”
In order to help parents to better communicate this message to teenagers and to help them to cope with the stress of gaining admission to college during the often turbulent adolescent years, CollegeBound Coaching is currently hiring and training high-achieving college students to work closely with its clients. “Campus Coaches” partner with the CollegeBound Coaching professional team to provide middle and high school students with the individual help, support and guidance they need.
Further leveraging this fast-growing network of college students, CollegeBound Coaching is launching a new and innovative college visit service, “Campus Connections,” to provide high school juniors, seniors and their parents with personalized, customized campus visits at schools across the country, beginning this spring.
According to Sloan, “We are not trying to replace the official college admissions tours conducted by the schools themselves. Instead, we are offering to provide high school students and their parents with a low-cost way to gain access to real college students on campuses across the country who can answer their real questions as to what it’s really like to go to that college. We are also providing college students with much-needed, on-campus, part-time jobs.”
Sloan continued, “With transfer rates and tuition costs rising so dramatically over recent years, we are helping college applicants and their families to make the best possible decision the first time around. With parents spending so much time and money on visiting colleges with their high school-age children, we have created Campus Connections to serve a growing demand for increased productivity of these campus visits.”
For more information on CollegeBound Coaching and Campus Connections, you can visit collegeboundcoaching.com. To speak with Sloan, Femia or another member of the CollegeBound Coaching professional team about their student life coaching, college admissions, financial aid, college visit or other consulting services, you can call 800-689-5195 or send e-mail to info@collegeboundcoaching.com.
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Posted: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:04 am | Updated: 4:58 pm, Sat Feb 18, 2012.
The Gilbert Boys and Girls Club's first ever Coach-a-Thon will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 31.
For a minimum donation of $20 - all of which will go to the Boys and Girls Club - Valley residents can get 30 minutes of expert advice from specialists in the areas of finance, health and wellness, career, communications and transitions. The club is located at 44 N. Oak in Gilbert.
"Coaching is really a way for people to get moving forward with whatever it is they want to accomplish," said organizer Bob Wilson of Smartful Coaching, a Gilbert-based business and life coaching company. "That may be improving their finances, it may be helping them move forward with starting a new business, or it could be any number of things in their life that they want to make a change with."
Participants will not have to worry about any obligation for future coaching sessions, nor being solicited.
"The coaches that are there, they're donating their time. They're not turning this into a sales pitch," Wilson said.
Wilson, a member of Gilbert's Chamber of Commerce, hopes the event will make up for some of the cuts the Gilbert Boys and Girls Club has had to its budget.
"I heard that their funding had been cut pretty significantly," Wilson said. "I was looking for a cause to donate to, and I heard that was one that was in need, Certainly if we can help the kids that's a good thing."
According to Wilson, the $20 donation is a deal you won't often find.
"The $20 donation that we're asking for is really pretty reasonable for what most places charge," Wilson said.
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