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March 18, 2010

Nonprofit Signs Agreement to Benefit Public Education in Arizona

by Stephanie Grisham, Arizona Charter Schools Association

Charter Association and Spiral Universe Join Forces to Offer Web-Based Platform for Charter/District Schools

The Arizona Charter Schools Association is pleased to announce that it has entered into a partnership with fast-growing educational software company, Spiral Universe, Inc., of White Plains, NY. The result of the partnership, a first in the industry, will allow public schools across the state – both charter and district – to access the Association’s “Success Center Online,” a “one-stop shop” for educators, administrators, students and parents.

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February 8, 2010

Spiral Brings Advanced Education Technology to Uganda

by Andrew Fader

Innovative School Management System Now Available Across Africa

Spiral Universe Inc., the fastest-growing provider of online education software, today announced that it has extended its reach into sub-Saharan Africa. This brings the number of countries with schools using the revolutionary cloud-based Spiral information platform to 27.

Kikaaya College and Vocational School is a secondary school in Uganda with 860 students. Founded in 1993, it boasts a well-stocked library, computer and science labs, a sick bay and clinic, and trained academic staff. "We are looking forward to providing Spiral to our students and bringing African education into the 21st century," said headmaster Charles Mubiru.

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July 2, 2009

Spiral at the Charter Schools Conference

by David Blickstein, Director of Technology

From day one, we have envisioned our system flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of educational institutions. At the recent National Charter Schools Conference in Washington D.C. we had a great opportunity to talk to dozens of charter schools from all over the country.

"Are charter schools any different?"  The answer is, “Yes.”  In fact, they are different by definition, in that they exist to provide alternatives to public schools. Building a software system that meets all of their varying needs is a challenging task. It explains why software vendors charge lots of money for minimal customization. Fortunately, we were coming to this conference with a product which was designed from the ground up to be easily customizable and manageable by a school without the need to hire expensive engineers.

At the conference we encountered an astoundingly wide variety of school models.   We spoke with virtual schools where students attend classes online. We spoke with schools with single-student classrooms. We spoke with schools that had conventional grading systems, schools that were entirely rubric-based, and even schools that didn’t use grades at all. In each case, we were able to provide the school with a way to use the existing system. One school principle came back to the booth on the second day to tell us he had been “dreaming about Spiral” the previous night.

With our Beta test now underway, many new developers, and a new larger corporate office space, the Spiral team is pumped and primed to roll out even more features before the upcoming school year, and to make our system even more flexible.

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March 11, 2009

Coming soon: Spiral Developers’ Forum!

by Mary

The Spiral developers’ forum is a limited opportunity for our early adopters to gain access to our ideas, plans, and unreleased features. It’s a closed, invitation-only space where members can collaborate personally with our developers, report bugs, suggest changes/improvements and share feedback.

Members will be able to take a closer look at our roadmap—over 30 features currently in development that we hope to release soon—and have a hand in developing these features with an eye to making them cater to the needs of schools.

This forum will be the next step in our overarching mission to incorporate the opinions of our future partners into the very fiber of Spiral’s architecture.

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