Edsby TV news story

Edsby TV news story

Edsby TV News story - Minelle Toussaint-Greene, Teacher / M.S. Hetherington Public School, Greater Essex County District School Board

An Edsby TV news story ran recently on CTV Windsor, the local Canadian television network affiliate in Windsor, Ontario—the large city across the river from Detroit.

The area’s 35,000 students and their parents are being introduced to Edsby as the local school district’s new parent portal, news source, and teaching and learning platform. The Greater Essex County District School Board (GECDSB) will also be leveraging Edsby’s modern attendance, assessment and learning management tools.

Click below to watch the story.

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Greater Essex is the fourth large Ontario region to adopt Edsby recently.

District School Board of Niagara announced in October, 2015 that its 36,000 students were moving to Edsby. In June, the 60,000-student Halton District School Board announced it was adopting Edsby. And in April, Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board announced it had selected Edsby for its 34,000 students.

Dallas Kachan
Dallas Kachan

Dallas Kachan is VP of Marketing at Edsby. He has led, worked with or consulted to dozens of technology firms in Silicon Valley and Canada over thirty years. He was the original vice president of sales and marketing for SoftArc, developers of FirstClass, credited as one of the first internet-based LMSes. Dallas was managing director and head of global marketing for the Cleantech Group, the organization that founded the cleantech investment theme, and served on the board of the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Cleantech Institute. He is the author of the travel and adventure novel, The Starship Diaries.