Texas-based Sibling Group Holdings, an education management and technology company currently pursuing educational related technology and management acquisitions, emphasizes that it is a roll-up, not a start-up. The company is actively establishing its presence in the educational marketplace, with the overall strategy of acquiring various educational businesses or components to build a comprehensive single-source educational technology and management solution.
From the education technology standpoint, there is to date no single vendor that provides a complete educational technology solution covering everything from curriculum to course certification, although the need is rapidly growing. Crippling labor costs are driving the call for more sophisticated systems based solutions to improve the effectiveness and economics of global education.
From the education management standpoint, education is undergoing a dramatic transition as the traditional brick and mortar approach to learning is being augmented with online technological tools. Such changes offer rich new options but also require different operational structures to ensure that students, teachers, and administrators enjoy the greatest benefits.
In pursuit of this, the company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Blended Schools Network (BSN), now an integrated division, is providing benchmark quality online content for the K-12 marketplace, including hosted authoring tools, professional development for teachers, and a learning management system environment. Most recently, BSN signed an agreement with School Improvement Network to provide K-12 online instructional content for their Student-Centered Learning product. School Improvement Network’s personalized learning model, already used in urban public schools, has demonstrated its ability to increase student achievement and engagement among all demographics. BSN’s online content is currently used in over 160 school districts with over 300,000 course enrollments last year.
Sibling Group Holdings is also refining its acquisition strategy and implementing specific plans for the expansion of BSN, both nationally and internationally. BSN will operate as an independent business unit of Sibling Group and be the cornerstone of a K-12 strategy for high quality content creation, professional development, and for emerging educational technologies.
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