Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative (CKEC)
Membership in the Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative (CKEC) provides superintendents and staff of member districts with excellent opportunities to network with colleagues on a monthly basis at board meetings. Each month the members meet to discuss common issues that face their districts and learn about activities to enhance their school systems. Programs are designed with an emphasis on professional learning communities and delivered through scheduled sessions and C.E.O.-type cohorts. CKEC also offers monthly meetings for professional...
Customer of the Month
Tim Pirolli Food Service Supervisor Pemberton Township Schools, NJ District Snapshot Number of Schools: 8 PCS customer since: 1995 PCS Products: PayPAMS, Online & Scanned Apps, RIGHTrak, FASTrak, ALANAs and FREDs Tim Pirolli has been with Pemberton Township Schools for nearly forty years. Beginning his tenure at the district as a Foods Teacher, eighteen years later Tim became the Food Service Supervisor for the district. With over 50 percent free and reduced participation, Tim's department serves 3000 meals at lunch and 1000...
Employee of the Month
DJ Segraves Regional Sales Director DJ works the Alabama, Colorado and Utah territories and is still involved from time to time with our Florida Customers. Recently, DJ played an instrumental role in coordinating between the the Alabama State DOE and PCS Support to standardize district student information systems interfaces with RIGHTrak and RightNOW central office software. This past month DJ added 5 new districts to the PCS family and has added to his own family! Congratulations DJ...
Six PCS Districts Honored with Top 100 Status
In their March issue, FoodService Director magazine published an article about the top 100 school district cafeterias. From the article - "Best Food ranks 3,868 school districts based on district spending statistics and more than 580,000 opinions on food from 215,000 students and parents. A high ranking indicates the district offers a variety of healthy, quality food options, accommodates various dietary preferences like vegan and gluten-free, and the students rate the quality of food favorably." Here are...
Florida SNA 2015 Annual Conference
[caption id="attachment_4679" align="alignleft" width="175"] Denise & Betty[/caption] Denise Lessard, DJ Segraves and Betty Zimmerman had a blast at the Florida SNA 2015 Annual Conference in Daytona Beach, May 14-16. As always they got to catch up with old friends and make new ones. [caption id="attachment_4681" align="alignright" width="173"] Ida & Maggie[/caption] We would like to congratulate Ida Daniels, Hamilton County Food & Nutrition Coordinator, on receiving the Director of the Year Award from Florida SNA President, Maggie Green. [caption id="attachment_4680" align="alignleft"...
User Group Recap
Over the last two months, customers in 9 different regions across the country came together for PCS User Groups. Our last on-site Regional User Group was held in Alabama on June 2, which was one of the biggest user groups we have had! Each year the feedback about the content and quality is more positive than the last, and we continue to make improvements to the User Groups and our PCS products based on customer feedback.Your...
Cooperative Educational Services
Cooperative Educational Services is a Purchasing Cooperative united by a Joint Powers Agreement to aid Public Schools in New Mexico. CES is an organization comprised of New Mexico's 89 school districts plus 81 other public education institutions, including charter schools, two and four-year post-secondary institutions, BIE schools and state schools. Cooperative Educational Services aspires to be known as one of the best educational service agencies in the country and the program of choice in New Mexico. What can...
37th Annual Alabama School Nutrition Association Expo
Last month, Ava Wojcik and Tony Diers attended the 37th Annual Alabama School Nutrition Association Expo in Montgomery, AL. They had a wonderful time making new friends and catching up with customers. It was great to hear from our TrakNOW customers that TrakNOW reports are working well for their Administrative Reviews. PCS support has been working hard with the the ASLSDE to make sure that PCS customers can utilize a common interface with the INow enrollment...
Georgia SNA 2015 Annual Conference
Becki Rogers & Ava Wojcik attended the GSNA 2015 Annual Conference in Athens, GA April 9-11. Celebrating 60 years of feeding Georgia's children made this a very special event. PCS was proud to be able to sponsor free Wi-fi to all attendees at the Classic Center and to provide computers for use in the Director's Lounge. We enjoyed three fabulous fun filled days of quality time with our friends in Georgia. We are proud to have...
Customer of the Month
Priscilla Urban Food Service Specialist Ferguson-Florissant School District District Snapshot PCS Products Used: RIGHTrak & FASTrak Schools: 23 PCS customer since: Spring 2013 PCS: How long have you worked at the district? Priscilla: It will be 16 years in October. PCS: Tell us about some of the jobs you have had in the district. Priscilla: I was originally hired as the Secretary to the Assistant Principal at one of the Middle Schools and started at the Food Service Department in July 2000. PCS: What...