SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ECS Learning Systems, the leading Integrated Standards Prep™ company and developer of STAAR MASTER®, announced today Thomas M. Deliganis has joined the company as its new Head of Sales. For over 25 years, Mr. Deliganis has held executive sales positions at leading educational technology companies. He brings this expertise, and his reputation for building sales teams and growing national sales to ECS Learning Systems. Mr. Deliganis is initially focused on the Texas market with STAAR MASTER® but ECS Learning Systems also plans to leverage his expertise to grow its PREPWORKS® product line nationwide.
“ECS Learning Systems is preparing to roll out its Age-Appropriate Blended Learning™ solutions to Texas and other states from the 2019 school year and are fortunate to have Tom lead this endeavor,” said David Cumberbatch, CEO of ECS Learning Systems. “Tom is a key hire for ECS Learning Systems as he is known for his forward-thinking views across the K-12 educational market and brings this wealth of experience, industry relationships, and insights to the company.”
Previously, Mr. Deliganis served as Principal with Deliganis and Associates, a strategic consulting firm. Over the course of his career he held positions as the National Director of Sales at Leaps, Vice President of Sales at Graduation Alliance (Formerly AdvancePath Academics), Regional Vice President at Capstone, Vice President of Sales at Ignite! Learning, and Vice President at Plato Learning. Mr. Deliganis has been honored with sales awards including Presidents Club for 10 consecutive years. He has a BS in Political Science from the University of Houston and is an active volunteer in the local Houston community. Mr. Deliganis is also an accomplished author.
“It’s exciting to be part of an innovative team at ECS Learning Systems focused on the vision of helping all students achieve academic success. I believe the company’s digital and work-text based blended solutions, and award winning, computer adaptive Learning Positioning System® support this vision and can ultimately transform the way students learn,” said Mr. Deliganis. “The secret to age-appropriate blended learning is technology, personalized learning, a strong student-teacher relationship, and great teachers.”
ECS Learning Systems pioneered the concept of Integrated Test Prep and recently introduced the concept of Age-Appropriate Blended Learning™ for elementary, middle, and high schools. These comprehensive offerings use a unique mix of digital and paper-based instructional material for each grade level to maximize effectiveness. Through its brands, STAAR MASTER®, TESTSMART®, NOVEL UNITS® and PREPWORKS®. ECS Learning offers a diverse portfolio of supplementary education products for reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, literacy, and critical thinking skills that includes hundreds of activity books, workbooks, standards aligned practice tests, an award-winning adaptive learning platform (LPS), and college and career readiness and EOC online courses.
About ECS Learning Systems
ECS Learning Systems pioneered the Integrated Standards Prep™ approach in its quality education solutions that build core knowledge that is fully-aligned to state standards and work to ensure students complete tests with confidence. Founded in 1982 in San Antonio, Texas, ECS Learning Systems is the Integrated Standards Prep company that helps almost half a million students annually with STAAR MASTER®, TEST SMART®, NOVEL UNITS®, and PREPWORKS®. ECS Learning Systems announced the acquisition of PREPWORKS in May 2018.
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