As part of the transition, Jarrod Sipe, CEO of Matrix Technologies, will become an executive vice president of TriNET and will also serve on the company’s board of directors.

LearnCentral also provides collaboration tools for meeting in real-time virtual rooms and holding and attending events. Upon joining LearnCentral, each member receives a free Elluminate vRoom, a virtual meeting room for up to three participants or locations. "While still in its early stages, LearnCentral has the potential to help bring about historic changes in the ability of educators to communicate, collaborate, and share by combining asynchronous social networking with the synchronous online meeting capability of Elluminate,” explains Steve Hargadon, Elluminate’s social learning consultant and the founder of Classroom 2.0.

“We are in the midst of nothing less than an educational renaissance, where the collaboration with other educators that took place only at annual conferences starts to happen every day, and where educational careers can be built around or supplemented as part of specialty areas of focus.”

As a part of the partnership, Ross Stores will underwrite the implementation of Power Hour at certain Boys & Girls Clubs across the country, support local Clubs at select Ross Dress for Less and dd’s DISCOUNTS grand opening events, and encourage associate volunteerism at Clubs.