Gold Sponsor
SMART Technologies introduced the world's first interactive whiteboard 20 years ago, and today is the global leader in the interactive whiteboard product category, with over 63% market share in North America. Since its introduction in 1991, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard has revolutionized the education market and changed the way the world learns. Today, there are over 1.8 million SMART Board interactive whiteboards around the world being used on a daily basis by over 30 million teachers and students.
SMART welcomes working relationships with publishers who would like to expand their business by creating interactive whiteboard content and software. We will help you develop, promote, and sell your products to the millions of SMART Board interactive whiteboard users around the world.
The first step you can take is to become a member of the SMART Ecosystem Network by visiting www.smarttech.com/ecosystem. As a member of our Ecosystem Network, you will receive access to training, development tools, and marketing resources that will help you launch your digital content and software into the marketplace and achieve a quick return on your investment.
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Silver Sponsors
Intel is a trusted advisor and consultant to education in the technology field. Through our relationships with manufacturers and application service providers for both content and services, we are able to advise and help schools and districts move as far down the technology road as possible.
Without question, the Internet has transformed the way we communicate. Through glimpses into the future, we have seen how technology can change the way we live and work. Preparing students to manage and maximize what technology has to offer is a high priority for Intel and education systems worldwide.
For more information about one-to-one computing in your school system, visit www.k12blueprint.com.
MCH Strategic Data (www.mchdata.com) is the new compiler of the QED Education Database, a comprehensive K-12 marketing database. MCH provides email, direct mail, telemarketing, and social media marketing solutions focused on more than 4.7 million K-12 educators. The company's business-to-institution focus also includes libraries, early childhood, government agencies, hospitals, medical practices, and churches. All MCH-compiled data is backed by the 100% GetThere Guarantee. MCH was founded in 1928 by a leading educator, and has provided quality education marketing data for more than 75 years. MCH has offices in Kansas City, Chicago, Denver, Connecticut, and Sweet Springs, Missouri.
TI’s Education Technology group works with educators and publishers throughout the world in developing training programs and curriculum materials that connect TI technology with classroom learning from elementary through college. Our mission is to improve achievement for all students by fostering quality instruction in mathematics and science education.
Weekly Reader has been creating cutting-edge, curriculum-rich supplemental materials since the debut of Current Events magazine in 1902. The company’s unique digital products and 11 award-winning classroom magazines give teachers tools that help them achieve their goals while inspiring, informing, and engaging students. Weekly Reader materials reach more than 200,000 teachers and 6 million students from Pre-K to grade 12. In January 2010, the company introduced Weekly Reader Connect (www.wrconnect.com), an online reading program for students in grades 1 through 6. WR Connect consists of interactive, whiteboard-ready multimedia news units that are presented in concert with a reading-comprehension framework, the Concepts of Comprehension©, that supports the teaching of key reading skills. Weekly Reader is part of the Reader's Digest Association, Inc. For more information, visit www.weeklyreader.com.
Contributing Sponsors
Academic Benchmarks supplies K-12 education with access to the AB Standards RegistrySM, an independent source of over two million records of state, local and international standards. Nearly 200 content publishers, assessment providers, data systems and learning platforms rely on the industry-shared, AB numbering system of standards data, education taxonomies, and resources for their work in every classroom in the United States.
Agile is the best choice for education data. We have the freshest database; innovative data collection technologies that save you money; and a knowledgeable staff focused on accommodating your needs and achieving your goals. Bottom line – Agile is innovative, experienced, and a clear alternative to traditional data companies.
Innovative. Integrated. Dynamic. Bottom Line Publishing Services provides strategic content delivery solutions to publishers. We build successful supply chains to deliver your product on time and on multiple platforms, while enhancing content integrity. We integrate design, development and delivery through technology and subject matter expertise to Respect the Content, Deliver the Profit.™
Founded in 1979, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers provides teachers and parents with practical, creative, and engaging PreK-6+ educational publications. Evan-Moor creates quality resources that help students develop basic skills in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and the arts. Evan-Moor continues to develop innovative educational materials such as TeacherFileBox.com, an online subscription service offering a library of over 50,000 print-on-demand activities. Evan-Moor learning materials are sold in over 7,500 educational supply and retail stores in the United States and in over 35 countries worldwide.
First Step Advisors, founded in 2009, is specialty advisory firm that provides sales, marketing, and market research to clients across the education marketplace. Led by Jim McVety, a recognized authority on the education industry, First Step provides thought leadership along with tactical marketing and sales support to a wide range of education companies, including eChalk, Triumph Learning, Credit Suisse, and many others. Fist Step is a member of AEP and is proud to be the founding benefactor of its Talent Development Scholarship Program.
Getty Images is the world’s leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage, music and other forms of premium digital content. We help our customers produce inspiring work for the most influential media of our day: from multi-million dollar advertising campaigns to breaking news covered by blogs, from feature films and television shows to online multimedia programming, all the way down to the most singular blogger.
Teacher Created Materials, a California-based educational publishing company with worldwide distribution publishes award-winning, research- and standards-based educational resources for K-12 classrooms. Specializing in supplemental materials and professional development training, Teacher Created Materials provides classroom-tested products for all areas of the curriculum to educators around the globe.
Victory Productions develops preK–20 educational print and digital products for publishers in English and in Spanish. Expert editorial, design, production, and technology teams create programs for 21st century learners that address the complete teaching environment and take full advantage of all platforms, including mobile devices. Ask us for a presentation.
Online. In print. On the exhibit floor or the face-to-face sales environment. Wherever and whenever educators make buying decisions…we put your products, promotions, programs and brand front and center. The education market’s leaders and innovators choose Winter Group for messaging, creative execution, strategy, market research, and results. www.wintergroup.net 303.778.0866, ext. 12.
Media Partner
With over 40 years of experience, Simba Information is widely recognized as the authority for market intelligence in the educational publishing industry. Its extensive information network delivers top quality, independent perspectives on the people, events and alliances shaping the industry.