Gold Sponsors
At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. We promote learning for all, anytime, anywhere, and on any device.
Microsoft partners with education communities around the world to deliver relevant, effective, and scalable technologies, services and programs that focus the contributions of many on improved learning outcomes for all.
To read about Microsoft’s commitment to Education, our products, IT solutions, classroom resources, trainings and education programs, visit the Microsoft Education website.
SMART is the world’s leading provider of interactive whiteboards. The company introduced the world’s first interactive whiteboard in 1991 and now provides easy-to-use, integrated products and services for over 40 million teachers and students in more than 175 countries around the world. We welcome working relationships with publishers that would like to grow their business by creating interactive whiteboard content. Learn more at www.smarttech.com/ecosystem.
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.
MDR is the market’s first choice for marketing information and services for the K-12, higher education, library, early childhood, and related education markets. Powered by the most complete, current, and accurate education databases available in the industry, MDR provides email contacts and deployment, direct mail lists, sales contact and lead solutions, along with web and social media marketing services through the WeAreTeachers community. With the EdNET suite of products, industry leaders can gain insight and opportunity through comprehensive market intelligence and analytical reports, custom research services, high-profile networking opportunities, and weekly education market news. Call us at 800-333-8802 to learn more about how we can help you grow in the education market.
Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology and services and children’s media. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs and school-based book fairs, retail stores, schools, libraries, television networks and the Company’s Internet Site, www.scholastic.com.
Weekly Reader'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 150,000 teachers and 6 million students from Pre-K to grade 12. Last year, 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.
Bronze Sponsors
Webcom is a forward-thinking book printer offering innovative programs to address the challenges of high inventory and production costs. Their unique BookFWD™ program is customized for educational publishers, utilizing advanced workflow technology, automation of leading-edge inkjet web presses, conventional offset presses and the latest bindery systems. Publishers gain control of order quantities, avoiding high unit costs and securing the quality of four-color books.
Contributing Sponsors
Agile Education Marketing is leading the way with innovative information and marketing solutions for education businesses. We help you build your brand with educators and generate leads using a variety of channels including e-mail, direct mail and banner advertising. If you’re searching for more cost effective, efficient and effective ways to grow your business, turn to Agile.
Technology, content, visual, multimedia, and production solutions for publishers & content providers worldwide. CMS, LMS, courseware & database development. Consulting specializing in integrated processes, technology, & content strategies. We implement solutions where creativity is combined with real-time production and knowledge is seamlessly transferred to your product.
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers has been "Helping Children Learn" since 1979, publishing high-quality resource materials for both teachers and parents to enhance learning for students in grades PreK-8. We offer 450+ titles that cover the entire elementary curriculum, available in e-book, traditional print formats, and interactive apps.
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.
KEH Communications is a specialized agency that focuses on public relations and marketing for education and consumer education clients. For more than 14 years, KEH has provided each client with a robust public relations plan that is individualized and helps companies to have an impact on the education of children
At McHugh & Associates, we provide the very best metadata analysis, curriculum alignment, assessment writing, and indexing services, consistently outperforming all competition and exceeding our clients’ expectations. Our level of human expertise is strategically combined with proprietary cost-reducing methodologies, thus creating an ideal offering of unrivaled quality at minimal expense.
You can be sure there's no more accurate, dramatic, or awe inspiring representation of subject matter for education than images from National Geographic. Our comprehensive digital collection contains more than 10 million unique, inspiring photographs, artwork and videos. They have the ability to make students gasp, frown, smile and think.
Prophero is the “out-of-the-box” publishing system that enables you to create and recombine content then publish to multiple targets including print, web, mobile, and eBooks. Designed for educational publishing, our digital content development and distribution solution provides robust content management and industry-leading instructional design and delivery capabilities.
Teacher Created Materials publishes award-winning supplementary educational materials for all areas of the curriculum – language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, technology, and professional resources. We also provide topical and practical professional development training for teachers and administrators.
Victory Productions, a certified MBE/WBE company, is a full-service, 18-year-old, K–16 developer of educational products. Our in-house content editors and technology experts create cutting-edge products and extend the revenue-creating lifetimes of existing products by re-engineering them for delivery on multiple platforms. All content areas covered in English and Spanish.
Messaging, branding, and creative that resonate with educators. Research that uncovers critical product, competitive, and buying insights. Strategically integrated marketing and communications programs that fill pipelines and meet sales goals. That’s Winter Group at work for the K-12, Higher Education, and Library markets.
Marketing Partner
The annual EdNET Conference, education’s premier business event, gathers corporate and education leaders together to network, identify business opportunities, and discuss what’s ahead for the market. Join over 550 business and education leaders at the 24th EdNET Conference this year in Baltimore, September 30-October 2, 2012, for three action-packed days of networking.