Platinum Sponsor
SMART Technologies introduced the world’s first interactive whiteboard in 1991 and today is the global leader in the interactive whiteboard product category, with over 62 percent market share in North America. Since its introduction 19 years ago, the SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard has revolutionized the education market and changed the way the world learns. Today, there are over 1.5 million SMART Board interactive whiteboards around the world being used on a daily basis by over 25 million teachers and students.
SMART welcomes working relationships with publishers that would like to expand their business by creating interactive whiteboard content. We will help you develop, promote and sell your digital content 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 into the marketplace and achieve a quick return on your investment.
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Gold Sponsors
For more than 40 years, MDR has been 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 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 professional events. When business objectives call for growth, market leaders call on MDR.
MDR, a D&B Company, is headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut.
One of the great innovative forces in American educational publishing, Weekly Reader has been creating cutting-edge, curriculum-rich supplemental materials for more than 100 years. Our unique digital products and 12 award-winning classroom magazines give teachers tools that help them achieve their goals while inspiring students and igniting their love of learning. Every year, Weekly Reader materials reach more than 250,000 teachers and 8 million students from Pre-K to grade 12. The Weekly Reader Publishing Group (WRPG) also includes Weekly Reader Custom Publishing, Weekly Reader Curriculum Publishing, and database products Facts for Learning and Weekly Reader Express, distributed by netTrekker, Inc. WRPG is part of the Reader's Digest Association, Inc. For more information, visit www.weeklyreader.com.
Silver Sponsors
nSight is a content development and communications services firm that specializes in learning and information products—and the people who create and produce them. Founded in 1982, we create, produce, and publish exceptional-quality content for educating students, informing customers, and training employees—getting the results that our clients want and need to succeed. Our fulltime staff and network of content and communications professionals can augment your staff by the hour or by the project.
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.
Bronze Sponsor
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.(tm)
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.
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.
As a leading creator and distributor of contemporary and archival imagery, award-winning editorial content, footage, and music, we aim to inspire publishers and educators. We will work with you to deliver the most innovative and affordable products to give educators the tools to create inspiring work of their own.
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.
The family of National Geographic Explorer magazines inspires students to care about the planet. Each of the four magazines (Young Explorer (K-1), the Pioneer edition of Explorer (2-3), the Pathfinder edition of Explorer (4-6), and Extreme Explorer (6-12 struggling readers), engages students with high-interest articles and high-impact visuals, while supporting standards-based language arts, science, and socials studies content.
Since 1987, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has been inspiring young people to pursue educational opportunities, start their own businesses, and succeed in life. By providing entrepreneurship education programs relevant to the real world, we empower students to own their educations in and out of the classroom and to find their own path to success. NFTE has programs in 21 states and 11 countries through our network of program offices and licensed partners. To learn more, visit www.nfte.com.
The Pearson Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Pearson plc, one of the world's leading media and education companies. The Pearson Foundation extends Pearson’s commitment to education by partnering with leading nonprofit, civic, and business organizations to provide financial, organizational, and publishing assistance across the globe. Pearson has a proud history of corporate giving and supporting projects in our communities. Through the Pearson Foundation – and through the efforts of our businesses and employees – we focus our charitable giving on education and literacy projects around the world. In a brain-powered world, we believe that no job is more important than helping people to learn.
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.
Young Digital Planet S.A. is an educational eContent publisher and eLearning provider with a strong global presence. For nearly 20 years we have provided eLearning products and technologies that meet the evolving needs of education, as well as provide comprehensive eContent development services and eContent development and delivery technologies to educational publishers.