Promethean Launches Competition to Recognize Innovative Educators; Instructional Award Will Honor Exemplary Interactive Whiteboard Lesson Plans Developed for P

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Learning Resources, Inc.

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" Teachers also reported that Classworks gave each student
individualized instruction and thus the teachers had additional time
to work one-on-one , conference or observe the classroom. Classworks is installed in 2,000
schools in the United States and worldwide. In addition, the Reading
Mentor provides effective results for mainstream, English language learners
(ELLs), special needs, and speech and language pathology students.learningresources . For over 20 years, the
company has been a trusted source for educators and parents for quality ,
award-winning educational products in language, math, science and early
childhood.

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found that third-grade
students using Classworks to supplement mathematics instruction had
significantly greater gains in a posttest when compared against a
control group of students. Curriculum
Advantage 's flagship product is Classworks, a network-based system of
K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that
currently comprise over 3,000 hours of curriculum.
Additionally, the top 20 winners will receive a $500 certificate
to use toward the future purchase of a Promethean Collaborative
Classroom component.

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The contest seeks to recognize
K-12 educators for creating inspiring lessons , across a variety of
subjects, which incorporate the company's interactive whiteboard
teaching solution.com

These
Reading Rods kits include phonemic awareness, word families/rhyming words,
word building, sentence building, and the latest addition geared toward the
growing population of ELLs (also known as English as a second language
students): the English Language Learner Kits .thereadingmentor.

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They include prescriptive and summative assessment,
remediation and reporting tools . We
wanted to give them a way to share these ideas with their colleagues,
and to recognize their incredible creativity and dedication to the art
of teaching," said Sandee Casey, Promethean US director of sales and
marketing.

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"Classworks gives each
individual child a chance to succeed and gives us the power to monitor
his progress.curriculumadvantage. An additional sixty hours of algebra and pre-algebra
resources have also been added to a new Algebra Series for Classworks. INET Classroom , also from
Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based
curriculum linked to state and national standards.

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The deadline for entries is May 15, 2005. The Reading Mentor provides teachers an
opportunity to offer differentiated reading instruction that is targeted to
their students' individual needs and learning styles, and allows them to work
on other classroom activities while students using the Reading Mentor hone
their reading skills in a small group setting. public schools, requires that all educational products used for reading
instruction must be research-based to be purchased with NCLB funding.S.

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Study participants from Meridian Elementary School in Texas were
given a pre and posttest of the Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth
Edition (SAT 9) at week 1 and week 14.06
difference between the increases of the experimental group over the
control group suggesting a statistically significant gain in student
achievement.
Promethean will select 20 winners who will each receive an
all-expense paid trip to the 2005 National Educational Computing
Conference (NECC) in Philadelphia, June 27-30, 2005.
The easy-to-use, interactive Reading Mentor utilizes Learning Resources'
Reading Rods system, a supplemental reading program that combines color-coded,
interlocking manipulatives and other related components to help children
become better readers.

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A survey of teachers in the study reported that Classworks was an
effective supplement and that "every minute using Classworks was
valuable. Entries must be
an original lesson plan designed for use with the ACTIV board
interactive whiteboard, developed and field tested in the classroom by
the entrant. It also provides a comprehensive support service,
through its professional training programs.

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leading manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational materials for
classrooms worldwide and learning toys for the home.

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The Reading Mentor, which features an extensive vocabulary of more than
23,000 words, works with all Reading Rods products, including a number of
comprehensive new kits created especially for the Reading Mentor.

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In addition to the student benefits, the Reading Mentor also serves as a
highly effective teacher's aid.

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Business Editors/Education Editors

MERIDIAN, Texas----A research study
released today by Curriculum Advantage, Inc.

About Curriculum Advantage

Curriculum Advantage, Inc. "The Reading Mentor provides
emergent , beginning and struggling readers with highly valuable reading
support at a time when the development of their reading skills is crucial.

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Classworks (www. (www.curriculumadvantage.
For more information , please visit http://www. A special toggle feature allows students to dissect
a sentence down to the word level, giving them targeted practice in areas of
difficulty.com
for a real-time demonstration .

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New content for English as a second language (ESL) and English
Language Learners (ELL) is being added to help students who are new to
the English language.

Business Editors/Education Writers
2005 National Educational Computing Conference

ATLANTA----Promethean, manufacturer
of the ACTIV board Collaborative Classroom System, today announces the
Activating Achievement Awards program ., Promethean, Inc.

The Importance of Research-Based Learning in Schools
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, which helps determine funding in
U. Department of Education -- was formed to
make this evidence-based reading research available to educators, parents,
policy-makers, and others with an interest in helping all people learn to read
well. For more information about Learning Resources, visit
http://www.

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At week 14, there was a 9.com/n-america/en

About Promethean, Inc.,
is a systems integration company, which specializes in supplying
interactive whiteboard systems to K-12 and Higher Education.
For the rest of the world, Promethean International works together
with a chain of over forty partners, providing ACTIV solutions to
every continent in the world .prometheanworld.
Reading Rods(R) are aligned with two such reports from the Partnership for
Reading that outline the standards for successful reading achievement: Put
Reading First and Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of
the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading
Instruction -- Reports of the Subgroups.

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While there, a
special dinner recognizing the "Promethean Ambassadors" will culminate
with the selection of five grand prize winners who will receive an
all-expense paid trip to the United Kingdom for an international
educator's summit . An impartial panel of
judges will review and score the entries using the official evaluation
rubric , with the top 20 winners being selected and notified by June 1,
2005.), France and Germany. Reading Mentor will be available nationwide in September 2005.
"Literacy is literally a building block for future success, which is why
it is so important to offer additional reading support to students who are
struggling to learn to read," said Zachrisen.
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"We knew that Classworks was helping our students but this research
validated our intuition," said Patterson. As an educator, that is a powerful tool that allows us
to put our instructional time to the best, most efficient use.com) includes 8,600 learning
activities from dozens of favorite educational software programs, all
of which are correlated with National Education Standards in math and
language arts . The flipchart-lesson must clearly demonstrate how a
Promethean Collaborative Classroom System plays a key role in
enhancing student learning and advancing student outcomes. All entries
must align with national, state or local standards. The
National Reading Panel's Partnership for Reading - - a collaborative effort of
the National Institute for Literacy, the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development, and the U.

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"Reading Mentor, used
in conjunction with our Reading Rods program , provides a valuable hands-on
addition to students' reading instruction at the elementary school level.

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Classworks
activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and
state tests.
Teachers can obtain a complete list of participation guidelines by
visiting the Promethean Web site at
http://www.prometheanworld.
The Reading Mentor, an electronic device that works with Learning Resources'
scientifically proven Reading Rods(R), helps develop reading skills by
enabling students to hear the letters, words and sentences they build with the
Reading Rods."
To use the Reading Mentor, students slide Reading Rods into the device and
select one of three modes of instruction: Letter Mode, which helps students
pronunciate and identify letters and sounds visually and aurally; Word Mode,
which helps children build spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary and listening
skills; or Sentence Mode, which allows children the opportunity to see and
hear sentences they 've built.com .

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"There are thousands of hardworking, creative educators out there
who have developed innovative lessons using the ACTIV board system.

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, Learning Resources(R), a
leading manufacturer of award-winning, hands-on educational tools, announced
today the launch of a groundbreaking new literacy tool, Reading Mentor(TM). They also read the letters, words or sentences
on the large LCD screen.

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To qualify for the Activating Achievement Award contest, entrants
must be private or public school classroom teachers, media specialists
or other school-based educators whose primary purpose is to teach and
work with students from pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12.
The company's headquarters are based in Blackburn, UK; and there
are overseas offices in the USA (Atlanta, Ga. An independent Texas study showed the mean scores of
first graders taking the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) increased by
more than 284 percent in a nine-month period when these children used Reading
Rods as a supplemental program to their standard reading curricula.

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Classworks State Editions are further aligned to the
learning standards of 15 states so that teachers can more closely tie
their teaching to the core concepts and competencies prescribed by
their state.com) has
offices in Los Angeles; Austin, Texas; and Wayne, Neb.
"The majority of children up until age eight are tactile and kinesthetic
learners, meaning that they learn more by touching, doing and moving rather
than simply via visual and auditory methods," said Wendy Zachrisen,
educational marketing manager for Learning Resources .S.

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Research Finds that Students Using Curriculum Advantage's Classworks Show Significant Gains in Math Compared to Control Group

Damon Patterson, principal at Meridian Elementary School and the
researcher who performed the study during a New Century Education
Leadership Program at Tarleton State University in Texas, praised
Classworks for its ability to target instruction to individual needs.

Part of the Promethean Technologies Group Ltd. New Literacy Tool Helps Emergent, Beginning and Struggling Readers

VERNON HILLS, Ill. The Reading Mentor aligns with the
Put Reading First research report in the areas of phonemic awareness (the
knowledge that spoken words are made up of sounds) and explicit phonics (the
relationship between letters and sounds) instruction.

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The
company sells complete solutions including its innovative
Collaborative Classroom, featuring the ACTIVstudio2 and ACTIVprimary
software, and interactive learning devices such as ACTIVote and
ACTIVslateXR .
For more information about Reading Mentor, Reading Rods and other Learning
Resources products contact 1-800-222-3909 or visit
http://www.

About Learning Resources(R)
Learning Resources, which is headquartered in Vernon Hills, Ill.