BrainPOP (www.brainpop.com) creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports teachers, and bolsters achievement—in classrooms, at home, and on mobile devices. Our proven and award-winning educational resources, uniquely suited for 21st century learning, include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. In June 2011, we launched GameUp, a collection of top, free online game titles that tie right in to classroom curriculum. All our resources are supported by BrainPOP Educators, an online professional community more than 165,000 teachers strong and featuring over 850 free resources. Aligned to academic standards and easy to use, BrainPOP sites host more than 11 million visits each month.

EduTone provides the sustainable technology schools need in order to deliver the 21st century teaching and learning environments their stakeholders require. EduTone’s innovative, easy-to-use, and low-cost EduTone Xchange (ETX) platform, along with its pre-integrated catalog of education-specific applications, enables on-demand, one-to-one services delivery to the education enterprise while reducing IT complexity and bridging technology and business processes gaps.  The Global Grid for Learning (GGfL) acts as a trusted broker for digital content - connecting teachers and students to a single source for high-quality and educationally relevant learning resources. EdPay, provides educational organizations the tools they need to sell goods, process payments and generate reports. 

The Greaves Group
Tom Greaves
Founder and CEO

760-942-7654
tom@greavesgroup.com
www.greavesgroup.com

The Greaves Group provides a unique blend of successful senior management-level experience in sales, marketing, business development, operations, and product development. With over 100 years of combined know-how, our vast knowledge is virtually unmatched in the education market. The Greaves Group works with K-12 education companies to design, support, and execute projects that increase revenue and decrease the cost of customer acquisition. As first-hand practitioners at the senior management level for most of our professional lives, we have both the objectivity and the expertise to put your company and executive team on a fast path to success. Partnering with The Greaves Group will help your company cost-effectively achieve its goals by ensuring positive outcomes and a measurable return on investment.

The Greaves Group is also a highly regarded, experienced research organization. In conjunction with The Hayes Connection and the One to One Institute, The Greaves Group has recently published through MDR the Project RED report of survey results from 997 schools entitled THE TECHNOLOGY FACTOR: Nine Keys to Student Achievement and Cost-Effectiveness.

SAFARI Montage
Linda Maxson
Event Manager

610-645-4000, Ext. 173
lmaxson@safarimontage.com
www.safarimontage.com

SAFARI Montage provides K-12 school districts with a comprehensive and interoperable educational technology solution to create and deliver a digital curriculum. The full suite of integrated modules provides a single interface for accessing all digital visual resources from inside the school district network or from home. The monumental new teaching tool from SAFARI Montage, Digital Curriculum Presenter™ (DCP), is an intuitive and engaging visual presentation tool that integrates with all classroom digital technology, including document and web cameras, interactive whiteboards, projectors and DVD players to increase time-on-task teaching time. DCP even has a web-based formative assessment feature—Get it?™—which works seamlessly across multiple platforms, including many devices with Internet connectivity, such as iPad®, iPhone®, netbooks, Android™-based devices, and more. This award-winning SAFARI Montage Video-On-Demand and Digital Media Management enterprise solution is also designed to cut costs for school districts by utilizing cost-effective digital media delivery tools while facilitating visual instruction and learning in the classroom. SAFARI Montage servers come preloaded with premier educational video titles tied to the curriculum from the industry’s leading video publishers.

SMART Technologies
Emilio Bernabei
Director, Ecosystem and Marketing Operations

403-407-4921
ebernabei@smarttech.com
www.smarttech.com

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 61% 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 2 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 and software developers 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. Join our network today! www.smarttech.com/ecosystem

Dell
Kelli Hodges
Sr. Business Development Manager

512-971-8671
kelli_hodges@dell.com
www.dell.com

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com. To communicate directly with Dell and your peers, go to www.edu4u.com to join in conversations or share your thoughts around revolutionizing education technology.

itslearning
Brenda Raker
Vice President, Marketing

812-786-6619
brenda.raker@itslearning.com
www.itslearning.com

itslearning supports and enhances teaching and learning in 21st century classrooms at all grade levels. We do this by providing a platform which is being used by millions of educators around the world to create, use and manage a wide variety of digital resources to support best practices such as: blended learning, flipping the classroom, personalized learning, professional learning communities and other innovative best practices. We are entirely cloud-based which reduces IT costs. In addition, we have very high user adoption rates. Both of these contribute to a high return on investment for your technology dollars.

Kajeet for Education
Michael M. Flood
Vice President, Education Markets

240-482-3502
mflood@kajeet.com
www.kajeet.com/education

Kajeet is Making Learning Mobile with an affordable, safe, scalable solution to bring mobile broadband enabled devices to students everywhere.

Based in Bethesda, Maryland, Kajeet for Education is operated by Kajeet, Inc., creators of the award-winning safest cell phone for kids™. Founded in 2003, Kajeet was designed to provide kids with everything they need to safely explore the world of mobile technology. It includes a full suite of online parental controls to help families customize and manage every aspect of their Kajeet cell phone experience.

Kajeet for Education combines mobile broadband on a Tier 1 carrier network with Sentinel™, a unique cloud-based IP Traffic Management & Filtering platform, to provide students with safe, CIPA-compliant mobile broadband in an education budget-friendly model. Mobile broadband service from Kajeet for Education is shared across all devices and never expires so schools only pay for what they need and when they need it. 

Kajeet for Education’s BYOD solution combines its award-winning parental controls platform for smartphones and tablets with the Sentinel™ platform to ensure appropriate use of student-owned devices during the school day – at no cost to school districts!  Revenue from the BYOD program helps to fund PTA’s, PTO’s, Foundations and schools directly.

For more information about Kajeet for Education, please visit http://kajeet.com/education. To learn more about the smart phone for kids™, visit http://kajeet.com.

LAUNCHedu is an exciting new startup competition for promising entrepreneurs to publicly pitch their education business concepts and products before a panel of judges that include venture capitalists, successful entrepreneurs and education practitioners. Hosted by South by Southwest, SXSWedu is an innovations in learning conference held every March in Austin, Texas. As a component of the conference, LAUNCHedu will showcase what's next and new in education. LAUNCHedu 2013 will occur March 4-7, 2013 at the Hilton Austin Downtown. Visit http://sxswedu.com/ to learn more.

Ligature Partners, Executive Search
Willa Perlman
Managing Partner

401-521-3993
willa@ligaturepartners.com
www.ligaturepartners.com

Ligature Partners is a boutique retained executive search firm with a focus on industry sectors that educate, inform, and entertain consumers. Our clients include: education companies and organizations – both for-profit and non-profit, B2B and B2C publishers, digital content developers, aggregators and distributors, technology companies, consumer product companies, and private equity companies across our industry sector focus. The majority of our work involves identifying candidates from director to C-level across a full range of functional areas. Our partners have first-hand industry experience as they have held senior executive roles with companies engaged in many of the industry sectors our practice specializes in. As a result, clients are able to “speak shorthand” with us and often take advantage of our contextual knowledge on issues that go beyond the typical search parameters. We are known for our highly consultative approach and ability to traverse both large corporations and smaller, highly entrepreneurial businesses. Our service is extremely personal. Our partners do all of the execution work for the searches they lead. Our nationwide network of candidates is robust and current, and we’re particularly attuned to the emergence of new companies within our industry sectors where we closely watch the development of the next generation of A list executives. Ligature Partners has established a reputation for quality, tenacity, and responsiveness that distinguishes us within our profession.

Pearson
Kathy Hurley
EVP, Education Alliances, Pearson Foundation

201-665-6235
kathy.hurley@pearson.com
www.pearson.com

Pearson, the global leader in education content, services, and technology, engages today’s digital natives with assessment-driven, personalized learning, as well as dedicated professional development for new and seasoned teachers. This commitment is demonstrated in the company’s investment in innovative print and digital education materials for Pre-K through college, student information systems and learning management systems, teacher professional development, career certification programs, and testing and assessment products that set the standard for the industry. The company’s respected brands include Scott Foresman, Scott-Foresman-Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall, Benjamin Cummings, PEMSolutions, Stanford 10, SuccessNet, MyLabs, PowerSchool, SuccessMaker, America’s Choice, and many others. Pearson’s comprehensive offerings help inform targeted instruction and intervention so that success is within reach of every student at every level of education. Pearson’s commitment to education for all is supported by the global philanthropic initiatives of the Pearson Foundation.

RedRock Reports
Caren Normandin
Director, Client Services

408-266-4089
carennorm@redrockreports.com
www.redrockreports.com

Do your education customers tell you they love your product but don't have any funding to buy it? RedRock Reports can change that! We are the education funding experts. We enable your education sales and marketing teams to increase sales by providing targeted, actionable funding information. We provide custom funding reports, strategic consulting and sales training on funding. RedRock Online, our new 24/7 online funding service, links timely funding information with district contact information from Agile Education Marketing and actionable insights from RedRock Reports to make the smart, targeted sale. Resources include bite-sized videos, podcasts and briefs to prepare your sales team with the knowledge about the funds and language needed to talk to the appropriate customers. RedRock Reports helps you navigate the rapidly-changing funding landscape for more effective sales and marketing. To find out how we can help you, or for a demo of RedRock Online, contact us at info@redrockreports.com or visit www.redrockreports.com.

Academic Business Advisors, LLC
Farimah Schuerman
Managing Partner

914-238-4435
farimah.schuerman@academicbiz.com
www.academicbiz.com

ABA helps ed tech companies with strategy, sales and marketing, distribution, business development, and growth. We have experience in the full life cycle of education business and services. We go beyond specializing in specific tasks or having a narrow focus or expertise. Our broader perspective allows us to help you identify what you need to get to your end goals and then help you plan and execute. We often start with questions such as what are your goals and what is holding you back from achieving them? And then proceed to help you craft and implement winning strategies.

Agile Education Marketing
Bob O'Dell
Managing Partner

949-861-3746
rodell@agile-ed.com
www.agile-ed.com

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 online advertising. If you’re searching for more cost effective, efficient and effective ways to grow your business, turn to Agile.

BLEgroup
Eliot Levinson, PhD
CEO

202-255-4391
eliot@blegroup.com
www.blegroup.com

Helping Schools & Businesses Move from the Book to the Cloud

The BLEgroup provides strategic services to schools and ed-tech companies that supports the development, marketing and adoption of digital teaching, learning and management products. Our knowledge of the industry and the experience of our 100 working education leaders leads to the development and utilization of quality products that create effective educational outcomes and improved management processes.

The impact of education technology is determined by the quality of the technology product and the capacity of schools to integrate technology into instructional and management processes.

C. Blohm & Associates, Inc.
Charlene Blohm
President

608-216-7300
charlene@cblohm.com
www.cblohm.com

C. Blohm & Associates, Inc. (CB&A), is a public relations firm specializing in the education industry. Since 1991 we’ve helped companies build brand awareness, manage their corporate reputation, increase customer engagement and loyalty, and boost company growth. We design customized communications campaigns to fit each client’s specific needs through a comprehensive portfolio of services in the areas of public relations leadership, visibility solutions, and social media strategy.

Cherry Tree Companies, LLC
Chad E. Johnson
Managing Director

952-253-6010
cjohnson@cherrytree.com
www.cherrytree.com

Cherry Tree & Associates, LLC, is a private investment banking and investment management firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in serving entrepreneurially managed companies. Founded in 1980, the firm has served hundreds of companies in a variety of industries. It has formed and managed 8 investment partnerships and has participated in over 200 private equity financings, over 100 M&A transactions, and 24 public offerings. Our firm has a team of seasoned professionals representing more than 200 years of investment and executive operating experience. In the past five years, we have handled more than $1.3 billion in transactions

Cherry Tree has been working with education-related companies since 1985. We provide sell-side advisory engagements for companies with between $10 million to $500 million in revenue, and buy-side advisory engagements for companies as large as $3 billion in revenues. We assist entrepreneurial companies in the raising of equity capital private placements between $5 million and $50 million and provide fairness opinions and other valuation services.

For more information, including a subscription to our Education For-Profit Monthly newsletter or a conversation on the Education For-Profit industry and market conditions, please contact Cherry Tree at 952-893-9012, info@cherrytree.com, or visit our website at www.cherrytree.com.

EdNET Insight
Kathleen Brantley
Director of EdNET Insight, MDR

800-333-8802
kbrantley@dnb.com
www.schooldata.com/mdrednetinsight.asp

EdNET Insight is a decision support service from MDR that provides research, consulting, and information services and a member community to companies in the K-12 education industry. By means of reports, custom research, and other services, EdNET Insight supports tactical and strategic decision making in core corporate functions—strategic planning, sales and marketing, business and product development. The service also provides funding solutions that offer information and advice to navigate opportunities and apply for funding effectively.

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Educational Systemics, Inc.
Michael Jay
President

360-752-2874
michael@edusystemics.com
www.edusystemics.com

Educational Systemics is a service organization offering both breadth and depth of experience in education, technology, and business planning for the K-12 market. Educational Systemics’ mission is to improve teaching and learning in schools by working closely with K-12 businesses to conceptualize, design, develop, position, and identify sales opportunities for products that address the education community.

Whether your organization is going through large- or small-scale changes, re-evaluating
product or service offerings, or trying to determine which products truly meet the needs of the marketplace, Educational Systemics will collaborate with you to evaluate your options and chart a course that meets your business goals and accounts for the needs of K-12 education today.

edWeb.net
Lisa Schmucki
Founder and CEO

800-575-6015
lisa@edweb.net
www.edweb.net

edWeb.net (www.edweb.net) is a professional social network for the education community that makes it easy to connect with peers, share information and best practices, spread innovative ideas, and create professional learning communities. The user-friendly interface includes a wide range of Web 2.0 tools that support online collaboration and professional development. edWeb members are developing new models and best practices for integrating social networking into education. edWeb.net was founded in 2008 by Lisa Schmucki, CEO, and is located in Princeton, NJ.

Follett Software Company
David Zasada
Vice President, Product Management and Marketing

815-344-8700
dzasada@follettsoftware.com
www.follettsoftware.com

Combining proven thought leadership with digitally powered, K-12 technology solutions, Follett Software helps sustain a rich, collaborative, 21st century learning environment that supports student success. Follett’s integrated educational technologies, training, and services help districts achieve better results by maximizing resources—from library materials, digital content, textbooks and other assets to school and student data.

Intel
Paige Johnson
Government/Education Strategist

503-712-3378
paige.johnson@intel.com
www.k12blueprint.com

For more than four decades, Intel has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems and software building blocks that are the “ingredients” of computers, servers, and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel’s mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy.

One of the greatest challenges facing education and industry alike is how to harness the power of technology, put it to work for students today, and do it at a cost that already strained education budgets can afford. Through partnerships with corporate America, school districts now have the ability to address critical technology issues and deliver the solutions teachers and students need most.

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.

For more information about eLearning initiatives in your school system, visit www.k12blueprint.com.

KEH Communications
Kati Elliott
President

410-975-9638
kati@kehcomm.com
www.kehcomm.com

KEH Communications is a specialized agency that focuses on public relations and marketing for education and consumer education clients. For more than fourteen years, KEH has provided each client with a robust public relations plan that is individualized to meet each company’s specific needs. Kati Elliott, a previous education magazine editor (Curriculum Product News) and a long-time account representative at a mid-size public relations agency. formed KEH Communications with the goal of helping companies to have an impact on the education of children. KEH focuses exclusively on the promotion of academic products and services for schools and homes. If it doesn’t teach or support education, we won’t handle it.

KEH Communications offers a full range of public relations, marketing, and event planning services ideally suited to assist clients in gaining broader awareness for their company and products within schools and homes. We are staffed with energetic, experienced account executives who bring appropriate resources to bear depending on the task at hand. To learn more, visit www.kehcomm.com.

Meeker Search and Consulting
John Meeker
Founder and President

952-921-3262
john@johnmeeker.com
www.johnmeeker.com

Meeker Search and Consulting has spent the past 13 years providing top talent to our clients because:

• We are experts in our niche – Education Technology.
• We are trusted confidantes of both companies and industry leaders.
• We are tested and proven with both established and emerging companies.
• We are focused on using our clients’ time and money efficiently as we conduct retained searches.
• Through our consulting expertise, we assist clients to develop and implement retention strategies for key employees.
• On a selected basis, executive coaching and navigating encore careers are available.

John will be delighted to explore the ways in which Meeker Search and Consulting can be of service to you and your organization. He will be available to meet during EdNET, or he can be contacted at the Minneapolis office, 952-921-3262, or john@johnmeeker.com.

Mimio
David Myers
Senior Manager, Business Development

617-588-7179
david.myers@mimio.com
www.mimio.com

Mimio & HS: As a global leader in interactive teaching technologies, Mimio® is setting industry standards with our MimioClassroom™ family of integrated interactive teaching tools and services. In 2011, Mimio acquired Headsprout®, whose adaptive instructional content accommodates each student's pace for learning. Together with Headsprout, Mimio is creating a better way to learn.

MMS Education
Susan Meell
CEO

215-579-8590
smeell@mmseducation.com
www.mmseducation.com

MMS Education helps for-profit and not-for-profit organizations reach, engage, and measure impact in the PreK-20 education market. We help you attract your audience, create and implement strategies to drive utilization of your programs, and help you build and retain relationships with the stakeholders who matter most to your organization. And we provide the implementation support you need to scale up and execute against deadlines or pursue market opportunities. Clients turn to us for market research, marketing and communications, sales and support programs, technical support/help desk services, outreach programs, and information management systems. Some of our recent clients include Teaching Strategies, Pearson Education, Ten80 Education, The Walt Disney Company, Time Inc., Verizon Foundation, American Heart Association, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

SEG Measurement
Scott Elliot
President

267-759-0617
selliot@segmeasurement.com
www.segmeasurement.com

SEG Measurement is a leading provider of research and assessment services to educational publishers, technology providers, and other educational service providers. Since 1979, we have been helping small, medium, and large organizations, both domestic and international, meet their assessment and research needs. SEG provides a full range of assessment services, including assessment program design, test and item development, field testing, psychometric and statistical analysis, test validation, and standard setting for both print and online environments. SEG Measurement also provides a complete array of research services, including effectiveness research, program evaluation research, case studies, and randomized trials. From research design through data collection and analysis to reporting, we can meet your research needs.

SkillsTutor
Deb deVries
Vice President, Marketing

612-669-3379
deb.devries@hmhpub.com
www.skillstutor.com

SkillsTutor: SkillsTutor, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company, a leader in educational solutions, publishes online supplemental K-12 programs to help increase proficiency in math, reading, writing, language, science, and workforce readiness. SkillsTutor Mobile leverages the multimedia capabilities of smart mobile devices and extends “access anywhere.” These best-in-class, award-winning solutions are research-based, align to state and national standards, and are proven to deliver results. To learn more about SkillsTutor, visit www.skillstutor.com.

SkillsTutor Math Fact Fluency: Math Fact Fluency builds math confidence and proficiency through student relevant, real-world scenarios that make math facts meaningful. Students draw themselves in the Character Creator and then appear in every lesson. Students engage in performance-based gaming that motivates and makes practice time fun while they develop instant recall of basic facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

This flexible program can be used as a supplement to core programs or an alternative to flash cards and timed tests in enrichment, intervention, and summer school or after-school settings. For more information, visit www.skillstutor.com.

SmartBrief Education
Joseph Riddle
Publisher

202-407-7857
jriddle@smartbrief.com
www.smartbrief.com

SmartBrief is the leading online publisher of targeted business news and information in more than 25 industries. By combining technology with human editorial expertise, SmartBrief filters thousands of sources daily to deliver the most relevant industry news in partnership with more than 180 trade associations, professional societies, nonprofits and companies.  With an audience of more than 4 million senior executives, thought leaders and informed industry professionals, SmartBrief is the essential resource for “must-read” industry news.  In the education sector, SmartBrief has partnered with trade associations ASCD, CEC, NBPTS and ACTFL to produce nine publications, in addition to our own publication, SmartBrief on EdTech.  Some of our most recent partnerships include NCSS, NCLE, NASBE and Sigma Xi.  Our education newsletters reach an engaged audience of more than 450,000 superintendents, school board members, curriculum directors, principals and teachers- daily.  Advertisers in these publications benefit from our unmatched reach and response rates as well as online reporting, which enables them to directly track the success of their advertising campaign.  More than 90% of our advertisers, including Scholastic, McGraw-Hill, Epson and IBM, have renewed with SmartBrief after their initial test campaigns.

Texthelp Systems Inc.
Kate Gilligan
VP of Publishing Services

610-304-1805
k.gilligan@texthelp.com
www.texthelp.com

Texthelp Systems provides award-winning literacy software solutions for individuals with reading and writing difficulties, learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, or who are English language learners. Texthelp’s products are designed for use by individuals, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and publishers.

Texthelp products include:

• Read&Write GOLD – A customizable toolbar that integrates directly with common applications, including MS Word, Internet Explorer, and Adobe Reader, allowing students access to reading, writing, studying, and research support tools from within the programs they use everyday. Flexible deployment and licensing options are available for school and home use. In September 2011, Texthelp will be releasing a new Suite of Web Apps that will allow Read&Write GOLD users to access familiar support features, such as read aloud with dual color highlighting from multiple devices and platforms—iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Android tablets and phones, and PC and Mac computers!
• Fluency Tutor – An innovative online solution for developing and assessing oral reading fluency and comprehension. The program includes passages aligned with MetaMetrics Lexile Framework for Reading and tools for practicing reading, recording assessments, marking assessments, and monitoring progress anywhere, anytime. Fluency Tutor is great for elementary and middle school students, struggling secondary students, English language learners, and summer school or after-school programs.
• Lexiflow – A flexible technology solution that allows publishers to deliver feature-rich electronic books and assessments via accessible flash. The product provides a secure deployment environment and delivers an identical learning experience on Windows and Mac.
• SpeechStream – A powerful literacy support product that allows publishers to enhance their eLearning content with key support features, including high-quality speech with dual highlighting. Publishers can embed the customizable toolbar into their new or existing web content.

For more information, contact Texthelp at 888-248-0652 or u.s.info@texthelp.com or go to www.texthelp.com.

WeAreTeachers
Sandy Fivecoat
Founder

512-658-9939
sfivecoat@weareteachers.com
www.weareteachers.com

WeAreTeachers is a social and business network for teachers, schools, associations, and education marketers designed to enable members to share, connect, and collaborate. Members interact through a community profile, community circles, video sharing/streaming, forums, blogs, webinars, and other Web 2.0 social networking tools. WeAreTeachers is the first network to include The Knowledge Marketplace that gives educators, schools, and businesses the ability to sell and recommend knowledge-based products.

Education marketers partner with WeAreTeachers for its social media marketing services that leverage the capabilities on the WeAreTeachers technology platform as well as its Facebook application, “I am Teacher.” WeAreTeachers creates customized viral engagement programs for companies that help maximize its impact with the education community, engage with customers for greater retention, intercept buyers with a new distribution channel, and create an online community around its brand.

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Weiss and Associates Executive Recruiting
John Weiss
President

609-397-4527
weiss4jobs@aol.com
www.weissandassociates.net

Weiss and Associates is an executive recruiting firm working exclusively in the education industry in the USA and abroad. Please see our website for more information: www.WeissAndAssociates.net.

Winter Group
Linda Winter
President

303-778-0866, Ext. 12
linda@wintergroup.net
www.wintergroup.net

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.

Armed with many years of educational experience, Mentoring Minds is an educational publisher focused on creating a successful learning environment for children. Serving the k-12 education market, Mentoring Minds is constantly striving to provide valuable instructional tools that empower educators as they positively impact the lives of children.

Teaching students to become skilled thinkers is a goal of Mentoring Minds. Critical thinking will always be a strategy needed by students to form meaningful connections. Mentoring Minds’ critical thinking resources can be used to develop high quality instruction and lead students to independently process information. Critical thinking for life is more than a tagline, it is Mentoring Minds’ philosophy.

Scholastic Administrator
Michele Robinson
Group Publisher, Scholastic Professional Media

212-343-6455
mrobinson@scholastic.com
www.scholastic.com/administrator/

With a tight marketing budget, you want to get the most from every dollar you spend. So it is crucial to select a partner that can provide efficient multi-channel marketing and strong ROI. Scholastic’s trusted brand, web and print channels, and credible resources offer a unique integrated solution to grow your business.

The essential magazine for education leaders, Scholastic Administrator presents leading thinkers from the education and technology space in every issue, as well as showcasing the best practices from large and small districts across the country. Our well-known “Best in Tech” column presents in-depth reviews of technology solutions by the administrators who use them. An award-winning magazine, Administrator covers a wide range of critical and timely issues—including assessment, funding, special needs, RtI, and professional development at every level. Scholastic Administrator also offers email marketing, custom videos, webinars, and marketing opportunities through the most powerful website in education.

Tech & Learning
Allison Knapp
Publisher

650-238-0318
aknapp@nbmedia.com
www.techlearning.com

For over 30 years, Tech & Learning has been—and continues to be—the leading resource for
K-12 leaders. Its publication, websites, and events, such as SchoolCIO.com, Tech Forum, and the CIO Leadership Summit, provide factual and evaluative information on trends, products, and strategies to educators who purchase technology products in their districts and schools. Tech & Learning delivers the highest quality content and essential resources to manage, train, and teach technology. For more information, visit www.techlearning.com, www.schoolcio.com, and www.techlearning.com/techforum.

Words & Numbers
David Graham
Vice President, Sales

301-529-5232
dgraham@wordsandnumbers.com
www.wordsandnumbers.com

Words and Numbers is an educational technology company providing content development services to clients ranging from the largest in the publishing industry to the next great EdTech start-up in the PreK-12, higher educational and adult learning markets. The W&N team of professionals are passionate about education and are focused on helping our clients produce engaging products across all subject areas that increase student performance & support teachers. 

W&N provides services and project management for the entire project life-cycle, from conceptualization to asset creation. Our experience and expertise in creating everything from interactive and print textbooks to online courses and game-based learning, helps our client’s products touch the lives of millions of people around the world. Learn more at www.WordsandNumbers.com.  

The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)
Jo-Ann McDevitt
Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Development

302-295-8342
jmcdevitt@aepweb.org
www.aepweb.org

AEP is proud to co-lead with Creative Commons the Learning Resources Metadata Initiative (LRMI), a project funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a common vocabulary for describing learning resources. The goals of the LRMI are to improve discoverability of educational content to the benefit of both users and content creators and to improve interoperability between delivery platforms and across media. For information on the progress of this important initiative, stop by AEP’s exhibit table or visit www.lrmi.net.

The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) is a nonprofit organization that serves and advances the industry of supplemental educational publishing. The membership of AEP represents the breadth of educational content developers delivering progressive educational products in all media and for any educational setting. AEP’s thought leadership and market insight have created groundbreaking opportunities for its members to collaborate, network, and partner with each other as well as to acquire a voice in the development of government education policy. Founded in 1895, AEP now assists its members in navigating the global realities of educational publishing in the 21st century. For more information, please visit www.AEPweb.org.

MindShare Learning
Robert Martellacci, M.A. EdTech
President & Publisher

905-814-0900
robert@mindsharelearning.com
www.mindsharelearning.com

MindShare Learning is Canada’s premier strategic marketing solutions provider to the learning and technology industry. MindShare Learning serves the K-12, higher education, corporate, and lifelong learning markets. Our Toronto, Ontario, Canada office, based out of York University in the Greater Toronto area, is an international gateway from which we provide world-class educational technology thought leadership through our extensive MindShare Learning network.

As proud publishers of The MindShare Learning Report—Canada’s Leading Learning & Technology eMagazine—it is our contribution to pushing the 21st century envelope by harnessing the power of Web 2.0 technology to connect education and business to support 21st century student success.

Our extensive client list includes Adaptive Curriculum, Adobe (Macromedia), Access Accounting UK, Access Learning, Blackboard, CERC (Canadian Education Resources Council), DELL, Discovery Education, ERDI Canada, EPSON, Essential Skills Software, Faronics, frontrow, GlobalScholar, Learning.com, HP, Microsoft, MediaX, NECTAR Foundation, netTrekker, Pearson, RM Education/ RM PLC UK, SkillsTutor, SMART Technologies, Softease Ltd. UK, IMSI (ClipArt.com), Tech4Learning, The National Film Board, and the Toronto District School Board. Our strategic partners include CeLEA, CoSN, Education Canada, EdNET, ISTE, Pepperdine University, TakingITGlobal, The Learning Partnership, and York University.

National School Supply and Equipment Association (NSSEA)
Adrienne Dayton
Vice President - Marketing & Communications

301-495-0240
adayton@nssea.org
www.nssea.org

Founded in 1916, NSSEA promotes an open marketplace for quality educational products and services that lay the foundation for a stimulating environment for teaching and learning. NSSEA members (manufacturer, publisher, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, and independent supplier representative) produce and deliver every type of product you find in an educational setting. NSSEA’s mission is to serve the educational products marketplace by providing high quality trade shows that increase the productivity of the channel; networking opportunities to build relationships with trading partners; and market information on which to make solid business decisions. Join us for Ed Expo, March 21-23, 2012  in Baltimore, MD or the School Equipment Show, November 7-9, 2012 in Tampa.

Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
Dr. Karen Billings
VP Education Division

202-789-4487
kbillings@siia.net
www.siia.net

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education, and intellectual property protection to more than 500 software and information companies, including leading education technology and publishing companies.

SIIA’s Education Division participates in, shapes, and supports the education industry by providing leadership, advocacy, and critical marketing information to promote the success of education technology and content providers. For more information, visit www.siia.net/education.

SIIA Ed Tech Business Forum, November 28-29, 2011, New York City, www.EdTechBusinessForum.net. Join ed tech publishers and software company executives representing the entire spectrum from industry influencers to emerging innovators, as well as the investors and bankers who support them, at the leading business and finance conference for the K-12 and post-secondary education technology industry. Receive a $100 discount with promo code PRMMDR. (Discount valid off the SIIA non-member rate only and does not apply to current registrants.) For more information and to register, visit www.EdTechBusinessForum.net.