Meet Marie Brown
Marie Brown founded Brown Publishing Network in 1983, a company that provided publishers with some of the most highly respected K-12 product development services in the market. After nearly 30 years of operation, Brown made the decision to sell Brown Publishing Network to Six Red Marbles in 2011. You started your career as a teacher; what…
Westchester Wrap-up: January – March 2019
by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Westchester is proud to be celebrating 50 years of providing publishers with quality pre-press services. The ways that content can be delivered and accessed are more numerous now than at any other time since Gutenberg invented the printing press, but our primary mission continues to be ensuring that…
Walter Henderson Jr., ELT Expert
Westchester K-12 is extremely pleased to announce the addition of Walter Henderson Jr. to our already top-flight editorial content development team. Joining Anne Riccio, Supervising Editor for ELA & Humanities, and Dave Bailis, STEM Content Director — Walter adds to the Westchester K-12 team the extremely important element of English Language Training (ELT). Walter’s…
Meet Anne Riccio
Anne Riccio, Senior Supervising Editor, ELA & Humanities, oversees the development of Literacy and Social Studies programs. She has a strong background in both subject areas, having worked directly in schools as a social studies teacher, and also as a director of reading content development. Before joining Westchester K-12, Anne led the development of…
Meet Chris Herrfurth
Chris Herrfurth, Production Manager at Westchester K-12 talks about his career, from his start at an advertising firm which sparked an interest in production work to his transition into the K-12 publishing industry. Learn more about Chris, and why he enjoys what he’s doing here at Westchester K-12 Publishing Services. You worked at other…
SXSW EDU 2019 and the future of K-12 education
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services What does the future hold for K-12 education? That question was a central theme of this year’s SXSW EDU conference, held in March in Austin, TX. Throughout the hours of sessions and meetings, several recurring themes permeated discussions around the prompt. First and foremost, there…
In the Community: DECA Prep, Dayton, Ohio
While attending the 2019 SXSW EDU Conference, Kevin J. Gray, Westchester K-12’s Managing Director completed a brief survey and received a gift card in return. That doesn’t seem very significant, however, the idea that it sparked has the potential to make a meaningful difference for many people. The gift card was for DonorsChoose.org, an…
Meet Dave Bailis
We asked Dave Bailis, STEM Content Director for Westchester K-12 to share some insights with us about his career, from his experience as a middle-school math and science teacher to developing content programs for basal publishers, and then working for an educational development publishing house prior to joining Westchester K-12. Read on to understand…
Meet Kevin J. Gray
Educational materials have evolved from basic textbooks to content that needs to be available in multiple formats, including online and mobile platforms. How do you ensure that your development resources are up to the task of creating programs that will work on the printed page as well as on-screen? Meet Kevin J. Gray, Managing…