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Marie’s Musings – September 2018
Thoughts on education, publishing, and other intellectual titillations – by Marie Brown, Consulting Editorial Project Director ***The following comments, views, and opinions are solely those of Marie Brown, and do not necessarily reflect those of Westchester Publishing Services, its management, and staff.*** QUOTE OF THE MONTH “I have a master’s degree, 16 years of experience,…
Read More about Marie’s Musings – September 2018Publishers Weekly Star Watch 2018
by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager The 4th Annual Publishers Weekly Star Watch event took place in New York City on September 12, 2018. Co-hosted by Publishers Weekly and Frankfurt Buchmesse – producers of the Frankfurt Book Fair, it shines a spotlight on the contributions and innovations of people making an exceptional impact in the US or Canadian book publishing industry.…
Read More about Publishers Weekly Star Watch 2018Marie’s Musings – August 2018
Thoughts on education, publishing, and other intellectual titillations – by Marie Brown, Consulting Editorial Project Director ***The following comments, views, and opinions are solely those of Marie Brown, and do not necessarily reflect those of Westchester Publishing Services, its management, and staff.*** QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Shooters won’t walk into a school if 20% of…
Read More about Marie’s Musings – August 2018Marie’s Musings – July 2018
Thoughts on education, publishing, and other intellectual titillations – by Marie Brown, Consulting Editorial Project Director ***The following comments, views, and opinions are solely those of Marie Brown, and do not necessarily reflect those of Westchester Publishing Services, its management, and staff.*** QUOTE OF THE MONTH “The Textbook Is Extinct! Now What?” — title of a…
Read More about Marie’s Musings – July 2018International Literacy Association Conference – July 2018
by Anne Riccio, Senior Supervising Editor, ELA & Humanities I recently attended the ILA conference, which took place in Austin, TX. While attendance has been decreasing over the past few years, the teachers who were in attendance were very enthusiastic. I certainly came away feeling energized by what I heard at the sessions. I attended…
Read More about International Literacy Association Conference – July 2018Marie’s Musings – June 2018
Thoughts on education, publishing, and other intellectual titillations – by Marie Brown, Consulting Editorial Project Director *** The following comments, views, and opinions are solely those of Marie Brown, and do not necessarily reflect those of Westchester Publishing Services, its management, and staff.*** QUOTE OF THE MONTH “The federal government is bloated, opaque, bureaucratic, and inefficient.” – Mick Mulvaney,…
Read More about Marie’s Musings – June 2018SIIA Annual Conference and CODiE Awards, and ISTE Conference
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services In early June, I attended the SIIA Annual Conference & CODiE awards, held each year in San Francisco. Unlike a lot of the subject-matter conferences, the SIIA conference is a B2B event, bringing publishers, ed tech companies, and vendors together in the same space to…
Read More about SIIA Annual Conference and CODiE Awards, and ISTE ConferenceWestchester K-12 Publishing Services Summit
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services We launched the K-12 division just over a year ago, debuting at the AAP Content in Context forum. Westchester K-12 was founded on the belief that educational publishers deserved a higher level of product development support than they were receiving, and I was confident this…
Read More about Westchester K-12 Publishing Services SummitMarie’s Musings – May 2018
Thoughts on education, publishing, and other intellectual titillations – by Marie Brown, Consulting Editorial Project Director ***The following comments, views, and opinions are solely those of Marie Brown, and do not necessarily reflect those of Westchester Publishing Services, its management, and staff.*** QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Parents should boycott schools until gun laws are fixed.” – Arne…
Read More about Marie’s Musings – May 2018