Marie’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…
Marie’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…
International 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…
Marie’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,…
SIIA 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…
Westchester 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…
Marie’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…
Truly Inspiring! The World of Math at NCTM
by Dave Bailis, STEM Content Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services A couple of days spent in Washington, D.C., enjoying the beautiful, sunny spring weather, the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) national conference was perfectly timed and located. My colleague, Tim Cross, Westchester’s Business Development Manager joined me for this conference. As a former…
Marie’s Musings – April 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 honestly believe that if more people could read, write, and…