Education Blog
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…
Marie’s Musings – March 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 “Never Again!” — the rallying cry of the March for Our Lives…
Cover to Cover: Textbook Design
by Mark DaGrossa, Director of Creative Services In this edition of Cover to Cover, I’m going to take you through the steps we consider when we are designing a textbook. After the project is awarded to us, we assemble our team and get down to work. First, we determine whether we are creating a design…
Marie’s Musings – February 2018
Thoughts on publishing, education, and other 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 “Don’t let any more children suffer like we have.” – …