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Schools May Now Apply for Nationwide "Healthy School Makeover Contest"

Leading health and physical education organizations team-up to provide a healthy school makeover worth $45,000 in support of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month

San Diego, CA, September 5, 2012 — Video entries are now being accepted for the nationwide Healthy School Makeover Contest, with the winner receiving an unprecedented grand prize worth $45,000 in educational materials, training, and equipment. Individuals can nominate a school by submitting a short video explaining why their school needs a healthy school makeover and how they’ll use the Grand Prize award to improve the health of their students. The contest, managed by SPARK™, provider of the world’s most-researched and field-tested physical education program and a division of School Specialty, features products and services from leading organizations including Sportime, AAHPERD/NASPE, Healthy Kids Challenge, Skillastics, Healthy Lifestyle Choices, GenMove, The First Tee, Polar, and the ANNIKA Foundation.

Online Speech Therapy Fills Needs for Fowler Unified School District

California district uses online speech therapy to provide services to 80 students

SAN FRANCISCO, September 4, 2012 – After having no applicants to fill their speech language pathologist (SLP) openings for an entire school year and lacking the funds to pay what other districts in the area were paying for SLPs, Fowler Unified School District (USD) turned to PresenceLearning, the leading provider of online speech therapy services to K-12 students. The district is using PresenceLearning to provide services to 80 students located at the six schools within the district.

Brookes Publishing To Give Away Free Books at Pathfinders Run Wild for Autism Event at the Maryland Zoo

Practical books will support Maryland families raising children with disabilities

BALTIMORE, MD – August 30, 2012 – Brookes Publishing, a family-owned Baltimore-based publishing company, is sponsoring the second annual Pathfinders Run Wild for Autism 5K race and Family Fun Run/Walk on Sunday, September 16th, 2012, at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.

PresenceLearning Partners with the Arizona Charter School Association

Corporate partnership provides Arizona charter schools access to online speech therapy benefits

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22, 2012 – PresenceLearning, the leading provider of online speech therapy services to K-12 students, recently joined into a corporate partnership with the Arizona Charter School Association. Through the partnership, the Association will help make Arizona’s 524 charter campuses aware of the uses and benefits of online speech therapy provided by PresenceLearning.

Health and Physical Education Organizations to Launch "Healthy School Makeover Contest" This Fall

Contest offers unprecedented grand prize of $45,000 in curriculum/training/equipment in support of National Childhood Obesity Awareness month

San Diego, CA, July 12, 2012 — A consortium of the nation’s leading health and physical education organizations have teamed-up to offer a nationwide Healthy School Makeover Contest to support National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month this September. One lucky K-12 school will win a comprehensive Healthy School Makeover worth $45,000. SPARK™, provider of the world’s most-researched and field-tested physical education program and a division of School Specialty, will manage the online contest.

Rhode Island contracts with ETS/Teachscape to use Framework for Teaching Proficiency System to train classroom observers statewide

Princeton, N.J. (July 10, 2012) — Educational Testing Service is proud to announce that the Rhode Island Department of Education awarded a contract to ETS and its subcontractor, Teachscape, to offer the Framework for Teaching Proficiency System to all districts implementing the Rhode Island Model Teacher Evaluation and Support System.