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Teachers can take the lessons and implement them in the
classroom as they are, or edit and customize the lessons to meet their special
needs. Their flexible, extensible, web-based alignment tools offer
a unique and configurable blend of automated and manual alignments resulting
in a cost-effective, efficient, sustainable, and reliable system for
maintaining up-to-date standards and alignments.

Instructional Technology, also often referred to as Educational Technology, deals with the use of technology in teaching.

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About Co-nect

Co-nect, http://www.

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About Promethean
Promethean is a global leader in interactive learning technology helping
to empower teachers to engage, educate, assess and motivate students.

About Academic Benchmarks
Academic Benchmarks ( http://www.

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Co-nect's instructional diagnostic tools and
progress monitoring data, such as DIBELS, are used to measure ongoing
success .

Promethean and Academic Benchmarks Align Teacher Lesson Plans to State Education Standards

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Academic Benchmarks organizes standards in a consistent yet flexible format,
maintaining the integrity of the original documents and delivering timely
standards to its clients , which include Houghton Mifflin, Scantron
Corporation, Compass Learning, ETS Pulliam, and netTrekker . They provide the most comprehensive,
accurate, technically sound, and up-to-date collection of state, district,
local, national, and international standards to all segments of the K-12
education market.

This includes using interactive computer technologies for accompanying traditional courses , course websites, network learning, but also such relatively simple technologies as traditional audio -visual equipment (video, overhead projectors).

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Training topics include:

- Foundations of Coaching;

- Scientifically Based Reading Instruction;

- Analyzing School and Student Performance;

- Designing Instructional Interventions;

- Setting Goals and Monitoring Progress Formatively; and

- Evaluating Interventions and Adjusting Instruction.

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Co-nect Literacy(TM) Helps Literacy Coaches Develop a Data-Driven
Approach to Improving Early Literacy Instruction

The federal Reading First program requires school districts to
provide early literacy teachers with professional development on the
essential components of reading, as well as how to administer and
interpret assessments of student progress."
Through Co-nect Literacy, coaches are prepared to help their
schools implement a data-driven approach to improving K-3 literacy
achievement.

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Bruce Goldberg, Co-nect chief education
officer. Since 1992, Co-nect has been a
leader in improving instructional quality - implementing data-informed
solutions in over 33 states."
Created for use with the Promethean interactive whiteboard, the ready-made
flipchart lessons are available in a range of K-12 subject areas including
core curriculum and other areas such as technology , visual arts, and health
education.

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Districts are increasingly
hiring "literacy coaches " to help meet the need, but there's a
problem.
To support these coaches, and districts working to build coaching
programs, Co-nect, a leading provider of professional development
solutions , introduces Co-nect Literacy(TM). "Co-nect is helping our district
coaches customize professional development based on data analysis from
student assessments and helping teachers differentiate instruction
through the use of flexible grouping.
"Promethean's license to our collection of state, district , and national
education standards provides teachers access to engaging materials that
reliably support a standards-based curriculum," said Kelly Peet, president of
Academic Benchmarks. From ACTIVstudio and ACTIVprimary software that
helps teachers prepare lessons from multiple media sources and interactively
present on ACTIVboard, the industry's most durable interactive whiteboard,
Promethean's solutions are class-leading.

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Who's Coaching the Coaches? Co-nect Delivers Professional Development Program for Literacy Trainers

The group is headquartered in Blackburn, UK, and has overseas offices in
the USA (Atlanta, Ga.academicbenchmarks.

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net, is a leading provider of
data-driven, K-12 professional development solutions focused on
improving the quality of classroom instruction district-wide.
By partnering with Academic Benchmarks, the leading provider of K-12
academic curriculum standards and alignment tools for education, Promethean
has access to the state standards data, including both core- and non-core
subjects to align with its lesson plans.

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The only thing preventing most from rising to the
challenge is time.

"The Co-nect training has equipped my literacy coaches with the
necessary tools to provide ongoing professional development and
feedback for the teachers at the schools they service," said Melinda
Romero, director of professional development at Chandler Unified
School District in Chandler, Ariz.prometheanworld.

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Educators can't be expected to make such a paradigm
shift overnight," said Dr. ATLANTA, Promethean, a global leader in interactive
learning technology , announced today the alignment of its flipchart lessons
and resources for teachers to state education standards. "Our alignment tools ensure that Promethean lessons now
address the needs of students and meet state education standards.

About the Academic Benchmark Standards
Academic Benchmarks is the largest and fastest-growing aggregator of K-12
education standards, providing continuously updated databases of standards, as
well as other education-based services, with turnkey delivery systems.

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Used in conjunction with ACTIVotes, Promethean's formative
assessment devices, teachers have access to a complete learning solution tied
to state education standards. Collaboration is enhanced through
the wireless ACTIVslate which permits instructional mobility in the classroom
while enhancing student engagement and reducing disciplinary issues.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Beyond the
classroom, Promethean offers comprehensive training and support services to
ensure maximum results and realization on investment.

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Co-nect offers grant-writing support and can
provide materials on Co-nect Literacy for inclusion in grant
applications. The thousands of
standards-based flipchart lessons will be available to all Promethean users in
a searchable database that can be queried by state, subject area, grade level
and keyword.
Developed by and for educators, Promethean's curriculum delivery and
assessment technologies enable teachers to create , customize and integrate
texts, Web, video and audio content to interactively capture students'
attention and accommodate their different learning styles.

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The use of assessment data to drive instructional practices
-- or data-driven decision making -- is so new to education that many
coaches themselves require training in this area.
"New accountability requirements have placed extraordinary
pressure on school districts to implement new programs and
assessments.
The program focuses on analyzing key data throughout the year in
order for coaches to develop a complete picture of literacy
achievement , and enable them to implement a system of analysis and
progress monitoring.
"Having our lesson plans aligned to state education standards will not
only help ensure teachers are instructing based on what states have mandated,
but also save them time by providing quality, turn-key tools for instruction ,"
said Mark Elliott, president of Promethean, Inc.

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Co-nect trains coaches in proven methods they can implement in
their schools, including classroom modeling, the lesson study process,
and progress monitoring.
Promethean ACTIVclassroom solutions are helping educators teach and
students learn worldwide. To
further increase class interactivity and formatively assess individual student
or group progress, students can use the wireless ACTIVote device. For more information,
please visit http://www.

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Schools and districts can apply for funding for Co-nect Literacy
from the following funding sources: Reading First, Title I, local and
district funds, comprehensive school reform (CSR ) and Teacher Quality
(Title II, Part D).
Promethean's integrated ACTIVclassroom empowers teachers to deliver rich,
animated and sound-enabled content to enliven classroom experiences and
learning . By closely
collaborating with educators worldwide in the development of new pedagogy-
based technologies, Promethean supports local curriculum standards while
providing tools to formatively assess student performance instantly and ensure
their success.

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"Co-nect Literacy helps districts do what they simply don't
have time to, which is, build and implement a literacy coaching
program , and provide the training to ensure long-term success. Teachers are well supported to base instruction on
effective reading practice, use data to modify and differentiate
instruction, and address the literacy needs of all students.
Teachers and educators around the world developed the flipchart lessons
for the interactive whiteboard to include text, video, web, and digital
content using Promethean's award-winning ACTIVprimary and ACTIVstudio lesson
development software.
Standards -aligned flipchart lessons will be available spring 2006 for all
Promethean users.

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Co-nect Literacy is a
data-driven solution that builds the capacity of coaches to help
teachers use data to effectively plan and differentiate instruction,
and to promote high-quality K-3 literacy instruction district -wide.com ) is the
definitive source for standards and alignment tools, and has been developing
educational technologies since 1989.

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Co-nect
delivers training, tools, and resources to solve critical issues such
as whole school improvement, data-informed decision-making, technology
integration, and early reading failure.

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