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.academicbenchmarks.

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

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To
further increase class interactivity and formatively assess individual student
or group progress, students can use the wireless ACTIVote device.

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Business Editors/Education Writers

SAN ANTONIO, Texas----Farmers
Insurance Group is teaming up with the American Association of School
Administrators (AASA) to provide Texas teachers with free civic
education materials, the groups announced today . "Preparing children for
democracy is an important part of AASA's Stand Up for Public
Education (TM) initiative," said AASA Executive Director Paul Houston.

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

"The American Promise," a free educational program brings the
American democratic system to life, letting students experience
firsthand what it's like to govern and make the decisions that bind us
together as a country, will be unveiled at AASA's National Conference
on Education(TM), Feb.
"Like AASA, Farmers understands the important link between public
schools and democracy and became concerned when budgetary cuts were
forcing public schools to eliminate U.

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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.
Promethean ACTIVclassroom solutions are helping educators teach and
students learn worldwide.com ) is the
definitive source for standards and alignment tools, and has been developing
educational technologies since 1989.

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But now,
through a partnership with AASA, "The American Promise" Elementary
School Edition -- "Promoting Citizenship Through Literacy," is now
available for elementary schools. government classes." "So in the back of the lesson plan booklet we have
printed both the NCSS Standards for Social Studies and the NCTE/IRA
Standards for the English Language Arts and how each of these
standards relate to every lesson plan.
AASA, founded in 1865, is the professional organization for more
than 13 ,000 educational leaders across America and in many other
countries.

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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. Until this past fall, "The American
Promise " offered only middle and high school level materials.

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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. 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.
Headquartered in Los Angeles and doing business in 41 states, the
insurers comprising the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies provide
Homeowners, Auto, Business, Life insurance and financial services to
more than 10 million households through 17,000 exclusive and
independent agents and district managers .

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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.

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. "'The
American Promise' is the largest and most successful program we've
ever initiated.

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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.com/n-america .

The group is headquartered in Blackburn, UK, and has overseas offices in
the USA (Atlanta , Ga.S. AASA's mission is to support and develop effective school
system leaders who are dedicated to the highest quality public
education for all children.

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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.
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.

Farmers Insurance to Provide Free Civics and Literacy Education Materials to Texas Teachers

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The new elementary school materials provide civics lessons that
comply with the literacy standards in Texas and AASA's commitment to
making sure that public schools continue to fill their role as a
cornerstone for the common good , providing the foundation for a civic
society, that is critical to our democracy.

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The fact
that Farmers choose to do something about it -- by creating this
educational program -- is a great example of corporate
responsibility.

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For more information,
please visit http://www.), France, Germany and China. 17-20, in San Antonio. "Creating and distributing educational
programs has long been a priority for us at Farmers," said Luisa
Acosta-Franco, Director of Sponsorship + Community Affairs .

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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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"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.

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

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"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. Used in conjunction with ACTIVotes, Promethean's formative
assessment devices, teachers have access to a complete learning solution tied
to state education standards.
Standards-aligned flipchart lessons will be available spring 2006 for all
Promethean users.

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"When we interviewed elementary principals and educators they told
us that they were in need of civic education materials, that met
literacy standards," said Randy Rice, Executive Director of "The
American Promise."
These lesson plans and videos are free to educators thanks to a
grant from Farmers Insurance."
Farmers Insurance Group of Companies(R) is the third-largest
Personal Lines Property + Casualty insurance group in Texas.

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Promethean's integrated ACTIVclassroom empowers teachers to deliver rich,
animated and sound-enabled content to enliven classroom experiences and
learning.

About Academic Benchmarks
Academic Benchmarks ( http://www.
Since its premiere on PBS, "The American Promise " videos and
accompanying lesson plans have reached 150,000 classrooms and more
than 3 million students a year.

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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.

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"Our alignment tools ensure that Promethean lessons now
address the needs of students and meet 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.