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*Disclaimer: None of the people/animals pictured in this post actually expressed the opinions ascribed to them. At least not within my hearing. Though if you ask me, this moose has “literacy advocate” written all over him. “So what’s all this I keep hearing about a ‘summer slide’? Sounds dangerous.” “I think I can explain. When students […]Read more "Fighting the "Summer Slide": A Case Made in Captions"

Lerner Interactive Books are amazing for tons of reasons, but here are the top two: 1. They help readers of all levels improve their literacy skills. 2. Readers are exposed to engaging and educational Lerner content! You may be aware of our iBooks, but are you aware of all of the great content they feature? […]Read more "Lerner Interactive Books Series Spotlight: Cloverleaf Books™ Community Helpers"

Welcome another member of our Photo Editing team, Todd Strand. Todd is our Archivist & Photographer, which makes him uniquely qualified to tell you about another facet of Lerner Publishing Group:  Independent Picture Service, a Lerner Universal Corp. company. Independent Picture Service provides photos for books published by the Lerner Publishing Group and also has […]Read more "Independent Picture Service: an introduction"

Welcome back to Free Book Friday! Congratulations to Marisol Perez who is the winner of our new What Is a Food Web? series from Searchlight Books™! Marisol, please send an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. If you’re looking for a […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently spent a few days at the ISTE conference. The most obvious aspect of the conference was that we have arrived at a point when technology is part of our schools. Students and teachers are using laptops, interactive whiteboards, cell phones, and other devices on a daily […]Read more "Technology in education data from Project Tomorrow’s 2012 survey"

Memories of the American Library Association (#ALA2013) conference may be cloaked in July 4th fireworks haze, but we really did have a exciting show with many sparkling events. We opened the show Friday night with book signings from two powerhouse nonfiction authors–Sally M. Walker with her award-winning book Their Skeletons Speak, and Carla Killough McClafferty […]Read more "ALA Fireworks"

Lerner Interactive Books are amazing for tons of reasons, but here are the top two: 1. They help readers of all levels improve their literacy skills. 2. Readers are exposed to engaging and educational Lerner content! You may be aware of our iBooks, but are you aware of all of the great content they feature? […]Read more "Lerner Interactive Books Series Spotlight: Library Smarts"

I attended a training at Minnetonka High School (MHS, not pictured above) last week to learn more about the school’s 1:1 iPad program. Very impressive! Each student in grades 9 to 11 (with grade 8 to be included this fall) has a school-issued iPad, as do all teachers. For this digital learning environment, educators upload […]Read more "1:1—A Look into the Future"

Hey Internet Chums, The Lerner Digital Booth Last week I checked in with you at the halfway mark of the ISTE show in San Antonio. On Thursday, Digital Editor Ashley posted her own ISTE recap, containing actually useful information. Since that base has already been covered, I’m pretty much free to babble about whatever the […]Read more "ISTE Shenanigans"