RM OEM and Reseller Partners,

Don’t forget to register for RM Education’s 1^st Annual Dealer Summit! Attendees will have the opportunity to secure their RM Certification (existing partners) and learn more about RM’s Partner Program (new partner prospects). The Summit will be held on June 17^th from 11-6 and June 18^th from 8-2, at the Hyatt Place in Orlando – just 2 blocks from Infocomm at the Convention Center! The event will be an “Open House” venue – you need not attend the entire day or both days – simply stop by for an hour or so to view the Product Showcase, attend a Break-out Session if you wish, and complete a short questionnaire…Schedule for Break-out Sessions as follows:

Wednesday, June 17^th

1:00 – How Stimulus Funding Maps to RM Products
4:00 – RM Education and The 21^st Century Classroom

Thursday, June 18^th

9:00 – RM Education and The 21^st Century Classroom
11:00 – How Stimulus Funding Maps to RM Products

BE SURE TO REGISTER FOR THE SUMMIT, then attend any time during either day – I will contact every registrant directly, to offer the opportunity for a 1:1 Consultation with RM’s Education Team during the Summit! Click here to complete your registration: www.rmeducation.com/getaccredited

RM EasiESL Lab Helps Students Achieve Success

eSchool News recently reported on the important use of MP3 players/recorders in the ESL classroom. In the article they state that MP3 players/recorders are more than just a cool gadget, they help transform a classroom by:

• Stimulating and engaging students in the learning process.
• Enhancing instruction by making it personal.
• Increasing achievement and motivation.
• Differentiating instruction for diverse learners.
• Accommodating multiple learning styles; and
• Providing anytime, anywhere learning.

The EasiESL Lab has been designed to perform all the above along with providing the ESL teacher with supporting curriculum, resources and materials. The RM EasiESL Lab comes with RM Sonica for an exciting, engaging and motivating way for Spanish speakers to learn conversational English. EasiESL provides busy school teachers with everything needed to confidently deliver a lesson and includes a number of lessons, supporting audio and video files, and activities for individual and whole class teaching as well as extensive teacher support.

Read the full article at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=58695

RM Education Announces the Release of RM Easiteach 3.5

Hyannis, MA - April 30, 2009 - RM Education, the U.S. division of RM, a world-wide supplier of technology-based curriculum products for education, announced today the release of RM Easiteach 3.5, upgraded to bring more interactive tools and dynamic content to the classroom!

RM Easiteach provides teachers, schools and districts with a standardized platform for all interactive technologies including whiteboards, wireless slates, digital projectors and voting devices. RM Easiteach gives teachers the ability to create interactive lessons and adapt existing lessons, including those using Excel, Word, Power Point and video. Building on the award-winning content of the previous version, the release of version 3.5 (version 1.2.5 for MAC) has been enhanced to include:

• 500 new high-quality images and photos in the multi-media bank
• 85 new cross-curricular Daydream Education interactive wall charts including: Music, Science, Technology and more
• Upgraded Starter Content Pack expanded to include grades K – 12
• Redesigned with a fresh new look and feel
  

“In our commitment to provide teachers with the tools they need to make the most of their interactive classrooms, we have upgraded the Easiteach software platform to offer additional tools and content to meet the evolving technology needs of teachers”, said Kevin Pawsey, Chief Executive of RM Education’s US Division. “Over 100,000 teachers nationwide currently utilize RM Easiteach to create interactive lessons that help engage and inspire students. We are dedicated to helping teachers create classroom environments that enhance teaching and provide students with the 21st century skills they need to compete in today’s global marketplace.”

For more information on RM Easiteach 3.5 please visit http://www.rmeducation.com/ or call toll-free (866) 728-6758.

About RM: Founded in 1973, in Oxford, England, RM is a world-wide leader in developing outstanding educational tools, technology and services that engage students and inspire learning. RM is one of Europe’s largest and most respected suppliers of technology-based curriculum products for education, supplying thousands of schools in six different countries including the United States. RM Education is the United States division of RM and is located in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

For More Information Contact:
Kate Wallace, Product Manager
(508) 862-0700
kwallace@rmeducation.com, or
Jeff Holden, Marketing Director
(508) 862-0700
jholden@rmeducation.com

Singin' & Singin' Recieves 2009 Classroom of the Future Impact Award

Singin’ & Signin’ received the 2009 Impact Award for Classroom of the Future on Thursday, May 14, 2009, in a celebration aboard the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum in San Diego, California. Four awards were presented: The Inspire Award, The Innovate Award, The Achieve Award, and the Impact Award, which is a Best‐Of‐Show Award encompassing all three awards, and is given to one program that best embodies all three attributes: inspire, innovate, and achieve.

The Classroom of the Future Foundation recognized Singin’ & Signin’ as an innovative math program, truly impacting students. Through easily recalled childhood songs and chants, the program teaches complex concepts using accompanying signs and gestures that easily
adapts to any curriculum.

Through Singin’ & Signin’s partnership with RM Educational Software, Inc., the program is now available in RM Easiteach format, an interactive technology, which is part of RM’s award winning family of whole‐class tools.

Siegrid Stillman, co‐founder of Singin’ & Signin’, explained, “Singin’ & Signin’ changed the way I teach math. I always knew I was a good teacher, but when my students would receive their state assessment scores, they were often lower than I had expected, so my teaching partner [Ken Ostroske] and I created Singin’ & Signin’.”

When reporting the four‐year outcome data, Kristi Frisbie, Managing Director of Singin’ & Signin’, said, “I think you'll find that Singin’ & Signin’ will change the way teachers teach math forever. It is so simple, yet revolutionary, because it teaches the way kids learn!”

About Singin’ & Signin’: Singin’ & Signin’ began as a program in 2004 for sixth grade classrooms. After three years of research, a company named Singin’ & Signin’ LLC launched its program nationwide, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The founders remain sixth grade teachers in San Diego County, California. Learn more at www.rmeducation.com/nickynote+

GLOW, Scotland's National Education Intranet delivered by RM, Receives Highest Honors at 2009 Global Learning Impact Awards

The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) today announced the results of the world’s annual competition of high impact use of technology to support and enhance learning. Glow, the world's first national intranet for education, comes out on top receiving the highly distinguished platinum award.

Managed by Learning and Teaching Scotland and delivered by Research Machines (RM), Glow is the world's first national intranet for education. Preparation for Glow began with phase zero, which involved checking that Glow could use existing data, provided by local authorities, to automatically create the anticipated 800,000 accounts. Glow was then piloted over a number of stages, all of which introduced new components. Feedback was then taken from the 13 local authorities and 3000 users (made up of teachers, students and local authority staff) involved in piloting. This feedback led to further improvements and the launch of the full system at the Scottish Learning Festival in 2007. Since the rollout of the live service began in 2007, 16 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities are now live with Glow and numbers are rapidly continuing to rise. The central Glow team is working with local authorities to ensure Glow is rolled out in an appropriate manner tailored to the needs of each local authority. The main purpose of Glow is to enhance the quality of learning and teaching in the classroom by fully supporting the delivery of Curriculum for Excellence. Learn more about Glow at http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/.

The Learning Impact Awards (LIAs) recognize use of technology to improve learning across all education segments and in all regions of the world. The finalists were evaluated by an expert panel of judges and the attendees at the IMS annual Learning Impact conference and Summit on Global Learning Challenges. The Learning Impact conference brings together leaders from supplier, educational, and government organizations focused on improving access, affordability, and quality of education worldwide. This year’s conference featured record attendance of global leaders from 25 countries and six continents. The LIA awards are unique in that they recognize the use of technology in context. Nominations include not only information about the technology but how it is used by an education provider. In addition, the entries are evaluated according to eight criteria of impact, including improving access to learning, improving affordability of learning, and improving the quality of learning. For more information about the Learning Impact Awards, go to http://www.imsglobal.org/pressreleases/pr090514.html.

New RM Math Player Launched at the NCTM 2009 Annual Conference

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the RM Education booth at the NCTM annual conference in Washington DC and making this a record best! And WOW what a great event it was! With more than 11,800 attendees, the new RM Math Player was well received with sessions filled throughout the day. Always a crowd favorite, the best seller RM Easiteach and Singin’ and Signin’ presentations had attendees engaging with every presentation.

Through May 31, 2009 please be sure to take advantage of our NCTM special pricing, including the RM Classpad and RM Easiteach bundle, as well as on our new RM Math Player featuring over 400 interactive lessons for each grade or subject and aligned with NCTM and state standards. When ordering, please use code NCTM09.

If you are interested in learning more about RM Education, request a copy of our first full line catalog containing a wide range of transformational solutions and services that will bring your classroom to life; making teaching more effective and learning more fun. To request a catalog please visit us at www.rmeducation.com/catalog or by calling 866-728-6758.

Technology Roll-out in the Chandler Unified School District

RM Education Announces the Release of RM Math Player

Developed to increase student motivation and performance.
Single user licenses now available!

Hyannis, MA - April 9, 2009 - RM Education, the U.S. division of RM, a world-wide supplier of technology-based curriculum products for education, announced today the release of RM Math Player, their first interactive math curriculum program available for individual math teachers.

Now math teachers in grades 6 through 12 will have access to the same content found in the award-winning RM Math Framework Edition, but without the need or expense of purchasing licenses for the entire math department or school. RM Math Player is available for individual users, making it a very affordable option for bringing 21st century learning into the classroom. The curriculum is aligned to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) as well as state-based standards. Subjects include: Calculus, Algebra I & II, Geometry, Numbers and Operations; and the content is self-contained on easy-to-use CDs for both PC and MAC users.

“We have found that the introduction of interactive technology to the classroom can greatly benefit the understanding and retention of difficult math concepts.” said Kevin Pawsey, Chief Excecutive United States RM Education Software Inc. “RM Math Player enables teachers to deliver lessons that are exciting, fast-paced and speak to all student learning styles resulting in improved student performance and test scores. We also understand that not all schools have the budgets to support the installment of a school-wide interactive math application, which inspired us to develop a product that could be utilized by a single teacher vs. the entire school.”

For more information on RM Math Player please visit http://www.rmeducation.com/ or call tollfree (866) 728-6758.

About RM: Founded in 1973, in Oxford, England, RM is a world-wide leader in developing outstanding educational tools, technology and services that engage students and inspire learning. RM is one of Europe’s largest and most respected suppliers of technology-based curriculum products for education, supplying thousands of schools in six different countries including the United States. RM Education is the United States division of RM and is located in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

For More Information Contact:

Catherine Carmarco, Product Manager, RM (508) 862-8102 cbell@rmeducation.com, or

Jeff Holden, Marketing Director, (508) 862-0700, jholden@rmeducation.com