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Testimonials From Subscribers
We joined this year and it has been great for me. We bought some of the curriculum on CD, which the teachers loved! I also loved it because it cut down on curriculum guide copying which is always a hassle. They have been helpful in the extreme particularly in processing 501c3 donation checks.
Robin Byars, NIE Coordinator
Messenger-Inquirer
1401 Frederica St., Owensboro, KY 42301
270 691 7247, 800 633 2008 x7247
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Materials have been very useful! I use the CD a lot. If something comes up quickly, I look to see if there are any materials on a topic or holiday to make available for the teachers, or to add to something I'm already sending out.
Janet Wood, NIE Manager
Tucson Newspapers
520-573-4495, jwood@tucson.com
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...Joining the NIEI was one of the best investments I could have made. We've certainly gotten our money's worth
Lori Santarpio, NIE/Promotions Coordinator
The Sun Chronicle
34 South Main St., Attleboro, MA 02703
508-236-0437, santarpio@thesunchronicle.com
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As a participant in the NIE Institute, I can say I find the services useful for my program. I haven't used them all but it is relatively inexpensive for what you receive. I feel as though I've saved money in just one year. The curricula are educationally sound and Doug understands the business side of NIE too and the material reflects that.
Dennis Kelsch, Manager, Newspaper In Education
The Press-Enterprise, circ: 190,000
3512 Fourteenth Street, Riverside, CA 92501
(909) 368-9781
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Doug, I think your ideas are fabulous. As someone who just completed 20 years in NIE, I appreciate your efforts to tie together so many loose ends for the benefit of all. For my first few years in NIE, I had no one to turn to except a handful of colleagues. Your disk saved me a year's worth of work!
Kay O'Malley, NIE Specialist
Representing The Herald News, The Jersey Journal, and a number of NJ weeklies
732-974-2113, kayonie@aol.com
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If, for no other reason, you get the "Reading First" guide, the membership is worth it. We've also had very positive response, and additional newspaper orders, as a result of having the Century of Flight supplementary materials and the newspaper "cards". Curriculum materials provided are sound and very helpful to have on hand for "spur of the moment" needs as well as staples.
I'm currently working to get our paperwork ok'd for grants. Our local community foundation has reorganized and I needed a different 501C3 pass through account to have funds allocated to us relinquished. I don't anticipate any problems, given the materials provided.
Doug Alexander's work is truly appreciated by me and mine!
Cindy Piller, Newspaper in Education Coordinator
Daily Times-Call (circulation under 25,000)
P. O. Box 299, Longmont, CO 80502
(303) 776-2244 ext. 338, cpiller@times-call.com
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After implementing your ideas on how the NIE Institute can work for NIE programs, I just want to say - I want to work for you!!!!! You are my hero! I definitely think you are on the right track!
Jean House, NIE Manager
The News & Observer
215 S. McDowell Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
919-829-8921
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This piece (Thoughtful Literacy) is unbelievable! I wouldn't know where to start giving you feedback except that Darla Shaw is the best thing to happen to NIE ever! Thanks for making this good stuff happen. My teachers really loved "Reading First."
Jean Bessette, NIE
Cape Cod Times, The Standard-Times
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Doug, What an incredible educational guide [Women's History Month Guide]! I'm going to present it to our Michigan Women's Historical Center & Hall of Fame and ask them to make a contribution to NIE! Thank You!
Pat O'Hearn, Lansing State Journal
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TESTIMONIALS ON BULK CD PROGRAM
We are very pleased and impressed with the way these came out and will certainly continue to use the NIE Institute in the future. Putting these materials on CD has saved us a ton of money. Not to mention the other resources made available to us. The print charge for the larger FCAT manual alone last year worked out to around $12.00 each. So this is great!
Gail Taylor, The Tampa Tribune
200-202 S. Parker St., Tampa, FL 33606-2395
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...we introduced the CD at that workshop, it was well received, and I believe is the way of the future: replace bulky curriculum guides with a slim disk a teacher can pop into a unit, print out the day's activity, and then put it away until the next time. Whatever resources you decide to offer, offer them on CD if you can--you've made a believer out of me. Thanks.
Diane Ackerman, NIE Coordinator
Daily Herald , Arlington Heights, IL 60006
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Your CD has been terrific! Your CDs helped my budget. It was far less expensive to share a wide variety of resources on the CD than it was in previous years to share one curriculum on paper by mail.
You've also whet the teachers' appetites. What's happening in some schools is that the technology person posts a list of what's on the CDs. Teachers identify what they want, and the techie prints out copies of each teachers' personal requests for them. That gives me more "reach" inside each school.
Please keep up that great work!
Kay Haffey, The Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald
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