ASCD Wins Top Awards
ASCD publications and products have recently won top awards for excellence from three prestigious organizations.
The Society of National Association Publications honored Educational Leadershipwith the Silver Excel Award for the magazine's December 2007/January 2008 issue on “Informative Assessment” in the category of Single-Topic Issue Magazines with a Circulation Greater than 100,000.
- Educational Leadership won two editorial and design Awards of Excellence in the category of Magazines and Journals, Print over 32 Pages. The winning issues were “Responding to Changing Demographics” (March 2007) and “Informative Assessment” (December 2007/January 2008).
- Inservice, the ASCD blog, won an editorial Award of Excellence in the Blogs and Forums category.
- ASCD's 2007 Annual Report won a design and layout Award of Excellence in the Annual Report category.
- ASCD Express won a design Award of Excellence in the Web and Electronic Publications category.
- ASCD Express won for most improved e-newsletter.
- Teaching Vocabulary Across the Content Areas: An ASCD Action Tool won in the Teacher Resources/Books category.
- Meaningful Mathematics: Leading Students Toward Understanding and Application won in the Instructional, Audio/Video category.
- Leadership for Differentiating Instructionwon in the School/Class Management, Audio/Video category.
Let's Face It!
ASCD has launched its whole child initiative page on Facebook. This will help spread the word to parents, students, and the general public about the importance of ensuring that every child is healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and academically challenged.
With its more than 90 million active users across the world, Facebook is a rapidly growing social networking site that can generate awareness and worldwide support for key organization initiatives. The whole child Facebook page includes background information about the initiative, ASCD's whole child video, and feeds to both ASCD's whole child and Inservice blogs. Users can express their support by adding themselves as fans, leaving posts on the wall, uploading photos and other content, and joining other fans in discussion groups.
Visit ASCD's whole child Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pages/Whole-Child/20386944150) and become a fan today. Leave a post on the wall with your ideas for content and applications that we should add to the page over time.
A Call for Candidates
Do you know a forward-thinking ASCD member with a passion to make a difference? Perhaps this person is you! ASCD seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds for governance positions. Elected leaders have the responsibility of ensuring that programs, products, and services focus on the success of learners and that ASCD resources promote ASCD values. Please consider nominating yourself or encouraging potential candidates to submit nomination forms. Complete the nomination form online at www.ascd.org/nominations or contact Becky DeRigge atbderigge@ascd.org for a print version.
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Time to Vote!
Eligible ASCD members received a ballot for the 2008 General Membership election in the September issue ofEducation Update. You must sign and date your ballot for compliance with Virginia code. Unsigned ballots are not valid. Mail your completed ballot (postage paid) by November 15, 2008. You may also vote online by clicking on https://my.ascd.org/login.cfm. For additional information on the President-elect candidates, go towww.ascd.org/candidatesforum.
