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O s e r C o m m u n i c a t i o n s G r o u p O r l a n d o F r i d a y, J a n u a r y 1 5 , 2 0 1 6 AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH FETC An interview with Lonnie Morgan, Vice President of Educational Partnerships, COMPREHEND™. ESD: Tell our readers about COMPRE- HEND and what makes you different than other content providers? LM: COMPREHEND is written and designed by educators with many years of real-world, classroom experience. We were early endorsers of "personalized learning." Eight years ago, when we decided to devel- op our personalized curriculum, we determined the best place to start was with the educators who would be our potential users. It was apparent that the tools PERSONALIZED LEARNING DOESN'T HAVE TO BE COMPLICATED An interview with Randal Heise, President, Mackin Educational Resources. ESD: Tell our readers about Mackin Educational Resources. What does Mackin offer? RH: Mackin is a 32 year old company offering high- quality educational resources, including printed books in all bindings, eBooks, audiobooks, databases and videos along with professionally curated classroom and leveled libraries, new school collections, curriculum materials and more for schools and libraries. Our free digital content management system, Troxell Communications, a leader in educational technology products and application servic- es for more than 60 years, is proud to announce the official U.S. launch of School Asset Manager (SAM; www.schoolassetmanager.com), a complete asset management solution for education. Troxell and sister company Summit Integration Systems are now offering a free trial to all interested customers. SAM technology helps school officials immensely by combining QR asset tagging (ultra-strong asset tags included), scanning, document and media storage, net- work management and help-desk requests, enabling dis- tricts and schools to manage all of their fixed, mobile, hard and soft assets. As a result, administrators and An interview with Bob Hill, Global Education Manager, Ergotron. ESD: What does Ergotron have in store for FETC attendees this year? BH: Diverse options for charging sys- tems will continue to be a strong require- ment for educators, and we are excited to show off our entire family of Ergotron charging carts, wall cabinets and desktops, especially Ergotron's YES series charging systems built with Anthro DNA. Whether a school is using Chromebooks, iPads ® or Windows tablets today, or a new device platform tomorrow, the newly combined line of charging systems now offers educators and An interview with Anthony Cross, Vice President Analytics Portfolio, Scantron Corporation. ESD: Why be concerned about dropouts? AC: The National Center for Education Statistics' most recent numbers indicate that 1.2 million students drop out of high school every year – equivalent to one student every 26 seconds. While this is an improvement over the high drop-out rates of the 1990s, it's still a national concern – young people without a high school diploma face serious economic challenges. Identifying at-risk students and designing interventions based on risk profiles of different student Continued on Page 23 An interview with Anna Maria Chávez, Chief Executive Officer, Girl Scouts of the USA. ESD: What is Girl Scouts showing off this year? AC: Last year, we unveiled the first digi- tal sales platform that let girls sell cookies and learn valu- able lessons through a website or a mobile app. Digital Cookie revolutionized how girls learn the five skills of goal setting, decision making, money management, peo- ple skills and business ethics, adding a digital layer that taught exciting new things – like online marketing, using digital dashboards, digital money management – about Continued on Page 23 Continued on Page 23 HIGH QUALITY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FROM MACKIN TROXELL COMMUNICATIONS LAUNCHES SCHOOL ASSET MANAGER SPOT AT-RISK STUDENTS BEFORE THEY DROP OUT CHARGING SOLUTIONS FROM ERGOTRON GIRL SCOUTS: REVOLUTIONIZING THE REVOLUTIONARY Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 20 Continued on Page 20