Released on: August 15, 2008, 2:23 pm

Press Release Author: Teacher Created Materials

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) recently
announced the official winners of the prized Distinguished Achievement Awards (DAA)
for 2008.

Press Release Body: Huntington Beach, CA, June 10, 2008 -The Association of
Educational Publishers (AEP) recently announced the official winners of the prized
Distinguished Achievement Awards (DAA) for 2008. Teacher Created Materials (TCM) and
Shell Education (Shell) both were repeatedly called up to the podium to accept
several honors.

"And the winner is" is a familiar phrase to TCM, a longtime publisher of various
lines of successful products. This year, TCM is a proud new owner of five 2008
Distinguished Achievement Awards, all in the curriculum package category, capturing
award-winning honors for products developed for language arts, social studies, and
science. The standards-based content-area reading program, Exploring Nonfiction: A
Differentiated Content-Area Reading Program, and two social studies resources from
the Primary Sources series won, including Communities Around the World and
Elections. TCM was also honored for Science Readers, a new resource kit that
connects literacy and science, and TechTools Resource Kit for Digital Movie Making.
Teacher Created Materials adds these coveted Distinguished Achievement Awards to
their long list of awards including the Golden Lamp Award also from the Association
of Educational Publishers, Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine, and Best
Product Award from Instructor Magazine.

Shell Education was presented with four awards -- one for its Reading and Writing
Strategies series for both social studies and science, and the Leveled Texts for
Social Studies series within the English language learners category. The Elections
book won in the Social Studies Activity Books category, and in the Professional
Development category, Shell is pleased to have picked up an award for Teaching
Reading in the Content Areas for Elementary Teachers, part of the Professional
Development for Successful Classroom series.

Teacher Created Materials, a California-based educational publishing company with
worldwide distribution publishes award-winning, research- and standards-based
educational resources for K-12 classrooms. Specializing in supplemental materials
and professional development training, Teacher Created Materials provides
classroom-tested products for all areas of the curriculum "created by teachers for
teachers and students" to educators around the globe.

Shell Education develops supplemental educational resources that are research based,
and meet the standards of all 50 states. By working closely with teachers to develop
top quality resources, Shell provides practical, classroom-tested ideas and
professional development resources to administrators and educators internationally.

The Association of Educational Publishers is a nonprofit, professional organization
for educational publishers. Founded in 1895, AEP began as a university-based
association, which has grown to aid communication between educational organizations
including policy makers, teachers, educational foundations and associations, and the
education media. AEP's primary focus is to actively create a public awareness of
effective educational resources.


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