Archive for the ‘Book & Cover Design’ Category

Writeshop Primary

Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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Writeshop Primary is a three-book curriculum series from Writeshop, Inc. which introduces young children to the steps of the writing process using engaging activities, crafts, and picture books.

Sallie’s work on editing the text benefitted from a combination of her background as an educator as well as being “fresh eyes” seeing the author’s manuscript. David collaborated (more…)

NHA Curriculum Handbooks

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
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National Heritage Academies (NHA) operates over 60 charter schools in six states. We were asked to edit and design the curriculum handbooks for grades K-8 and Specials (Art, Physical Ed, Foreign Language, Music) and other categories. This also involved adding state-specific information for each grade/topic.

We worked closely with NHA staff to create a work flow to edit and design each section of information, whether it was system-wide, grade-specific or state-specific. Then each book was assembled with the appropriate (more…)

NHA Annual Education Report

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
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National Heritage Academies (NHA) asked us to produce their Annual Education Report. The purpose of this report is to provide information on how their group of charter schools are performing, comparing to each other and to national standards.

David created an attractive layout, combining many graphs and charts, statistics and school information. Sallie worked with NHA staff to write the executive summary and edit the school capsules.