FEATURED NEWS: Academic Business Consultants
part of Emmy Winning NBC Learn Award:
Norman Cohen, producer of NBC Learn, informed us that NBC Learn and NBC Sports won a 2011 Sports Emmy award for their "Science of the Winter Olympic Games" series. The category was "Outstanding New Approaches Sports Programming." Academic Business Consultants, Inc. (ABC), working with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF), created the supplementary materials for the series. These materials consisted of lesson plans and hands-on activities for use in 6th through 10th grade classrooms. SVEF coordinated the program and delivered it to teachers nationwide through their open source repository, Lessonopoly.
The Science of the Winter Olympics and the Science of the NFL
Academic Business Consultants, Inc. has successfully supported the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and NBC Learn in their partnership by developing lesson plan content linked to the series the Science of the Winter Olympics and the Science of the NFL. Lesson plans for the series developed ideas discussed in the NBC Learn video content and offered opportunities for students and teachers to create and explore real world experiments for deeper understanding of math and science. Video and lesson plan content was linked from NBCLearn.com and SVEF’s lesson plan repository, Lessonopoly.org. ABC is proud that the series has encouraged student engagement and boosted total site visits to Lessonopoly.org.
"These lessons bring science to life and help kids understand complicated scientific concepts," said SVEF CEO Muhammed Chaudhry. "They show kids that science is fun and cool. And they show them that science is everywhere, even in football."
The Science of the Olympic Winter Games project is a great example of how Lessonopoly can help make science interesting, relevant, and exciting for students."
- Jack O'Connell, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Get Ready to Read
Academic Business Consultants, Inc. has created a set of lesson plans centered on the activity cards published by the National Center for Learning Disabilities Get Ready to Read program. These lesson plans are designed to aid linguistic awareness, print knowledge, and emergent writing. Get Ready to Read lesson plans can be accessed at www.lessonopoly.org in partnership with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation.
Stepping Up to Algebra
In conjunction with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF), Academic Business Consultants, Inc. has developed a summer Algebra intervention program for incoming Santa Clara County 7th and 8th grade students. After completing the summer program, students will be prepared to excel as they tackle Algebra and advanced mathematics. This comprehensive math program was developed entirely by ABC’s team of expert math educators. ABC looks forward to providing updates with student achievement data as it becomes available in 2011.
Lessonopoly
Academic Business Consultants, Inc. has created a wide range of lesson plans across several content areas for inclusion in Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s open source repository for lesson plans, www.lessonopoly.org. ABC completed a detailed analysis of the Lessonopoly repository and was able to create lesson plans based upon identified need. The majority of lesson plans contributed to the database by ABC focus on 5th through 8th grade math. Lesson plans are searchable by California state standard, keyword, grade and subject. Please visit www.lessonopoly.org to download these excellent plans at no charge.
ABC, Inc. Works with Wounded Warrior Project and TTA
Academic Business Consultants, Inc. (ABC, Inc.) has worked with the Wounded Warrior Project in developing IT coursework for their Transitional Training Academy. Recently, ABC developed the Introduction to Computer Technology course in conjunction with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) instructors. The introductory course covers topics ranging from Computers and Society, to Hardware and Operating Systems, on through the Internet and Security. This course is being taught as part of the Transition Training Academy (TTA) program.
The Transition Training Academy was established as a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL), Veterans' Employment and Training Service, Cisco, the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), and the Wounded Warrior Project. WWP administers the program as a part of their commitment to the service men and women who have been wounded or injured on active duty.
TTA helps participants explore Information Technology (IT) as a potential career field and develop new career skills with real-world application,which may help secure future employment.
