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Be a vital part of Education Update’s Annual Awards Program honoring “Outstanding Educators of the Year” in NYC on Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 9 am at the Harvard Club.
· Keynote speaker, CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein will be introduced by
Bank Street College President Augusta Souza Kappner.
· Chancellor Joel Klein will address the educators as well.
· Roberta Guaspari’s public school violinists (featured in the movie “Music of the Heart” with Meryl Streep) will be performing.
· Invited: Senator Hillary Clinton and Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Your sponsorship helps:
· Fund interns from inner city high schools and colleges to learn journalism first hand at a city newspaper and get by-lines, while earning a stipend.
· Distribute free newspapers to schools, colleges, parents and the public at large.
· Enable people to make better decisions about education for themselves and their children.
· Enable schools to launch their own newspapers with the expert, hands on help from Education Update staff throughout the year.
· Fund the awards breakfast for all awardees.
Sponsors will receive free advertising in Education Update in print and online. The June issue of Education Update will be in each attendee’s goodie bag. The July issue will be mailed to each attendee. Sponsors can also contribute items to the goodie bag. We are expecting over 200 attendees. Attendees include college presidents, deans, foundation heads, directors of nonprofits, superintendents, principals, assistant principals, administrators, special education supervisors, and teachers and their families.
Press: All major media will be invited. In the past we’ve had coverage by Channel 1 News, The NY Times, Channel 11 News, Fox 5 and WNBC.
How are our awardees chosen? The method is rigorous. School supervisors must fill out a form online and submit it to our Advisory Council who, after careful analysis, votes on the finalists. Our Advisory Council is: Dr. Mary M. Brabeck, Dean, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education; Dr. Sheila Evans-Tranumn, NYS Associate Commissioner of Education; Dr. Charlotte Frank, Sr. VP, McGraw-Hill; Dr. Joan Freilich, Vice Chairman, Con Edison; Dr. Bonnie Kaiser, Director, Precollege Science Education Program; The Rockefeller University; Dr. Augusta Souza Kappner, President, Bank Street College of Education; Dr. Harold Koplewicz, Director, NYU Child Study Center and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Dr. Cecilia McCarton, Founder, McCarton Center and Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Dr. Alfred Posamentier, Dean, School of Education, CCNY; Dr. Pola Rosen, Publisher and Editor in Chief, Education Update; Adam Sugerman, Publisher, Palmiche Press; Laurie Tisch, Founder, Center for Arts Education and philanthropist.
Sponsorship Opportunities
PLATINUM: $10,000
Full page color ad for June 2006 in Education Update
Full page color ad for July 2006 (Awards Ceremony Coverage issue)
Website: Ad on Education Update’s website for one year (12 months)
Presentation of certificates to 4 awardees at podium
GOLD: $7500
½ page color ad for June 2006 in Education Update
½ page color ad for July 2006 (Awards Ceremony Coverage issue)
Website: Ad on Education Update’s website for 8 months
Presentation of certificates to 4 awardees
SILVER: $5000
¼ page ad for June 2006 in Education Update
¼ page ad for July 2006 (Awards Ceremony Coverage issue)
Website: Ad on Education Update’s website for 6 months
Presentation of certificates to 4 awardees
BRONZE: $3500
1/8 page ad for June 2006 in Education Update
1/8 page ad for July 2006 (Awards Ceremony Coverage issue)
Website: Ad on Education Update’s website for 4 months
Presentation of certificates to 4 awardees
Corporate or Individual Contribution: $1000
¼ page ad in journal 2006 in Education Update
Name listed as sponsor in June and July issues of Education Update with 25 word description
Website: Name listed on web as sponsor in June and July with 25 word description
Previous Sponsors include Barnes & Noble, McGraw-Hill, Time Warner, Scholastic Education, Lindamood Bell Learning Processes, Everett Foundation, Winnick Foundation, Laurie Tisch Foundation, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, Con Edison, The New York Botanical Garden, Learning Matters, Dr. Meryl Tisch, American Museum of Natural History, New York Aquarium.
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