Global Ed takes out two gongs at 2015 CLNZ Education Awards
Global Ed takes out two gongs at 2015 CLNZ Education
Awards
Global Ed has just won two awards at the 2015 CLNZ Education Awards, which were announced at a ceremony in Auckland last night.
Kiwi teachers and a judging panel of education experts voted Global Ed both ‘Best Resource in Primary’ and ‘Best Resource for Export’, for their CONNECTORS Fiction Series.
The CONNNECTORS Fiction Series uses a reciprocal reading approach to encourage reading development and the judges commended the Series for its use of stories and contexts that engage a diverse range of students, and challenge their thinking. These attributes and the commercial success of the series also saw CONNECTORS Fiction named as the 2015 Best Resource for Export – demonstrating that excellent New Zealand content also performs very well in overseas education markets.
On receiving the award for ‘Best Resource in Primary,’ Global Ed’s Sales and Marketing Director Tracy Strudley said, “CONNECTORS was the first brand Global Ed created and also exported; it was the brand that built the foundations of our company. Winning this award tonight means we are able to highlight the exceptional educational content that all the people in this room create, here in New Zealand and overseas, and we are proud to be part of that.”
Going on to receive the award for ‘Best Resource for Export’, Strudley said, “Exporting New Zealand literacy product is exciting, always satisfying and we are really proud to accept this award, but it is the selling of a resource that is making a difference to students and their teachers teaching which really excites us. Thank you on behalf of our Global Ed team for this award.”
Global Ed is a leading educational resource publishing company based in New Zealand, which was established by Tracy Strudley and Jill Eggleton in 2004. Jill Eggleton is a literacy educator and Global Ed’s Content Development Director. The author of more than 800 children’s books, Eggleton is the 2015 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and an outstanding contribution to New Zealand children’s literature and literacy.
The CLNZ
Education Awards are a celebration of the excellent
resources New Zealand companies have recently released in
the New Zealand education market. In 2015, classroom
teachers from across
New Zealand joined forces with a
judging panel of education experts to add their choice of
the best resources to the judge’s selection of award
winning educational resources.
NOTES TO
EDITORS
The Full list of 2015 CLNZ Education Award
winners is as follows:
Best Resource in
Primary
CONNECTORS Fiction Series, Jill Eggleton and
Tracy Strudley, Global Ed
Best Resource in
Secondary
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, Atholl
Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris,
Bridget
Williams Books
Te Reo Māori
Te Reo
Singalong Books, Sharon Holt, The Writing Bug
Higher
Education
Working with Māori children with special
education needs: He mahi whakahirahira, Jill
Bevan-Brown,
NZCER Press
Best Resource for
Export
CONNECTORS Fiction Series, Jill Eggleton and Tracy
Strudley, Global Ed
Teachers’ Choice: Best
Resource in Primary
NZ Curriculum Mathematics: Connecting
All Strands, M.J. Tipler and S.C. Timperley,
Caxton
Educational
Teachers’ Choice: Best
Resource in Secondary
ESA Custom Learning Workbooks, ESA
Publications
Teachers’ Choice: Best Resource in Te
Reo Māori
Te Reo Singalong Books: Matariki, Sharon Holt,
The Writing Bug
The list of the 2015 CLNZ Education
Awards judging panel is as follows:
Andrew
Cowie
Angela Fitchett
Dr Jenny Robertson
David
Glover – consulting judge, export
Brenda McPherson and
the Te Reo Tuatahi teaching network – consulting judges,
Te Reo
Māori.
ends