Left - Tracy Strudley and Jill Eggleton
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.
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