Take Home Backpacks and Kids Learn! Win Learning® Magazine Teachers' Choice Awards for the Family Huntington Beach, CA, February 14, 2012

Teacher Created Materials has won Learning® Magazine’s 2012 Teachers' ChoiceSM Award for the Family for Take-Home Backpacks and Kids Learn!. The Teachers' Choice Award is the only award that is exclusively judged by practicing teachers who are also parents and has become one of the most recognized and prestigious awards in the educational market. Learning® Magazine launched the Family program to meet the needs of companies whose educational products work in the home environment.

Kids Learn! is a parent-involvement resource designed to bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction with standards-based activities in reading, writing, and mathematics. The activities reinforce information learned during the recently concluded school year, while preparing students for the next grade level. The parent instructions are featured in both English and Spanish. Kids Learn! is designed for each student to receive a personal copy of the appropriate level.

Take-Home Backpacks is a fun and engaging home-school connection resource that is designed to give students a sense of ownership, to provide them with a great alternative for real-world learning at a time they need it most, to boost achievement with high-interest reading and writing activities, and to help parents help their kids with key areas of learning.

Teachers working with Learning® Magazine evaluate the products on educational value, originality and creativity, ease of use, safety and durability, and high-interest level and motivation for children. “Receiving these awards is unquestionably a great testament to our ongoing commitment to teachers and parents. We strive continuously to raise the bar by developing successful resources that support parents and care-givers in helping their children at home,” commented TCM's President, Corinne Burton.



About Teacher Created Materials
Teacher Created Materials is one of the most recognized names in educational publishing. For 35 years, TCM's award-winning resources have been used by educators in all 50 states and 99 countries. Offering a broad range of innovative curriculum resources, TCM's products support reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, science, technology, early childhood, and professional development for Grades PreK-12. All of TCM's resources and professional development trainings reflect the latest research, best classroom practices, and achievement-oriented methodologies. The practical and teacher-friendly solutions created by Teacher Created Materials help teachers do what they do best – reach, teach, and inspire students everywhere.

Contact: Denise Wildman
Phone:  (800) 858-7339
Email: dwildman@tcmpub.com