Voyager Education Services' Best Practices Institutes Offer Complimentary Registrations for District and School Administrators

DALLAS, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Learning, the nation's most comprehensive provider of research-based intervention and online learning solutions - including curriculum products, personalized professional development, and school improvement/turnaround services, announced today that Voyager Education Services, its professional services offering, will provide complimentary registrations for a 2012 Best Practices Institute to district and school administrators who register with a team of three or more paying registrants.

The Best Practices Institutes provide educators with the tools and skills needed to effectively improve student achievement. The Institutes offer multiple strands appropriate for both administrators and teachers, including School-wide Improvement, Response to Intervention (RtI)/Multi-tier System of Support (MTSS), Instructional Leadership Literacy Instruction and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Multiple Strategies in Mathematics, and 21st Century Learning.

Featured authors and presenters include: Anita Archer, Ph.D.; Marilyn Sprick, M.S.; Maryanne Wolf, Ph.D.; John Woodward, Ph.D.; Maria Elena Arguelles, Ph.D.; Robert H. Pasternack, Ph.D.; and Bryan Harris, M.Ed. In addition, attendees will learn from National Center on Response to Intervention experts Steve Kukic, Ph.D.; George Batsche, Ed.D., and Judy Elliott, Ph.D., about how to implement Response to Intervention and Multi-tier System of Support with fidelity.

"This was an informative, uplifting, and motivating Institute," said Belinda Katz, past Institute attendee and special education teacher from Garland, Texas. "I received many good ideas that I will be using in my classroom."

Best Practices Summer Institutes:

Desert Canyon Best Practices Institute
June 10-13, 2012
Tucson, Arizona

Best Practices Summer Institutes continued:

North Texas Closing the Achievement Gap Institute
June 19-20, 2012
Mesquite, Texas

Smoky Mountain Best Practices Institute
July 19-21, 2012
Gatlinburg, Tennessee

For more information and to register for any of the summer Institutes, visit http://www.voyagereducationservices.com/summer_institutes.aspx

About Voyager Education Services
With a steadfast commitment to ongoing student achievement, Voyager Education Services (VES) partners with schools and districts to build critical teaching and leadership capacity. With a focus on accelerating student gains and improving overall school performance, VES has supported preK-12 educators for more than three decades through personalized professional development. Research-based services also center on teacher effectiveness, leadership development, intervention, school improvement, and school turnaround, transformation, and restart. VES is an offering of Voyager Learning.

About Voyager Learning
Dedicated to the success of every student, Voyager Learning is the nation's most comprehensive provider of research-based intervention and online learning solutions - including curriculum products, personalized professional development, and school improvement/turnaround services. With the ultimate goal of advancing student achievement, Voyager Learning partners with preK-12 schools to build teaching and leadership capacity, expand their reach, and accelerate struggling students to grade-level proficiency. Voyager Learning is a member of Cambium Learning® Group (Nasdaq: ABCD).

Media Contact:
Shannan Overbeck
Voyager Learning
214.932.9476
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Investor Contact:
Chris Cleveland
Cambium Learning Group, Inc.
214.932.9474
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SOURCE Voyager Learning