Posted:
06/23/2008
Announcement
AfterWords E-newsletter Wins Top Publishing Award
AfterWords—the e-newsletter of the National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning won the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). The newsletter won for the whole publication category for adult learning e-newsletter for the March 2007 issue on afterschool program evaluation. For more than 40 years, the AEP Awards have recognized significant and excellent achievement in educational products and education marketing.
AEP received about 1,000 entries this year in the Distinguished Achievement Award and Beacon Award competitions. The Wall Street Journal and WestEd were finalists in the E-newsletter, Adult Learning category along with SEDL. The Partnership’s Afterschool Training Toolkit was also a finalist in the Adult Learning Instructional Technology category.
Laura Shankland, SEDL communications specialist and AfterWords editor, and Shaila Abdullah, SEDL media design associate, accepted the award Friday, June 6, at the AEP awards banquet.
For more than 40 years, the AEP Awards have recognized significant and excellent achievement in educational products and education marketing. AEP received about 1,000 entries this year in the Distinguished Achievement Award and Beacon Award competitions. The Wall Street Journal and WestEd were finalists in the E-newsletter, Adult Learning category along with SEDL.
The National Partnership began publishing AfterWords in January 2007 to educate readers on the organization’s research findings on high-quality afterschool programs, share strategies that help create high-quality afterschool programs, to provide a forum for afterschool staff to share success stories. Besides Shankland and Abdullah, SEDL program assistant Wendy Jones and SEDL communications associate Debbie Ritenour contribute regularly to AfterWords.
The Partnership’s Afterschool Training Toolkit was also a finalist in the Adult Learning Instructional Technology category.
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