Here are a couple of the things I've done since I was Executive Group Director, Language Arts, at Glencoe McGraw-Hill.

Click here for complete details about my professional background.
 
» Professor Denny Wolfe, of Old Dominion University, and I created a database of Civil War literature and presented it to eight Grade 11 teachers. Each made choices and sequenced them. When we printed and classroom tested the eight different units, we saw firsthand the power of custom-published anthologies.
 
» I moved from NYC to Lenox, MA, where I gained more office space and met new creative folks to call on for publishing assignments.
 
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A Name and a Logo

Why Educational Lions?

Because as a young school girl growing up in New York City, that's what I called the two big marble cats outside the public library. Decades later, I picked that name for my editorial business.

When I checked out New Yorker cartoons for logo inspiration, I found these book-loving lions from 1938.


In search of a graphic designer to do another take on a reading lion, I came across James Wells, a recent grad about to leave for his first semester at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He proved that creative partnering--here, putting an old drawing into the hands of new talent--can produce great results.

I'm pleased that my logo was created by someone making the transition from high school to college; after all, several times a year I move from secondary school to college projects and back.

This inaugural issue of my e-note is the logo's debut. Look for regular messages from Educational Lions in your in-box. They will tell you what I'm up to and pass on editorial tips and thought-provoking ideas.