TCI in the News
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TCI Building Bring Science Alive! to Meet Next Generation Science Standards
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 7, 2013 – TCI announced today that it will leverage its more than two decades of experience helping teachers bring learning alive for students to develop a new K–8 science program, Bring Science Alive!
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TCI Featured in THE Journal Magazine's "Curriculum Update: Primary sources bring history to life"
November 2012 - TCI founder and CEO Bert Bower describes how TCI's online lesson on fascism gets students out of their seats and interacting with primary historical documents through the use of multimedia.
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TCI Unveils History Alive! World Connections at ISTE 2012
SAN DIEGO – June 26, 2012 – Unveiled today at the ISTE 2012 Conference, TCI's new high school program, History Alive! World Connections, uses multiple lenses to tell a story, inviting students to begin with a wide-angle view to examine eras in world history and then zoom in to understand the development of events and interactions among the world's people and cultures today.
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TCI Welcomes K-12 Social Studies Teachers to the Paperless Classroom
SAN DIEGO – June 25, 2012 – Imagine classroom technology that bridges the digital divide and creates paperless K-12 classrooms. TCI has created a complete learning system for K-12 social studies that is robust enough for tech-savvy teachers, yet intuitive and easy for technophobes.
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TCI's Online Social Studies Curriculum Wins 2012 Software &
Information Industry Association CODiE Award
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 9, 2012 – TCI's online social studies program is the winner of the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2012 CODiE Award for Best Social Sciences Instructional Solution. This annual awards program showcases excellence across the education-technology, business software and digital content industries.
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TCI Sees Schools Shifting to Digital Options
April 16, 2012 - TCI founder and CEO Bert Bower describes the "dramatic acceleration of the switch to digital content" in education and TCI's plans to provide science content.
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TCI's Online Social Studies Curriculum Earns Finalist Honors in 2012 Software & Information Industry Association CODiE Awards
March 27, 2012 - TCI's online social studies program is a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2012 CODiE Awards in the category of Best Social Sciences Instructional Solution. The prestigious annual awards program showcases achievement across the industry and honors the best education technology, business software and digital content.
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TCI Wins EdTech Digest Cool Tools Award
November 14, 2011 - Congratulations to some of the best and brightest in the education and technology world! From a large and crowded field of entries — these products, services and people made the cut to the finalist level. From there, up to three winners were selected for each subcategory. The products, services and people that made this list are innovative, respected and outstanding cool tools, leaders and trendsetters moving education forward into the 21st century — and are all highly commended.
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Awards of Excellence Winners Announced by Tech & Learning Magazine
October 31, 2011 - Tech & Learning magazine today named 100 education technology products as winners in its prestigious 29-year-old recognition program. Honored software, hardware, network, Web products include innovative applications that break new ground as well as those that added significant enhancements to proven education tools.
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The Complete K-12 Newsletter
November 2011 - This month K-12 Newsletter talks with Bert Bower, founder and CEO of Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI), a K-12 publisher of online and print social studies programs.
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Bismarck Tribune
October 6, 2011 - Bismarck public schools are piloting a new social studies program, Social Studies Alive, in 21 classrooms across the district. Grades K-6 and each of the 16 elementaries are represented in the program.
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District Administration
September 29, 2011- Products Worth Checking Out: The latest in hardware, software, books & materials, facilities and the Internet.
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TCI's Revolutionary Social Studies Curriculum Honored in 16th Annual Education Software Review Awards
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Sept. 27, 2011 - And the winner is...TCI! Launched just last June at ISTE 2011, TCI's new online social studies curriculum is the winner of its first award - a 16th Annual Education Software Review (EDDIE) Award from the ComputED Learning Center, San Diego's leading computer education resource. MORE
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eSchool News
September 12, 2011 - As the new school year gets under way, we've compiled a handy summary of new and noteworthy educational technology products available to educators this fall. From the latest curriculum software programs, to services designed to save schools money, this broad overview of more than 60 ed-tech developments is something you won't want to miss.
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Cincinnati Public Schools' Social Studies Teachers Explore History
July 26, 2011 - A Teaching American History grant is providing a weeklong summer institute for Cincinnati Public Schools' social studies teachers, aimed at developing a deeper appreciation of U.S. history for teachers to pass on to their students.
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Interview | Bert Bower Gives Social Studies a Boost
July 26, 2011 - Bert Bower is the founder and CEO of TCI, a K-12 publishing company created by teachers, for teachers. They create classroom experiences that allow students of all abilities and learning styles to succeed.
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TCI's New K-12 Social Studies Program Optimized for Teaching Online and With Interactive Whiteboards
PHILADELPHIA - June 27, 2011 - Imagine a social studies curriculum that actually allows teachers to bring learning alive for students through interactive classroom experiences!MORE
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NBC Nightly News
June 14, 2011 The featured teacher in the story is Dan Buccieri, a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher, who was recently named as a teacher of the year in the district. He is a talented and dedicated teacher who uses TCI strategies and materials extensively in his classroom. The reporter asks Dan's student, Jose, a question from the National Assessment of Educational Progress: Identify at least one advantage American troops had over the British? Jose accurately answers the question.
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TCI's Econ Alive! Approved for California Digital Textbook Initiative
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — January 6, 2011 — TCI's online student text for its high school Econ Alive! The Power to Choose program has been approved by the California Learning Resources Network (CLRN) for the third phase... MORE
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TCI Launches Ground-Breaking, Online Technology for Social Studies Teachers and Their Students
PALO ALTO, CA — September 21, 2009 — TCI, a leading publisher of innovative K-12 social studies curriculum, recently launched TeachTCI and LearnTCI, online instructional technologies for teachers and students. MORE
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National Constitution Center Announces Government Alive! Textbook Collaboration in Partnership With Teachers' Curriculum Institute
Philadelphia, PA (April 16, 2008) — The National Constitution Center and the Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI) announces the launch of Government Alive! Power, Politics, and You, a textbook collaboration that focuses on... MORE
