{"id":7797,"date":"2012-09-24T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T04:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2012-09-24T21:43:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T04:43:55","slug":"learning-a-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/09\/24\/learning-a-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning A-Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning A-Z<\/p>\n<p>Several teachers at our school have been using Learning A-Z products for reading recovery purposes. \u00a0I&#8217;ve known about it for some time but this year, I&#8217;ve decided to take the program on and give it to the majority of my primary students. \u00a0As a result, I couldn&#8217;t think of a better product\/service to review the founder of.<\/p>\n<p>Learning A-Z markets itself as a single resource site that allows teachers, parents and tutors to access the site for ready to use reading and writing material inside the classroom. \u00a0Over the past 10 years, Learning A-Z has branched out from providing levelled books with lesson plans and activities to a science site and a reading tutor site. \u00a0All of these were built with allowing classroom teachers to easily access the information and use it in the classroom the next day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.readinga-z.com\/bobs_blog\/images\/Bob-Holl-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Holl is the co-founder of Learning A-Z. \u00a0In addition to running the venture he also acts as the VP and head publisher of Learning A-Z. \u00a0Bob has more than 40+ years in the education field that range from classroom teacher in elementary, middle school and high school. In addition he also acted as an executive in many publishing firms including: Wright Group, Scott Foresman and Addison Wesley. \u00a0Bob also has authored over 200 fiction and non-fiction children books along with many educational resources. \u00a0With his natural background in education, Learning A-Z is a culmination of his work in all of his fields.<\/p>\n<p>From the co-founder down, the leadership group appears to be solid. Aside from the engineers and editorial directors who all have a vast amount of experience in the educational technology field, the marketing and sales team brings in a great amount of knowledge from their departments. \u00a0The site is extremely transparent about their leadership team and proudly displays their mission statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working with teachers to give them the resources they needs to reach every child, on every learning level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning A-Z Several teachers at our school have been using Learning A-Z products for reading recovery purposes. \u00a0I&#8217;ve known about it for some time but this year, I&#8217;ve decided to take the program on and give it to the majority of my primary students. \u00a0As a result, I couldn&#8217;t think of a better product\/service to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493564],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-04-entrepreneur-bootcamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}