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Press RoomFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Don Johnston Revolutionizes the Way Educators Teach and Students LearnWith SOLO, teachers will have the ability to take any content and quickly adjust the curriculum and the presentation of information to meet the needs of individual students, instead of having the students modify their learning style to make sense of the curriculum. October 20, 2004—Volo, Illinois—
Don Johnston Incorporated is delighted to introduce SOLO™, one completely integrated solution that helps students build skills and utilize strategies as they use guided supports for reading comprehension and structured models for writing. SOLO combines all of Don Johnston's proven, industry-standard interventions — Co:Writer®, Draft:Builder® and Write:OutLoud® — and introduces Read:OutLoud®, to provide educators with everything they need to differentiate instruction and oversee students' entire reading and writing development. Educators continually state that their greatest hurdle is finding materials that will accommodate the diverse needs of all the students in their classrooms. Most materials on the market "teach to the middle" — leaving the struggling students behind. With SOLO, teachers will have the ability to take any content and quickly adjust the curriculum and the presentation of information to meet the needs of individual students, instead of having the students modify their learning style to make sense of the curriculum. While addressing a size-able group of district administrators recently, Don Johnston remarked, "Kennedy gave this country one decade to put a man on the moon. One decade! At the time, we had not even left Earth's atmosphere. This piece of history compels me because it is proof that if we are like-minded and pool our resources, anything is possible… even solving the illiteracy problem in this nation. I am completely confident this can, and will, be accomplished but we need to shift our thinking. We must ensure that every student, regardless of their ability, has equal access to literacy through multiple literacy experiences, differentiated instruction, as well as access to the curriculum and content-areas. Ultimately, we must provide access to our information — driven society. The impact of not achieving these objectives is dark — we risk creating a society of "haves" and "have-nots"; we risk seeing more and more student failure, both at school, and in their future occupations. SOLO addresses this — it's part of the paradigm shift. We must continue to be the change-agents and we must continue to partner to drive this change." SOLO's premiere launch will occur at the Closing the Gap conference in Bloomington, Minnesota, October 20-23, 2004. The current development schedule supports a February 2005 release. Retail Price for a single computer is . Excellent license pricing is available to make implementing SOLO across an entire school or district affordable. About Don Johnston IncorporatedDon Johnston Incorporated is the leader in learning intervention resources. Since 1980, they have been helping educators expect more from struggling students and students with physical disabilities. They provide a full array of critical intervention products for all components of balanced literacy instruction: reading intervention solutions that build reading skills, award-winning writing intervention software that offers unparalleled writing support and unique word-study products that teach spelling and phonics skills. Don Johnston Incorporated brings tremendous expertise in the development of their products. Their employees are former regular education teachers, special education teachers, speech and language professionals, Occupational therapists and parents of students with disabilities. Don Johnston himself, who as a young student, struggled because of significant learning disabilities, inspires the company's vision. Photos accompanying this Press Release are the property of Don Johnston Incorporated and may only be used and/or published as accompanying photos with the information found in this release or with specific written approval from Don Johnston or members of his marketing staff. Don Johnston Incorporated | |