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II. About Maps101

The Education division of Maps.com produces cross-curricular, subscription-based content for K-12 schools to include Maps101, and Geography in the News™.

Our web-based databases easily facilitate integration of the Internet into current instructional practice and serve thousands of schools and libraries across the United States. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, Maps.com was the pioneer in delivering subscription-based content to the education markets.

Advisory Panel
Partnerships

Advisory Panel
Our databases have been successfully integrated into use because of our advocates and users. The high-quality instructional material is developed with our audience in mind, thanks to the feedback of students, teachers, librarians, media specialists and our advisory panel members.

Nancy Hester
Nancy Hester joined the Region ESC XIII staff in 1997. She serves in the capacity as Social Studies Specialist K-12. Currently, most of her staff development offerings focus on recent brain research and technology integration as it relates to the Social Studies TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) and TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills). Nancy is a graduate of Texas A & M University and taught for 9 years in the Round Rock Independent School District at Deerpark Middle School, Westwood High School and McNeil High School. She is currently President of The Capital Area Council for the Social Studies, Recording Secretary of the Texas Council for the Social Studies, and Treasurer of Texas Social Studies Supervisors Association.

John Booth
John Booth is currently the Chairman of the History/Social Science Department at Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT. John holds a B.A. from Williams College in history as well as an M.A. in American history from Fordham University. John has taught both Junior and Senior high at Brunswick for the past eleven years. Prior to Brunswick, John taught at Cheshire Academy in Cheshire, CT and at the Overseas Training Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. John's current classes include ninth grade World Cultures, AP American Government and senior semester electives on Vietnam and the Holocaust and Human Behavior.

Partnerships
Maps.com provides companies with the ability to create renewable revenue streams through our educational resources. Maps.com can provide full social studies solutions or value-added offerings to secure and/or expand relationships. For partnership opportunities, please contact the educational division:

Maps.com Education
120 Cremona, Ste. H
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
(877) 627-7101
maps101@maps.com

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