NIE Guides [1]
What is NIE?
Through The News-Gazette in Education program, local educators can receive curriculum materials and classroom sets of The News-Gazette for FREE, thanks to the support of our Educational Partners. All we ask is that you receive a minimum of FIVE newspapers per delivery. We'll deliver the quantity of papers you request to your school. Just contact NIE Manager Bob Cicone, Jr at nie@news-gazette.com [2].
The News Gazette is now an all morning delivery newspaper. School bundles will be delivered by 6:00am to all schools who order NIE newspapers.
Our Sponsors!
We want to extend a BIG thank you to the following businesses for their generous support of The News Gazette in Education program for the 2009-2010 school year!
Platinum Apple Partners:
Carle Foundation Hospital, State Farm Insurance, WDWS-1400AM/WHMS-97.5FM
Gold Apple Partners:
Silver Apple Partners:
Primelight Studios, MTD (Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District), The Holocaust Education Committee of Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation
Bronze Apple Partners
$100 Adopt A Classroom
Barham Benefit Group, T.I.S. Bookstore, Kyle & Phyllis Robeson, Martin, Hood, Friese & Associates, Kurt P Froelich, Attorney at Law, Greater New Light Missionary, B.C. Mervis Industries, Inc., Benefit Planning Consultants, Inc., Wright Motor CO., Twin City Realty, Inc., Stone Creek Church, Hudson Drug & Hallmark Shop, Jorgenson Electric, Inc., Lazers Edge Office Automations, Inc., Premier Cooperative, Inc,. The Church of the Living God, Illinois Rocstar, LLC, KO-Fusion, Clifton Gunderson, LLP, Lambright Maintenance & Construction, Inc., Thomas, Mamer & Haughey, LLP, Piccadilly Beverage Shops, Piato Catering, Webber & Thies, PC, Meijer's, Mettler Center, Communications Data Group, Inc., Laborer's Local #703, Commerce Bank, The Musculoskeletal Center, Campus Florist, Clifford-Jacobs Forging Co.
If you would like more information on how your company can participate, please send an e-mail to nie@news-gazette.com [3], or call 217-351-5334 and ask for Bob Cicone, Jr.
Free Resources
NIE Week 2008 Teacher's Guide [4]
First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment [5]
Newspaper Activities Support Children's Learning In Many Ways [6]