Cambridge, Mass., June 17, 2003 — Sheila Clark-Edmands, M.S. Ed., joined Educators Publishing Service (EPS) as Director of Professional Development. In her new position, Clark-Edmands will manage educational workshops and seminars.

Clark-Edmands has more than 35 years of educational experience, ranging from classroom teaching to undergraduate and graduate college instruction. She developed and authored the SPIRE (Specialized Program Individualizing Reading Excellence), program more than 20 years ago based on her extensive classroom experience and has continued to refine the popular program. She has received teaching awards and honors from several school systems, and her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and many other general interest and industry publications.

“We are very pleased to have Sheila join us because she brings a comprehensive understanding of what children need to become successful readers and masters of language arts skills,” said Nick Gaehde, President of EPS. “At a time when quality instructional material is critically important and budgets are tight, delivering high quality training that enables schools to get the most out of the curriculum they introduce is essential.”

In addition to acquiring the expertise of Clark-Edmands, EPS is now the exclusive publisher of SPIRE, the language arts program developed by Clark-Edmands.

“SPIRE utilizes the explicit teaching of phonics, but with the unique application of a copyrighted curriculum scope and sequence,” explained Clark-Edmands. “SPIRE is a comprehensive multisensory reading and language arts program that is structured for — and classroom results demonstrate — student and teacher success.”

EPS, a division of Delta Education, LLC, and headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., is a publisher of a wide variety of reading and language arts materials for grades K–12.

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