Virtual Exhibit Hall

Affiliated Insurance Services
Bright Horizons Family Services
bububooks
Columbia College Chicago
Handsongs
Harrison and Company
High Reach Learning
INCCRRA
Kaplan Early Learning Company
 
Kerlin Bus Sales
Learning Resources
Learning Seed 
Music Together
 
 
 

MyCharmedLife
 
NWEA
 
 
 
The Quirkles
 

Saint Mary
SEIU
 
 

Teaching Strategies, Inc.
Zoo Phonics

Exhibitors

Affiliated Insurance Services
http://www.affiliatedins.com

Property casualty insurance for childcare of all types as well as tutors, consultants and educational facilities.

Find Affiliated Insurance Services at Booth #414 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 877-551-1300
Location: Plymouth, MN


Bright Horizons Family Services
http://www.brighthorizons.com

Bright Horizons Family Solutions is the world's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, early education, and work/life solutions. Conducting business in the United States, Europe, and Canada, we have created employer-sponsored child care and early education programs for more than 700 clients, including more than 90 of the Fortune 500.

Find Bright Horizons Family Solutions at Booth #406 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 617-673-8000
Location: Watertown, MA


bububooks
http://www.bububooks.com

bububooks is an online bookstore that offers bilingual children's books to aid in the development of literacy and cultural identity. With two languages on every page, we currently carry Spanish/English, Chinese/English and Vietnamese/English story books and have plans to add more in the future.

Find bububooks at Booth #420 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 831-706-2758
Location: Chicago, IL


Columbia College Chicago
http://www.colum.edu/undergraduate/earlychildhood

Institute of Higher Education

Find Columbia College Chicago at Booth #409 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 312-369-7990
Location: Chicago, IL


Handsongs
http://www.hand-songs.com/

Early childhood, bilingual and special education products with a patented process designed for parents, teaching assistants, teachers and day care staff

Find Handsongs at Booth #512 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 847-644-2823
Location: Evanston, IL


Harrison and Company
http://www.harrisonandcompany.com/

Educational supplies, early childhood materials and much more!

Find Harrison & Company at Booth #404 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 888-345-4005
Location: Broadview, IL


HighReach Learning
http://www.highreach.com

HighReach Learning creates developmentally appropriate curriculum programs for children birth to five. Each curriculum program provides planning strategies, learning experiences, and support materials that help create intriguing and interest-driven investigations.

Find HighReach Learning at Booth #211 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 800-729-9988
Location: Charlotte, NC


INCCRRA
http://www.inccrra.org

INCCRRA is a state funded non-profit organization that supports a network of 16 State funded Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (CCR&R) across the state. I NCCRR, with our CCR&R partners provide a wide array of services to child care providers and other professional in early care and education. INCCRRA services and programs - administered through Gateways to Opportunity/Quality Counts include the following: * Gateways Scholarship Program * Great START wage supplement Program * Gateways to Opportunity Credentials * Professional Development Advisor Program * Quality Rating System * Illinois Trainer Network * Gateways to Opportunity Regisrty.

Find INCCRRA at Booth #410 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 800-649-1884
Location: Bloomington, IL


Kaplan Early Learning Company
http://kaplanco.com

Kaplan is committed to the social and emotional development of our children. We specialize in providing products for early learning to help children to prepare for life long success.

Find Kaplan Early Learning Company at Booths #205, 207, 209, 304, 306, and 308 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 336-712-3203
Location: Lewisville, NC


Kerlin Bus Sales
http://mybus.kerlinbus.com

Kerlin Bus Sales is proud to offer the MyBus by Thomas Built Buses. The MyBus meets all the same federal safety standards as a school bus and was designed to be safe, easy to maintain and durable. The MyBus can replace your 15 passenger van.

Find Kerlin Bus Sales at Booth #210 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 800-331-8942
Location: Silver Lake, IN


Learning Resources
http://www.learningresources.com

Learning Resources is a leading manufacturer of learning toys and innovative hands-on educational materials for classrooms worldwide. For 25 years, Learning Resources has been a trusted source for teachers and parents for quality, award-winning educational products in math, science, social studies, language, language arts, literacy, reading, early childhood, Spanish, ELL and ESL teaching, classroom management, response to intervention (RTI) and professional development (PD).

Find Learning Resources at Booth #504 and #506 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 847-573-8400
Location: Vernon Hills, IL


Learning Seed
http://www.learningseed.com

Independent, engaging, aligned with your curriculum -- Learning Seed videos and software offer educators a broad selection of standards-based materials to teach, reinforce, and supplement your lesson plans. Since 1974, the Seedlings have offered educational media that bring subject matter to life.

Phone: 800-634-4941
Location: Chicago, IL


Music Together
http://www.musictogether.com

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners and the adults who love them.

Find Music Together, LLC at Booth #316 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 800-728-2692
Location: Princeton, NJ


MyCharmedLife
http://mycharmedlife.com

MyCharmedLife®’s charm collection features more than 1500 individual styles of sterling and 14kt gold charm creations. The collection also includes an enchanting assortment of other goodies, including: artisan-crafted hair accessories, Lollygag Bag™ oilcloth totes and luggage charm tags. MyCharmedLife has partnered with the Department of Health & Human Services to promote Best Bones Forever!, a program to encourage good eating and exercise habits in girls!

Find MyCharmedLife at Booth #320 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 888-548-3484
Location: Chicago, IL


NWEA
http://www.nwea.org

We are a not-for-profit dedicated to helping kids live their dreams. Data is our tool-gathering through assessments validated by research and brought to life by 3400+ partner school districts with our professional development as support. Our products and services leverage a rich data set to help give educators the actionable information they need to help each child achieve his/her aspirations. Partnering to help all kids learn. This is our mission, and it informs all aspects of the work we do to make kid-centric learning a reality.

Phone: 503-624-1951
Location: Lake Oswego, OR


The Quirkles
http://www.quirkles.com

Creative3 LLC is the creator/developers of the Quirkles - an integrated literacy/science curriculum series for young learners. Quirkles materials include the 2B book Alpha series that tell a science story plus related materials - science kit, posters, blackline coloring book, teacher guide, etc.

Find The Quirkles at Booth #415 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 847-644-2823
Location: Springfield, MO


Saint Mary
http://www.smwc.edu

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is excited to offer a Master of Education Program in the Chicago area starting February 13 & 14, 2010. Students will meet with their instructors approximately every 8 weeks to complete the 36 credit hour program in ONE year! The majority of the coursework is completed online. A $3,000 and a $6,000 need based scholarships as well as Financial Aid are available. APPLY NOW!”

Find Saint Mary-of-the-Woods at Booth #412 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 800-499-0373
Location: Terre Haute, IN


SEIU
http://www.seiuhcilin.org

Child Care Providers!

Find SEIU Health Care-Illinois & Indiana at Booth #510 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 312-980-9000
Location: Chicago, IL


Teaching Strategies, Inc.
http://www.teachingstrategies.com

Teaching Strategies is a dynamic early childhood education publishing company committed to making a difference in the lives of children birth through age 5. Producing materials that are comprehensive, easy-to-use, and based on the best and most current research is one way we contribute to improving the care and education of young children.

Find Teaching Strategies, Inc. at Booths #305 and 307 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 301-634-0181
Location: Bethesda, MD


Zoo Phonics
http://zoo-phonics.com

Zoo-phonics preschool kit, music, games, support materials and teacher training.

Find Zoo-phonics at Booth #106 in the Opening Minds Conference Exhibit Hall!

Phone: 209-962-5030
Location: Groveland, CA