Welcome to Kid's College™! Kid's College™ is an exciting new interactive educational CD-ROM. It's a FREE gift from the Southeastern Conference with a school wide license allowing the software to be loaded on every computer in your school! This is the first phase of an EDUCATION INITIATIVE the SEC is sponsoring during the 2002-2003 school year. In the future we will be delivering highly motivational diagnostic assessments aligned to State and National Standards through our Kid's College™ platform. These assessment modules can be used to identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of students, thereby driving student achievement.

Please take a moment to install this CD onto your classroom computer. Don't forget to complete the easy teacher registration process with Kid's College™ (in the game or by visiting us online at the address below), because once you have registered, you will receive a FREE Art Studio module (create and print greeting cards) for your classroom. And there's more! When you register, you'll automatically be enrolled in a weekly drawing for a FREE SEC Prize package and a grand prize drawing for free tickets to the SEC Football, Basketball, and Baseball Championships.

The educational curriculum has been developed by Incentive Publications, Inc. (www.incentivepublications.com). To insure quality and validity, the content has been reviewed by a diverse group of educators including teachers, principals, and educational researchers.

• Over 8500 educational items! - all correlated to national standards.
• All educational content is fully integrated into each game.
• Over 100 skill-building, interactive activities that motivate students to learn.

Kid's College™ is highly motivational and designed to reinforce skills taught in the classroom. All content is presented in a developmentally appropriate manner for each grade and is correlated to national standards. Kid's College™ offers something for every child in your classroom!

The teacher management feature of Kid's College™ includes an individual student scorecard, allowing you to monitor the progress of each student's progress through the various skill levels.

Both you and your students will find Kid's College™ makes LEARNING FUN. It's easy to load and learn how to play!

For more information or for the full validation report of this software, please visit us at www.kids-college.com.

P.S. Remember to register to receive future program updates as well as additional enhancement materials.

Specific examples of use in your classroom are:

• Print the activity sheets for students who need additional practice in reinforcing skills that have been taught. Kid's College™ will motivate your students to be engaged in playing the game for long periods of time.
• Use of a child-centered format that provides opportunities for remediation and enrichment make learning fun!
• Use it as a reward for good performance, behavior, etc.
• Familiar sports and characters allow for greater motivation and reinforcement of math and language arts skills and enhancing content skills
• Great for independent practice tailored to the specific learning needs of students.
• Create team-building skills through creation of friendly competitions based on the elements of the curriculum topic being taught. For example, a class could be divided into their favorite teams 2 teams (in Alabama it might be Auburn vs. Alabama students, Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt, etc). Competitions can be within your class or vs. another homeroom.
• Create discussion or creative writing opportunity with emphasis on the character emphasis aspects that exist throughout the game like respect, sportsmanship, and teamwork.