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Multiple NEO
product enhancements announced

We’ve been mighty busy over these last few months planning some great new features for the NEO laptops. In fact, there are so many exciting new features coming in the next few months that we couldn’t decide on just one to spotlight. So, we’re including them all. Read more...


Class with NEOs
Schools nationwide are catching on to why the NEO is the "Better Laptop for Classrooms."

A Message From
Renaissance Learning

grat·i·tude (noun): A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation.

As we begin the new school year, I want to express my gratitude to you, our NEO customers, for a fantastic 2007-2008 year.
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NEO Feature Stories

Domino effect leads class to Script Frenzy...and beyond
Anne Sullivan always planned to be an author someday. But ‘someday’ always seemed to get pushed out for the Joseph W. Martin Elementary School teacher—until a professional development opportunity prompted her to start writing. What Sullivan didn’t expect was the domino effect that her own writing would send her fifth-grade class into a writing frenzy. Read more...

NEO 2 laptops give more bang for the technology buck in New Jersey district
Like most districts across the country, Berlin Township School District of West Berlin, New Jersey, did not want to sacrifice technology when faced with inevitable budget cuts. Though seemingly futile, this quandary led Superintendent Brian Betze in search of a practical approach to increase technology for the 600+ students in his district. Read more...

An update on the Corliss High School authors
When we last heard from Kelli Rushek, writing workshop teacher at George Henry Corliss High School in Chicago, she and her students were frantically editing away during their book-publishing process. Now that their books are published, Rushek shared how the writing experience using NEOs affected her students. Read more...

Need NEOs?
Get access to 25 NEO laptops for your classroom writing project this November! The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Young Writers Program is accepting a brief essay from teachers who wish to participate in NaNoWriMo with the help of 25 loaner NEOs. Read more...

NEO in the News
NEO laptop helps autistic girl express her love for hockey
An article from the Los Angeles Daily News shares the story of Isabella Masenga—a 10-year-old child with a form of autism that prohibits her from speaking. Using a NEO laptop, she was able to share her love of hockey for the first time. Read more...

AlphaSmarts for Africa Update
Thanks to help from you, thousands of AlphaSmart laptops have been shipped to Kenya schools in response to AlphaSmarts for Africa. Read more...

NEO Best Practice Tips
How to use NEO's Linked Files feature
Let’s say your students are working on a project related to the Summer Olympics in Beijing. You want them to read a story on CNN’s web site and answer some questions, but you don’t want them getting distracted by other sites on the Internet. What do you do? You use NEO’s Linked Files feature. Read more...

Professional Development and Conference Appearances

Attend one of four regional NEO 2 Forums!
Are you looking for an opportunity to explore more deeply the features and functions of NEO 2 that make it the only laptop designed for the classroom that lets you use it all day, every day? Then attend one of our upcoming 2-day NEO 2 Forums. Read more...

Conference Appearances
Click here to see where we're going to be. Stop by and visit us at the Renaissance Learning booth!


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