Credits and Acknowledgements

Funding

The TelecomPioneers Power Up To Read program and all community service programs developed by the worldwide headquarters for Pioneers are funded through financial contributions made by Pioneers and friends of Pioneers in response to fundraising initiatives from TelecomPioneers headquarters including direct mail campaigns.

The TelecomPioneers Power Up To Read program is based in part on research conducted by CAST with funding from the Office of Special Education Programs, U. S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, U. S. Department of Education.

Texts and Illustrations

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to use the following materials in Power Up To Read:

Why the Sun Travels Slowly Across the Sky
  • Retold by Lucinda O'Neill and Illustrated by Kathlyn Shadle
  • Glossary: Clipart.com: addled, bay, bend, bobbed, bucked like a wild horse, burst into flames, catch, churning, coconut milk, complaining, crater, crouched, direction, exhausted, extinct volcano, fiber, fiercely, galloped, grumbled, hastening, hauled, horizon, hurled, interrupted, journey, leapt, ledge, like a knife, lofty perch, noose, paddled, paddles, plentiful, plunged, rapid, roar, shark, shore, sleek, sprang, struggles, swirling, throwing his body forward into empty space, trickery. Fairtradezone.com: tapa-cloth image courtesy of fairtradezone.com. National Park Service: lava images USGS photos.

All About the Sun
  • Cover page (clockwise from upper left): Clipart.com: All about the sun, clipart.com; Ancient myths about the sun, clipart.com; The sun and human culture, How the sun helps us, print courtesy of Kröller-Müller Foundation; Sun, earth and moon facts, clipart.com; How the sun can harm us, clipart.com; How the sun helps us, clipart.com.
  • Text: Clipart.com: stars, sun, pyramid, sunrays over water, field of flowers, drawing of earth on axis, palm trees during hurricane, desert, solar panels, wind mills, woman on beach, hurricane from space, earth and sun from space. Kröller-Müller Foundation: Vincent Van Gogh, "Pollard Willows at Sunset," courtesy of Kröller-Müller Foundation. NASA: Dark Sky, Bright Sun, Credit: STS-82 Crew, NASA. Getty images: solar flare © copyright 1999-2003 Getty Images, Inc. All rights reserved.
  • Glossary: Clipart.com: ancient, archer, axis, chariot, energy, Equator, myths, refused, release, solar, star, symphony. Gimp-savvy.com: reflected. NASA: atmosphere, aurora (image 2), magnetic field. Jan Curtis: aurora (image 1) © Jan Curtis.

Hungry Spider and Turtle
  • Retold by Nicole Strangman and Illustrated by Jim Williams
  • Glossary: Clipart.com: appetite, concentrated, confused, cranky, delighted, eager, exhausted, feast, journey, kindness, refreshment, refused, surface, trudged. Photo by Public Volunteers: Ashanti. Clipsahoy.com: embarrassment (image 1). Designshop.com: embarrassment (image 2).

Spider Sense: Facts About Spiders
  • Cover page (clockwise starting from upper left): Spider sense, clipart.com; A spider's life, Milwaukee Public Museum; What's for lunch, clipart.com; Nature's helpers, clipart.com, Silky strength, clipart.com; Spider webs, clipart.com.
  • Text: Clipart.com: colorful spider in web, tarantula, spider with prey, spider with egg sacs, small spider in web, black widow spider, orb web, funnel web, tangled web, yellow-black-and-red spider in web, parachute, insects damaging crops, spider on human hand. Milwaukee Public Museum: photo of baby spiders and egg sac.
  • Glossary: Clipart.com: abdomen, ambush, crops, domes, flexibility, funnels, generation, gene, insecticides, mate, prey, produce (image 1), proteins, silk, signal, species, tangled, venom. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection: produce (image 2).

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Terms and Conditions

All content included on the TelecomPioneers Power Up To Read web site and delivered to subscribers, including text, graphics, logos, designs, photographs, button icons, images, audio/video clips, digital downloads, and data compilations is the property of CAST, Inc., and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of CAST and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Content shall not be reproduced or used without express written permission from CAST, Inc.

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About TelecomPioneers

TelecomPioneers is the world's largest corporate volunteer organization, a dedicated group of more than 620,000 men and women committed to serving their communities throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond.

Founded in 1911 as the Telephone Pioneers of America, the group changed its name to TelecomPioneers in 2002. The name change was instituted to better reflect the evolution of the companies that sponsor Pioneers.

Once known for providing basic telephone service and products, today these companies have grown to encompass the vastness of global telecommunications. And as long as there is a need, no matter how large or how small, Pioneers in the United States and Canada answer the call for help in every way imaginable.

Whether it's a cash donation to fund a homeless shelter, educating seniors on how to fight identity theft, providing new technology for classroom instruction, or a one-on-one tutoring project to battle illiteracy, Pioneers take action to improve the quality of life in the communities in which they live and work.

Pioneer membership is comprised of current and retired employees of the telecommunications industry. Sponsor companies provide funding for the operations of the national Pioneer staff as well as local operations and their annual business meeting.

Sponsoring companies of Pioneers are: Aliant, AT&T, Cincinnati Bell, Frontier Corporation, MTS, Qwest, SaskTel, Telcordia Technologies, Verizon, and subsidiaries.

For more information about TelecomPioneers, please visit us on the web at http://www.telecompioneers.org.

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About CAST

CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) is an independent nonprofit research organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, by designing innovative, technology-based resources and strategies.

Founded in 1984, CAST is best known as the developer of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a set of principles for creating inclusive and effective learning environments that support individual differences. Informed by neuroscience, the capacities of new digital media, and inclusive educational practices, UDL puts the burden of adaptation where it belongs: on the curriculum itself rather than on individual learners.

To maximize the impact of its innovations, CAST partners with leading publishers, universities, and other nonprofits, such as TelecomPioneers, to develop and disseminate UDL-based products. For example, award-winning, commercially published programs such as WiggleWorks, Thinking Reader, and Bobby began as research projects at CAST, as did Power Up To Read!

CAST also provides professional development and technical assistance to educators and contributes to more effective educational policymaking through its leadership of initiatives such as the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).

For more information about CAST, please visit us on the web at http://www.cast.org.

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