Publishers' Area
Submit your education products or programs for evaluation and earn our red Seal of Quality, which guarantees your product in the education marketplace. Take advantage of our many complimentary services, too!
Curriculum Services Canada (CSC) and its Ontario service support publishers and developers of educational products and programs by:
- Developing standards.
- Evaluating finished products.
- Mentoring throughout product development.
- Consulting on product development.
- Providing print-on-demand sales support where requested.
Quality Standards for Supplementary Learning Resources
Quality standards are important in education. Teachers and parents want guarantees that your product or program will work with children and youth, both in the classroom and at home. They want to know that your resource meets the following criteria:
- Curriculum correlation
- Current, relevant, and balanced content
- Current and accepted methodologies
- Useful strategies for assessment and evaluation of student achievement
- Issues of bias and inclusion addressed
- Appropriate and functional format
CSC has developed standards for print and non-print materials, including textbooks, websites, video collections, software, and CD-ROMs. Our standards are customized and under continuous review. They reflect changes in our culture and environment and differences in curriculum across Canada.
Evaluation Process for Quality Standards
Specially trained educators apply our detailed criteria to your material to ensure that it meets quality standards. You then receive our red Seal of Quality, which shows teachers and parents that your material is safe for classroom or home use. We post your product information, your evaluation report, and our red Seal of Quality on the Supplementary Resources section of our website for five years.
We customize our evaluations to your product or program. Fees start at $450 and are based on the complexity and volume of the material. Web posting for five years is included. Contact csc@curriculum.org for a free quote.
For information on evaluating your product for inclusion on the Ontario list of approved textbooks, see the Liste Trillium/Trillium List.
Mentoring Product Development to Meet Quality Standards
A CSC team of specially trained educators works with your developers to ensure that your final product meets quality standards for classroom or home learning. From concept to completion, our mentoring team delivers constructive, positive input for improving your product. Our mentors give you fresh, considered reactions to your material before it is published. Fees are customized.
Contact Pauline Beggs at 416-304-0398 or pbeggs@curriculum.org.
Consultation to Meet Quality Standards
CSC offers senior curriculum expertise in all subject areas in English, French, and in many international and Native languages. This is a one-time intervention to provide advice about how your resource can meet quality standards and support the targeted curriculum for one or more provinces and territories across Canada. Our fee is $100 per hour for a consultation.
Publishing and Print On Demand
We offer design, editing, and print-on-demand services for small or independent organizations and individuals who do not have the capacity to manage these aspects of getting an educational product to market. We offer this service to clients whose products have been evaluated or mentored and bear our red Seal of Quality. Fees vary according to services required.
Contact Byron Patchett at 1-800-837-3048, ext. 224 or bpatchett@curriculum.org.
