2010 TAA Conference on Text and Academic Authoring
Ramada Mall of America Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 24-26, 2010
Friday, June 26, 2008
12:00 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Trinidad
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Publishing in the School Market
Moderator:
Don Collins, mathematics textbook author and former editor in K-12 publishing, TAA Vice-President, President-Elect
Former managing editor of a major educational publisher and current textbook author Don Collins will address the following questions plus anything else posed:
- How do you go about publishing for the school market?
- What homework should you do?
- What publishers should you consider?
- How much work will this venture entail?
- Will this publishing venture be worth your effort?
- Suppose you get an offer or a contract, then what do you do?
Don Collins graduated from West Texas State University with a BS in mathematics. He has taught middle school/junior high mathematics in Texas and Illinois. After earning an MA in mathematics from Boston College, the next several years were spent in the publishing industry. He was the editor of one of the nation's first Pre-Algebra texts. Later, as managing editor he put together the authorship team and guided the production of the nation's best selling Pre-Algebra text. As his children graduated from college, he left the publishing industry and went back to school earning his doctorate from the University of Houston. Dr. Collins has taught mathematics and mathematics methods courses at Ohio State University, Sam Houston State, and Texas Tech before settling at Western Kentucky University. He has served as a reviewer, consultant and co-author on several mathematics texts and is a frequent speaker at NCTM and other conferences. He is also TAA Vice President, President-Elect.
