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Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide

For LEARN NC partners

2.1 General submission guidelines

Please follow these guidelines in submitting your article, lesson plan, or other materials. If you do not, we may not be able to consider it for publication.

Technical guidelines

  • Do submit your article via email in rich text (.rtf), Microsoft Word (.doc), or AppleWorks (.cwk) format.
  • Do not use multiple fonts, colors, font sizes, etc., in your article; we will format all articles to a consistent model for publication.
  • Do not embed hyperlinks or images into Word documents or other files. We cannot easily extract such information from Word documents and will return submissions that include them. Type out URLs in brackets after the text you mean to link, and send images as separate files.

See also our guidelines for submitting images and other media.

Protecting student privacy

If you include samples of students’ work in your publication, U.S. law requires that you obtain parental permission. We ask also that you obtain parental permission if you use photographs of your students or of any child under 18 years of age.

Please do not use students’ names in your article. If you wish to refer to a specific student, please use a fictitious name, and include a note to the editor that you have changed the names of students in the article.