Solution Tree Partners With Hawker Brownlow Education to Form New Company

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 6 /PRNewswire/ — Solution Tree and Hawker Brownlow
Education recently partnered to create Hawker Brownlow Professional Learning
Solutions. Based in Melbourne, Australia, the new company strives to “build the
capacity of educators to be successful in their work.”

According to Solution Tree President and CEO Jeff Jones, “Hawker Brownlow
Professional Learning Solutions was created to provide educators throughout
Australia and New Zealand with the best opportunities in professional
development delivered by the brightest minds in education whose work has brought
real transformation to schools around the world.”

Solution Tree and Hawker Brownlow Education have been assembling a team of
presenters who specialize in a variety of school-improvement focus areas,
including on-site training in the Professional Learning Communities at Work(TM)
model developed by Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour, which has
received recognition in the United States for its effectiveness in improving
student performance. Professional learning is also available in literacy,
leadership, assessment, understanding poverty, and faculty study on the work of
Robert J. Marzano and Lee Canter. In addition to job-embedded professional
development, Hawker Brownlow Professional Learning Solutions will bring a slate
of events to Australia.

Located in Bloomington, Ind., Solution Tree has provided professional
development solutions for K-12 educators for more than 20 years. In recent
years, the rapidly growing business has reached out to international partners
such as Hawker Brownlow Education, a family-owned private company founded by
Elaine and David Brownlow in Australia. The new partnership between Hawker
Brownlow Education and Solution Tree builds on an existing copublishing
agreement the two companies have shared since October 2008. Since that time,
Hawker Brownlow Education has published more than 60 Solution Tree titles in
Australia and New Zealand.

“We are so excited by the possibilities this new partnership provides
educators,” says Hawker Brownlow Professional Learning Solutions Director Gavin
Grift. “Already this global and collaborative relationship is making a real
difference to schools in Australia. We have five schools working closely with
HBPLS to become professional learning communities. The opportunities to learn
from the experience of our American colleagues are proving invaluable. We look
forward to sharing some of the expertise in our country to support the work
happening in America as we collectively embark on improving education in
meaningful ways, ensuring we make a real difference to all educators and
students we serve.”

About Hawker Brownlow Education

Hawker Brownlow Education is an Australian-owned private family company. For
over 20 years, the company has developed its unparalleled reputation as
specialist educational publishers and printers within the Australasian market.
More recently, Hawker Brownlow Education has also offered an extensive range of
conferences, institutes, workshops and training sessions to support teachers and
other professionals working in the education and child health sectors. Learn
more at http://www.hbe.com.au.

About Solution Tree

Solution Tree is the nation’s leading provider of comprehensive, research-based
professional development solutions for K-12 educators. For more than 20 years,
Solution Tree has worked with the world’s premier authors and brightest minds in
education. The company transforms education by empowering educators to
successfully address today’s most challenging problems and to create schools
where all students succeed. Learn more at www.solution-tree.com.

Contact:
Solution Tree
Kelly Rockhill
800.733.6786 ext. 234
kelly.rockhill@solution-tree.com

SOURCE Solution Tree