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Publishing Solutions

Editorial Services

Contentra’s dedicated team of editorial professionals collaborates with educational publishers to create content that sparks curiosity. Our editorial team leverages its decades of combined experience to efficiently adapt to the technological and pedagogical requirements of any product. With an extensive network of freelance writers, editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, and fact checkers, we are able to scale our staff to meet each client’s specific needs. Whether developing a state-specific elementary social studies program or cold reading a set of science labs for high school students, we are eager to help you take your content to the next level.

What Contentra’s editorial team can do for you:

  • Content development for English language arts, science, and social studies products, including student editions, teacher editions, ancillaries, and assessments

  • Writing, editing, and copyediting manuscript

  • Proofreading and cold reading services

  • Fact checking

  • Text permissions procurement

  • Developing scope and sequence

  • Index creation

  • State customizations

Editorial Services
Alignment Services

Alignment Services

Contentra’s alignment team understands that, while alignment to academic standards is just one step in producing high-quality educational materials, it’s a crucial step. K–12 instructional texts and digital learning platforms need to be aligned to standards to maximize their effect on individuals and groups. Contentra sources an international pool of SMEs to manually align materials with standard sets and produce objective data that accurately represents your product. We partner with publishers and developers from all corners of the education market to analyze print and digital courses, core and supplemental materials, and online teaching and learning platforms. 

 

Our alignment team works in all core and elective subjects, world languages, and Career and Technical Education (CTE), and we work with every type of standard set and framework. Some of these include Common Core, state academic standards, NGSS, CASEL, C3, P21, and ELD/ELPS.

What Contentra’s alignment team can do for you:

  • Assessment alignments

  • Product-to-standard correlations

  • Sequencing guides

  • Gap analyses

  • Standard crosswalks

  • Audits/updates of existing correlations

  • Skill code tagging

  • Spine skill data

Design Sevices

UI/UX Services

Contentra’s creative designers use their unique perspectives to bring each client’s concepts to life. Our design team works hand-in-hand with you and our editorial team to ensure that the illustration and overall design supports the pedagogical intent of each product. From designing covers to creating animations to image manipulation, we are excited to help you achieve your vision.

What Contentra’s design team can do for you:

  • Conceptualizing and prototyping

  • Cover design

  • Tech art and map creation

  • Illustration

  • Color correction

  • Page and design layout

  • Animation

  • Image manipulation

Art/Photo Management Services

Contentra’s highly experienced art and photo researchers utilize their inquisitive natures and investigative skills to pursue and procure the right images for your products. Our researchers partner with you and our editorial team to secure images that support each product’s intent and encourage student understanding. From researching and tracking images to purchasing and acquiring them, we want to help your product stand out.

What Contentra’s art/photo management team can do for you:

  • Image research, purchasing, and tracking

  • Permissions procurement

  • Database management

  • Art credits​

Art Photo Services

Composition and Digital Services

Contentra’s meticulous composition and production team deftly employs a collection of emerging apps and technology to produce your resources. Our team can create your product from scratch or modify existing templates to give your materials a fresh look. Whatever your needs, we are ready to help usher your content from concept to market.

What Contentra’s composition and digital team can do for you:

  • Template development

  • Composition and page layout

  • PDF, XML/HTML, ePub3

  • OCR, data conversion, NIMAS

Composition Digital Services

Project Management

Contentra’s project management team works closely with each publisher to make sure that the scheduling and budgeting goals for each project are realized. Our project managers proactively track your content every step of the way as we make your objectives our objectives. Whether it is small or large, we want to help navigate your resources from start to finish.

What Contentra’s project management team can do for you:

  • Create and maintain project schedules

  • Track deliverables

  • Report project status

  • Anticipate, navigate, and communicate about potential roadblocks

  • Work together to create comprehensive project-specific workflows

  • Manage project budgets

Project Management
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