Siboney Corporation is engaged through its subsidiary, Siboney Learning Group, Inc., in the publishing of educational software primarily for schools.
The Company has 52 full-time employees, two of whom are employed by the parent corporation. These employees are evenly divided between sales, marketing, product development, customer service and product fulfillment.
The Company’s educational software is designed for use in teaching reading, language arts, writing, math, science and English as a Second Language (“ESL”) for students in grades kindergarten through adult. The Company’s software is intended to motivate learners to master key skills and concepts that are stressed on standardized tests and in textbooks. The Company has served the educational market for more than 35 years.
The Company’s growing portfolio of products now includes more than 190 active titles that focus on teaching basic skills and new concepts while meeting the learning needs of all students through time-on-task instruction. Most of the Company’s software titles include a management system that tracks student progress and allows teachers to identify problem areas for further instruction. These titles are sold in a wide variety of product configurations to appeal to the different budgets and spending patterns found in classrooms, schools, school districts and adult learning centers.
Most of the Company’s products are offered as single-title and series solutions, primarily for classroom teachers or as comprehensive solutions for entire school buildings and districts. The Company believes that its two-pronged product strategy affords the opportunity to deliver targeted and cost-effective solutions to almost every educator or educational institution looking for ways to use instructional software to improve student performance.
All of the Company’s active titles are available on CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh computers and are compatible with the different network configurations installed in schools today. At this time, five titles can be delivered over the web to schools looking for web-based solutions. The Company’s Research and Development team continuously revises and upgrades products to keep up with changes in computer hardware and networking operating systems and develops new titles which are designed to be compatible with old and new operating systems. Popular titles include Math Concepts, Reading Concepts, Guided Reading, Diascriptive Reading, Process Writing, Phonics Mastery and Touchdown Math. The Company believes that more than 40,000 schools, community colleges and adult learning centers use the Company’s software.
