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This is Jim's first book and was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show

What is The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media's Effect on Our Children?

100

This program was the first of its kind to teach students to take ownership of their digital lives and support teachers with cutting-edge classroom tools and easy-to-follow lesson plans.

What is the Digital Citizenship Curriculum?

100

Style guides, copyediting, news, internal podcasts, speaking engagements, and more are just some of the things that this dynamic team juggles everyday

Who is the Comms Team?

100

Not to be confused with the celebrity, this employee helps keep Jim in line and organized ..and knows all the cool hang out spots in New Orleans.

Who is Miles Tepper?

200

Common Sense and this popular but retired social media platform both launched in 2003

What is myspace?

200

This program evaluates popular applications and edtech products so parents and educators can make informed choices about the media and tech they use

What is the Common Sense Privacy Program?

200

DAILY DOUBLE

Gordon Lee, Girard Kelly, and Graham Herrli have more than just their first initials in common as they are all members of this larger team

Who is the Prodgineering Team?

200

DAILY DOUBLE

Need a second pair of eyes on a presentation? Or how about an energy booster? This employee is a huge source of support for any special projects and they also compile all the wonderful "mission moments" from our users.

Who is Sarah Rosenbach?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

By this year, Common Sense became the largest independent source for media and technology reviews

When is 2006?

300

Common Sense recently launched this $10 million public awareness initiative to ensure that lower- and middle-income families are aware of thousands of dollars in benefits made available for them through the American Rescue Plan

What is the Campaign for America's Children?

300

This team doubles down on delivering outreach, professional development, content creation, and other programmatic efforts to support one of Common Sense’s core audiences - teachers

Who is the Education Team?

300

Whether you're having issues with jumpcloud, need to access an app, or listen to a (fire) spotify playlist.. this employee is always just a slack or service desk request away.

Who is Damany Harden?

400

In 2013 Common Sense launched the first-ever ratings system for learning potential and, by this time, the number of apps in the App store has reached this record amount

What are 1,000,000 apps?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

In 2011 Common Sense released its first publicly available, national research study and this report revealed that kids are frequent media users, even from infancy

What is "Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America"?

400

This small but mighty team of women drives new business opportunities and maintains our revenue-generating partnerships to broaden Common Sense's distribution footprint

Who is the Business Development Team?

400

People Ops, Finances, and IT oh my! collectively make up the BizOps team that is led by this Wizard of CSM..

Who is David Kuizenga?

500

Since the passing of this landmark data privacy law in California, more than 30 other states have passed similar laws protecting student privacy

What is the Student Online Privacy and Information Protection Act (SOPIPA)?

500

This program launched in 2015 with the goal of connecting community-grounded resources for Spanish-speaking families

What is the Common Sense Latino Program?

500
Yvette Renteria and Jill Murphy are the newest members of this team which is made up of 60% female leaders

Who is the Executive Leadership Team?

500

They founded Women.com in 1992, wrote the Women's Wire Web Directory in 1997, and had several other major professional successes before joining Common Sense in 2013. 

Who is Ellen Pack?

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