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Foster a Love of Literacy in Your Classroom with Our 2023 Giveaway!

This February we want to hear how you foster a love of literacy in your classrooms across Canada. Follow Rubicon, a Savvas Company all month long and enter our weekly giveaways. You could win one of the engaging literacy resources listed below and fun literacy-themed stickers for your students. Each week you participate also enters you in our grand prize drawing for a $150 gift card to help stock your classroom library!

#RubiconLovesLiteracy

Follow Rubicon, a Savvas Company on social media for details on how to enter our weekly giveaways and a chance to win our grand prize!

Love is in the air

This February follow us and share your best-loved literacy tips! Tag us on social media and use #RubiconLovesLiteracy.

February Week 1

Share your best instructional tip for making literacy inclusive or culturally relevant.
Enter to win a copy of My Best Idea: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Plus 50 stickers.

Congratulations to our giveaway winner, Amy P.

February Week 2

Comment/share a picture of your classroom library station.
Enter to win a copy of the Sankofa Evaluation pack. Plus 50 stickers.

Congratulations to our giveaway winner, Hill B.

February Week 3

Comment/share a picture of your favourite writing worksheet you’ve made.
Enter to win a copy of Words Their Way® Classroom Book of Rhymes. Plus 50 stickers.

Congratulations to our giveaway winner, Kathryn S.

February Week 4

Comment on our post describing your favourite literacy game to play with your students.
Enter to win the BOLDPRINT Inquiry 3-grade poster pack. Plus 50 stickers.

RFTLOI attendees make sure to visit our booth on Thursday February 23, snap a photo with us and share it to your social using #RubiconLovesLiteracy for an additional entry in our grand prize draw!

#RubiconLovesLiteracy Grand Prize

Each week you participate you will receive an additional automatic entry to our grand prize drawing.

OFFICIAL RULES #RubiconLovesLiteracy Random Giveaway February 2023

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THESE RULES BEFORE ENTERING THE Rubicon #RubiconLovesLiteracy (THE “RANDOM GIVEAWAY”). BY ENTERING THE RANDOM GIVEAWAY, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE OFFICIAL RULES. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER AND WIN. 

To Enter: The Random Giveaway sponsored by Rubicon, a Savvas Company begins on February 1st, 2023 and ends on February 30th, 2023 in Canada (“Random Giveaway Period”). Rubicon is giving away Educational Resources and Love of Literacy sticker sets (“The Prize”), subject to the rules and conditions contained herein. You will be automatically entered into the random giveaway when you comment on or share/retweet one of Rubicon’s Love of Literacy social media posts during the month of February or participate as per the prompt of a Rubicon Love of Literacy social media post using the hashtag #RubiconLovesLiteracy on social media. Each entry into the random drawing for the free resource & sticker prize also gains the participant 1 additional entry into the random drawing for the grand prize not to exceed a maximum of 5 grand prize entries. Submissions must conform to the guidelines and instructions as further specified by Rubicon. By participating in the random giveaway you are accepting the terms of these Official Rules and agreeing to be bound by them. You acknowledge and agree that Rubicon’s use of your personal information is subject to the Rubicon privacy policy, located at https://www.rubiconpublishing.com/privacy-policy/

Eligibility: The Random Giveaway is available to #RubiconLovesLiteracy participants and legal residents of Canada who have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence. The Random Giveaway is not open to employees of Rubicon or any of its affiliate companies or subsidiaries and immediate family members of each are not eligible to enter. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. All federal, provincial, and local laws and regulations apply. Rubicon reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any entry if it concludes that the entrant has tampered with the entry process or the operation of the Random Giveaway or has acted in violation of these Official Rules or any applicable provincial, federal, or local laws or regulations. 

Prize and Winner Selection: 5 winners will be selected by random (4 winners will receive the prize and 1 winner will receive a grand prize). Each of the 4 winners will receive Educational Resources, namely one of My Best Idea: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Sankofa evaluation pack, Words Their Way Big Book of Rhymes package, Boldprint Inquiry three-grade poster pack depending on the week they win and 10 Love of Literacy sticker sets from Rubicon (the “Prize”). One additional winner will win a $150 gift card (the “Grand Prize”). THE ODDS OF WINNING WILL DEPEND ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE ENTRIES RECEIVED. The approximate retail value of the Prize is $100-$300 for the literacy resources and stickers and $350 for the grand prize gift card. All federal, provincial and local taxes that may accrue from the Prize are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. All prizes are awarded “as is” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, (including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose). Acceptance or use of the Prize is at the winner’s own risk. Winner Notification: The prize winners will be notified during the month of February 2023 and the grand prize winner will be notified by March 15th 2023, and must respond promptly with their contact information. The failure to respond timely to the notification may result in forfeiture of the Prize or Grand Prize and Rubicon may award the Prize or Grand Prize to an alternative entrant, at its sole discretion. The winner’s notice will include information on how the winners can claim their Prize or Grand Prize. Failure to comply with any rule, regulation or limitation will result in the forfeiture of the Prize or Grand Prize, in whole or in part. Incomplete or mechanically reproduced entry forms or entry forms that have been tampered with will be disqualified. 

General Conditions: The Random Giveaway will be governed, construed and interpreted under the laws of the United States. By entering this Random Giveaway, participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Rubicon on all matters relating to the Random Giveaway. By entering the Random Giveaway, all entrants agree that they are permitted by state, municipality, school district, and place of employment to receive the Prize should one entrant be selected the winner.  By entering the Random Giveaway, all entrants consent to the use of their names, submissions and any statements they make in connection with the Random Giveaway or about Rubicon in general without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. Rubicon may request, at Rubicon’s sole discretion, that the entrant/winner provide any of the foregoing information to Rubicon. Without limiting the foregoing, by entering, all entrants shall be deemed to have granted to Rubicon, and its respective successors and assigns, absolutely and forever, the nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty free right and license in and to their submissions, including the right to use, edit, modify and prepare derivative works based upon the submissions, and to display, publish, reproduce, transmit and deliver the submissions in and by any and all media now in existence or hereafter discovered or devised throughout the world in perpetuity. Entrants agree to execute any and all documents requested by Rubicon, including a winner’s certification for the winner, to effectuate the Rubicon’s rights described in this paragraph. Entrants hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waive any and all moral rights or any rights of similar nature under any law in any jurisdiction in and to any and all elements of the submissions. Entrants represent and warrant to Rubicon that (i) any submissions submitted are the original creation of entrant, and (ii) the Rubicon’s use of such submissions as contemplated in these rules will not violate the rights of any third party. 

Limitations of Liability: By entering the Random Giveaway, entrants agree to release Rubicon and all co-sponsors of the Random Giveaway, including but not limited to Facebook, Inc., Twitter, Inc. and Instagram, Inc., and their respective affiliates, parents and subsidiaries, and their respective employees, agents, and representatives (collectively “Sponsor Entities”) from any and all liability, claims, or actions of any kind whatsoever for injuries, damages, or losses to person or property that may be sustained in connection with the receipt, ownership, or use of a Prize or with participation in this Random Giveaway. By entering this Random Giveaway, entrants agree that no claim relating to such injuries, damages, or losses shall be asserted against any of the Sponsor Entities. Entrants agree that none of the Sponsor Entities shall be liable for any injury or damage to any person’s computer hardware, software, or peripherals utilized in participating in the Random Giveaway. None of the Sponsor Entities are responsible for technical, hardware, software, or other communication failures of any kind, whether caused by any of the Sponsor Entities, users, or by any equipment, programming, or other cause, whether or not such failures limit an entrant’s ability to participate in the Random Giveaway. If for any reason (including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause that corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Random Giveaway), the Random Giveaway is not capable of being conducted as described in these Official Rules, Rubicon shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Random Giveaway. Rubicon reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who has tampered with the entry process or the operation of the Random Giveaway, or who has acted in violation of these Official Rules or any applicable state, federal, or local laws or regulations, or is acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person. 

Random Giveaway Rules: These Official Rules will be located in a web link at the bottom of the Random Giveaway website during the campaign. Copies of the Official Rules may also be obtained by writing to: #RubiconLovesLiteracy, Rubicon Publishing Inc., 2040 Speers Road, Oakville, ON Attn: David Ort or by email to david.ort@savvas.com. For the winner name, please send an email to david.ort@savvas.com requesting same by March 10th, 2023. Sponsor: This Random Giveaway is sponsored by Rubicon Publishing Inc. The Random Giveaway and all accompanying materials are Copyright ©2023 by Rubicon Publishing Inc.