Just imagine if you had all your funky Genki English accessible in every classroom (games, songs, animations all a click away), on every staff room teacher’s laptop (so they can practice beforehand) and on every machine in the computer room (massive Genki English computer game battles!)  The kids would love it…

Well…

How much?!

When I was in elementary school and would come up to the year’s end I was always surprised at a) how little money there was for English materials and b) how much money other budgets had left over at the end of the school year. It was crazy.

For example IT software, library or staff training often had huge sums left over.    It always shocked me, but the thing was the teachers either didn’t know they had money left (they hadn’t looked!) or, even worse, didn’t have anything to spend it on!

Of course being the wonderful teacher that you are you want to spend it on Genki English!  🙂

The easy way to do it…

Buying extra packs of CDs can be difficult (if classed as English materials), so one easy option is to ask about the new “Site License” which let’s you get the Genki English Software on every machine in the school via the schools server.  Hence it comes from the IT budget!

“What’s a server?” is probably the first thing your supervisor will say, but check with the IT people, most schools now have them.

Compared with other IT packages our prices are incredibly cheap considering all the content. They are for a full ten year license and of course if the school is paying it doesn’t actually cost you anything.

The trick is that you’ve got to get the timing right, either right at the end of the school year e.g. March or August when there is money left over or right at the beginning of the new school year when budgets are being out together.

If you’re in Japan, here’s a pdf with the details and our phone number to order in Japanese, or if you are outside Japan drop me an email and I’ll send you details in English.

The prices for the ten year license are depend on how many students are in the school and they are:

Up to 100 students  98,000 yen ( approx $1,200 US)
100 to 300 students 118,000 yen ( approx $1,400 US)
More than 300 students　 158,000 yen (approx $1,900 US)

Or of course you can just go for the one machine license for $179.

It’s certainly worth a try and the schools that have the licenses love them. It is a real luxury once you have it installed!

Let me know your questions / comments below!