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We’re partnering with
Handwriting the Constitution
for National Handwriting Day,
January 23, 2020.

Every year, on John Hancock’s birthday, the United States celebrates the amazing cultural phenomenon of handwriting. Handwriting communicates — it expresses ideas, emotions, thoughts, instructions. Handwriting organizes — by making lists, plans, goals. Handwriting teaches — it helps us to learn and to think. And it connects us to thousands of years of cultural history.

There are many ways to celebrate Handwriting Day, and they all involve exercising that basic literary skill that you probably don’t remember learning for the first time. You can write a letter, postcard, or just a note to a friend or family member — a thank you, a get-well-soon, a love letter or a business letter. You can learn a new handwriting style, or brush up the one you use. You can write out your favorite poem, quotation, or a founding document.

At Handwriting Success, we are celebrating Handwriting Day 2020 by joining the ongoing events of Handwriting the Constitution. Find out more about this non-profit organization created by Morgan O’Hara, and organize your own event www.hanwritingtheconstitution.com.

See below the events that are being sponsored by us at Handwriting Success in collaboration with Handwriting the Constitution. They are free and open to the public. Spend quality time getting to know this foundational document of self-governance by copying it out by hand, either on your own or in a group, in public or in private.

You can find out more about how to participate, or create your own local event at www.handwritingtheconstitution.com. If you organize an event for National Handwriting Day, please let us know at info@handwritingsuccess.com and we’ll post it below. (Be certain you provide all necessary information, including a contact e-mail address.)

Handwriting the Constitution for National Handwriting Day events:

OREGON

Monday, January 20, 2020, 7pm to 9pm. Rose City Book Pub, 1329 Northeast Fremont Street, Portland, Oregon 97212. Contact: info@handwritingsuccess.com. Download flyer.

Tuesday, January 21, 2pm to 4:30 pm. Multnomah County Library NW Branch, 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, Oregon 97210. Contact: info@handwritingsuccess.com. Download flyer.

Wednesday, January 22, 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Multnomah County Library Midland Branch, 805 SE 122nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97233. Contact: info@handwritingsuccess.com. Download flyer.

Friday, January 24, 3:30pm to 5:30pm. Multnomah County Library Capitol Branch, 10723 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, Oregon 97219. Contact: info@handwritingsuccess.com. Download flyer.

Saturday, January 25, 2:30 to 5:30pm. Multnomah County Library Central, 801 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97205. Contact: info@handwritingsuccess.com. Download flyer.

A PDF of the complete up-to-date text of the U. S. Constitution can be found here.

So you’ve bought a stylus for your tablet, but you’re not happy with your handwriting. Now what?

It’s so easy and natural to have good handwriting, even with a stylus.

Coming soon

It’s the first complete handwriting instruction app made for adults who write with a stylus: the Getty-Dubay Handwriting Success app for iPad or Android tablet.

Coming soon to Google Play and the App Store

WRITE NOW: the Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success is our popular handwriting workbook for adults, and this app will bring it to your tablet so you can use it just like a book — only better. You’ll be able to trace and copy over and over. Practice to your heart’s content. Touch up your handwriting wherever your are, when it is convenient, on your iPad, Chromebook, Pixel Slate or Android tablet. (Minimum tablet width: 7.5 inches.)

This is not your grandparents’ handwriting.  For over 40 years, the authors Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay have been teaching legible, handsome handwriting without the loops and curlicues of conventional cursive. It’s real handwriting, for real life.

Use your stylus with confidence and ease to produce notes that you feel good about sharing, and that you, your colleagues & friends (and your handwriting recognition software) can read.

The app is optimized for:

• Apple Pencil with iPad Pro 12.9″, iPad Pro 11″, iPad Air 10.5″ or iPad 10.2″;

• Android tablet with Bluetooth stylus, minimum screen dimension 7.5″ (width or height, whichever is longest).

Coming soon to Google Play and the App Store

Learn more about WRITE NOW | italic handwriting | Getty-Dubay products

Getty-Dubay Italic began in 1979 as the collaboration between two like-minded educators. Both Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty are artists, calligraphers and educators. They recognized the need for an alternative to the then-traditional system for learning handwriting. Getty and Dubay set about creating instruction books for children — all handwritten — that were soon widely adopted by schools. A handwriting book for adults came in 1991, as well as two instruction books on calligraphy. Today, Getty-Dubay Italic is in use in business and education throughout the United States and internationally.

Getty and Dubay have offered 170 Rx for Handwriting Success seminars for medical professionals across the United States, and also have presented at the World Health Organization in Copenhagen, Denmark and the International Patient Safety Conference in Florence, Italy. Each, as an artist in her own right, has taught handwriting and calligraphy as faculty in schools and colleges in the Pacific Northwest.

Getty-Dubay Italic has been featured in more than 75 journals and on television & radio including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine and NBC’s “Good Morning America”.

Getty and Dubay have written eleven books to bring beauty and ease to the everyday act of writing. They began their mission in 1979 to provide a new, viable handwriting system for children with the seven developmentally appropriate workbooks that make up the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series.  These books and accompanying Instruction Manual are now in use in many schools and thousands of homes in America and abroad. From their decades of experience helping adults change or improve their handwriting, they created the self-guided instruction book, Write Now: the Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success.

The legacy of their mentors in calligraphy, including that of Lloyd J. Reynolds, is in evidence in all their books, especially in their calligraphy instruction book for adults, Italic Letters. Dubay has also authored a calligraphy book for students, Getty-Dubay Italic Calligraphy for School & Home as a companion to the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series. Italic Calligraphy is the product of an unique program by Reed College to bring calligraphy into elementary school classrooms. 

Celebration of the 40th anniversary will include a vendor exhibit at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 2019 Conference in Chicago, Illinois, and many more events to come!

Ten of our popular Getty-Dubay Italic books in the USA are now printed on demand as International Editions distributed to over 150 countries around the globe, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

WRITE NOW,  Italic Letters and our eight Italic Handwriting Series books are now available internationally via Lulu.com for retail orders and via Ingram for wholesale.

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These International Editions have identical content to the editions already available in the USA, but our International Editions are perfect bound with a lighter interior paper weight. For this reason, Italic Letters, WRITE NOW and Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series Book G contain several single-sided pages to allow for the use of ink pens. The Italic Handwriting Series International Edition also accommodates for both British and American spellings of some words.

Just as our USA editions are printed on environmentally-friendly paper, our International Edition books printed at Lulu utilize FSC-certified paper sources.

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For those who wish to purchase our supplementary materials, or our book Getty-Dubay Italic Calligraphy: for School & Home, use the “SHOP” menu item to connect to our USA distributor Allport Editions. (Please be aware that overseas shipping rates from the USA are higher for these items.)

Here’s a peek inside a classroom where Inga Dubay is guest-teaching calligraphy — the art of beautiful writing. Getty-Dubay Italic Calligraphy: for School & Home is a workbook that helps your class connect with centuries of cultural history, though language, pen and ink! Unlike handwriting, calligraphy is more contemplative, formal & expressive. Italic handwriting becomes italic calligraphy when you write with the edged pen, as this classroom of 4th graders is doing.

We’re just home from our first trade show in our 40th anniversary year, at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Empower19 in Chicago, IL. Among the 8,000 participants, we met educators from across the USA and across the globe, all eager to give their students the best in handwriting curriculum. We unveiled our new video, “Getty-Dubay Italic in Motion“, and each visitor to our booth got a copy of our Curriculum Overview that includes standards alignment and a scope & sequence for the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series.