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Deledao Education and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to provide ILTPP members discounted browser-based self-harm alerting and content filtering focused on student wellness and digital safety.

Powerful Wellness Monitoring & Content Filtering for ALL Students

Deledao Education’s AI-powered, cloud-based technology screens through web and email content in real time to analyze text, images, and videos. It works on Chromebooks, Windows, Mac OS, mobile devices and tablets. Through the real time analysis of each page as it renders in the browser, Deledao Education provides powerful wellness monitoring and content filtering for on and off campus learners.

Among other features, Deledao Education:

• Supports district leadership responsible for monitoring student wellness and mental health by applying its AI technology to monitor student web and email activity in real time for signs a student may be in need of help.
• Embeds anti-tracking technology to protect student privacy. Deledao Education shields students’ online activities from third parties.
• Safeguards distance learners through the mitigation of inappropriate images and video that may be bombed/shared in video conferencing applications such as Zoom and Google Meet.
• Provides instructional staff with granular policy controls to restrict on/off campus student internet activity during class time.

Deledao Education promotes parental engagement via its integrated Parent Portal (web and app-based) providing granular at-home policy settings and full visibility into their child’s internet activity and conduct on school-owned devices.

Contract Highlights:  State-of-the art artificial intelligence self-harm monitoring and alerting technology provided at an extremely affordable annual cost.

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Jasen Whetstone
Account Executive
469-525-5208
sales@deledao.com

Learn More About Deledao Education

Edmentum and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have teamed up to provide ILTPP members with a trusted partner in education, creating successful outcomes everywhere learning occurs.

Edmentum offers support in a variety of areas:

• Digital Curriculum: rigorously aligned to state standards and flexible for use in any learning environment
• Proven Assessments: benchmark learning needs, formatively assess learning, and support classroom practice
• Educational Consulting: professional learning, technical services, and support to power successful implementations
• Educational Services: support student-centered virtual learning including mentoring, grading, diploma-granting instruction, and more

Exact Path

Edmentum Exact Path utilizes adaptive diagnostic assessments paired with individualized learning paths to promote academic growth in K-12 reading, language arts, and math. Exact Path is focused on understanding where your students are acacademically and then taking that data a step further to provide just-in-time instruction aligned to your goals.

Courseware

Edmentum Courseware offers best-in-class, customizable online curricula for sixth grade through adult learners. Courseware is rigorous, relevant, and aligned to Illinois standards with over 400 courses covering core, elective, CTE, world language, and advanced subjects.

Study Island

Study Island offers customizable K-12 practice and preparation to support your formative assessment strategies. This Illinois standards-based program gives you the tools needed to ensure success on the state assessments and beyond.

Calvert Learning

Calvert Learning helps schools succeed with K-5 virtual and blended learning. Calvert focuses on building creative problem-solving and other lifelong skills students need to thrive in a fast-changing world. Edmentum provides the curriculum, tools, and services to make it happen, with a flexible approach based on your unique needs.

Edmentum is committed to ensuring success for Illinois educators and their students in any learning environment – brick and mortar, hybrid, and fully virtual.

Check out Edmentum’s 2020-2021 Planning and Success Toolkit for free guides, blogs, and worksheets to build a school around your students!

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Jason Eggert
Illinois Partnership Manager
(214) 293-9759
c: (815) 529-0885
jason.eggert@edmentum.com

Learn More About Edmentum

LearnPlatform and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to provide ILTPP members a top software-as-a-service and research-based solution for discounted purchase via a pre-negotiated contract.

LearnPlatform is the edtech effectiveness system that equips K-12 districts to organize, streamline and analyze their education technology to ensure it is safe, equitable and cost-effective. LearnPlatform simplifies processes for edtech vetting, approvals, procurement, implementation and evaluation and makes it easy to communicate edtech information and access to teachers, students and families, all in a single platform.

LearnPlatform’s solution is used by districts to organize their education technology, streamline standard processes (such as purchasing, contract management, and piloting), and rapidly analyze their classroom technology to learn what’s working, for which students, in what context, and at what cost.

Districts who use LearnPlatform benefit from the ability to:

• Generate actionable insights on the cost-effectiveness and equity of their edtech investments
• Streamline how they find, approve, purchase, and implement edtech tools
• Simplify how teachers and families find, access and use district-approved edtech
• Manage vendor relationships for better privacy compliance and more

Contract Highlights:

• Ongoing discounts for ILTPP members
• Full SOPPA compliant solution with a parent-facing library of tool use
• Create an approved tool portal for teachers
• Inventory the tools used in your district

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Districts >5,000 Students
Rob Residori
Director of Partnerships
(773) 273-9419
rob@learnplatform.com

Districts <5,000 Students
Hillary Simons
District Analyst
(860) 933-4091
hillary.simons@learnplatform.com

Learn More About LearnPlatform

Istation (Imagination Station) and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to provide ILTPP members discounted formative assessments, adaptive curriculum, personalized data profiles, teacher resources, and professional development; all under contract with ILTPP! As an AEPA contract, this agreement is nationally-bid, providing you with the most competitive pricing.

Get the Data and Support Schools Need to Differentiate Instruction and More!

Working together, Istation’s educational technology and teaching tools are aligned to individual state standards and Common Core State Standards. Teachers get the formative data they need to differentiate instruction with flexible resources and computer-based evaluations for small- and whole-group instruction.

Computer-Adaptive Intervention and Instruction

Based on scientific evidence and comprehensive research, Istation’s formative assessments, adaptive curriculum, personalized data profiles, and flexible teacher resources help schools measure growth and influence new skills for reading, math, and Spanish literacy. Plus, educators get easy-to-understand feedback that is timely, specific, and constructive.

Powered by the Science of Reading

Istation’s engaging assessments and instruction cover the National Reading Panel’s “Big Five” foundational essentials. Schools get the support they need to improve comprehension and growth with activities and lessons that provide actionable and insightful data that measures phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary, as well as many other skills.

Innovative Oral Reading Fluency Assessment

Istation’s digital Oral Reading Fluency assessment combines over three decades of educational research with more than a decade of technical development and data through a partnership with Boulder Learning, Inc.. This pioneering effort in the use of speech recognition technology in education includes digital recording programming to help schools measure oral reading fluency, accuracy, and more.

For School and Home

Mixing teaching and technology, Istation’s comprehensive blended-learning approach helps schools differentiate instruction and support intervention for powerful growth.

Meadowdale Elementary School in Carpentersville, Illinois Success Story

Meadowdale Elementary School in Carpentersville, Illinois, made professional development a priority. They invested in customizable professional development that was tailored to their school’s needs and helped them make better instructional decisions.

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Julie Ellis
Account Executive
314-614-9111
jellis@istation.com

Learn More About Istation

Dude Solutions and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to provide ILTPP members discounted operations management solutions as the first facility management solutions offering under contract with ILTPP!

Work Smarter with Integrated Operations Software

Dude Solutions is a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of operations management solutions to education, government, healthcare, senior living, manufacturing and membership-based organizations. For nearly two decades, the company has inspired clients to create better work and better lives. Dude Solutions combines innovative, user-friendly technology with the world’s smartest operations engine, empowering operations leaders to transform the most important places in our lives. Today, more than 12,000 organizations use Dude’s award-winning software to manage maintenance, assets, energy, IT, events and more. For more information, visit dudesolutions.com.

Software-as-a-service applications and associated services for the following areas are available under the contract:

• Corrective maintenance
• Preventative maintenance
• Mobile applications
• Facilities key performance indicators
• Facilities trends and comparative data
• Best practices community
• Facilities resources and templates
• Onboarding and support
• Executive facilities reports and presentation

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

John White
Senior Sales Manager
877-868-3833
john.white@dudesolutions.com

Learn More About Dude Solutions

Bio Corporation and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to offer ILTPP members full catalog discounts on both plain preserved and injected specimens. This includes anything from tiny spiders to large sharks!

Bio Corporation allows you to cover your lab for mammals with dissection of fetal pigs, mink, rabbits, rats or cats. Injected specimens will highlight the different arteries and veins, while plain preserved will not. Most of the specimens are of good size for the species. Need a specimen for marine biology? Bio Corp has sting ray, anemone, sea cucumbers, horseshoe crabs, squid, jelly fish, sharks and more. The sharks will be the only marine specimen that will have injections.

Worms, frogs and owl pellets, best sellers for middle schools. These specimens are of good size but not too large to overwhelm students. Even for their size the dissection is fascinating.

Study on larger organs for anatomy. Organs are obtains from full size animals. Cow hearts are amazing! Bio Corporation carries organs from cow, pig, sheep and turkey. Injected organs include the pig and cow kidneys and sheep hearts. Compare between the different specimens or compare a full size to an embryo size.

Contract Highlights:

• 5% off current catalog pricing
• Free ground shipping on orders over $50, excludes pail packing

Please visit www.biologyproducts.com to browse other products such as reference material, models, displays, charts, gloves and more.

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Brianna DiMartino
Bid Specialist
800-222-9094
info@biologyproducts.com

Josh Ernest
Account Manager
320-763-9094
rae@biologyproducts.com

Learn More About Bio Corporation

Daktronics and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to offer ILTPP members full catalog discounts on indoor and outdoor digital signage. This includes scoreboards, digital displays, and video boards!

Daktronics’ digital signage line-up is the most comprehensive offering of digital scoreboards and displays available. Daktronics can supply, deliver, and install all items listed in this bid category throughout Illinois. The company’s solutions for scoreboards, digital displays, and video boards include indoor and outdoor formats, large format LED and LCD video walls, numerical scoreboards, message centers, and marquee signs, local and distributed client and cloud-based control systems, and in-house engineering, manufacturing, installation, training, and support necessary to provide complete solutions for ILTPP members.

State Coverage

The northern part of Illinois is covered by Sievert Electronic Sales & Service and the southern part of Illinois is covered by two Daktronics sales reps; Gerald Temples, and Megan Potthoff. Contact Bryan Nagel below and he will direct you to the correct salesperson.

Small School Reaches Big Goals With New Displays

Platteview High School is in Springfield, Nebraska, a town of about 5,000, that lies just southwest of Omaha. Having a smaller population doesn’t hold them back from competing with their bigger neighbors, though.

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Bryan Nagel
Regional Manager
314-265-5943
bryan.nagel@daktronics.com

Learn More About Daktronics

Complete Book & Media Supply and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to offer ILTPP members discounted digital resources, instructional supplies, and online and hardback stories; all under contract!

Complete Book & Media Supply is a small, minority-owned business and is a single-source, wholesale distributor of books and subscriptions. Complete Book is dedicated to providing Illinois districts with the most extensive selection of publications as well as the very best in customer service. The company’s comprehensive selection includes both books and subscriptions in all fields, available in electronic or print format.

Complete Book & Media Supply is pleased to offer ILTPP Members 15% off their first order as an enthusiastic welcome to the partnership with ILTPP! Please contact your dedicated account manager to apply the discount.

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Contract Highlights:

• Competitive Pricing
• FREE Shipping
• Fast Turn-Around
• Ability to Procure a Wide-Range of Resources and Materials

ILTPP Members can register online at www.completebook.com/aepa/register. Once registered, you will receive your contracted pricing, be able to create wishlists, and request bulk discounts. You may also email kendall@completebook.com for a quote. Simply reference contract number AEPA-IFB020-C.

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Kendall Montiegel
Sales Processing Manager
800-986-1775  x105
kendall@completebook.com

Learn More About Complete Book and Media Supply

ByteSpeed and the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) have partnered to offer ILTPP members discounted Chromebook, Computer, Laptop, Esport, and Interactive Touch Screen products; all under contract!

ByteSpeed has been a leading IT solutions resource since 1999. The company provides customized computer hardware, enterprise networking solutions, and professional IT services nationwide. ByteSpeed has a proven track record of excellent customer service, offering a more personal level of service and support than larger vendors. Their support team is also located in-house, and you get a live technician on the phone within seconds. You can’t go wrong with ByteSpeed!

Contract Highlights

• Industry leading warranties, including 4-year Accidental Damage Protection on Chromebooks, with unlimited claims
• Pre-wired Chromebook carts
• Free lifetime tech support
• Free on-site parts closet for instant access to warranty replacement parts
• Free shipping
• Free imaging
• Free asset tagging and asset tag in BIOS
• Free custom bulk packaging
• White glove service
• Customization options
• Risk-free evaluations
• Free descriptive labeling
• Free spreadsheets of MAC addresses and ByteSpeed serial numbers
• Free automated OS naming
• Free image recovery flash drive
• Flexible split / delayed shipments
• Flexible billing options
• In-house repair service
• Dedicated account manager

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Brian Hoots
Account Manager
218-227-0479
bhoots@bytespeed.com

Learn More About ByteSpeed