Eligibility: Special Educational Private PK-12 Schools

SHI

Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a $10 billion global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry’s most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT services professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector and Academic customers. With over 4,500 employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 10th among CRN’s Solution Provider 500 list of North American IT solution providers.

SHI Account Executives support their clients locally from over 30 offices throughout the US, Canada, the UK, France and Hong Kong. SHI’s goal is to foster long-term, mutually-beneficial relationships with its customers and partners every single day.

Contract Highlights:

  • Supporting the world’s most complex IT environments since 1989
  • SHI is a $10 billion global provider of software, hardware and custom IT solutions.
  • Largest Minority- and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the United States

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Kyle Thomas
SM SLED Manager
732-564-8526
Kyle_Thomas@shi.com

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ManagedMethods

ManagedMethods is on a mission to make securing sensitive information stored in the cloud easy and affordable for K12 school districts. ManagedMethods provides a centralized command center for managing Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cyber security and student safety risks. The platform monitors risks in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, providing automated controls to prevent data security breaches, account takeovers, ransomware, and phishing attacks, and detect student safety signals.

Contract Highlights:

  • A sales and customer success team committed to engaging with ILTPP members
  • FREE 30-day trial of the ManagedMethods platform
  • FREE installations and ongoing support

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Warren Frebel
VP of Business Development
303-415-3656
wfrebel@managedmethods.com

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Newsela

Newsela takes authentic, real-world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 2.5 million teachers and 37 million students have registered with Newsela for content that’s personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 10,000 texts in Newsela’s platform and 10 new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.

Newsela provides content that is:

  • AUTHENTIC: From the real world, about real and relatable people and topics
  • ACCESSIBLE: Differentiated at 5 levels, representative of every learner
  • ACTIVE: Never stale, always up-to-date with what’s happening in the world
  • ACCOUNTABLE: Ensures educators and students are taking responsibility for learning
  • ALIGNED: Aligned to key standards, frameworks, and commonly used curriculum

Newsela’s offerings include Newsela ELA, Newsela Science, Newsela Social Studies, Newsela SEL, and more. You can find more information here.

Contract Highlights:

  • Discount for any school or district that purchases through the ILTPP contract
  • Scaled discount based on number of participating buildings
  • Content to meet the Illinois curriculum mandates like Civics, Black History, LGBTQ, Illinois History, and many more
  • Professional learning to support the implementation of Newsela

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

General inquiries: iltpp@newsela.com

Districts with 3000+ students
Patrick Gaffney
Illinois Partnerships
312-626-5370
patrick.gaffney@newsela.com

Districts with less than 3000 students
Claire Vock
Illinois Partnerships
630-965-0109
claire.vock@newsela.com

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CENTEGIX™

CENTEGIX™ innovates technology to save and enrich lives. This is accomplished through the award-winning CrisisAlert™ solution which enables anyone to get help with the push of a button. CrisisAlert empowers confident human action in any incident – from the everyday to the extreme. This easy-to-use solution allows staff and administrators to immediately handle any situation, anywhere on the premises. The CrisisAlert wearable badge ensures that staff never have to worry about finding help because help will always find them. When staff feel safe and secure, they are free to focus on being productive, every day.

Contract Highlights:

Gain the award-winning CrisisAlert™ badge solution via a competitively bid contract allowing for significant cost savings and faster implementation, while avoiding the delays and expense of a bid process.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Matt Young
RVP Midwest
586-713-7513
myoung@centegix.com

Gary Kughn
Regional Director
810-531-1658
gkughn@centegix.com

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Edpuzzle

Edpuzzle is an easy-to-use platform allowing you to engage every student, one video at a time. Edpuzzle unlocks the power of videos through simple editing tools and dazzling student data. The process is simple – find a video, add questions and assign it to your class. Watch as they progress and hold them accountable on their learning journey.

Make any video your lesson – Choose a video or record your own, give it your magic touch and track your students’ comprehension.

Reinforce accountability – Check if students are watching your videos, how many times they’re watching each section, and if they’re understanding the content.

Engage students – Introduce students to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. It’s easy to add your own voice narration and questions!

Save time – Check out our Edpuzzle Originals, videos made by our curriculum team. They are professionally made, standards-aligned, and have a practice already built-in!

Contract Highlights

  • Significant discount on any school or district EdPuzzle subscription for all ILTPP member schools.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Courtney Warren
School Partnership, IL
815-991-0738
cwarren@edpuzzle.com

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Deledao Education

Deledao’s InstantAI technology isn’t just about filtering; it’s about understanding and supporting students in the digital world. And it’s also about providing schools with an AI-driven, powerful cloud-based web filter, high-utility classroom management software, and lifesaving student monitoring capabilities. By combining these functionalities, Deledao offers a revolutionary approach to K12 digital learning, empowering educators, protecting students, and fostering a safer, more engaging learning environment for all.

 

Contract Highlights:

State-of-the-art artificial intelligence content filtering, self-harm monitoring, and classroom management are provided at an extremely affordable annual cost.

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.

Deledao is committed to student data privacy. Deledao is a signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge and adheres to strict data protection standards. Deledao only collects the data it needs and deletes the data once it has fulfilled its purpose. Student data is never sold.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

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

SHI
Kyle Thomas
SM SLED Manager
732-564-8526
Kyle_Thomas@shi.com

Bluum
Joel Anderson
Sales Director- Central Territory
612-455-3668
joel.anderson@bluum.com

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Learn Platform by Instructure

LearnPlatform is an edtech effectiveness system used by local and state education agencies to support evidence-based evaluation and efficient management of their digital ecosystems. Using LearnPlatform, K-12 organizations advance the security, equity and effectiveness of their education technology investments. LearnPlatform also works with edtech providers to build their evidence-base and better support their K-12 education partners. For more information, visit LearnPlatform by Instructure.

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

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

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

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

Learn More About LearnPlatform

G Suite Enterprise for Education

Google for Education is now offering an upgrade to your digital learning environment with advanced security controls and enhanced collaboration tools to elevate teaching and learning.

In 2018, Google introduced a collection of premium tools to support education’s unique and complex needs; G Suite Enterprise for Education. This set of robust tools, includes everything in G Suite for Education (free), plus paid premium features and enhancements.

  • Enhanced security, visibility, and control of data and analytics
  • Empower authentic thinking with unlimited Originality reports
  • Use Meet for enhanced learning and advanced meeting capabilities
  • Enhanced dedicated 24×7 support from product specialists

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FAQs

What is the pricing formula to determine seats for G Suite Enterprise for Education (GSEfE)?

  • For K-12 Public School Districts, Google looks at NCES data.
  • Formula: Total Staff (FTE) – Other Support Services = Total Full Domain Licenses FTE Count

When will all of the upcoming Meet features be launching?

  • Many have already begun rolling out to G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education users. Check out the G Suite Updates Blog (and consider subscribing!) for the latest updates regarding all G Suite products. You can filter specifically by product to see those most relevant to Google Meet and Education.

How do I know if I’ll have enough licenses?

  • Check with your HR department to ensure that you’re ordering the sufficient amount of licenses to cover all of the staff and students you want to have access to Enterprise features.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

CDW•G
John Buttita
Sales Manager
877-325-3380
johnbut@cdw.com

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SHI
Kyle Thomas
SM SLED Manager
732-564-8526
Kyle_Thomas@shi.com

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ZOOM

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly-traded company on Nasdaq (ticker: ZM) and headquartered in San Jose, California.

ROEs and ISCs can purchase a Zoom account through the Learning Technology Center (LTC). Zoom is also available to districts for purchase via the Carahsoft, CDW-G, Howard Technology Solutions, JourneyEd, and SHI full catalog contracts. Compare and contrast pricing before purchasing by utilizing ILTPP’s Quote Request form.

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Midwest Educational Furnishings

Midwest Educational Furnishings, Inc. is an experienced full-service school furniture and equipment company that provides learning environments that inspire students and support educators. Our mission is to enhance and improve learning experiences for students of all ages. We work closely with our clients, creating spaces that support active student learning and innovation. With over 100 manufacturing partners, we have solutions at various price points for upgrading conventional school environments, creating flexible and collaborative spaces, and developing technical learning areas.

Key Services Include:

  • Design Consultation
  • Space Planning
  • Budgeting
  • Product Selection and Specification
  • Project Management
  • Delivery and Installation

 

Midwest Educational Furnishings continues to grow its small business by doing things the right way and always putting the customers first. They currently cover the states of Illinois and Wisconsin and are always expanding.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Dave Welter
Vice President
630-291-5500
dwelter@mwfurnishings.com

Learn More About Midwest Education Furnishings