Solicitation Type: Direct Contract

ClassLink

ClassLink is a leading provider of cloud-based education products that connect educators and students with their classroom, curriculum, and each other in richer, more powerful ways. As leading advocates for open data standards, we offer instant access to apps and files with single sign-on, streamline class rostering, automate account provisioning, and provide actionable analytics. ClassLink empowers 15 million students and staff in over 2,000 school systems.

The ClassLink suite of products includes:

  • LaunchPad — Ends the painful student login process. Save time and cut confusion with a single sign-on to a library of 6,000+ connectors.
  • Analytics — Makes informed purchasing and training decisions with access to usage data for all of the digital resources in your district.
  • Analytics+ — Expands your understanding of digital engagement with usage analytics for all the digital resources used on school-owned devices, even those accessed outside of ClassLink.
  • Roster Server — Delivers class rosters to all of your digital learning resources instantly and securely using open data standards.
  • OneSync — Reduces the time it takes to create and manage student and staff accounts with secure, automated account provisioning.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

ClassLink
Lyle Dadian
Director of Instructional Technology
M: 414-588-9181
O: 862-203-2099
ldadian@classlink.com

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Senso.cloud

www.senso.cloud An education-focused, cloud-based, cross-platform solution providing unprecedented performance and functionality for device management, remote support, and Safeguarding. Senso.cloud overcomes the frustrations of traditional on-premise solutions, with unlimited scale and reliability, designed to address and enhance a centrally managed approach across one or many thousand sites. From a single web-based portal you have full control over you IT support, Classroom Management, Safeguarding, Asset Utilisation, and Filtering for every school in your district.

Contract Highlights:

  • Up to a 25% discount is available to all ILTPP Members, across all Senso bundles and licenses.
  • Customer Success Planning, Fully supported implementation and deployment, unlimited remote support including Live Chat, along with free CPD opportunities.
  • A dedicated account team under the ILTPP agreement, that offers advice and support and is accessible via email, phone, and the web.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Amir Eftekhari
Head of Sales – North America
936-274-2718
a.eftekhari@senso.cloud

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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:

David Waugh
Sales and Marketing Vice President
303-415-3643
dwaugh@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

New Newsela Schools or Districts
Jenny Pearl
Illinois Partnerships
847-691-1019
Jenny.Pearl@newsela.com

Current Newsela Partners
Nicky Dunlap
Illinois Partnerships
773-495-0703
Nicky.Dunlap@newsela.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, 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 – Use videos from YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course and more. If you’d rather record and upload your own video, go for it!

Contract Highlights

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

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Aaron Shute
Director of School Partnerships
508-863-6985
aaron@edpuzzle.com

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LearnPlatform

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.

The software-as-a-service and research-based 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

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

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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

Resources

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

Learn More About SHI

Learn More About Googe for Education

Edmentum

Edmentum is leading the market with engaging curriculum, research-based assessments for learning, and quality educational services designed for each Illinois student and proven effective in traditional, hybrid, or virtual learning environments. As a global leader and pioneer in online education solutions, Edmentum is committed to being educators’ most trusted partner in creating successful student outcomes everywhere learning occurs.
Edmentum’s powerful suite of virtual solutions will:

  • Provide core curriculum to expand and enhance offerings
  • Mitigate learning gaps and achieve individual growth goals
  • Offer essential standards-based practice and assessments

Edmentum Courseware

Calvert Learning

Exact Path

Study Island

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

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

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Carahsoft

Carahsoft has built its reputation as a customer-centric organization dedicated to serving the needs of technology manufacturers, government end users, and reseller ecosystem with Solutions for Government®.

Carahsoft has a proven history of helping government agencies find the best possible technology solution at the best possible value. Each customer works directly with a dedicated account representative to determine a solution tailored specifically to meet his or her needs. They combine their extensive knowledge of the technologies they provide, with a thorough understanding of the government procurement process, to analyze needs, provide configuration support, simplify the ordering process, and offer special government pricing.

Carahsoft Technology Corporation is proud to offer ILTPP members a wide variety of government solutions, including AWS and VMware.

Virtualization allows IT departments to create a virtual environment at the workstation, server, or data center level. With this virtualization technology, you can reduce the number of physical servers or computers, while still maintaining performance levels. Benefits include:

  • Reduce IT costs through server consolidation and network virtualization
  • Create an affordable disaster recovery solution
  • Leverage cloud software to build an elastic on-demand virtual infrastructure Support user access to data and applications on any device from anywhere

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Martin Gavin
ILTPP Program Manager
703-673-3518
martin.gavin@carahsoft.com

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