TEQ

Teq has been in business for over 50 years and provides SMART® interactive displays exclusively. Teq is the largest SMART resale partner globally. Schools can also purchase select 3D printers and STEM technology from Teq, including UltiMaker and Formlabs printers and Wonder Workshop and Birdbrain robots. Teq is unique in that it offers extensive professional development and project-based learning options from its staff of 20 current and former classroom teachers.

OTIS for Educators is an online professional learning platform offering courses on how to effectively integrate technology into instruction. Between an on-demand library and calendar of live sessions, OTIS makes it easy to access hundreds of courses, with topics on STEM, SEL, literacy, ENL/ELL, and more. Teq is a Google for Education Partner, Microsoft Training Partner, and OTIS is an ISTE Standards-aligned resource, so their staff and content has been independently evaluated and certified.

Teq offers a PBL program called iBlocks. An iBlock is a sequence of modules that include lessons and activities that culminate in a capstone project that is designed to reinforce concepts and ideas taught in the core subject areas with an emphasis of enhancing problem solving and future-ready skills. iBlocks cover a wide range of topics in order to encourage career exploration and many of the capstone projects can be connected to having a community impact.

 

Contact Highlights

  • One-stop-shop Approach Simplifies the Process of Transforming Classrooms and Fostering Student Success
  • Top Brands in Building Active Learning Spaces
  • Project Based Learning Tools
  • Professional Development for K12 Educators Available Both Onsite and Online

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Carrie Gosz
Senior Account Executive
CarolynGosz@teq.com
312-256-3092

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TinkRworks

Based in Elmhurst, Illinois, TinkRworks is a supplemental K-8 STEAM curriculum used by districts nationwide to augment core curriculum, support academic learning objectives, and engage students in project-based learning activities. Designed to target strategic STEM standards and concepts, TinkRworks balances teacher-led instruction with independent student practice. Students address real-world problems to design, program, and complete projects. The program provides all project materials, instructional resources, assessment tools, and ongoing professional support. Developed by teachers and engineers, TinkRworks utilizes the engineering design process to help students innovate, iterate, and develop 21st-century workforce skills such as creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

Contract Highlights

  • Program includes standards-rich STEAM curriculum, hands-on project kits, professional development & support, and access to an online learning portal that supports implementation.
  • 10% off list price for Illinois schools – no minimum order
  • Discounted shipping

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Matt Yena
Illinois School Partner
708-899-9362
matt.yena@TinkRworks.com

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Otus

Otus is dedicated to empowering educators to harness and act on educational data to improve learner outcomes. With Otus, you can see the whole child in one place through common assessments, standards-based and traditional grading, data-driven PLCs, and progress monitoring. Through its integrated platform and world-class support, Otus saves educators time to focus on what matters most – student growth. Over 240 K-12 districts and schools use Otus to help accelerate student growth for more than 1 million learners.

 

Contract Highlights

 

Dedicated Account Manager

Paul Kaskovich
Account Executive
paul@otus.com
773-789-5444 x110

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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 your 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:

Alex Ball
US Sales Manager
866- 664-1520
a.ball@renatosoftware.com

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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:

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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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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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