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Books Are Fun is bridging the literacy gap and building our student's home libraries with Book Blast. We are inspiring more lifelong readers by putting at least one new, popular book in the hands of every student at your school. It's our mission and our guarantee. Books Are Fun has been committed to bringing the hottest books to adults and children across the United States for nearly 30 years.
bb.booksarefun.com
ECRA Group is a premier research and analytics consulting firm that helps educational leaders improve student outcomes by adopting more evidence-based practices. ECRA is an ISBE approved IL-Empower professional learning partner.
909 W. Euclid Ave., #635
Arlington Heights, IL 60006
847-318-0072
ecragroup.com
Horace Mann, an insurance company Founded by Educators for Educators, supports schools with teacher recognition programs, promotions, student attendance and achievement programs that reflect our commitment to educators.
1 Horace Mann Plz
Springfield, IL 62715-0001
217-788-5305
horacemann.com
Gold ($10,000 – $14,999 Contribution)
College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world's leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success - including the SAT and the Advanced Placement Program. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators and schools.
8700 West Bryn Mawr Ave., Suite 900N
Chicago, IL 60631
847-653-4527
collegeboard.org
Since its founding in 2013, CrisisGo has worked with Illinois school districts to create a safer environment for students and staff every single day. Barrington 220 School District was the first district (in the nation) to use the CrisisGo platform. Today, hundreds of Illinois schools (and thousands of schools nationwide) rely on CrisisGo for the emergency management, behavioral assessment, and health monitoring tools vital for a safe and productive educational environment.
130 S. Bemiston Avenue, Suite 501
St. Louis, MO 63105
314-455-7855
crisisgo.com
IPA members are eligible to receive a 30 percent tuition discount each semester of their academic degree program, when enrolled within a cohort of at least 12. Through the School of Education Transformative Education Scholars Program, we endeavor to grow the number of educational professionals across PK-12 and expand professional competencies to ensure all students receive the high-quality supports that are essential to academic success and well-being in this everchanging educational landscape.
820 N. Michigan Ave., FL 11, Lewis Towers 11th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611-2147
No Kid Hungry Illinois is a public-private coalition working to end childhood hunger. The partnership between Share Our Strength and the Greater Chicago Food Depository is ending childhood hunger in Illinois by ensuring kids get the food they need.
4100 West Ann Lurie Place
Chicago, IL 60632
773-843-2745
state.nokidhungry.org/illinois
As the largest manufacturer of educational furniture in the United States, Virco Inc., is committed to providing the best selection of classroom, training and hospitality furniture for the education market. Virco employs over 600 people in our two state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities located in Torrance, CA, and Conway, AR. As a company, Virco is dedicated to outstanding sales support, product training, space planning and promotional literature. For more information please visit www.virco.com.
2027 Harpers Way
Torrance, CA 90501
800-448-4726
virco.comSilver ($5000 – $9999 Contribution)
A place to learn, play & grow! Right At School is a trusted Before and After School Enrichment program provider, partnered with over 650 schools nationwide. From staff hiring to implementation, registration, parent support, safety plans, and more. We take care of everything so you don't have to!
909 Davis Street, Suite 500
Evanston, IL 60201
630-550-6725
rightatschool.comBronze (Up to $4999 Contribution)
A preeminent education law firm representing public schools throughout Illinois. Guin Mundorf, LLC, represents its education clients in a wide variety of areas, including employment and personnel matters, collective bargaining, open meetings and records, purchasing and contracting, policy development, student rights, FERPA, employee benefits, including HIPAA, vocational education, school finance, election law, tort claims, insurance law, real estate and special education,
The attorneys in our Collinsville office are uniquely positioned to provide quality and cost effective legal services to education clients in Illinois.
310 Regency Ctr
Collinsville, IL 62234-4638
The Illinois Resource Center (IRC) is the state's premier provider of technical assistance and professional development for educators of linguistically and culturally diverse learners. Our experienced practitioners combine the latest scholarship and best practices in order to deliver relevant content and meaningful experiences to the communities we serve.
2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
773-931-0203
irc.thecenterweb.org
As The Most Trusted Partner in Celebrating Moments That Matter, the essence of our mission is conveyed with three simple words: Capture. Celebrate. Inspire. It’s all about recognizing life’s most important moments, and inspiring the creation and celebration of even more. Commemorating milestones takes many forms. Whether it’s the custom graduation announcements that spread the news to loved ones far and wide, that perfectly-framed diploma radiating with pride, or the tassel hanging from your rearview mirror, we honor the stories written by you. These are your moments that matter.
122 W Walnut St
Chatham, IL 62704-7100
217-483-8989
jostens.com
Lexia®, a Cambium Learning Group company, is a leader inscience of reading-based solutions. For nearly 40 years, the company has focused on pre-K–12 literacy and today provides solutions for every student and educator. With a complete offering of professional learning, curriculum, and embedded assessment, Lexia helps more learners read, write, and speak with confidence. For more information, visit lexialearning.com.
300 Baker Ave., Ste 320
Concord, MA 01742
215-888-8120
lexialearning.com
Test prep can be fun, engaging, and effective. That's what we offer at OnToCollege. Tens of thousands of students have taken our proven, innovative, and fun ACT® and SAT® courses. After two decades of growth, our team of ACT® certified teachers helps students (and entire high schools) improve their test scores, scholarships, and college choices.
7116 Paulson Dr.
Marengo, IL 60152
815-790-3313
ontocollege.com
S. M. Wilson is a full-service construction management, design/build and general contracting firm with offices in Edwardsville, IL and St. Louis, MO. Founded in 1921, S.M Wilson is dedicated to going above and beyond expectations for their clients by putting people first. The 100% employee-owned company is the nation's 20th largest builder of CMAR, PreK-12 schools.
221 1st Ave., Suite A
Edwardsville, IL 62025
314-791-0920
smwilson.com
Stifel Nicolaus assists districts that need to finance their building projects or cashflow shortages using bonds or the new county school sales tax.
501 N Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63102-2131
314-342-8488
stifel.comCorporate Members
Basic ITS is an innovative IT solutions company serving some of the region's leading healthcare providers, financial institutions, manufacturers, educational institutions, corporations, and nonprofits. We are rooted in the hometown values, personal relationships, and service model that are the foundation of what we started more than 30 years ago.
110 Harvey Ct
East Peoria, IL 61611-4800
Instead of a quiz-based approach, Beanstack uses competition, recognition, and proven gamification principles to motivate students to read and grow a school district's reading culture.
3100 Clarendon Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
317-460-0708
beanstack.comBurton Book Service
Since 2003, it has been my pleasure to partner with and assist educators across the country get the most value for their hard earned textbook dollars AND retrieve the most dollars for the textbooks they no longer need. My aim is to help good people do great things and achieve the extraordinary!
203 Leah Ct
Sycamore, IL 60178-3051
Catapult Learning, a division of FullBloom provides intervention programs for students and professional development solutions for teachers in K12 schools, executed by a team of experienced coaches. Our professional development services strengthen the capacity of teachers and leaders to raise and sustain student achievement. Our intervention programs support struggling learners with instruction tailored to the unique needs of each student. Across the country, Catapult Learning partners with 500+ school districts to produce positive outcomes that promote academic and professional growth. Catapult Learning is accredited by Cognia and has earned its 2022 System of Distinction honor.
150 Rouse Blvd., Suite 210
Philadelphia, PA 19112
630-536-4271
catapultlearning.com
Creating class lists just got easier! The process of allocating students into classes as they move from grade-to-grade is time-consuming and charged with emotion. Get it right and your school is setup for a fantastic year; get it wrong and student well-being and teacher satisfaction suffers - for an entire year. Class Solver eliminates bias and create more balanced classrooms for your teachers and students. Take the process into the digital age; no pink and blue sticky notes, charged teachers meetings, spreadsheets or white board lists. Create more balanced and harmonious classrooms in a fraction of the time. Class Solver provides unlimited requests for pairing or separating students and uses all the unique characteristics needed to create the best possible learning environments for students. Visit our website for more information and to request a personalized demonstration.
26 Fox Run Place
Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada R5G 0B1
204-471-4549
classsolver.com
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648 Trestle PT
Sanford, FL 32771-8200
Education Walkthrough helps K-12 instructional coaches, principals, and district leaders to observe, document, and share immediate feedback with teachers. Simply by walking into a classroom, leaders can observe their teachers, answer a few short questions and generate a PDF with all their feedback directly from their phone in less than 10 minutes. With over 15,000 completed walkthroughs, Education Walkthrough is on its way to improve teacher instruction and student learning.
600 West Drummond Place, Apt 315
Chicago, IL 60614
937-751-7199
educationwalkthrough.com
With the combination of trusted brands from S.P.I.R.E.®, Coach®, and Wordly Wise®, you’ll find solutions for every K-12 classroom challenge—from reading intervention and vocabulary instruction to targeted practice and standards-mastery for language arts—both in print and online.
80 Northwest Boulevard
Nashua, NH 03063
630-659-7130
eps.schoolspecialty.com
EvaluWise® is the single most effective digital tool for streamlining and improving the teacher evaluation process, regardless of the evaluation model you are using. This tool makes data entry as simple and easy as possible. Built from the ground up by administrators and teachers who understand the real-world demands of educators, EvaluWise® improves the accuracy, usefulness and effectiveness of all evaluation types.
2705 McDonough St
Joliet, IL 60436-9701
815-725-5510
evaluwise.org
Haddock Education Technologies is the premier reseller for Active Floor Anywhere Cart, Anthro, Audio Enhancement, Boxlight-Mimio, Blue Chalk Digital, Class VR, Earthwalk, FrontRow, Haven Lock, HoverCam, Lu Interactive Playgroun, MakerBot, Promethean, Recordex, TouchView and Vivitek products, professional development, service and support in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wyoming.
3821 N. Hillcrest Street
Bel Air, KS
573-275-1219
gohaddock.com
Coming soon!
510 Devonshire Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820-7306
Undergraduate school portraits; contemporary school portraits; special event and sports photography; yearbooks; student planners; ID cards.
3500 Snyder Ave., P.O. Box 1177
Sedalia, MO 65301-6871
800-821-7923
inter-state.com
The Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP) is a statewide cooperative of Illinois educational entities that aggregate buying power and expertise to procure technology products and services from quality vendor partners while providing valued communication and collaboration. ILTPP is an initiative of the Learning Technology Center (LTC) and contributes to the LTC's mission of building statewide capacity for educational change through technology-related professional learning, programs, initiatives, and support.
3358 Big Pine Trail
Champaign, IL 61822-1406
217-892-4637
iltpp.org
Founded in 1969, Moss prides itself on working with all levels of education to develop a CTE plan for the school. We can supply curriculum, equipment, technical support, and staff development to work toward a highly effect CTE goal. We know education by supporting all levels of schools across the state of Illinois and the upper mid-west. We partner with the best curriculum and training systems providers in the world to supply our customers with cost effective solutions that are good for the classroom teachers, students, and the school. By keeping the students as our focus, we help schools to realize successful CTE programs.
5408 NW 88th St #120
Johnston, IA 50131
812-787-0214
mossent.com
Play & Park Structures provides quality playground equipment and was the first to offer an Outdoor Creative Play & Learning system that brings standards-based activities to the playground and outdoor environments to support children's physical and mental development.
3602 -37th Avenue
Moline, IL 61265
309-339-0536
Coming soon!
812-201-3778
TinkRworks is a K-8 supplemental STEAM solution for educators that provides standards-rich curriculum and hands-on project kits designed to transform learners into innovators. Our vision is to transform learners into innovators and create opportunities for all children to envision themselves as future STEAM leaders by providing educators with quality resources to effectively deliver STEAM to their students.
501 West Lake St., Suite 106
Elmhurst, IL
We provide design and construction services for sports complexes, athletic fields, golf courses, golf practice facilities and military site improvements. We provide natural grass and synthetic turf solutions to meet your athletic needs. We have been in business since 2005 and have completed projects in more than 42 states. Contact us for more information and for a free consultation.
2101 North Main Street
East Peoria, IL 61611
309-691-4700
turfsolutionsgroup.com
Wagner Portrait Group believes in quality and quantity; we provide a wide range of services all which are professionally photographed to the highest standard ensuring you great pictures and lasting memories. We provide premium retouching which means we understand each picture is unique, and we don't just apply the same teeth whitening or skin smoothing filter to 1000 pictures and call it done. We take the time and effort to assess each picture individually and retouch it to your specifications.
11440 Olive Blvd, Ste 200
St. Louis, MO
3144968283
wagnerportraitgroup.com
Walsworth Yearbooks, the only family-owned yearbook publishers, is keeping the tradition strong and providing innovative ways to create a lasting book of memories.
1463 93rd St
West Des Moines, IA 50266-5012
619-300-5338
walsworth.com
Waterford.org combines the science of learning, the power of mentoring, and the promise of technology to help prepare every child for lifelong academic achievement.
4246 Riverboat Rd.
Taylorsville, UT 84123
317-362-9355
waterford.org