Corporate Partners

AdvancED
The world's leader in accreditation and school improvement, AdvancED believes that students must be prepared to succeed in a constantly-evolving and diverse world and that educational institutions have a deep responsibility to deliver quality education to students from all walks of life.
We have been experts in accreditation and school improvement since 1895, and bring this 100+ years of experience and expertise through three US-based accreditation agencies - the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC), and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI).
The AdvancED Accreditation Process, a protocol embraced around the world, is a clear and comprehensive program of evaluation and external review, supported by research-based standards, and dedicated to helping schools, school systems, and education providers continuously improve.
AdvancED is committed to sharing the knowledge and practice generated by schools throughout its global network to inform and influence practice on issues related to education quality.
Visit www.advanc-ed.org to learn more about AdvancED.

American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Established in 1946, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in the areas of health, education and workforce productivity. Well-known for its groundbreaking work in student testing and performance assessment, AIR is a global leader in P-20 education research, evaluation, technical assistance, and policy. For more information, visit http://www.air.org/.

Data Recognition Corporation
Founded in 1978, Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) delivers full-service, customized solutions for statewide assessment programs, including summative, interim/benchmark and formative assessments. The company’s DRC INSIGHT™ Online Learning System is a comprehensive assessment and reporting system that offers teachers a robust set of tools designed to assess performance, monitor growth and enhance instruction so that they can individually support students on their path of learning. For more information, visit www.datarecognitioncorp.com

ETS
At nonprofit ETS our mission is to advance quality and equity in education for all people worldwide. We help teachers teach, students learn, and parents measure the educational progress of their children. We do this by

• Listening to educators, parents, and critics
• Learning what students and their institutions need
• Leading in the development of new and innovative products and services

ETS customizes solutions to meet the need for teacher professional development products and services, classroom and end-of-course assessments, and research-based teaching and learning tools. Founded in 1947, ETS today develops, administers and scores more than 24 million tests annually in more than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide.

 Global Scholar

 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

HMH aims to spark a lifelong love of learning in every individual we touch. Our challenge and our passion is to combine cutting-edge research, editorial excellence and technological innovation to improve teaching and learning environments and solve complex literacy and education challenges. We are among the world's largest providers of pre-K-12 education solutions and one of its longest-established publishing houses. We deliver interactive, results-driven education solutions to 60 million students in 120 countries; and we publish renowned and awarded novels, non-fiction, children's books and reference works for readers throughout the world.

IQity
The IQity e-Learning Platform is a premier system of integrated tools that enable any national or regional educational organization, state education department, or school district to utilize a complete curriculum marketplace.

Filled with standards-aligned learning objects and courses, the IQity Platform is an unparalleled education emporium. Curriculum directors, administrators, teachers, and all educators can browse quality courses from multiple providers and select those that meet the unique needs of their class, school, district, region or state.

The IQity Platform provides multiple options and aspects available for each course selected with limitless combinations and tailoring. Choose thousands of selections to build a major program or just one to supplement a particular lesson plan.

Once selected, educators add options that meet unique needs and specific aspects. Courses can be customized and tailored to the requirements of an entire school district, a particular classroom or an individual student.

McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is a leading global provider of instructional content, assessments, and teaching and learning solutions to help meet the needs and challenges of today’s students, educators, and professionals. Our technical innovations are changing the way people learn — and continue to learn — with e-books, online learning platforms and programs, and customized course and professional development websites. McGraw-Hill’s products reach beyond the classroom to prepare students for success in a rapidly changing global environment and a lifetime of learning.

Pearson Education
Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education (www.pearsoned.com) is the global leader in integrated education publishing, providing research-based print and digital programs to students of all ages. With such renowned brands as Pearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Scott Foresman, Pearson Early Learning, Pearson Digital Learning, Pearson Learning Group, and many others, Pearson Education provides quality content, assessment tools, and educational services. Virtually all students and teachers in America learn from a Pearson program at some point in their educational career. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company.

Evaluation Systems Group of Pearson
The Evaluation Systems group of Pearson (formerly National Evaluation Systems) is the national leader in developing, delivering, and scoring state-specific teacher licensure tests. Since its inception in 1972, Evaluation Systems has developed both paper-based and computer-based tests in more than one hundred content fields and in the areas of professional teaching skills and the college-level skills of reading, writing, and mathematics. Evaluation Systems operates nationally—its contracts span the country—and has offices in Massachusetts, New York, Florida, Texas, and California.

Promethean
Promethean helps make educational transformation a reality by leveraging technology to provide data-driven, evidence-based instructional improvement systems. Our unique approach provides an integrated, scalable platform for real-time instruction, learner response, assessment, learning management, data analytics, collaboration and professional development. The award-winning Promethean ActivClassroom interactive learning platform works with any curriculum and has increased student achievement by an average of 16-29 percentile points (Marzano, 2010). ActivProgress (formerly LearningQube by SynapticMash) is a robust, standards-based assessment, data, analytics and collaboration system that provides immediate access to actionable data. #1 in Learner Response Systems, Promethean's proven solutions help to improve teacher and leader effectiveness, turn around low performing schools and prepare college and career ready students.

ACT
ACT is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides a broad array of assessment, research, information, and program management solutions in the areas of education and workforce development.

ACT's Mission is Helping people achieve education and workplace success. Each year, ACT serves millions of people in high schools, colleges, professional associations, businesses, and government agencies-nationally and internationally. ACT has offices across the United States and throughout the world.

 Apple
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.

Corwin Press

Corwin, a SAGE company, is a leading publisher of professional development books for PreK-12 educators and an innovative provider of workshops, seminars, and online training resources. We believe that every child deserves an excellent education and that we have a responsibility to contribute to that excellence by enhancing professional practice. We partner with authors, educators, and academics to bring the latest research and proven methods to schools through practical, hands-on materials.  Established in 1990 as an independent company, Corwin continues to carry out our mission of "Helping Educators Do Their Work Better" in everything we do.

Evans Newton Incorporated-Partnering with Schools for Student Success
Since 1973, the professionals at Evans Newton Incorporated (ENI) have been working with schools to improve student achievement using innovative, customized programs tailored to state objectives and standardized tests. Our TargetTeach® process has been used by schools and districts across the country to create dramatic improvement in student performance while empowering teachers and school leaders by establishing a research-based foundation for sustainable change.

ENI's vision is that our partner schools and districts will be widely regarded as premier educational organizations, the schools and districts of choice for students and adults to receive a quality learning and community experience, where leadership and high levels of student achievement result in students prepared for success in life, work, and higher education.

ENI is a company of educators, and education is our only business. ENI is a privately-held business dedicated to excellence in learning. For more information, visit www.EvansNewton.com

Intel Corporation
Intel's flagship Corporate Social Responsibility program, Intel® Teach, helps K-12 teachers of all subjects to learn to integrate technology effectively into their existing curriculum, focusing on their students' problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration which are precisely the 21st century skills required if students are to thrive in the high tech, networked society in which we live. Intel Teach helps teachers learn how to engage their students through project-based approaches, guide their teaching through ongoing assessments and encourage their students to be creators of knowledge. The Intel Teach Elements series of e-learning courses provide educators with flexible online and blended professional development. Online tools and resources for formative assessment and higher-order thinking are provided without charge www.intel.com/teachers. **Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

K12 Inc.
K12 Inc,. a technology-based education company, is the nation's largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online education programs for students in kindergarten through high school. K12 provides its innovative, award-winning curriculum and academic services to online public and private schools, school districts, and other education entities. K12 offers a wide variety of innovative education solutions including full time online schools, blended school programs, and supplemental courses.

Measured Progress
Not-for-profit, all for kids. Customized, integrated, full-service assessment, professional development, and instructional support for state and local educators. It’s all about student learning. Period.

Measurement Incorporated
Founded in 1980, Measurement Incorporated is an employee-owned company that provides a complete range of testing services, assessment technologies, technical assistance, and program evaluation services under contract to state and local education agencies and professional associations. Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, the company specializes in the development, administration, scoring, analysis, and reporting of large-scale, high-stakes testing programs.

A pioneer in the field of performance assessment, the company has established a distinctive competency in constructed response scoring using both highly-trained professionals and advanced artificial intelligence technology. MI’s corporate philosophy is built on an uncommon commitment to client satisfaction and its dedication to the overarching goal of “Excellence in Assessment.”

MetaMetrics
MetaMetrics, Inc., a privately held educational measurement company, develops scientifically based measures of student achievement that link assessment with instruction, foster better educational practices and improve learning by matching students with materials that meet and challenge their abilities. The company’s team of psychometricians developed the widely adopted Lexile Framework for Reading (www.Lexile.com); El Sistema Lexile para Leer, the Spanish-language version of the Lexile Framework; The Quantile Framework for Mathematics (www.Quantiles.com); and The Lexile Framework for Writing. In addition to licensing Lexile and Quantile measures to state departments of education, testing and instructional companies, and publishers, MetaMetrics delivers professional development, resource measurement and customized consulting services. For more information, visit www.MetaMetricsInc.com.

The Menta Group

The Menta Group NFP is a multi-faceted organization dedicated to providing empirically based innovative solutions to critical problems in education. We never give up and will not refuse any child.We believe every child can and will be successful and are committed to providing our nation's educators with the tools necessary to prepare students to be  productive members of a global society.

 Our system for training educators provides  them with  tools to create an optimal learning environment for student success, one that cultivates self-reflection, exploration, and engagement through problem solving and increased rigor. We provide school districts with educational program options that function on campus, off campus, and/or both on and off campus.  Through partnerships with stakeholders and districts, we design and provide creative educational opportunities that best suit the needs of ALL students preparing -them for a successful transition from school to life.

Northwest Evaluation Association
The Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping all kids learn. Founded in 1977 in Oregon, NWEA provides research-driven and scientifically-based assessment tools and services that help students identify and reach their aspirational learning goals.

NWEA provides partners (public and private schools, districts, state departments of education, educational programs, charter schools, and a variety of other educational agencies) with comprehensive and accurate data to inform important decisions about the academic growth of every child. NWEA’s flagship assessment is its family of Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments, which are state-aligned, computerized-adaptive tools that accurately reflect the instructional level of each student.

School Improvement Network
Founded in 1991 by teachers, the School Improvement Network provides the most innovative on-demand, comprehensive, research-based school improvement resources anytime, anywhere. As the home of PD 360, Observation 360, Common Core 360, The Video Journal of Education, Equity 360 and the Learning 360 Framework, the School Improvement Network suite of professional development school improvement tools focus on the most relevant topics, feature the top experts, and show educators and how to put theory into practice. Schools that use our resources have reading & math scores that are 75% to more than 500% higher than district averages. The School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world and has videotaped over 3,000 classrooms to document real classroom examples of best practices in action. Learn more at www.schoolimprovement.com.

TaskStream
At TaskStream, we provide the highest quality Web-based software and supporting services to efficiently plan and manage assessment and accountability processes, facilitate the demonstration of learning achievement, and foster continuous improvement.

Wilson Language Training
Wilson Language Training is dedicated to providing educators with the resources they need to help their students become fluent, independent readers. Wilson is a provider of professional development and research-based reading and spelling curricula for all ages. Its multisensory, structured curricula-the Wilson Reading System®, Wilson Fundations®, Wilson Just Words®, and Wilson Fluency®-have proven highly effective. Wilson also brings to the task two decades of professional development courses and ongoing teacher support. Partnering with public and private schools, as well as clinics and adult education centers across the country, Wilson strives toward its ultimate goal: literacy for all.

Cisco
At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception.

The College Board
The College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of more than 5,900 of the world's leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, the 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.

Discovery Education
Discovery Communications revolutionized television with Discovery Channel and is now transforming classrooms through Discovery Education. Powered by the number one nonfiction media company in the world, Discovery Education combines scientifically proven, standards-based digital media and a dynamic user community in order to empower teachers to improve student achievement. Already, more than half of all U.S. schools access Discovery Education digital services. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.

International Business Machines Corporation

IBM Global Education collaborates with schools, districts and state departments of education to create innovative business and technology solutions to enable continuous improvement in education.  We help to improve student success, teacher effectiveness and institutional performance through a depth of experience in consulting services, analytics, infrastructure and business partner offerings.  IBM provides our education clients with deep business process and industry expertise, using innovation to identify, create and deliver value faster.  We draw on the full breadth and depth of IBM capabilities to help you implement solutions designed to deliver sustainable improvement. 

Pearson's School Achievement Services
Pearson's School Achievement Services (SAS) provides professional assistance and support to teachers, principals, district and state leadership, and communities, enabling all students to meet high standards for college and career readiness. SAS consultants and teams partner with states, districts and schools to help them: 1) deliver evidence-based, schoolwide improvement and professional development services for districts wishing to transform, increase student achievement, and build educator capacity; 2) consult on education issues such as transitioning to the Common Core State Standards, Race to the Top measures, and other federal, state, or local policy-driven initiatives; and, 3) increase educator effectiveness and career growth through technology-supported systems, tools and processes.

Questar Assessment, Inc.
Success By Your Standards®. Since 1976, Questar Assessment, Inc. has been a leading educational assessment provider for states, schools, and school districts and has successfully implemented numerous large-scale assessment programs. Headquartered in Minnesota and New York, Questar is a full-service testing company with wide-ranging expertise - from statewide grades 3-8, high school, English language proficiency, and alternate programs to standardized district assessments. Questar's end-to-end services are designed to address all aspects of assessment from test design, development, and psychometric services to print production, distribution, scanning, scoring, reporting, and data analysis. Questar also offers customized online testing services to schools and educational entities in the K-12 market. Whatever the size or complexity, our expert team will meet and exceed your expectations for program quality, cost-effectiveness, on-time delivery, and flexibility to meet current and changing federal and state requirements.

Renaissance Learning, Inc.
Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a leading provider of technology-based school improvement and student assessment programs for K12 schools. Adopted by more than 70,000 schools, Renaissance Learning's tools provide daily formative assessment and periodic progress-monitoring technology to enhance core curriculum, support differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in reading, writing and math. Renaissance Learning products and school improvement programs help educators make the practice component of their existing curriculum more effective by providing tools to personalize practice and easily manage the daily activities for students of all levels. As a result, teachers using Renaissance Learning products and programs accelerate learning, get more satisfaction from teaching, and help students achieve higher test scores on state and national tests. Renaissance Learning has seven U.S. locations and subsidiaries in Canada and the United Kingdom.

SAS
SAS Institute is a leader in advanced analytics for K-12 solutions. Using SAS, administrators can consolidate, report, and analyze data to make proactive, data-driven decisions and determine probable future outcomes.

SAS EVAAS for K-12 is the most comprehensive reporting package of value-added metrics available, offering valuable diagnostic information about past practices and predicting student success probabilities at numerous academic milestones. With all this information at hand, educators can proactively make sound instructional choices and use their resources more strategically to ensure that every student has the opportunity to succeed.

SAS also philanthropically delivers online curriculum resources with a proven impact on increasing student learning and teaching effectiveness - at no cost to public, virtual, and home schools. SAS Curriculum Pathways offers hundreds of Web-based curriculum supplements in all of the core disciplines, which are aligned to each state's standards and the Common Core State Standards.

Scholastic
Scholastic is the most trusted name in learning with a brand that is synonymous with quality. Scholastic Education provides technology solutions and supplemental programs that support student achievement in PreK-12. Grounded in scientific research, Scholastic Education develops technology programs and services that include intervention, instruction, universal screening, assessment, data management and professional development. Scholastic Achievement Partners-the professional services arm of Scholastic Education-brings together the International Center for Leadership in Education, Math Solutions, and Scholastic's Implementation Services team to offer a full range of professional services in human capital development across content areas, comprehensive school improvement, and program implementation.

Texas Instruments
As a leader in developing graphing handhelds, Texas Instruments Educational and Productivity Solutions, a business of Texas Instruments, is an education technology leader. For nearly 20 years, we have worked closely with leading educators in the design of our educational technology, training programs and support materials that enrich the math and science classroom learning experience worldwide. Our mission-provide essential tools that help teachers create an engaging learning experience leading to higher student achievement in math and science. Our vision-all students inspired to achieve their potential and become the innovators of tomorrow.

Wireless Generation
Wireless Generation has pioneered the adaptation of mobile technologies for use in managing and improving teaching and learning in grades pre-K-12. Combining emerging mobile tools, such as handheld computers and digital pens, with the Web and high touch, in-person professional services, Wireless Generation has developed offerings that streamline collection of data about student learning needs and school operations, facilitate data analysis and interpretation, and build educators’ ability to implement data-driven instructional programs that deliver improved outcomes for children. Studies on the mCLASS system have found that the handheld assessments save teachers considerable time over paper-based assessments, and enable teachers to identify and reflect on students’ strengths, understand their skill mastery and progress towards specific benchmarks, to plan differentiated instruction, and to evaluate their own performance as teachers (Mandinach, Honey, Light, Heinze, & Nudell, 2005; Sharp, 2004). Other studies suggest that handheld assessment tools can enable teachers to think in deeper and more substantive ways about their students’ progress (Brunner & Honey, 2001; Hupert, Martin, Heinze, Kanaya, & Perez, 2004; Penuel & Yarnall, 2005; Sharp & Risko, 2003).