2009 Corporate Partners
The Council's mission is to assist chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an American education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life. This mission cannot be met without forging new collaborations. In today’s environment, success derives from working with and learning from diverse constituencies.
One such constituency is the business community. The Council has engaged this community by developing a corporate sponsorship program for interested partners, who have provided support for Council meetings throughout the year. To ensure appropriate representation, the Council offers tiered levels of partnerships. The tiered partnership approach provides businesses with a menu of options from which to choose and enables the Council to receive sponsorship support to operate its meetings, conferences, and forums.
2009 CCSSO Corporate Partnership and Sponsorship Opportunities
Communications Opportunities for Partners and Non-Partners
Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC) Associate Membership
Chiefline Media Kit 2009-2010
Chiefline Sponsorship Order Form
These companies do not reflect actual CCSSO endorsements nor do their views necessarily reflect the official position of CCSSO.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Worldwide Interactive Network (WIN) develops and delivers innovative learning systems via state initiatives and private sector deployments across the world. Formed in the mid '90's to address technology advances taking place in Education, Workforce Development, and Economic Development, WIN simplifies complex integration with common sense based e-technology for learning. WIN offers four distinct yet whole solution learning tools that offer LEAs/SEAs the ability to leap quickly into 21st century performance, learning with ease.
The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 5,200 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®). The College Board is committed to the principles of excellence and equity, and that commitment is embodied in all of its programs, services, activities, and concerns. For further information, visit www.collegeboard.com
Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) is a full-service provider of customized services for large-scale, statewide educational assessment programs. DRC has earned a reputation for excellence in serving the education industry and is dedicated to maintaining the highest level of quality in all of its products and services. Throughout more than 25 years of successful student achievement testing, DRC has developed and refined its processes to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
The Intel® Teach Program, part of the Intel® Education Initiative, engages both teachers and students in the development of 21st century skills and the integration of technology for teaching and learning. Courses are challenging, substantive, and immediately practical to teachers’ work, with independent research confirming measurable change in practice and high satisfaction of participants (www.intel.com/education/teach/ us_results.htm). Teachers and students collaborate, analyze the quality of information, problem-solve, and communicate using online resources and technology tools. Intel Teach is one of the many programs that support US competitiveness along with celebrating educational excellence with the Intel Schools of Distinction, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and Intel Science Talent Search. For more information about any of the Intel Education programs or free teacher tools and resources, please visit www.intel.com/education.
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.
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.
Renaissance Learning, Inc. is the world’s leading provider of computer-based testing technology for K-12 schools. Renaissance products provide daily formative assessment and monthly progress monitoring to enhance core curriculum, support differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in reading, writing, and math. Adopted by more than 71,000 North American schools, Renaissance Learning’s scientifically research-based products provide teachers and administrators with ongoing feedback to inform instruction, make data driven decisions, motivate students, and improve test scores.
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.
Dell is a leading IT solutions to K-12 schools and districts. The company is committed to helping students develop 21st century skills for the future, including learning and thinking, information and communications technology literacy and life skills. Dell’s solutions for K-12 schools help improve student achievement, teacher productivity, administrator effectiveness and community involvement. Learn more about Dell’s K-12 technology solutions, success stories and the latest technology trends at www.dell.com/k12.
For over 35 years Evans Newton Incorporated (ENI) has partnered with K12 schools and districts to improve student achievement. Employing a collaborative approach the partnership designs and implements a customized research based model for school improvement. TargetTeach is ENI’s proven model for school improvement and student achievement. Our trusted and adaptive systemic program is designed to improve school climate and instructional capacity. The combination of the program components and our expertise in implementation, professional development and coaching leads to increased measureable student achievement. Our program includes five critical components applied in a systemic manner for long-lasting change: Identify Instructional Goals, Align Curriculum to Standards, Fill the Gaps with quality, targeted curriculum materials, Incremental Testing that models high-stakes test exams, and Monitoring Student Progress to make early adjustments in a student’s program.
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.
Public Consulting Group combines more than 20 years of management consulting experience with significant K-12 educational domain expertise. PCG offers consulting services that help schools, school districts, and state departments of education across the U.S. and in Canada to achieve their performance goals and improve student outcomes.
Scantron helps educators meet NCLB requirements and raise the level of student achievement through a unique combination of standards-based formative assessment and computer-adaptive diagnostic testing. Standards-based formative assessment at the district and classroom levels, using Achievement Series software, is employed throughout the school year to monitor student progress and help guide instruction in preparation for high-stakes testing. Computer-adaptive diagnostic testing, via Performance Series software, is used periodically to measure gains and identify students who will most benefit from corrective instruction or enrichment activities.
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.
The Verizon Foundation connects our financial, technological and human resources with critical social issues that affect our employees, our customers, our communities and our world. We focus on the issues of education and literacy, and safety and health. Our work is done through strategic partnerships with nonprofit organizations, through informed grant-making that represents an investment in results, and through the exceptional volunteer spirit of Verizon's 224,000 employees. Our goal is to help people achieve the skills they need to live, learn and work in the 21st Century.
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).
