Our partners offer innovative products and services to improve the educational experience of students and address the challenges facing school districts.

Learn more about the sponsors, and be sure to visit their pods at your next CoSN event.

 

For 13 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Whether it’s your first day in your cloud journey or you have a cloud-first strategy, AWS has a solution to facilitate teaching and learning, launch student analytics initiatives and manage IT operations.  AWS offers over 165 fully featured services and delivers a set of compute, storage, database, analytics, robotics, augmented reality and application deployment services that lowers costs, scales applications, responds quickly in emergencies and meets the ever-changing needs of the modern student.  Millions of customers, including over 9,000 academic institutions, over 4,000 government agencies, 19 of the top 20 most well-funded US Education Technology startups (FN1) and 96% of R1 Research Institutions trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com and to learn more about AWS in Education, visit aws.amazon.com/education.

 

ENA delivers comprehensive connectivity, communication, cloud, security, and software solutions supported by exceptional customer care to education and library institutions across the nation. In 2018, ENA joined forces with CatchOn, a user-friendly data analytics tool that enables school districts to make data-informed decisions about the apps and online tools their educators and students are using. Collectively, ENA and CatchOn leverage their respective resources and expertise to deliver critical services and solutions to America’s community anchor institutions. 

For more information, please visit www.ena.com or www.catchon.com,  call 866-615-1101, or email info@ena.com.

 

Resources: ENA Customer Success Story: Florida's School District of Clay County (PDF) | ENA TrustCompute—Next Gen Computing and Virtual Data Center Services for Education and Libraries (PDF) 

 

 

Education is more than students sitting in a classroom. The expansion in Internet connectivity and the use of mobile devices has transformed learning and schools. The right technology is essential to support today’s challenging learning environment. Microsoft’s solutions for teaching and e-learning with Windows 8, Office 365, Lync, and SharePoint are fueling innovation and the future of learning.

 

 

As a member of the Dell Technologies unique family of businesses, Dell EMC serves a key role in providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transfrom IT, and protect their most important asset, information. Dell EMC enables our enterprise customers' IT and digital business transformation through trusted hybrid cloud and big- data solutions, built upon a modern data center infrastructure that incorporates industry- leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage, and cybersecurity technologies. Dell EMC brings together Dell's and EMC respective strong capabilities and complementary portfolios, sales teams and R&D. We seek to become the technology industry's most trusted advisor, providing capabilities spanning strategy development, consultative services and solution deployment and support to help our customers and partners drive the digital transformation of their businesses. 

Google for Education: Education is at the core of Google's mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." We want to help make learning possible for everyone, anywhere. With devices and tools built for the classroom, students and teachers can spend more time exploring, connecting, creating - together. Technology will play a vital role in equipping this generation of students with the skills they'll need to thrive in the workforce of today and tomorrow. That is why we support collaborative learning in communities around the world, and why we continue to invest heavily in education programs and partnerships: so students can do cool stuff that matters.

From early childhood education through high school, there has never been a more exciting or challenging time to be a member of the educational community. Just over the last few years, for example, the Internet and wireless computing capabilities have dramatically changed the learning environment. HP understands and appreciates the needs and challenges of the educational arena. With its longstanding commitment to education and a demonstrated ability to consistently deliver high-quality, affordable, technology products, services and solutions, HP is uniquely qualified to help transform schools and institutions into a 21st Century learning environment.

Designed for teachers and how they want to teach, itslearning is a cloud-based learning platform used by millions of teachers, students, administration staff and parents around the world. It can be found at all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, helping teachers make education more inspiring and valuable for today’s students. At itslearning, we pride ourselves on understanding the needs of education. More than 20% of our employees have worked as teachers, and we can often be found in the classroom, learning from teachers. We provide a full range of strategic services, from simple training sessions to full-scale implementation projects. Established in 1999, itslearning is headquartered in Bergen, Norway, and has offices in multiple locations around the world.

 

At Pearson, learning outcomes are at the heart of everything we do. From our assessment platforms to our customized assessment services and solutions, we partner with educators, states, and districts to develop new, personalized ways of learning. 

 

Resources: Explore the opportunities in the future of assessment | Learn strategies to boost student engagement and connections in your school or district | Increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

CDW•G is a leading provider of technology and solutions to schools, with a mission of delivering engaging, collaborative and interactive learning environments, while securing networks and optimizing data centers. Our team of dedicated account managers and solution architects can help with assessment and pre-configuration to implementation and ongoing support. CDW•G solution areas include: classroom technology, cloud computing, data center optimization, networking, power and cooling, printers, security, software, storage, total mobility management, unified communications, and virtualization. For details, call 800.808.4239 or visit CDWG.com/k12.

 

 

 

Clever wants to improve education through the use of technology. Clever was created by people who knew first hand that schools, teachers, and students could all benefit from the amazing learning software that was available, but key challenges stood in the way of accessing the technology. We eliminate roadblocks for our users by making it easy to find software, automating the setup of new applications, and giving students one-click access to their personalized resources. We give teachers time to teach, help districts be better informed, and make using applications in the classroom effortless.

 

Since 1992, FileWave has provided education, enterprise, and government institutions around the world with enterprise level cross-platform systems and mobile device management software to assist IT teams throughout the entire lifecycle process of imaging, deployment, management and maintenance. FileWave’s all-in-one, highly scalable software solves the many challenges of managing a diverse and growing population of users, devices, and content by ensuring IT teams have a comprehensive solution that supports both client (desktop) and mobile devices across Mac, Windows, iOS and Android.

With FileWave, IT teams can efficiently secure and support their organizations from one easy-to-use console, making even the most daunting projects, such as BYOD or large 1:1 initiatives, manageable and highly effective.

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Resources: What is FileWave? | Case Study: Mooresville Graded School District (PDF)

IT Security is in the forefront of the minds of school officials. Data breaches, website defacement, viruses, malware, compliance, even DDoS attacks impact education organizations across the P-20 learning environment.

Fortinet, the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, positions schools, colleges, and libraries to be able to respond rapidly to a sophisticated IT cyber-threat landscape. Fortinet’s consolidated approach to network security provides unparalleled performance and ease of management, coupled with significant savings. Strengthened by the industry's highest level of threat research, intelligence, and analytics from FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet delivers best-in-class protection to provide the safest and most secure digital learning environments.

Fortinet offers many products and services that are eligible under the E-Rate program, including: Wireless Access Points, Unified Threat Management/Next Generation Firewalls, Network Switches, and Caching solutions. Fortinet’s UTM/NGFWs are CIPA compliant.

Learn why the P-20 arena looks to Fortinet to protect their most valuable assets: students and staff: www.fortinet.com/education

 

Resources: Meeting CIPA Compliance with Fortinet (PDF) | Security without Compromise: Secure Your Digital Learning Environment at Every Network Entry Point (PDF

 

 

 

Identity Automation is a leading provider of scalable Identity Management software to education. Its solution, RapidIdentity, helps educational organizations quickly build streamlined security foundations, whether deployed on premises or in the cloud. RapidIdentity's architecture uniquely supports fast deployments at any scale, contributing to rapid returns and lower total costs of ownership.

 

 

Kajeet, the only wireless service provider dedicated to kids and education, is bridging the digital divide in schools. The Kajeet SmartSpot^TM is a portable Wi-Fi hotspot with school-managed off- campus Internet connectivity. Giving teachers or administrators the ability to set access hours and filter out non- educational content, the Kajeet Sentinel^® platform connects students to essential academic resources on the Internet anytime, anywhere. The SmartSpot is compatible with all devices students use today and is 100% compliant with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). For more information, please visit us at http://kajeet.net.

 

Resources: Closing the Homework Gap: A Guide to Increasing Student Success with Home Connectivity (e-Book) | Best Practices Guide for Education Broadband Deployments

Lightspeed Systems works with schools to make learning safe, mobile and easily managed. Partnered with 6,500 districts in the United States and 25,000 schools around the world, Lightspeed Systems offers integrated solutions for smarter K-12 school networks: Relay, Web Filter, Mobile Manager and Classroom. 

 

PowerSchool provides student information systems, learning management and classroom collaboration, assessment, analytics, behavior, and special education case management. As well as student registration, school choice, and finance/HR/ERP.

 

SAFARI Montage provides K–12 school districts with a fully integrated Digital Learning Platform, including a Learning Object Repository, Video Streaming Library, and IPTV & Live Media Streaming, designed to handle video efficiently.

 

Schoology is the go-to platform for K-12 education putting collaboration at the heart of learning. The easy-to-use LMS connects the people, content, and systems that fuel education. Millions of students, faculty, and administrators from over 60,000 K-12 schools use Schoology to shape learning experiences and improve students outcomes. Find us online, follow us on Twitter, or join us on Facebook.

 

 

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At Promethean, our goal is to reimagine and reinvent educational technology solutions to create the dynamic environments, communities, and tools that empower teachers and motivate students to learn.

For over 20 years, learning has been, and always will be what fuels our passions. It represents the highest order contribution that we can make to improving the societies in which we live. We believe that the purpose of technology is not simply about automating the teaching and learning process, but to inspire and empower every student. 

At Promethean, our goal is to reimagine and reinvent educational technology solutions to create the dynamic environments, communities, and tools that empower teachers and motivate students to learn.