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PCC-IT International Awarded 39 PEPPM Contracts
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PCC-IT International has been awarded 39 PEPPM contracts for a wide array of products utilized by K-12, higher education, state and local government IT/technology departments. Its cutting-edge solutions are designed to help education, state and local government technology directors, IT managers, IT directors, procurement and network administrators, to maximize the impact of their initiatives. Its products provide a unique combination of features that streamline processes and improve outcomes, and are designed to increase productivity and efficiency, while driving down costs. The solutions are sure to excite end users offering them a reliable and intuitive way to achieve their goals. The company is passionate about providing the highest quality of services and products to customers, and it looks forward to helping you reach your objectives for 2023/2024. PEPPM is a cooperative purchasing
By Amy Vitala, Ed.D., MobileMind Tired of cobbling together disjointed tech tools to facilitate PD? Sick of using clunky platforms to build teacher training? Yeah, so were we. We get the chaos and frustration that often come with trying to create and manage all live and virtual PD for various groups of educators and staff. So, we created the most modern and joyful professional learning hub built just for educators. Districts easily create and manage differentiated PD, training events, digital badges and more in a simple and beautiful hub that teachers and leaders actually love using. When we asked Arlington ISD, a MobileMind district, how their teachers were doing with MobileMind, Technology Integration & Innovation Coordinator, Jessica Mays, responded, “Since we started using MobileMind, I have not heard a single negative thing, and that’s pretty remarkable.” She continued, “It has increased our capacity to help our teachers and staff. Without MobileMind, it is hard to provide the individualized support that you want to provide with so many
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Amplify Acquires Desmos Curriculum to Build the Future of Math Instruction
Teaching Strategies Launches First-of-its-Kind Coaching App
Amplify, a next-generation publisher of curriculum and assessment, announced that it has acquired the curriculum and instructional technology of Desmos, the acclaimed developer of digital math tools and curriculum. The deal is the culmination of a close partnership between Amplify and Desmos over the past two years. Desmos’ world-renowned calculators will remain independent as part of a separate Public Benefit Corporation called Desmos Studio that will focus on the development of free, best-in-class online calculators and other tools. The Amplify and Desmos curriculum teams will now deeply integrate the technology and content they’ve both been developing and piloting for several years. The resulting combined program, based on IM K–12 Math™, will bring together Amplify’s proven ability to deliver the highest quality STEM curriculum to millions of students, and the groundbreaking digital tools and instructional approach of Desmos. Desmos technology will also power new modes of creative, collaborative learning in the next generation of Amplify’s science and literacy core programs. Now a part of Amplify, teacher.desmos.com will be called Desmos Classroom and will continue to provide free lesson-building tools and lessons to teachers around the world. Users can expect more instructional content, professional learning resources, and classroom learning tools, continuing to enhance Desmos
Teaching Strategies, a leading developer of early childhood curriculum, assessment, professional learning and family engagement solutions, announced the acquisition of Noni Educational Solutions, a trauma-focused edtech start-up that has developed a groundbreaking, app-based resource designed to support preschool-5th grade teachers working with children who have been impacted by trauma. The solution, called noni™ for Teachers, was developed in partnership with Adventist HealthCare The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness, a pioneer in research on best practices for supporting children impacted by trauma and adverse childhood experiences. “Even prior to the pandemic, more than twothirds of children had experienced at least one traumatic event by the age of 16,” said Jimmy Venza, Ph.D., Child Psychologist and Executive Director of the Lourie Center. “In the aftermath of these past two years and the resulting stresses placed on families and children, that statistic is only likely to worsen.” “Now more than ever, teachers need and deserve our support for trauma-informed instruction and coaching,” said Teaching Strategies Chief
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Newline Interactive Announces the DV Series – An All-in-One Direct View LED Display Newline Interactive, the leading provider of quality interactive displays and collaboration solutions, announced the release of its large new format Direct View LED display, the DV Series. The Newline DV Series is an all-inone Direct View LED display that combines innovative technology with seamless design. Available in sizes 120", 150" and 180", the Newline DV Series adopts a sleek bezel-less display area and lightweight design with a 19.8mm cabinet mounted to a 6mm ultrathin frame. In addition, the all-inone design integrates power supplies, speakers, control systems and signal processing to streamline installation and reduce maintenance efforts. Weighing 50% less than conventional LED products and utilizing a centralized power supply that reduces power consumption, the DV Series also boasts exceptional brightness levels and color reproduction, ensuring vivid and captivating visuals in any lighting condition. Advanced 24-bit
color processing technology, 3840 Hz high refresh rate and image calibration ensures that the solution delivers an unparalleled visual performance. “We are so excited to enter the Large format Direct View LED market with this new series,” said Ty Hall,
DV Series is the perfect solution for businesses and educational institutions looking for high-quality large format LED displays over 100 inches. The DV Series brings simplicity, high performance and value to a product segment previously known for high cost and complicated solutions.” Newline Interactive’s DV Series is available to purchase now. Find out more information and how to place an order for the Newline DV Series at newline-interactive.com/usa/products/dvseries/. About Newline Interactive Headquartered in Allen, Texas, Newline Interactive is a leading supplier of interactive touch screens and innovative software that increases productivity and enables collaboration. Newline Interactive develops products that help organizations in a wide range of vertical markets including financial services, education, healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, municipalities and legal services.
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Internet Safety Labs Awarded $500K Grant to Continue Research on K-12 EdTech Safety Internet Safety Labs, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent software product safety testing, announced that it has been awarded a $499,378 grant by the Internet Society Foundation. The Foundation funds initiatives that strengthen the Internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. This is the second grant received by Internet Safety Labs (ISL) from the Internet Society Foundation. The grant will allow ISL to continue its research into the safety of K12 EdTech in the United States. This project is a direct extension of ISL’s “2022 K12 Edtech Safety Benchmark – Part 1.” The report made headlines for its findings that nearly all school apps (96 percent) share children’s personal information with third parties, 78 percent of the time with advertising or monetization entities. Through the analysis of data collected from 663 schools, covering more than 455,000 students across all 50 states, ISL determined that these technologies recommended and used by U.S. educational institutions pose substantial privacy and safety risks to children
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and families. The new deliverables will make the full scope of the data available to the public in two ways. First, ISL will publish interactive charts and graphs that will provide an in-depth look at the school apps’ scores and EdTech practices. This will include state-bystate and school-byschool breakdowns of the previously collected EdTech safety data, compared to the national average. ISL will also assign “safety labels” to all 1,700-plus EdTech apps included in its research. This will allow the public to see the privacy and data collection risks in the apps. “Our mission is to objectively measure and publish the safety of connected, software-driven technologies so that people and communities are safe from unreasonable harm,” said Lisa LeVasseur, Executive Director of Internet Safety Labs. “This is currently a missing discipline in the world. With the ISOC Foundation’s support, we strive to publish research that simultaneously educates all people on the potential risks of technolo-
For more information, go to www.newline-interactive.com, call 888.233.0868, email sales@newline-interactive.com or stop by booth #2924. gy, and be a change agent, stimulating technology developers to produce safer software.” Internet Safety Labs endeavors to answer a number of new research questions through validation testing, in addition to its ongoing analysis of the K12 EdTech Safety Benchmark data. • From the perspective of consumers, is software being tested for safety before being made commercially available? If so, by whom? • Is the ISL product safety label useful to consumers? How would they use it? • From the perspective of technology producers, is safety testing being performed on their software? • Do these technology producers think their software can harm people? Do they believe safety testing should be performed on their software? “We’re excited to support Internet Safety Lab’s second phase of this project to further examine the safety of K12 EdTech in the United States, which directly aligns with our mission to ensure that the Internet is open, connected, secure and trustworthy for all,” said Maiko Nakagaki, Program Officer from the Internet Society Foundation. Internet Safety Labs invites experts, business leaders and individuals interested in advancing standards
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for software product safety and ethical Internet practices to visit its website to learn more about how to work with ISL. About Internet Safety Labs Internet Safety Labs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent software product safety testing organization, unrelentingly on the side of consumers and their safety. Through standards development, product research, product audits and policy advocacy, it works to ensure software product safety. About The Internet Society Foundation The Internet Society Foundation was established in 2019 to support the positive difference the Internet can make to people everywhere. Guided by its vision of an Internet for Everyone, the foundation champions ideas and enables communities to unlock the Internet’s potential to tackle the world’s evolving challenges. Focusing in five core program areas, the foundation awards grants to Internet Society Chapters as well as non-profit organizations and individuals dedicated to providing meaningful access to an open, globally-connected, secure and trustworthy Internet for everyone. For more information, go to www .internetsafetylabs.org.
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people at so many different levels.” Over a third of the MobileMind team are former educators. We understand how teachers and administrators are stretched thin, lack resources and are exhausted with the demands of the last few years. Adriane Ellis, Instructional Technology Director at Murray County Schools, once stated, “I Amplify (Cont’d. from p. 1)
Classroom as the most powerful free resource for math educators. “We have admired Desmos for more than a decade, watching them sail from strength to strength on a current of excellence and teacher enthusiasm. The past two years of working closely together reinforced a shared vision for improving math education,” said Larry Berger, Amplify’s Chief Executive Officer. “We will now merge our math curriculum development efforts, with the goal of building a new kind of teaching and learning experiTeaching Strategies (Cont’d. from p. 1)
Executive Officer John Olsen. “We’re excited to welcome Noni Educational Solutions to the Teaching Strategies family. noni for Teachers fills a gap not met by any other solution in the market and gives educators the tools and support they need to care for children impacted by trauma and help them regulate behavior so they can learn.” noni for Teachers is an appbased digital coach and collection of classroom teaching resources that guide teachers through providing trauma-informed instruction. The app uses real-time responsive technology, serving up immediate guidance based on teacher input and giving teachers the ability to track and even predict child behaviors that stem from exposure to toxic stress and adverse childhood experiPCC-IT International (Cont’d. from p. 1)
organization providing contract holders with the ability to directly sell to public sector organizations, departments and agencies while complying with internal and government regulations requiring competitive bids. This is accomplished by competitive bidding prior to contract award, thereby providing public sector organizational compliance with local, state and federal regulations without having to incur the costs and time investment required to compose, assemble, market and determine outcomes of public and non-public bids. PCC-IT International, ranked among the top five resellers in the category nationwide for 2023, as well
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don’t know if I would have survived these past two years without MobileMind. It was a no-brainer for us to streamline our training.” Districts across the country are consolidating all of their professional learning efforts in the most straightforward, beautiful hub – built just for educators. “I used to manage three to four different things just to get PD sign-ups. Now we have it all in one place in
MobileMind,” expressed Royse City ISD’s Executive Director of Learning Technology.
ence that helps every student love learning math and gain access to math’s power and beauty.” Desmos Studio will become a separate Public Benefit Corporation led by original Founder and Chief Executive Officer Eli Luberoff, and will continue to build and grow the Desmos suite of calculators and other tools, and the community that relies on them. The calculators will remain free to teachers and students globally and available for companies to license for use in their products. Its partnerships with over 75 organizations around the world will provide
Desmos Studio with the resources to continue intensive research and development around Desmos calculators and other tools long into the future. “We chose this unique deal with Amplify because, in our years working together, it’s become clear that Amplify shares our pedagogical vision and our commitment to quality, and recognizes what’s made Desmos special. We know that Amplify’s exceptional team can help us continue to improve while bringing our curriculum and activities to as many teachers and students as possible,” said Eli
Luberoff, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Desmos. “As an independent entity, Desmos Studio will continue to improve the calculators that teachers and students know and love. The Desmos calculator is now embedded in math classrooms across the world, and for that reason should be managed as a resource for the public good, which means keeping it free for educators and students while continuously improving it for years to come.”
ences. “We know from decades of research on working with young children who have been exposed to adverse childhood experiences that the teacher-child relationship can actually act as a buffer against the negative impact of trauma,” said Kaileé Berke, co-Founder of Noni Educational Solutions and an author of many of Teaching Strategies’ curriculum and assessment resources. “Having personally experienced traumatic circumstances as a young child, and eventually teaching and caring for young children who had also had exposure to adverse childhood experiences, I know firsthand what teachers face as students return to the traditional classroom. Addressing the lifelong mental and physical challenges that can result from trauma is essential to a student’s success, and we must ensure our educators have
the support to do so.” The app also provides intervention and prevention plans, whole-class guidance, support for partnering with families of trauma-impacted children, built-in teacher professional development around trauma and adverse childhood experiences, and resources that address teachers’ own self-care and mental wellness. The app and teaching resources will be available for immediate purchase by schools and programs. It seamlessly joins Teaching Strategies’ family of solutions to support socialemotional learning in early childhood education including The Creative Curriculum®, Al’s Pals™, GOLD®, ReadyRosie®, and professional development courses.
foundation for success in school and in life, Teaching Strategies has been an advocate for the early education community for over 40 years. Today, Teaching Strategies connects teachers, children and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, informative data, stronger family partnerships, and professional learning through the leading early learning platform and resources. Its products, including the most widely-used curriculum and assessment solutions The Creative Curriculum and GOLD, are found in over 270,000 classrooms and reach over 2 million children each year. To learn why thousands of early childhood programs and many states choose to partner with Teaching Strategies to help ensure children’s success in school and in life, visit www .teachingstrategies.com and follow on Twitter @TeachStrategies.
as the No. 2 reseller nationwide in 2021 by the world’s largest IT products distributor is a value-added reseller, systems integrator and applications customization provider. They are a source for more than 1.2 million products from 120+ industry manufacturers and solutions partners including Samsung, Lenovo, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM/Red Hat and HP/HPE among many others. The team of more than 200 experts provides a wide array of customized services and solutions, including AI development and programming, coding and programming for most operating systems, software and app development, data management and analytics, cloud migration, ERP and management, Infinite Campus, Genesis and Clever customization, as
well as comprehensive warranty and maintenance brand agnostic coverage of current and legacy systems. PEPPM is one of the largest cooperative purchasing groups in the country, offering every K-12 and higher education, state and local government agency in the nation access at no cost to complete piggybackable contract solutions designed to lower acquisition costs through guaranteed pricing. Competitively bid contracts awarded by two public educational agencies, and accessible by any K-12, higher education or state/local government agencies across the United States, PCC-IT International’s contracts with PEPPM, including its 40th partnered contract, enable buyers to acquire virtually any of its 1.2 million products and services.
We’d love to show you why educators describe MobileMind as: • “a no-brainer for us” (Adriane E, Director of Instructional Technology, GA) • “our one-stop-shop where everything lives.” (Dana G, PL Director, Texas)
About Teaching Strategies Driven by research that shows a child’s first eight years form a critical
• “addictive” (Amy M. Teacher, CT) So, if you’re a district leader who is ready to modernize and streamline all your PD efforts into a single hub, stop by booth #3824 on Thursday, January 25, from 3:30-5:30 to have a drink on us and learn more about the only modern professional learning hub for schools! For more information, go to www .mobilemind.io or stop by booth #3824.
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PEPPM routinely posts prices, regular updates and employs a third-party accounting firm to review pricing. The contracts are written in such a way that utilization of federal funds, including e-rate, Title V and carryback relief is facilitated through the utilization of uniform guidance language rules providing regulations compliance. Dedicated assistance and support for education and government customers is provided by PCC-IT International in partnership with PEPPM, as you proceed through the purchasing process. All PEPPM pricing and award agreements are posted online at www .peppm.org. For more information, email clientservices @itpccit.com, call 844.722.4846, visit www .itpccit.com or stop by booth #2351.