Learning Forward’s mission is to build the capacity of leaders to establish and sustain highly effective professional learning. Learning Forward is the only association devoted exclusively to advancing professional learning to improve educator practice and student achievement. Learning Forward has more than 75,000 subscribers who represent every position in the education field. In addition, Learning Forward has more than 30 state-affiliated organizations that help to spread and scale our work. Learning Forward established the Standards for Professional Learning to support school systems in planning, organizing, and implementing comprehensive systems of professional learning. Learning Forward publishes research-based, practical tools for educational leaders, and organizes large-scale learning experiences. We provide direct assistance to school districts by facilitating large-scale programs for developing leaders, coaches, and teachers. Learning Forward convenes and facilitates communities of practice that share common challenges and collaborate to overcome problems and advance the state of practice and the field. We excel in supporting school districts and organizations to develop cultures of learning and improvement.
Learning Forward’s work with educators at all levels within a system is grounded in a theory of action that standards-based professional learning leads to changes in educator knowledge, skills, and dispositions. This leads to changes in educator practice, which in turn leads to improved student results.
InnovateEDU is a non-profit whose mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap by accelerating innovation in standards aligned, next generation learning models and tools that serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning. Initiatives include Project Unicorn, a nationwide movement powered by a coalition of organizations across the education sector focused on the goal to optimize and radicalize education data with interoperability; and the Educating All Learners Alliance, an uncommon coalition of organizations committed to resource sharing and community-building that supports the efforts of the education community to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
1EdTech Consortium, formerly IMS Global Learning Consortium, is the world’s leading edtech collaborative with over 700 institution and supplier members across K-12, Higher Education, and Workforce. 1EdTech is a leading-edge community engaged in the hard work of developing, extending, and sustaining an open, interoperable edtech ecosystem (and data standards) currently consisting of over 7,000 products to address some of education’s most important needs over the next decade:
Accelerating best-in-class, safe digital learning experiences for all teachers and learners
Enabling personalized learner journeys
Improving student success, retention, and outcomes, and
Boosting K-to-Career achievement, opportunity, and employment.
SIIA is the principal trade association for the software information and digital content industry representing more than 450 technology companies. Our members partner with educational institutions to develop and deliver software applications, digital instructional content, online learning services, and related technologies to enhance learning outcomes of all students.
Our mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential in their own way. With more than two decades of experience delivering innovative, best-in-class education technology, we connect students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes.
From the office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool provides K-12 schools and districts with one place to go to securely manage all operations, support staff from hire to retire, and provide students with data-driven personalized education designed to develop lifelong learners from Kindergarten to high school and beyond.
Today we’re proud to be the leading provider of K-12 software solutions supporting 45 million students in over 90 countries.
edWeb.net is a free professional learning and social network that makes it easy for educators to collaborate, share innovative ideas, and improve teaching and learning. We provide the online professional learning and support educators need to advance their practice, build better schools, and prepare students for life-long learning and success.
Overview: Over 50% of secondary students struggle with research and aren’t ready for college writing. Scrible is the most advanced platform ever built to tackle this crisis and help students, teachers and librarians through the research and writing process. Students use powerful tools to scaffold and organize their work in 1 place instead of juggling multiple tools. Educators get real-time access to student work and progress monitoring that enables timely feedback and support. Scrible is partnered and integrated with Google, Microsoft, Canvas, ClassLink and Clever and was awarded the Supes’ Choice Award for College & Career Readiness by superintendents across the country.
Broad Use: Scrible supports learning across multiple content areas (e.g. ELA, social studies, science, foreign language), programs (e.g. AP Capstone, IB), support areas (e.g. SPED, ELL), project types (e.g. science fair, National History Day) and initiatives (e.g. personalized learning, project based learning, writing across the curriculum).
Digital Respons-Ability is a mission-based company that teaches tens of thousands of students digital citizenship through classroom based experiential learning. They also teach digital parenting classes to thousands of parents across Utah. Digital Respons-Ability makes sure their curriculum is adaptive and works closely with at-risk students, foster parents, school counselors, therapists and more on how to prevent digital violence. They developed their own research-based curriculum on digital citizenship and teach other educators on how to instruct on this topic. Their work is featured in the academic title from Rowman & Littlefield: Digital Citizenship: Teaching Strategies and Practice from the Field.
Since 2005, Five Star has partnered with school districts to support transformative learning experiences through the use of technology. Our solutions include strategic planning for leaders, professional development for educators, and a focus on data-based decision-making. Our experienced leaders, training specialists, engineers, and developers are passionate about creating innovative products and support services to address the specific needs and expectations of school districts. Five Star is also a Google for Education specialized Professional Development and Transformation Services partner.
Innovations4Education provides coaching services for emerging and growing educational technology companies, and helps them execute critical go-to-market strategies. Our project based services include strategic help with integrated sales and marketing support. Our mission is to connect the dots between educators and innovators as we tap into the power of technology to improve education.
