The Collaborative, a New Hampshire based federally tax-exempt nonprofit corporation, was co-founded in 2013 as the Digital Opportunity Consortium, by co-chairs Dr. Robert McLaughlin and Dr. Paul Resta. Reflecting the compelling need to speak to potential investors with one voice about why and how to approach digital equity investments and initiatives systemically, we refashioned the consortium as the National Collaborative for Digital Equity. We are headquartered at New England College, in Henniker, New Hampshire.
Our Goals:
Help high poverty communities mobilize for sustained systemic digital equity action.
Help states to mobilize sustained digital equity initiatives.
Infuse digital equity issues and strategies into educator preparation.
Provide research and evaluation to identify best practices in digital equity that lead to educational and economic impacts.
Provide technical assistance to digital equity resource providers.
Advise digital equity investors on why and how to design efforts that are systemic so they have genuine impacts on educational and economic opportunity.
CITE provides high quality resources, professional learning, and a strong support community to members. CITE was established in 1960 as the California Educational Data Processing Association (CEDPA). In 2003, the name was changed to California Educational Technology Professionals Association (CETPA).
The Tennessee Educational Technology Association (TETA), an International Society for Technology in Education affiliate, is a non-profit organization whose membership primarily consists of K-12, corporate partners and higher education members who are committed to promoting the effective use of technology in education to transform teaching and learning with the purpose of advancing student achievement and improving business practices in school districts across Tennessee. TETA’s mission is to lead the integration of technology in education by providing opportunities for innovation through modeling, networking, and advocacy. The purposes of TETA include: to share and exchange ideas, materials, and procedures; to promote the effective use of information, communication, and technology; to encourage the appropriate use of technology for the improvement of educational management; to promote professional standards in the field of educational technology; and to communicate current research relating to educational technology.
METN is a collaborative organization of Minnesota K-12 telecommunications regions that provide Internet access, network services, distance learning, and professional development for member districts.
The Virginia Society for Technology in Education is a nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of excellence in education through professional development endeavors supporting the integration of existing and emerging technologies.
New York Partners for Technology Innovation (NYPTI) are the largest professional learning communities in New York State with more than 125 Teachers Centers located throughout the state, working with 675 public schools districts and nearly 1000 non-public and charter schools.
Lightspeed Systems® is dedicated to providing time-saving solutions and empowering districts to focus where it matters most—students and learning. Lightspeed provides one integrated platform of cloud-managed solutions: Security & Compliance, Safety & Wellness, and Engagement & Impact, purpose-built for school networks and devices. Lightspeed solutions are designed to surface insights and facilitate workflows needed to ensure a safe, secure, and compliant learning environment that works on any device, anywhere learning takes place. As a committed partner in privacy and security for more than 20 years, Lightspeed ensures secure student data with technical and administrative safeguards in place. And with a keen understanding of the staff and resource shortages in primary education, Lightspeed has focused resources on client success to provide implementation guidance, support, and an easy procurement process. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Lightspeed serves more than 20 million students using 11 million devices in 28,000 schools throughout 39 countries.
Security & Compliance: Lightspeed’s Security & Compliance solution helps districts safeguard people, devices, and information from the inside out. With a data privacy-centered approach, it combines decades of web filtering experience, advanced AI, and edtech management in one place.
Safety & Wellness:Lightspeed’s Safety & Wellness solution helps districts proactively identify students in crisis, enabling early intervention and more effective support. With increased visibility and supplemented resources, schools can address issues before they escalate and create a more responsive environment to protect students.
Engagement & Impact:Lightspeed’s Engagement & Impact solution helps districts easily invest and support edtech resources that are making the greatest instructional impact. With our industry-leading edtech usage insights and classroom tools, staff will save time, maximize instruction time, and scale digital learning.
Kajeet helps students succeed by providing more than just Internet outside of school. Our innovative solution provides safe, mobile broadband Internet to close the Homework Gap. As educators increase technology in the classroom for learning, Education Broadband™ keeps students connected either at home or on the bus with CIPA-compliant filters and provides administrators a reporting dashboard to gain insight into student usage.
PAIMS is a job-alike group within the Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units. PAIMS members have responsibility for providing services in instructional media, educational technology, and/or information technology to public and non-public schools within their Intermediate Unit’s geographic footprint and to the intermediate unit itself.
Project Tomorrow is a national education nonprofit organization, certified by the IRS and the State of California as a 501.c.3 nonprofit organization, with a 19 year history of impacting education. As a nonprofit organization we are driven by an altruistic mission and vision for changing the lives of children through science, math and technology education.
