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Support and Offers for Education Leaders and Their Communities


During these unprecedented times, AASA, our partners and solutions providers are here to support you. Below, please find a variety of offers, resources and solutions designed to assist you, your staff, students and communities during these challenging times.


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For students and families that still need help in finalizing their college plans or just need general college planning advice, here are three ways we can help: 1. Students can visit our website! Our team provides some guidance and insights that may be helpful with distance learning, time management, success strategies for online learning, college campus visit alternatives, and self-care as students continue their studies at home. 2. Students can sign up for a free myCollegeOptions planning account. 3. If students or families have questions that are time sensitive, we are a team of former college counselors and are happy to help answer their questions. Please encourage students to email us at: help@myoptions.org.

Click here to register for the December 2, 2020, 2pm EST webinar, "A Tale of Two Presidents: Driving Post-Secondary Outcomes for Students," with Kristi Wilson, current president of AASA, and Deb Kerr, immediate past president of AASA. 

https://myoptions.org/student-advice
https://students.myoptions.org/
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Reopening schools securely and safely after the recent crisis involves new measures. Following their webinar last week, Johnson Controls is now offering AASA members a free K12 Security Review for school buildings. Click here to schedule an assessment.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted operations across the globe. As you prepare your business for a "new normal,” we’re here to help. Please keep in mind we’re still experiencing limited inventory on some high-demand products. We’re doing everything we can to provide the products, services and resources that help you maintain a safe, healthy and productive work environment. We’re committed to helping your business recover and become even stronger than before. Learn more here and download the Pandemic Recovery Guide here.
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Panorama has been working with many of our districts to create and run an immediate response Community Needs Survey. This survey helps districts understand how are families doing and respond to what their students and families need in this moment. We are sharing this survey as a free resource for all schools and districts to use. If you are interested in running the survey, please send an email to support@panoramaed.com.

https://www.panoramaed.com/community-needs-survey

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EAB’s entire research team is working to help the education community make informed decisions as they navigate the implications of the coronavirus pandemic. We will be continuously posting insights from our research to our online K-12 COVID-19 Resource Center, which is free and available to all schools. This site provides school leaders with quick access to COVID-19 specific EAB research findings, examples of how other institutions are responding to critical challenges, and links to the latest federal, state, and agency guidelines. EAB is here to support you as you work through this unprecedented situation. Please reach out with any questions or requests to eabk12communications@eab.com.

https://eab.com/research/strategy/resource-center/support-your-k-12-school-through-the-coronavirus-crisis
for: administrators, teachers

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VitalInsight™ is a cloud-based diagnostic technology that engages all of your stakeholders in assessing their experience and knowledge related to best practices. In less than 20 minutes, stakeholders respond to the online inventory. District and school leaders are provided a series of online dashboard reports that identify and address both the strengths and vulnerabilities of practice, and prescribe research-based solution strategies.

https://vitalinsightsolutions.com
for: administrators, teachers



Student Kindness Wall

The "You Uplift" Kindness Platform allows students and teachers to submit anonymous positive messages, pictures and quotes about one another that can be made visible via your school website, via direct link or your facility TV monitors once children return to school. It is currently being made available for Free to every Elementary, Middle, and High School in the country (and beyond) for the entire length of their school closures, as we want to be of service in this time of need!

https://youuplift.com
for: teachers, students



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We have the following free resources for Naviance clients: a Resource Guide highlighting grade-level activities for your student to complete online and daily live webinar series to help you learn how to complete critical tasks with your students during the final months of the school year.

https://www.naviance.com/resources/entry/naviance-coronavirus-update
for: administrators, teachers



Right at School
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We developed a new parent website called Right At School @ Home to support our students and parents during this strange new time. It has a bunch of fun and easy educational activities, as well as stories from families across the country. Activities and posts are added each week, and interested parents can sign up for our Friday newsletter.

https://rightatschool.com/at-home
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McGraw-Hill
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We are providing free educational resources to assist students, parents and educators with online printable activities and home learning tips. Our goal is to provide continued teaching and learning support without interruption, anytime, anywhere.

https://www.mheducation.com/prek-12/explore/remote-learning.html
for: administrators, teachers, parents, students



Lifetouch
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Here are links for three free resources for: yearbook advisers, a virtual school assemblies program and professional development for online learning.

https://schools.lifetouch.com/yearbooks/resources
https://teentruth.net/free-virtual-school-assemblies-and-interactive-classes
https://connectedpd.com
for: administrators, teachers

Microsoft
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As concern grows around COVID-19, many education leaders are making the difficult decision to close schools. To help make the transition to distance learning, Microsoft has created resources, training and how to guides that they hope will help support  IT, educators, staff and students as they make this transition.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/remote-learning
for: administrators, teachers, students

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As part of citizenAID's partnership with the AASA, and in association with the School Solutions Center, citizenAID is offering online safety and medical training to half of your staff members FOR FREE. citizenAID's online class provides a certificate of completion and is available for the staff member to take as many times as they like for 6 months. The class is only $14 and for every license purchased, citizenAID adds a second for free. HALF YOUR STAFF CAN RECEIVE THIS INVALUABLE SAFETY AND BLEEDING CONTROL TRAINING FOR FREE AND THEY COMPLETE IT IN UNDER ONE HOUR - Already 20,000 teachers have received this training for free - Please email info@citizenAID.us for more information.

https://citizenaid.us
for: administrators, teachers

JASON
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Keep Learning Going During COVID-19: Take the guesswork out of the transition to distance learning! AASA has partnered with JASON Learning to provide a STEM solution at no cost to districts that are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.jason.org/coronavirus
for: administrators, teachers


Amazon Business
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With over 50 million students now learning remotely, Amazon Business developed the Distance Learning Hub as a resource center to support continuity of instruction. On the Hub, educators can purchase prioritized education supplies, access a new tool that can fast-track allocating relief funds to teachers in the district, as well as activate flexible, multi-location delivery options to get physical and digital resources quickly to students.

To learn more and connect with an Amazon Business K-12 Customer Advisor, please visit the Amazon Business Distance Learning Hub.
for: administrators, teachers


Edison Learning
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Edison Learning is offering free student licenses to qualifying seniors (12th-grade students). Students will have access to our entire standard eCourse catalog and be able to accelerate up to one quarter-credit completion per graduation requirement through June 30, 2020. Edison Learning's engaging, mastery-based content delivery system and learning objects in multiple modalities provide personalized learning supports for students on-pace to graduate this year. To support students, Edison Learning is also providing free eSchoolware platform training to educators, webinars on successful online student onboarding and instruction strategies, and significantly discounted curriculum and instructional services for districts and individual consumers. Please contact Nick Carlucci at nicholas.carlucci@edisonlearning.com if you have any questions.

https://edisonlearning.com/virtual-learning-solutions
for: administrators, teachers, students


Transcend
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The coming months are pivotal as school communities grapple with both the realities of this crisis and the road ahead. School communities, during this time, will face consequential decisions that will reverberate for decades. At Transcend, we are calling on ourselves—alongside many other partners and supporters—to offer resources and capacities that can support schools to make these decisions and take on the profound work of responding, recovering and reinventing learning experiences in the interests of expanding opportunity for ALL young people to thrive.

AASA + Transcend: Leading during Coronavirus
for: administrators, teachers



Edmentum

Here are three areas of support Edmentum is providing:

General resources: A plethora of resources ranging from printables, webinars, templates and how-to-guides meant to support distance learning plans
Program Resources: We are offering our Edmentum Capacity Assistance Program (E-CAP) to LEA’s so they have the appropriate curriculum, assessment and instructional resources to support their distance learning plans
Professional Development: Blended (on-demand and live) professional development to support district teachers with virtual instruction tools and resources
for: administrators, teachers



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Horace Mann has been in the business of taking care of their educator customers and managing risk for 75 years. They’re being proactive to be certain they continue to provide the service their customers deserve. If you need to reach Horace Mann over the coming days, they encourage you to leverage the online self-service tools and resources available 24/7.

http://horacemann.com/financial-services
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SHI

Do you need help finding available grants to help fund your technology needs?

SHI can help you through our partnership with the Grants Office. The Grants Office is a national grants development services firm that has 20 years of experience with connecting public sector customers to funding sources for technology projects. SHI can schedule consultative calls in collaboration with the Grants Office to help you identify grants that support your technology initiatives. There is no cost for participating in these consultative calls.



http://links.aasa.org/2MNFuVe
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TrueConnect.pngMany of your staff are facing financial hardships related to COVID-19 and TrueConnect can help. At no cost to you, the district, TrueConnect is an employee loan program helping your staff cover unexpected expenses.

More information is available here.
for: administrators, teachers

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At RRG Education we want to help! Our animated social emotional learning LMS is turnkey and includes all the lesson planning and resources for a quick and seamless integration for your teachers and their online curriculum. We would like to offer no-cost access to our platform to your district for the remainder of this school year to help.

https://www.rrgeducation.com
for: administrators, teachers



Audio Enhancement
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Due to current events, Audio Enhancement is offering our lecture capture software for free! This free software allows teacher to do a local recording on their computer, which will capture the audio from the computers sound card or internal microphone, records the teacher's screen with audio, and can be uploaded to Google Classroom or preferred LMS for students.

https://audioenhancement.com/downloads
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ACT
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ACT is offering digital learning and workforce resources to assist students, teachers, schools and workers impacted by COVID-19. We’re committed to serving community needs during this challenging time. The resources below are adaptable for use in home, through online learning and in workforce settings.

https://www.act.org/content/act/en/covid19.html
for: administrators, teachers, students

Squigl

Squigl is a do-it-yourself tool that transforms text into a whiteboard animation video. School districts and universities around the world have been implementing Squigl in their classrooms to keep students engaged and to boost retention of information. Because of the recent changes due to COVID-19, schools looking for effective yet inexpensive ways to teach students online may use Squigl at no cost for 6 months, or until students return to the classrooms.

https://squiglit.com
for: administrators, teachers



iTutor

iTutor.com is a proven instructional service that is dedicated to serving the K-12 system. Public school districts have been our sole focus for the past 7 years and we are proud to have earned the trust of over 250 school districts nationwide. Our model has been to harness our state certified teachers that teach live classes on our secure LMS/whiteboard in 2-way video, audio and chat interaction with students.

During these challenging times, we realize that districts wish to keep their teachers connected with their students and want their own virtual teaching capability. The iTutor Virtual Academy is a new offer for schools that does just that. It combines Your Teachers, Your Content, Your Schedule, and is supported by iTutor’s proven and secure K-12 teaching and learning platform. We provide the upfront professional development and back-end technology support and you have a world-class educational portal that is private-labelled for the district. The portal integrates with Google Classrooms and other 3rd party education software for synchronous and asynchronous lessons of your choosing.

We are making the Virtual Academy (VA) free for a 30-Day trial to school districts who are new to iTutor. For details on the VA and this special offer, contact us at learnmore@itutor.com.
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Though most schools in North America have closed in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, First Student employees are pitching in to help their communities in any way they can. In many locations, First Student drivers are delivering food and educational supplies to students. If you are interested in working with First Student to deliver food or needed materials, please contact your local Location Manager, or contact Kerry Hurff, Senior Director of Marketing, at Kerry.Hurff@firstgroup.com to learn more.
for: administrators, teachers



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To assist school nutrition professionals responding to school closures due to the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, NutriStudents K-12® is offering COVID-19 Emergency Menus FREE to all schools and child nutrition programs. They include 4 weeks (5 days each) for the Summer Food Service Program and 2 weeks of cold meals for each NSLP age group for 4-day, 5-day and 7-day programs offering meals under the Seamless Summer Option. The menus comply with all the USDA meal pattern and nutritional guidelines during this time of emergency, include necessary compliance reports and easily accommodate grab-and-go/delivered meals.

https://nutristudentsk-12.com/index.php?cID=845
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Date: August 27, 2020

Time: 1:00-2:30 PM
View the recording on YouTube.

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Facing the continued threat of COVID-19, employers, schools, and other institutions are implementing plans to resume operations while mitigating the risk of exposure and transmission of the coronavirus. One strategy that is being widely explored is the use of thermal cameras to help conduct daily temperature checks. But do these solutions really work? Can they accurately detect a fever and help prevent infected individuals from entering the facility?
CDW gets that organizations need to get back to work or school quickly and safely - and stay back. Thermal screening is one tool that can help you accomplish this goal. Join one of our upcoming webinar sessions and hear CDW experts deliver straight talk about how these technologies work and how to best put them to work for you.

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  Date: September 2, 2020

Time: 9:30 AM-11:00 AM
Click here to register.

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Part 1:

The average public agency uses cooperative purchasing for twenty percent of their spend and is trending upward. Cooperative procurement strives to help public agencies be more efficient in their purchasing process. Learn how Sourcewell’s cooperative purchasing program can simplify your purchasing process and become part of your strategic sourcing plan. This session will introduce Sourcewell’s cooperative purchasing program, share the value of cooperative purchasing, and explain the process for utilizing a cooperative contract.

Part 2:

As a critical infrastructure company, Siemens is leveraging smart building solutions to increase the protection of building occupants during the ongoing fight against COVID-19 and beyond. Siemens has safer and healthier indoor environments – from offices to factories, healthcare facilities to municipal buildings, elementary schools to universities – that help America both fight the spread of the virus and safely reopen the economy. Learn about the Siemens suite of Smart Building Solutions designed to target COVID and yield healthier and occupant-friendly indoor environments, which can be purchased using Sourcewell cooperative purchasing contract.    



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Staples Presents: Returning to the Workplace Safely for Education
Join us for a timely informational session led by Staples & vendor experts with decades of experience in Workspace Design and Janitorial / Sanitary Maintenance. They will share best practices for preparing and operating a safe return to the education environment including classroom configurations, cleaning strategies, and new technology used to keep spaces clean and staff and students healthy.

Featured Presenters:

  • Bridget Nulty, Education Merchandising Category Manager at The HON Company
  • Carlos Canas, Sr Sales Tech Trainer, Staples Facility Solutions

Date: Wednesday July 29, 2020
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
Click here to register.

for: administrators



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We are co-hosting a webinar series with ICLE on “hot” topics in this crisis period.
https://aasa.org/AASA-LeadershipNetwork-webinars.aspx
for: administrators, teachers



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Please join Spring Math’s Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden and Dr. Paul Muyskens for "COVID Catch-up: A discussion on math regression impacted by pandemic disruption" on May 27, 2020 at noon EDT/11 a.m. CDT on Twitter. They’ll share information on:

  • what to expect and how to prepare for when students return in the fall
  • how Spring Math helps students catch up to grade level expectations
  • additional enhancements we have made to Spring Math to set you up for success in the fall
View the recording here.
for: administrators, teachers


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CrisisGo is hosting webinars on the impact of the pandemic and continuity of operations plans for schools. Jeffery G. Wellington, MA, ED.S,. NCSP, supervisor of special projects with Hamilton Township (N.J.) Public Schools, will cover the mental health challenges caused by the pandemic and how they can be navigated. He will also go over how Threat Assessment Protocols (TAP) can be utilized as a response tool for mental health crisis situations and what schools can do in student crisis situations. Register at info.crisisgo.com/covid19-impact-mental-health-schools.

Previous CrisisGo webinar recordings can be found at covidresponse.crisisgo.com/resources.

Click here to access a copy of the final report for your district to use in improving the district's pandemic response plan and building a better plan for back to school this fall in a COVID-19 environment.

COVID-19 Free Offer Tech Kit PDF

One Minute COVID-19 Free Offer Tech Kit Video

Sign up for the free COVID-19 Return-to-School Kit

for: administrators, teachers



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GET BACK TO WORK SAFELY AND WITH CONFIDENCE
Facing the continued threat of COVID-19, employers, schools, and other institutions are implementing plans to resume operations while mitigating the risk of exposure and transmission of the coronavirus. One strategy that is being widely explored is the use of thermal cameras to help conduct daily temperature checks. But do these solutions really work? Can they accurately detect a fever and help prevent infected individuals from entering the facility?

CDW gets that organizations need to get back to work or school quickly and safely, and stay back. Thermal screening is one tool that can help you accomplish this goal. Join one of our upcoming webinar sessions and hear CDW experts deliver straight talk about how these technologies work and how to best put them to work for you.

UPCOMING SESSIONS EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
In response to the heightened urgency around this topic and volume of interest, CDW is offering several sessions over the coming weeks.

Learn more and register.

In response to requests from schools across the country for guidance on distance learning, CDW-G’s Education Strategy team is hosting a series of webinars focused on techniques for maximizing teaching and learning virtually. CDW-G’s Education Strategy & Transformation team partners with school leaders and educators across the country to ensure technology is used in ways that enhance instruction and improve both student experiences and achievement.

View the recordings here.
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Dr. Joe Erardi, is a former member of the AASA Executive Board and a Connecticut school educator/administrator for 40 years (retired August 2017 from Newtown, Conn., as their superintendent). Dr. Erardi shared with school administrators valuable lessons on how to effectively lead in the midst of the unknown with the present pandemic. This interactive webinar included critical information for superintendents, executive cabinet members and building based administrators. Dr. Erardi, who navigated the rebuild and recovery of Newtown Public Schools, will share numerous strategies and "must do's" to ready your school and school district for the upcoming school year. View the recording here.
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SafetyCulture

Preparing for the upcoming school year has been more difficult than ever as we look to get students safely back to learning. We have taken the learning and best practices from traditionally high risk industries, such as mining and construction, and are now using them to ensure the same measures are being taken in schools across America. We will explain how schools can use technology to help keep staff and students as safe as possible while proactively managing their risk.

Join us as we discuss how you can implement CDC and locally recommended processes and best practices quickly easily throughout your schools to help mitigate risk, easily track and store compliance data, and create an early warning system to quickly flag risks and incidents, all while providing transparency to parents and teachers.

From cleaning procedures, to food preparation and bus transportation, see how technology can be your safety net. Click here to register.

for: administrators



Edunomics Lab

Edunomics Lab hosted a 30-minute webinar, "Financial Turmoil for Public Education, Part 3: Updated financials, and state and district responses," on Thursday, May 28th, 2020. Marguerite Roza shared the latest implications for district finances and staffing, and a round-up of how states and districts across the country are responding. View the webinar and access the presentation here.
for: administrators



Uncharted Learning

At a time of unprecedented social upheaval and widespread anxiety, no group feels the stress of the present moment more than our teenage students – a population that had already been experiencing increasing rates of mental health challenges even before the pandemic. As educators search for resources to help their students navigate the turmoil of the present moment, authentic experiential learning may provide a path to help adolescents develop social-emotional skills like empathy, resilience, and the ability to embrace failure that will benefit both them and broader society.


Austin-area superintendent Tom Leonard, education researcher Kristin de Vivo, and consultant and mentor Kevin Newell on June 22nd at 1pm CT, joined a discussion moderated by Anne Collier from the Net Safety Collaborative about the role of authentic, experiential learning in cultivating students’ social-emotional development. Building off our most recent report, “Learning with a Purpose: Supporting Student and Social Well-Being through Experiential Learning,” the conversation addressed the best practices for authentically engaging teens to cultivate skills like resilience, empathy, and teamwork in the classroom. View the recording here.

for: administrators, teachers

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