Educational Technology Software Consortia

The Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21 Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Technologies Department works with a variety of educational vendors to offer consortium pricing to our local school districts. Agreements and details of consortium vary. Please complete the form linked below if you would like to learn more about any of the educational technology tools listed below.

Educational Technology Software Consortium Inquiry Form

Amira Learning
About:

Amira is the world’s first intelligent reading assistant that provides personalized tutoring to students at school, after school, or at home. Students working with Amira experience significant improvements in their reading fluency.

Consortium:
- Discounted student licensing for 2024-2025 School Year
- Purchase is made through CLIU 21 Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Technologies Department
Resources:
Beanstack
About:

Beanstack helps you create a school-wide reading initiative that aligns with your strategic goals and motivates your students to read and achieve more. We understand that building a culture of reading is a key priority for your schools; school or class-wide reading challenges will help you address that priority.

Consortium:
- Discounted building-wide pricing is available for the 2023-2024 school year with hopes to improve discounts in future years based on usage.
- Purchase is made through CLIU 21 Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Technologies Department
Resources:
- How Beanstack Supports the Science of Reading
- Roundtable: Motivating Secondary Students to Read
BrainPop
About:

Access to thousands of K-8 standards-aligned topics to build background and deepen learning across your curriculum, SEL-themed topics, and embedded creative and computational projects.

Consortium:
- Discounted per student pricing on BrainPop, BrainPop Jr., BrainPop Combo, BrainPop ELL, and more.
- Opportunity for joint professional learning sessions with other consortium members.
- Purchase is initiated through CLIU 21 Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Technologies Department
Resources:
Canvas
About:

Canvas is the open, extensible K–12 LMS built to amplify teaching and maximize learning.

Consortium:
- Discounted per user pricing available.
- Local training and support available with CLIU Facilitator.
- Quotes and purchase are made directly with Instructure/Canvas.
Resources:
- Terms of Use
Contact: Emily Schenkel (emily.schenkel@instructure.com)
Clickview
About:

ClickView is the leading producer of video content for K-12 and higher education settings. Access compelling, entertaining, curriculum-relevant video content and teacher resources, compile your own video library, and leverage interactive testing materials for formative assessment. Trusted by over 5,000 schools and colleges around the world, we provide easy-to-use access to effective video content for educators and students.

Consortium:
- Discounted per student pricing at school or district level.
- Purchase is initiated through CLIU 21 Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Technologies Department
Resources:
Discovery Education
About:

a daily learning platform that empowers teachers to design and deliver engaging learning experiences, closely track student progress, and find professional support. We're confident your teachers would love their updated platform and here is why:
- Curated Content: Engage students with timely, relevant content—select from over 200K standards-aligned resources that span grades, subjects, and topics of interest to drive daily lessons.
- Interactive Quiz: Build quizzes for live lessons, student-paced lessons, and polling activities to check for understanding at strategic moments and track students' daily progress in real-time.
- Activity-Building Tools: Save time with over 1500+ ready-to-use activities for turnkey assignments. Use Studio to build creative lessons from Activity Templates and to present, share, and collaborate.
- Professional Support: Take advantage of interactive courses, on-demand support, and guided tutorials. Join a global community of like-minded educators that inspire best practices and innovation.
- Easy Access + Integrations: Simple, safe access methods through QR codes or search-by-school make it easy to log in. Take advantage of deep integrations with systems and other edtech tools.
Consortium:
- Discovery Education Experience per student pricing
- Mystery Science, STEM, Coding Add-ons
- Professional Learning - Offered by CLIU 21
Resources:
Kami
About:

Kami is an interactive learning platform empowering students and enhancing the way teachers teach, feedback, and assess. Whether annotating texts or documents, creating resources with multimedia components, or collaborating for learning, Kami supports student learning and engagement in a wide variety of ways. Learn more about Kami at: https://www.kamiapp.com/.

Consortium:
- Interested districts/schools will execute a consortium service agreement with Carbon Lehigh IU 21 at a discounted per student rate (over 50% off standard pricing).
Resources:
OTIS by TEQ
About:

Our mission is simple: to provide training, support, and inspiration that transforms learning.

Consortium:
- Building level pricing for professional learning courses
- Add-on pricing for parent options and local content uploads
- Quotes and payments directly through Teq representative
Resources:
Contact: Mark Wasson, TEQ, markwasson@teq.com
ParentSquare
About

ParentSquare is the premier fully unified product that engages every family with school communications and communications-based services—all the way from the district office to the classroom teacher, and all in one place.

Consortium
- Discounted per-student pricing for the suite of ParentSquare products (Engage, Engage Premium, Secure Document Delivery, etc.).
- Purchase is made directly with ParentSquare. CLIU can verify pricing upon receipt of quote.
Resources
Contact: Amy Serrano (amy.serrano@parentsquare.com)
Talking Points
About

TalkingPoints is an education technology nonprofit with a mission to drive student success by using accessible technology to unlock the potential of family engagement in children’s education.
Our multilingual technology platform connects and empowers families and teachers by using human and AI-powered, two-way translated communication and personalized content. This unique approach eliminates barriers including language, time, mindsets, and capacity to foster strong family engagement in development of students’ academic success.

Consortium
- Discounted per-student pricing for Talking Points based on student population range. CLIU can share expected pricing upon request.
- Purchase is made directly with Talking Points.
Resources
Contact: Adam Lindstrom (adaml@talkingpts.org)

CONTACT US!

Eric Lech
Director of Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Technologies
610-769-4111 ext. 1201
leche@cliu.org

Tony Mirabito
Staff Development Facilitator
610-769-4111 ext. 1201
mirabitoa@cliu.org

Melissa Volcskai
Technology Integration Specialist
610-769-4111 ext. 1201
volcskaim@cliu.org

Educational Technology Software Consortia

Amira Learning

Beanstack

BrainPop

Canvas

Clickview

Discovery Education

Kami

OTIS by TEQ

ParentSquare

Talking Points

CONTACT US!