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Think Through Math (TTM) is a research-based math intervention system.  This web-based adaptive math intervention supports grades 4 – Algebra 1 and is designed to support students who are struggling with mathematics. The program transitions students to the rigor of the Common Core State Standards and prepares them for Algebra and beyond. Using a powerful blend of Web-based, adaptive instruction
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Electronic Teacher Evaluation Portal PAETEP is Pennsylvania’s electronic teacher evaluation portal for educators. PAETEP is designed to facilitate the PA Department of Education’s new teacher evaluation process. PAETEP guides and supports administrators and teachers through all the required steps in the state’s new evaluation process, including the following… Step 1 Pre-Observation Questionnaire Step 2 Evidence Collection and Observation Step 3
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NBC Learn is the educational arm of NBC News, dedicated to providing dynamic digital content that is engaging, rigorous and relevant to students as they prepare for college and careers. At NBC Learn K-12 teachers, students and parents can access over 13,000 primary source videos, documents and images across over 30 curricular areas – like U.S. History, Language Arts, Science
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I DRIVE SAFELY is the leading provider of online driver’s education courses throughout the nation. They provide Pennsylvania Department of Education (DOE)-approved driver training to Pennsylvania teens through an easy-to-learn online platform, giving students the opportunity to gain responsible driving skills and earn their driver’s license without the need for a classroom. I DRIVE SAFELY believes that a superior education
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The 321SOS assessment tool has been developed by BLaST Intermediate Unit 17 as a way to standardize and simplify teacher and staff evaluations. The custom program allows observers to perform assessments and job evaluations with most internet-capable mobile devices. The easy-to-use interface can be mastered by the most inexperienced users. Troubleshooting and program updates will be handled by the BLaST
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Bridges Virtual Education Services, a partnership between the Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22 and the Quakertown Community School District, brings high quality, online learning options to the school districts of Pennsylvania.  The Bridges program is focused on helping a district to build capacity within itself to respond to the demands of cyber charters and families looking for flexible learning options.
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AgendaManager is a web-based meeting management solution that will help increase efficiency, communication and collaboration by creating a paperless meeting environment for all meetings that occur in an organization. Organization leaders, job-alike groups and public stakeholders can easily review the most accurate and current agendas and minutes for their related meetings in a single, online location. http://www.agendaman.com/

  CICERO: History Beyond the Textbook™ is an award winning, online K-12 digital resource consisting of lesson plans, primary sources, standards, rubrics, assessments, activities, videos, games, interactive maps, and more. CICERO is the quintessential teacher’s assistant. Developed by historians, professors, academics and teachers, and including hundreds of primary sources, CICERO covers U.S. History ranging from 600 B.C. to the present
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  The Brandywine Virtual Academy was created by the Chester County Intermediate Unit during the 2006-07 school year to provide individual students with the opportunity to access quality online instruction in one or more courses. Although originally designed to serve students in grades 9-12, the BVA curriculum has been expanded to serve students enrolled in middle school through high school.
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  BigBlueButton (BBB) is an open-source web conferencing plug-in. It works on Mac, Unix, or Windows computers, and integrates with Moodle, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla  and other web tools you may already use. Loading right inside a browser window, BBB makes it easier than ever for even a first-time user to join an online meeting. BigBlueButton supports the sharing of slides
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  DaRTs (Data and Report Tracking System) was created by BLaST Intermediate Unit #17 to serve IU’s and School Districts, with Special Education, Early Intervention, Gifted, Act 89, Act 30 and 504 students. DaRTS makes it easy to enter and track student demographic data, Special Education forms, staff time and billing, and Child Accounting info and attendance. DaRTS generates and
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  CICERO Systems and WorldView Software products combine to offer an inexpensive way to provide for student instruction without a printed textbook. As an interactive, workbook-style, electronic textbook, learners’ responses are stored “in the cloud” and accessible at home or in school. WorldView Software combines the extensive content of a textbook and the versatility of a workbook with all the
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Named for the famed abolitionist and female suffragist Sojourner Truth, this web site explores the travails and triumphs of the African-American experience leading educators on a chronological journey through history, marking the important signposts that have defined both United States and African-American history. http://software.iu17.org/partner.html

  Defined STEM* is Defined Learning’s solution for providing real world relevance to students. Defined STEM is a web-based application designed to promote effective and relevant connections between STEM classroom content and STEM career pathways, thus providing learning opportunities for students. Defined STEM provides teachers a resource where they can access highly effective media content and related supporting materials. These
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  CICERO Kids™ multi-dimensional learning environment supports AIHE’s mission to partner Literacy and History for young students. Content rich lessons and activities enhance the skills necessary to develop engaged students who; Learn to Read and Read to Learn. CICERO Kids™ also provides the resources to teach S.T.E.M. Methodology (cross-curricular infusion of science, technology, engineering and mathematics). http://software.iu17.org/partner.html  

Capital Area Online Learning Association (CAOLA) is a collaborative effort between CAIU, member school districts and Intermediate Units to provide new learning options for our students. CAOLA’s web-based courses meet the increasing demand for high quality student instruction that incorporate proven online learning practices and next generation software. The key objectives of the program are to assist Intermediate units and
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  Explore Your Future is a highly interactive website designed to help students explore careers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The site includes a library of high-quality videos and other useful tools. The Explore Your Future website was developed through a grant from WHYY Public Television and the Glenn Devon Group. The site is currently
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EZGoalTracker is an easy to use web-based application that allows organizations to create, organize and track the progress of their strategic and individual goals. Through a simple and intuitive interface you can: Tie individual goals to supervisor, departments and or organization’s strategic goals. Routing which allow supervisors to review and approve/decline goals. Email notification. Integration into Active Directory. Organize goals
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Espresso Elementary for Pre-K to grade 5 is a cross-curricular, multimedia learning site with a wide range of interactive classroom resources that inspire children to learn. Espresso comes to us from the UK where it is loved by teachers and students in over 10,000 elementary schools, that’s 60% of all its schools! The award-winning resources on Espresso Elementary have been
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  Britannica Online School Edition gives teachers and student’s instant access to four complete encyclopedias and other resources that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language. Comprised of four separate databases in order to meet grade level needs each level provides articles, journals, magazines, websites, multimedia and curriculum content. Merriam-Webster Dictionary, World Atlas and Workspace are embedded in the
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  EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) is a nationally recognized online professional development program developed by the Center for Online Professional Education (COPE) at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). ETLO works with school districts, state departments of education, regional education service centers, colleges and universities and other educational organizations to enable them to use online learning to meet critical teacher quality
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The goal of the Flip Flicks project is to encourage educators and students to share innovative ideas, and examples through video content. The project is divided into two rounds: ROUND 1 – Teachers will create videos that provide tips and ideas that other teachers can use. ROUND 2 – Students will create videos with study tips and ways to make
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HR Essentials is a series of professional development training programs approximately 2 hours in length.  Topics include: February – Employee Medical Records: Best Practices adn Pitfalls – This seminar addresses practical questions about the acquisition, use, disclosure and retention of medical records. Topics include ADA, FMLA, GINA, HIPAA, subpoenas, and fitness for duty requirements. March – Social Media: Friend or
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  PAIUnet, your statewide, high-speed educational network, has partnered with i-SAFE, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and empower students, teachers and parents to safely, responsibly and productively use Information and Communications Technology (ICT). This partnership enables educators throughout Pennsylvania to gain access to world-class e-Safety lesson plans, unique videos and valuable resources to utilize in their classrooms.
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  Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV’s Cyber Service offers rigorous online courses for students in grades 7-12.  Core content courses, condensed credit recovery classes, and a variety of elective courses are supported by Pennsylvania certified teachers.  Courses are asynchronous, aligned to PA academic standards, and accessible to students at any time from any location.  A flexible menu of options includes full-time
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The IU5 Blended Cyber Services program in partnership with Advanced Academics will offer distance learning courses for students enrolled in PAIUnet-member schools in grades 6-12. The program is designed to keep students within their school while offering them access to approximately 250 online courses. http://www.iu5blendedcyberservices.org/

The Keystone Catalog online education portal is a tool to connect educators, parents and students to courses and programs offered over PAIUnet. It places courses and programs in one easy to use site.  Interested parties can search for appropriate resources, school administrators can place orders and IU representatives handle the registrations and invoicing. http://keystonecatalog.paiunet.org

  Keystone Commons is an integrated social learning site built upon the Elgg platform.  The site provides many social networking tools such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarks, and a micro-blogger.  The tool allows teachers, students and others to share documents and media, form work groups, communicate, collaborate and create.

  Keystone on Demand is PAIUnet’s IPTV site. PDE Podcasts and other current event videos are available “on demand” at http://video.paiunet.org

Upgrade the typical book report with a digital spin!  Integrate reading, writing, and 21st century literacy skills into an interactive and engaging project. Participating teachers will be helping students meet the demands of the Common Core, which include requirements for students to present ideas with “multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the
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  Learn360 is an interactive, media-on-demand digital delivery service for the K-12 education market. With 24/7 access from any internet-enabled device, teachers, students and parents can stream and download high quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, research articles, teacher resources and more. Content is provided by top educational publishers, including A&E, History, Biography, National Geographic, Reading Rainbow, Weston
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This five session online course will teach you strategies to move face-to-face events such as meetings, demonstrations, presentations, and workshops to an interactive online format. You will learn how to keep participants engaged while delivering content and creating collaboration and interaction among participants in an online environment. This course will use the ElluminateLive! online platform however all strategies can be
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The Susan P. Byrnes Health Education Center has been providing health education to people of all ages for over 15 years in our interactive theaters, with our outreach programs, and through LearntobeHealthy.org, our eLearning tool. Over 7 million students, educators and families have been reached with our mission to educate and inspire people of all ages to make healthy choices.
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  The myLanguage360 program is a unique blended-learning online solution, providing synchronous world language instruction by live certified teachers and live tutoring through engaging asynchronous curriculum instruction. myLanguage360 teachers are highly-qualified native Chinese speakers. They all hold state teaching certificates and have been trained in the delivery of online live instruction. MyLanguage360′s teachers use web-based conferencing software (Adobe Connect) to
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  The New Worlds multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) is a 3-D immersive environment where students and teachers can build communities, interact, communicate and collaborate.  New Worlds is similar to Second Life, but is populated and managed entirely by Pennsylvania educators from schools connected to PAIUnet.

This online driver education theory class provides an opportunity for students that may not have time to complete a driver education class during or after school. This course will make driver education theory available to those students whose school district does not offer a driver education program.  Parents are also engaged in this course through student assignments that actively involve
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  Brandywine Online is offering a variety of online courses and workshops to educators across the state. Offerings will include: PDE approved CPE courses for 1-3 credits; Act 48 eligible workshops for 3-6 hours or one-time events offered using Elluminate or Videconferencing. Courses represent a wide array of topics including: Bullying Prevention; Foundations for Teaching in an Online Environment; Effective
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  School data is tremendously valuable, and vulnerable, in today’s fast-paced world. Student records, payroll information, financial reports, board meeting minutes – every day thousands of dollars are spent generating and maintaining student information and performance reports, fiscal records, and other critical school data.  The PAIUnet Disaster Recovery System can make sure that school data is accurate, secure, and accessible
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  The Beating the Odds Foundation’s Quarterbacks of Life® (QBOL™) Student Mentoring Program is an educationally relevant, interactive, and resilience building support system that functions in partnership with the school’s academic and student growth initiatives and is designed to help children in grades 4, 5, and 6 achieve success in school and life in the face of everyday life challenges
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  All K-12 public schools in Pennsylvania connected to PAIUnet have access to the SAFARI Montage Video-On-Demand and Digital Media Management system over the PAIUnet high-speed network. This allows their teachers to seamlessly integrate rich video and images into the curriculum to increase student engagement and retention.  SAFARI Montage includes all of the finest curriculum-correlated video content available on the system.
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  “Starship Arts” is a live video conferencing program that offer K-12 teachers and students a series of “voyages” that connect regional arts, culture, history and the environment. Primary Contact:  Catherine Richmond-Cullen, Ed.D Email Address: ccullen@iu19.org   Voyage One: Art in Your Space Professional artists provide a hands-on lesson in the arts. Dance, music, visual art and theatre are featured
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The Tuscarora Intermediate Unit, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University, will offer custom professional development courses over PAIUnet. This service is designed to deliver specialized professional development topics requested by administrators, staff and school board directors. The courses will run at irregular intervals. Each of the courses may consist of several sessions. The TIU has negotiated the lowest price
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VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that displays images and documents, and plays videos all in one presentation.  VoiceThread creators can decide with whom they share their VoiceThread, or publish it for anyone to view. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. http://www.wiu.k12.pa.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=282

Waterfront Learning is a flexible cyber education program specifically designed for all K-12 educational institutions. This new, robust offering enables school administrators to take advantage of cyber services at a responsible cost while retaining the student in the district. Waterfront Learning, a program offered by the AIU 3, has developed a menu of flexible options that incorporate high-quality courses, instruction,
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    Wikispaces is a tool that facilitates teaching, organization, and classroom participation. A “wiki” is a collaborative web site that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser. Wikispaces Private Label is a self-contained, web-based wiki environment for K-12 students and educators. On it, you will have the ability to
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