Fun with Purchasing: January 2025 DER Portal News
Digital Resource Ordering
Order Season Quickly Approaches!
MISBO is preparing for the 2025-2026 order season. We're collecting pricing, descriptions, and adding new products just for YOU! Keep a look out for announcements for the new ordering season official open date!
Just a reminder: you will be able to order Digital Educational Resource products at anytime for the 2025-2026 school year and we wont send you the invoice until July!
Check out our new partners!
Partner Connect
Find Your Perfect Match With MISBO's Partner Connect
by Susan Kimmel
Let’s be honest, spending hours trying to find the perfect partner for your purchasing needs is so archaic. Who has the time (or patience) for that? Enter Partner Connect, MISBO's "dating app" to find your perfect MISBO Consortium Partner. It's like online dating but you know these matches have already been vetted and background checked!
Sora / Overdrive
Sora/Overdrive is a MISBO Partner
If you are interested in purchasing Sora/Overdrive through MISBO or if you're looking to renew your subscription, please reach out to Lindsay Crist Lawson at Sora/Overdrive directly.
Consortium Highlights
Discovery Education
Webinar: Empowering Multilingual Learners: Effective Tools and Strategies for Achievement
Thursday, January 30, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET
During this session, educational leaders will share actionable insights and emerging ideas to fuel success in multilingual education. You’ll discover proven strategies and creative cutting-edge tools that personalize learning, bridge language gaps, and foster an inclusive, thriving environment for all students.
EBSCO
Digital Archives Searching
Beginning in January 2024, all EBSCO Historical Archives content will be presented in PDF format, and the Digital Archives Viewer will be retired. This will offer users an experience that is consistent with their other EBSCOhost content, and provides a familiar, user-friendly format that is accessible, easy to share, secure and visually consistent across devices.
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FACTCITE
Are you ready for Spring Research?
It's a great time to get to know FactCite, a collection of research databases from Lincoln Library Press. See for yourself why FactCite is the affordable go-to resource for subscribers!
TeachingBooks
Get Ready For Award Season With TeachingBooks!
It's book award season! As the American Library Association announces winners and honorees at the end of this month, TeachingBooks is here for you. Dive into TeachingBooks' complete collection of more than 150 national book awards and distinctions.
Mackin
Welcome 2025! Monthly Digital Digest
See Mackin's author interview with Torrey Maldonado! Torrey Maldonado’s fast-paced novels infuse young readers with a deep sense of recognition, generated both by Maldonado’s firsthand experiences as someone born and raised in Brooklyn’s Red Hook projects, and his nearly thirty years teaching in New York City public schools. His popular titles, including Hands (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023), What Lane? (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2020), and Tight (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2018), have won numerous awards and honors.
CONSORTIUM WEBINARS
Coffee Talk: Sora
Join us for an exploration of Sora, MISBO’s digital library! Discover the student reading app that over 90 MISBO schools already use for ebooks and audiobooks, and learn how you can expand your school’s reading horizons with Sora.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 11:00 AM (EST)
Coffee Talk: Learning A-Z
Join us to discover how the correlations within Raz Plus align to the different core programs that you are using so you can streamline your planning and provide additional resource support to what you are teaching in your Tier 1 instruction.
Wednesday, January 28, 2025 | 1:00 PM (EST)
Coffee Talk: BrainPOP
Explore BrainPOP's latest updates and learn impactful instructional strategies to maximize their potential in your classroom.
Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 1:00 PM (EST)
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MISBO has created a quick and easy way to view your Digital Educational Resource partners! Click the image below and see which partners you may be missing out on!
fun with purchasing blog by susan
Forecast for 2025: Hot Savings Cool Solutions!
by Susan Kimmel
As independent schools gear up for 2025, operational teams are setting the tone with hot trends that boost efficiency and sustainability while leaving outdated practices in the rearview mirror. Leading the “hot” list is:
Artificial Intelligence in operations and the classroom. From AI-assisted personalized learning plans to tools that streamline administrative tasks, schools are leaning into technology that gives teachers more time to teach and administrators more time to be strategic and visionary.
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