Fun with Purchasing: January 2025 Updates
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!
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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for 2025, operational teams are setting the tone with hot trends that boost efficiency and sustainability while leaving outdated practices in the rearview mirror.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.
New Partner
Steve & Kate's Camp
Steve & Kate's Camp partners with schools nationwide to offer turn-key auxiliary programming and ancillary revenue during school breaks. Their self-directed philosophy fosters freedom for kids, and their drop-in day pass model maximizes flexibility for adults. Host schools appreciate above-market rental rates, enhanced community visibility, scholarship passes, and the ability to serve more kids year-round.
New Partner Webinar
Thursday, January 30, 2025, 11:00 AM ET.
Come meet NEW Consortium Partner, Steve & Kate's Camps! Steve & Kate's Camp partners with schools nationwide to offer turn-key auxiliary programming and ancillary revenue during school breaks. Our self-directed philosophy fosters freedom for kids, and our drop-in day pass model maximizes flexibility for adults. Host schools appreciate above-market rental rates, enhanced community visibility, scholarship passes, and the ability to serve more kids year-round.
MISBO PARTNERS HIGHLIGHTS
Cintas
MISBO Be READY for Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Proper planning, implementation, routine onsite service checks, and post-event support are critical in helping ensure the AED works when you need it most. Emergency preparedness is a vital part of everyone's safety. AED programs can be convenient, consistent, and compliant with the right partner. Cintas Corporation helps more than 1 million businesses of all types get ready for the workday with confidence. Join us to learn how K-12, colleges, universities, and government agencies are taking steps to ensure a safe facility and healthy experience. Learn More
CorpCare
The Eight Dimensions of Wellness
The 8 dimensions of wellness, introduced by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick in the 1990s, emphasize treating the whole individual based on essential human needs. Initially a personal tool, it evolved from five to eight dimensions, focusing on individual strengths. Dr. Swarbrick defines wellness as intentionally cultivating habits and increasing awareness of each dimension.
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.

FACTS
CONSORTIUM WEBINARS
Tuesday, March 4, 2024, 1:00 PM ET.
United School Supplies delivers back-to-school supply kits customized to match your supply list. United School Supplies is excited to discuss its process for getting the specific school supplies you request into your classrooms. We invite all school representatives to listen in and learn how we can assist you for the 2025-2026 school year!
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