Fun with Purchasing: May 2024 DER Portal News
DER Ordering Portal
Ordering season is here!
Now is the time to begin to window shop, scout prices for budgeting, and even begin to build your Digital Educational Resource cart for the 2024-2025 school year!
Check out the "Buy Again" tab to make your life easier!
If you have not ordered before and would like assistance, e-mail ameliadaul@misbo.com
DER ordering - all year!
Did you know. . . MISBO's order portal NEVER closes. You can order all year long. And, what's great, is we'll get the best prorated pricing for you if you purchase partway through the year!
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.
free der trials
Did you know . . .
MISBO has a whole page dedicated to free trial that our partners are offering?
Check out which partners you can try for free!
New Consortium partners
Learning Explorer provides ScootPad, the K-8 adaptive learning platform for math and ELA that meets students exactly where they are with the right level of practice, instruction, scaffolding, and assessment to ensure they master every concept. ScootPad will automatically detect knowledge gaps in real-time and scaffold learning to prerequisite skills (at or below grade level) to help each student catch up on exactly what they need to move ahead.Start saving your precious classroom time. Leverage ScootPad to do the heavy lifting of delivering continuously personalized enrichment, scaffolding, and mastery to every student.
Consortium Highlights
Changing The Script...
...on using movies in the classroom. Click the button below to see a demo of how Swank's streaming library provides educators with the movies they need, while offering admins more visibility and control over movie usage. Plus, get an exclusive preview of our AI lesson assistant.
Set your students on a path of independent practice with the new, self-paced Explore Zone available in Foundations A-Z. In the Explore Zone, students can review and practice all foundational skills by watching videos, playing games, and reading grade-level books to unlock levels and explore new missions. You can also enrich small group time with the new Phonics Skill Packs in Foundations A-Z. These packs allow you to tailor phonics instruction by individual skill, providing expertly curated resources such as decodable books, practice sheets, and videos.
Individualized learning paths boost student proficiency in ELA & math
Mastery Learning Academy director Sabrina Reynolds relies on ScootPad to understand each student’s strengths and weaknesses, individualize each learning path, and offer engaging practice, remediation, and enrichment for every student. Read the Mastery story here:
Sora Bursts! Summer PD Series - Registration open
While you debrief and think about the year ahead, we invite you to participate in Sora Bursts this summer! Sora Bursts is a professional development opportunity that will help you expand the reach of your Sora library in the 2024-25 school year.
New! Early Childhood Resources and Activities
Discover early literacy resources on TeachingBooks to enhance your reading instruction! See TeachingBooks.net/EarlyChildhood. From this page you can browse our newly curated popular picture books and early reader collections that immerse readers with rich literature and opportunities to practice words beyond a decodable setting. And, explore exclusive printable activity sheets for additional phonetic skill practice.
Empower Students To Discover History
EBSCO’s magazine archives and historical digital archive databases add important historical context to research and are a great way to take advantage of one-time funds.
Upcoming Conferences
The next few months promise to be equally exciting! Here are some of the places you can catch up with us in person:
- Florida Library Association Annual Conference: May 15 - 16, Orlando, FL
- Rhode Island Library Association Conference: May 22 - 23, Providence, RI
- New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference: May 29 - 31, Atlantic City, NJ
- ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition: June 28 - July 1, San Diego, CA
Dive Into How Inventions Changed Our World And Our Lives
Inspire your students to find out about the work of inventors - how thinkers and tinkerers solve problems, improve lives, and shape society through innovation.
Updated Buyer's Guide
A school’s purchasing program should be grounded in the tenets of the school’s mission and values. For over 40 years MISBO has built the most complete consortium that exists with a foundation dedicated exclusively to independent schools.
Through this network, we continue the tradition of finding solutions to today’s problems and anticipating tomorrow’s needs. You should have received a copy in your school's mailbox.
Please feel free to order a few extra by clicking below - they're FREE!
We've updated the digital Buyer's Guide! If you'd like a hard copy, you can download/print the addendum by clicking below.
CONSORTIUM WEBINARS
Helpful Resources
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!
Consortium Hot Topics blog
steamlining After-Hours Events in independent schools:
The power of event management solutions
By Brad Hunter, OperationsHero
"November 5, 2024, will be a very important day in U.S. history. Voters in the United States will go to the polls to cast ballots in elections on the federal, state, and local levels—including for president and Congress—and, in doing so, will help decide the nation’s future. Even before then, voters will choose the party nominees through the primary and caucus contests that will get under way in early 2024."
MISBO Blog by Susan
Summer Lovin': Refresh and renew your campus this summer
by Susan Kimmel
As the spring sun morphs into glaring summer beams, it’s time for a little summer lovin’ for the campus and its dedicated staff and faculty at independent schools. Facilities staff turn into magical beings wielding power washers and paintbrushes, turning dull surfaces into works of art. Technology departments embark on a quest to refresh servers and renew software faster than you can say "Ctrl+Alt+Del." The business office balances budgets with the precision of a tightrope walker and creates graphs worthy of a Fields Medal! And let's not forget about human resources, where the summer months are a whirlwind of activity as they refresh their strategies for recruiting and retaining staff, all while rewriting policies and creating the perfect employee handbook.
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