Fun with Purchasing: September 2025 Updates
Find Your Perfect Match With MISBO's Partner Connect
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!
NEW MISBO PARTNERS
Subbey, Inc.
The Subbey app, created by a longtime MISBO teacher, is transforming how schools manage substitute teacher scheduling. Designed specifically for schools, Subbey provides an affordable, fast, and simple solution that allows teachers to request subs in under 30 seconds while giving administrators real-time visibility into coverage and accountability. Schools using Subbey report saving up to 80% of the time it previously took to coordinate substitutes, freeing up valuable resources for other priorities. Implementation is tailored to each school, and their team partners with you to ensure a smooth rollout that meets your unique needs. With Subbey, teachers, administrators, and substitutes all benefit from a streamlined process that makes scheduling stress-free, efficient, and reliable—so much so that schools can’t imagine returning to
outdated systems of phone calls.
Watch this video to learn what Subbey is all about.
Outdoor Lighting Perspectives
Services Include:
Architectural Accent Lighting: Highlight the architectural features of your buildings & structures to create a striking visual presence after dark.
Security Lighting Solutions: Ensure safe premises with strategically placed lighting that keeps your visitors and property safe.
Landscape & Garden Illumination:Showcase the beauty of your commercial landscapes, gardens, and outdoor spaces.
Parking & Walkway Lights:Enhance safety and navigation for both vehicles and pedestrians.
Energy-Efficient LED Options: Implement low-voltage, environmentally friendly solutions that save on energy costs.
Customized Solutions for Events & Holidays: Create a perfect ambiance with our turnkey holiday lighting and decoration solutions that include design, installation, removal, and storage
Conserva Irrigation
At Conserva, they specialize in Efficient Irrigation and Water Management, with conservation as a guiding principle. Their innovative, data-driven approach and proprietary tools like the Commercial Site Assessment (CSA) help our customers realize significant water and cost savings. Conserva is the only irrigation-focused company with a national footprint, providing top-tier irrigation systems and service that keep your school grounds lush, healthy, and water-efficient. Services offered include repair & maintenance, ongoing maintenance plans, new system design & installation, system modernization and drainage services. Additionally, Conserva can provide a system site assessment to determine the health of your irrigation system, formulate a plan to address the issues and maximize water efficiency along with recurring cost savings.
i-Tech Support
i-Tech for Schools: Elevating Learning Through Tech & Tailored Support i-Tech partners with independent schools to deliver dynamic EdTech and flexible Managed or Co-Managed IT services—spanning interactive whiteboards, student devices, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, network monitoring, help desk support, and vCIO/CTO strategy. Our certified team (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Canvas, Jamf) bridges tech and teaching through tailored instructional coaching, K-12 professional development, and immersive project-based learning (PBL) integration—guiding schools from initial rollout through ongoing benchmarking and assessment. Whether supporting your IT department or serving as your full technology partner, i-Tech ensures schools stay secure, innovative, and focused on what matters most, educating students for future success.
Independent School Benefits Consortium (ISBC)
The Independent School Benefits Consortium (ISBC), through Oswald Companies and its Assurex Partners, provides discounted healthcare premium pricing and comprehensive employee benefits programs throughout the country. In addition to premium leverage, services include: Strategic Consulting, Medical and Ancillary Plan Brokerage, Health Care Reform Updates/Direction, Health Management Services, Analysis and Benchmarking, Human Resources Compliance Support, Ongoing Education, Technology Support and Employee Communication and Enrollment Services. The ISBC has a proven track record over the past 10 years to identify risk on an aggregate level to help and proactively promote wellness, mitigate health risk and ultimately reduce healthcare costs. The ISBC offers expertise in healthcare captive strategies, providing schools with options to manage risk and control long-term healthcare costs.
Fun with purchasing blog by Susan
Stop Doom-Scrolling and Start Tool-Scrolling
by Susan Kimmel
It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon. You should be folding laundry, catching up on email, or finally decluttering that garage shelf. But somehow, you’ve fallen into the black hole of your favorite social media feed. You're scrolling past cat videos and vacation reels when… BAM! An ad pops up for something you didn’t know you needed until this very moment. It’s genius. It’s perfect. You click. You buy.
Snacks and partner facts
Snacks & Partner Facts
The Snacks & Partner Facts Series has had a serious glow-up! Now easier (and way more useful), this series runs every Tuesday and delivers either:
- Educational Bites: think navigating school choice, attracting teachers and families, building best-in-class HR departments, and more.
- Success Stories: hear directly from your peers on how they’re succeeding with our partners.
- New Partners: learn more about the new MISBO partners.
Check out the full lineup here
Watch Our Latest Webinar with Draco Group
MISBO PARTNERS HIGHLIGHTS
Draco Group
Our friends at Draco Group recently captured something special in a new brand story video created just for our school partners. This short film highlights the power of partnership and the value they bring to independent schools like yours. It’s an inspiring look at how collaboration and shared vision can strengthen our community.
Carrier Enterprise
Discover Your Path to Success This Fall
CE PATH is our new learning platform helping HVAC pros like you advance your career. We just added several in-person and virtual trainings that are filling up fast!
EdTech Recruiting
Q&A: Is It Possible To Have Too Much Technology in Classrooms?
Digital tools are greatly enhancing the teaching and learning experience in ways that could never have been imagined, but is there such a thing as too much tech in the K–12 classroom?
Ergotron’s Brian Tamminen, senior product manager, and Grant Henriksen, director of sales, spoke with EdTech about the ways that teachers are using purposeful processes and analog tools to balance out the increasing adoption of digital platforms.
Mackin
September Mackin Community
Explore Shannon Hale’s author interview, MackinVIA’s redesign, MackinVision launch, CKLA collections, affordable eBooks, and staff picks. Packed with fresh tools, blogs, and inspiration to spark creativity and strengthen your library!
Batteries Plus
Stay Powered Through Any Emergency
September is National Preparedness Month—make sure your business is ready for storms and outages with reliable backup power.
Batteries Plus stocks fresh SLA batteries for UPS systems, emergency lighting, and other critical equipment—plus generator batteries to keep power flowing when it matters most. With local inventory on demand and fast delivery, we’ll keep your operations running through any emergency.
OneDigital
Managing open enrollment without a full HR department can be daunting. The main challenges include navigating complex benefits options, ensuring compliance with regulations, communicating effectively with employees, and providing personalized support, all while juggling daily business operations.
Fractional HR support offers small teams access to experienced HR professionals on a part-time basis, eliminating the need for a full-time HR department. These experts can guide you through open enrollment by:
- Providing strategic advice and best practices tailored to your business.
- Managing compliance with regulations such as ACA, COBRA, and ERISA, reducing the risk of penalties.
- Streamlining processes by implementing efficient systems and technology.
- Offering personalized support to employees, answering questions, and facilitating clear communication.
With fractional HR support, small businesses can confidently navigate open enrollment, ensure compliance, and deliver a smooth experience for employees.
ProLogic ITS
Safeguard your campus with ProLogic ITS
Where digital, physical, and environmental security solutions come together to protect students, staff, and facilities. From advanced surveillance to smart sensors and cybersecurity, we deliver a complete safety ecosystem tailored for independent and private schools.
HELPFUL RESOURCES
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CONTACT US
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