Corporate Partners

Blackboard’s unique approach to K-12 education provides a way for students to learn in a safe, connected, and technologically savvy environment. Our platform focuses on three foundational challenges districts face: maintaining a safe and secure space for academic achievement, engaging and informing the entire community, and advancing personalized, competency-based learning.  Click here to learn more. 

CrisisGo delivers technology that supports schools and districts' efforts to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from critical situations. The CrisisGo incident management platform can be used to digitize safety response plans and support threat assessment teams. The system include instant emergency alerts, communication, status checks and reunification tools. CrisisGo reduces response times and drives efficiency and situational awareness to save time in an emergency. CrisisGo also allows your students, teachers, staff, parents, and first responders to communicate about safety-related issues at any given moment by giving them an easy and clear pathway to safety. CrisisGo make parents part of the reunification process from the start, with real-time communication about each child throughout critical events. Click here to learn more. 

DYOPath was formed after the merger of Single Path and DYONYX. It uses an innovative model to work with district leadership and align the integration of technology with its mission to improve student learning. We are unique because we have a company of experienced educators, administrators, superintendents, and technology consultants that can deliver and execute upon a district’s vision. Click Here to learn more.

Guin Mundorf, LLC is a preeminent law firm representing public schools in Illinois. The firm's highly experienced attorneys devote their time to cost effective counseling, solving problems and litigating on behalf of education clients. Guin Mundorf, LLC represents its educational clients in a wide variety of areas, including employment and personnel matters, collective bargaining, open meetings and records, purchasing and contracting, policy development, student rights, FERPA, employee benefits, including HIPAA, vocational education, school finance, election law, tort claims, insurance law, real estate and special education. Click Here to learn more. 

Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn LLP (HLERK) is a leader in Illinois school, municipal and park district law. With 25 years of practice, HLERK is confident in saying the firm is successful. HLERK has grown from five founding partners to 21 partners, from six attorneys to 35 attorneys, from one office to three, and its client base has increased more than 500 percent since 1990. With few exceptions, HLERK attorneys began their law career with the firm and have remained. The firm currently represents public school districts, private schools, colleges and universities, municipalities, park districts and other local governments, as well as private corporations and associations throughout Illinois. Click here to learn more.

Horace Mann is an insurance and financial services company that is committed to helping educators and all school employees achieve financial success at every stage of their lives.  We also understand the importance of staying within a budget and help our customers identify resources within their existing budgets to direct to their financial goals. With strategies to reduce or eliminate student loan debt, ways to secure classroom funding without using their own money and insurance program reviews to find savings, we work to maximize their hard-earned dollars and help develop a path to a successful financial future. Click Here to learn more. 

Humanex Ventures partners with leaders in the community to help them achieve their potential. It specializes and supports its education partners through: Selection Assessments, Developmental Assessments, Culture & Climate: Assessments & Consulting, Student Engagement: Assessments & Consulting and Student Career Guidance: Assessments & Consulting. Click Here to learn more.

Kings Financial Consulting offers advisory services, including Bond Financing, Referendum Assistance, Levy Preparation and Cash Flow Projections. Kings specializes in District self-purchase of Bonds for investment income and assistance with Local Sales of Bonds to your community investors. Click Here to learn more. 

As a boutique education law firm, Kriha Boucek will partner with public school districts and cooperatives to provide innovative, proactive and cost-effective legal services and solutions, allowing school board members and administrators to focus on their important mission of educating children. We truly value client relationships and make it our business to understand yours. Click Here to learn more. 

Renaissance creates assessment and practice solutions that put learning analytics to work for educators, saving hours of prep time while making truly personalized learning possible. Schools nationwide use our solutions to analyze students’ abilities and guide high-quality instruction. We help teachers teach better, students learn better, and school administrators lead better—all to improve academic outcomes. 

A top ranked underwriter of school bonds in Illinois and nationally – Stifel can assist with all of your capital planning needs from the County School Facilities Sales Tax to health life safety bonds to cash flow borrowing to planning and preparing for possible tax caps.  Stifel helps our clients with short term needs but always keeps in mind long term flexibility. Click Here learn more.