Siteimprove: Your Guide to Web Accessibility

Looking to make your website more inclusive? Refer to Siteimprove's web accessibility guide for some best practices on keeping your site compliant and accessible to all!

In partnership with AEA Purchasing, Siteimprove will offer negotiated pricing for interested Iowa schools.

Siteimprove helps make your school’s website more accessible for every student, parent, and community member.

Teachboost: Using Video to Advance Coaching

If you're looking for a great tool that can help improve your teaching practices, TeachBoost and their blog (The Launchpad) is a great place to start. As such, we'd like to draw your attention to an original TeachBoost blog post on the use of video to advance your coaching practices. 

Take a minute to read what they have to share and then head back on over to our website for complete details on how your school can take advantage of the services TeachBoost provides while saving money at the same time!

TeachBoost is an instructional leadership platform that integrates evaluation, coaching, and professional learning to build capacity and improve teaching practices. 

Siteimprove's Intelligence Platform

Siteimprove's mission is to improve your website. Their name says it all. Simply put, their Intelligence Platform does the following (and more!):

• Measures website performance at a glance.
• Provides quality assurance to eliminate errors and keep your brand/messaging consistent.
• Draws attention to accessibility issues.
• Offers key metrics to help understand your online audience.
• Allows you to act with digital certainty.

For complete details on the magic of Siteimprove, view their PDF that's all about their Intelligence Platform. When done, head on over to their AEA Purchasing profile page and learn more about how to build their platform into your existing site and save money while doing so!

Q&A Series: CMMS-DudeSolutions

What is a CMMS?

How do you use and/or implement a CMMS?

Why make the switch to a CMMS to keep on top of your inventory, maintenance tasks, etc.?

All these questions and more are explored by DudeSolutions in their  Q&A Series: CMMS.

DudeSolutions is a long time vendor partner of AEPA and AEA Purchasing.

3 Partners You Need to Know (May)

Rapids Wholesale provides discounts and savings on the tools and equipment your kitchen needs to serve your students. Such items include cookie sheets, pots, pans, utensils, aprons, carts, racks, food storage, etc.

School Specialty carries a wide array of school essentials, furniture and technology from well-known brands as well as popular proprietary brands. Their many catalogs include special education supplies, PE equipment, school security products, your everyday classroom supplies and much more.

Sportime provides physical activity equipment and sporting goods that have been designed by PE teachers and are driven to motivate children of all ages and all ability levels.

Promotion from National Business Furniture

AEA Purchasing vendor partner National Business Furniture invites you to participate in their Ultimate Office Makeover promotion. Visit them online for entry details.

In addition, join their chat on Tuesday, May 8th at 4pm CST for a chance to win a classroom full of furniture! Event hosted on Twitter @nbfonline. #WhyWeWork Participants will be entered to win 30 desks and 30 chairs valued at $4000.00

Mark Your Calendars! (May)

There's still time to order the 2018-19 IASL Award book titles! Order forms are available online from Perma-Bound.

Adobe webinars are scheduled for May 9th at 10 am and May 10th at 2 pm. Contact Laurie for more details.

The last day to respond to our "Get to Know Us" survey is May 10th. Email Laurie for more information.

On May 15th, AEA Purchasing will be presenting at Clayton County's Safety Day. Staff will be teaching students and school staff on the importance of safe food handling. If you're school will be attending, be sure to say hello!

AEA Purchasing's Summer 2018 Paper Buy closes May 25th. Get your order in today!