DER Coffee Talks
Digital educational Resources
At MISBO we believe our Consortium Partners are a valuable resource to our schools, not only providing outstanding pricing but also providing industry expertise and knowledge. These Consortium Partner webinars provide members with an opportunity to learn in-depth about the products and services our partners provide and to connect and build a relationship with our partners. Below is a list of upcoming Consortium Partner webinars.
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Upcoming DER Coffee Talks
Coffee Talk: Seesaw
April 3, 2025
Come see why new partner Seesaw is trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide. Seesaw is the world’s leading elementary learning experience company, offering an award-winning platform and a suite of digital curriculum products for teachers to deliver joyful, accessible instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
Coffee Talk: Seesaw
April 29, 2025
Coffee chat and learn about all the new features of Seesaw Instruction and Insights: an all-in-one elementary platform to consolidate your tech resources. Come see why Seesaw is trusted and used by 25+ million educators around the world.
Coffee Talk: Seesaw
May 14, 2025
Coffee chat and learn about all the new features of Seesaw Instruction and Insights: an all-in-one elementary platform to consolidate your tech resources. Come see why Seesaw is trusted and used by 25+ million educators around the world.
2024+2025 Coffee Talk Replays
Coffee Talk: Seesaw
Come see why new partner Seesaw is trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide. Seesaw is the world’s leading elementary learning experience company, offering an award-winning platform and a suite of digital curriculum products for teachers to deliver joyful, accessible instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
SchoolJoy
From Pages to Professions: How AI and Coaching Shape Student Futures
Capstone
Joe Burns, Capstone's Instructional Innovation Advisor, will be talking with you about Capstone's PebbleGo Suite and how our suite of products encourage students to be inquisitive and curious about the world.
SpringShare
LibGuides and LibGuides CMS allow libraries to flexibly create guides about different topics, subject areas, courses, services, collections – you name it!
BrainPOP
Explore BrainPOP's latest updates and learn impactful instructional strategies to maximize their potential in your classroom.
EBSCO
Introducing the new Ultimate Databases: This suite of full-text databases offers a comprehensive collection of reliable, high-quality resources tailored to meet the needs of middle and high school students and educators.
Sora
Join us for an exploration of Sora, MISBO’s digital library! Discover the student reading app that over 90 MISBO schools already use for ebooks and audiobooks, and learn how you can expand your school’s reading horizons with Sora.
GALE
Join NEW MISBO Consortium Partner Gale to learn more about their offerings through the MSIBO Consortium. Learn how your school can purchase each product at a discounted rate! Teresa will provide an overview and quick demo of the databases available to MISBO members. She will share the Gale In Context suite of products and address questions. This will be informal but informative!
ProQuest
Join Clarivate product manager Larry Wilkner for an overview of the SIRS Discoverer and SIRS Issues Researcher research database solutions.
Lexis Nexis
The presentation will highlight the content, easy search capabilities, and features and functionalities of Nexis Uni.
Orientation: Raz-Kids
Teachers new to Raz-Kids discover resources and learn how to customize the student experience to support proficient reading.
Gale
Join NEW MISBO Consortium Partner Gale to learn more about their offerings through the MSIBO Consortium. Learn how your school can purchase each product at a discounted rate! Teresa will provide an overview and quick demo of the databases available to MISBO members. She will share the Gale In Context suite of products and address questions. This will be informal but informative!
Infobase
Supporting Information Literacy in your classroom and library
Ensure your district has trusted resources for students to gain context and background on key issues and events. Pique student curiosity with the trusted and engaging brand of The World Almanac for younger students and ensuring your higher level students are building research and information literacy, news literacy and digital literacy skills for college, career and beyond. Discover assets to enhance your curriculum by searching for your topic and embed the resources in your content or learning management system or provide students with access for enhanced research and inquiry. Products include Credo Source (High School), World New Digest (High School), World Almanac for Kids (Middle School), World Almanac for Kids (Elementary), and Issues & Controversies (High School).
Tappy:
Learn How To Bring Additional Value To Your Educators!
During this Coffee Talk Tappy discussed:
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- Curriculum Development and Resource Recommendation: Helping review curriculum and suggesting relevant resources that align to the topics, improving student engagement and saving teachers time.
- Customized Learning Materials: Creating personalized learning materials for students based on learning styles and content knowledge which improves engagement.
- Essay Grading: Saving teachers time by grading essays and improving feedback time to students so they get additional writing practice.
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SchoolJoy
Personalized learning at scale: where are we today and where can we be in 12 months?
During this session, we explored ways school systems are using SchoolJoy to support competency-based learning and automate skills tracking. We will also explore the technologies that are available to us today that will enable truly personalized and differentiated learning for every student, as well as the challenges that still need to be overcome for personalized learning to be accessible to and trusted by every student and school system.
TeachingBooks
Learn how you can easily enrich your entire collection with digital content that fosters a love of reading, supports curricular and instructional goals, and helps you respond to diverse student needs and interests.
Beanstack
Join us for a Coffee Talk with Beanstack to learn how, instead of a quiz-based approach, schools are using community-wide reading challenges and gamification to motivate students to read. The flagship product of Zoobean Inc., Beanstack is licensed by 6,000+ schools worldwide.
FactCite
Join FactCite's Co-Founder Susan Gall to hear about FactCite's accessbility features, citations (and integration with NoodleTools), and teaching resources. Participants will receive Poetry Month (April) resources!
Learning A-Z
Learning A-Z has recently aligned our Raz-Plus resources with Scarborough’s Reading Rope. Erin will review this Reading Rope and demonstrate how this interactive platform can help teachers access appropriate resources quickly.
This is a tremendous benefit for many teachers, particularly those who incorporate the Science of Reading in their classrooms.
Springshare
2023 was quite a busy year for Springshare! We’ve added a lot of new features and functionality to our products and are excited to share a recap of all this great development with the MISBO community.
This session is perfect for librarians looking to learn about new features as well as anyone investigating Springshare for the first time!
ScootPad by Learning Explorer
Come meet New MISBO Consortium Partner, Learning Explorer and their adaptive learning platform, ScootPad. ScootPad meets students exactly where they are with the right level of practice, instruction, scaffolding, and assessments to ensure they master every concept. ScootPad automatically detects knowledge gaps in real-time and scaffold learning to prerequisite skills (at or below grade level) to help each student catch up on what they need to move ahead.