Fun with Purchasing: April 2025 DER Portal News
Digital Resource Ordering
The Portal Is OPEN!
We are officially in the 2025-2026 order season.
MISBO has collected pricing, updated descriptions, and added new products just for YOU!
Just a reminder: you can order Digital Educational Resource products at any time for the 2025-2026 school year and we won't send you the invoice until July!
Check out our new partners!
Partner Connect
Find Your Perfect Match With MISBO's Partner Connect
by Susan Kimmel
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 Partner
MagicSchool.ai is a website and Chrome extension that offers a suite of AI-powered tools and resources for educators, including lesson planning, assignment design, and assessment generation. The platform offers a variety of tools that can save teachers up to 10 hours a week. MagicSchool.ai is designed specifically for educators and has over 1 million users and 550 districts onboard.
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. Seesaw brings together premium instructional tools and curriculum, inclusive two-way communication, deep learning insights & progress monitoring.
The Seesaw product offered through MISBO is for Seesaw Instruction & Insights, their premium upgrade with advanced tools like Reading Fluency, Focus Mode, Read-with-Me, Flashcards, and Data Dashboards. Existing Seesaw customers can upgrade at an exclusive MISBO discounted rate.
How to Purchase?
For current pricing and sales, please go to http://der.misbo.com.
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.
Consortium Highlights
BrainPOP
5 Activities To Celebrate Earth Day Across the Curriculum
Now more than ever, it’s important for children to learn about the environment and how to protect it so that in the future, they can knowledgeably participate in global conversations about climate change, water quality, renewable energy, wildlife conservation, and more.
Beanstack
Tips To Build A Lifelong Love of Reading
Discover practical strategies to inspire children to embrace reading for life. Learn how to create engaging environments, encourage storytelling, and integrate reading into daily routines to foster a deep, lasting appreciation for books. This is a resource you can share with your student's parents!
EBSCO
Holding Management & Collection Assessment Webinar
April, 24, 2025 | 11:30 AM EST
Discover how Holdings Management simplifies collection tracking and how the new Collection Assessment tool provides insights to evaluate subscriptions, optimize spending, and align collections with user needs.
FactCite
National Poetry Month
In April we celebrate the beauty of verse in all its forms! FactCite has materials that emphasize poetry's fun side, encourage students to read a variety of poems, and guide them in writing their own lines of verse.
ScootPad
Make Practice More Effective
As you consider supplemental learning solutions for next school year, consider ScootPad's balance of effectiveness, efficiency, and affordability. ScootPad is the online, standards-aligned practice solution for grades K-8 that rivals the curriculum practice solutions you’re using now.
Seesaw
Seesaw Math Quest
Zero-prep, high-impact math challenges in under 10 minutes. Boost Student engagement through collaboration and problem solving. Earn badges and track progress on an interactive map. Win prizes!
Sign into Seesaw via a computer before April 30, 2025 to get started!
SORA
It’s no secret some of students’ favorite titles in Sora come from Scholastic, and this month only, Scholastic is offering 50% off hundreds of top books and series like Baby-Sitters Club, Amulet, and Diary of a Pug. Looking for students’ next great listen? Select audiobooks including Wings of Fire and War Horse are also 30% off!
TeachingBooks
Explore resources for jumping-off points that deepen discussions, inspire reading interest, and support connections to books and authors. Easily share and include in your instructional plans, news letters, and social media.
CONSORTIUM WEBINARS
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.
Upcoming Coffee Talks + Replays
replays
COFFEE TALK ARCHIVES
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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!
fun with purchasing blog by susan
April Shower's Bring Consortium Powers
Spring has officially sprung—and so has your school’s to-do list! From planning end-of-year events and graduations to wrapping up budgets, renewing contracts, and preparing for summer projects, the to-do list only grows as the days get longer. It’s a season of transition—blooming with opportunities but also brimming with responsibilities and time-sucking tasks. That’s where the power of the MISBO Purchasing Consortium shines. Whether you're looking to refresh classroom supplies, secure maintenance services, or tackle tech upgrades before the next school year, our partners are ready to help lighten the load, in both time and money!
by Susan Kimmel
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