Why EdTechRI: Technology Directors & IT Staff
EdTechRI understands time is of the essence for K-12 schools technical staff. Membership into EdTechRI connects you with practitioner-only network where you can crowdsource solutions, share configurations and solve collective challenges in minutes rather than days. In addition, our pre-vetted Master Purchasing Agreements (MPAs) replace the endless RFP cycles, and vendor shopping, getting the right technology into your classrooms faster, with companies who understand K-12 education.
Expand Your Bandwidth & Reclaim Your Time
EdTechRI is here to empower and elevate K-12 organizations; not funnel peers into endless sales emails and engagements. K-12 does not have deep human capital to research every solution on the market while bootstrapping our own technical stacks. EdTechRI provides high-level sessions strictly focused for K-12 (peer-to-peer, executive briefings) designed to help you on the “Flavor of the Month,” whether that is AI, cybersecurity, e-sports, or the next academic testing window, EdTechRI’s only focus is K-12 education, inclusive of both public and independent schools.
Actionable Resources, Not Sales Pitches
When you direct your business office to utilize EdTechRI’s MPAs, you are doing more than just securing the best price. The consortium fees created by using our MPAs are recycled directly back into our schools to fund classroom grants, professional tech scholarships, and career readiness initiatives. Those same proceeds are also used to subsidized membership benefits into regional and national K-12 focus organizations, and for our Rhode Island schools, reduced TEC/SDPA membership fees. By keeping your procurement local, you are literally financing our workforce pipeline that will produce your next great helpdesk technician or tech-forward educator.