Educational Partners
ATI approaches work with school districts and early childhood programs as a partnership. The Partnership Model conceives of educational problem solving as a collaborative venture involving all of the stakeholders in the educational process. Through the Partnership Model, ATI maintains a consistent and collaborative approach to support educational initiatives as they relate to Galileo implementation, training, and adaptation to Program and District needs over time.
This approach includes forming strategic partnerships with leaders in technology and education. In some of the strategic partnerships, ATI provides tools in Galileo Online that support the products and services of the strategic partner; in others, tools from the strategic partner support an ATI tool or service. For information concerning the products and services of ATI’s strategic partners, contact them individually for all information on their products and/or services.
Strategic partners who share our goal to support the use of technology to promote learning include:
In addition to our district partnerships, ATI and WestEd have established a partnership to promote standards-based instruction. The
partnership includes implementation of the WestEd Local Accountability Professional Development Series (LAPDS). WestEd training promotes the active involvement of teaching and administrative staff in the process of developing standards-based instruction for the district. “The integration of data from Galileo K-12 Online with the LAPDS provides a powerful solution for making critical and effective instructional decisions on a daily basis,” says Ruth McKenna, Project Director, WestEd.
ATI partners with Scantron, a trusted provider of assessment, survey, and data collection solutions for the education market. Scantron’s software assessment product for education, ParSystem, helps instructors prepare, administer and score tests. Their online and paper-based survey solutions include Class Climate, for managing course evaluations; and SurveyTracker Plus, to create, deploy and analyze surveys. For general forms processing, Cognition software collects handprint, machine print and bubble mark data with more accuracy and reliability than manual data entry. Scantron combines these software products with its scanners and world-class forms to produce end-to-end solutions for education.
ATI has formed an educational partnership with eInstruction, a leading provider of interactive instructional and assessment solutions. This partnership provides school districts with the ability to implement a variety of innovative assessment, reporting, and curriculum tools, including online instructional dialogs, using ATI's new Mercury application and eInstruction's Classroom Performance System (CPS) clickers.
ATI and Design Science have formed a partnership to add advanced equation editing features to the Galileo Online test builder. Design Science offers a range of software products for working with math and science that are used by educators, scientists, engineers, publishing professionals, and professional web developers.
ATI partners with the Arizona Technology in Education Alliance (AzTEA), an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) affiliate. AzTEA is a professional non-profit organization devoted to increasing student achievement through technology in teaching and learning. The AzTEA mission is to empower the educational community in Arizona to infuse technology as an integral part of the educational process.