Educational Service Agencies Drive Critical Change

You’re an Educational Service Agency and in the 45 states where you provide services, you are recognized as critical drivers of educational change. Many school districts lack the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the challenges presented by diminishing local resources and increasing expectations for continuous improvement in educational outcomes. You’ve stepped forward as a critical partner for local school districts as they work to assure success for all their students.

Your mission is to accelerate and support change in an economically challenged environment.  In order to be successful you must:

• Find innovative ways to economically expand the reach and quality of your services.
• Provide pathways for training and supporting professional staff throughout your client base.
• Maximize the value of each staff member by making them more productive.
• Develop customized solutions to meet a wide range of needs in local schools.

BASCOM Unites Technology with Instruction

BASCOM has developed innovative Internet security and curriculum-building tools that meet the needs of your staff and members by providing secure access to age-appropriate, educational Web content and Web-enriched lessons mapped to curriculum/program goals and state standards.  Over the last 15 years, with the help of educators and technologists, we’ve developed our Global Chalkboard to facilitate the productive use of the Internet as an instructional resource by:

• Providing safe access to age-appropriate, Web-enriched curriculum.
• Building a comprehensive, secure, and economical solution for bringing quality Web resources to your members.
• Supporting project-based learning and the development of 21st century skills.
• Delivering flexible filtering that supports the use of YouTube videos and other Web 2.0 tools—such as wikis, blogs, and forums—in education.

In a recent article in Education Leadership, “Teaching the iGeneration,” the author writes, “Our children and youth are immersed in technologies that give them opportunities no previous generation has enjoyed.”  He also cites a concern often stated by teachers, “How can I find time to locate and organize all of these online resources?”

BASCOM’s solutions meet these challenges and more by filling a void in the market that has been unaddressed by technology companies and overlooked by traditional education companies. Our solutions have struck a unique and innovative balance between the traditional needs of networking security professionals and the special needs of educators in learning environments tasked with integrating the Internet into their curriculum.