It’s Time for Your School to Embrace STEAM-powered Learning
Prepare Your Students for Their Future in Technology Markets This blog originally appeared on Connection’s Connected blog. 2020 brought many challenges to learning, and now districts across the country are working to address what has been termed “learning loss”—or the term I prefer “unfinished learning.” Some of the funding that schools are using to help […]
CMMC: What It Is and Why It Is Important
Breaking Down the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a security framework implemented by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to improve protection of the defense industrial base. Like other security frameworks, the CMMC has a collection of controls for processes and practices with the goal of achieving a certain […]
How Schools Can Negotiate Global Marketplace Challenges
Two Steps to Addressing These Ongoing Issues In the wake of COVID-19, the global marketplace is currently facing a number of supply chain and logistic challenges. Pandemic-related labor disruptions in the manufacturing industry have created shortages of raw materials such as plastics, computer chips and nickel, while a surge in consumer demand has strained the […]
Supplier Spotlight: Carahsoft
Carahsoft’s Commitment to Supplier Diversity We sat down with Martin Gavin, Senior Program Manager at Carahsoft, to discuss the details of their diversity supplier program. When and why did Carahsoft decide to create a diversity supplier program? Carahsoft recognizes the importance of partner diversity to the United States economy and has a longstanding history of […]
E&I Cooperative Services Launches its eProcurement Solution, E&I Marketplace
September 2021 | Two new eProcurement platforms now available to E&I members
Ransomware Incident Response Planning
How to Prepare For the Worst & Choose Partners to Support Your “Digital Resilience” Colonial Pipeline, Kaseya, Solar Winds, Microsoft… the list goes on and on. In the past 12 months alone, more than one third of all organizations globally have faced some type of ransomware incident, according to a recent survey by research firm […]
Supplier Spotlight: Red Hat
An Interview with Red Hat, Available Through the E&I Carahsoft Contract We recently sat down with Bill Hirsch, Principal Solutions Architect, and Damien Eversmann, Delivery Strategist for Education at Red Hat, to discuss Red Hat’s key features and benefits for E&I members. Please tell us about the types of cloud products and services you provide […]
Rethinking Early Childhood & Elementary Classroom Learning Environments
Flexibility: The New Movement in Classroom Design Reminiscing about the first days of kindergarten or elementary school brings that familiar song back, the one that includes the line, “…we’re all in our places with bright shining faces.” What a difference a few decades have made. As classroom teachers and instructional leaders have planned for the […]
Improving Student Admission Rates in Higher Ed
Taking a Data-Driven Approach This blog originally appeared on Collaborative Solutions’ blog. Higher education is currently facing unprecedented challenges. Having to pivot to remote learning in 2020, higher education institutions now must find safe ways of bringing students back to campus, while also reducing costs and increasing organizational efficiency. Perhaps, the biggest challenge is contending […]
How to Achieve Sustainability in Your Lab
6 Ways to Create a Sustainable Lab and Save Money In this day and age, it is becoming more and more important to be sustainable and help ensure this planet is here for future generations to come. The act of becoming sustainable helps the environment but can also save money. Many practices to help go […]