Corporate Sponsors Program Information

Each company listed below is a NCASA Corporate Member. NCASA recognizes their dedication to our profession, our mission and our needs for reliable professional service. Please call on these members with confidence.

Benefactor Level

Apple, Inc. education solutions seamlessly integrate today’s digital tools for creating, accessing, and distributing media-rich content. With discounts for students, teachers, and their schools, Apple has never had more to offer education to foster creativity, communication, and collaboration, and enable mobile learning. Visit Apple, Inc.'s website.

Brady Energy Services is the leading supplier of Trane Integrated Comfort SolutionsTM and services for commercial and industrial buildings in North Carolina, employing more than 300 associates. A family owned corporation founded by current CEO Don Brady in 1962, the company provides "one-stop accountability" for clients seeking single-source solutions. Brady  partners with its customers to design and maintain their facilities in top operating conditions regardless of industry. Brady is headquartered in Greensboro, N.C. and has offices in Raleigh, Charlotte, Fayetteville and Wilmington. For more information, visit www.bradyservices.com.

At Golden Corral Corporation, we believe in the importance of “giving back” to local charities, schools and non-profit organizations in support of our local communities. This spirit is not only felt at the Company Support Center in Raleigh, NC, but is a driving force in each of our restaurants in the way they do business. Visit the Golden Corral website.

Ignite! Learning delivers premium digital content and assessments for today’s 21st century classroom configured entirely by grade-level, subject and state with the all-new Torch! The I.O.N. or “Ignite! Over Networks” is ideal for district-wide applications. Ignite! allows administrators to select customized curriculum for purchase and immediate use. Our delivery platforms are fully functional on both Mac and PC. The Torch! requires no installation while the I.O.N. is server based; both are ideal for interactive whiteboard equipped schools, also working with a simple projector/computer setup in any classroom, as well as individual computer workstations.  Teachers build and save state standards-based lessons while administrators, through usage-tracking features, can assess how investments in digital content are being leveraged for academic progress. Ignite! carries a “motivation or your money back” guarantee. Learn more at www.ignitelearning.com.

Scholastic Corporation is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology and children’s media. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children’s books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. Scholastic distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs and school-based book fairs, retail stores, schools, libraries, television networks and www.scholastic.com.

Scholastic’s Literacy Partnership: Through this program nonprofit agencies can purchase books from Scholastic at a 35-80% discount for student home libraries.

Strongly believing that one educator can make a difference in a student’s life, SMART has been supporting educators by providing innovative products and services since 1991. Educators were the first to take an interest in SMART’s interactive whiteboards, immediately seeing their potential as instructional, professional development and student collaboration tools. Since then, that initially small group of educators has grown into an international community spanning 75 countries. There are now hundreds of thousands of teachers and students who use SMART solutions daily to help make classroom lessons more engaging and effective. SMART continues to improve these solutions by listening to customer feedback at all levels of its organization. SMART is closely involved with educators, has created professional development programs and fosters an online community for teachers using its products. For more information visit www.smarttech.com.

Time To Know is a complete, interactive curriculum system designed specifically for today’s one-to-one computing classrooms. With Time To Know, the teacher guides the class using an engaging curriculum that is integrated with tools for classroom management, planning, assessment and collaboration. By creating a new educational product category, the Digital Teaching Platform, Time To Know is helping school districts improve the quality of teaching and learning, while fully realizing the vision of one-to-one computing. For more information visit www.timetoknow.com.

VIF International Education helps K-12 schools create sustainable and effective international learning environments. VIF develops and manages comprehensive international education programs, including Splash! Language Immersion and the Passport Global Literacy school model that emphasizes experiential learning, cultural exposure and early language skills. Designated by the U.S. Department of State as an Exchange Visitor Program, VIF’s 20-year history is rooted in building a world-class education and providing greater opportunities to expose students to the world’s languages, its myriad cultures, and diverse perspectives through international teachers. International Learning Starts Here. www.vifprogram.com

Diamond Level

America’s Choice

America's Choice® offers uniquely powerful solutions to bring all students to high standards. These solutions include carefully aligned instructional materials, assessments, management systems, professional development, coaching and consulting. All of these components have been crafted over many years in a rigorous development process, extensively field-tested and shown by external researchers to be highly effective in settings ranging from individual schools to entire states. No other organization has worked harder to understand why the most effective education systems get the results they do or to build the kind of coherent, powerful instructional programs that characterize the most successful systems in the world. Since 1998, America's Choice has had a direct impact on the educational success of more than one million students across the country.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology

Lifetouch National School Studios

 Platinum Level

Silver Level

Perkins + Will

Corporate Level

CompassLearning

MBAJ Architecture

M.B. Kahn Construction Co., Inc.

MHAworks

Moseley Architects

NORESCO

Pierce Group Benefits

PLATO Learning

RN Rouse & Co., Inc.

SFL+a Architects

Southern Management Group