Program Supporters
It takes a community of forward-thinking, like-minded people to create a 21st century school. To turn the 21S vision into a reality, Cisco forged alliances with education and community leaders, and private and non-profit technology and service delivery organizations.
Technology
Berbee Information Networks Corporation
Privately-held Berbee Information Networks Corporation delivers a comprehensive range of technology solutions, including hardware, software, networking, services, and support. Berbee is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation - more popularly known as IBM - is a leader in the invention, development and manufacture of advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronic. IBM provides professional solutions, services and consulting to companies worldwide.
InterWrite Learning
Interwrite Learning is a premier global provider of interactive learning solutions for primary, secondary and higher education markets. Interwrite Learning has a rich 32-year history of delivering interactive solutions that are changing how the world learns. Interwrite Learning is headquartered in Columbia, MD, with sales and support offices in Scottsdale, AZ, and Munich, Germany. The Company utilizes authorized resellers and distributors in over 90 countries around the world.
Netelligent Corp.
Netelligent focuses on the design, implementation, and maintenance of next generation collaborative networks in IP voice, IP video, and Wireless solutions.
Promethean Inc.
Based in Atlanta, GA, Promethean Inc. is committed to helping teachers engage students and improve understanding. Through the Promethean Collaborative Classroom - which consists of an interactive digital whiteboard, a student response system, a wireless slate and tablet preparation tool - Promethean is giving young minds lively and more effective learning environments.
Government
Louisiana Department of Education
Mississippi Department of Education
Education
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. Crafted over many years in a rigorous development process, these solutions have been shown by external researchers to be highly effective in settings ranging from individual schools to entire states.
Cisco Networking Academy® Program
The Cisco Networking Academy Program is a comprehensive e-learning program that provides students with the Internet technology skills essential in a global economy. Launched in 1997 with 64 schools in seven states, the Networking Academy delivers Web-based content, online assessment, student performance tracking, hands-on labs, instructor training and support, and preparation for industry standard certifications.
EDC
For more than four decades EDC has been a pioneer, building bridges among research, policy, and practice. EDC's award-winning programs and p roducts, developed in collaboration with partners around the globe, consistently advance learning and healthy development for individuals of all ages.
Harvard Wide World
WIDE World (Wide-scale Interactive Development for Educators) is an innovative professional development program based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. WIDE World collaborates with school systems to support and engage teachers as instructional leaders and mentors within their school or district through highly customized, interactive, online and in-person professional development experiences that both teach and model best practices.
Schlechty Center
The Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform provides high-quality and responsive support to those who are leading school reform efforts across the nation. The Center~Rs staff primarily works with public school leaders to transform schools from organizations that produce compliance and attendance to organizations that nurture attention and commitment at all levels in the system.
Tech 2000
Tech 2000's mission is to improve our customers' capabilities by increasing their understanding of the latest communication technologies. We acquire and transfer knowledge of legacy and leading edge communications technology using the most effective, advanced, and adaptive methods available.
The Metiri Group
With a vision for building high-performance public education systems, The Metiri Group delivers a broad range of consulting services that help schools enhance learning, use technology in powerful ways, and foster 21st century skills in students, teachers and administrators. Its clients include schools, school districts, universities, foundations, government agencies, community organizations and education firms.
The University of Mississippi School of Education
The University of Mississippi School of Education is dedicated to the preparation of teaching professionals. Since its creation in 1903, the School of Education has helped train thousands of teachers and counsellors in the United States.
University of Southern Mississippi
Located in Hattiesburg, the University of Southern Mississippi is a research-focused institution whose primary mission is to nurture intellectual development and creativity through the generation, dissemination, application and preservation of knowledge.
Non-Profit
Digital Opportunity Trust
Since it was founded in 2001, Digital Opportunity Trust has helped bridge the digital divide in communities around the world by connecting people with technology and helping them use their new tools to improve their day-to-day lives. DOT has trained dozens of local residents who act as champions of technologies in such countries as Ethiopia, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon.
Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative
Founded in 2003 by the United Nations' Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative works to raise global standards of education in the developing world by providing communities with equipment - such as radio, video and Internet-connected computers - that link them directly to learning.
National Center on Education and the Economy
Founded in 1989, the National Center on Education and the Economy provides advanced education tools and technology that enable young people to gain the world-class skills and knowledge they need to compete in the increasingly global economy.
One Economy
One Economy is a multi-national nonprofit organization that harnesses the power of technology to enable low-income people to improve their lives and join the economic mainstream. One Economy provides broadband service and a multilingual web portal called The Beehive (www.thebeehive.org 
), which delivers information and services ranging from education and health to employment. To date more than nine million people have used the Beehive and over 200,000 low-income people have broadband at home through the work of One Economy.
Advocacy
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
A coalition of businesses, education leaders, and policymakers, Partnership for 21st Century Skills is an advocacy group focused on infusing 21st century skills into education and ensuring that students emerge from schools fully prepared to be effective citizens, workers and leaders in the 21st century.