Dear Education Decision-maker:

The BLEgroup www.blegroup.com is a network of 180 leading-edge technology practitioners, superintendents, heads of instruction, and tech directors from districts, state departments, service centers, and charter schools throughout the U.S..
  • The BLEgroup works with companies to improve the quality of k12 ed tech products http://blegroup.com/industry-services.php.   
  • Small districts: The BLEgroup mission is  to enable smaller districts to utilize the best technology practices to improve instruction and management by working exclusively with districts under 5,000 students. These districts often lack the product knowledge and management capacity to move to digital teaching and learning. The BLEgroup's work with smaller districts includes technology planning, and implementation support, focused on educational improvement and management efficiency http://blegroup.com/school-services.php.
  • Thought Leadership: Providing information and best practice on critical educational issues: In the next 3 months you will receive easy to understand thought leadership pieces on 1:1 computing to help you make decisions in this area.  http://blegroup.com/thought-leadership.php

2nd article on 1:1 computing: Below is the second of 4 articles you will receive over the next three months.

The BLEgroup produces thought leadership to provide insight and direction to both education decision-makers and industry leaders focused on critical education issues. The thought leadership work comes from meetings between leading districts and publishers interested in 1:1 computing.