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WELCOME TO THE CLS PURCHASING CENTER for 2011-12

We appreciate your patience while the Purchasing Center was being updated for the new school year!

Once again, the Commission on Lutheran Schools (CLS) is pleased to be able to present various services and subscriptions to you for the purpose of enhancing your classroom and outreach ministry.

If you plan to make a Supplemental Contribution to CLS, you will receive a significant discount for any subscription services such as PowerSchool, DE Streaming, and Curriculum Mapper. To avoid any interruption of your current subscription, please pay your renewal fee by October 1. Additional discounts will be offered on WELS School Accreditation (WELSSA) report fees and summer conference fees.

Other tangible benefits of participating in the CLS Supplemental Contribution Program include a complimentary electronic subscription to the quarterly newsletter Parents Crosslink (currently 3.00 per copy); a complimentary subscription to Learn360, the new online video-streaming library; one annual on-site visit from your school counselor; the monthly Council for American Private Schools (CAPE) newsletter, as well as preferred rates on all CLS services, subscriptions, and event registrations.

IMPORTANT NOTE: After you have made a contribution, an email notification will be sent to you within three business days authorizing your school to receive the discounted cost for future purchases. NOTE: Purchasing services prior to receiving the authorization email will not provide you with the discount.

Curriculum mapping is the process of taking what is actually taught in a classroom and journaling it in an organized manner. The journals (maps) focus on the content, skills and assessments that are being used in a given classroom. When these maps are used by the faculty in small and large groups, the conversations are rich and the benefits to the school are great!

The Commission on Lutheran Schools has also partnered with Discovery Education to provide low cost access to DE Streaming, a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service. DE Streaming helps teachers enrich lessons, increase attention levels, and heighten achievement.

NOTE: Schools in Texas and Michigan will need to contact their school district to subscribe through the state-contracted Discovery Education representative. We are not authorized to accept subscriptions from Texas or Michigan.

The Commission on Lutheran Schools has partnered with Pearson Education School Systems to provide WELS schools access to PowerSchool, an innovative student information system. PowerSchool starts with the student in the center and is designed to ensure administrators, teachers, students, and parents get real-time, web-based access to the student information they need to work as a team and help every child succeed.

In 2003, the Commission on Lutheran Schools resolved to establish a school accreditation process as a means of improving the educational quality and effectiveness of Lutheran schools and their ministry. WELS School Accreditation (WELSSA) is the very tool that has been developed to assist schools with the evaluating process based on Scripture and on sound educational principles.

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