Sponsor & Exhibitor Directory
Thank you to our 2025 conference sponsors and exhibitors!

ValuTeachers
PLATINUM SPONSORValuTeachers implements 403(B)/457(B) Retirement Savings Plans for Charter Schools at no costs to the schools. These plans provide employees the opportunity to save for retirement conveniently through payroll as an important supplement to GA-TRS. ValuTeachers plans are customized to meet each school's unique needs. We also provide retirement education workshops and enrollment services to encourage participation and assist employees in developing a savings plan.
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Joe Costa & Associates, Inc.
SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORAs the Endorsed Benefits Broker for the GCSA, Joe Costa & Associates creates value through employee benefits that enable employers to attract top talent, retain key personnel and extend a foundation on which a school can achieve success. Much can be accomplished through a successful employee benefits plan, and most employers haven’t experienced the full potential of employee benefits. We are proud to serve more of Georgia’s Charter Schools and Charter School Teachers than any other broker in the state, and we would love the opportunity to serve you.
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Cariina
GOLD SPONSORDoes managing your charter school feel harder than it should?” Cariina, part of the Charter School Growth Fund’s Innovation Portfolio, is the Organizational Management System for everything non-instructional. Cariina transforms frequent frustrations into streamlined solutions, giving your school THE tool that saves time, reducing chaos, and bringing resources back to the classroom so you can focus on what truly matters—student success.
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Technology Lab
GOLD SPONSORWe conduct assessments to understand how your school operates and generates revenue. This process helps us determine your school’s “whys,” aligning your technology strategy with your goals. Understanding your school beyond the technical aspects identifies opportunities for improvement and performance led by technology. Also unique, our approach to hiring engineers and technicians keeps the overall customer experience in mind. We focus on technical aptitude and the equally important human aspects of customer experience: empathy and people skills. We pride ourselves on our 97% customer satisfaction rate because it shows that we put our customers first.
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Krevolin | Horst
SILVER SPONSORKrevolin & Horst is a boutique business law firm comprised of highly credentialed former partners and associates from some of the largest US and international firms. K&H’s lawyers attended many of the top law schools including Yale, Columbia, Penn, Michigan, Stanford, Georgetown, Virginia, Emory, and Georgia. Eleven of 15 litigators clerked for federal judges (four for Court of Appeals judges and seven for District Court). The business model is to offer Big Law talent with the responsiveness, agility, and cost effectiveness of a smaller firm. K&H’s practice is a sophisticated B2B practice encompassing appeals, business litigation, commercial real estate, corporate, corporate governance/business divorce/officer & director liability, education, election, employment, franchise, healthcare, intellectual property/unfair competition, internal investigations, mergers & acquisitions, securities, technology, and white collar. K&H represents a wide array of clients from individuals, to small to mid-cap, to Fortune 500 companies.
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SouthState Bank
SILVER AND LANYARD SPONSORAt SouthState Bank, we’re committed to innovative solutions that make our customers’ lives easier and more convenient.
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Association of American Educators
GCSA AWARDS LUNCHEON SPONSORPartnered with GCSA, Association of American Educators is a professional association serving educators in all 50 states. AAE is a non-union, non-profit organization with a non-partisan focus on lifting the teacher voice and profession through student-centered policies and advocacy. We provide liability insurance and access to legal services for administrators, teachers, and education staff at schools throughout the country, including many public charter schools.
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Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin
COCKTAIL RECEPTION SPONSORGilbert, Harrell, Sumerford & Martin, P.C., is one of the oldest law firms in Georgia, with a tradition of providing quality legal services that spans across three centuries. Today, we are a progressive and growing law firm that continues to build upon our strong history. We do so by relying on a timeless approach of offering outstanding legal services at cost-effective rates.
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Hunton
COCKTAIL RECEPTION SPONSORFor more than 120 years, Hunton has served clients across the globe with a collaborative and purposeful approach. With offices strategically located in the United States and around the world, the firm is known for its strength in the energy, financial services, real estate, and retail and consumer products industries, as well as its considerable depth across numerous practice areas. Hunton fosters a strong culture built upon an unwavering commitment to its clients, colleagues, and communities.
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Facility Resource Center (FRC)
Table # 2025 GCSA CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE YEAR AWARD SPONSOROur services are designed to help you succeed. Building a school is a complicated endeavor. Our mission is to ensure you have all the information you need to make the best decisions possible - ultimately, we want you to save money.
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Educators Now Educational Staffing
2024 TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD SPONSOREducators Now is a leading education firm providing quality educators and school staff on a temporary, long-term, or permanent basis. The firm is dedicated to closing the teacher vacancy gap each year while assisting with day to day staffing of childcare, grade school, afterschool programs and more.
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SLA Management
Named one of the Top 50 School Foodservice Providers in the country for 4 years running by Food Management Magazine and was also included on their list for 2022 Top 10 Rising and Top 6 Foodservice Companies to Watch, SLA Management provides complete school foodservice management, specializing in K–12 Charter Schools who do or would like to participate in the National School Lunch Program. Our boutique-style approach allows us to partner with our schools to create individually tailored programs meeting the needs and goals of the schools we serve. Our team is comprised of talented, dedicated food service professionals who have a passion for what they do.
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Hertz Furniture
Hertz Furniture is committed to offering top quality, competitively priced furniture that meets your needs. We strive to provide the best customer experience possible, whether you're buying a single chair or furnishing an entire campus. Our goal is complete customer satisfaction.
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Easysuite Software
Lotterease is a Lottery and Parent Communication System that saves charter schools time and money. In addition, it ensures that charter schools are compliant with state lottery laws so that they are protected from claims of lottery fraud. Lotterease automatically manages siblings, weighted applications and waitlists. Parents can apply and confirm attendance online. If you are still using paper or excel based lotteries, save yourself the headache and get Lotterease.
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The Stepping Stones Group
The Stepping Stones Group, a national leader, brings together leaders in therapeutic and behavioral health services. Wherever children, parents, and educators are seeking support for unique challenges, we provide solutions. It's our mission. And we pursue it passionately each and every day.
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Inspiroz
Inspiroz is a managed IT service provider that works with over 200 charter schools, including KIPP Metro Atlanta (7 KIPP Networks total), Uncommon Schools, and Democracy Prep, just to name a few. We focus our work on charter schools and collaborate with school leaders to make technology an organization-wide initiative by providing:
- 24/7/365 help desk and network monitoring
- On-site technical support from a dedicated School Technology Specialist
- Ed-tech application support
- Strategic technology planning
We are mission-driven and care deeply about the work charter schools are working to achieve.

Piper Sandler
Piper Sandler provides facility financing to charter schools, including acquisitions, new constructions, renovations, modulars, equipment, and working capital for charter schools throughout the nation. We have procured these financings for a wide range of schools from startups to large management organizations using tax-exempt bonds, CDFI lending and bank placements. Our focus is the execution of the transaction at hand through the delivery of superior client service, resulting in the establishment of enduring, long-term relationships. Our goal is to help charter schools attain a facility that meets their needs by providing the maximum amount of funds at the lowest overall cost.
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Civic Builders
Civic Builders is the nation's leading nonprofit developer and lender supporting the creation and growth of high-quality public charter schools. Our team removes real estate as a barrier to an excellent public education. Across the country, these schools empower students within and beyond the classroom, and revitalize communities from one generation to the next. Our team’s extensive expertise in both real estate and lending enables us to provide support to the charter school sector. Great public schools with high-quality facilities are community anchors that provide access to transformative opportunities in traditionally under-resourced communities. Civic Builders’ portfolio represents $1.45 billion invested into low-income and historically marginalized communities.
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Smartlab
Turnkey PBL-centered STEM learning environments and curricula that prepare students for the careers of tomorrow
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Read 21
Read 21 provides service in the Science of Reading and Critical Thinking. We train teachers along with our multisensory, autonomous, online web application that allows students to read fluently in 21 days or less. After the 21 days, students dive into a rigorous Critical Thinking program, causing them to move from Tier 3 to Tier 1 with our programs!
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Collaborative Classroom
Collaborative Classroom is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization with evidence-based, classroom-tested resources for early childhood through grade 12. We are your partner to ensure that all children become fluent readers, skilled writers, and critical thinkers who learn from, care for, and respect one another.
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BoardonTrack by TransAct
BoardOnTrack is the platform, partner, and community empowering charter boards and executive leaders to reach a higher bar, together. BoardOnTrack simplifies board governance and provide all that your board needs to help deliver on your charter promises, all in one place.
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Buckeye International - Atlanta
Buckeye International, Inc. has earned its reputation as a leader in the cleaning and maintenance products industry. Buckeye manufactures a comprehensive line of cleaning and maintenance products.
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Right At School
Right At School provides safe, engaging, and meaningful in-school and extracurricular programs to enrich the lives of students, give parents peace of mind, and enable schools to focus on their academic mission.
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Zaner-Bloser
Zaner-Bloser create tools for educators that help elementary students become more joyful, creative learners and communicators.
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True IP Solutions
VoIP company that provides telecommunications solutions, equipment, and technical support for residential communities, and businesses of all sizes.
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All South Flooring
Company Description: Not sure what all you are wanting here but you can use, "Flooring distributor throughout the Southeast since 2016".
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Transformation 180
Transformation 180 is an innovative educational consulting firm dedicated to reshaping the landscape of learning. We offer tailored solutions to educational institutions, educators, and students, ensuring that every stakeholder in the education process can thrive. By leveraging cutting-edge research, data analytics, and personalized coaching, Transformation 180 aims to foster environments where learning is both effective and enjoyable.
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Building Hope
Non-profit facilities, financial, and operational services for charter schools.
Building Hope’s decades of expertise in finance, real estate and charter school operations provides schools with the advantage of having a high-level professional partner with a shared mission of creating high-quality, innovative charter schools.
Our impact shines in the students and families whose lives are forever transformed through the power of great education.
We build community. We build schools. We build hope.
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Barobo
The Barobo program fosters hands-on learning based on real-life problems and supports learning in multiple contexts, including classroom, remediation, intervention, supplemental, enrichment, acceleration, and expanded learning.
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LocknCharge
LocknCharge is an innovative company combining the power of software and hardware to revolutionize the way organizations are managing tablets, laptops, Chromebooks, phones, and other physical assets. Our mission is to ensure organizations aren't losing critical working or learning time due to broken, lost, or forgotten devices by providing device accountability and instant access.
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Oak Bridge Insurance
Oakbridge Insurance is recognized as a Top 100 Independent Agency. Our risk management professionals partner with education clients to address the unique challenges facing schools by first helping school’s implement best practices to control risk and build an underwriting profile allowing schools to position themselves as “best in class” risks when going to market. With broad market representation, Oakbridge brings the best carriers and coverage options to the table for each school. Not only does this strategy minimize the cost of coverage but also provide predictability of costs for easier budgeting.
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BrightThinker
Bright Thinker strives to provide quality, character-based learning tools and options that equip students to be academically successful and school staff to better serve the students enrolled in their programs.
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Clarity Consulting Group
Clarity Consulting Group specializes in offering customized assessment, planning, policy-writing and coaching.
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SCAD
Offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university, SCAD is uniquely qualified to prepare talented students for professional, creative careers.
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ParentSquare
ParentSquare is the leading provider of digital family and community engagement solutions for K-12 institutions, serving over 20 million students across all 50 states. Districts and charter schools rely on ParentSquare’s unified platform for mass notifications, classroom communications, school websites, translation in 130+ languages, and other everyday parent interactions. ParentSquare helps schools engage every family, improve communication equity, and offers a single platform for all school-to-home communications—text, email, app, web, and voice. Seamless integrations with existing SIS easily connect schools with families to advance student success. Founded in 2011, ParentSquare has experienced over 500% growth in the last three years.
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Our Children Read
Our Children Read sells books, written by Sean George, featuring Black & Brown main characters. Currently we have 60 books with 11 in Spanish and 11 in French. Our children’s books not only feature Black & Brown main characters, but they also cover a variety of areas (I.e. Beginning Reader books, Self-Love & Self-Confidence (Affirmation) books, Story books, books about children with disabilities, books about families, a bullying book, a mental health book, books in Spanish, books in French, SEL books, etc.).
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Parrish Construction Group
Established in 1995, Parrish Construction Group, Inc. is a full service construction management firm. Parrish specializes in delivering projects within the K-12, higher education, healthcare, municipal, and industrial markets.
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National Charter Institute
The National Charter Institute empowers people and organizations - authorizers, boards, and schools to grow and achieve more than they think possible.
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NWEA
NWEA MAP: Committed to Helping All Kids Learn
Who We Serve
At NWEA, we work hand-in-hand with educators across schools, districts, and states to foster student growth. Through evidence-based assessments and learning solutions, we meet the needs of all learners—because every student deserves an opportunity to succeed.
Our Mission
We aim to equip educators at every level with the tools they need to make informed decisions for their students. From classrooms to district offices to state education departments, our assessments, services, and learning tools are designed to empower educators and drive meaningful outcomes for kids.
What Partnership Means to Us
The challenges facing K–12 education are complex, and no single entity can address them alone. That’s why partnership is at the heart of what we do. At NWEA, partnering means understanding the unique needs of each school or system and committing to the long-term success of every student. It also means collaborating with educational leaders to remove barriers and create more equitable outcomes for all kids. For us, partnership isn’t just a word—it’s a meaningful, intentional collaboration that supports our shared mission.
Our Legacy and Commitment
For nearly 50 years, NWEA has been delivering precise, research-based assessments trusted by educators nationwide. Our tools offer the flexibility to integrate with a variety of curricula and supplementary learning solutions, allowing our partners to tailor their strategies to fit their unique needs.
Now part of HMH, NWEA combines the best in assessment and curriculum to empower educators with innovative solutions that help students achieve their full potential. Together, we’re creating new ways to support learning and foster growth for every child.
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CDW Education
CDW Education is a trusted technology partner to more than 15,000 K-12 Schools, having deployed over 3 million Chromebooks into classrooms and over 1,000 schools participating in their North American Google technical collaborative. CDW Education’s Digital EdTech team advises charter school leaders as they evaluate EdTech solutions and the positive impact it can have on the student and faculty experience as well as academic achievement. To learn more about technology solutions CDW Education recommends to modernize your classroom, protect student data, improve internet connectivity or how to build an Esports program from the ground up, email: DigitalEdtech@cdw.com and an Advisor will follow up with you.
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LocknCharge
LocknCharge empowers schools and businesses with innovative device management solutions like the FUYL Smart Locker System, making storing, charging, and securing devices easy. Our customer-first approach and intuitive product designs streamline workflows, boost productivity, and reduce device downtime.
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Samsung Education
Samsung, the number one global digital signage solution provider, empowers educators to deliver a reimagined learning experience. Whether inside the classroom, around campus, or learning and teaching from home, Samsung’s education lineup gives teachers the tools they need to deliver an enhanced learning environment, while maintaining student engagement, collaboration, and confidence.
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Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta Historical Society was founded in 1926 to preserve and study Atlanta history. In 1990, after decades of collecting, researching, and publishing information about Atlanta and the surrounding area, the organization officially became Atlanta History Center. Atlanta History Center offers multi-disciplinary and interactive virtual and on-site tours for students of all ages that are educational and fun. Students are given the opportunity to explore various historical time periods, in addition to touring our award-winning exhibitions, historic houses and gardens. Tours are designed to match the state social studies requirements.
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Top Score Writing
Designed by a teacher for teachers, Top Score Writing is the one and only program solely dedicated to teaching students to become effective writers.
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A3 Communications
For nearly four decades, A3 Communications has created custom networking and security solutions for customers across the US. As your partner, we help you increase productivity, maximize your budget and protect our assets with leading-edge technologies.
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Entourage Yearbooks
Entourage Yearbooks helps create the most advanced yearbooks in the world. Create beautiful, personalized, printed, and digital yearbooks accessible on all smart devices.
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Amergis
We bridge the gap between schools and staff to ensure that top professionals are able to provide top educational services nationwide. School staffing is just the start. With a passion for educational progress, we’re committed to changing the lives of students by providing them with top-tier K-12 educators, administrators, and school support staff.
With over 100 teams nationwide, we ensure that every student, school, and community is able to feel valued and supported by passionate professionals. We aren’t just an education staffing agency- we’re a partner in building a brighter future for every student.
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