Programs and Services
Cooperating School Districts is a non-profit, education consortium of 65 public school districts. Through its programs, CSD provides services to its 65 member districts and, in some cases, to both public and private schools throughout Missouri and the U.S
Below is a listing of services (Some services are limited to only CSD members, while others mainly the fee-based business, school, technology, character education and professional development, are open to both public and private schools outside of the CSD membership):
Administrative
Contact: John Urkevich, Executive Director, 314.692.1210 or jurkevich@csd.org
• Superintendent Networks
• Conferences for School Board Members & Superintendents
• Legislative Advocacy
• Community Collaborations/Partnerships
• Public Education Advocacy
• Issues Management
Business
& School Services
Contact: Stephen Keyser, CFO/Deputy Executive Director, 314.692.1266 or skeyser@csd.org
• Cooperative Purchasing (schools can purchase supplies/materials at a discount)
• Insurance Trust
• REAP (online job placement for educators)
• Natural Gas Consortium
• Core Data
• Cable Television & Instructional Television Fixed Service Programming (on-demand educational programming for classrooms through three cable TV stations and two ITFS channels. Regularly scheduled programming, special event programming and satellite downlink programs available for classroom use)
Character
Education through CHARACTERplus
Contact: Liz Gibbons, Director of CHARACTERplus, 314.692.9728 or lgibbons@csd.org
• Professional development/school district support in character education
• Character Education Conference
• Missouri Schools of Character Award Pilot
• Missouri Character Education Project
• Missouri Show Me CHARACTERplus Implementation Study
• Principals’ Leadership Academy in Character Education
• Peace Ball Activity
• Champions for Character with Cardinals Care
• Huddle Up Program with the St. Louis Rams Foundation
• Laws of Life Essay Contest with STLtoday.com
Communications
Contact: David Kuschel, Associate Executive Director, 314.692.1233 or dkuschel@csd.org
Public Relations Services available to CSD-Member School Districts include:
• Crisis Communications Assistance
• Graphic Design/Layout
• Publications (newsletters, brochures, posters, etc.)
• Video Production & Editing
• Media Relations (news releases, news conference coordination, media lists)
• Media Training Workshops
• News Monitoring
• Special event assistance
• Communications Planning
Professional
Development/C&I
Contact: Dennis Dorsey, Assoc. Executive Director of Staff Development/St. Louis RPDC, 314.692.9715 or ddorsey@csd.org
• Professional Development programs/workshops
• Collegial Networks
• International Education Consortium (humanities, American History, Language Arts, Fine Arts)
• MSIP
• MAP consultants
• STARR Teachers
• National Board Certification
• MELL/English Language Learners
• Special Education Consultants
• NASA
• Professional Schools Collaborative
• Support Staff Institute (training for school district support staff)
• Reading First
Virtual
Learning Center - Technology Integration
Contact: Ruth Litman-Block, Director of Virtual Learning Center, 314.692.1272 or rlblock@csd.org
• Technology training/classes
• Technology integration in the classroom
• Interactive videoconferencing for the classroom
• Digital Online Video Library (More than 4,000 video titles and 40,000 video clips available through the Internet to be used for classroom instruction)
• Midwest Education Technology Conference
