Agenda Item
a. Approval of Renewal of Renaissance Products and Services: Illuminate DnA and EduClimber (not to exceed $1,200,000)
Summary: Dr. Myisha Warren , Executive Director of Federal Programs, Office of Continuous Improvement (Accountability)
Request: It is requested that the Board of Education approve the renewal of Renaissance: Illuminate DnA and eduClimber for SY 2023-2024 in an amount not to exceed $1,200,000.00.
The requested purchase is a testing expenditure that does not require bid per the District’s Purchasing Board Policy (DJE).
Why: This solution supports the tenets of all Strategic Goal areas, but in particular, Goal Area 1: Student Success with Equity and Access by actualizing the following performance objectives:
Improve student mastery of learning standards
Provide academically rigorous courses and pathways
Increase Graduation Rate
Renaissance’s Illuminate Education is an assessment (DnA) and whole child (eduClimber and Achievement Dashboard) platform with extensive academic content aligned to the Georgia Standards of Excellence with professionally-designed assessments, accessible dashboards, and reports that inform district, school, classroom, and student-level data.
Based on our Vision for the DCSD Graduate and to enhance our ability to monitor birth to post-secondary milestones (which are attached), this platform will afford teachers, school and district administrators, access to a management system that will support DeKalb’s MTSS (essential multi-tiered system of supports) process.
The Illuminate Education DnA platform provides insightful district information around academic data with tools and reports to inform standards-based decision making. The data available through the platform has multiple benefits for District Leaders, Curriculum Leaders, and Teacher Leaders.
Through Illuminate Education eduClimber, schools and teachers can quickly build and administer common assessments with instant access to results, including standards analysis, most commonly missed items, and subgroup analysis. The district also utilizes multiple data points from the assessment platform to design system-wide professional learning.
Accordingly, Illuminate’s eduClimber tool will take all of the academic, social emotional and engagement data from the various and necessary platforms that the District currently has, and transform that data within 24 hours into a variety of formats that helps internal and external stakeholders to monitor academic continual growth and performance of DCSD students, as well as contributing factors to that progress. This solution provides the triangulated data to determine and predict which students are in need of different instructional, behavioral, social and emotional supports at the student, class, school region and district level.
School and district leaders will avoid lag time and extraneous efforts in an attempt to secure and analyze academic and non-academic data, including social-emotional, assessment, intervention, behavior and attendance data by making whole child data attainable and actionable. Pre-built visualizations and dashboards are readily available to assist school and district leaders in evaluation and monitoring intervention effectiveness that leads to appropriate data-driven decision making.
Through the renewal of Renaissance Illuminate Education for SY 2023-2024, DeKalb schools will continue to:
Design common and formative assessments
Analyze classroom, district, and state-level data
Generate reports utilizing multiple academic and whole child (behavior and attendance) data sources
Utilize assessment item banks for remediation, acceleration, and professional development
Inform instructional practices and school turnaround efforts at the local and district level
Administer DeKalb’s Benchmark Assessments
Support Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) processes
Disaggregate data across multiple sources
Evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of interventions
Collect, report, and analyze school-wide behavior incidents for social emotional learning evaluation
Details: This proposed budget item is requesting funds not to exceed $1,200,000.00 to cover the costs associated with the purchase of the Renaissance Illuminate Education Assessment Platform and professional learning services.
Through the Illuminate Assessment platform, DCSD K-12 educators will have access to over 100,000 Formative, Common, and Benchmark assessment items. The test items have the following attributes:
Aligned to Georgia Standards of Excellence in all four content areas: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies
Multiple item types - selected response, constructed response and extended response (which simulates the GADOE Milestones Assessments)
Flexible delivery - items in Microsoft Office Word; passages in PDF; and images in JPEG
Varying levels of complexity- Depth of Knowledge: DOK 1 - 20%, DOK 2 - 60% and DOK 3 - 20%
English Language Arts items will be associated with passages that reflect readability and text complexity appropriate to the grade level
The Illuminate platform includes the following features necessary to administer required formative, common, and benchmark assessments in tandem with DeKalb’s curriculum:
Document camera scanning for easy and instant assessment scoring
Traditional and standard-based grade books and report cards
Online testing, proctoring, monitoring, and dashboards to provide instant performance feedback
Reporting that provides the big picture around effective instructional practices, direction for differentiated instruction, and item analysis to pinpoint student misconceptions
The online portal allows digital access to students and parents to get real-time performance feedback
Additionally, the broader features of Illuminate, are as follows:
Individual Student Overview dashboard: Multi-year student view of academic, attendance, social-emotional, behavior, and program status data for teacher, school and district leaders.
Threshold dashboard: Data dashboard with the ability to screen for at risk students based on multiple data points, set up early warning systems for academics and behaviors, ability to address issues of equity, and screen for program evaluations.
Meeting and Forms dashboard: Customizable smart FORMS that can automatically populate with demographic and assessment data to include embedded action items for student success.
Interventions and Progress Monitoring dashboard: Multiple data sources can be used to identify students in need of interventions and displayed via this tool. Additionally, students’ progress can be tracked to ensure interventions are accelerating learning and closing instructional gaps.
Academic Interventional Analysis dashboard: Provides the ability to view which interventions are being utilized across the district that have an impacting student learning.
Data Walls: School leaders can create and share collections of data with stakeholders and district leadership.
Program Effectiveness dashboard: Helps users to identify the effectiveness of district programming for students in various classification ranges.
Behavior Incident Analysis dashboard: The ability to view snapshots of behavior, response, and behavior locations throughout the district; additionally, this feature will assist with analyzing behaviors throughout the district, drill deeper to understand most common student behaviors, when they occur, where (schools and regions) they occur and which specific students are struggling with those behaviors.
Disproportionality Reporting dashboard: Visualizations that enable school and district leaders to view key disproportionality key data, monitor initiatives, and share easy-to-understand information with stakeholder.
Achievement dashboard: Interactive dashboard that allows users to create customizable visualizations of real-time data.
The tool also has the capacity to publish public-facing data visualizations so that stakeholders can be informed relative to the academic well-being of the District.
Usage Data SY2021-SY2023
Level
# of Assessments Created
# of Assessments Created
# of Assessments Created
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
Elementary
23251
30298
30526
Middle
7424
10550
10555
High
25445
15284
14069
The Illuminate tool proved to be an invaluable resource for DCSD students and staff.
Financial impact: The financial impact is an amount, not to exceed, $1,200,000.00 for FY24.
The purchase amount will be paid using general funds budgeted to the Office of Accountability, Department of Assessment Administration, charge code: 100.2210.553200.00011.7540.9990.8010.030.0000
Contact: Dr. Myisha Warren, Executive Director of Federal Programs, Office of Continuous Improvement (Accountability), 678.676.0300
Mrs. Allison Q. Scott, Director of Assessment Administration, Office of Continuous Improvement (Accountability) , 678.676.0300
Effective: July 2023
Status: Contract approved by legal
Terms of Service and License
Renaissance Learning, Inc.
These Terms of Service state the binding legal terms and conditions between Customer and Renaissance that govern the Products and Services
that Customer has contracted to receive pursuant to a Quote signed by Customer and Renaissance.
1. Definitions. As used above and in these Terms of Service, capitalized words have the meaning set forth in Exhibit A or as otherwise
expressly defined in these Terms of Service.
2. License and Access to Products.
a. License. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms of Service, Renaissance grants Customer a limited, revocable,
non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license during the Term solely to access and use the Products for educational
assessment and practice functions. No other license, express or implied, is granted by these Terms of Service.
b. Access and Use Limitations.
i. Access and Use. Customer may access and use the Products during the period beginning on the first day of the Subscription
Period and ending upon the earlier of expiration of the Subscription Period or termination of the Agreement. Access may be
restricted during Renaissance’s maintenance and updating of the Products.
ii. Quantity. The Quote sets forth a quantity for each identified Product or Service. Customer may not exceed the quantities stated
in the Quote without further written agreement by the parties.
iii. Access and Use Restrictions. Customer shall not access or use the Products for any purpose beyond the limited license granted
in these Terms of Service. Without limiting the foregoing, Customer shall not: (A) copy, modify, or create derivative works of
the Products, in whole or in part; (B) rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, or otherwise make
available the Products; (C) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain
access to the source code of the Products, in whole or in part; (D) remove any proprietary notices from the Products; (E)
allow anyone other than Customer or its Authorized Users to access or use the Products; (F) use the Products in any manner
or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property Rights or other right of any
Person, or that violates any applicable law; (G) access or use the Products for any purpose not authorized under these Terms
of Service; (H) share, transfer or sell Valid Login Information to anyone other than Authorized Users, and shall be responsible
for any access to, or use of, the Products resulting from Customer’s failure to safeguard Valid Login Information; or (I) allow
multiple Persons to access or use the Products in a manner intended to avoid incurring fees. Customer agrees to promptly
notify Renaissance of any actual or suspected unauthorized access to or use of the Products, after which Renaissance may
then implement a Service Suspension.
iv. Authorized Users. Customer may permit its Authorized Users to access and use the Products in the same manner and for the
same purposes as Customer, as set forth in these Terms of Service. Customer shall be responsible and liable for all access to
and use of the Products by any Authorized User and any other access to the Products permitted or enabled by Customer or an
Authorized User.
v. Suspension. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms of Service, Renaissance may suspend access and use
for any portion or all of the Products by a Customer or Authorized User if Renaissance determines in good faith that: (A)
Customer or an Authorized User’s access to or use of the Products and systems disrupts or poses a risk to the security or
integrity of any of Renaissance’s Products or systems, or any of its customers or vendors; (B) Customer or an Authorized User
are accessing or using the Products or systems for fraudulent or illegal activities; (C) any vendor or supplier of Renaissance
has suspended or terminated Renaissance’s access to or use of any third-party product or service necessary to the Products;
or (D) Customer has not timely paid any Fees (any such suspension described in subclause (A), (B), (C), or (D) a “Service
Suspension”). Should a Service Suspension arise under (A), (B), or (C), above, Renaissance shall engage in a good faith
discussion with Customer regarding curing the event giving rise to the Service Suspension to expediently resolve the issue
and resume Services as commercially practicable. Renaissance shall use reasonable efforts to provide written notice of any
Service Suspension to Customer and to provide updates regarding resumption of access to the Products following any Service
Suspension, which shall be in Renaissance’s sole discretion. Renaissance shall use reasonable efforts to resume providing
access to the Products as soon as reasonably possible after the event giving rise to the Service Suspension is cured.
Renaissance will have no liability for any damages, liabilities, losses, or any other consequences of a Service Suspension.
vi. Customer Hardware, Other Software and Services. Renaissance does not bear any responsibility or liability for any Third-Party
Services and does not guarantee that any Third-Party Services will operate correctly or that they are compatible or interoperable
with the Products.
3. Services. Renaissance shall provide the Services identified in the Quote and any Statement of Work agreed to by the parties in
writing. All Services identified in the Quote or any applicable Statement of Work shall be governed by these Terms of Service, including,
without limitation, Exhibit B.(2023.01.03)
4. Payment Obligations.
a. Fees. Customer shall pay Renaissance all amounts listed in the Quote (“Fees”) within 30 days of invoice. Customer may not withhold
or setoff any amounts due under the Agreement. Customer agrees that any of Renaissance’s Affiliates may issue invoices for amounts
owed under the Agreement. Amounts paid for Products and Services are not refundable, regardless of the extent they are utilized.
b. FastBridge True-up. FastBridge subscriptions are based on per student, per school year fees. The initial fee to activate a
subscription is based on the estimate by Customer of the number of unique students that will have score data entered.
Renaissance will run reconciliation reports in or about May of each Subscription Period and invoice Customer for the actual
number of unique students in excess of the estimate reflected in the Quote.
5. Term; Termination; Effect of Termination.
a. Term. The term of the Agreement starts on the earlier of (i) the date that the Customer signs the Quote or (ii) the first date of the
Subscription Period and continues until the end of the last Subscription Period listed in the Quote (the “Term”), except as set forth in a
further written agreement of the parties. As required by O.C.G.A. § 20-2-506, the initial term shall not exceed a period of one year. b.
Termination.
i. Either party may terminate the Agreement upon written notice if the other party does not cure a material breach within 30
business days of written notice of the breach from the other party describing the breach and stating the intent to terminate.
ii. Renaissance may terminate Customer’s access to the Products and the Agreement if Customer fails to pay any amount due
within 30 days of written late notice from Renaissance.
iii. Customer may terminate this Agreement prior to the start of the Termsufficient funds are not appropriated to make the
payment contemplated in the Quote.
c. Effect of Expiration or Termination. Upon expiration or termination of the Agreement:
i. all rights and licenses to use and access the Products granted to Customer under the Agreement immediately terminate, and
Customer shall cease all access to, and use of, the Products provided to Customer under the Agreement, except that (A) Customer
may continue to access the Products for the limited purpose of retrieving Customer Data, during the period set forth in the Data
Protection Addendum, and (B) Customer and Authorized Users may continue to access and use the free version of any Premium
Hybrid Products that Customer had purchased, provided that these Terms of Service shall govern Customer’s continuing access
and use of the free version of any Premium Hybrid Products;
ii. Customer shall return or destroy, at Renaissance’s sole discretion, all Confidential Information of Renaissance. Customer shall
also be responsible for retrieving Customer Data from the Products, as described in the Data Protection Addendum.
iii. each party shall cease the use of the other party’s Intellectual Property Rights; and
iv. Customer shall pay Renaissance all amounts due under the Agreement upon the earlier of their due dates or 30 days after the
effective date of termination for services provided and products utilized by Customer prior to the termination.
d. Survival. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agreement, all accrued payment obligations under the Agreement, any
remedies for breach of the Agreement, Sections 5(c), and 6-11, and any provisions that are required by law to survive, shall survive
expiration or termination of the Agreement. Further, the Data Protection Addendum and the applicable provisions of these Terms of
Service shall survive expiration or termination of the Agreement to the extent that the Data Protection Addendum provides Customer
limited access to the Products for the purpose of retrieving Customer Data.
6. Intellectual Property. Notwithstanding the limited license granted under these Terms of Service,
a. No Transfer of Rights. As between Renaissance and Customer, Renaissance owns all Intellectual Property Rights in or embodied by the
Products. Except for the license set forth in Section 2 above, neither Customer nor its Authorized Users will obtain, pursuant to or by
virtue of these Terms of Service or their use or access to the Products or the Services, any Intellectual Property Rights in the Products
or the Services.
b. Customer License to Renaissance. Customer grants to Renaissance and its Affiliates a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-
free license to use, distribute, disclose, and make and incorporate into the Products any suggestion, enhancement request,
recommendation, correction or other feedback provided by Customer or its Authorized Users relating to the operation of the
Products.
7. Confidentiality. Recipient may use Confidential Information provided to it by or on behalf of the other party (the “Disclosed
Information”) only as necessary to perform its obligations or exercise its rights pursuant to this Agreement. Recipient may not
disclose the Disclosed Information to any other person or entity except its Affiliate, employee, director, shareholder, member, agent
or contractor (each a “Recipient Representative”) for purposes of performing Recipient’s obligations or exercising Recipient’s rights
under this Agreement, shall require that each of its Recipient Representatives comply with all obligations of Recipient under this
Section 7, and will be liable for any breach of this Section 7 by its Recipient Representative. Recipient shall treat the Disclosed
Information with the same level of care that it holds its own Confidential Information. In addition to disclosure to Recipient
Representatives as set forth above, Recipient may disclose Disclosed Information to the extent compelled by law, provided Recipient
gives the other party prompt prior written notice of the compelled disclosure to the extent legally permitted to permit the other party
to seek a protective order, and if disclosed to a government agency seek confidentiality protection if available under applicable laws
and regulations. Recipient acquires no licenses or other rights to the Disclosed Information except as otherwise set forth in the
Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, Customer PII is governed by the Data Protection Addendum and not this
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Section 7. Renaissance understands and agrees that Customer must comply with the Georgia Open Records Act O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70
and release public documents as defined by the Act upon request, including this Agreement all records prepared and maintained in
relation to this Agreement.
8. Data.
a. Customer PII. Renaissance shall comply with its privacy and security obligations for Customer PII as set forth in the Data Protection
Addendum.
b. Data Ownership and License. As between Renaissance and Customer, Customer owns the Customer Data. Customer grants
Renaissance a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use the Customer Data throughout the Term to perform under the
Agreement and as further described in the Data Protection Addendum. As between Renaissance and Customer, Renaissance owns
the Renaissance Data. Renaissance Data is not subject to the use or disclosure restrictions of this Agreement that apply to Customer
Data.
c. Prohibited Data. Customer acknowledges and agrees that the Products are intended for academic, educational and assessment
purposes. Customer shall not provide to Renaissance any non-academic or non-educational related data such as social security
numbers, protected health information, driver’s license information, passport or visa numbers, credit card or other financial account
numbers, and Renaissance has no obligation to monitor for entry of such data.
9. Indemnification.
a. Renaissance Indemnification. Renaissance shall defend and indemnify Customer and its directors, officers, shareholders, members,
employees, agents and representatives against any third-party Claim (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) alleging that Customer’s
use of the Products or Services infringes Intellectual Property Rights, except that Renaissance is not responsible for any third-party
Claim arising from: (i) modification of Products or Services by, or directed by, Customer, an Authorized User, or a Person who gained
access to the Products or Services through the act or omission of Customer or an Authorized User; (ii) any Third-Party Service; or
(iii) Customer’s use of the Products or Services in violation of or for purposes not contemplated by the Agreement. If Renaissance
has reason to believe that any of its Products or Services may infringe a third party’s Intellectual Property Rights, Renaissance may,
at its sole expense and option: (i) negotiate a license for Customer’s continued access to and use of the Products or Services; (ii)
replace or modify the Products or Services with non-infringing Products; or (iii) terminate Customer’s access to the Products or
Services. The indemnity provided in this section shall be Customer’s sole and exclusive remedy regarding third-party Claims arising
from infringement of Intellectual Property Rights.
b. Indemnification Procedure. As a condition of the defense and indemnification obligations under Section 9.a or 9.b (as
applicable),Customer agrees to: (i) promptly notify the other in writing of any third-party Claim for which a party seeks defense or
indemnification under these Terms of Service; (ii) provide the defending or indemnifying party sole control of the defense of the Claim;
(iii) cooperate at the defending or indemnifying party’s expense with reasonable requests in support of the defense Claim; and (iv)
refrain from agreeing to or acknowledging liability for the Claim.
10. Warranties and Liabilities.
a. WARRANTIES. RENAISSANCE PROVIDES THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES "AS IS". RENAISSANCE MAKES NO WARRANTY OR
OTHER PROMISE THAT THE PRODUCTS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT POSSIBLE DEFECTS
WILL BE CORRECTED. RENAISSANCE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS,
IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, REGARDING THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION TO ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GUARANTEED OUTCOME, RESULT OR SUCCESS,
OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OR TITLE, OR ANY WARRANTY OR PROMISE ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR
PERFORMANCE.
b. CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL AND SIMILAR DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTY OR ITS AFFILIATES HAVE ANY LIABILITY
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE AGREEMENT FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, GOODWILL, OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, COVER, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, WHETHER AN ACTION IS IN CONTRACT
OR TORT AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY EXCEPT AS TO DAMAGES INDEMNIFIED UNDER SECTION 9, EVEN IF A
PARTY OR ITS AFFILIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR IF A PARTY’S OR ITS AFFILIATES’
REMEDY OTHERWISE FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER WILL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT
PROHIBITED BY LAW.
c. OTHER LIMITS. RENAISSANCE’S LIABILITY UNDER THESE TERMS OF SERVICE: (I) WILL BE LIMITED TO DIRECT DAMAGES, AND
DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR SIMILAR DAMAGES; AND (II) WILL NOT
EXCEED THE LESSER OF (A) THE FEES, OR (B) $100,000 AND (C) WITH RESPECT TO SERVICES OR DELIVERABLES, WILL
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BE LIMITED TO CORRECTION OF SUCH SERVICES OR DELIVERABLES. IF CORRECTION IS IMPRACTICAL, RENAISSANCE WILL REFUND THE
FEES RELATED TO NON-CORRECTABLE SERVICES OR DELIVERABLES ON A PRO RATA BASIS.
11. Miscellaneous.
a. Compliance with Applicable Laws. Renaissance shall comply with the laws governing it as a provider of the Products and Services.
Customer shall comply with the laws governing it as an educational organization or entity or its usage of the Products and Services.
b. Entire Agreement. The Agreement, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any purchase order, constitutes the entire agreement
between the parties with respect to its subject matter and supersedes all other agreements or communications, whether written or
oral. Any amendments or other changes to the Agreement must be made in writing and signed by both parties.
c. Severability. If a provision of these Terms of Service is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue to
be valid and enforceable as if such provision had not been set forth in these Terms of Service. Both parties agree to substitute a valid
provision most closely approximating the intent of the severed provision.
d. Waiver. No waiver by a party of a right or obligation under the Agreement is binding unless it is stated in writing to the other party.
Failure of a party to enforce a breach of an obligation of another party under the Agreement does not limit that party’s right to enforce
a subsequent or different breach of that obligation.
e. Dispute Resolution. Before prosecuting a Claim, the party asserting the Claim must provide the other party written notice of the
Claim and not file a Claim until 60 days after that notice is delivered. During those 60 days, the parties each shall make a good
faith effort to resolve the dispute. This sub-Section does not apply to or limit either party’s right to seek equitable relief, or
Renaissance’s right to suspend or terminate Customer’s access to or use of the Products under these Terms of Service.
f. Limitation of Action. Any Claim by Customer must be brought within the applicable statute of limitations pursuant to Georgia law.
g. Governing Law. For United States-based Customers, the Agreement and all disputes or Claims arising under them are governed and
shall be decided under the laws of the state, commonwealth or territory in which Customer resides based on the address set forth
in the Quote, without regard to that state’s, commonwealth’s or territory’s choice of law rules. For Customers based outside of the
United States, all disputes or Claims arising under the Agreement shall be governed and decided under the laws of the State of
Georgia.
h. Notices. Notices under the Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed effective when delivered to the addresses set forth in
the Quote (i) in-person, (ii) via the USPS, certified or registered mail, (iii) via reputable courier, addressed to the addresses set forth in
the Quote, or (iv) via e-mail, in the case of notice to Renaissance at legal@renaissance.com, and in the case of notice to Customer, to
Renaissance’s address of record for Customer.
i. Assignment. The Agreement may be assigned only with the prior written consent of the other party which shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed, except that Renaissance reserves the right to assign the Agreement without restriction to an Affiliate or in
connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of its or an Affiliate’s assets. Upon valid
transfer, the Agreement inures to the benefit of, and binds, the successors and assigns of the parties. Any assignment in violation of
this Section 11(i) is invalid.
j. Relationship of the Parties. The parties are independent contractors, having no other business affiliation. Neither party may assume or
create any obligation or make any representation or warranty on behalf of the other party. There are no third-party beneficiaries to the
Agreement.
k. Anti-Corruption. Customer represents that it has not received or been offered any bribe, kickback or payment, or any gift or thing of
value from Renaissance or its employees or agents that violates any law or policy applicable to Customer. Both parties agree to comply
with all anti-corruption laws applicable to it.
l. Duplicates. The Agreement may be signed separately by the parties and the signature pages combined to create an original.
Authorized electronic signatures are valid. Digitized copies of an original copy of the Agreement shall be treated as an original for
all purposes.
m. Compliance with Export and Sanction Laws and Regulations. The Products and Services may be subject to export laws and
regulations of the United States and other jurisdictions. Renaissance and Customer each represent that it is not on any U.S.
government denied-party list. Customer shall not permit Authorized User access to any Products or Services in violation of any
U.S. export or sanction law or regulation.
n. Representations. Each party represents and warrants that it is duly authorized to enter into the Agreement.
o. Equitable Rights. Each party acknowledges that a breach or threatened breach of Section 6 (Intellectual Property) or Section 7
(Confidentiality) may cause the non-breaching party irreparable damage, entitling it to seek equitable relief, in addition to any other
remedy.
p. Force Majeure. Except for the obligation to make payments, neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in its performance under
the Agreement due to any cause beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of war or terrorism, acts of God,
earthquake, flood, pandemic, embargo, labor shortage, governmental act or failure of the Internet (not resulting from the actions or
inactions of Renaissance); provided that the delayed party (i) gives the other party prompt notice of such cause, (ii)
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uses its reasonable commercial efforts to promptly correct such failure or delay in performance, and (iii) will; not be considered in
breach during the duration of the Force Majeure Event. In the event a Force Majeure Event continues for a period of 90 calendar days,
either party may elect to terminate the Agreement upon notice to the other party. Customer shall not be responsible for payment for
any material failure or material delay in performance by Renaissance.
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EXHIBIT A
Definitions
“Affiliate” of an entity means any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with that entity. For the purposes of this definition,
“control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct the management and policies of an entity through the ownership of
voting securities or other equity.
“Agreement” means these Terms of Service together with any Quote or Statement of Work agreed to by the parties to which these Terms of
Service are attached or into which these Terms of Service are incorporated by reference, together with any amendments, modifications, or
renewals of such Quote or Statement of Work agreed by the parties in writing.
“Authorized User” means Customer’s faculty, staff, administrators, teachers, and students accounted for in the Quote and, if applicable, the
parents or legal guardians of those students, in each case who are authorized by Customer to access and use the Products under the strictly
limited rights granted to Customer pursuant to the Agreement.
“Claim” means any lawsuit, administrative proceeding, arbitration, or other legal claim for relief.
“Confidential Information” means all technical and non-technical information, including without limitation patent, copyright, trade secret, and
proprietary information, techniques, sketches, drawings, models, inventions, know-how, processes, apparatus, equipment, software
programs and software source documents related to the current, future and proposed products and services of each of the parties, and
includes without limitation, each party’s respective information concerning research, experimental work, development, design details and
specifications, engineering, financial information, business forecasts and marketing plans and information. Confidential Information does
not include any information that (i) is or becomes generally known to the public without breach of any obligation owed to the disclosing
party, (ii) was known to the receiving party prior to its disclosure by the disclosing party without breach of any obligation owed to the
disclosing party, (iii) is received from a third party without knowledge of any breach of any obligation owed to the disclosing party, or (iv)
was independently developed by the receiving party.
“Content” means all types of information including, without limitation, books, articles, recordings, documentation, photographs, graphics, video,
databases or any other compilations rendered available by Renaissance or accessible through the Products, as well as all related Intellectual
Property Rights. For the avoidance of doubt, Content includes all original expressions in any media, as well as any derivations of such original
expressions.
“Customer” means the school, school district, educational institution or other organization that signed the Quote.
“Customer Data” means: (i) data provided by the Customer in connection with the Products; and (ii) data generated by Authorized Users’ use of
the Products that is associated with an individual person. The categories of data collected by Products are described in the Categories of Data
Collected by Product available at For the avoidance of doubt, Customer Data does not include Deidentified Data or system performance,
transactional, or other similar statistics or analytics.
“Data Protection Addendum” means Exhibit D to these Terms of Service and applies to PII based on the location of the applicable individual as set
forth in the Data Protection Addendum. Renaissance reserves the right to update Exhibit D in its sole discretion.
“Deidentified Data” means Customer Data that has had any PII removed to such a degree that there is no reasonable basis to believe that the
remaining data can be used to identify an individual.
“Deliverables” means any work product or materials to be developed or delivered by Renaissance in connection with the Products or Services, as
well as all related Intellectual Property Rights.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means patents, patent rights, patent applications, and continuing (continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part)
applications, re-issues, extensions, renewals, and re-examinations of patents; registered and unregistered trademarks and service marks,
trademark and service mark rights, trade names, and domain names; registered and unregistered copyrights; trade secrets and inventions,
whether patentable or unpatentable; all other intellectual, industrial, or proprietary rights as now existing or that come into existence; and
pending applications for and registrations of any of the foregoing; whether arising under the laws of the United States or laws of any other state,
country, or jurisdiction in the world.
“Person” means a person, entity or organization.
“Personally Identifiable Information or PII” is defined in the Data Protection Addendum.
“Premium Hybrid Products” means the paid and free versions of the educational online software products (including, without limitation, all
related Intellectual Property Rights, Deliverables and Content) listed on Exhibit C, access to which is being provided to Customer under the
Agreement. Renaissance reserves the right to update Exhibit C in its sole discretion.
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“Products” means the Premium Hybrid Products and other educational online software products identified in the Quote (including, without
limitation, all related Intellectual Property Rights, Deliverables and Content) distributed by Renaissance or one of its Affiliates.
“Quote” means that certain document identified as a sales quote, provided by Renaissance to Customer and accepted by Customer, setting forth
certain Products or Services being obtained by Customer from Renaissance for a specified Subscription Period, as well as such other business
terms to which the parties agree to be bound, and which expressly incorporates these Terms of Services.
“Recipient” means a party or its Affiliate that receives Confidential Information of the other party.
“Renaissance” means Renaissance Learning, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation.
“Renaissance Data” means the Deidentified Data and the performance, system and operational data created by Renaissance.
“Services” means those professional services identified in the Quote and any other professional, technical or support services that Renaissance
provides to Customer as set forth in a Quote or Statement of Work.
“Service Suspension” means the term as described in Section 2(b)(v).
“Subscription Period” means the time during which Customer’s Authorized User are authorized under the Agreement to access the Products. The
Subscription Period starts and ends on the dates proscribed in the Quote, unless the Agreement is terminated early by either party; then, the
Subscription Period ends on the date of termination.
“Term” means the term as described in Section 5(a).
“Terms of Service” means this Terms of Service and License document and all of the exhibits to it, each of which is incorporated and made part
of the Terms of Service.
“Third-Party Services” means hardware, software, content, data or services not provided by Renaissance.
"Valid Login Information” means usernames and passwords or other credentials that Customers or Authorized Users use to access the
Products.
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EXHIBIT B
Additional Terms and Conditions - Services
Customer agrees to the following for any Services (“Training”) made available to it either remotely or on-site:
a. To provide facilities that are conducive to adult learning, including, without limitation, a computer, broadband Internet connection
and two-way sound for each of Customer’s participants.
b. To participate in a pre-planning meeting with Renaissance (at least four weeks for on-site; and, at least three days for remote)
before the Training, allowing Renaissance to tailor the Training content to the specific needs of the participants. Renaissance will
focus the Training on learning outcomes agreed to during the pre-planning meeting. Renaissance will also strive to adapt the
Training to meet needs raised at the Training.
c. To use any Services within the Subscription Period. Otherwise, Customer risks losing those services, in Renaissance’s discretion.
d. To Renaissance’s using third parties to assist with the Services (Renaissance will be responsible for ensuring their integrity and
compliance with the Agreement, as well as their compensation and expenses).
e. To refrain, without Renaissance’s written consent, from recording the Training and from copying or sharing any materials or Content.
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Exhibit C
Premium Hybrid Products
Freckle
Lalilo
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Exhibit D
Data Protection Addendum
Found at https://doc.renlearn.com/KMNet/R62068.pdf
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