i-SAFE and the National Character Education Foundation are Partners in Education

i-SAFE and the National Character Education Foundation (NCEF) Education welcome you to this online portal set up to assist the implementation of your e-Safety education strategy. As students increasingly embrace technology and Cyberspace, education and educators must embrace the new applications the evolution of technology brings. i-SAFE's curriculum keeps schools/districts on the leading edge and ensures their students have the means to develop meaningful concepts and positive attitudes about citizenship and responsibility in Cyberspace.

The E-Rate Requirement

For the first time since the federal government began the E-Rate program to help schools cover some of their technology costs, schools must teach Internet safety to receive E-Rate reimbursements for costs associated with Internet service, Internet access or internal connections. The “Broadband Data Improvement Act / Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act” of 2008 mandates that schools teach students about “appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyber bullying awareness and response.”

i-SAFE's Subscription Packages

i-SAFE has developed two subscription packages: GOLD and E-Rate. Both the GOLD and E-Rate Subscription Packages provide schools and districts with two very important products:

1. Top-of-the-line, grade-specific Internet safety curriculum on social networking, chat rooms and cyber bullying (plus many other optional e-Safety curriculum and resources). The E-Rate Subscription Package licenses easy online access to downloadable i-SAFE Internet safety curriculum lessons that cover the following E-Rate related topics:
• Cyber bullying awareness and response
• Social networking and chat rooms
• Appropriate online behavior
2. An auditable record of the Internet safety education/curriculum delivered in your districts/schools upon which you can validate/authenticate you are “educating students about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyber bullying awareness and response.”

Gold Subscription Package: Licenses and allows educators online access to all i-SAFE curriculum, including E-Rate related curriculum and an annual implementation metrics report upon request.

Annual Subscription Fee: $520 per school / $2,600 per district (5 – 49 schools*)

• This contains over 250 unique lesson plans for educators. In fact, 80% of school districts purchase the Gold Subscription
• 18 videos covering the full-spectrum of e-Safety topics
• 8 Video-based Webcast lessons

E-Rate Subscription Package: Licenses and allows educators online access to ONLY the E-Rate related curriculum, and an annual implementation report upon request.

Annual Subscription Fee: $250 per school / $1,250 per district (5 – 49 schools*)

This includes:

• 65 core curriculum lessons that are directly associated with teaching Social Networking and Chat Room safety, as well as Cyber Bullying awareness and response
• 9 videos covering E-Rate related topics
• 5 Video-based Webcast lessons

* District (50+ schools): Click to contact i-SAFE for special pricing.

Order Now

Your i-SAFE E-Rate Subscription Package can be acquired by submitting a Purchase Order (PO), along with a completed NCEF Quotation form, by following these 3 easy steps:

1. Click here to access an NCEF Subscription Package Quotation form.
2. Complete the contact information, as well as the school and district fields. Use that quotation to generate a Purchase Order (PO) from your school/district.
3. Send your school/district PO, along with the completed NCEF Subscription Quotation form, to channelsupport@isafe.org OR fax it to 760-603-8382.

Access to i-SAFE Curriculum

i-SAFE's GOLD and E-Rate curriculum resources are posted online for easy access from the i-SAFE Web site (http://isafe.org). In order for teachers at your school to gain access and download the online lesson plans, a school administrator needs to complete a Subscription Teachers Action Table (STAT) listing the individuals who should be included. Download a STAT now. Once completed, please send the STAT back to i-SAFE at subscription@isafe.org. i-SAFE will create accounts for the educators you name on the STAT. You will be notified by i-SAFE once their accounts have been created, which gives them electronic access to the i-SAFE curriculum. Again, only teachers designated on the STAT will have online access to the curriculum. Detailed instructions for teachers to access the curriculum are provided by clicking here.

Resources

For more information, please refer to the following documents (click to download)

• Subscription Promotional Sheet
• E-Rate Promotional Sheet
• GOLD Curriculum Sample
• E-Rate Curriculum Sample
• GOLD Scope of Lessons.
• E-Rate Scope of Lessons
• E-Rate Sample Implementation Report
• Broadband Data Improvement / Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act
• Curriculum Download Procedure

About i-SAFE

i-SAFE Inc. is a leading publisher of media literacy and digital citizenship education materials and programming with worldwide distribution channels. Founded in 1998 and supported by the U.S. Congress and various executive agencies of the U.S. government,i-SAFE is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and empowering youth (and others) to safely, responsibly and productively use Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). i-SAFE's research-based, best practices classroom curriculum for primary and secondary school students is embedded with dynamic community outreach activities to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement professionals, and other community members to control their online experiences by proficiently and independently exercising a learned and practiced ability to use the Internet and other ICT with a level of sophistication that results in increased safety and utility. More than 32 million students have been taught i-SAFE lessons in the United States and worldwide.

i-SAFE lessons employ peer-to-peer (P2P) communication and cooperative learning activities to help students retain this valuable information. The i-SAFE Internet safety curriculum is age-appropriate for grades K through 12. It is correlated to all of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS). These standards are published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to provide teachers, technology planners, teacher preparation institutions, and educational decision-makers with frameworks to guide them in establishing enriched learning environments supported by technology.

For more information about i-SAFE, or the e-Safety education options available through subscription, please visit the i-SAFE Web site (http://isafe.org). Please contact i-SAFE if you have specific questions at channelsupport@isafe.org.

Message from NCEF President

The NCEF believes that it is possible for children and parents regardless of their nationality, race, education, and social position, to be people of Integrity, Respect and Courage.

Integrity: An unimpaired condition where one is behaving and thinking with soundness, the quality or state of being undivided, firm adherence to a code of moral or artistic values, based on honesty, purpose and incorruptibility.

Respect: Holding oneself and others in high or special regard.

Courage: Firmness of the mind and will in the face of danger or difficulty.

The NCEF is a developed group of highly diverse and experienced communicators, educators, professional athletes, musicians, and community leaders who are accepted by today's youth culture and can effectively address and bring positive change to the tragic and often dangerous issues facing our children.

It is our goal to provide an effective service to both public and private schools that will educate our children, their families and the surrounding communities.

I believe that once a person understands he/she is important and has a valued purpose for living the need for illegal drugs, alcohol consumption and crime will diminish. Unfortunately, today growing up for millions of our school-aged children is a very confusing and painful experience. Youth have been turning to drugs and alcohol in increasing numbers to cover this pain. The fallout of this behavior is immense; violent crimes committed by juveniles have doubled since 1998. The gang is now the fastest growing family unit in America and suicide is one of the leading causes of death among school-aged children. These are our children whom we love and care for and together we will make a difference.

The NCEF program involves character education curriculum, series of school assemblies, classroom visitations, parent and youth symposiums, and educational workshops. They are designed to effectively educate students to healthy self-image, to seek and maintain the dignity of others as highly valuable individuals, regardless of race, religion, or reputation, and to exhort others to do the same.

Sincerely,
David L. Rettig
Founder and CEO