Educational Service Unit 10

What Educational Service Unit 10 does

Educational Service Unit 10 (ESU 10) is a publicly chartered regional educational cooperative established under Nebraska state law and headquartered at 76 Plaza Blvd, Kearney, Nebraska. The organization operates as a multi-division service provider for K-12 school districts across central Nebraska, with four core service lines: Administrative Services (board support, early learning, grant writing), Special Education Services (Assistive Technology Partnership, Autism support, Early Development Network, Visual Impairment services, Secondary Transition), Teaching & Learning Services (assessment, MTSS, curriculum, instruction, leadership), and a Technology Services division. ESU 10's stated mission is to equip districts and empower stakeholders to meet diverse and ever-changing educational needs through collaborative partnerships and tailored solutions.

The Technology Services division is the most productized arm, offering application hosting, custom application development, managed services (including E-Rate consulting, network support, and helpdesk), and per-incident or block-hour support agreements tiered for member versus non-member districts. Its flagship digital product is ODIE (odie.esu10.org), an online professional development and workshop management platform with registration, facilitator tracking, media library, and SAML2 single sign-on capabilities, which underpins workshop delivery across all four service divisions. ESU 10 also hosts PowerSchool student information system environments for districts, and is consolidating PowerSchool support with the Nebraska PowerSchool Cooperative effective the 2026-27 school year. Other notable resources include an Augmented Reality Sandbox and Star Lab portable planetarium used for educational demonstrations.

ESU 10 generates revenue primarily through annual support service agreements with member school districts (with tiered hourly pricing ranging from $95/hr per-incident down to $75/hr at 200+ hour block volumes), fee-based professional development workshops delivered via ODIE, and state and member-district allocations typical of Nebraska educational service units. The organization employs between 251 and 500 staff, including dedicated Teaching & Learning Coordinators, SPED personnel, technology staff, and administrative coordinators. As a government state entity, ESU 10 has no parent company, no outside funding, and is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from member districts.

Name

Educational Service Unit 10

Legal name

Educational Service Unit 10

Website

https://esu10.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1965

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Educational Service Unit 10 is a Nebraska state-chartered educational cooperative headquartered in Kearney that delivers administrative, special education, teaching and learning, and managed technology services to K-12 school districts across central Nebraska, anchored by its ODIE professional development platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Educational Support Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (6117), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Regional Education Service Agencies (ESAs/BOCES/Intermediate Units) (EDADABAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

K–12 Core Curriculum Small-Group Tutoring Centers (Math/ELA/Science/Social Studies) (EDANAHAA)

Keywords

• Educational services
• Professional development
• Special education support
• School district services
• Educational technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Kearney

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Technology Support Agreements: Annual support service agreements with tiered pricing based on hours purchased, including network support, application hosting, and E-Rate consulting
2. Professional Development Workshops: Fee-based professional development and training workshops for educators

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Educational Service Unit 10 (ESU 10) is a Nebraska regional public educational cooperative that delivers supplemental, cooperative services to member K-12 school districts. Its core offerings span four divisions — Administrative, Special Education, Teaching & Learning, and Technology — including special education support, educator professional development via its ODIE platform, application hosting, managed IT services, and network support for public schools.

Product overview

Educational Service Unit 10 is an educational service cooperative that provides a comprehensive suite of services to member school districts in Nebraska. The organization operates as a multi-division service provider consisting of Administrative Services, Special Education Services, Teaching & Learning Services, and a dedicated Technology Services division. Key products include ODIE, a workshop and professional development management platform, and comprehensive technology support services covering application hosting, managed services, network support, and repair services. The Technology Services division offers Application and Service Hosting, Application Development, Managed Services, Support Services, an Augmented Reality Sandbox, and Star Lab Training Information. Professional development is delivered through ODIE, which enables workshop registration, facilitator management, and media library services across departments including ESU 10 - ADMIN, ESU 10 - NIS, ESU 10 - SPED, and ESU 10 - T&L.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ODIE Online professional development and workshop platform that enables Nebraska educators to register for, access, and complete training workshops delivered by ESU 10 staff.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

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No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Frontline Education: Commercial K-12 operations and PD platform serving U.S. school districts; competes for the technology services and PD budget that ESU 10 currently captures across its member districts.
• Solution Tree: Large-scale commercial provider of K-12 professional development, coaching, and assessment services that ESU 10 facilitator teams (e.g., LETRS, Building Thinking Classrooms, Cognitive Coaching) draw on; overlapping audience but commercial rather than cooperative.

Direct peers

• Erie 1 BOCES: New York's largest Board of Cooperative Educational Services; closest structural analog to an ESU, sharing cooperative governance, district-service mandate, and a mix of PD, special education, and technology services.
• ESU 3: Nebraska ESU headquartered in Lavista; co-hosted the Learning Forward Annual Conference with ESU 10 staff and operates the same cooperative model with overlapping service lines.
• Education Service Center Region 20: Texas state-designated regional education service center delivering PD, technology services, and special education support to member districts; directly analogous to ESU 10's mandate, funding model, and service portfolio.
• Putnam | Northern Westchester BOCES (PNW BOCES): New York BOCES providing cooperative educational services including PD, technology, and special education to member districts; structurally identical to ESU 10's cooperative model.
• Lancaster-Lebanon IU13: Pennsylvania Intermediate Unit providing regional educational services to school districts, including special education, PD, and technology support; functionally equivalent to a Nebraska ESU under the Intermediate Unit model.
• ESU 7: Nebraska educational service unit serving member school districts with identical statutory mandate, providing PD, special education, and technology services under the same state framework as ESU 10.

Others

• Nebraska PowerSchool Cooperative: Statewide cooperative in which ESU 10 is consolidating PowerSchool support; closely coupled through the 2026-27 integration and a shared PowerSchool-hosted ecosystem across Nebraska districts.

Regional players

• Education Service Center Region 11: Texas ESC serving a different region than Region 20; comparable cooperative educational services structure, but operating outside ESU 10's Nebraska territory.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/esu10

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Investors

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Investments

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