Keep Indiana Learning

What Keep Indiana Learning does

Keep Indiana Learning is a non-profit professional development provider operating as a department of the Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The organization serves Indiana K-12 educators and school districts through a platform-plus-services model, combining a free Digital Content Library (blog resources, multimedia content), Canvas LMS-delivered online courses, and customized in-person and virtual professional development delivered by an in-house Innovation Coaching team. Its core products include Counselor Connect (a persona-specific membership network entering Year 2), the Indiana Literacy Cadre (supporting K-3 Science of Reading implementation), the ICIA, INBTC, Coaching Collaborative, and Central Indiana STEM Ecosystem collaboration networks, and an event program that, in 2025-2026, is anchored by a 15+ session MagicSchool AI training series covering text, image, and multimodal generative-AI use cases for educators.

Revenue is generated primarily through tiered per-day professional development services — $1,540/day for CIESC members, $1,760/day for ESCI members, $2,200/day for non-member districts — plus event registration and selective subscription-style network memberships. Stripe is used for payment processing and Google Analytics for site analytics, with the underlying technology stack centered on Canvas LMS course delivery and MagicSchool AI as a third-party tool for educator training. With 14 employees and a statewide-in-Indiana geographic footprint, Keep Indiana Learning functions as both the branding wrapper and commercial frontend for CIESC's broader K-12 professional learning infrastructure, including administrative, technology, and innovation services delivered through its parent ESC network.

Go-to-market is community-led and event-driven: the organization builds educator relationships through content marketing, weekly newsletters, multi-platform social presence (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube), and structured collaboration networks. Channels include self-serve access to the digital library and Canvas courses, direct in-person PD sales to member districts, inside-sales virtual events, and channel/reseller distribution through partner Educational Service Centers across Indiana. The customer base comprises Indiana school districts and the educators within them — including named districts such as Richmond, Zionsville, Duneland, Lewis Cass, Hanover, MSD of Washington Township, MSD of Steuben County, Plainfield, and Bartholomew Consolidated Schools.

Name

Keep Indiana Learning

Legal name

Central Indiana Educational Service Center

Website

https://keepindianalearning.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Keep Indiana Learning is a non-profit department of the Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC) that delivers professional development, coaching, and collaboration networks to Indiana K-12 educators and school districts via a Canvas-based platform, in-person services, and a MagicSchool AI training series.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educator Professional Development Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Professionals (Teacher/Administrator CE, CPD) (EDAAALAE)

Keywords

• Educator professional development
• Instructional coaching services
• School district training programs
• Teacher AI integration training
• Literacy coaching programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Indianapolis

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, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Development Services: Keep Indiana Learning generates revenue through professional development services delivered to member and non-member school districts. Pricing is structured per day of professional development with tiered rates based on membership status.
2. Event Registration: Revenue from registration fees for professional development events including workshops, presentations, and virtual sessions. Some events are free while others have associated fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Keep Indiana Learning provides professional development services to Indiana educators and school districts, including customized in-person and virtual training, Canvas-based online courses, a free digital content library, structured collaboration networks, and innovation coaching. As a department of the Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC), it delivers research-based instructional support spanning literacy, math, STEM, multilingual learner support, and AI tool integration.

Product overview

Keep Indiana Learning is a department of the Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC) that provides professional development services to Indiana educators. The organization operates a platform-plus-services model, combining its flagship Keep Indiana Learning Services with specialized programs including Innovation Coaches, Counselor Connect, Indiana Literacy Cadre, and Collaboration Networks. The core offerings include a Digital Content Library (free blog resources), Canvas-based online courses, upcoming events (including MagicSchool AI training series), customized professional learning for districts, and a contribution proposal system for educators to submit content. Administrative Supports and Tech & Innovation services are provided through CIESC partnership.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Keep Indiana Learning Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Professional development supporting Indiana's 103,024 multilingual learners
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability5 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKeep Indiana Learning is a department of CIESC, operating as the flagship professional development arm of the educational service center. CIESC provides administrative infrastructure and support for KINL operations, including privacy policy and contact administration.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Learning Forward: Learning Forward is the national professional association for educator professional learning, operating standards, networks, and PD programs that directly overlap KINL's educator PD and collaboration-network activities.
• BloomBoard: BloomBoard is an educator growth and micro-credentials platform supporting teacher PD and competency tracking, a structural analog to KINL's PD catalog and Canvas-delivered courses.
• New Teacher Center: New Teacher Center delivers educator induction, coaching, and professional learning programs to districts, comparable to KINL's Innovation Coach network and Coaching Collaborative.
• Edthena: Edthena delivers video-based teacher coaching and professional learning cycles, mirroring KINL's Coaching Collaborative and Innovation Coach PD delivery model.
• Teaching Channel: Teaching Channel provides video-based professional development for teachers, a comparable digital content and on-demand PD model to KINL's content library and virtual sessions.
• BetterLesson: BetterLesson provides customized K-12 educator professional development and instructional coaching, closely matching KINL's core PD-and-coaching model across curriculum, instructional leadership, and AI integration.
• Advancement Courses: Advancement Courses offers online continuing education and graduate-level PD for K-12 educators, comparable to KINL's Canvas-based asynchronous PD courses for Indiana teachers.

Broad incumbents

• ASCD: ASCD is a national PD and curriculum association serving educators broadly, overlapping KINL's professional learning and instructional leadership content but at much larger scale.
• Curriculum Associates: Curriculum Associates (iReady, Ready Classroom) provides K-12 instructional content and PD at national scale, overlapping KINL's curriculum-mapping, standards, and assessment-prep PD topics.

Regional players

• Illinois State Board of Education Service Centers: Illinois operates regional educational service centers analogous to Indiana's ESCs; they deliver district PD across a single state, mirroring KINL's structure but in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCJiYserMMf64yDLcqDDAhmQ
• Xtwitter.com/keepindianalearning
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/keep-indiana-learning

Compliance3 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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