Training firm officers who need to be on the vanguard in understanding faculty district calls for and the place the Ok-12 market is headed subsequent don’t need to miss subsequent month’s EdWeek Market Temporary Summit in Denver.
This 12 months’s occasion, being held Nov. 13-15, options an array of panel discussions that includes faculty system decision-makers, flash briefings on necessary coverage matters, deep dives into authentic analysis available on the market, and casual networking alternatives.
Moreover, this 12 months’s occasion will provide a sequence of hands-on, two-day workshops designed to assist schooling firm representatives navigate key points available in the market, and inside their organizations.
Highlights from this 12 months’s agenda:
What’s the ROI on AI? Many schooling organizations really feel an implicit stress to weave synthetic intelligence into their merchandise. However how do they weigh laborious selections concerning the prices and potential rewards of these investments, notably given faculty districts’ ambivalent attitudes towards the expertise?
On this panel, you’ll hear from firm officers who’re wrestling with these selections: Eric Swanson, a senior VP at Renaissance; Felix Brandon Lloyd, Co-Founder and CEO, Zoobean; and Harris Goodman, senior VP at BrainPOP.
Core Vs. Supplemental Curriculum. The takeup of supplemental tutorial sources soared throughout and after the pandemic, as districts scrambled to make up misplaced tutorial floor. This panel will have a look at how faculty districts are deciding on the curricular combine at the moment.
Our viewers will get insights from Helena Swanson-Nystrom, the chief director of curriculum, instruction, and digital Studying within the Chicago Public Faculties; Brian Morton, director of Ok-12 instructing and studying in Ohio’s largest faculty system, the Columbus Metropolis Faculties; and Mellotta Hill, chief tutorial officer of the Cumberland County Faculties, in North Carolina.
The Election and Ok-12 Coverage. The occasion will happen within the shadow of the Nov. 5 election. We’ll hear from Daniel Thatcher, of the Nationwide Convention of State Legislatures; and Mike Griffith, of the Studying Coverage Institute, concerning the implications of the election for Ok-12 budgets and coverage.
Altering Funding Streams. One in all our panels will have a look at how faculty districts make selections about federal, state, and native/common working funds, and which sources get mapped to which tutorial and different priorities.
The panelists are Maria Longa, director of the Seminole County Faculties in Florida; Brandan Consolation, the chief sources officer of Colorado Springs District 11; Ricky Hernández, chief monetary officer of the Tucson Unified College District, in Arizona; and Craig Anderson, government director for the workplace of instructing and studying, Saint Paul Public Faculties, in Minnesota.
New Intel on District Buying Priorities. We’ll be unveiling new survey information collected by the EdWeek Analysis Heart on key faculty district buying priorities for the following fiscal 12 months, product category-by-product class.
Interactive Workshops. Over the primary two days of the occasion, we’ll be staging 4 totally different hands-on workshops for attendees. James Marciano, the CEO of Tuck Advisors, will lead periods on whether or not your organization is prepared for M&A. Former superintendent Laurie Kimbrel will talk about how firms can carefully learn and interpret faculty district strategic paperwork to higher perceive their wants.
Former McGraw-Hill exec and EdSolutions CEO Jeff Livingston will information attendees via a session on the right way to navigate tradition wars; and Collin Earnst of the Edtech Management Collective will speak about the right way to determine in the event you’re on a path to the C-suite — and, in the event you’re already an organization chief, the right way to nurture exec-level expertise.
These are only a few of the discussions that can play out over three days. You possibly can learn the complete agenda right here and be taught extra about attending and bringing others out of your staff.