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Washington Education Technology Policy Summit
March 8, 2012
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2012 Emerging Technologies Forum in Conjunction with ISTE
June 22 - 25, 2012
San Diego, California
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2012 Leadership Summit
October 14-17, 2012
Arlington, Virginia

 
      2011 Leadership Summit

Leadership Summit 2011
Leveraging Technology for Learning
November 6 - 9, 2011

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center

Leadership Summit Presenters and Bios

Leadership Summit 2011
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pdf icon Leadership Summit Booklet available.

Twitter icon Don't forget to tweet #setdals11 during the conference.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

8:30 am - 11:30 am SETDA Board Meeting (Board Members Only)
Camellia Room

12:00 - 7:00 pm Registration Open
Cherry Blossom Lobby
 
1:00 - 2:00 pm Informal Networking Lunch and State Sharing (State Members Only)
Annapolis 1-2
2:00 - 2:45 pm

Committee Meetings (All State Members encouraged to attend.)

  • Professional Growth - Annapolis 3
  • Membership and Communications - Camellia Room
  • Data Collection - Annapolis 4
  • Innovations and Partnerships - Baltimore 1
2:50 - 3:50 pm

Welcome: State Membership Meeting (State Members Only)
Annapolis 1-2

4:00 - 6:30 pm

Round Robin Corporate Sessions (State Members and Event Sponsors)

  • Magnolia 1
  • Magnolia 2
  • Magnolia 3
6:30 - 8:30 pm

Product Showcase Reception (State Members, Annual Sponsors and Event Sponors)
Cherry Blosson Ballroom

 
Monday, November 7, 2011
Participants: SETDA State Members, Special Guests, Corporate Members and Educational Leaders

7:00 am Registration Open
Cherry Blossom Lobby
7:30 - 8:00 am Breakfast
Cherry Blossom Ballroom
8:00 – 9:00 am

Welcome and Keynote Address
Cherry Blossom Ballroom
Video

9:15 – 10:15 am

Concurrent Breakout Panel Presentations: Spotlight on States

  • Making the Shift from Traditional Textbooks to Digital and Open Content
    Magnolia 3
    Video
  • Increasing Access for All Students
    Azalea 3
  • Innovations in Education: Focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
    Magnolia 2
  • Preparing for High Quality Online Assessments
    Camellia Room
  • Improving Educator Effectiveness - Teachers as Co-Learners
    Magnolia 1
10:15 - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 11:30 am

Plenary Panel: Transforming Teaching and Learning
Cherry Blossom Ballroom

Facilitator: Karen Cator, Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education

Panelists:

  • Vince Bertram, CEO, Project Lead the Way
  • Thomas G. Carroll, President, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
  • Jeanne Hayes, President, The Hayes Connection
  • Bill Tucker, Managing Director, Education Sector
  • David Wiley, Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University
11:30 - 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 – 2:15 pm

Luncheon: Educational Technology in Practice: Educator and Student Voices Cherry Blossom Ballroom

Introduction: Jeff Mao, Learning Technology Policy Director, Maine Department of Education, & Chair, SETDA Board of Directors

Presenters:

  • Ted Hall, Principal, Yarmouth High School (Maine)
  • Chris Jones, Student, Oak Hill High School (Maine)
  • Hannah Potter, Student, Yarmouth High School (Maine)
2:45 - 4:00 pm

Plenary Panel: Visions for the Future of Education and Technology
Cherry Blossom Ballroom
Video

Facilitator: Douglas Levin, Executive Director, SETDA

Panelists:

  • Sharren Bates, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Deirdre Finn, Deputy Executive Director, Foundation for Excellence in Education
  • Tom Vander Ark, CEO, Open Education Solutions
4:00 – 5:00 pm

Closing Plenary Session: The Learning Registry: Promoting Innovations for Learning through Sharing
Cherry Blossom Ballroom

Remarks and Presentations by:

 SETDA Evening Event (by invitation only)

6:30 - 7:00 pm Reception
Cherry Blossom Lobby
7:00 - 10:00 pm

SETDA Awards Gala and 10th Birthday Celebration - Dress to Impress
Master of Ceremonies: John Bailey
Cherry Blossom Ballroom
SLY Award Ceremony
State Policymaker Award Ceremony


Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Participants: SETDA State Members, State Guests and Annual Sponsors

7:45 am Registration Open
Cherry Blossom Lobby
8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast and Welcome
Cherry Blossom Ballroom
9:15 – 11:45 am

Topic Discussion Sessions: Working Groups

  • Making the Shift from Traditional Textbooks to Digital and Open Content
    Magnolia 3
  • Increasing Access for All Students
    Azalea 3
  • Innovations in Education: Focus on Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)
    Magnolia 2
  • Preparing for High Quality Online Assessments
    Camellia Room
  • Improving Educator Effectiveness - Teachers as Co-Learners
    Magnolia 1
12:00 - 1:00 pm Networking Lunch
Cherry Blossom Ballroom
 1:15 - 3:45 pm Topic Discussion Sessions: Working Groups continued
  • Making the Shift from Traditional Textbooks to Digital and Open Content
    Magnolia 3
  • Increasing Access for All Students
    Azalea 3
  • Innovations in Education: Focus on Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)
    Magnolia 2
  • Preparing for High Quality Online Assessments
    Camellia Room
  • Improving Educator Effectiveness - Teachers as Co-Learners
    Magnolia 1
 3:45 - 4:00 pm Break
4:00 - 5:15 pm

Reflections on the Day
Cherry Blossom Ballroom

 SETDA Evening Event (by invitation only)

7:00 - 9:00 pm

SEA Team Meeting Celebration Dinner (State Members only)
Harrington's Pub and Kitchen
177 Fleet Street
National Harbor, MD 20745
301-909-2505

 
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Participants: State Members only

7:00 – 7:30 am Breakfast
Baltimore 1-2
7:30 - 10:15 am

State Educational Technology Director - U.S. Department of Education Meeting (Invitation Only - The Federal Title IID Program Office sent a formal invitation under separate cover to invitees.)
Baltimore 1-2

  • Program Updates
  • December Evaluation Reports
  • Guidance for Program Closeout
10:30 - 12:30 pm

Birds of a Feather Breakout Topic Sessions (State Members only)

Interactive Gaming
Baltimore 5
Facilitators: 

  • Stuart Ciske, Educational Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
  • Julia Fallon, IT Education and Technology Integration Program Manager, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Resource Specialist:
  • Constance Steinkuehler Squire, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House

Focus on Standards: Metatagging
Baltimore 1-2
Facilitators:

  • Jeff Mao, Learning Technology Policy Director, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Maine Department of Education
  • Bruce Umpstead, Director, Office of Education Technology and Data Collection, Michigan Department of Education

Resource Specialist:

  • Steve Midgley, Deputy Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education
12:30 - 1:30 pm

Closing Lunch
Baltimore 1-2

 Additional Events:

  • Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum 2011
    November 7 - 10, 2011
    Washington, D.C.
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  • Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) Annual Conference
    November 9 - 10, 2011
    Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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Featured Speakers and Keynotes:

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
@arneduncan @usedgov
Arne Duncan was nominated to be Secretary of Education by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Jan. 20, 2009. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Education, Duncan served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools, a position to which he was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, from June 2001 through December 2008, becoming the longest-serving big-city education superintendent in the country. Prior to joining the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan ran the non-profit education foundation Ariel Education Initiative (1992-1998), which helped fund a college education for a class of inner-city children under the I Have A Dream program. In 2007, he received the Niagara Foundation's Education Award, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship Enterprising Educator Award and the University High School Distinguished Alumni Award.

Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States
@aneeshchopra @whitehouseostp
Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President’s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland. He was sworn in on May 22nd, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he served as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2006 until April 2009. He previously served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly traded healthcare think tank.

Laura Junor pictureLaura Junor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness
Dr. Laura Junor serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness. She develops and oversees policies and programs to ensure the Armed Forces of the United States are ready for all missions assigned by the President and Secretary of Defense. She acts as the focal point on all issues and activities related to the readiness and training of the Total Force. Further, she leads major DoD-wide initiatives that include the development of real-time readiness reporting system, a transformed training environment for joint forces, sustainable military training ranges, and the implementation of the Secretary of Defense’s mishap reduction goal.

Rainie head shotLee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project
@lrainie @pewinternet
Lee Rainie is the Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a non-profit, non–partisan "fact tank" that studies the social impact of the internet. The Project has issued more than 300 reports based on its surveys that examine people's online activities and the internet's role in their lives. Lee is a co-author of Up for Grabs, Hopes and Fears, Ubiquity, Mobility, Security, and Challenges and Opportunities - a series of books about the future of the internet. Prior to launching the Pew Internet Project, Lee was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. He is a graduate of Harvard University and has a master's degree in political science from Long Island University.