Schedule

Participants: SETDA State Members, Corporate Partners, and Event Sponsors

8:30 am – 12:30 pm

• SETDA Board Meeting (Board Members Only)

12:00 – 7:00 pm

• Registration Open

12:30 – 1:00 pm

• New Member Welcome

1:00 – 1:30 pm

• Welcome Luncheon and State Sharing (State Members Only)

1:30 – 3:30 pm

• Strategic Plan Launch (State Members Only)

3:45 – 5:45 pm

• Round Robin Corporate Sessions (State Members and Event Sponsors)
  • SymbalooEDU, TaskStream, Vidyo
  • ePals, ESRI, Truenorthlogic
  • Intel and Phonak

6:00 – 8:00 pm

•  Product Showcase Reception (State Members, Annual Sponsors and Event Sponsors)

Participants: SETDA State Members, Corporate Partners, and Invited Guests

7:00 am

• Registration Open

7:00 – 8:00 am

• Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 am

• Morning Keynote Address – Betsy Corcoran, CEO and Co-Founder, EdSurge
  • Betsy Corcoran is the CEO of Edsurge. EdSurge is an independent information resource and community for everyone involved in education technology that aims to help educators discover the best products and how to use them and to inspire developers to build what educators and learners need. Prior to her role at Edsurge, Betsy served as the Executive Editor for technology coverage at Forbes Media. Earlier she was an award-winning staff writer for the Washington Post and Scientific American.

  Presentation

9:00 – 9:15 am Break

9:15 – 10:30 am

• Concurrent Breakout Panel Presentations: Spotlight on States
  • Ensuring Broadband and Device Access for All Students
  • Accelerating the Shift to Digital and Open Content
  • Preparing for High-Quality Online Assessments
  • Leveraging ‘Big Data’ to Support Digital Age Learning

 10:30 – 10:45 am Break

10:45 – 11:45 am

• Plenary Panel: State Leadership in the Digital Age Panel
• Facilitator: Douglas Levin, Executive Director, SETDA
• Presenters:
  • Jim Kohlmoos, Executive Director, National Association of State Boards of Education – Presentation
  • Linda Pittenger, Strategic Initiative Director, Council of Chief State School Officers – Presentation
  • Melinda Stanley, Educational Technology Consultant, Kansas State DOE & Vice Chair, SETDA Board of Directors – Presentation

11:45 – 12:15 pm Break

12:15 – 2:15 pm

• Luncheon: Educational Technology in Practice: Educator and Student Voices
• Introduction: Stuart Ciske, Education Consultant, Federal Grants, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
• Presenters:
  • Dr. Kim Ehrhardt, Director of Curriculum Assessment and Instruction, Janesville School District
  • Kathy White, Assistive Technology Specialist, Janesville School District
  • Christopher Laue, Principal, George S. Parker High School
  • Robert Getka, Junior, George S. Parker High School
  • Colin Murdy, Senior, George S. Parker High School
  • Correy Winke, Junior, George S. Parker High School

2:45 – 3:45 pm

• Plenary Panel: The Past, Present, and Future of Technology and Education Reform
• Facilitator: Geoffrey Fletcher, Deputy Executive Director, SETDA
• Presenters:
  • John Bailey, Executive Director, Digital Learning Now!
  • Karen Cator, Director, US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
  • Linda Roberts, Visiting Scholar, American Association for the Advancement of Science

6:30 – 10:00 pm

• Awards Gala, Mistress of Ceremony, Helen Soule

Participants: SETDA State Members, State Guests and Corporate Partners

7:45 am

• Registration Open

8:00 – 8:45 am

• Breakfast and Welcome

9:00 – 11:45 am

• From Policy to Practice Working Groups (Break out Sessions)
  • Ensuring Broadband and Device Access for All Students
  • Accelerating the Shift to Digital and Open Content
  • Preparing for High-Quality Online Assessments
  • Leveraging ‘Big Data’ to Support Digital Age Learning

12:00 – 1:00 pm Working Lunch

1:00 – 3:30 pm

• From Policy to Practice Working Groups (Break out Sessions) Continued
  • Ensuring Broadband and Device Access for All Students
  • Accelerating the Shift to Digital and Open Content
  • Preparing for High-Quality Online Assessments
  • Leveraging ‘Big Data’ to Support Digital Age Learning

3:30 – 3:45 pm Break

3:45 – 5:00 pm

• Next Steps: Aligning Working Group Recommendations to SETDA’s Strategic Plan

6:00 – 9:00 pm

• Dinner with the SETDA Band. Join us for dinner and music at the Chesapeake Grill Lounge at the Hyatt. Enjoy the skyline of Washington DC

Participants: State Members only

7:30 – 8:00 am

• Breakfast

8:00 – 9:45 am

• State Educational Technology Director – U.S. Department of Education Meeting

10:00 – 12:00 pm

• Birds of a Feather Breakout Topic Sessions (State Members only)
  • E-Rate – Melinda Stanley, Educational Technology Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education
  • Common Core Identifiers and Metadata-  Geoff Fletcher, Deputy Executive Director, SETDA
  • New Models for Learning – Karen Kahan, Director, Educational Technology, Texas Education Agency and Carla Wade, Digital Learning and STEM Education Specialist, Oregon Department of Education

12:30 – 4:30 pm

• SETDA and Council of Chief State School Officer’s (CCSSO) Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC) Meeting – Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel at 2800 South Potomac Ave Arlington, Virginia