Events
Monday, November 4, 2013 – Education Forum
Participants: State Members, Private Sector Partners, and Invited Guests
7:30 am
- Registration Open
7:30 – 8:00 am
- Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 am
- Welcome
8:15 – 9:15 am
- Keynote Address: Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
9:15 – 9:30 am Break
9:30 – 10:30 am
- Plenary Panel: Strategies to Support Educators in a Digital Age
- Moderator: Geoff Fletcher, Deputy Executive Director, SETDA
- Panelists:
- Kristen Amundson, Executive Director, National Association of State Boards of Education
- Candice Dodson, Director of eLearning, Indiana Department of Education
- Verna Lalbeharie, Senior Program Director, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
- Suzanne Culbreth, Staff Development Specialist, Mountain Brook Junior High School, Alabama Teacher of the Year 2012-2013
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
- Concurrent Breakout Panel Presentations: Spotlight on States
- Implementing Online Assessments
- Broadband and Device Access for All Students
- Quality Digital Content for Learning
- Ensuring the Privacy of Student Data
11:45 – 12:15 pm Break
12:15 – 2:15 pm
- Luncheon: Educational Technology in Practice: Educator and Student Voices
- Introductions: Carla Wade, Oregon Department of Education
- Student Source Program, Beaverton School District, Oregon
- G. Douglas Bundy, Technology Coordinator, Raleigh Hills K-8 School, Oregon
- Emma Erdahl, Student
- Katherin Parson, Student
- Marcie Callahan, Student
- Jonathan Rosales, Student
via Screencast
2:15 – 2:30 pm Break
2:30 – 4:00 pm
- Plenary Panel: ConnectED & E-Rate Modernization: From Vision to Reality
- Moderator: Doug Levin, Executive Director, SETDA
- Panelists:
- Sujeet Rao, Special Assistant, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
- Michael Steffen, Director of Digital Learning, Federal Communications Commission
- Anthony Wilhelm, Associate Administrator of Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications/NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Featuring a special conversation with: Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council