This virtual event is free to all educators. The EduJedi Leadership Society and Learning Counsel News Media & Research are responding to School and District needs with regional virtual 2-day events to bring both nationally significant insights and foster togetherness with local leaders sharing.
Everyone responding to Learning Counsel surveys nationwide, over 27,000 educators from all levels and states, are concerned about defining what’s normal now. Concerns range from streamlining lesson planning to recapturing AWOL students to managing special needs remotely. The biggest two things were motivation and logistics.
85% of educators are concerned about Student Motivation as their key issue in hybrid learning.
70% of administrators are concerned about the logistics of time and space in hybrid schooling and what that does to teaching.
Learning Counsel has therefore put together special discussions centered around these two things primarily plus a much-needed new digital characteristics terms dictionary, and more.
AGENDA
Tues. Nov. 17th 11:00-4:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Day 1 - Hybrid Logistics & Secrets of Motivation
11:00-11:30 a.m. Educator Session on Hybrid Organizing:
11:30-12:00 a.m. Educator Session on Hybrid Organizing:
12:00-12:30 p.m. Lunch & Learn
BLACKBOARD presenter
12:30-1:00 p.m. Lunch & Learn - "What is your Learning Story? One connected solution. Endless way to teach, learn, and grow."
Sponsored by Mosaic
1:00-2:00 p.m. Hybrid Logistics: Best Practices
LeiLani Cauthen, CEO & Publisher, Learning Counsel News Media & Research
Description: What are the best practices being used in moving to hybrid, the behind-the-scenes logistics? Interesting gaps have emerged that tech is rushing in to help. New ideas like deploying PODs (Parents Over Development) teacher- leaders for neighborhoods to limit large gatherings on campuses, disassembling class structure into independent and distributed multi-grade home-rooms, partitioned on a campus, with tech to intersect students with teachers via auto-cohorting based on personalized pace for live or virtual classes using layered automated calendars tied to curriculum maps, and more. From the “we’re doing it on spreadsheets,” to the high-end systems, America’s schools are committed to delivering on the learning promise. Find out what we’ve identified from numerous successful districts and schools, and what is yet to come now that hybrid and remote learning is here for all.
2:00-2:30 p.m. Educator Session on Hybrid Organizing:
2:30-3:00 p.m. Educator Session on Hybrid Organizing:
3:00-4:00 p.m. Keynote & Discussion: Secrets of Student Motivation in Hybrid Learning
Sheryl Abshire, EduJedi and Retired CTO Calcasieu, Parish School System.
Description: Excerpts from “The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning on the Tuned-Out Child” by late author Richard Lavoie, will be summarized such as What is motivation?, the forces of motivation, the six kinds of motivation and how to implement them for winning teaching and learning. At the end of this keynote, Sheryl will share what technologies are doing to lend a hand and how, bridging Richard’s wisdom into current circumstances of hybrid and remote learning.
Wed. Nov. 18th 11:00-4:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Day 2 - Leading Digital Learning Experience
11:00-11:30 a.m. Educator Session on Models & Practice:
Jay Heap, Associate Superintendent for Tech Services, Georgia Department of Education
11:30-12:00 a.m. Educator Session on Models & Practice:
12:00-12:30 p.m. Lunch & Learn
12:30-1:00 p.m. Lunch & Learn
Dave Lowman, Director of Instructional Technology - CLASSLINK
1:00-2:00 p.m. Digital Experience Standards Workshop
Chris McMurray VP EduJedi Leadership, Learning Counsel
Description: The experience of learning digitally is different than the traditional classroom whether hybrid or remote. The EduJedi have been busy with creating a draft comparative model to the age-old ADDIES model of instructional design, plus a set of new Standards that acknowledge the emerging complexity in the software-side of choosing and using tools. Both of these new elements are accompanied with the new EduJedi Dictionary of terms. This session presents these in brief and provides for discussion time about implementation and editing ideas from all attendees. Be sure to read or at least scan your Dictionary prior to attending!
2:00-2:30 p.m. Educator Session Models & Practice:
2:30-3:00 p.m. Educator Session on Models & Practice:
3:00-4:00 p.m. Local Panel of Administrators | Our Digital Transition
Dr. Keith Osburn, Chief Information Officer, Georgia Department of Education (GA) - Panel Nov 18
Click here to see detailed agenda.
ALL TIMES ARE TIME EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
From previous events:
“Learning Counsel is one of our beginning resources to help us to calibrate our plan.”
–Lindsay Smith, K-12 Supervisor of Educational Technology, Central Bucks School District, PA
“I think it's just really imperative that we're having these kinds of conversations that we're sharing resources and information about how we're approaching this problem.”
– David Long, Superintendent, Beaver County School District, UT