DO YOU NEED A BIG TECH TEAM?
Managing your IT assets, training technicians and spending time building out budget reports doesn’t have to be handled in-house. It doesn’t even have to cost you a dime.

With Customer Central, our customizable asset management tool, districts can manage IT assets, submit device repair requests, help operate a student-led repair center for 1:1 deployments and train technicians. Customer Central is complete with budget allocation reporting, shipment tracking, and provides real time visibility into the repair process every step of the way.

Our full service repair center is equipped with on-site Certified Repair Technicians and replacement parts readily available for you to repair your devices in-house, if you prefer. Using Customer Central, your team has access to our library of repair resources including how-to videos and 24/7 customer support, keeping your devices up and running 100% of the time.

Did we mention the platform is free? Let us show you how it works.

*All attendees will receive full access to Customer Central and $300 in device repair credits.

CONTINUITY RULES
Managing behavior seamlessly across remote and in-person environments
As an emergency response, educators made a shift to distance learning almost overnight with mitigated success: all over the country, districts report participation rates in distance learning to be as low as 50%. Meanwhile, engagement with video games is at an all-time high. Together, we’ll explore why focusing on motivation and behavior is critical to student success this school year and how having a gamified data-driven approach like Classcraft can help achieve these goals.

HOW VIRTUAL STEM LEARNING CAN SOLVE LONG-TERM EQUITY ISSUES DURING THE PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
Join 21stCentEd., A Virtual STEM and CTE Academy powered by TechTrep, to see how.

We have experienced a cosmic shift of lifestyle and routine in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies everywhere are struggling and will continue to struggle to stay afloat. And because of that, the need to cut costs will be greater than ever.

For many businesses, efforts to improve and advance automation have been ramped up significantly in response to the COVID-19 crisis due to the fact that employees have been unavailable to work in those same roles.

And now that these companies are seeing the cost-saving benefits of automation, it’s hard to imagine that they will simply roll back into a human-dominant work style.

Schools must have the same urgency in creating STEM opportunities for students as companies have in eliminating opportunities to be shut down again. For companies this invariably involves leveraging AI, robotics, automation, IoT, and other emerging technologies. Our students must be prepared for a post-COVID-19 technocentric world. The best way to reach the most kids is through a Virtual STEM Academy and Virtual STEM Camps that can be accessed in-school, after-school, and out-of-school. We will discuss how and what's working.

FILLING IN THE GAPS OF HYBRID LEARNING WITH A STRONG SEL APPROACH
Join BellXcel to learn ways to address the new realities of hybrid learning. This webinar will cover:

• Data and early projections of “pandemic learning”: Lessons learned from BellXcel’s innovations for remote summer learning—including programmatic design, learning environment, social-emotional enrichment, outcome metrics, quality, and strong professional development.
• Summer success: This year, facing extended and rolling school closures and significant learning loss, more than 17,000 scholars participated in BellXcel-powered Remote and in person summer learning programs and saw great success—making up for losses of extended time outside of a school setting.
• Innovating for Fall+: Applying our learning to strengthen remote, hybrid, and onsite programming for this academic year.

BellXcel partners with schools and youth organizations to license its evidence-based all-in-one solution for K-8 summer and afterschool programming. A leading national nonprofit in youth development with nearly 30 years’ experience innovating proven educational solutions, BellXcel is changing the way its school and district partners empower educators and reach exponentially more children and their families.

GAMING CULTURE, DISTANCE LEARNING AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
How we can borrow from video games to build meaningful distance learning experiences.

As an emergency response, educators made a shift to distance learning almost overnight with mitigated success: all over the country, districts report participation rates in distance learning to be as low as 50%. Meanwhile, engagement with video games is at an all-time high. Together, we’ll learn what we can borrow from video games to rethink distance learning, motivate students and develop standards to make them better distance learners.

KEYNOTE
Since the onset of COVID-19, teachers, education leaders, students, and families have been innovating and adapting to new methods of teaching and learning. Recent research shows that education systems are navigating three phases of change as they evolve: disruption, transition, and reimagining. Approaches and solutions vary, but the goals for all are the same: establishing a future with equitable, learner-focused education that highlights social-emotional skills and well-being, and empowers all students to live meaningful lives and achieve more.

Now that the reimagining of education as open-walled and unconstrained by place and space is underway, educators are working to answer questions such as: How can we ensure equity? What is the best way to encourage and evaluate engagement in a remote environment? What is the role of technology in the remote/hybrid classroom? How can we integrate pedagogy with technology and shift technology from being a vehicle for transmission to a mechanism for collaboration, social connectedness, and culture building?

FOCUSING ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT WITH PROJECT BASED LEARNING
Can we make learning engaging with a focus on Future Ready skills in a blended/remote learning environment?  By utilizing project-based learning, the simple answer is yes, and Defined Learning has been a leader in this field since 2009 with their career-themed Performance Tasks.  Now more than ever, we need to engage students in the learning process while fostering complex problem-solving skills.

On September 28, learn how to utilize Defined Learning’s comprehensive library of standards-based Performance Tasks to engage students in cross-curricular projects whether learning is taking place at home, at school, or some combination of both.  This session will also feature performance-based assessment with a focus on measuring student growth in skills such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity as students are asked to solve real-world problems and publish their work.   With starting points in all core K-12 subject areas, there are projects for teachers to utilize whether you are just getting started or have years of experience with PBL. 

BRINGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ALGORITHMIC THINKING TO THE K-12 CLASSROOM
AI will affect every aspect of life. Are we doing students a disservice by not introducing AI understanding into K-12 education? Learn the strategies, hurdles, and resources for AI integration into the classroom: Resources and nuts and bolts examples for building understanding of AI and algorithmic thinking.

AI, THE FUTURE OF LEARNING, AND HOW COVID 19 HAS RESHAPED EVERYTHING WE KNOW
We live in an age of wonder: cars that drive themselves, devices that anticipate our needs, and robots capable of everything from advanced manufacturing to complex surgery. Automation, algorithms, and AI will transform every facet of daily life, but are we prepared for what that means for the future of work, leadership, and creativity? While many already fear that robots will take their jobs, rapid advancements in machine intelligence raise a far more important question: what is the true potential of human intelligence in the twenty-first century?

IS AI THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HAPPENING IN EDUCATION?
We are a couple of years into a new era; the one that follows the 40-year information age. While AI will help address our most pressing problems within the business world and society, it also has the potential to combine the complementary strengths of humans and AI to redesign current educational models. This time of novelty and complexity will demand creative thinking, dynamic partnerships, and innovative design solutions. This virtual presentation will lead a conversation about what’s going on in AI education, what it means, and how educators can prepare for and use AI in the classroom. Join us to discuss how we can shape a future that works for everyone.