Personalized Learning

Unlocking Potential: How Two Districts’ Virtual Options are Redefining Student Opportunity and Education Choice

Date & Time: Wednesday, October 9th at 2 pm ET

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how the powerful role of virtual learning options is expanding educational choices and opportunities at two districts. Discover how two superintendents are using virtual options to fill teacher vacancies, expand course catalogs, and retain and recapture students, leading to increased funding for districts.

Why Personalized Learning Requires Personalized Teaching

Date & Time: Thursday, September 12th at 11 am ET

In this engaging session, Todd Brekhus—Chief Product Officer at Renaissance and a pioneer in the field of education technology—will show you why personalized learning is only half of the equation. To truly impact student outcomes, educators need the data, tools, and strategies to deliver personalized teaching by truly seeing every student in a classroom, school, and district. Drawing on decades of experience, Brekhus will explain how recent advances in technology, including AI, empower educators to deliver the personalized teaching that students need for success.

Reimagining Tutoring: Evidence-Backed Strategies to Boost Student Learning, School Culture & Educator Satisfaction

Date & Time: Thursday, August 29th at 1 pm ET

In this webinar, education leaders will hear first-hand accounts of successful high-impact tutoring models from a district's chief academic officer. Also, field research experts from institutions, including Stanford University, and professionals who collaborate directly with district decision-makers will present case studies and stats on how to sustain high-impact tutoring to make a lasting effect on student learning, school culture, and educator job satisfaction.

[Q&A] Merlyn Mind Creating A Safer and More Responsible AI Environment

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Back to School Edtech Tools

Date & Time: Wednesday, August 14th at 4 pm ET

Join five leading edtech experts. They will share the latest educational technology tools designed to enhance teaching and learning. These tools, updated with artificial intelligence, are revolutionizing classrooms by increasing teacher efficiency and boosting student engagement. Each expert will present an effective edtech tool and explain its unique features.

Transforming Education: How District Leaders are Incorporating AI This Fall

Date & Time: Thursday, July 18th at 2 pm ET

Discover how personalized learning, AI-driven chatbots, and smart assessment tools are revolutionizing teaching and learning, making tasks more efficient, and bringing joy back to the classroom, while improving communication.

DA 100 education influencers: Joe Sanfelippo

Keynote speaker and author Sanfelippo is a retired 12-year superintendent was who helps school districts, boards and principals reshape their narratives and unlock their potential though community relationships.

Ten AI-Powered Tools to Use With Students to Engage All Learners

Date & Time: Thursday, June 20th at 2 pm ET

The landscape of educational technology has transformed dramatically in the last year, exploding with the rise of AI tools. As classrooms increasingly integrate digital tools, understanding these AI tools for student use is crucial. AI-powered tools facilitate personalized learning, productivity and efficiency, content creation, assessment, knowledge building, content review, tutoring, collaboration, communication, and developing technology skills for the future. It offers instant feedback, real-time support, and deeper understanding through interaction.

Ten AI-Powered Tools for Teachers to Try Today

Date & Time: Thursday, May 16th at 4 pm ET

The landscape of educational technology has transformed dramatically in the last year, exploding with the rise of AI tools for teachers. From streamlining student feedback to creating interactive content tools, AI-powered platforms have become essential for educators. As classrooms increasingly integrate digital tools, understanding these AI tools is crucial for teachers.

Closing Learning Gaps with High-Dosage Tutoring

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 3rd at 2 pm ET

In this 20-minute DA Ed Talk, the superintendent of the Pulaski County Public Schools (Va.) will discuss his district’s initiative to use high-dosage tutoring - an intervention method proven to quickly close learning gaps by specifically targeting each student's specific needs and learning style - as an extension of classroom instruction, and how it is providing personalized support, complementing the work of teachers, and increasing learning outcomes. 

Evidence-Based Instruction: The Missing Ingredient for Personalized Learning

Date & Time: Wednesday, January 17th at 2 pm ET

Attend this 20-minute DA Ed Talk to learn how to identify which types of evidence are most informative for instructional decisions, and how to empower educators to make more evidence-based instructional decisions and create more personalized learning environments.  

Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Improving and Elevating STEM Education

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 15 at 4 pm ET

Artificial intelligence, chatbots, and machine learning have transformed many industries—including education. Join us to discover the AI tools being used now to enhance STEM instruction and improve learning for the future.

Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in a School or District

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 1 at 2 pm ET

This webinar will bring together leaders from Prince William County Public Schools and Tulsa Public Schools to share the practical strategies that support competency-based learning, how to create more student-centered teaching environments, and how new instructional approaches can better support and engage teachers.

How AI Will Empower Administrators and Educators for Tomorrow’s Learning

Date & Time: Thursday, September 7 at 3:30 pm ET

In this DA Ed Talk, two edtech experts will outline how AI-powered technology can and will empower educators to personalize instruction, optimize teaching, and create more effective learning environments.

AI tutor Khanmigo excels at asking questions, heralding possible turn in education

In a possibly groundbreaking development, Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization, has unveiled Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor aimed at providing personalized learning experiences to students across the globe.

FETC Virtual Roundtable: How AI Will Transform K-12 Education

Date & Time: Wednesday, June 14 at 2 pm ET

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most significant innovations in ed tech. From personalized learning to intelligent tutoring systems, AI is transforming how we learn, teach, and work, and presents an unprecedented opportunity to drive education innovation in new ways.

Developing a Culture of Engagement, Motivation, and Growth Mindset

Thursday, January 26 at 2 pm ET

Attend this webinar to learn some practical, research-driven strategies for building a culture of student and educator engagement, motivation, and growth in your district.

The New EdTech Classroom, LLC

Product: 21st Century Teacher What it is: This virtual professional development program prepares educators to use technology to create more meaningful, relevant and authentic learning...

MobileMind

Product: MobileMind What it is: MobileMind delivers a comprehensive professional development platform that facilitates district-scaled, sustainable, personalized learning while engaging educators in gamified, self-paced micro-courses....

4 ideas you’d be wise to try when recruiting and retaining teachers

The pandemic has shown teachers that their skillsets are in high demand in the private sector, which often offers more money and more flexible work schedules.

The nation's largest independent edtech show, FETC, kicks off in January in Orlando.

The nation's largest independent edtech show, FETC, kicks off in January in Orlando.

The nation's largest independent edtech show, FETC, kicks off in January in Orlando.

The nation's largest independent edtech show, FETC, kicks off in January in Orlando.

The nation's largest independent edtech show, FETC, kicks off in January in Orlando.

Ready for teacher residency? 4 keys to success

One of the greater challenges to recruiting teachers is that traditional credential programs prepare teacher candidates for traditional classrooms—leaving innovative systems to fill the gap.

4 concepts to drive a more focused COVID recovery

For the first time in a long time, district leaders are facing fewer spending constraints as they look for innovations to move past COVID's disruptions.

How the hope and potential of ‘at-promise’ moves mainstream

The idea was simple: Replace the label for the student referred to as "at-risk" with the more positively framed "at-promise."

Provide executive functioning lessons within tiered supports

Incorporating executive functioning skills training into schoolwide tiered supports can help students whose deficits in this area may be viewed as issues of behavior or discipline.

Title I program staff spotlight

Mike Sellers, principal of Nikolaevsk School, part of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District in Alaska, a Title I school, shares his outlook and experiences about COVID and more.

Why micro-credentials will fuel student-centered learning

Online and hybrid learning require more student-centered approaches, and micro-credentials for teacher professional development may be the most reliable way to get there.

Why social-emotional learning starts with caring for teachers

Social-emotional learning for the coming school year actually began in July with professional development in Naperville School District 203 in the Chicago suburbs.

Why slower school supports students’ social-emotional health

Tornados, hurricanes and other natural disasters can provide some social-emotional learning guidance as schools reopen in the “uncharted territory” of the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

How to embed student voice throughout a district

Student voice impacts "everything we do" in Maryland's Howard County Public School System, and has recently led to a more diverse curriculum and a looser dress code.

How student-teacher relationships can prevent a lost school year

The coronavirus pandemic and online learning show that all schools should become 1-to-1—not just with computers, but also for cementing student-teacher relationships, a leading child advocate says.