Essential Intel for Education Companies: The EdWeek Market Brief Summit

Training firm officers who wish to be on the forefront in understanding college district calls for and the place the Okay-12 market is headed subsequent don’t wish to miss subsequent month’s EdWeek Market Transient Summit in Denver.

This 12 months’s occasion, being held Nov. 13-15, options an array of panel discussions that includes college system decision-makers, flash briefings on essential coverage subjects, deep dives into unique analysis in the marketplace, and casual networking alternatives.

Moreover, this 12 months’s occasion will provide a sequence of hands-on, two-day workshops designed to assist schooling firm representatives navigate key points out there, and inside their organizations.

Highlights from this 12 months’s agenda:

What’s the ROI on AI? Many schooling organizations really feel an implicit strain to weave synthetic intelligence into their merchandise. However how do they weigh exhausting choices concerning the prices and potential rewards of these investments, notably given college districts’ ambivalent attitudes towards the expertise?

On this panel, you’ll hear from firm officers who’re wrestling with these choices: Eric Swanson, a senior VP at Renaissance; Felix Brandon Lloyd, Co-Founder and CEO, Zoobean; and Harris Goodman, senior VP at BrainPOP.

Core Vs. Supplemental Curriculum. The takeup of supplemental tutorial sources soared throughout and after the pandemic, as districts scrambled to make up misplaced tutorial floor. This panel will have a look at how college districts are deciding on the curricular combine right now.

Our viewers will get insights from Helena Swanson-Nystrom, the manager director of curriculum, instruction, and digital Studying within the Chicago Public Faculties; Brian Morton, director of Okay-12 educating and studying in Ohio’s largest college system, the Columbus Metropolis Faculties; and Mellotta Hill, chief tutorial officer of the Cumberland County Faculties, in North Carolina.

The Election and Okay-12 Coverage. The occasion will happen within the shadow of the Nov. 5 election. We’ll hear from Daniel Thatcher, of the Nationwide Convention of State Legislatures; and Mike Griffith, of the Studying Coverage Institute, concerning the implications of the election for Okay-12 budgets and coverage.

Altering Funding Streams. Certainly one of our panels will have a look at how college districts make choices about federal, state, and native/common working funds, and which sources get mapped to which tutorial and different priorities.

The panelists are Maria Longa, director of the Seminole County Faculties in Florida; Brandan Consolation, the chief sources officer of Colorado Springs District 11; Ricky Hernández, chief monetary officer of the Tucson Unified College District, in Arizona; and Craig Anderson, govt director for the workplace of educating and studying, Saint Paul Public Faculties, in Minnesota.

New Intel on District Buying Priorities. We’ll be unveiling new survey knowledge collected by the EdWeek Analysis Heart on key college district buying priorities for the subsequent fiscal 12 months, product category-by-product class.

Interactive Workshops. Over the primary two days of the occasion, we’ll be staging 4 totally different hands-on workshops for attendees. James Marciano, the CEO of Tuck Advisors, will lead classes on whether or not your organization is prepared for M&A. Former superintendent Laurie Kimbrel will talk about how firms can intently learn and interpret college district strategic paperwork to higher perceive their wants.

Former McGraw-Hill exec and EdSolutions CEO Jeff Livingston will information attendees by way of a session on the right way to navigate tradition wars; and Collin Earnst of the Edtech Management Collective will speak about the right way to establish in the event you’re on a path to the C-suite — and, in the event you’re already an organization chief, the right way to nurture exec-level expertise.

These are only a few of the discussions that may play out over three days. You possibly can learn the complete agenda right here and be taught extra about attending and bringing others out of your group.