As prologue to the first virtual Aurora Institute Symposium, we’re offering a series of more than 20 webinars focused on salient issues from the field of personalized, competency-based education. Learn firsthand from system leaders, practitioners, researchers, and educators who are accelerating the advancement of breakthrough policies and practices to ensure high-quality learning for all. This series includes a special set of research-focused webinars.
Held October 26-28, 2020, thousands of education innovators will gather for three days of learning, networking, inspiration, and challenges and solutions. Keynotes and sessions will immerse participants in topics ranging from COVID-19 and online and blended learning to global best practices and bright spots of innovation to educational equity, social-emotional learning, and trends driving the future of teaching and learning. True to tradition, we promise to keep students at the center of our time together. Please join us.
Courageous and visionary policy actions are needed to advance the transformation of teaching and learning in K-12 education. Each year, we convene state policymakers, advocates, funders, system and school leaders, and educators for an intensive exploration of education policy trends and possibilities. Together, we grapple with issues driving the entry into and deepening of student-centered learning models, learn from states leading the way, and make time for targeted connection among education decision-makers.
Keynote Plenary 1: Future of Education: Leapfrogging in a Time of Crisis
Plenary 2: Bright Spots in Driving Collective Change
Book Clubs: Meet the Experts with Authors
Keynote Plenary 1: Lifting Up Best Practices for Quality and Equity—Even During COVID-19
Plenary 2: Bright Spots from Personalized, Competency-Based Districts and Schools Across the USA
Keynote Plenary 1: Student Panel Plenary – Students are Catalysts for Change: Youth Perspectives on Education
Closing Plenary: Top 10 Trends for the Future of K-12 Education: A Path Forward & Equitable Futures
Susan Patrick | Aurora Institute
Dr. Rebecca Winthrop | The Brookings Institution
Dr. Anthony Jackson | Asia Society
Dr. Katherine Casey | imaginEDU
Oscar Santos | Center for Collaborative Education
Stacy Caldwell | Mastery Transcript Consortium
Rachael Stephens | National Governors Association
Javier Guzman | Big Picture Learning
David Ruff | Great Schools Partnership
Renee Hill | Riverside Unified School District
John Clemente | South Bronx Community Charter
Kristen Watkins | Dallas Independent School District
Dr. Steve Kossakoski | NH VLACS
Cory Steiner | Northern Cass
Brenda Diaz | Nashville Big Picture High School
Student Panel
Nicholas C. Donohue | Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Virgel Hammonds | KnowledgeWorks
Felicia Cumings Smith | National Geographic
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