Cybersecurity is an in-demand, growing field, so it falls to schools to help students enter the industry. The inequities faced by different students make this a challenge, which Digital Promise’s Inclusive Cybersecurity Pathways Cohort strives to address.
Presented by Kerri Larkin, Senior Education Advisor, Lexia; and Horacio Sanchez, President and CEO, Resiliency, Inc.
Presented by Jennifer Abramowski, Senior Educator Engagement Specialist, The WNET Group; Lily Exantus, Program Coordinator, Professional Learning, District of Columbia Public Schools (DC); and Hai Lun Tan, Research Associate, Education Development Center
Presented by Horacio Sanchez, President and CEO, Resiliency, Inc.; Maya Goodall, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum, Lexia Learning; and Kerri Larkin, Senior Education Advisor, Education Partnerships
Moderated by Cassandra Wheeler, Senior Manager of LETRS State Success, Lexia Learning
Presented by Eleanor Janszky, Senior Early Learning Specialist and Educational Producer, Let’s Learn; Katharine (Katie) Pace Miles, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), Co-Founder and Principal Investigator, CUNY Reading Corps, and Author, Reading Ready; Isabel Simmons, School-Based Literacy Coach, New York City Public Schools Literacy Collaborative, Office of Curriculum and Instruction, Division of Teaching and Learning; and Rebekah Nelson, Instructional Specialist, New York City Department of Education
Equitable learning involves getting education where needed, even if students need help to reach their primary school destination. According to district leaders during the edLeader Panel, “How Mobile Learning Labs Are Supporting Hard-to-Reach Students,” the education system ensures that students have the support necessary for their educational growth.
Presented by Brandi Stroecker, Director, Tennessee STEM Innovation Network at Battelle Education; Harshil Parikh, Co-Founder and CEO, Tuva; Kathy Perkins, Ph.D., Director, PhET Interactive Simulations, and Faculty, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics; and Michelle Newstadt, Ph.D., Senior Director of Learning Design, STEM, BrainPOP
During the edLeader Panel, “Utilizing ESSER Funding to Implement PBL + STEM Initiatives,” a panel of educational peers engaged in a lively discussion about how to best invest funding from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) in high-impact project-based learning (PBL) and STEM initiatives across the nation.
Presented by Michelle Chen, Senior Producer, Kids’ Media and Education, The WNET Group; Lily Exantus, M.Ed., Program Coordinator, District of Columbia Public Schools; Dr. Charity Brown Griffin, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, and Director of the Minority Academic Achievement and Development Lab, Winston-Salem State University; and Dr. Pamela Walker, Assistant Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University–San Antonio
Presented by Dr. Daniel Stanhope, Founding Researcher, LearnPlatform; Brian Galvin, Chief Academic Officer, Varsity Tutors; Nancy Waymack, Director of Research Partnerships and Policy, National Student Support Accelerator, Annenberg Institute; Vincent Quan, Co-Executive Director, J-PAL North America, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab; and Tara García Mathewson, Education Reporter, Languages Editor, The Hechinger Report