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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Presented by Dr. Henry Mack, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at St. Thomas University, and Former State Higher Education and Workforce Chancellor for Florida; and Deborah Trask, Regional Sales Manager for Tosa, Isograd
Sponsored by Tosa by Isograd
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Degrees alone are no longer enough to prepare students for today’s workforce. With 92% of U.S. jobs requiring mastery of digital skills—including Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office, Google Docs, cybersecurity, web development, and coding—it’s essential to equip students with tools that ensure their success and give them a competitive edge. Alarmingly, over one-third of college graduates enter the job market without these critical competencies.
Join this edWebinar with industry experts to explore how stackable, industry-recognized, and proficiency-based certifications can bridge this critical skills gap. Learn actionable strategies to empower students to validate and demonstrate their expertise in essential digital competencies, setting them up for success in higher education and their careers.
During the session, you will learn the role of digital skills in today’s workforce, discover the benefits of proficiency-based certifications and how they validate skill sets, and gain insights into implementing stackable, industry-recognized certifications in your educational program. You’ll walk away with practical tips for integrating certifications into your curriculum, plus resources and examples to help revolutionize college and career readiness in your classrooms.
Don’t miss this opportunity to transform how you prepare students for the demands of the digital age! This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers, school leaders, district leaders, education technology leaders, and career and technical education staff. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenters
Dr. Henry Mack is Vice President of Strategy and Innovation and Executive Director for the Institute of Ethics and Leadership at St. Thomas University in Miami. Previously, he served as Provost and VP for Academic Affairs at Northwest Florida State College and as Chancellor for Florida’s higher education and workforce systems. As Chancellor, Dr. Mack oversaw a $3 billion annual budget for 1.5 million K-20 students. He led the Divisions of Florida Colleges, Career and Adult Education, Vocational Rehabilitation, Blind Services, the Florida DOE’s Office of Workforce Education and Economic Alignment, and the Commission for Independent Education. He was responsible for Florida’s workforce education strategy, budget, operations, policy and finance, grants and administration, and, together with the Governor’s Office, all higher education and workforce education legislative and policy priorities. Dr. Mack holds faculty positions at several Florida universities, where he teaches courses in the philosophy of education and education policy.
Deborah Trask is a Regional Sales Manager at Isograd Inc. She has spent her 26-year career connected to education. Deborah taught elementary school for six years before shifting to work in educational sales. Throughout her sales career, Deborah has worked with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastic Book Fairs, Follett, SkillPointe, and Isograd, helping support K-12 librarians, teachers, and postsecondary faculty and administrators with high-quality products to help their students succeed.
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Developed by Isograd, Tosa is an industry-recognized digital skills certification solution that offers a unique, proficiency-based, and adaptive testing approach, unlike traditional pass/fail exams. Tosa certifies digital skills across desktop and graphic design applications, digital literacy, cybersecurity, and coding, and adapts to each user’s knowledge level, making it more inclusive and tailored. By focusing on skill levels and identifying knowledge gaps, Tosa enables students to effectively validate and demonstrate their expertise on a globally recognized scale.
