Schedule
***draft subject to change***
Tuesday, April 9 | |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Opening Lunch: Next Steps to Advancing Standards & Assessments for College- and Career-Readiness
Keynote: Mike Cohen , President, Archive |
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | State Policy Leadership in the Shift to Digital Learning Panelists: John Bailey, Executive Director, Digital Learning Now!, Foundation for Excellence in Education Joe Williams, Executive Director, Democrats for Education Reform |
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Outlook for State and Federal Education Funding Panelists: Joel Packer, Executive Director, Committee for Education Funding Ryan Reyna, Program Director, Education Division, Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | The Intersection of Regulations and Practice in the Evolving Higher Education System Panelists: Hal Plotkin, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary, United States Department of Education |
Wednesday, April 10 | |
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM | Keynote TBA |
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Balancing Big Data: Navigating Between Innovation and Student Privacy Moderator: Philip Piety, Learning Scientist for Educational Systems & Faculty Affiliate, Johns Hopkins School of Education Panelists: Richard Culatta, Deputy Director, Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education Mary Esselman, Chief Officer of Accountability, Equity and Innovation, Education Achievement Authority |
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | SIIA Member Roundtable Discussion of Key Education Issues |
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Break |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | The Role of Technology in Federal Education Policies & Programs Keynote: Michael Yudin, Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education |
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Technology Readiness for Common Core State Standards and Assessments Moderator: Douglas Levin, Executive Director, State Educational Technology Directors Association Panelists: Tony Alpert, COO, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Wes Bruce, Chief Assessment Officer, Indiana Department of Education Betsy Goeltz, Principal, Pocatello (ID) Public Schools |
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM | NCLB Waivers: Technology Impact & Opportunities Panelists: Lillian Pace, Senior Director of National Policy, KnowledgeWorks Peter Zamora, Director of Federal Relations, Council of Chief State School Officers |
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM | Education Policy, Pundits & Predictions Panelists: Vic Klatt, Principal, Penn Hill Group Alyson Klein, Writer, Politics K-12, Education Week Andrew Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner, Bellwether Education Partners |
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Reception with Education Leaders Networking reception held in conjunction with CoSN-ISTE-SETDA Advocacy Day, featuring local, state and national education leaders. |
Thursday, April 11 | |
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Capitol Hill Updates & Advocacy Briefings 325 Russell Senate Office Building Keynote: George Miller, Ranking Member, Education & the Workforce Committee, U.S. House of Representatives Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch on Your Own |
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Congressional Advocacy Visits |

