Education Tech Chaos

Air Date: Sept. 21, 2020

LeiLani Cauthen discusses the general education tech chaos with Tricia Kennedy, Executive Director, Instructional Development and Support, Gwinnett County Public Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. Kennedy has led years' worth of preparedness to have a fully integrated learning ecosystem so that total chaos was never evident for them in America’s March 2020 move to quarantines with all schools shutting down. While other schools went into hyper-drive, Kennedy’s chaos was minimal. With 180,000 students, Gwinnett’s tech vision leans on Amazon Web Services for dependency to watch traffic load and manage downtime in real-time, ensuring equitable access for all students.  Listen to find out the how this district kept it together in one of the most sophisticated operations nationally.

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