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Retain and Recruit through a Culture of Collaboration

In this important discussion led by Marcus Meyers , Chief Academic Officer at the West Ada School District, Meyers asks, “Why are the right people leaving or not knocking? First of all, we're e...

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Boise, ID 2022: Administrators' Panel Discussion

Learning Counsel members love the Administrators’ Panel Discussions at our Digital Transition Discussions. They love the frankness, the no-holds-barred attitude, but mostly our members love the ...

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Reimagining Outcomes with Dr. Ellen Perconti, Superintendent at the Goldendale School District

Like all of you, in March, 2020, we went remote,” said Dr. Ellen Perconti, Superintendent at the Goldendale School District. “Your kids will not be in front of you. So, let's do some projects yo...

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OR/WA 2022: Hybrid Logistics Briefing

Perhaps the biggest thing in education right now is the acceptance and use of the hybrid logistics model of learning. According to Mary Schlegelmilch, Education Advocate at Cisco, “This is where...

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OR/WA 2022: Guest Administrator Panel

Always a fan favorite, the Guest Administrator Panel features some of our nation’s smartest education administrators weighing in on some of our nation’s most challenging questions. Everything is...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Digital Terms and Systems Thinking

By Definition : Systems thinking is a management discipline that first observes discrete functions and interactions between components. In education, that would be the interactions among teach...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Maturity Stages of Digital Transition

Stage One: Schools typically start with mass device and digital curriculum resource adoption, often without a comprehensive strategy. Stage two is piloting of teaching and learning method...

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OR/WA 2022: The Briefing

In this virtual Digital Transition Discussion for Washington and Oregon, the discussion began with a briefing from LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher of the Learning Counsel. “Part of what we'll...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Emerging Tech Issues

In this workshop led by Chris McMurray, Vice President of the EduJedi Leadership Society at the Learning Counsel, School and district leaders discussed many of their emerging tech issues, and ad...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Learning Design

Perhaps one of the more complicated discussion subjects is Learning Design. In this workshop, Chris McMurray, Vice President for EduJedi Leadership at the Learning Counsel, helps sort out the st...

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Phoenix, AZ 2022: Digital Transition Guest Administrator Panel Discussion

Perhaps the favorite part of our Digital Transition Discussion events is our Guest Administrator Panel Discussion, and for good reason. We take some of the brightest, most highly regarded admini...

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Salt Lake City, UT 2022: Guest Administrator Panel Discussion

The crown jewel in this year’s Salt Lake City area Digital Transition Event, was the Guest Administrator Panel Discussion, always a must-see event featuring some of the nation’s greatest educati...

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Blackboard Ally Speed Round #1 - Accessibility

As part of this year’s National Gathering, The Learning Counsel included some very valuable Speed Round presentations. These Speed Round presentations are short, succinct, yet important looks at...

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Instructional Secret Sauce: Focusing on the Learner and the Learning

David Jarboe, Director of Instructional Technology and STEAM at Harrison School District 2 (and EduJedi Gainer Level award winner), is sharing his Secret Sauce presentation – some of the ideas t...

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EduJedi Predictions Panel (and shared wisdom) 2022

This EduJedi predictions panel is made up of some of the greatest minds in education, as well as long-time friends of the Learning Counsel. Included on the panel are Dr. Shannon Terry, Division ...

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Identity Automation - Speed Round #2

In the 2 nd presentation of the Learning Counsel’s Speed Rounds at the 2021 National Gathering, Carter Dunbar, Director of Product Marketing and Alliances at Identity Automation. These Speed Ro...

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Secret Sauce to Success: Implementing, Planning and Rollout

Rich Boettner, Chief Technology Officer at Hilliard City Schools (and EduJedi Gainer Level award winner) shares his district’s very successful system for implementation and rollout of new techno...

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Tech Imperative Award – “Building Digital Bridges to Support Being There When and How Students Need”

This year’s Tech Imperative Award went to SAFARI Montage, ably represented in this video by Tim Beekman, their President and Co-Founder, and Dr. Barbara Nesbitt, Assistant Superintendent for Tec...

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Mission Panel

Today’s Mission Panel is made up entirely of EduJedi Gainers. These individuals have been recognized for excellence in their districts, and have much to share that you can use back home in your ...

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Lunch and Learn: Glowing Screen Award – Solve your top three digital learning challenges, Access, Engagement and Rostering

As you probably know, The Learning Counsel’s Lunch and Learn presentation series gives schools and districts an opportunity to investigate our highly recommended tech. In today’s presentation, y...

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