Premier Sponsors
9:00AM
McGraw-Hill Learning Lab
Mar 7, 2018
9:30am – 6:00pm CT
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PBS Teachers’ Lounge (and PBS Block Party @ 3:30PM)
Unity Interactive Tech Lounge
Mar 7, 2018
9:30am – 6:00pm CT
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What Hath We Wrought?
Mar 7, 2018
9:30am – 10:30am CT
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10:00AM
Coffee Break in the Playground
Innovation Hub
Mar 7, 2018
10:00am – 6:00pm CT
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Playground
Mar 7, 2018
10:00am – 5:00pm CT
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danah boyd Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
10:30am – 11:30am CT
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11:00AM
AI: Learning Game-Changer or Something to Fear?
American Creed
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
Asha Aravindakshan (Busca Tu Clase): Mentor
Beyond the Box: Reshaping PD for Urban Districts
Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!
Combat Bias, Interrupt Privilege, Include All
CUE CraftED: Open Pedagogy Approach to Learning Meet Up
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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The Dual Language Imperative
Edtech that Connects: Expanding Student Networks
Escape the Test! A Deeper Learning Puzzle Bus
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 5:00pm CT
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Get Your Hands on a Ton of Federal Education Data
Global Study Reveals Critical Future Job Skill
Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community
Guide to VR Worldbuilding
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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Hidden Among Us: Reaching out to Student Outliers
Higher Education: The Key to Local Economic Growth
Hip Hop in the Science Classroom
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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How Your University Can Act Like a Media Brand
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Hudson Baird (PelotonU): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:15pm CT
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Kevin Kalra (Montessori Preschool at Copperfield): Mentor
The Keys to Transformation
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 11:20am CT
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Laura Hayes (EdisonLearning): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:15pm CT
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Learning Space Genius Bar
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 2:00pm CT
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The Long Game: Using Credentials for Continuing Ed
NudgeU: Learning from Behavioral Economics
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Ones-to-Watch World Tour: Tech at Lightning Speed
Rachel Hamstra (Duke Ellington School for the Arts): Mentor
Slam Poetry + Standup Comedy = Engaged Learning
Soundtrack 63: Social Justice through Music & Tech
Tamika L Lett (T. L. Payne Consulting): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:15pm CT
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Teaching the New Majority-Minority Generation
Thriving Makerspaces in Low Income & Rural Schools
UNCF CPI: Building Capacity Through Collaboration
Using Assessment to Help Develop Great Teachers
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Youth Publishing: How to Energize Emerging Writers
Creative Problem Solving: The Critical Future Job Skill
From Dorm Room to Board Room
Improvised Assistive Tech $5 Mystery Box Challenge
Let’s Debunk Some Edu-Lies You’ve Been Told
12:00PM
Art Education & Sensory-Friendly Programming
Education from Cradle to Grave in Finland
Mar 7, 2018
12:00pm – 12:20pm CT
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Matthew Farber’s Book Signing
The Power of a Problems-Led Engineering Program
Reducing Gen Ed to Improve Career Readiness
2 Stories: Experiential Learning & Urban Renewal
Brain & Environment: Implications for Learning
Catherine Pearlman (Brandman University): Mentor
Colleen Graves Book Signing
Crawl, Walk, LEAP: Lessons on Personalized Learning
Cyndi Wiley (Grand View University): Mentor
Data Diagnosis: U.S. Higher Education in Peril?
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Deeper with Data: Evaluating SEL Implementation
Eric Klein (Ashford University): Mentor
Fundraising While Millennial: Strategies & Secrets
HBCU Leadership on Race, Education, & Democracy
Innovation in the Early Learning Workforce
Inspiring Curiosity in Mathematics
Integrating Non-Curricular Programs in School
Media Literacy in the Era of Fake News
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Podcasting for Education Meet Up
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Push: First-year Students as Agents of Change
Ready to Code: Libraries Supporting CS Education
Robert Levin (Emerging Star Capital): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:45pm CT
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Science or Art? Online Teaching & Learning
Shirley Prieto (Out of Lines Education): Mentor
Trauma-Informed Education Policy & Practice
Who Cares What Young People Think
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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1:00PM
Bridging the Gap: Connecting Tech Industry & HBCUs
From the Student’s Seat: What’s Important Today
Future of Organizations: 6 Keys to Evolving Schools
Jana Echevarria, Ph. D. Book Signings
25 Ways to Drive Student Agency Using Goal-Setting
The 7%: Preparing Men of Color for the Classroom
Adult Education: It Ain't Your Granddad's GED
Beating Those 'Monday Morning Social Media Blues'
Blending Leadership: Strategies for Leading Change
The Changemaker's Challenge
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
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Design Tools for Creative Ethics Education
Purple Dreams
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
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Student Predictions, Student Protections
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 1:50pm CT
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Toy Hacking, Robotics for the Rest of Us
2:00PM
The Best Internet Filter Is Between a Child’s Ears
Beyond the Lesson Plan: Creative SEL Strategies
Catherine Pearlman Book Signing
Close the STEM Gender Gap? Start in Kindergarten
Closing the Gap: Paths to Early Literacy Success
Collaboration as a Path to Digital Equity
Connect Dots: Engaging Your District’s Educators
Curating Accessibility
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Disrupting the Walled Garden
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 2:30pm CT
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EdTechWomen Meet Up
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Empowering Student Creators Through Public Media
Financial Literacy: Ticket to Success in Higher Ed
Jayma Vaughan (Travis High School): Mentor
Jim Galis (Advanced Imagination): Mentor
Jon Roepke (Belkin): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT
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Leadership in the Most Difficult of Circumstances
Leah Merrifield (Washington University): Mentor
Learning Science: Becoming a Better Learner
Learning Science: Becoming a Better Learner
Mary Iannone (Breakthrough): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT
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Personalized Learning & Competency Education Meet Up
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Philanthropy 2.0 for Higher Ed & Workforce
Reinventing Corporate Education
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Texas: Getting Students On Course for Success
Transforming LA's K-12 Public Schools
Understanding the Challenges of Technology in Education
What Kids Say About Games & Can We Listen?
Carl Hooker Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
2:30pm – 3:00pm CT
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How Edtech in Latin America is Driving Change
The Reality of AI in Education
Unions & Charters: Who's the Bad Guy?
Mar 7, 2018
2:30pm – 2:50pm CT
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What Makes a Teacher Community Excel
3:00PM
Brian Stack Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
3:00pm – 3:30pm CT
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Bridging the Gap: Piloting Innovation in Education
Cooking Up Change to Teach a Healthier Generation
Excellence Gaps: Where Equity & Excellence Meet
Microfilm & Stills: Art with a Webcam Microscope
The United States of Student Civic Engagement
Unlocking the Promise of Public Education
Mar 7, 2018
3:00pm – 3:20pm CT
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AI in Education: Opportunities & Challenges
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Asi Burak Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:00pm CT
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The Best Ideas in TX EDU: The Rather Prize
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Collaborate to Innovate
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Do We Actually Care About International Students?
Empathy Machines: Global Education via "Portals"
ESSA & Music Education: Impact & Opportunity
Felipe Amaral (Semente): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:45pm CT
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The Great American Teach-Off
Katie Alaniz (Houston Baptist University): Mentor
Lindsay Lamb (Austin ISD): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:45pm CT
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LOOP: A Networking Experiment Meet Up
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Melvin Hines (Upswing): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:45pm CT
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National Arts Networks & Stories of Impact
The Oracles: A Future Facing Approach to Learning
Strategies to Help Lower-Income Kids go to College
Theola DeBose (GraySide Media Group): Mentor
Transcending Language & Learning Barriers in STEM
Unapologetically Outside of Our Lane for Children
United in a Statewide Vision for Transformation
4:00PM
All Aboard! All Students Communicate & Learn
Creating Book-Based Maker Learning Opportunities
#FailFest: A Learnshop on Risk-Taking
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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How Dungeons & Dragons Can Save the World
How to Teach Designing a Creative Career
In My Own Words
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
Is Your Curriculum Digital Enough?
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 4:20pm CT
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Jonathan Plucker Book Signing
Launch
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Make a Food Computer: Open-Sourced Tech in Classes
Marrying Analytics with Action
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 4:30pm CT
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Musical Map to Passion, Perseverance, & Practice
The Music Experience Design Lab and #HipHopMusicEd
Reshan Richards Book Signing
We’re Doing Gamification Wrong: Kids Want to Learn
Put the "A" Back in Tech: Teach
Mar 7, 2018
4:30pm – 4:50pm CT
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StudioLab: Transmedia Knowledge Pedagogy
Virtual Voyaging Through California State Parks
5:00PM
ACCelerate to the Future of Higher Ed
Aligning Networks So Every Student Thrives
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Change Testing Forever: Teachers Leading the Cause
Computation & Kids: High School Digital Humanities
Cultivating Millennials to be Authentic Leaders
Federal Student Aid's Next Generation Environment
Field Tripping: The Future of Learning & VR
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Happy Hour in the Innovation Hub
Learning Environments reDesigned to Inspire
Moe Carrick Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 5:30pm CT
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Non-profits & Corporations Partner on Education
Sparking Creativity in the Classroom Meet Up
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Student/Teacher Led Creative Learning for Schools
When Silence Isn’t Golden: Speaking & ELLs
Why I Won’t Ask for Help: Self-Advocacy for All
Making a Case for VR in the Classroom
Mar 7, 2018
5:30pm – 5:50pm CT
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New Framework: High Quality Project Based Learning
Specially Designed Digital Instruction
6:00PM
Launch Happy Hour & Winner Announcement
7:00PM
School Life
Mar 7, 2018
7:00pm – 9:00pm CT