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School Life
Mar 7, 2018
7:00pm – 9:00pm CT
PBS Teachers’ Lounge (and PBS Block Party @ 3:30PM)
What Hath We Wrought?
Mar 7, 2018
9:30am – 10:30am CT
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Playground
Mar 7, 2018
10:00am – 5:00pm CT
Coffee Break in the Playground
Mar 7, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am CT
danah boyd Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
10:30am – 11:30am CT
American Creed
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
Hudson Baird (PelotonU): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:15pm CT
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Combat Bias, Interrupt Privilege, Include All
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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Slam Poetry + Standup Comedy = Engaged Learning
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 11:30am CT
Youth Publishing: How to Energize Emerging Writers
Thriving Makerspaces in Low Income & Rural Schools
Get Your Hands on a Ton of Federal Education Data
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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Soundtrack 63: Social Justice through Music & Tech
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Guide to VR Worldbuilding
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm 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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Beyond the Box: Reshaping PD for Urban Districts
Higher Education: The Key to Local Economic Growth
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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The Dual Language Imperative
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
UNCF CPI: Building Capacity Through Collaboration
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Tamika L Lett (T. L. Payne Consulting): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:15pm CT
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Kevin Kalra (Montessori Preschool at Copperfield): Mentor
Asha Aravindakshan (Busca Tu Clase): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:15pm CT
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Rachel Hamstra (Duke Ellington School for the Arts): Mentor
Laura Hayes (EdisonLearning): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:15pm CT
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Edtech that Connects: Expanding Student Networks
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Improvised Assistive Tech $5 Mystery Box Challenge
Matthew Farber’s Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
12:00pm – 12:30pm CT
Art Education & Sensory-Friendly Programming
Mar 7, 2018
12:00pm – 12:30pm CT
The Power of a Problems-Led Engineering Program
Mar 7, 2018
12:00pm – 12:20pm CT
Reducing Gen Ed to Improve Career Readiness
Mar 7, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm CT
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Colleen Graves Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:00pm CT
Fundraising While Millennial: Strategies & Secrets
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Push: First-year Students as Agents of Change
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 12:50pm CT
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Innovation in the Early Learning Workforce
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Who Cares What Young People Think
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Science or Art? Online Teaching & Learning
Deeper with Data: Evaluating SEL Implementation
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Brain & Environment: Implications for Learning
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
Inspiring Curiosity in Mathematics
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:00pm CT
Trauma-Informed Education Policy & Practice
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Eric Klein (Ashford University): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:45pm CT
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Catherine Pearlman (Brandman University): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:45pm CT
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Cyndi Wiley (Grand View University): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:45pm CT
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Robert Levin (Emerging Star Capital): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:45pm CT
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Shirley Prieto (Out of Lines Education): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:45pm CT
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Jana Echevarria, Ph. D. Book Signings
Mar 7, 2018
1:00pm – 1:30pm CT
Invention Studio: Students Design for Social Good
Bridging the Gap: Connecting Tech Industry & HBCUs
Purple Dreams
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
25 Ways to Drive Student Agency Using Goal-Setting
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
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The 7%: Preparing Men of Color for the Classroom
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
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Blending Leadership: Strategies for Leading Change
Adult Education: It Ain't Your Granddad's GED
Beating Those 'Monday Morning Social Media Blues'
Catherine Pearlman Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 2:30pm CT
Collaboration as a Path to Digital Equity
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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What Kids Say About Games & Can We Listen?
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Empowering Student Creators Through Public Media
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Beyond the Lesson Plan: Creative SEL Strategies
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 2:30pm CT
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The Best Internet Filter Is Between a Child’s Ears
Philanthropy 2.0 for Higher Ed & Workforce
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Connect Dots: Engaging Your District’s Educators
Financial Literacy: Ticket to Success in Higher Ed
Reinventing Corporate Education
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
Leah Merrifield (Washington University): Mentor
Mary Iannone (Breakthrough): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT
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Jayma Vaughan (Travis High School): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT
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Brooke Miller (The University of Texas at Austin): Mentor
Jim Galis (Advanced Imagination): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT
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Jon Roepke (Belkin): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT
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Carl Hooker Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
2:30pm – 3:00pm CT
What Makes a Teacher Community Excel
Mar 7, 2018
2:30pm – 2:50pm CT
The Reality of AI in Education
Mar 7, 2018
2:30pm – 3:00pm CT
Brian Stack Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
3:00pm – 3:30pm CT
The United States of Student Civic Engagement
Mar 7, 2018
3:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Microfilm & Stills: Art with a Webcam Microscope
Mar 7, 2018
3:00pm – 3:30pm CT
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Excellence Gaps: Where Equity & Excellence Meet
Mar 7, 2018
3:00pm – 3:20pm CT
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The Great American Teach-Off
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 5:30pm CT
Asi Burak Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:00pm CT
Transcending Language & Learning Barriers in STEM
Empathy Machines: Global Education via "Portals"
Passion Based Learning: Child-Guided Curriculum
The Best Ideas in TX EDU: The Rather Prize
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Unapologetically Outside of Our Lane for Children
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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The Oracles: A Future Facing Approach to Learning
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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ESSA & Music Education: Impact & Opportunity
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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National Arts Networks & Stories of Impact
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Katie Alaniz (Houston Baptist University): Mentor
Felipe Amaral (Semente): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:45pm CT
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Theola DeBose (GraySide Media Group): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:45pm CT
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Lindsay Lamb (Austin ISD): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:45pm CT
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Melvin Hines (Upswing): Mentor
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:45pm CT
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Nohemi Rodriguez (UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum): Mentor
In My Own Words
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
Reshan Richards Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 4:30pm CT
Jonathan Plucker Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 4:30pm CT
#FailFest: A Learnshop on Risk-Taking
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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The Music Experience Design Lab and #HipHopMusicEd
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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All Aboard! All Students Communicate & Learn
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
Make a Food Computer: Open-Sourced Tech in Classes
Creating Book-Based Maker Learning Opportunities
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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We’re Doing Gamification Wrong: Kids Want to Learn
Anthony Kim and Alexis Gonzales-Black Book Signing
Put the "A" Back in Tech: Teach
Mar 7, 2018
4:30pm – 4:50pm CT
Virtual Voyaging Through California State Parks
Moe Carrick Book Signing
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 5:30pm CT
Why I Won’t Ask for Help: Self-Advocacy for All
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Cultivating Millennials to be Authentic Leaders
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Learning Environments reDesigned to Inspire
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Field Tripping: The Future of Learning & VR
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Student/Teacher Led Creative Learning for Schools
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Federal Student Aid's Next Generation Environment
Making a Case for VR in the Classroom
Mar 7, 2018
5:30pm – 5:50pm CT
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Escape the Test! A Deeper Learning Puzzle Bus
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 5:00pm CT
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McGraw-Hill Learning Lab
Mar 7, 2018
9:30am – 6:00pm CT
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Unity Interactive Tech Lounge
Mar 7, 2018
9:30am – 6:00pm CT
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Innovation Hub
Mar 7, 2018
10:00am – 6:00pm CT
Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Hip Hop in the Science Classroom
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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Learning Space Genius Bar
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 2:00pm CT
AI: Learning Game-Changer or Something to Fear?
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 11:30am CT
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Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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The Keys to Transformation
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 11:20am CT
Teaching the New Majority-Minority Generation
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
Hidden Among Us: Reaching out to Student Outliers
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Using Assessment to Help Develop Great Teachers
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm 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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Global Study Reveals Critical Future Job Skill
Ones-to-Watch World Tour: Tech at Lightning Speed
Mar 7, 2018
11:00am – 1:00pm CT
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Let’s Debunk Some Edu-Lies You’ve Been Told
Mar 7, 2018
11:30am – 11:50am CT
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From Dorm Room to Board Room
Mar 7, 2018
11:30am – 12:00pm CT
Creative Problem Solving: The Critical Future Job Skill
Education from Cradle to Grave in Finland
Mar 7, 2018
12:00pm – 12:20pm CT
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Integrating Non-Curricular Programs in School
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Media Literacy in the Era of Fake News
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Ready to Code: Libraries Supporting CS Education
2 Stories: Experiential Learning & Urban Renewal
Data Diagnosis: U.S. Higher Education in Peril?
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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HBCU Leadership on Race, Education, & Democracy
Mar 7, 2018
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT
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Crawl, Walk, LEAP: Lessons on Personalized Learning
Future of Organizations: 6 Keys to Evolving Schools
From the Student’s Seat: What’s Important Today
Student Predictions, Student Protections
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 1:50pm CT
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Design Tools for Creative Ethics Education
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
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Toy Hacking, Robotics for the Rest of Us
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
The Changemaker's Challenge
Mar 7, 2018
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT
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Learning Science: Becoming a Better Learner
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Learning Science: Becoming a Better Learner
Curating Accessibility
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
Close the STEM Gender Gap? Start in Kindergarten
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Transforming LA's K-12 Public Schools
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 2:20pm CT
Disrupting the Walled Garden
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 2:30pm CT
EdTechWomen Meet Up
Mar 7, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT
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Closing the Gap: Paths to Early Literacy Success
Understanding the Challenges of Technology in Education
Texas: Getting Students On Course for Success
Leadership in the Most Difficult of Circumstances
Unions & Charters: Who's the Bad Guy?
Mar 7, 2018
2:30pm – 2:50pm CT
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How Edtech in Latin America is Driving Change
Unlocking the Promise of Public Education
Mar 7, 2018
3:00pm – 3:20pm CT
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Bridging the Gap: Piloting Innovation in Education
Cooking Up Change to Teach a Healthier Generation
Do We Actually Care About International Students?
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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United in a Statewide Vision for Transformation
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Strategies to Help Lower-Income Kids go to College
AI in Education: Opportunities & Challenges
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
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Collaborate to Innovate
Mar 7, 2018
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
Launch
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm CT
Marrying Analytics with Action
Mar 7, 2018
4:00pm – 4:30pm CT
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How Dungeons & Dragons Can Save the World
How to Teach Designing a Creative Career
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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Musical Map to Passion, Perseverance, & Practice
Redesigning a Modern-day College of “Fine’” Arts
StudioLab: Transmedia Knowledge Pedagogy
Mar 7, 2018
4:30pm – 4:50pm CT
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Happy Hour in the Innovation Hub
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
Change Testing Forever: Teachers Leading the Cause
Aligning Networks So Every Student Thrives
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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When Silence Isn’t Golden: Speaking & ELLs
Computation & Kids: High School Digital Humanities
Non-profits & Corporations Partner on Education
Mar 7, 2018
5:00pm – 6:00pm CT
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Specially Designed Digital Instruction
Mar 7, 2018
5:30pm – 5:50pm CT
Launch Happy Hour & Winner Announcement
Mar 7, 2018
6:00pm – 8:00pm CT
New Framework: High Quality Project Based Learning