Southern K-14 Education Innovation Summit October 30-31, 2013

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Southern K-14 Education

Innovation Summit

October 30 – 31, 2013 Conference Center

Georgia Piedmont Technical CollegeClarkston, GA

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

2:30 P.M.REGISTRATION AND NETWORKINGAtrium

3:00 P.M.WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKSStone Mountain/Room 15

Ron Jackson, Commissioner, Technical College

System of Georgia

Cathilea Robinett, Executive Vice President, eRepublic

Dr. Jabari Simama, President, Georgia Piedmont

Technical College

3:45 P.M.KEYNOTEDisruptive Innovation Goes to SchoolStone Mountain/Room 15

By now, we are all accustomed to seeing breakthrough

innovations fundamentally change business models —

steel-making, telecommunications, computers, publishing,

music, banking . . . the list goes on and on. But, we don’t

naturally think of schools and colleges this way. We should.

Schooling everyone from toddlers to twenty-somethings

is also an ‘industry,’ and disruptive innovation is well

under way. Every week’s news chronicles the impact of

the technology platform on education. Education may be

the last of the ‘old media’ left standing. Hear Disrupting

Class co-author and former community college president

Curtis Johnson describe the mismatch between the

traditional operating model of education and the way

today’s generation is learning. Johnson will explain why the

disruption seems so slow and easy to dismiss and why its

acceleration can be good news.

Dr. Curtis Johnson, President, Citistates Group /

Senior Associate, Education Evolving

4:30 P.M.REACTION PANEL How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World LearnsStone Mountain/Room 15

Facilitator: Cathilea Robinett, Executive Vice President,

eRepublic

Panelists:Cleon Franklin, Executive Principal, Shelby County

Schools, TN

Dr. Curtis Johnson, President, Citistates Group /

Senior Associate, Education Evolving

Mark Medovich, Chief Architect, Research and Education,

Juniper Networks


Technical College

5:30 P.M.OPENING RECEPTIONStone Mountain/Room 15

7:00 P.M.ADJOURN DAY 1

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

7:30 A.M.REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFASTAtrium

8:00 A.M.WELCOME / PLENARY SESSION: Opportunity and ThreatsStone Mountain/Room 15



Technical College

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8:30 A.M.PANEL DISCUSSION: WHY A K-14 LINK IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT CAN BE GAINED FROM A SOCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTStone Mountain/Room 15

This panel will delve into the impact that collaborations

and partnerships between K-12, technical and

community colleges, business and industry and

community stakeholders are making. This very high

level panel will discuss the national problems facing

education from funding models, policies that impact

K-14 and innovations that yield results and promise. This

will be a substantially interactive panel of leaders that are

driving change in the K-14 space.

Facilitator: Dr. Jabari Simama, President,

Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Panelists:Eugene Baker, Assistant Superintendent,

Rockdale County Schools

Sadie Dennard, External Affairs Manager, Georgia Power

Renva Waterson, Interim President,

Georgia Highlands College

Stelfanie Williams, President, Vance-Granville

Community College, Henderson, NC

9:30 A.M.BREAK

9:45 A.M.CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Increasing Access and Success through Innovative College-High School PartnershipsPhoenix/Room 16

Through planned collaboration and commitment,

innovative partnerships between local school systems and

colleges advance the dream of college education for all

students who are willing to strive for success. Join us as

we discuss the Vance-Granville Community College-high

school partnerships that include early college high school

dual enrollment programs and the Career & College

Promise (CCP), which expands opportunities and access

to higher learning for high school students.

Dr. Stelfanie Williams, President, Vance-Granville

Community College, Henderson, NC

Communities In Schools: A National Movement for Success in Increasing High School Graduation RatesInnovation/Room 14

Communities In Schools considers the school dropout

crisis as our state’s biggest moral, ethical and economic

problem, but it is a problem with a solution. This presentation

will define implementation and evaluation plans that can

be tailored to any elementary, middle and high school,

and present results of CIS’s work in 2,500 schools. The

presentation will also feature CIS’s work in online learning

with high school students caught in the school dropout

pipeline through the use of digital assisted instruction and

dual enrollment programs with units of the Technical College

System of Georgia.

Heather Garrett, Field Support, Curriculum & Training

Coordinator, Communities In Schools of Georgia

Leslie Myles, Field Support Coordinator,

Communities In Schools of Georgia

Neil Shorthouse, President and State Director,

Communities In Schools of Georgia

Promising Results in MOOC-based InstructionEnlighten/Room 13

A conversation about education innovation that does not

include MOOCs is like a cup of coffee — minus the coffee.

While there are numerous avid supporters of MOOC-based

courses for credit, there are just as many suspicious observ-

ers and some — dare we say — unbelievers? There’s also

a group of folks who just want to know what happens

“if you give a MOOC a cookie?” This session will go beyond

answering basic questions such as “what is a MOOC?” to

exploring promising practices of MOOC-based instruction

in use at the K-14 and university levels. Examples include:

1) 7th- and 8th-grade students completing world history courses

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REGISTRATION SPONSOR

Desire2Learn’s integrated learning platform connects the

entire learning community to a global ecosystem of solutions

and resources, giving districts and schools the ability to

anticipate emerging trends in education with flexible delivery

models, adaptive environments, predictive tools, and a “one-

size-fits-me” approach for every student. This allows teachers

to design and deploy a scalable learning experience that’s

truly personal, pervasive, and perceptive.

KEYNOTE SPONSOR

Howard Technology Solutions, founded in 1998, is a

division of Howard Industries, a billion-dollar, privately held

company headquartered in Ellisville, MS. Along with our

own Howard-branded desktops, notebooks, and servers, we

offer over 250,000 brand-name products, including distance

learning and interactive tools, to help you create the optimum

learning environment.


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As the world’s leading video communications partner,

AVI-SPL designs, builds and supports the systems and

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AVI-SPL has highly-trained and certified system engineers

throughout more than 40 offices across the United States,

Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab

Emirates in addition to an international network of solution

providers in 30 countries.

From primary schools to colleges and universities, AVI-

SPL creates immersive video communications and distance

learning solutions that turn any classroom into a global

learning space. For schools that must deal with shrinking

education budgets, new communications technologies

provide a way of doing more with less. Without leaving the

classroom, digital field trips bring students around the world,

giving them the ability to learn from and collaborate with their

peers. In virtual classrooms, teachers digitally instruct multiple

campuses at once. New digital textbooks supplemented with

streaming digital media make for a wealth of online content

libraries. With AVI-SPL, possibilities become realities.

Meru Networks provides virtualized wireless LAN solutions

that deliver the performance, reliability and operational

simplicity of a wired network with the advantages of

mobility. It uniquely enables RF layers to segregate classes

of applications. Meru’s BYOD solution allows IT to onboard

employee and guest devices easily and securely. Meru’s

solutions are deployed in major verticals industries including

Fortune 500 businesses, education, hospitality, healthcare

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provided by Princeton University; 2) community college

students enrolled in MOOC-based entry-level math outper-

forming their peers enrolled in classroom-based entry-level

math courses; and 3) one of the top engineering schools in

America offering a totally online MOOC-based Master of

Science degree in Computer Science (Georgia Tech).

Facilitator: Judy Taylor, Vice President of Institutional

Advancement, Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Panelists:Lynn Hunter, Mass Bay Community College

Jaime L’Heureux, Bunker Hill Community College

Rebecca Petersen, Research Director, Online Learning, EdX

11:00 A.M.NETWORKING / EXHIBIT AREA OPEN

NOONLUNCHStone Mountain/Room 15

1:00 P.M.Through the Eyes of Our Students — A Students’ Perspectives PanelStone Mountain/Room 15

This panel will focus on the perspectives and insights of

real students from local school systems. Students will

answer questions regarding the innovative education

models in which they are currently participating, as well

as discuss the impact/advantages these models are

providing. This will be a facilitated, but candid, discussion

and open for questions from the audience.

Facilitator: Andrea Coleman, Marketing Specialist,


Presenter Schools:Decatur Career AcademyNewton College and Career AcademyRockdale Career Academy

2:00 P.M.BREAK

2:15 P.M.CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Accelerating Opportunities at Central Georgia Technical CollegeEnlighten/Room 13

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the

framework used by Central Georgia Technical College

to support the academic efforts of General Educational

Development students as they also pursue occupational

programs of study. Critical to the success of this program

are the supports provided that focus on contextualizing the

GED coursework with concepts taught in the occupational

program courses, the use of a success coach and a team-

teaching practice involving adult education instructors in

the occupational program classroom. The results were very

favorable as academic success and improved retention

were noted. Qualitative analysis also shows positive student

perceptions of the program.

Dr. Ivan Allen, President, Central Georgia Technical College

Brenda Brown, Vice President for Adult Education,

Central Georgia Technical College

Dr. Amy Holloway, Vice President for Academic Affairs,


Sam Lester, Director for Professional Development,


Georgia Cyber Academy: Case Study in Innovative PracticeInnovation/Room 14

This session will focus on Georgia Cyber Academy, the

state’s largest public charter school. As Georgia’s first virtual

school, GCA serves over 13,000 students in grades K through

12 across the state. Participants will review the innovative

instructional practices that define the model, with particular

attention paid to the development of vigorous dual enrollment

partnerships with over 30 colleges and universities statewide.

Matt Arkin, Head of School, Georgia Cyber Academy

Tim Melvin, Dual Enrollment Coordinator,

Georgia Cyber Academy


The STEM One Project: A Collaboration Between a Technical College and the Local School SystemPhoenix/Room 16

The STEM One project was designed to introduce and

recruit more students into STEM, STEM-related and

technical careers. Georgia Piedmont’s partnership with the

local school system and business and industry allowed for

the development of a series of programs that 1) assisted in

retaining students in technical and STEM career academies

at the high school level; 2) is used as an active recruitment

tool for GPTC; 3) allowed students to explore alternative

options for postsecondary education; and 4) provided

opportunities to help close the student achievement gap.

This session will discuss the ten best practices and lessons

learned from this endeavor.

Dr. Natoshia Anderson, Director of Stem Initiatives,


Dr. Miriam Dittmann, Vice President of Academic Affairs,


3:30 P.M.BREAK

3:45 P.M.CLOSING SESSIONStone Mountain/Room 15



Technical College

4:30 P.M.END

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