The future of school building technology is here! Join us and building technology experts from Honeywell to discover new ways to maintain your school facilities’ air quality in pursuit of an open and comfortable learning environment…all while managing cost and energy efficiency.

Learn about:

• How to adopt a high-speed IP networks and smart building technology with low cost and minimal disruption
• How, with right devices, your buildings can provide clear visuals into the facility indoor air quality and energy management
• How to monitor and optimize school facility air quality, energy consumption and comfort to support student and staff well-being
• How to balance regulatory requirements with your operational needs

Learn from the Pros on how to do it in K-12 schools

Projection technology continues to expand in functionality across society—used to provide exciting, engaging, and experiential experiences to individuals—whether it’s in the form of a visual floor show at a basketball game, an immersive art exhibit, or displaying safety signs throughout warehouses. These innovative uses have made their way into education institutions as well, often with students doing the design and creation of installations.

Want to know how to offer similar opportunities to your K-12 students? Watch this webinar to see how experts in projection mapping, digital signage and experiential learning spaces are working with K-12 STEM, theater, computer science and CTE teachers to bring this exciting movement to classrooms and buildings in their districts.

Key takeaways:

• Learn how projectors can enhance your school—from experiential learning spaces to digital signage and set design.
• Discover how the new applications can be tied to your current curricula.
• Find ways to encourage and include students themselves in the installation and use of these emerging technologies.

Discover the power of unified K-12 data in our webinar, 10 Steps for Data Readiness. In today’s data-driven era, it’s essential for schools and districts to embrace data interoperability. Unifying K-12 data may seem overwhelming at first, but we’ll guide you through the process.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Identify and consolidate data sources for unified K-12 data.
• Implement measures to break down data silos and improve accessibility.
• Follow the 10-step program for achieving data readiness.

Watch now to leverage the potential of unified K-12 data and make a positive impact on your school or district’s educational outcomes. Don’t miss the opportunity to take control of your data and maximize its benefits. Register today!

Hear Dr. Kara Stern & Laura Baker, Former Director of Student Services at Bastrop ISD, discuss the importance of considering student wellness as we prepare back-to-school communications and opening week plans.

Along with attendance rates, children’s mental health has been on the decline. This discussion explores the steps districts, building leaders, and classroom teachers can take to bolster students and families in the lead up to opening day.

Key Take-Aways:

• Why students are suffering in this present moment
• The relationship between student wellness and attendance
• The importance of school communications to student and parent wellbeing
• Tips for using school communications to build school connectedness

School districts nationwide are facing unprecedented teacher shortages, with thousands of schools understaffed each year. With the 2023-24 school year now in session, many school districts are considering supplementing their teaching staff with remote instructional services. Districts are able to fill teaching gaps, keep class sizes down, and expand their course catalogs with remote certified teachers. Stride Learning Solutions is working with districts across the country to support their learners with scalable remote instructional services.

Learn about:

• Mitigating vacancies with fully qualified and certified remote teachers
• Remote instructional models that are working for districts across the country
• How Stride Learning Solutions works with districts to address unique challenges with teacher recruitment and collaboratively design cost-effective solutions

Now that nearly every student has a device and access to the internet, how can we use technology to maximize in-person instruction? How can we create the most efficient use of screen time while making teachers’ workloads more manageable?

Join Erica Hartman, former district Chief Technology Officer, to find out how to engage students, measure progress, manage online learning, and save valuable time with GoGuardian Teacher and Edulastic. Discover how they can support you in creating an ecosystem of actionable data, intentional feedback, and an instructional workflow for seamless differentiation.

Learn about classroom technology that helps:

• Maximize in-person instruction
• Manage online learning and measure progress
• Create the most efficient use of screen time
• Make teachers’ workloads more manageable
• Increase student engagement

A deep dive into the impact of teacher shortages on education and how technology can support shifting classroom realities

Join Promethean and our education partners for an open conversation about the impact of staff shortages, how the role of an educator is changing, and how technology is continuing to support the needs of teachers and students.
With the release of Promethean’s annual State of Technology report, discussion will be underpinned by key findings and statistics shared by educators across the US. Our goal will be to outline a realistic view of current staffing concerns, discover the wider impact on the role of not only teachers, but school leaders and IT administrators, and assess how technology’s application in the classroom can sustain crucial teacher-student relationships.

Register now to save your spot!

Key takeaways:
• A clear understanding of how educators feel about current school staffing
• How staffing is impacting the role of an educator
• How staffing is impacting the relationship between teachers and students
• Best practices in applying technology to support and foster student engagement

Please join us for an explorative conversation with education market experts from Absolute Software, and Lenovo. We will be discussing the various challenges and trends that K-12 institutions are facing today and provide practical advice on how to tackle them.

What can you look forward to taking away from this session?

• Achieving both visibility and control in a 1:1 program environment
• Streamlining device reclamation
• Preparing for ransomware attacks targeting K-12
• Becoming audit-ready in the wake of Federal funding audits
• Measuring utilization and ROI in order to effectively assign devices and Web subscription licenses in today’s economic climate
• Leveraging device geolocation data to help with the safety of students
• Latest insights on using edtech to support SEL and student well-being

No longer the stuff of science fiction, virtual reality applications are up and running and making significant educational impacts in the classroom. Do you want students to visit Mars, explore inside the bloodstream, or travel around the world to learn a new language? With the right equipment and professional development, augmented and virtual reality techniques can provide students with experiences that are the next best thing to being there.

Listen to innovative educators and industry experts as they discuss the advantages of immersive instructional technologies—how teachers can best implement AR and VR into their own classrooms and curriculum to support learning outcomes.

Topics include:

• What are the learning outcomes teachers can expect from Immersive Education lessons?
• What are the differences between AR/VR/XR?
• Where is Immersive Education headed in the future?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can sometimes be an ambiguous word in education circles, evoking images of machines replacing human teachers in the future. The truth, while less fantastic, is that AI can be a solid tool that assists educators in the classroom right now.

Join Levi Belnap, Chief Strategy Officer at Merlyn Mind and Matt Cole, Senior Vice President of Sales at Promethean in conversation to discuss the real-world ways AI operates with their respective products, Symphony Classroom, which delivers the Merlyn digital assistant, and Promethean’s ActivPanel displays. These systems enable teachers to better interact with students, simplify everyday classroom tasks, and improve overall efficiency and productivity.

Key takeaways:

• How current voice-activated AI systems at home, in cars, and on devices can be put to use in classrooms.
• How to use voice commands or a remote to control laptops, interactive displays, internet browsers, apps, and more.
• How Merlyn Mind’s AI technologies can be integrated into Promethean’s ActivPanel current classroom displays.
• How to scale AI pilot projects into true distinct implementations.

The webinar will review real world threats affecting the K-12 Education Industry, the myths behind them and five useful tips to further protect their organizations from attacks.

Key takeaways:

• Understanding the threats and where they’re coming from
• How to prioritize mitigation efforts
• How and where to start.

Successful STEM programs for schools have never been more important. For them to work, teachers must work together with students to develop critical thinking, communication, assessment, and inquiry skills. The right devices can help students and teachers connect in powerful, positive ways. Those connections boost interactive learning, engagement and ultimately student achievement. Join us to discuss how the Dallas Independent School District has implemented a STEM curriculum using Lenovo workstations to teach students about cybersecurity.

Takeaways include:

• Learn how workstations impact how STEM subjects are taught and internalized across digital districts.

• Get insights on how successful STEM programs incorporate collaborative, active learning activities.

• Discover how the right devices can foster dynamic, personalized learning environments around STEM subjects and drive stronger learning outcomes.

Increase Transparency, Improve Control and Compliance, Mitigate Fraud

Over the past several years, K-12 school districts experienced the limitations of legacy systems. With the recent government funding available, a window of opportunity opens for K-12 schools to modernize and bring resilience to their spend management systems. Automating your school districts spend management solution should be a top priority. Market uncertainty has shown that faculty and staff spending data is often dispersed and hard to track, meaning you are missing complete spend visibility. This lack of reliable, consistent data is leaving school districts vulnerable to risks.

During this webinar we will discuss understanding and managing your school expenditures with a single platform that captures employee spend, when and how it happens, and how investing in a digital spend management solution can help enable school districts to increase efficiency, transparency, compliance, and control.

Key Topics:

• Streamline processes and eliminate manual tasks and piles of paper
• How automation helps reduce risk associated with managing and tracking employee expenditures
• Improve compliance utilizing proactive strategies and policies
• Establish trust though transparency and fiscal accountability
• Manage your cash flow and all parts of your accounts payable process in one system

We’ll be hearing from industry experts: (for full bios, see Meet Your Speakers)

• Derrek Blair, Director of Financial Management and Distribution, Rochester City Schools
• Jim McClurkin, Senior Director, Public Sector, SAP Concur
• Kevin Hogan, Editor-at-large, eSchool News

Cyber security is in an ever-present concern for most of us accessing the internet. Unfortunately, students aren’t thinking about cyber-attacks when they access sites for curriculum, research, and entertainment from their 1:1 devices – now so prevalent since the pandemic. Schools’ exposure to cyber-attacks has also greatly increased due to expanded remote and hyperflex learning.

Join us to learn the latest strategies and tools schools are using to help keep student data safe and ensure students’ digital access is secure.

Key takeaways:

• Learn the latest techniques to secure district systems
• Discover best practices for educating students and families on proper digital etiquette
• Ask cybersecurity experts about your data protection concerns

We’ll be hearing from industry experts: (for full bios, see Meet Your Speakers)
Betsy Cline, Software Specialist & Team Lead, Lenovo
Adam Benjamin, Director of Lenovo and SentinelOne partnership
DJ Whitlock, Senior Sales Engineer for Absolute
Moderator – Kevin Hogan, eSchool News, Editor-at-Large

When every second counts, there is no higher priority for school district leaders than to create secure and informed campus environments. Having a campus-wide communication ecosystem is imperative. Being able to initiate a controlled emergency notification protocol to Alert, Notify and Monitor directly from a mobile device, classroom audio system, or Interactive Flat Panel is essential.

Join Brent Thrasher, Instructional Technology Coordinator at Overton County Schools and Todd Eddy from Galaxy Next Generation on October 6 at 2 pm as they discuss how to make better decisions, prevent risk, and strengthen communication between faculty, administration, and first responders during an active threat.

Topics will include:

• How to immediately notify teachers of a lockdown through software alerts.
• How to instantly notify law enforcement and first responders.
• How to monitor communication within your entire ecosystem using one software platform.

We’ll be hearing from industry experts: (for full bios, see Meet Your Speakers)

• Brent Thrasher, Instructional Technology Coordinator/Coach @Overton County Schools
• Todd Eddy, Galaxy Next Generation

Learn how introducing an AI digital assistant into a classroom can transform how educators teach, giving them the freedom to teach from anywhere in the room. Join us as Levi Belnap, Chief Strategy Officer at Merlyn Mind, introduces Merlyn – the AI digital assistant custom-designed for the classroom, shares the benefits of using an AI digital assistant, and discusses how the new strategic alliance with Promethean enables access to powerful technology in the classroom.

Key takeaways:

• What an AI digital assistant is and how Merlyn is different
• How “technostress” is defined and how it can be reduced for teachers
• How teachers can efficiently control the apps and tools they are already using in classrooms
• How to bring simplicity into the classroom with AI
• How Promethean & Merlyn Mind are working together to increase classroom productivity and support innovative teaching

We’ll be hearing from industry experts: (for full bios, see below)
Levi Belnap, Chief Strategy Officer, Merlyn Mind
Moderator – Kevin Hogan, eSchool News, Editor-at-Large

School districts nationwide are facing unprecedented teacher shortages, with thousands of classrooms unstaffed as the school year begins. With no end in sight to this teacher crisis, Stride Learning Solutions is working with districts across the country to fill instructional gaps utilizing non-traditional teaching and learning models.

Register below for this timely webinar to learn about innovative solutions you can put into place for a single class, school, or the entire district to launch this school year with a fully qualified and certified instructional team.

We will discuss:

• Filling vacancies immediately with certified remote teachers for a single class, school, or the entire district

• Filling critical instructional gaps, expanding course offerings, personalizing learning, or reducing class size with blended or fully online programs

• Empowering learners with tools and resources necessary for high quality education

With cyberattacks increasingly aimed at educational institutions, student and educator safety is a top priority. Schools need versatile solutions that update, adapt, and scale to support everyone, in and out of the classroom. In this webinar, cybersecurity and school district IT experts will share tips on how to implement the Microsoft tools and systems to ensure your IT is safe, accessible, and easy to manage.

We’ll dive into these tools and more!

• Cloud security: monitoring, detection, and protection to secure data.
• Trust and Security Suite: automated compliance templates and AI-powered security to protect devices and apps.
• Compliance Manager: featuring more than 900 customizable controls and over 200 compliance templates including FERPA and COPPA.