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Learning Counsel flash internet seminars are designed to be rapid researched-based professional development for education executives and administrators. Leaders in edtech and district and school transformation share their experience, best-practices and tools on how they are making the shift.

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Southern Californai - Local Panel of Administrators - Our Digital Transition

  You can say many things about California, and chief among those is California is large – which means large problems and large solutions. In this administrators panel, you’ll hear how top adm...

Educator Session Models & Practice: From Quarantine to Customization: How one county office took a systematic approach to professional development

  The San Diego County Office of Education's Innovation Division was uniquely situated and prepared to take on the challenging task of providing online distance learning to forty-three distric...

Educator Session on Hybrid Organizing: Hybrid Learning Success; Setting foundations and defining expectations

   The instructional launch for hybrid learning requires faculty preparations, student onboarding, and relationship-building. This is the opportunity to set the foundation and expectations for...

Educator Session on Hybrid Organizing

  If there is a right way and a wrong way to organize hybrid learning in this new age, then the wrong way may be to keep doing what we’ve always done. Today’s environment demands flexibility, ...

Our Story in the 21st Century – San Antonio ISD

  San Antonio ISD has all the complications of a large urban district serving a diverse student population while providing teachers with the systems they need to succeed in a virtual environme...

The Spring Branch Story – Supporting our New Normal

  Preparing for a “new normal” involves an agile approach to teaching, learning, and leading. Members of the Spring Branch ISD Academics team share the work they have done to prepare and facil...

South Texas - Local Panel of Administrators – Our Digital Transition

  What does digital transition mean in the time of COVID-19 and widespread remote learning? Hear how leading experts in Texas are meeting the challenges, removing the burden from teachers, and...

Building The Plane While Flying It: Designing a Hybrid Learning Environment in Times of Uncertainty

  The Ft. Sam Houston School in San Antonio, Texas has started the school year completely virtual. But plans are in place to transition to a hybrid environment. Hear from the EdTech team on ho...

Better Not Back to Normal: Robust Hybrid Learning

  What does it take to move to total student engagement with rigorous simultaneous remote and in-person learning for all students? Practices and plans are shared how Deer Park ISD is “building...

IT’s a Whole New World - Support Models, Logistic & Learning

  Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City learned quickly about checking out devices and supporting student, parents and staff when schools closed in March. Participants are invited to learn with us thr...


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