Smart campus: Digital transformation for higher education institutions

In this live webinar, Dr. Daggett will discuss how today’s students need a future-focused education program that prepares them with a higher and different set of skills and knowledge than what is currently being taught. He will share various strategies from the nation’s most rapidly improving schools that have successfully addressed these challenges, such as zero-based budgeting, various staffing patterns, and innovative instructional practices, to prepare all students for the world in which they will live and work.

The inclusion of the visual and performing arts in the classroom promotes experiential learning where children build their knowledge and understandings during hands-on, minds-on experiences. In addition, by including visual and performing arts experiences as part of STEM learning, early childhood teachers can build upon student interests and understandings to help support young children as they experience meaningful, relevant connections between each content area. Early childhood educators have important roles in early arts-rich STEM experiences and can act as both a guide and facilitator throughout the planning, implementation.

Engaging with families as partners is a critical component to providing high-quality care and education for young children. In times of uncertainty, such as we are facing at the start of a new school year in 2021, these family partnerships become even more crucial to providing safe, reassuring early learning experiences and continuity for children.

Facilitated by national authority on instructional leadership and district effectiveness, Donyall D. Dickey, Ed.D., this edWebinar exposes participants to actionable, measurable, and replicable practices that have transformed student achievement in urban, suburban, and rural schools/districts throughout the United States. Balanced by theory and practicality, Dr. Dickey delineates processes for aligning daily instruction with the nuanced expectations of the state standards and high-stakes summative assessments necessary to drive and sustain academic achievement in the core content areas.