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116 SXSWedu 2016 Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Educational Equality Sharing Educational Solutions Across Borders Hilton | Salon J | Panel CPE Through the example of a US-Mexico teacher exchange, this ses- sion demonstrates how education solutions are shareable across borders. Panelists will discuss how educators in different countries can learn from each other's successes in addressing educational inequality. Classrooms Without Borders is an initiative of the US– Mexico Foundation that pairs Teach For America teachers with educators from Enseña por México. Both organizations are partners in the Teach For All network for collaborative professional devel- opment that includes co-teaching, resource exchanges, classroom and community immersion and promoting educational equity for students in both countries. Katherine Onorato, Teach For All, Luis Miguel Reyes Loyola, UNAM, Robbie Dean, Georgetown University, Gustavo Rojas, Ensena Por Mexico 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Continuing Education Are They Learning? Competency-Based Student Voices Hilton | Salon E | Panel | #cbevoices This panel will offer attendees the chance to hear from students en- rolled in three different competency-based universities (College for America, Western Governors, and Patten University). Each student has previous experience in another higher education institution, and they will speak to the differences between their platforms, what's proven difficult and why they picked competency-based ed- ucation compared to other options. If you're thinking about sending students to a competency-based university or adding a program to your university, come hear students enrolled in three different programs discuss the advantages, challenges and habits that have proven effective in their studies. Bernard Bull, Concordia University Wisconsin, Connor Gorske, Western Governors University, Briana Corona, College For America, Anthony Thorne, Patten University 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Implementation The Common Core: Defend, Bury or Transform? Hilton | Salon H | Policy Forum | #CoreDebate For over 25 years, the US has made academic standards a key component of K-12 reform, and is now five years into a multi-billion dollar effort to revamp K-12 learning through the Common Core. However, that effort is under attack from the left and right, and faces a new challenge in the form of parental opt-outs from testing. Join us for a debate about whether to defend the Common Core, bury it or transform it into something better. John Katzman, Noodle , Michael Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Valerie Strauss, Washington Post 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Leadership What Higher Ed's Top 10 IT Issues Mean for You Hilton | Salon G | Panel Higher education IT and institutional leaders use EDUCAUSE's an- nual Top 10 IT Issues to inform their IT strategies and set priorities. With so much change facing higher education and affecting IT, this north star has never been more important. Technology's transfor- mative impact on teaching and learning as well as on administration and the IT profession itself are all top of mind. Analytics, privacy and big data are also having a major impact. Join as EDUCAUSE and leading CIOs in higher education debate 2016's trends and their implications. Brad Wheeler, Indiana University, Keith McIntosh, Ithaca College, Stephen diFilipo, MSOE University, Susan Grajek, EDUCAUSE 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Leadership 10 & Change: Changing the Narrative for Black Boys ACC | Room 18ABC | Featured CPE In 2006, Tim King opened the first Urban Prep campus with a simple goal: improve the educational outcomes for African-Amer- ican males. Since then, Urban Prep has achieved a 100% college acceptance rate for its graduates, grown from one school to a network of schools, created an innovative program supporting college students, launched a workforce development program and served over 2,000 young African-American males. On the 10th anniversary of opening the first school, Tim reflects on his journey as an educator, what it took to build the country's first network of public charter high schools for boys and the secret to Urban Prep's success. (Hint: there's no secret)! Tim King, Urban Prep Academies 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Learning Spaces Co-Design: Campus, Interrupted Hilton | Salon A | Core Conversation | #cocampus Collaborative design and operation of education spaces can open unexpected doors to intuitive, connected and resilient learning. They can also be a tough sell in a climate of shrinking resources and growing need. This conversation navigates the tensions and possibilities of going a step beyond inviting students, academics, campus professionals and community members to a take seat at the table and instead offers to let them set it. Speakers will take participants through case studies of artists embedded in STEM research hubs, aboriginal communities sitting down with campus architects and exactly what happens when you ask the community to set a university's strategic direction. Bree Trevena, Creative Victoria, Alexandra Lawlor, University of Melbourne 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Educational Equality Making OER Work: Peer Learning in Public Libraries ACC | Room 12AB | Panel The full potential of online learning has not been realized; MOOC completion rates remain under 5% and many find solo online study too challenging. Chicago Public Library & Peer-2-Peer University have prototyped 'Learning Circles' to address this—peer-learning study groups for online courses in the local library. We have created online and offline infrastructure to provide a real-world wrapper around online learning. Results have been positive; a wider roll-out is underway and an open-source resource kit is in development to allow fast and cheap scaling. This panel will discuss results to date and the potential for leveraging public spaces like libraries to turbo- charge online learning. Mark Andersen, Chicago Public Library, Philipp Schmidt, MIT Media Lab, Andrea Saenz, Chicago Public Library 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Implementation The Future of the Local Public School Hilton | Room 400-402 | Panel CPE A host of forces—school desegregation, technology, the rise of school choice and charter schools, among others—have contributed to a slow but steady movement away from traditional neighbor- hood public schools over the past several decades. This panel discussion will explore the causes and consequences of the trend for students, parents and policymakers. Thomas Toch, Georgetown University, Shavar Jeffries, Democrats For Education Reform, Caroline Vander Ark, Getting Smart, Gabriela Fighetti, Louisiana Recovery School District

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