Episode description

Jeff sits down with Terri Schwartzbeck and Sam Patterson to discuss the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day and how you can have a Future Ready School.

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC–based national policy and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved, graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship. The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future.

Started in 2012, Digital Learning Day has provided a powerful venue for education leaders to highlight great teaching practice and showcase innovative teachers, leaders, and instructional technology programs that are improving student outcomes. This grassroots effort blossomed into a massive nationwide celebration as teachers realized that Digital Learning Day is not about technology, it’s about learning. Digital Learning Day promotes the effective use of modern day tools afforded to every other industry to improve the learning experience in K-12 public schools.

• The Alliance for Excellent Education
• 4th Annual Digital Learning Day
• What is Future Ready?

• www.digitallearningday.org
• live.digitallearningday.org
• www.futurereadyschools.org

• http://www.edutopia.org/digital-learning-technology-resources
• http://all4ed.org/
• live.digitallearningday.org
• #DLday
• http://www.futurereadyschools.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=1
• http://tech.ed.gov/futureready/

Terri Schwartzbeck is Senior Digital Outreach Associate at the Alliance for Excellent Education and supports Digital Learning Day’s online presence. She helps lead the Alliance’s social media efforts as well as manages much of the Alliance’s video production work. She has a long history in the education policy nonprofit space including the American Association of School Administrators and the Regional Educational Laboratory – Appalachia.