Superintendent Russell Booker along with a team of administrators have been invited to participate in the third of 12 Future Ready Regional Summits in Atlanta, Georgia.
These regional gatherings are intended to help school district leaders develop cross-departmental plans to support digital learning. President Obama announced these summits during the National ConnectEd Superintendents Summit, which Dr. Booker attended at the White House this past November.
The summit is designed to “create a conversation” among district teams, including cabinet members who might not often collaborate on technology-related issues.
In participating, District Seven further strengthens its commitment to becoming future ready. Dr. Booker said, “I am confident these summits will help us to create and build upon our existing digital learning strategies, and will ultimately enhance teacher effectiveness and student achievement.”
This effort is part of the larger “Future Ready” initiative being jointly led by the department and the Alliance for Excellent Education, a policy advocacy organization based in Washington.
More than 1,600 district leaders have so far signed the department’s “Future Ready District Pledge,” which includes a series of commitments around using technology and digital content to change teaching and learning, providing schools with high-speed broadband connections and personal computing devices, and improving technology-related teacher professional development.
“Superintendents provide critical leadership to ensure that every child in their district benefits from what we know matters and what we know works for kids,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “The Future Ready Regional Summits will be a forum where local leaders can share knowledge with their peers, engage leaders from outside their region and better equip themselves with skills and tools necessary to provide students with what they need to be successful in life.”
For more information, visit http://tech.ed.gov/.