Schedule

Monday, April 11
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Registration Carnegie Endowment Root Room (2nd Floor) 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Welcome Lunch - Review of SIIA Ed Tech Policy Agenda
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Common Core State Standards: Timeline and Impact on Curriculum & Publishers Moderator: Matt Doherty, Academic Benchmarks Panelists: Daniel Cruce, Deputy Secretary & Chief of Staff, Delaware Department of Education Carrie Heath Phillips, Senior Program Associate, Common Core State Standards, Council of Chief State School Officers Ricki Price-Baugh, Director of Academic Achievement, Council of the Great City Schools
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM	Maturation of the Digital Learning Sector through Public-Private Partnership Introduction: David Byer, Apple Keynote: Jim Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Innovation & Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Break
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM	Education Policy, Pundits & Predictions Moderator: Mark Schneiderman, SIIA Panelists: Alyson Klein, Writer, Politics K-12, Education Week Mike Petrilli, Vice President for National Programs and Policy, Thomas B. Fordham Institute Andrew Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner, Bellwether Education Partners
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM	Break
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Reception with Invited National Education Leaders Choate Room (1st Floor)
Tuesday, April 12
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM	Breakfast Carnegie Endowment Root Room (2nd Floor) 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Keynote Address: State of the States Introduction: Kate Mullen, RedRock Reports Keynote: Dane Linn, Director, Education Division, Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Break
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM	Impact of Higher Education Policy Trends on Technology and eLearning Moderator: Crystal Jones, American Public University Panelists: Dan Hurley, Director, State Relations and Policy Analysis, American Association of State Colleges and Universities Louis Soares, Director of the Postsecondary Education Program, Center for American Progress
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM	RttT Implementation and Technology Implications Moderator: Anne Schiano, Meta Metrics Panelists: Matthew Gross, Executive Director, New York Regents' Research Fund Anna Kimsey, Vice President, Dutko Worldwide Glenn Kleiman, Executive Director & Chair of NC RttT Proposal Committee, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation Larry Paska, Coordinator, Technology Policy, New York State Education Department
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	Break
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM	Working Lunch: Determining SIIA Ed Tech Policy Positions & Priorities Choate Room (1st Floor)
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Break - Start Joint Program with CoSN, ISTE & SETDA Root Room (2nd Floor)
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM	Welcome & Progress on Digital Learning Now State Policy Agenda Introduction: Michael Campbell, Follett Software Company Moderator: Keith Krueger, CoSN Keynote: Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM	Ed Tech Opportunities in Title I and School Improvement Grants Moderator: Mark Schneiderman, SIIA Panelists: Tasha Franklin Johnson, Director, Office of Federal Programs / Title I, Baltimore City Public Schools Carl Harris, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and State Technical Assistance, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education Lynn McNally, Technology Resource Supervisor, Loudoun County Public Schools
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM	Federal Role in Education Telecommunications & Internet Access Introduction: Mick Adkisson, SMART Technologies Keynote: Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM	Getting Ready for Common Core (Online) Assessments Moderator: Geoff Fletcher, SETDA Panelists: Steve Garton, Coordinator of Educational Technology, Maine Department of Education Laura McGiffert Slover, Senior Vice President, Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Consortium (PARCC) , Achieve Joanne Weiss, Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Education
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Reception with Local and State Education Leaders
Wednesday, April 13
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	Continental Breakfast 902 Hart Senate Office Building Constitution Avenue and 2nd Street, NE Washington, DC 20002
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM	ESEA/NCLB Reauthorization & FY2012 Appropriations Moderator: Hilary Goldmann, ISTE Panelists: Lindsay Hunsicker, Senior Education Policy Advisor, Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-WY) Kristin Smith, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Representative Denny Rehberg (R-MT), Chairman, Labor, HHS & Education Appropriations Subcommittee Peter Zamora, Director of Federal Relations, Council of Chief State School Officers
9:45 AM - 11:30 AM	Issue Updates & Advocacy Training Appropriations Briefing: Doug Levin, SETDA ESEA Briefing: Mark Schneiderman, SIIA E-Rate Briefing: Jon Bernstein, Bernstein Strategy Group Advocacy Training: Hilary Goldmann, ISTE
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	Break
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM	Exemplary Uses of Federal School Technology Funds Co-Hosted with the National Coalition for Technology in Education & Training (NCTET) Introduction By: Julia Fallon, Washington State Department of Public Instruction Presentations: - Mike Hall, Education Technology Director, Montana Office of Public Instruction - Terra Graves, Washoe County School District, Nevada Keynote: Hon. Patty Murray, Senator (D-WA), United States Senate
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Congressional Advocacy Visits