• Contact Us

    Emma Prillaman

    eprillaman@educationweek.org

  • Where

    Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel 
    Phoenix, AZ

  • When

    Wednesday – Friday

    October 25-27, 2023

Sean Cavanagh

Managing Editor | EdWeek Market Brief

Sean Cavanagh is Senior Editor of EdWeek Market Brief. He is also a reporter and editor for Education Week, where he has covered a variety of beats since 2002. His primary focus is on business and technology issues in K-12 education. Previously he covered math and science education, charter schools and school choice, and federal policy. Before joining Education Week, he was a reporter for daily newspapers in Tennessee and Florida.

All Sessions by Sean Cavanagh

  • Day 1 - Oct. 25

    Wednesday

  • 4:10  - 5:05
    Many school district officials say they want research-based or evidence-based products for their school systems. But what do they mean by research and evidence? For education companies, knowing how to go about arranging a research study for a product can seem overwhelming. In this interactive session, academic researchers who help education companies arrange research studies on their products draw from their experience to explain what kinds of evidence districts look for, and the array of options companies have for building a research base that works for them. The presenters will also talk about the costly and time-consuming missteps companies need to avoid. The researchers will be joined by a K-12 district administrator with a lead role on product evaluation who talks about the evidence districts look for before committing to purchases. This session will be interactive and feature extensive Q-and-A, in which companies in the audience can pose practical questions that have stumped them when they’re thinking about how to build an evidence base and what sort of research they’re ready for.
    Learn and Reflect

  • Day 2 - Oct. 26

    Thursday

  • 4:15  - 4:45
    Matthew Gross began his career as a music teacher in the South Bronx. He would go on to found Newsela, an education company that offers curated, differentiated instructional content and serves over 40 million students and 3 million teachers. Gross, who served as CEO of Newsela until this year and is now the company’s executive chairman, will talk about the origins of the company, its expansion over the past decade, and the lessons that he learned during the journey about building relationships with school districts, developing a beloved ed-tech product, and managing growth. Newsela was recently named one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies and was a 2020 winner of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award. Deloitte also named Newsela one of the fastest-growing tech companies.
    Fireside Chat
    Where
    GRAND BALLROOM

  • Day 3 - Oct. 27

    Friday

  • 09:00  - 09:30
    In this session -- one of our most popular – we'll present our latest, exclusive EdWeek Market Brief survey data taken from district leaders on whether they will increase, decrease, or keep level spending in specific product categories for next fiscal year, 2024-25. Those categories include core and supplemental math and ELA curriculum; social-emotional learning; devices; classroom, interim, and summative assessment; learning management and student information systems, and more.
    Flash Briefing
    Where
    GRAND BALLROOM

  • 11:15  - 12:15
    School districts have spent billions of dollars in federal emergency aid on major investments in academic interventions -- especially tutoring -- as well as curriculum, social-emotional learning, devices, classroom assessment, management systems, and many other needs. With federal stimulus aid set to expire in late 2024, how will district leaders decide what products and services to keep, or cut? In this session, we hear directly from district administrators immersed in those decisions about the process they’re following. Are they looking at usage data? Feedback from teachers? Evidence of academic gains or other outcomes? Or other factors entirely?
    Panel Discussion
    Where
    GRAND BALLROOM




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