Digital Equity Champions for All Learners: Partnering to Advance Digital Equity
This year, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will announce new programs to help eligible entities pursue activities to advance digital equity in their communities. Therefore, several organizations – the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the American Library Association, and Common Sense Media – are collaborating to help prepare the education and library sectors, as well as community-based organizations, for this unique opportunity.
The second webinar in the “Digital Equity Champions for All Learners” series (4/17, 2-3pm ET) invites K-12 education leaders at the state and local levels to build their awareness of the relevant policy context and learn why this issue is important to their stakeholders. To further support leaders in seeing themselves as a critical component of this national focus on digital equity, an expert panel will share exciting partnership models between schools and trusted community anchor institutions and explore future partnership potential.
Speakers include:
- Larra Clark, Deputy Director, American Library Association Public Policy and Advocacy Office
- Angela Craig, Executive Director, Charleston County Public Library
- Christy James, Library Media Services Coordinator and District Textbook Coordinator, Charleston County Public Schools
- Amanda Kordeliski, Board Member, American Association of School Librarians and Director of Libraries and Instructional Technology, Norman (Oklahoma) Public Schools
- Amina Fazlullah, Head of Tech Policy Advocacy, Common Sense
- Noah Lenstra, Associate Professor of Library & Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro