2019 Statewide Conference to Reimagine K-12 Public Education in Massachusetts

Convened by Commissioner Jeffrey C. Riley, Kairos was an all-day conference held on Tuesday, March 19 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Campus Center.

Stakeholders from across the state helped shape an early blueprint of how the Massachusetts education community can realign political, regulatory, and financial structures to support stronger, more engaging instruction for all students.

You can watched the livestreamed sessions below.

Agenda

Sessions that were livestreamed are in bold.

Plenary Sessions

• Keynote: Four-Dimensional Education for the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• Subarctic Survival

Breakout Sessions

• 21st Century Public School Governance and Employment Relations: The Impact on Student Achievement, Teacher Turnover, Innovation and Poverty
• Big Dig (Tonka Trucks)
• Biopsy Simulation
• Building Mathematical Schema with ST Math
• Building Systems of Opportunity and Support for Massachusetts' Students
• Early College and Career Pathways
• Educator Workforce Diversity
• Getting Creative with Code!
• It's Personal! It's Financial! It's Natural! Financial Choices Students Make: Pre-K–12
• Let's Create!
• Marble Run (Kinetic Sculpture)
• Model Rockets (Building a Lunar Colony)
• Owl Pellet Dissection
• The Road Not Taken: Changing Up Family Engagement in the Home of Robert Frost
• Rubber Band Helicopter
• Targeting Market Segments through Advertising Using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: An Interdisciplinary Lesson on Marketing Principles and English Language Arts
• Tower Building — Importance of Collaboration
• White Nose Syndrome

Last Updated: April 3, 2019