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					<p>By Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of CER</p><p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49017" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/960x0-16.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><span style="color: #94979a; font-size: 8pt;">Panelists take part in a virtual session of the U.S.-Italia Education Innovation Festival. THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM</span></p><p>While the political cyclone of 2020 continues to suck the air out of the proverbial room, the world of education innovation continues to engage in the all important task of responding to and iterating for the challenges of education worldwide. It’s astounding and inspiring to convene with the best in class entrepreneurs whose work is not only making a difference, but can help you forget the insanity we live in today.</p><p>It’s hard to believe, but I had the chance to attend one such convening just last month, in Italy, no less! In full disclosure, the <a class="color-link" title="https://festival.edmaven.com/" href="https://festival.edmaven.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://festival.edmaven.com/" aria-label="US-Italia Ed Innovation Festival">US-Italia Ed Innovation Festival</a>, was the brainchild of <a class="color-link" title="https://edreform.com/" href="https://edreform.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://edreform.com/" aria-label="my organization">my organization</a>.  Our “modest” goal was to create a new education renaissance, so we set out to do so with this unique hybrid event. What’s most remarkable and newsworthy isn’t just that it happened, but that the assembly of on-ground and on-line attendees from throughout the two countries were able to demonstrate the success of new educational synergies to benefit students throughout our globe in this era of Covid-19.  Despite the daily bad news headlines about education and work being upended dramatically by the pandemic, these conversations showed that it’s possible to solve our most pernicious problems with focus, coordination and the right innovations.</p><p>As in the US, schools in Italy had to adapt and rely on technology that wasn’t widely available and move fast to get teachers trained. <a class="color-link" title="https://www.invalsi.it/" href="https://www.invalsi.it/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.invalsi.it/" aria-label="Invalsi’s">Invalsi’s</a> CEO Roberto Ricci and <a class="color-link" title="https://www.taotesting.com/" href="https://www.taotesting.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.taotesting.com/" aria-label="TAO-Testing’s">TAO-Testing’s</a> Marc Oswald worked with the Italian Ministry of Education’s strategies for handling the blow Covid-19 had on schools. They found that many Italian schools that had transitioned from paper to digital a few years ago were able to get back up early on, and recognized that their biggest challenge was the teaching force.</p><p>“The age of the teaching population is above 40 years old, if not older,” Oswald points out. “Running a class using digital tools is not something they have learned. This has become one of the biggest challenges.”  With evaluation and real time assessments, they were able to improve teaching and learning even as school was being disrupted.</p><p>Technologies used well can not only fill gaps but broaden the horizon of students across the globe. A great example is <a class="color-link" title="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/" href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/" aria-label="this virtual reality dive">this virtual reality dive</a> into Herculaneum (Ercolano in Italian) a city once buried under 16 meters of ash and mud during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.   Created by teacher and VR/AR ed tech expert Michael McDonald, students and teachers from around the world “entered” the Ancient City experiencing the excavation of two-story <em>domus </em>homes, along with their internal architecture and décor still intact, featuring wood and marble interiors, jewelry and organic remains like food.</p><p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-48988" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/960x0-13.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="923" /><span style="color: #94979a; font-size: 8pt;">Marco Cappellini, co-founder of Centrica, leads a virtual session at the U.S.-Italia Education Innovation Festival this September in Ercolano, Italy. THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM</span></p><p>Imagine utilizing such technology to take students from rural North Carolina or East Harlem “to” Ancient Rome to help them learn the history, innovations and science surrounding its rise and fall!  Products using VR, AR and MR can open up pathways for millions, lifting constraints on what the typical physical classroom can do.</p><p>Lyman Missimer, a leader at <a class="color-link" title="https://newsela.com/about/solutions/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=paid-search&amp;utm_campaign=DMG-OA-2020-DEG-search&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI06jejtSg7AIVg47ICh3RTgxjEAAYASAAEgIkn_D_BwE" href="https://newsela.com/about/solutions/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=paid-search&amp;utm_campaign=DMG-OA-2020-DEG-search&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI06jejtSg7AIVg47ICh3RTgxjEAAYASAAEgIkn_D_BwE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://newsela.com/about/solutions/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=paid-search&amp;utm_campaign=DMG-OA-2020-DEG-search&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI06jejtSg7AIVg47ICh3RTgxjEAAYASAAEgIkn_D_BwE" aria-label="Newsela">Newsela</a>, which provides digital, standards-aligned instructional content to millions of students said that regardless of where students are, if you are able to establish equity and accessibility you help accomplish the mission of education. Demand for  Newsela’s tools increased dramatically overnight. “What Newsela did, along with many other Edtech companies across the world. was to make products available for free to any school that would want to utilize it for distance learning,” said Missimer. “We also had to work directly with all 2,000 districts that ended up coming to Newsla and for distance learning. Engaging with those districts we learned a lot; the biggest thing was that we needed to be integrated with” all the other tools these districts are using”.</p><p>Technology is a tool not only to create efficiencies but transport learning and make our world smaller, according to  <a class="color-link" title="https://www.k12.com/" href="https://www.k12.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.k12.com/" aria-label="K12’s">K12’s</a> Chair Nate Davis. States, districts and schools once hesitant to engage with online learning were drawn to K12’s ability to deliver both high quality academic and technical education quickly in the face of Covid. “Technology transports learning. It makes our world smaller, it connects us,”  Davis, said. “School does not have to end locally, it can expand.”</p><p>Chris Whittle, Chairman and CEO of <a class="color-link" title="https://www.whittleschool.org/en" href="https://www.whittleschool.org/en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.whittleschool.org/en" aria-label="Whittle School and Studios">Whittle School and Studios</a> also argued that school should be a global institution. “A school is a place students learn, but they learn from the environment as much as the curriculum…where they are globally connected, and students are exposed constantly to lessons,” Whittle explains.  “A well-constructed system of schools can do things that a single school cannot.”</p><p>That’s evident in the work being done at <a class="color-link" title="https://academica.org/" href="https://academica.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://academica.org/" aria-label="Academica">Academica</a>, where across a large system of schools technology became a powerful tool for teachers, not a replacement.</p><p>Managing Director of Academica Virtual Education Antonio Roca described the school network’s approach. “We found ourselves with 200 brick-and-mortar schools in the Fall and wondered how we were going to open those and respect parents’ wishes on returning or not. We built something new –  ‘the classroom of the future’ –  and have installed auto-tracking cameras and large flat-screen TVs that allow teachers to simultaneously teach students remote and live. We think that this is where the future is – combining the two modalities and making it seamless so that students don’t have to miss another day due to covid or traveling – a student can watch their live class, engage, and interact from anywhere with both the teachers and their peers,”</p><p>And Academica’s <a class="color-link" title="https://www.aisvirtual.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=300457&amp;type=d&amp;termREC_ID=&amp;pREC_ID=599471" href="https://www.aisvirtual.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=300457&amp;type=d&amp;termREC_ID=&amp;pREC_ID=599471" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.aisvirtual.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=300457&amp;type=d&amp;termREC_ID=&amp;pREC_ID=599471" aria-label="Dual Diploma Program">Dual Diploma Program</a> is helping open up endless possibilities to attain knowledge for students across the globe, connecting over 12,000 students from 11 countries with new career opportunities. Program director Richard Collins likened today’s advancements in technology to an important lesson from a famous art critic nearly 100 years ago who noted that just because art was getting printed into books did not mean people were going to stop going to Florence and Milan and Paris to see art.</p><p>“That reproduction was supposed to <em>stimulate </em>people to go and see it and learn about it before they go and see it,” Richard says. “We are finding out today how to use our digital tools, which are here to stay, and make it work within a system that has been in the planning, and in the making for centuries.” The innovation of being able to take courses from two countries simultaneously and aligning requirements for credit that allows a dual diploma opens up global pathways that would never before have been possible, without leaving your computer.</p><p>Making it possible for exceptional writing instruction to occur, Jamey Heit, Co-Founder and CEO of <a class="color-link" title="https://www.ecree.com/" href="https://www.ecree.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.ecree.com/" aria-label="Ecree, Inc.">Ecree, Inc.</a> found that “even before Covid-19, the way the US was teaching [writing] wasn’t working.” The power of technology to help improve access to best in class instruction is no longer tied to a single place. “The reality is that the way the US has been teaching every subject has not worked for the majority of students.” Employers say that effective writing is the foundation for great communication skills. Ecree’s work spurred a discussion among attendees about how access to strong writing support and coaching can and should be global.</p><p>It’s about “how do you give people equal opportunity to participate in the future?” says the visionary founder of <a class="color-link" title="http://gsv.com/" href="http://gsv.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://gsv.com/" aria-label="GSV">GSV</a>, Michael Moe.  When things aren’t working and there are so many disparities, it causes cynicism and distrust.  “ The fundamental issue is access to quality education,” but it’s not ubiquitous. So “people are angry and believe the system is rigged and they’re right,” Moe says. We must lift barriers to the future. Said <a class="color-link" title="https://www.zanichelliventure.it/" href="https://www.zanichelliventure.it/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.zanichelliventure.it/" aria-label="Zanichelli Venture's">Zanichelli Venture’s</a> Enrico Poli on site in Italy,  “We need to give our students trust in the future and in our education system” across the world.</p><p>Enabling educators and workforce leaders to lower the barriers to advancement across oceans and irregardless of today’s physical challenges, the gathering produced renewed hope and resolve in massive global coordination to educate and train future generations for future unforeseen obstacles. Being “in” Italy physically and virtually was just the motivation people needed to renew, precisely the definition of renaissance.</p><p><em>Follow Jeanne on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/JeanneAllen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-allen-6542b915" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a> or some of her other work <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Journey-Education-American-Dream/dp/1796076082/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. </em></p>					</div>
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					<p><em>“I believe you and your team tapped into something extremely powerful which is often overlooked at other events. You involved a number of the US and Italian community members, in addition to the diaspora and those with Italian heritage, as leverage to drive the conversation way beyond education and innovation and into something much deeper and into discussions of a more existential nature about what it is we are actually trying to achieve right now.”</em></p><p><strong>Welcome to a special CER Newswire, covering highlights of last week’s US- Italia Ed Innovation Festival in Ercolano, Italy.</strong> It’s hard to believe that just a week ago, we gathered for the first-ever global EdTech festival in Italy, to bring about the kind of Educational Renaissance that today’s challenges require. A few highlights showing the incredible convergence of the innovators gathered there, here and everywhere awaits you, as does an ever growing <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/">video gallery</a>which is ready for your viewing pleasure!<img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-48808" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alive.png" sizes="(max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alive.png 974w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alive-500x239.png 500w" alt="" width="974" height="466" /><strong>ERCOLANO COMES ALIVE! VIRTUAL TRANSPORT TO A CITY ONCE BURIED UNDER THE ASHES OF MT. VESUVIUS. </strong>Our first session took us back almost 2,100 years to the eruption of Vesuvius. With the guidance of <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marco-cappellini" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marco-cappellini">Marco Cappellini, co-founder &amp; CEO of Centrica</a>, we saw what digital technologies, AR, MR and VR can do to make history come alive. Earlier that week, educator and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald">VR practitioner Michael McDonald</a>, took students from Hawaii to Italy and beyond for a virtual reality simulation tour of Ercolano! Not only did these tours show students and teachers a new city, but it also illuminated the way technology can shape and broaden learning for all regardless of where you are located! You can<a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1"> </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1">view these videos here.</a></p><p><strong>IMPOSSIBLE? </strong>Nope, we are intrepid! Just a few months ago, amidst all the complications surrounding COVID-19, there was no certainty that the event, which was intended to bring edtech innovators and education revolutionaries across the globe together to uncover and connect with technologies and innovative practices that will broaden the horizon of learning, teaching and career across the globe, could possibly happen. However, after many consulate calls and collaborative meetings with our partners in Bella Italia, we were able to pull this off after all and just weeks later, a small group of education pioneers and participants found themselves just steps away from Mt. Vesuvius in the beautiful town of Ercolano, while the rest of the speakers, participants, teachers and students joined in virtually from around the world. As educator and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald">VR practitioner Michael McDonald</a> puts it: “<em>The energy which surrounded the event really did make it feel like we were contributing to verbalizing what might spark that much-needed renaissance which you spoke so often about, and the inspiring talks and pertinent questions asked really added more fuel to my already burning desire to stamp a positive mark on the world.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.</em><strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48807 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/whittle.png" sizes="(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/whittle.png 531w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/whittle-500x292.png 500w" alt="" width="218" height="127" />HOW LIVING IN A PANDEMIC IS CONNECTING MINDS ACROSS THE GLOBE. </strong>“A school is a place students learn, but they learn from the environment as much as the curriculum. Ours is a school that is globally connected, and students will have constant lessons,” <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle">Chris Whittle, Chairman and CEO of</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle">Whittle School</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle">and Studios</a> says as he talked about re-imagining education as a global institution.<img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48806 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session2.png" alt="" width="201" height="125" />Italian-Americans were over-represented at the event, an intentional and natural consequence of the adventurous and entrepreneurial mindset that infects those of us with that heritage, especially!  Take the amazing <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico">Carol D’Amico of Strada,</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#antonio-roca" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#antonio-roca">Antonio Roca of Academica Virtual Education</a> and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nathaniel-davis" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nathaniel-davis">Nate Davis</a>, (Italian by passion!) the CEO of K12 Inc. whose leadership is driving boundless changes in education. Without their organizations, COVID’s impact would have been even more disastrous. “Technology transports learning. It makes our world smaller, it connects us. School does not have to end locally, it can expand.” This theme would be repeated and demonstrated over and over again.Can a US edtech company solve Italy’s challenges? No matter where you are, said Newsela’s <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lyman-missimer" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lyman-missimer">Lyman Missimer</a>, you can and must establish equity and accessibility. That is the mission of education.<strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48805 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/richard.png" alt="" width="121" height="161" />DUAL COUNTRY DIPLOMAS?</strong> Certo! By leveraging 21st century technology the Academica International Dual Diploma program makes it possible for thousands of students around the world to obtain a fully accredited U.S. high school diploma from their home country. Using technologyand its digital platform, over 12,000 students from 11 countries are acquiring skills for the workplace of the future. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#richard-collins" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#richard-collins">Richard Collins</a> (pictured here) &amp; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro">Kay Scettro</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro"> </a>came down from Verona to share their novel program, and quickly gained new outlets. <strong>THE EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE ON A GLOBAL SCALE. </strong>The disruption caused by COVID revealed the limits and weaknesses of education systems around the world. Schools in Italy had to adapt and rely on technology that wasn’t widely available and move fast to get teachers trained. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=8" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=8">A panel</a> of <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#adriano-allora" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#adriano-allora">Maieutical Labs Co-Founder Adriano Allora</a>, <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#daniele-denti" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#daniele-denti">Ingenium Education CEO Daniele Denti</a> and computer science engineer and high school teacher<a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#paolo-tealdi" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#paolo-tealdi"> Paolo Tealdi</a> was moderated by <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#enrico-poli" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#enrico-poli">Zanichelli Venture director Enrico Poli</a>. Poli tells Italian educators and edtech leaders, “we are missing trust from our students — we need to give our students trust in the future and in our education system in Italy. Possibly then we can be competitive with the US.” <img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48804 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session4.png" sizes="(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session4.png 449w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session4-100x65.png 100w" alt="" width="208" height="138" />Because the Italian Ministry of Education accelerated their transition from paper to digital assessments some years ago, they were able to judge the effect of COVID19 on learning loss quicker than many of their global colleagues. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#roberto-ricci" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#roberto-ricci">INVALSI CEO Roberto Ricci</a> and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marc-oswald" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marc-oswald">TAO Testing CEO Marc Oswald</a> explored what measures the country has and is adopting for fall 2020 to track <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=4" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=4">COVID19 learning loss</a>. In the panel US &amp; Italian Breakthroughs for Career Success, <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit">Jamey Heit, Co-Founder CEO of Ecree</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit">, Inc.</a> explains that even before COVID, the way the United States was teaching [writing] wasn’t working and we must trust and embrace technology: “the opportunity to recognize the shortcomings gives us the opportunity to make education better.” <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48803 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ulrik.png" alt="" width="206" height="116" />WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WORK? </strong>The pandemic has accelerated the need for students to have sets of business and digital skills.” The future of work has become the present of work”, says  <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman">Matt Sigelman of CEO,</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman"> Burning Glass Technologies</a> (another paisano!). In a world where more jobs are hybrids, mixing and matching skills from different fields, students need not only the core academic foundations Italian and US universities have had for years, they need to acquire future skills. Moderated by <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen">Ulrik Christensen</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen">, CEO of Area9 Group</a>, (pictured here), <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=3" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=3">a group of cutting-edge pioneers</a> reshape the way we think about higher education to prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow and bridge the gap between university and career. “We will see if this (online education, global crisis) is a reset for education — or will this too pass?” asks <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico" data-emb-href-display="festival.edmaven.com" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico">Carol D’Amico, Executive VP of Strada Education Network</a>.  <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48802 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ben.png" sizes="(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ben.png 512w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ben-500x241.png 500w" alt="" width="209" height="101" />COVID NECESSITATES INNOVATION. </strong>Most folks not wedded to the education establishment realize that innovation — while always essential for school success — is even more important now with the changes necessary to deal with COVID. Minerva founder and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ben-nelson" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ben-nelson">CEO Ben Nelson</a> and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe">GSV Founder and </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe">CEO Michael Moe</a> emphasized, and re-emphasized, that innovation is absolutely necessary today — and into the future — and those concerned with providing cutting edge education must, not should but must, embrace it.  <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=12" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=12">Rewatch this powerful discussion.</a><strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48801 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/senator.png" alt="" width="214" height="89" />SHE WALKS THE WALK</strong>, as well as talks the talk, is a fitting introduction to our speaker who closed out day two.  <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu">Former Democrat U.S. Senator from</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu">Louisiana </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu">Mary Landrieu</a> shared with <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense">Donald Hense</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense">, founder of Friendship Public Charter Schools</a> very frank and unfiltered opinions — formed by decades of experience in the political rough and tumble — on what it takes to enact meaningful educational change in places like D.C., Louisiana and elsewhere around the world. This is one strong lady. <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48800 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rodp.png" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rodp.png 514w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rodp-500x336.png 500w" alt="" width="214" height="144" />PREPARING STUDENTS TO WORK.</strong> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige">Former U.S. Secretary of Education </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige">Rod Paige</a> conducted an in depth discussion with business executive and workforce development expert — and his wife — <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#stephanie-nellons" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#stephanie-nellons">Stephanie Nellons Paige</a>, on the absolute necessity of collaborating with educators and industry to prepare the workforce of the future. We need to make certain that our education system is not graduating human equivalents of the eight track tape deck. <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48799 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sharktank.png" sizes="(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sharktank.png 506w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sharktank-500x333.png 500w" alt="" width="210" height="140" />SHARK TANK! FISHING FOR INVESTMENT TREND INSIGHTS, INNOVATOR SECRETS AND START-UP PITCHES: </strong>A not to be missed recap of this event will be up on our <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/">website</a> soon, and features EdTech giants like <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#isabelle-hau" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#isabelle-hau">Isabelle Hau</a>, and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#andre-bennin" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#andre-bennin">Andre Bennin</a> who shared some of their investor secrets and insights on cross-generational solutions for online learning after listening to various start-up pitches the Festival-StartED Accelerator co-sponsored Shark Tank, followed by a review of investment trends. “At the end of the day, investment is about efficacy and whether solutions are designed to provide access, remove friction, and ultimately make students successful,” said <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#george-straschnov" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#george-straschnov">George Straschnov, Managing Director of Bisk Ventures</a>. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#vince-davis" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#vince-davis">Imaginable Futures Venture partner Vinice Davis</a> looks for comprehensive solutions. For her, “helping children build networks &amp; connections in school is equally important as academics.”<strong><a><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48798 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/caucci.png" alt="" width="223" height="140" /></a>“It’s our responsibility to make sure that </strong> <strong>if a worker, frontline employee, or student raises their hand and says, ‘I want to get better,’ that they can.” –</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci" data-cke-saved-href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci"><strong>@samcaucci</strong></a><a href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci" data-cke-saved-href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci"> </a>(<a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#sam-caucci" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#sam-caucci">Founder and CEO at 1Huddle</a>) <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48796 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/destiny.png" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/destiny.png 842w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/destiny-500x471.png 500w" alt="" width="178" height="167" />DESTINY IS NOT…WELL…DESTINY.</strong> In both Italy and the U.S. access to great education is still too much determined by zip code, gender, socioeconomic class and race. Moderated by <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#janine-walker-caffrey" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#janine-walker-caffrey">Janine Walker-Caffrey</a>, a high-powered panel of <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-bess" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-bess">Scott Bess, Purdue Polytechnic High School Head of School</a>; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lorenzo-cesaretti" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lorenzo-cesaretti">Lorenzo Cesaretti, CEO of Talent SRL</a>; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso">Nick</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso">Paradiso, VP of government relations and partner services for National Heritage Academies</a>; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-barron" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-barron">Scott Barron, Founder and Chief Reinvention Officer for School Growth LLC</a>; and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli">Fiorenza Quercioli</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli">, language resource specialist at Stanford University – Bing Overseas Study Center</a> in Florence took on the challenge of how to change that paradigm. The answer is innovation, innovation and more innovation…if the education bosses will let it happen. <a class="elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-lg" role="button" href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/"><span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"><span class="elementor-button-text">Wish you were there? You can watch it all NOW!</span></span></a></p><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-cbf941f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="cbf941f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"><pre class="elementor-widget-container"><strong>WHY ITALY?</strong> As <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jeanne-allen" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jeanne-allen">Jeanne Allen</a>, CER’s visionary founder spoke about in her opening remarks, it’s the cradle of civilization, where the very first kind of technologies — in science, art and invention — converged to give us services, conveniences and beauty that still touch our lives (think plumbing, among other things). And it’s where the pursuit of knowledge gave way to the study of history, and ultimately the Renaissance.We seek a new Education Renaissance that once again ensures knowledge is paramount, ensuring that all may access the future.<strong>Leaders throughout Italy, including The Mayor of Naples, numerous and business leaders have thanked us for our “investment” in the education and career futures of the people of Italy, and were grateful we made the extra effort to convene despite the conditions and the discouragement of travel along the way!</strong>We are incredibly grateful for our <strong>sponsors</strong> Academica, Area9 Lyceum, Minerva, Novotech, Strada Education Network, Texas Central, Majnoni Guicciardini Wines and <strong>partners</strong> Edmaven, Fondazione Ente Ville Vesuviane, Zanichelli Venture, StartEd, Edtech Week for making this all possible.<strong><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-48797 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/group.png" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/group.png 572w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/group-500x375.png 500w" alt="" width="206" height="154" />Articulating it better than we could ourselves, we share what this one partner said of the experience and look forward to the next time we can come together: </strong><em>“Years from now we will think back on this Covid-infested time and remind each other of this wonderful event, the on-line and unthinkable in-person presentations, we will remember our hosts running around the room checking and rechecking connections around the globe, the pizzette at the buffet table, the mysterious beauty of the venue location, the roller coaster excitement of the shuttle, the proximity of our accommodations to Castel dell’Ovo, the ubiquitous firecrackers, but above all we will remember the people we met, all these people who are dedicating their time and expertise to making the world a better place by employing digital technology in educational infrastructures of every sort.” </em></pre></div>					</div>
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			<h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">THE NEW EDUCATION RENAISSANCE</h2>		</div>
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					<p><em>“I believe you and your team tapped into something extremely powerful which is often overlooked at other events. You involved a number of the US and Italian community members, in addition to the diaspora and those with Italian heritage, as leverage to drive the conversation way beyond education and innovation and into something much deeper and into discussions of a more existential nature about what it is we are actually trying to achieve right now.”</em></p><p><strong>Welcome to a special CER Newswire, covering highlights of last week’s US- Italia Ed Innovation Festival in Ercolano, Italy.</strong> It’s hard to believe that just a week ago, we gathered for the first-ever global EdTech festival in Italy, to bring about the kind of Educational Renaissance that today’s challenges require. A few highlights showing the incredible convergence of the innovators gathered there, here and everywhere awaits you, as does an ever growing <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/">video gallery</a>which is ready for your viewing pleasure!<img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-48808" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alive.png" sizes="(max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alive.png 974w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alive-500x239.png 500w" alt="" width="974" height="466" /><strong>ERCOLANO COMES ALIVE! VIRTUAL TRANSPORT TO A CITY ONCE BURIED UNDER THE ASHES OF MT. VESUVIUS. </strong>Our first session took us back almost 2,100 years to the eruption of Vesuvius. With the guidance of <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marco-cappellini" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marco-cappellini">Marco Cappellini, co-founder &amp; CEO of Centrica</a>, we saw what digital technologies, AR, MR and VR can do to make history come alive. Earlier that week, educator and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald">VR practitioner Michael McDonald</a>, took students from Hawaii to Italy and beyond for a virtual reality simulation tour of Ercolano! Not only did these tours show students and teachers a new city, but it also illuminated the way technology can shape and broaden learning for all regardless of where you are located! You can<a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1"> </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=1">view these videos here.</a></p><p><strong>IMPOSSIBLE? </strong>Nope, we are intrepid! Just a few months ago, amidst all the complications surrounding COVID-19, there was no certainty that the event, which was intended to bring edtech innovators and education revolutionaries across the globe together to uncover and connect with technologies and innovative practices that will broaden the horizon of learning, teaching and career across the globe, could possibly happen. However, after many consulate calls and collaborative meetings with our partners in Bella Italia, we were able to pull this off after all and just weeks later, a small group of education pioneers and participants found themselves just steps away from Mt. Vesuvius in the beautiful town of Ercolano, while the rest of the speakers, participants, teachers and students joined in virtually from around the world. As educator and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-mcdonald">VR practitioner Michael McDonald</a> puts it: “<em>The energy which surrounded the event really did make it feel like we were contributing to verbalizing what might spark that much-needed renaissance which you spoke so often about, and the inspiring talks and pertinent questions asked really added more fuel to my already burning desire to stamp a positive mark on the world.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.</em><strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48807 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/whittle.png" sizes="(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/whittle.png 531w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/whittle-500x292.png 500w" alt="" width="218" height="127" />HOW LIVING IN A PANDEMIC IS CONNECTING MINDS ACROSS THE GLOBE. </strong>“A school is a place students learn, but they learn from the environment as much as the curriculum. Ours is a school that is globally connected, and students will have constant lessons,” <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle">Chris Whittle, Chairman and CEO of</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle">Whittle School</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#chris-whittle">and Studios</a> says as he talked about re-imagining education as a global institution.<img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48806 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session2.png" alt="" width="201" height="125" />Italian-Americans were over-represented at the event, an intentional and natural consequence of the adventurous and entrepreneurial mindset that infects those of us with that heritage, especially!  Take the amazing <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico">Carol D’Amico of Strada,</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#antonio-roca" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#antonio-roca">Antonio Roca of Academica Virtual Education</a> and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nathaniel-davis" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nathaniel-davis">Nate Davis</a>, (Italian by passion!) the CEO of K12 Inc. whose leadership is driving boundless changes in education. Without their organizations, COVID’s impact would have been even more disastrous. “Technology transports learning. It makes our world smaller, it connects us. School does not have to end locally, it can expand.” This theme would be repeated and demonstrated over and over again.Can a US edtech company solve Italy’s challenges? No matter where you are, said Newsela’s <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lyman-missimer" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lyman-missimer">Lyman Missimer</a>, you can and must establish equity and accessibility. That is the mission of education.<strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48805 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/richard.png" alt="" width="121" height="161" />DUAL COUNTRY DIPLOMAS?</strong> Certo! By leveraging 21st century technology the Academica International Dual Diploma program makes it possible for thousands of students around the world to obtain a fully accredited U.S. high school diploma from their home country. Using technologyand its digital platform, over 12,000 students from 11 countries are acquiring skills for the workplace of the future. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#richard-collins" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#richard-collins">Richard Collins</a> (pictured here) &amp; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro">Kay Scettro</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#kay-scettro"> </a>came down from Verona to share their novel program, and quickly gained new outlets. <strong>THE EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE ON A GLOBAL SCALE. </strong>The disruption caused by COVID revealed the limits and weaknesses of education systems around the world. Schools in Italy had to adapt and rely on technology that wasn’t widely available and move fast to get teachers trained. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=8" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=8">A panel</a> of <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#adriano-allora" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#adriano-allora">Maieutical Labs Co-Founder Adriano Allora</a>, <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#daniele-denti" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#daniele-denti">Ingenium Education CEO Daniele Denti</a> and computer science engineer and high school teacher<a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#paolo-tealdi" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#paolo-tealdi"> Paolo Tealdi</a> was moderated by <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#enrico-poli" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#enrico-poli">Zanichelli Venture director Enrico Poli</a>. Poli tells Italian educators and edtech leaders, “we are missing trust from our students — we need to give our students trust in the future and in our education system in Italy. Possibly then we can be competitive with the US.” <img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48804 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session4.png" sizes="(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session4.png 449w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/session4-100x65.png 100w" alt="" width="208" height="138" />Because the Italian Ministry of Education accelerated their transition from paper to digital assessments some years ago, they were able to judge the effect of COVID19 on learning loss quicker than many of their global colleagues. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#roberto-ricci" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#roberto-ricci">INVALSI CEO Roberto Ricci</a> and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marc-oswald" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#marc-oswald">TAO Testing CEO Marc Oswald</a> explored what measures the country has and is adopting for fall 2020 to track <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=4" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=4">COVID19 learning loss</a>. In the panel US &amp; Italian Breakthroughs for Career Success, <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit">Jamey Heit, Co-Founder CEO of Ecree</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jamey-heit">, Inc.</a> explains that even before COVID, the way the United States was teaching [writing] wasn’t working and we must trust and embrace technology: “the opportunity to recognize the shortcomings gives us the opportunity to make education better.” <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48803 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ulrik.png" alt="" width="206" height="116" />WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WORK? </strong>The pandemic has accelerated the need for students to have sets of business and digital skills.” The future of work has become the present of work”, says  <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman">Matt Sigelman of CEO,</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#matt-sigelman"> Burning Glass Technologies</a> (another paisano!). In a world where more jobs are hybrids, mixing and matching skills from different fields, students need not only the core academic foundations Italian and US universities have had for years, they need to acquire future skills. Moderated by <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen">Ulrik Christensen</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ulrik-christensen">, CEO of Area9 Group</a>, (pictured here), <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=3" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=3">a group of cutting-edge pioneers</a> reshape the way we think about higher education to prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow and bridge the gap between university and career. “We will see if this (online education, global crisis) is a reset for education — or will this too pass?” asks <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico" data-emb-href-display="festival.edmaven.com" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#carol-damico">Carol D’Amico, Executive VP of Strada Education Network</a>.  <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48802 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ben.png" sizes="(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ben.png 512w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ben-500x241.png 500w" alt="" width="209" height="101" />COVID NECESSITATES INNOVATION. </strong>Most folks not wedded to the education establishment realize that innovation — while always essential for school success — is even more important now with the changes necessary to deal with COVID. Minerva founder and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ben-nelson" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#ben-nelson">CEO Ben Nelson</a> and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe">GSV Founder and </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#michael-moe">CEO Michael Moe</a> emphasized, and re-emphasized, that innovation is absolutely necessary today — and into the future — and those concerned with providing cutting edge education must, not should but must, embrace it.  <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=12" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/?tab=12">Rewatch this powerful discussion.</a><strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48801 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/senator.png" alt="" width="214" height="89" />SHE WALKS THE WALK</strong>, as well as talks the talk, is a fitting introduction to our speaker who closed out day two.  <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu">Former Democrat U.S. Senator from</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu">Louisiana </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#mary-landrieu">Mary Landrieu</a> shared with <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense">Donald Hense</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#donald-hense">, founder of Friendship Public Charter Schools</a> very frank and unfiltered opinions — formed by decades of experience in the political rough and tumble — on what it takes to enact meaningful educational change in places like D.C., Louisiana and elsewhere around the world. This is one strong lady. <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48800 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rodp.png" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rodp.png 514w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rodp-500x336.png 500w" alt="" width="214" height="144" />PREPARING STUDENTS TO WORK.</strong> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige">Former U.S. Secretary of Education </a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#rod-paige">Rod Paige</a> conducted an in depth discussion with business executive and workforce development expert — and his wife — <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#stephanie-nellons" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#stephanie-nellons">Stephanie Nellons Paige</a>, on the absolute necessity of collaborating with educators and industry to prepare the workforce of the future. We need to make certain that our education system is not graduating human equivalents of the eight track tape deck. <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48799 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sharktank.png" sizes="(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sharktank.png 506w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sharktank-500x333.png 500w" alt="" width="210" height="140" />SHARK TANK! FISHING FOR INVESTMENT TREND INSIGHTS, INNOVATOR SECRETS AND START-UP PITCHES: </strong>A not to be missed recap of this event will be up on our <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/">website</a> soon, and features EdTech giants like <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#isabelle-hau" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#isabelle-hau">Isabelle Hau</a>, and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#andre-bennin" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#andre-bennin">Andre Bennin</a> who shared some of their investor secrets and insights on cross-generational solutions for online learning after listening to various start-up pitches the Festival-StartED Accelerator co-sponsored Shark Tank, followed by a review of investment trends. “At the end of the day, investment is about efficacy and whether solutions are designed to provide access, remove friction, and ultimately make students successful,” said <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#george-straschnov" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#george-straschnov">George Straschnov, Managing Director of Bisk Ventures</a>. <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#vince-davis" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#vince-davis">Imaginable Futures Venture partner Vinice Davis</a> looks for comprehensive solutions. For her, “helping children build networks &amp; connections in school is equally important as academics.”<strong><a><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48798 alignright" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/caucci.png" alt="" width="223" height="140" /></a>“It’s our responsibility to make sure that </strong> <strong>if a worker, frontline employee, or student raises their hand and says, ‘I want to get better,’ that they can.” –</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci" data-cke-saved-href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci"><strong>@samcaucci</strong></a><a href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci" data-cke-saved-href="https://twitter.com/samcaucci"> </a>(<a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#sam-caucci" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#sam-caucci">Founder and CEO at 1Huddle</a>) <strong><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-48796 alignleft" src="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/destiny.png" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" srcset="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/destiny.png 842w, https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/destiny-500x471.png 500w" alt="" width="178" height="167" />DESTINY IS NOT…WELL…DESTINY.</strong> In both Italy and the U.S. access to great education is still too much determined by zip code, gender, socioeconomic class and race. Moderated by <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#janine-walker-caffrey" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#janine-walker-caffrey">Janine Walker-Caffrey</a>, a high-powered panel of <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-bess" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-bess">Scott Bess, Purdue Polytechnic High School Head of School</a>; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lorenzo-cesaretti" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#lorenzo-cesaretti">Lorenzo Cesaretti, CEO of Talent SRL</a>; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso">Nick</a> <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#nick-paradiso">Paradiso, VP of government relations and partner services for National Heritage Academies</a>; <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-barron" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#scott-barron">Scott Barron, Founder and Chief Reinvention Officer for School Growth LLC</a>; and <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli">Fiorenza Quercioli</a><a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#fiorenza-quercioli">, language resource specialist at Stanford University – Bing Overseas Study Center</a> in Florence took on the challenge of how to change that paradigm. The answer is innovation, innovation and more innovation…if the education bosses will let it happen. <a class="elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-lg" role="button" href="https://festival.edmaven.com/video-gallery/"><span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"><span class="elementor-button-text">Wish you were there? You can watch it all NOW!</span></span></a></p><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-cbf941f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="cbf941f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"><pre class="elementor-widget-container"><strong>WHY ITALY?</strong> As <a href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jeanne-allen" data-cke-saved-href="https://festival.edmaven.com/program/speakers/#jeanne-allen">Jeanne Allen</a>, CER’s visionary founder spoke about in her opening remarks, it’s the cradle of civilization, where the very first kind of technologies — in science, art and invention — converged to give us services, conveniences and beauty that still touch our lives (think plumbing, among other things). 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