SXSW EDU 2025
Making Standards Worth Teaching To
Description:
Fragmented and slow to adapt to the new landscape of 21st-century technology skills, educational standards are often a source of stress for educators. But what if they could inspire and catalyze teachers to help students become future-ready? Hear how national education leaders at the helm of some of the largest professional associations are pioneering efforts to build data science as a first-of-its-kind cross-subject discipline. Join us to learn how they're crafting standards worth teaching to, weaving critical skills into the curriculum, and revitalizing traditional topics for the AI era.
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Takeaways
- Hear how math, science, social studies, and computer science associations view integrating 21st-century skills like data literacy into the curriculum.
- Examine how education leaders envision reworking standards to respond to classroom needs and reflect the essential skills required for the modern era.
- Learn about the steps, sources of support, and collaborations needed to build data science into standards as a cross-subject discipline.
Speakers
- Erika Shugart, CEO, National Science Teaching Association
- Latrenda Knighten, President-Elect, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Jake Baskin, Executive Director, Computer Science Teachers Association
- Jennifer Morgan, President, National Council for the Social Studies
Organizer
Marisa Morgan, Events and Programming Manager, Data Science 4 Everyone
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