Congress Overview
The Congress on the Future of Content
The Congress on the Future of Content is a new event dedicated to improving access to high quality
content for teachers and students. The Congress is designed to bring together leaders from all
aspects of the educational publishing industry – print, digital and combined – including basal publishers,
supplemental publishers and companies serving those publishers, to examine and create the future of content
in education. At the Congress, publishers will listen to and interact with technology and textbook
representatives from Texas as well as superintendents, curriculum directors
and other educators from leading school districts across the country.
During this two-day event, educators and state leaders will respond to two key questions:
- What is your vision for content and how content should be delivered within the next five years?
- What are the barriers to implementing that vision?
A key component of the Congress will be the creation of working groups
to address barriers to the creation and distribution of content to school districts.
The activities and results of the Congress and these working groups will be reported
by T.H.E. Journal throughout the year.
Join state technology directors including state curriculum, textbook and technology
director Anita Givens from Texas, and school district leaders such as Ann McMullan, Klein ISD, TX and Sheryl Abshire,
Calcasieu Parish, LA and Bailey Mitchell, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Forsyth County
Georgia schools, to hear their vision for content and how that content should be delivered.
The Congress on the Future of Content will be an annual event that will build on each year’s
findings, with the ultimate goal to shape the future of content and its delivery to students and schools.