2025 KSDE Great Ideas in Education: Full Schedule

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

9:30am CDT

General Session #1 School Improvement Resources and Results (Coherence of work)

Monday July 28, 2025 9:30am - 10:15am CDT

What to expect from the conference. We will be sharing collaborative structures to build coherence for your school systems. This will include an overview of building coherence in school systems and why that is critical for school improvement.

Speakers

Pat Bone

Sr. Administrative Specialist, Conference Coordinator, Kansas State Department of Education

Great Ideas In Education Conference Coordinator for KSDE. I work with the Deputy Commissioner of Learning Services, Dr. Ben Proctor.

Ben Proctor

Deputy Commissioner of Learning Services, Kansas State Department of Education

Shane Carter

Beth Fultz

Director, KSDE

Bert Moore

Amanda Petersen

Jay Scott

Monday July 28, 2025 9:30am - 10:15am CDT
Grand Eagle Ballroom

General Session

10:30am CDT

Protecting your Data Assets – How to Ensure your Data is Secure, Private, Accurate, Available, and Usable

Monday July 28, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT

Grand Eagle Ballroom

In this session we will discuss best practices in data management from data collection through data reporting. KSDE IT staff will cover policies, processes, and strategies to help keep your data safe while also allowing it to be used for the purpose it was collected for…improving student outcomes. Whether a district is large with established procedures or small with limited staff, data governance ensures well-defined roles and responsibilities (such as data owners and stewards), standardized protocols for data collection and management, a commitment to maintaining data quality, and careful attention to student privacy are all in place. This session will include a guided self-evaluation of your district’s data environment (Systems, Knowledge, Practices, and Leadership) that can be used by a DLT to diagnose areas of strength and areas for improvement.

Speakers