Annual Education Innovation Summit – Arkansas Department Of Education

The Annual Education Innovation Summit and the Arkansas Department Of Education have arranged Education Innovation.

  • Date: September 26th and 27th 2017
  • No. Of Sessions: 40
  • Focus:These sessions mainly focus on some educator roles like teachers, leaders, teacher preparation faculty, and policymakers.

  • Session Details and Keynote Speakers at Annual Education Innovation Summit:-

  • Johnny Key, Commissioner of Education
    Presenting ADE Strategic Planning and Vision
  • Michael B. Horn, Co-founder and distinguished fellow of Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.
    Presenting Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools
  • Buddy Berry, Superintendent of Eminence Independent School District and Founder of Framework of Innovation for Reinventing Education (F.I.R.E) are participating.


  • Get engaged in discussions about purpose, strategies, barriers, successes, and lessons learned.
    These 40 sessions help you in gain knowledge of resources, supportive structures, and routines that enable these innovations to work and also these sessions will address:

  • Supportive school culture
  • Transformation or change process
  • Specific learning strategies, assessment, and grading implications
  • Routines and administrative structures: set up of the classroom environment, scheduling implications, class or school routines, classroom management
  • Stakeholder involvement, parents, business/industry partners, community members, etc.

  • Few Summit presenters are:-

    Ken Grover,Principal, Innovations Early College High School, SLC
    presenting UT – Learn how to design a student-focused learning environment

    George Philhower, Assistant Superintendent, Western Wayne Schools, Cambridge City,
    presentingIN – Pace, Place, Path and Time: Designing Flexible School Environments

    Jon Laffoon, Superintendent, Star City,
    presenting AR – Innovation Process and Success

    Don Siviski, Policy and School Change Coach, Center for Secondary School Redesign
    presenting Competency-based Education

    Maria Worthen, Vice President for Federal and State Policy
    presenting iNACOL

    Chrissie Nehrenberg, Director of Online Learning, Western State Colorado University
    presenting Educator Preparation



    For more information, please contact:
    Name: Jennifer Williams
    Phone Number: 479-575-4499
    Email: OIE@uark.edu
    Register at: innovativeed.org

    Jennifer Wilson