MRESA Webinar Series
Metro RESA Monthly Webinar Series 2024-2025
Join Metro RESA, businesses, and partner school districts to learn how districts around the metro creatively collaborate to meet the demands of today's students, educators, leaders, and various district support departments. Each month Metro RESA will focus on a specific topic relevant to improving stakeholder engagement and success. During sessions, private companies will share opportunities for support through new tools, products, and services. In addition, sessions will include a partnering district perspective. Participants will learn more about the process and specific success directly related to the current partnership. Monthly webinars will run from August 2024 through April 2025.
November 19th Webinar Session: Harnessing AI for Good - Empowering Student Mental Health Through Human + AI Collaboration with Linsey Covert from TEAMology
What is TEAMology?
TEAMtalk by TEAMology offers a scalable machine learning + human approach to engage directly with children, as a student-facing platform and safe, non-threatening, non-judgmental space for children to express themselves and their concerns. The whole-system solution baselines, coaches, and produces actionable outcomes to strengthen a child's mental well-being, while also triaging issues through a proprietary approach based on a Multi-Tiered System of Supports model. Through daily check-ins, conversational evidence-based assessments, and personalized coaching and lessons, TEAMtalk will deliver information to educators about each student's strengths and growth opportunities, as well as the ways an educator can help increase the child's social and emotional abilities. TEAMtalk identifies the need for triage and can operate as an extension of the in-school support team to mitigate challenges before they escalate and become bigger issues. TEAMtalk provides insights for individual students and classrooms, and it can be beneficial school-wide in helping educators identify the greatest challenges students are discussing and trends over time.
About the Founder:
Former educator turned passionate social entrepreneur, Linsey Covert is the Founder and CEO of edtech company, TEAMology. From roles in K-12 to higher education, she has always focused on creating content and innovative technology solutions to support student social, emotional and mental health and wellness. Most recently, TEAMology launched an AI enabled human led solution to build capacity to meet the growing social, emotional and mental health needs of students. She and TEAMology’s work have been recognized and awarded by organizations such as SXSW EDU, Edtech Insights Magazine, Foremost Under 40 (PA Business Central), Education 2.0 Outstanding Leadership Award and Penn State University.
Join Metro RESA, TEAMology, + Metro Partner District Representative
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. ET - Register Today!
October 29th Webinar Session: Preparing Students for the Future of Work with Nick Gross at Find Your Grind
What is Find Your Grind?
Find Your Grind’s mission is to provide every student with the tools and confidence to be Future Ready in this ever-changing modern world. To achieve these results, Find Your Grind has designed a curriculum that changes the conversation around career exploration- asking students what kind of life they would like to live, and then guiding them to create it. The focus is on social and emotional learning and student agency. Challenging students through inquiry and reflection. Learn more about Find Your Grind today. Take your own personal lifestyle assessment.
About the Founder:
Nick Gross is an entrepreneur and musician who founded the Gross Labs ecosystem, encompassing Find Your Grind, a K12 education-technology company, and an investment portfolio of over 50 companies, including X Games and 100 Thieves. His ecosystem also features a music division and minority stakes in DC Pickleball Club and Liga MX Club Necaxa. Gross established The Noise Nest, a Los Angeles recording studio and content facility. With a music career as a drummer for Open Air Stereo and the pop-punk duo Girlfriends, Gross has toured with artists like Avril Lavigne and Machine Gun Kelly. He launched Find Your Grind in 2018 to help students discover their career paths, partnering with Amazon Prime Student, TikTok, and Twitch for nationwide speaking tours. Gross serves as the Executive Director of the Find Your Grind Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to youth enrichment through sports, education, and music. He is also a board member of The Gross Family Foundation and a lead investor in esports organizations Rekt Global and Team Rogue.
Join Metro RESA, Find Your Grind, + Metro Partner District Representative
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 , at 11:30 a.m. ET - Register Today!
September 24, 2024 Webinar Session: Why Small-Group Tutoring Is a Game Changer for English Learners with Rahul Kalita at Tutored by Teachers
What is Tutored by Teachers?
Tutored by Teachers is on a mission to close the opportunity gap by serving high-need students with personalized virtual instruction delivered by highly qualified and diverse teachers. Learn more about Tutored by Teachers.
About the Founder:
Rahul Kalita is a co-founder of Tutored by Teachers (TbT), a Series A funded EdTech startup with investment from GSV, A Street, and TMV. He has worked at the College Board in its corporate strategy team, was on the founding team at Amplify under former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, and was a general manager at Imagine Easy Solutions, an education technology startup acquired by Chegg. He also interned at the US Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan. Rahul has earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Join Metro RESA, Tutored by Teachers, + Metro Partner District Representative
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 , at 11:30 a.m. ET - Register Today!
August 27th Webinar Session: Helping GA Districts Fill Vacancies with On-the-Job Teacher Prep Programs
What is Bloomboard?
BloomBoard is completely transforming educator prep by partnering with school districts and universities to bring teaching degree and certification programs into K–12 classrooms. Unlike traditional or online teacher education programs, this on-the-job approach allows educators to earn a university degree by demonstrating what they know through their daily classroom work with students. Districts offering on-the-job, embedded pathways are becoming employers of choice and are more sustainably attracting, growing, and retaining top-notch educators. Find more information about Bloomboard today.
About the Co-Founder:
Jason Lange is the president and co-founder of BloomBoard. Prior to founding BloomBoard, Jason worked in private equity and was also a member of the NewSchools Venture Fund team, where he supported the development of the initial edtech investment thesis for the NewSchools Seed Fund (now Reach Capital). Jason received his BA from Yale University and also holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business and an MA in Education from School of Education at Stanford University.
Join Metro RESA, Bloomboard, + Metro Partner District Representative
Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. ET - Register Today!