Sessions

Presenter: Mary Voulgaris

South Carolina journeys on with our implementation of the Ed-Fi data standard and technologies. This session provides an overview of where we are with Ed-fi, how we got there, and what is on the horizon. If you are new to Ed-Fi in South Carolina, this session is a great place to start learning. If you are already familiar with Ed-Fi, this session will help contextualize next steps on the Ed-Fi roadmap.

Track: EdFi

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: LaShon Felder

In this session you will learn how school level attendance teams have helped our district's schools reduce chronic absenteeism in just one school year! Attendees will also learn practical strategies to encourage students' attendance while communicating and building relationships with students and families. Walk away from our session with easy to implement tier 1 and tier 2 attendance interventions!

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Zenobia Ealy

This presentation will focus on how student attendance factors into the membership of students throughout the school year. We will discuss what data to review in PowerSchool to make sure that your student membership count is accurate. We will discuss different attendance reports and what they can be used for.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Helene McMurphy

Description: From science fiction to a technological revolution, the world of AI is changing the way we approach common tasks. Imagine a world in which AI didn't just add items to your shopping list, but gave you wide access to your PowerSchool data with voice commands! Join us for a session to learn how TIVA (The Interactive Voice Assistant) changes the way data is retrieved. Be ready to cast aside your preconceived perceptions, and embrace AI as a necessary tool in 2023 and beyond. This is a way to get a look at a safe and extremely valuable AI environment that isn't student facing. In fact it is designed to give you back time in your day, anyone that accesses PowerSchool will benefit from this technology.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

Go beyond Report Cards with MBA's Report Creator plugin, create reports, pages, rows and element templates. Create Attendance reports, academic concern letters with missing assignments, and transcripts. Create multi-student reports such as classic lists. Electronic delivery to parents as well as posting on the parent portal and require a digital signature. Do more, faster, all inside PowerSchool with complete control.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Lisa Cahall

Learn how to navigate through PowerSchool's Unlimited Student Contacts. Session will cover how to navigate the Student Contacts interface, identify, and consolidate duplicate entries, as well as how to Export, Modify, Delete, and Import both new and existing data. Additionally, we will review various PowerSchool Plugins related to Student Contacts, which are available to districts at no cost through the PowerSource Community Exchange.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Levette Williams

Do you have questions about student privacy? Need help understanding what your responsibilities are? Well, we are here to help! The U.S. Department of Education, through the Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO)'s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) will conduct an introductory presentation on the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the principal federal law protecting students' privacy. This presentation will introduce you to the fundamentals of FERPA and provide depth and clarity on its application to the 21st century school and classroom! This session is intended as an introduction to the law and seeks to balance the legal background of the statute with real-world scenarios to which this law applies. This session applies to anyone who handles student education data.

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Date: 10/24/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Wyatt Cothran

The daily grind makes it hard to find time for peer-to-peer professional chats. In this interactive session, participants will get to have those chats with district-level PowerSchool administrator peers, including some seasoned PowerSchool admin veterans. Everyone will be encouraged to ask questions, share their experiences, and think outside the box.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Nicole Ivery

Proper course coding is essential for reporting in the state of South Carolina. This session will provide you with the information and resources that you need to ensure that your district adheres to South Carolina course coding requirements. Topics will include the ins and outs of dual enrollment course coding and tricks and tips on special education course coding. Training presented by the South Carolina Department of Education's Office of Research and Data Analysis (ORDA).

Track: Course Codes

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Stephen James

Exploring Grad Rate in Enrich from a district administrator point of view.

Track: Graduation

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Ramona Bowers

PowerSchool is a wonderful Student Information System; however, sometimes you need information that you can't easily put your fingers on. Power Data Solutions was the answer for Anderson District One. They had an entire library of free resources that were just a download away. Recently they went to a subscription based service. I hope you didn't stop reading when you saw subscription. This subscription is truly affordable to any size school district! Come to this session to learn about the free and subscription based reports and customizations that will rock your users! One attendee will receive a one year subscription to PSCB Development in a random drawing at the end of the session.

Track: Graduation

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Attendance Monitor, powerful plugin inside PowerSchool, helps manage attendance processes, and save time/eliminate hassle. Key components to MBA Attendance Monitor: 1. Attendance tracking and threshold notifications 2. Powerful attendance data dashboards 3. Parent portal attendance submissions MBA Attendance Monitor plugin has many powerful features: o Establish attendance thresholds based on District/School policies o Trigger notifications to parents/guardians whenever thresholds reached o Empower parents/guardians to communicate absence reasons via parent portal o Easily access comprehensive, interactive dashboards

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Jessica Crowe

Come and learn PowerSchool training information and resources from the Charter Institute at Erskine from the, "ground up!" Join us in learning about the intricate steps to success within PowerSchool from a district level from dual perspectives, a new PowerSchool community member and a PowerSchool District Administrator.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Zenobia Ealy

This session is for PowerSchool clerks and administrators to participate in an open discussion roundtable to discuss issues in their districts, explain how they operate in their district, etc. and form a network of peers.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: MR106

Presenter: Stephen James

A detailed walk-through of the Career & College Readiness Report in Enrich.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Ramona Bowers

Have you heard the expression, "Work Smarter, Not Harder"? This session is about using customizations (both free and subscription based) that will allow you to work smarter, not harder. We will explore a variety of tools: MultiSelect, creating a custom student header (in the current PowerSchool interface and in the Enhanced User Interface), Class Roster Auto-Loader, List Students Auto-Loader, sqlReports and more.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Attendance Troubleshooting, Attendance issues are often setup/configuration issues. We will review setup steps, walkthrough the attendance calculation process and critical data elements of: Enrollment dates, FTE, attendance conversion, attendance preferences, code categories. Helpful troubleshooting reports, ADA/ADM by student, Enrollment Summary and Attendance DATs. Know the importance of each of these data elements in your PowerSchool Attendance. Strong attendance data element knowledge results in cleaner Ed-Fi submissions.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Levette Williams

Online educational applications and services are becoming an increasingly important part of what teachers and schools use to educate our children. But have you ever stopped to think about the privacy implications of using always-on, always-connected applications and technology in the classroom? The U.S. Department of Education, through the Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO)'s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC presents a discussion of how the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) applies in the context of education technology and provides a roadmap to understanding how to protect student privacy in the digital context. PTAC aims, with this session, to give the audience the tools and knowledge necessary to evaluate these apps for privacy protections and learn how to identify applications which may not put student privacy at the forefront.

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Date: 10/24/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Felix Childs

This presentation, titled Data Protection: An Enterprise - Level Organizational Objective, is intended to share some practical informational awareness that focuses on how related functional areas across the entire organization can strengthen the core capabilities of achieving a common mission, such as to provide leadership and support so that all public education students graduate prepared for success.

Track: Incident Management

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Alexander Momrik

In this session, I will be providing a demonstration of Level Data's State Data Validation Suite of services. I will describe how the rules created for South Carolina affect the rule deck that is in place and give instruction on how to correct errors that may display for various students. The services included are RealTime Field Validation, Bookmarking, Address Validation, and Data Validation. I will also describe a newer service, the Validation Summary Report.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Jason Jones

This course will be a beginners and basics of SQL for PowerSchool administrators. Together we will dive into how to do basic SQL searches for data in PowerSchool. Users will need to have PSNavigator credentials and access to their PowerSchool database or have the SQL Studio Plugin (https://www.auroraedtech.com) installed into their environment to be a hands-on participant in the class.

Track: PowerSchool

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Alert Creator can instantly create student alerts accessible to admin, public portals and teacher portals including Schoology. Easily create smart, automated alerts based upon a field value in PowerSchool or using advanced student logic triggers. Manage customer student headers in a snap! This is the most powerful addition to any PowerSchool site to enhance communication across all portals.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Lisa Cahall

This session will offer the opportunity to see how Level Data's RealTime Reports streamlines the way everyday users can access and leverage Attendance data without having to be a PowerSchool expert. See how to easily and quickly you can access information such as Chronic Absenteeism, Daily and/or Meeting Attendance Data. With instant access to your information, RealTime Reports simplifies the process of making data-driven decisions, identifying opportunities, and measuring outcomes. Locating and understanding data about your schools is as easy as shopping online.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Levette Williams

The Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) was established in 2010 as a one-stop resource for education stakeholders to learn about privacy, confidentiality, and security practices related to student-level data systems and uses of student data. Come to this Office Hours session and bring your FERPA-related questions. We are bringing the PTAC helpdesk to you!! This session is open to all education stakeholders including K-12 staff at schools and districts, state agency staff, and postsecondary staff also.

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Date: 10/24/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Wendy Stephens

Calling all district-level PowerSchool admin! This is "Part 2" of a two-part SC Student Data Conference workshop designed to help you master the intricacies of Ed-Fi data publishing from PowerSchool. In the Part 2 session, you will interact with a test server and practice resolving data-publishing issues, so bring your laptop.

Track: EdFi

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Naomi Morgan

College and Career Readiness is an important accomplishment for students and schools alike, but the complexity of the indicator can make it difficult to determine whether students have met requirements to be considered College or Career Ready. Please join the Charter Institute at Erskine as we share how we are summarizing available data sources to support schools in understanding the status of their students and the impact that will have on their state report card.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Alexander Momrik

In this session, I will be describing the address validation service from Level Data. We will cover validation for one student as well as the mass validation capabilities from the SDVS screens. Lastly, I will discuss the resources that I use in my day-to-day work with address validation. The links for these resources will be available for users to use in the session and take with them as well.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Jason Jones

Do you have customizations? Do you know what you inherited that were customized before you got there? I have customizations! We all have customizations!

Track: PowerSchool

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Student Schedule Creator: Are you tired of fixing student schedule conflicts? Why not let the students do it? Instead of using the PowerScheduler Load process, the Student Schedule Creator Plugin allows students to pick their own sections and create a conflict-free schedule. Give students voice and choice when creating schedules themselves. Student Scheduler Creator also helps to eliminate long lines at the Counselor's door at the start of the year for schedule adjustments. Can be a great tool for summer school scheduling as well.

Track: Scheduling

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Lisa Cahall

This session will offer the opportunity to see how Level Data's RealTime Reports streamlines the way everyday users can access and leverage Grade data without having to be a PowerSchool expert. See how to easily and quickly you can access information such as Current Grades, Stored Grades, Credit Progress and Test Scores. With instant access to your information, RealTime Reports simplifies the process of making data-driven decisions, identifying opportunities, and measuring outcomes. Locating and understanding data about your schools is as easy as shopping online.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/24/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Levette Williams

Written agreements are a requirement when sharing personally identifiable education data without the consent of parent or eligible student. This session will help you determine if your agreements are FERPA compliant by providing information on the mandatory elements that are to be included in written agreements and it will inform the attendee of best practices that organizations should consider when entering into a written agreement.

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Date: 10/24/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Levette Williams

Think you know everything there is to know about the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)? The U.S. Department of Education's Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) is issuing a challenge to all attendees to come put their knowledge to the test! In this session, we will explore complex and varied real-world scenarios that concern student privacy and ask you, the audience, to help us work through them. This session provides an excellent forum for discussion of complex issues regarding FERPA and a great space to have your questions answered. Do you think you have what it takes? To that we say, "It depends!

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Date: 10/24/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Aveene Coleman

This session will provide an overview of chronic absenteeism reporting. Participants will learn how to run chronic absenteeism reports and attendance reports.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Kama Staton

What is your school's percentage of career ready qualifiers? How does it impact it's report card rating? This session will provide a deep dive into the work-based learning career ready qualifier, it's impact on the school report card accountability system, and a step-by - step process to reporting accurate WBL data in PowerSchool.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Enrolling, Withdrawing and Transfer Students: Are you responsible for student enrollment, re-enrollment, withdrawal and transferring students from one school to another within the district? This session provides a thorough breakdown of the fields in PowerSchool that impact student enrollment records. We will even cover a few situations that no one hopes to encounter but always does. Helpful reports to audit enrollments will be reviewed at the school and section level.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Katie Mowery

PowerHacks is a session intended on unlocking PowerSchool's potential with tips and tricks to gain maximum efficiency in your day-to-day use of this robust system. There are many tools in PowerSchool that are underutilized that create easier pathways to completing a task. In this session, we will cover an array of functions at a high level in order to share useful knowledge of our student information system.

Track: PowerSchool

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Ben Dederich

The South Carolina Department of Education & Education Analytics have partnered to produce and introduce several software solutions for teachers that can be used to identify classroom and individual student insights. Learn how Rally presents contextual information alongside assessment and SEL (Social Emotional Learning) data to surface new insights and how a platform like Strategy Workshop can help educators explore new instructional strategies to improve student outcomes.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Ramona Bowers

Do you already use pivot tables to analyze student data or are you saying, "What is a pivot table?" This session if for both audiences! PSCB DEV Pro has a new Data Analyzer tool that allows you to create pivot tables IN PowerSchool. We will walk through how you create a pivot table in Excel and then unleash the power for the Data Analyzer in PowerSchool. One attendee will receive a one year subscription to PSCB Development in a random drawing at the end of the session.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Levette Williams

Do you have questions about student privacy? Need help understanding what your responsibilities are? Well, we are here to help! The U.S. Department of Education, through the Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO)'s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) will conduct an introductory presentation on the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the principal federal law protecting students' privacy. This presentation will introduce you to the fundamentals of FERPA and provide depth and clarity on its application to the 21st century school and classroom! This session is intended as an introduction to the law and seeks to balance the legal background of the statute with real-world scenarios to which this law applies. This session applies to anyone who handles student education data.

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Date: 10/25/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom D

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Adaptive Scheduler can quickly build a schedule for flex periods. Create courses and sessions, schedule students and manage attendance effortlessly with this highly configurable Plugin inside PowerSchool. Adapts to individual school needs to accommodate your remediation and enrichment offerings. Seamless solution for flex period schedules in PowerSchool.

Track: Scheduling

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Jeff Skene

PowerSchool is embracing AI for reducing teacher burnout by increasing efficiencies in personalizing learning for all students. PowerSchool is proud to be a contributing partner with TeachAI as we explore safe and thoughtful ways to introduce AI into education.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Aveene Coleman

This session will provide an overview of truancy reporting. Participants will learn how to run truancy reports in PowerSchool.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Alexander Momrik

In this session, I will provide a demonstration of Level Data's RealTime Reports. This will be an overview of all the reports in the service. I will demonstrate how to run the reports and how easy it is for users to be able to have access to the data in PowerSchool that they need to make data-driven decisions.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

Preparing Incidents for Ed-Fi: Explore creating incidents in PowerSchool Incident Management. Learn how to save time and improve accuracy by creating templates for common incidents. Review South Carolina required incident data elements and the importance of their relationships for data integrity. Search and record incident details for students. Review student discipline data and prepare for Ed-Fi.

Track: Incident Management

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Shannon Hamilton

This session will outline our year's work, including data-driven strategies, specific tiered attendance interventions, and practices our schools actually tried and their outcomes. Attendees will receive concrete resources our schools implemented in their buildings and the results we saw (or didn't see) with student attendance, along with data/reports that show whether these attendance initiatives are worth their efforts and resources. Our interventions are based on school-specific attendance data and demographics, so attendees will easily see how they might work for their circumstances. What does my organization need to combat chronic absenteeism and truancy? To help find and keep track of kids in order to reduce negative outcomes? These questions and our team's answers to them by way of our experiences this year serve as the crux of our session.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Joshua Terchek

Four South Carolina Districts and Education Analytics partnered to co-build attendance dashboards using data sourced from Ed-Fi through EA's data warehouse product, Stadium. The data warehouse and dashboards are being made available to all districts. This presentation describes the data warehouse, and development process, previews the data warehouse and dashboards, and highlights the next steps.

Track: EdFi

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Kenyetta Smith

GREaT Training (Graduation Rate, Enrich, and Transcripts) is a required annual training for all Greenville County high school principals and school level graduation rate teams. This comprehensive training includes a deep dive into the graduation rate process from initiation of the 9GR graduation cohort, graduation rate team responsibilities, school-level best practices, accountability, record keeping, and requests for records, acceptable documentation requirements, adult education students, special program codes, on-track to graduate, coding, early, winter, and summer graduates, transcripts and interactively working within the Enrich Graduation Rate Portal.

Track: Graduation

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Levette Williams

Online educational applications and services are becoming an increasingly important part of what teachers and schools use to educate our children. But have you ever stopped to think about the privacy implications of using always-on, always-connected applications and technology in the classroom? The U.S. Department of Education, through the Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO)'s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC presents a discussion of how the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) applies in the context of education technology and provides a roadmap to understanding how to protect student privacy in the digital context. PTAC aims, with this session, to give the audience the tools and knowledge necessary to evaluate these apps for privacy protections and learn how to identify applications which may not put student privacy at the forefront.

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Date: 10/25/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom D

Presenter: Maria Swygert

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Zenobia Ealy

In this session I will go over some reports that could be used to analyze student data in PowerSchool. There are helpful reports inside of PowerSchool that an administrator could use to identify students at risk when it pertains to attendance, grades, and graduation requirements.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Aveene Coleman

This session will provide an overview of Incident Management reporting requirements. Participants will learn how to code incidents and correct coding errors.

Track: Incident Management

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Raquel Asencio-Garcia

Turn credentials into opportunities by learning how Parchment can help you create a college bound culture. The SCDE has been partnering with Parchment for over 10 years to provide a secure and trusted solution to manage school transcripts and other credential documentation. Discover all the features the State sponsors and ways Parchment can be a great partner!

Track: Graduation

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Kristy McIntyre

Students with chronic absenteeism sometimes cannot help their attendance alone. While we use the proper reporting protocols, speak to parents, and sometimes resort to using the court system, what can we do when they are present? In this presentation, a middle-level mathematics teacher will explain how she makes simple changes to the daily schedule to accommodate those who miss frequently without disrupting the education of the rest of the class.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Nicole Pezent

If you don't have an ROI process in place, you are behind! Districts across the state of Mississippi have made return on investment part of their continuous improvement process, providing their teams a way to easily manage, monitor, and evaluate their instructional purchases throughout the year. Don't leave your decisions up to chance! Learn how Lauderdale County School District is leading the charge, allowing academic resource management to inform the budget and instructional decisions to ensure students are receiving equitable & effective instruction.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 10/25/23

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 102/103