Sessions

Presenter: Al Momrik

This session will provide step-by-step instruction on the creation of Graduation Sets for Graduation Progress. We'll also discuss setup and configuration and give tips on how to use Historical Grades, Course Groups, Cumulative Info, and Transcript Reports.

Track: Graduation

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Rosh Dhanawade

Join us for an in-depth presentation on StartingBlocks, EA's hosted Ed-Fi implementation service. We will explore how StartingBlocks brings together data from multiple sources to make comprehensive, data-driven decision making faster and easier. Discover how EA has implemented Ed-Fi technologies, like StartingBlocks, to help streamline data management in education agencies across the country.

Track: Data Privacy and Security and Interoperability

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: Laura Cohran

Time to validate! We'll talk through the past, present, and future of validating data. This session is meant to be interactive, community-building, and equipping.

Track: Scheduling

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Elainna Rickenbacker

CTE completer status has received new focus this year with College and Career Readiness being part of the State Report Card. For years we have struggled with communicating CTE completer pathways to Counselors and Administrators. We will present our solution, developed in Lexington One, that takes all the guesswork out of this process and provides real time reports for Counselors to review with students during IGP meetings, to ensure each student has the chance to complete a pathway.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Aaron Brown

This presentation will go over how the Teacher Climate Survey data were processed for accountability rating and non-rating deliverables. It will focus on how SCEducator data was used to determine which teachers were included in the accountability metrics. Then it will touch on how the Ed-Fi survey data was joined to PowerSchool staff data and the SCEducator data.

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Zenobia Ealy

During this session we will go over South Carolina data requirements for Incident Management and demonstrate how to Map Attendance and Action Codes for In-School Suspension and Out-of-School Suspension.

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Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

Seamlessly track and manage After School Care. MBA After School Care will easily check students in/out of before/after school programs inside PowerSchool including listing the contact who picked up or dropped off the student. Track/charge for snacks, Invoice for all services. Easy visibility for billing on PowerSchool portal. Communicate Before/After School Care information with teachers via a student alert. If your school offers before/after school care, this is a must have solution.

Track: Early Childhood

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Laura McNair

High School Academic Accountability 101 will give participants a refresher on the important aspects of the Uniform Grading Policy and pertinent State Board of Education Regulations that relate to academics. We will review course codes and transfer course codes to ensure accurate transcripts.

Track: Policies and Procedures

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Lisa Riegel

Chronic absenteeism is often the result of gaps in student skills, including time, task and responsibility management, stress management, impulse control and other life skills. This session will detail a proactive way schools can address the underlying skills gaps that lead to poor attendance and disengagement. It will detail the criteria for a high quality soft skills training program that reduces absenteeism and discipline incidents, and builds skills that impact graduation rate, GPA and academic performance, and assignment completion.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 108

Presenter: Al Momrik

This session will provide training on screens that counselors use on a daily or occasional basis. Included will be exports of data (rank, GPA, cumulative credtis), stored searches, walk-in scheduling, transcript entry, PDF creation of transcripts, class counts, and more.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Jordan Mader

Join us for an in-depth presentation to learn how to leverage Stadium to query and analyze data from Ed-Fi. We will explore how Stadium fits in the Ed-Fi enabled data ecosystem in South Carolina. Discover how districts can use the analytics platform to connect data from disparate sources across student data, assessments, and other sources to power visualizations, analytics, and research.

Track: Data Privacy and Security and Interoperability

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: Wendy Stephens

Topics include: -Where are we with Ed-Fi? -What's new with records exchange? -What's next (future proofing for students??)?

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Katie Mowery

In this session, I will cover basic features that are sometimes unknown for average users of the student information system. I will cover search functions like Multi-Select and Advanced search. I will cover the list students function. I will cover the print reports menu. I will also cover the "view field list" option and demonstrate some simple searches through that. I've found that while training a front office staff member or counseling staff member, there are many that aren't aware of some of the simple functions we use in order to make our jobs easier.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Zenobia Ealy

Mrs. Aveene Coleman and Ms. Zenobia Ealy will co-present this session to discuss truancy reporting in the state of South Carolina and how to create a quick truancy template which will reduce data errors and save time.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

Configure MBA Report Creator Credit Summary to calculate the number of credits a student has earned in comparison to the number of credits based on the credit summary. Engage parents and students by enabling the credit summary on the public portal. Create multiple credit summaries and assign to students. Easily add waivers to credit summary. Deliver electronically as well as post on the parent portal and require a digital signature.

Track: Graduation

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Lisa Hallman

Lancaster County School District has embraced a Community Engagement Tool for our students, parents and school staff. Hoodini's One Stop Dashboard – has allowed us easy access to student/contacts, enrollments, analytics, reports, notifications, and Google Classroom. Hoodini integrated our data from SIS and multiple applications into one platform.

Track: PowerSchool

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Susan Murphy

The beginning of the school year is critical for multilingual learners and immigrant students' data entry. The Title III/ML program office and Office of Research and Data Analysis (ORDA) continue collaborating to ensure data entry is as streamlined, purposeful, and accurate as possible. Join the South Carolina Department of Education Title III/ML team to learn more about accurate PowerSchool data entry and an overview and purpose of each ML/immigrant section.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 108

Presenter: Nicole Ivery

Introducing SC Satchel – the SCDE's comprehensive course platform for course data navigation. Leave behind the baggage of invalid, obsolete codes or improper graduation requirements. SC Satchel is your passport to cleaner data and accurate student records.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Al Momrik

In this session you will learn the basics of using Excel including: A look at the types of Data; text, numbers, labels, constants, variables. Using Formulas; basics, cell referenced, absolute referencing. A close look at built in FUNCTIONS by category, including the Function Wizard. Copying formulas and FUNCTIONS using fill down, fill right, auto fill and absolute positioning. Filtering and sorting data; Find and Replace; Formatting text, numbers and cells; inserting an image, inserting columns and rows; inserting charts and graphs; Opening PS exports and saving in a variety of different file formats.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Joshua Terchek

Join us for an in-depth presentation on Podium, South Carolina's data visualization tool built on the Ed-Fi data standard. We will explore current and future Podium features, including walking through several use cases. Discover how Podium enhances data accuracy and drives informed decision-making across South Carolina

Track: Data Privacy and Security and Interoperability

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: Jay Lindler

New to Ed-Fi or need a refresher course? Ed-Fi overview and benefits, StartingBlocks Application, What it is and what it does, Powerschool>SB overview, issues, etc.

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Roger Simpson

Are you using an excessive number of LBAs for your Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) Courses? Have you run out of SCDE VPA course codes? Do you have questions about your VPA course progressions? Did you know that SCDE has added nearly eighty new VPA course codes since 2022? Join Nicole Ivery from the Office of Research, Data, and Analysis and Roger Simpson from the Office of Assessment and Standards for an informative lecture and Q&A.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Zenobia Ealy

In the rapidly evolving field of data management, AI-powered SQL generators have become invaluable tools for enhancing efficiency and accuracy. These tools are particularly beneficial for applications like PowerSchool, where precise data handling is crucial for educational insights. By leveraging such AI technologies, users can streamline their workflow, reduce the potential for errors, and focus on more strategic tasks within the educational data analysis spectrum. So, during this session I will present a couple of AI generated SQL queries that I have used to export data out of PowerSchool.

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Date: 11/12/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Attendance Monitor, A powerful plugin inside PowerSchool that successfully streamlines attendance processes, saves time, and allows administrators to be pro-active. MBA Attendance Monitor can: easily establish attendance thresholds based on District/School policies, trigger notifications to admins/parents/guardians when thresholds met, empower parents/guardians to communicate absence reasons via parent portal, easily access comprehensive, interactive dashboards.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Jeannette Johnson

Participants will learn multiple ways to easily export data from PowerSchool SIS to include List Student, Quick Export, and DDE. Then we will look at ways of making that data useful in Excel using functions and formulas. Time will be included to practice with your own data and troubleshoot with you. Bring your device to get involved.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Al Momrik

In this class we discuss the creation and design of various types of graphs in Excel. We'll discuss why you want to use certain types of graphs for certain circumstances and how changing components can play an important role in making your charts and graphs communicate the data appropriately.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Ben Dederich

Join us for an in-depth presentation on the Rally Analytics Platform, South Carolina's data visualization tool built on the Ed-Fi data standard. We will explore how Rally brings assessments, attendance, chronic absenteeism, behavior incidents, well-being data, and grades together in one place. Discover how Rally can help educators in South Carolina track and predict student performance over time.

Track: Data Privacy and Security and Interoperability

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: Jordan Mader

What it is and what it does - High level/accessible, Pre-built queries to share and edit with case studies, Pull MAP for 3 particular seasons, Pull 10 consecutive absences, Overlapping EFA records query, Bring your own data question

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Nicole Ivery

Extinguish the fog and receive clarity to special education courses and codes. No more uncertainty with teacher certifications or subject areas. This session introduces new courses with a single corresponding course code that covers all instructional areas. Come and be prepared for the 2025-26 implementation.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Daniel Ralyea

South Carolina is getting a new GT identification and planning application! What happens next.

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Vette Wolf

Panel Discussion on State Reporting within PowerSchool for the state of South Carolina. Panel members include a range of districts from the SC PowerSchool Focus Group. Open discussion on the transition to Ed-Fi for state reporting and how different districts manage their interaction with the system for optimum outcomes. Topics for discussion will be brought to the session by the focus group leaders.

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 104/105

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA Attendance Monitor, powerful plugin inside PowerSchool, helps manage attendance processes, save time/eliminate hassle. MBA empowers parents to provide attendance information electronically via the parent portal at their convenience. MBA Attendance Monitor increases parent engagement while adding efficiency to attendance staff processing. This is a must have for all schools – Full Attendance Management with added parent engagement. A win for all parties involved!

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Alissa Wise

A time of talking SAS code with precode.

Track: PreCode

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Aveene Coleman

During this session, attendees will gain an understanding of the essential fields for coding discipline incidents. Additionally, participants will examine different discipline scenarios and acquire the skills needed to code these scenarios accurately in PowerSchool.

Track: Incident Management

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 108

Presenter: Al Momrik

Are you ready for some fast-paced Excel training? We will cover a number of tips and tricks in this session. All are helpful in a school environment. We will cover absolute addressing, copy formats, format painter, special formats, text wrapping, custom lists & more. Documentation will be made available via email.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Brett Frye

Session for new PS admin - speed dating session with seasoned admin, Small group work and discussions, Come with questions and ready to be social!

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Anna Duvall

The South Carolina Department of Education has procured a service that automatically monitors progress toward several identified pathways- including SC diploma requirements, CTE Pathways, and Seals of Distinction. It also instantly identifies transcript and schedule errors and violations of the Uniform Grading Policy and associated Regulations.

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Date: 11/12/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Daniel Ralyea

Engage with SCDE in discussing the road map for maximizing the utility of ED-Fi in SC.

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

MBA believes in giving back to schools and does so with a bank of Free plugins. Maximize and optimize your PowerSchool with MBA Free Plugins. These are powerful plugins that do "what you've always been looking for" and enhance your PowerSchool SIS experience. This session will walk through the full bank of MBA Free Plugins.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 106

Presenter: Cindy Williams

This session will give understanding to funding reports as well as strategies to ensure accuracy of funding reports.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 107

Presenter: Aveene Coleman

In this session, participants will gain an understanding of chronic absenteeism, including the significance of regular attendance and strategies for addressing chronic absenteeism data. Participants will review various attendance scenarios to provide a comprehensive perspective.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 11/12/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 108

Presenter: Al Momrik

In this session you will learn about Excel Formulas and Functions including: VLOOKUP, IF, COUNTIF, AND, LEFT, RIGHT, and many more.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Tonia Gardner

Level Data Validations is a critical tool for the schools and districts. This session will explore the capabilities of Data Validations within PowerSchool, emphasizing its vital role with Ed-Fi in SC to enhance the data process. Attendees will learn practical strategies to improve data quality, facilitating compliance with checks and balances.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: John Terchek

Look through use cases, including below examples: Verifying chronic absenteeism in Ed-Fi; Compare Podium dashboard against Powerschool; Verifying EFA; Compare Podium dashboard against Powerschool

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Linnette Attai

Protecting student data requires more than solid grounding in privacy laws. It also requires development of an institution-wide privacy program that you can build on for success today and into the future. Learn how to leverage CoSN's student data privacy framework, and create your student data privacy action plan to get you moving forward in a way that's effective and manageable for you and your district.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Zach Sheppard

Come learn how to customize PowerSchool to enhance South Carolina state reporting. We will explore how to create a plugin, how to create and use a PowerQuery, and how you can use these tools to build automated exports, custom pages, and other customizations to make PowerSchool work for you.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 9:00 - 10:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Ben Dederich

Focus on instructional staff/teacher types; Use case driven; Assessments throughput to Rally

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time:

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Al Momrik

Designed for school administrators, this session will provide information on best practices for managing your schools' operations using PowerSchool. You'll learn how to: communicate effectively, solve issues that happen in all districts, find records based on name or phone number, and many more tips for managing your building. We will discuss security and passwords and discuss how customizations can play a vital role in the management of schools/districts.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Tonia Gardner

A comprehensive look at the mandatory training our district provided to 1st and 2nd year new PowerSchool data entry users. Our training covers topics such as basic navigation system, understanding the user interface and performing essential task like student enrollment, attendance, incident management and scheduling.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: Riley Woods

ClassLink Customers! Please join us to learn about all the new ClassLink features available to you.

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Zach Sheppard

Come learn how to correct common SC discipline/incident management state validation errors and discover how a SC district utilized simpldiscipline to streamline their discipline validation process, automate ISS/OSS attendance, automatic truancy reporting, and streamline parent notification.

Track: PowerSchool

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 10:30 - 11:30

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Al Momrik

This session is designed for the beginning user of DDE. We will discuss filtering by building, discussing commonly used files, and the best ways to get the data you are seeking.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Tonia Gardner

This training session is designed for data staff who handle crucial task of managing student information within PowerSchool. Attendees will learn efficient data entry, time management skills and PowerSchool best practices, while gaining insight into maintaining data consistency and accuracy across the district.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: Aaron Brown

Processing the data for the Teacher Climate Survey included using PowerSchool data, SCEducator data, the survey submissions, and district feedback in order to determine the proper school code to assign each teacher towards and to determine which staff were required to submit a survey for accountability. This presentation goes over the method used by the SC Department of Education and gives district staff a chance to provide suggestions for improving the method.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

Implement Mastery learning- standards-based grading in PowerSchool. Define learning objectives, develop a rubric scale, communicate grading criteria, and track progress using MBA Report Creator Plugin. In minutes, create a Mastery Learning Standards based report card. Document student mastery growth over time with a Historical Mastery Learning Standards Transcript. Share on public portal for seamless parent communication. Implementing Mastery Learning with an approach that allows for easy future support and maintenance.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Zach Sheppard

Come learn how to correct common SC discipline/incident management state validation errors and discover how a SC district utilized simpldiscipline to streamline their discipline validation process, automate ISS/OSS attendance, automatic truancy reporting, and parent notification.

Track: Incident Management

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 12:45 - 1:45

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Al Momrik

This session will identify new changes to SDVS and RTR and will look at how changes at Level Data can help your district in other ways.

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Mary Voulgaris

Ed-Fi Publishing Advanced Course ; Much more thorough dive into Ed-Fi publishing; Look into Mapping between PowerSchool and Ed-Fi; What state reporting releases are coming?

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

Free yourself from the hassle of creating and managing alerts. Instantly create student alerts accessible to Admin, Teacher PT PRO, Sub, Public portals, and Schoology. Easily create smart, automated alerts based upon a PowerSchool field value or using advanced student logic triggers. NEW Advanced student logic triggers include attendance percentage, document attachment, and incident counts. Manage custom student headers in a snap! Most powerful addition to any PowerSchool site to enhance communication across all portals instantly.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Megan Uotila

ClassLink Info Session - Learn about ClassLink and the benefits available to you as a ClassLink customer.

Track: SC Attendance

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

Room: Room 102/103

Presenter: Linnette Attai

Developed through the collaborative insight and work of national educational leadership organizations and school districts nationwide, the Consortium for School Networking's (CoSN) Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) Seal program embodies your commitment to safeguard the privacy of student data. Join us in this workshop where we'll cover student data privacy fundamentals and more. As you expand your privacy knowledge, you'll also learn how to leverage the CoSN TLE privacy framework to support improvements in your school system's data privacy program, help you better manage your student data, and build trust within your community. We'll work through various data privacy challenges together, and you'll leave the workshop with a plan for your next steps in building and improving your district's privacy program.

Track: SC Student Information

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 2:00 - 4:00

Room: Ballroom B

Presenter: Wyatt Cothran

ORDA Vision - current, continuing, and future work (including multiple topics of interest)

Track: Course Codes

Date: 11/13/24

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Room: Ballroom C

Presenter: Erica Panter

Are you new to Scheduling? This session will cover many aspects of PowerScheduler including: How to set up parameters to make your scheduling as smooth as possible. How to use different creation tools in PowerScheduler to create sections (Import from spreadsheet, Visual Scheduler, and by hand). How to use more advanced tools in scheduling setup. How to use scheduling reports.

Track: Scheduling

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Ballroom A

Presenter: Sheri Schultis

Streamline student scheduling for current and next school year. Working with PowerScheduler, using the master build and student requests, MBA Student Schedule Creator lets your students build their own schedules. Engage teachers in the scheduling process. MBA Student Schedule Creator quickly identifies unscheduled students, students with open periods, and unfulfilled requests. Student Schedule Creator allows for easy modification of live schedules. This is a "game changer" for schools to empower their scheduling processes inside PowerSchool.

Track: Scheduling

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 101

Presenter: Jenny Henke

The South Carolina Department of Education is excited to offer "The Professional Learning Library" (PLL), an online library of resources that provide opportunities for personalized professional development for South Carolina educators and administrators. The PLL includes free, self-paced courses and videos that provide the opportunities for renewal credits through effective, research-based instructional and leadership practices aligned to the South Carolina Teaching Standards (SCTS) and the Program for Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Principal Performance (PADEPP) Standards.

Track: EdFi

Date: 11/13/24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30

Room: Room 102/103