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Good afternoon! Beautiful day in DC. Where are you?

21:04
Welcome, please introduce yourself and let us know where you are.

21:30
AJ Phillips, Director of IT, Manassas VA

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Nick Williams from Columbus, Indiana - Director of Technology for BCSC

22:29
Ed Tech Leadership Survey Report https://emma-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/paqab/2ad6dcd4fb0d923337a5a6d6a5344ee0/Survey_Report_2021_Final.pdf

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CYBERSECURITY REMAINS EDTECH LEADERS’ NO. 1 PRIORITY IN 2021 --FOCUS ON DIGITAL EQUITY AND ACCESS GROWS https://www.cosn.org/about/news/cybersecurity-remains-edtech-leaders%E2%80%99-no-1-priority-2021-focus-digital-equity-and-access

24:13
There is a lot of back ground noise

24:55
Can you mute all attendees as someone seems to have an open mic with a lot of background noise

25:11
Please mute if you are not already. Thank you.

26:12
Alicia can you mute people?

27:24
I believe the issue will resolve once Rod is muted after his segment

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31:13
Switching to phone.....

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If you recently joined us, please introduce yourself and let us know where you are.

32:57
Chris Bailey, Technology Director, Edmonds SD near Seattle, WA

38:46
If you have questions, please post them here for the Q&A section at the end of Ugbad’s presentation.

51:08
I hear many school districts say they have a challenge of holding any tech staff given pay differential compared with private sector. that is even more a challenge with retaining IT persons of color. any research on how orgs like school districts can hold on to diverse IT staff when pay may be an issue.

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Has anyone here put some procedures in place to begin to break down some of these barriers? If so, what are they?

01:03:18
We have done some work on talking to different groups to recruit and making sure marketing shows a diverse work population. However, there are some very good actionable items we haven't thought about!

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