LCG Foundation team members reflect on our teacher appreciation initiative, celebrating the impact, reflecting on some challenges, and explaining why doing this work is sometimes bittersweet.

Digital innovator, educator, speaker, and author Shelly Sanchez Terrell coves topics such as AI, ChatGPT, technology integration, teacher time-saving tips, and digital wellness.

Technology Coordinator Kyle Calderwood talks unconferences, owning professional development as an educator, and game-based learning.

Author and educator Alex Shevrin Venet discusses equity, trauma-informed education, social justice, and how educators and EdTech brands can play a role in creating a more equitable educational system.

As the CEO of The University Innovation Alliance, Dr. Bridget Burns sits down to discuss what it means to collaborate, how to best serve any kind of audience, and some basic ways in which the EdTech industry could be more responsive to its market.

Tony Wan, Head of Platform for Reach Capital, discusses the perks and pitfalls of ChatGPT, the expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in EdTech, and how the market is shifting in 2023.

LCG Social Media Lead Hillary Trussell and CEO Elana Leoni, sit down to share best practices for using social media to leverage EdTech companies' presence at education conferences. They explore what to do before, during, and after the conference.

Eman Haggag, Program Manager at Meta, shares what it means for teachers to broaden their impact, how to reframe a strong skill set to be relevant for a different industry, and how EdTech companies can better use the perspectives of educators who want to join their ranks.

Dr. Erika Tate, founder of Loravore® Professional Learning and high-energy host of Remix EQ Live, defines instructional equity, suggests how to approach a society-wide problem on a classroom scale, and talks about the rewards and challenges of using EdTech tools in this work.

This week, we sit down with Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO of edWeb.net, an award-winning professional learning network that helps educators share their best ideas and practices to improve teaching and learning. Lisa discusses professional learning, teacher voice and choice, and EdTech's role in helping educators grow.

Sam Seidel, an internationally known educator, speaker, and author, and the K12 Lab Director of Strategy + Research at Stanford's d.school, sits down to talk about creativity, hip-hop culture, strength through vulnerability, and the joyful feedback loop of self care and inspired results.

Haris Alisic sits down to examine the do's and don'ts of good marketing strategy, identifying your audience through their social media behavior, and how to sift through the data generated by those habits.

Emily McDonnell, VP of Trust and Safety at Remind, sits down to talk about the Safety by Design principle, just what the heck that privacy page on the website actually means, the future of trust and security, and why communication around these issues is so critical for everyone.

A highly regarded writer and EdTech industry marketing communications specialist, Annie Teich sits down with Elana Leoni, CEO of Leoni Consulting Group, to explain the goals of content marketing, the differences between education and other market sectors, and some basic copywriting best practices.

Charlene Blohm, CEO of Charlene Blohm & Associates (CBA) provides best practices for branding, PR, content marketing, earned and paid media, and much more.

Adina Sullivan-Marlow sits down for an instructive chat that includes what EdTech companies could be doing better, the career possibilities and pathways in education that few know about, and how districts and administrators could better serve the diverse workforce that our students need.

Laura Thomas, Director and Core Faculty of the Experienced Educators Program at Antioch University New England (AUNE), explains the Critical Skills Classroom, as well as advocates for teachers in the current climate of hostility toward public education.

Joyce Whitby, a veteran industry marketing consultant, sits down to talk about ground zero for market-to-community interface: education conventions, specifically speaking to making sales at conventions and

Susan Bearden, the Director of Digital Programs for InnovateEDU and the leader of Project Unicorn, discusses data interoperability, how EdTech is playing catch-up with other data-driven industries, cybersecurity, and the deep value of lifelong learning. Here are a few of our favorite moments from this conversation.

As the founder of Catapult X, a STEM education industry market and product development company, Daylene Long shares her thoughts on current STEM trends, student confidence, equity in teaching, and the future of STEM education. Below are some of the highlights of this chat.