This Week at DE: Week of December 13
Good evening and welcome to our Final edition of “This Week at DE” for 2020! My title is Paul Ilse and I’m the CEO of Discovery Education. It has been these a satisfaction receiving to observe these films each week and I’m thrilled to provide as our past host for the calendar year. For this video clip, we wanted to do points a minor in different ways and spotlight our leading 5 favorite things from 2020. So let’s get into it!
#1: Digital Field Outings. COVID-19 threw a wrench in things this yr, but we’re so very pleased to have been able to pretty much acquire learners further than their homes or school rooms through new digital discipline visits. We transported students to Manitoba, Canada with the polar bears, introduced them STEM vocation industry experts and exercised with NFL players!
#2: DENVSI and VirtCon. Our 
one particular-of-a-type experienced finding out knowledge in the summertime shifted to digital, but that did not halt hundreds of educators from participating. They located new concepts, assets and an expanded specialist mastering network to assist tutorial and management aims.
#3: Fairness Talks. We continued our stay webinar sequence that includes our nation’s major education leaders, all with the objective of delivering assist and steering to educators in the wake of COVID-19.
#4: New curated content in Discovery Instruction Knowledge. Our fantastic content material staff produced well timed, high-high-quality collections to reply to everything going on in the planet. New channels involved the ‘Viruses and Outbreaks’ and ‘Dissent, Equity and Inspiring Transform.’
And my preferred instant of 2020…
#5: The start of our Retaining you Linked to Curiosity campaign. It is so essential for us at Discovery Education to hold all pupils and instructors connected to curiosity. The initiative includes reimagined services, exclusive, considered-provoking written content and a series of activities and local community functions.
Wanting back again on everything from this year can make me so happy to lead an firm that places students and instructors at the forefront of every thing we do. We cannot wait around to share additional in 2021 as we continue on to understand and grow with you. Thank you for staying a section of the Discovery Education family members, and for all the vital do the job that you do as educators. We’ll see you up coming year!
