November 2019

AS PART OF our mission, we at ACDS must act as a catalyst for tech talent, making sure that our state’s supply is sufficient to meet the demand. That’s easy to say but complicated to do, and the more we work at it the more we understand the ongoing task ahead of us. As we’ve […]

DATA CRUSHES THE COLD CALL How technology is revolutionizing selling (not to mention learning) Damon Neiser, Regional Director of Sales, DreamBox Learning I’VE WORKED IN sales in the public sector for more than a decade, starting at Hewlett-Packard selling the backbones of IT infrastructure to school districts, universities, and local governments, eventually transitioning into education

Deputy Chief Data Officer, State of Arkansas JUST THINK OF all the data your home state has on you—tax records, health records, mortgage records, driving records, law enforcement records. Recently we sat down with Adita Karkera, the deputy chief data officer for the state of Arkansas, to ask what she and her colleagues are doing

Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director IN PAST ISSUES, I’ve talked about the “why” and “who” of registered apprenticeships, and this month I want to discuss the “how.” What I mean by that is training. We live in a world in which tech skills have become so specialized that no apprenticeship candidate arrives with all the knowledge