EWA at SXSW EDU 2025
Spotlight on Education Data and Career Pathways
Education data is a powerful tool in the effort to help kids recover from the pandemic. It can be used to both inform strategies and assess impact. How are schools and districts using data to develop a targeted approach, ensuring students who need support most are getting it? What can the data tell us about the progress that’s been made and work that remains?
Meanwhile, programs designed to guide students toward college and careers are expanding. More schools are offering dual enrollment courses, credential programs, and career and technical education classes, blurring the lines between education and career. But questions remain about these opportunities. Are they accessible to all students? And how do schools help students get good jobs and prepare them with the skills employers need?
The Education Writers Association will offer training on those two topics – education data as it relates to academic recovery and pathways to college and career – at the 2025 SXSW EDU conference in Austin, Texas. Hear from experts, and participate in hands-on workshops. Get the training and tools you need to cover these essential issues.
The training on education data as it relates to academic recovery will take place on Tuesday, March 4, and the program on pathways to college and career will be held on Wednesday, March 5.
With each strand of programming, journalists will spend a day immersed in the topics. Both will begin with EWA-organized public panels, open to all SXSW EDU attendees. These panels will be followed by private workshops exclusive to our journalist members. During these interactive workshops, reporters will get fresh insights from national experts and tips from experienced education journalists for compelling coverage of these issues. Participants should plan to spend from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central in EWA-hosted sessions.
Join us! You can apply to attend both sets of training or just one. Scholarships are available to assist with travel and lodging costs. The deadline to apply is Friday, Dec. 13.
Photo credit: Tico Mendoza for SXSW EDU
