Events

The start of the calendar year is a great time to recharge and find new ways to enhance your classroom. With BettFest 2021 taking place January 20–22, it’s also a great opportunity to discover new education partners through the Microsoft Hub resource guide.

The past year has been a time of unprecedented change, complexity, and ambiguity, and educators, students, and parents have had to embrace new ways of teaching and learning.

We’re very excited to announce a series of Microsoft 365 EDU onboarding and deployment webinars. These events are public and may be joined by anyone who’s interested, so feel free to share.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month are important opportunities to teach students about the history of Civil Rights and the ongoing struggle for social justice and racial equity.

Today, more than ever, technology is influencing the way students learn, teachers deliver curricula, and school leaders guide their teams in remote and hybrid environments. The education community has shown incredible resiliency over the last year.

his month, the Microsoft Education Customer Engagement and Support Team is releasing an updated version of the well-received Back To School Kit that was initially released in July 2020.

This year, we saw millions of classrooms come together in unexpected ways. While it might not have been easy from behind a mask or computer screen, everyone in the Microsoft Education community—from principals and teachers to students and parents—have shown flexibility and resilience this year.

Summer has always been a well-deserved break, but none more so than this year. To all teachers and educators who’ve been supporting our students—thank you.

To correspond with Native American Heritage Month in the United States, our November Build Challenge was all about Indigenous Stories.

Digital skilling has taken center stage in 2020 – and as the importance of well-rounded, at-home learning has grown, this will continue to shape culture and education in the year ahead.

This October, we launched the first-ever Minecraft Education Global Build Championship. This worldwide challenge invited students to imagine places where humans and animals could safely and happily coexist. Learners could design a school, home, workplace, or public space and select one of five biomes.

Check out our featured partners at ISTE20 Live and explore their solutions in our latest brochure.