2011 Virtual Summer Conference Schedule
Monday, July 18
8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.Keynote Speaker: Wendy Robinson
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
B07 Teaching 2030: What to Do for Students and Public Schools, Now and in the Future
Presenters: Shannon C'de Baca and Susie Highley
Explore the question, what must America do to build a 21st-century teaching profession that can fully meet the needs of today's iGeneration and the millions of students who will enter our public schools between now and the year 2030? Discuss how teacher recruitment, preparation, and rewards will work in the future and consider key policy levers for change. Explore what must be done in the present to resolve these important issues for the future of the teaching profession.
B20
Dead Reckoning: Launching an Instructional Coaching Initiative
Presenters: Carla Cushman, Nina Morel, Stephen Barkley, Karen Marklein, and Jacque Scarbrough
Sailors estimate their present and future location by projecting the course and speed from a known past location. Learn how to know where you are and where you are going when launching an instructional coaching program, by aligning program goals with the mission and vision of your school or district. Navigate through the design of a coaching initiative leading to professional learning and student achievement.
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Ian Jukes
1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
C09
Replicating Successes of 90/90/90 Schools with Non-Fiction Writing
Presenters: Alice Greiner and Theresa Riege
Learn about the success of the 90/90/90 Schools and how an emphasis on nonfiction writing can give your school the same results. Take the best practices in nonfiction writing instruction and weave them into a writing routine. Understand the outcomes of the Writing Next research and practical applications to use in your classroom.
C22
Differentiated Professional Development: A Model for Implementation
Presenters: Kathryn Sever and Linda Bowgren
Learn how to use an "I do; we do; you do" model for differentiated, job-embedded professional development that will unlock the potential of adult learners through collaboration, mentoring and targeted support from teacher leaders. Increase your knowledge of how research on adult learning theory supports a differentiated model of professional development. Take home strategies that can be replicated in your district to support adult learning and student achievement.
Tuesday, July 19
8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.Keynote Speaker: Mary Cullinane
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
E01 Doing What Works: Focus on Literacy
Presenter: Kelly Stuart
Translate research-based practices into examples and practical tools that support and improve classroom instruction. Understand how practices are implemented in schools through multimedia and sample materials. Focus on the Doing What Works (DWW) web site, a free resource from the U.S. Dept. of Education. Leave with an understanding of the resources DWW offers to support literacy instruction and how to access the tools and templates to improve practices. Bring your laptop or tablet computer to fully participate. This session will be extended online after the conference through Learning Forward's Learning Exchange.
E07 Closing the Learning Gap in Mathematics
Presenters: Timothy Kanold and Mona Toncheff
School district leaders experiencing stagnant or declining results in mathematics will enjoy learning to build upon five specific research-affirmed actions for student mathematical practice from the Common Core State Standards. Understand how to design and monitor a professional learning community expectation around issues of inequity caused by the teacher choice of task selection and rigor.
General Session #4
--> 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Sarah Brown Wessling
1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
F16 Igniting and Inviting Learning and Leadership Capacity
Presenters: Bobb Darnell and Janice Hopkins-Malchow
Effective teacher leaders must inspire decisive action, increase achievement, and reduce achievement gaps. Explore ways to assure that school leaders know how to expect and direct continuous improvement and create a collaborative culture of inquiry and positive action. Gain techniques to communicate expectations, direct improvement activities, inspect progress, demonstrate respect for effort and accomplishment, and increase collaborative and personal reflection.
F17 Turning Your School Around: 12 Secrets of Success
Presenters: Robert Barr, Karla McCarty, and Misti Cox
Examine how high-poverty and high-performing schools have used powerful, proven strategies for success that are cost-effective and easy to replicate. Learn research-based approaches on how to turn around a low-performing school or how to make a successful school better. Complete a brief self-analysis and discuss specific pit-falls and problems at your school that can be anticipated and addressed during the implementation of the secrets of success.
Wednesday, July 20
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.G01 The Principal's Puzzle: A Success Story of Turning Around a Low-Performing School
Presenter: Dot Schoeller Follow the journey of an elementary school as it moved from troubled to achieving 90/90/90 status. Examine the strategies used to increase student achievement and decrease student discipline disruptions, which led to the district branding the school as a school of choice. Learn how getting the right people on the right bus can create teams of change agents, and through an inclusive professional development model, create teachers working together to meet the diverse needs of all students.
G07 First Reach Them Then Teach Them
Presenters: Mary Kim Schreck and Jane Bannester Articulate soft skills and differentiate them from hard skills to build a personal inventory that can be applied on a daily basis. Focus on specific skills to improve the student-teacher relationship, to improve student confidence and interest, and to change the classroom atmosphere. Provide fellow teachers with the research that validates the necessity of embedding these skills into instruction, especially when teaching students of differing cultures, races, and socio-economic status.
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Jim Winter
