Martin Institute Conference 2013 by Presbyterian Day School

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pleasure and excitement that I welcome you to the third Martin Institute Annual Conference. In celebration of summer, our learning sessions are fewer, slower and will afford deeper learning and consideration of new ideas. We have invited expert practitioners from across the country and Argentina to share innovative teaching and learning approaches, lead stimulating conversations, and provoke your thinking. We hope you will use the time in the learning sessions to think about your teaching practice, your school and your students as you begin the work of incorporating new ideas and approaches. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conference theme is Transformative Learning. Learning is, in essence, the process of changing and growing. Transformative learning creates radical, lifechanging growth. As teachers whose responsibility is to design and lead learning, we must engage in professional learning that transforms us so that we can bring our best, most developed selves to the classroom for students. We hope that we have provided an opportunity for transformative learning for you through this conference. Sincerely,

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the faculty and staff of Presbyterian Day School, I am delighted to welcome you to the 2013 Martin Institute Conference. PDS is proud to partner with the University of Memphis in supporting the Martin Institute as it offers transformative learning for teachers and schools leaders from public and private schools. Please let a member of the PDS staff or team of volunteers know if there are ways that we can assist you during the conference. We want your time and experience on the PDS campus to be comfortable and friendly. I wish you a stimulating and productive conference, and I look forward to connecting with you in the future as we seek to provide an outstanding education to the students entrusted to us at our many schools. Sincerely,

Lee Burns, Headmaster Presbyterian Day School

Jamie Feild Baker, Executive Director Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Pam Moran

Superintendent, Albemarle County Schools

Pam Moran is the the Superintendent of the Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. She has worked in every level of K-12 education, teaching science in high school and middle school, serving as a secondary assistant principal and an elementary principal, and as adjunct faculty for the University of Virginia. She has led curricular and professional development, and now supports a 13,000 student school division covering 726 square miles. @pammoran

Will Richardson

Author, Blogger, Learner, Teacher, Connective Learning

A parent of two teenagers and former public school educator of 22 years, Will Richardson has been thinking and writing about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 12 years at willrichardson.com and in numerous journals, newspapers, and magazines such as Ed Leadership, District Administration, Education Week, The New York Times and English Journal. He is an outspoken advocate for change in schools and classrooms in the context of the diverse new learning opportunities that the Web and other technologies now offer.

Will has authored four books, most recently Why School? How Education Must Change When Learning and Information are Everywhere published by TED books and based on his most recent TEDx talk in Melbourne, Australia. In total, his books have sold over 125,000 copies worldwide. Over the last seven years, Will has spoken to tens of thousands of educators in over a dozen countries about the merits of online learning networks for personal and professional growth and transformative classroom practice. Richardson currently serves on the national advisory board member for the George Lucas Education Foundation. @willrich45

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Derwin Sisnett

Derwin Sisnett co-founded Gestalt Community Schools (GCS), a charter management organization that develops and manages the growth of high-performing, communitybased charter schools in Tennessee. In partnership with a local community development corporation and the City of Memphis, GCS is currently redeveloping 43 acres of blighted property in the Hickory Hill community and later this year will begin construction on a mixed-use development, PCA Town Center. GCS is also collaborating with eight other founding partners to redevelop the iconic Sears Crosstown building in Memphis, TN. The 1,500,000 sq. ft. building will be home to GCS’s arts and science high school, as well as Rhodes College, Crosstown Arts, St. Jude Research Hospital and other science, arts, education and wellness organizations. Derwin has earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Emory University and a master of fine arts in creative writing from Hollins University. Derwin is also a 2012 Aspen Institute Entrepreneurial Education Fellow.

Grant Lichtman

For almost 14 years, Grant has been involved with independent school education, as trustee, chief of finance and operations, teacher, parent, and volunteer at Francis Parker School in San Diego, one of the largest independent schools in the United States. He was either directly responsible for, or intimately involved in, strategic planning, program design, global education, development, marketing, educational technology, admissions and financial aid, benchmarking and trend analyses, and risk management. He reports on his extensive field research on his blog, “The Learning Pond,” and conducts workshop training in the area of school innovation and experiential learning. His book, The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School, is an exploration of how to teach and learn strategic and creational thinking. Before working in education, he directed business ventures in the oil and gas sector in the former Soviet Union, South America, and the U.S. Gulf Coast. He graduated from Stanford University with both a bacelor’s degree and a master’s degree in geology in 1980 and participated in a number of research expeditions studying the deep ocean basins of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Bering Sea. After college he travelled extensively through Asia and taught for a year as a visiting professor in geology and environmental studies at Silliman University in the Philippines. @GrantLichtman

John Hunter

John Hunter is an award-winning teacher who has dedicated his life to helping children realize their full potential. During his university years, he traveled and studied comparative religions and philosophy throughout Japan, India, and China. He began to think about how teaching might contribute to peace in the world by helping students become skilled, compassionate, globally competent strategic thinkers and leaders. For the last thirty years, John Hunter has used the World Peace Game in his classroom as a primary teaching

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tool, allowing students to develop workable solutions to real world inspired dilemmas. His work has been recognized worldwide thanks to his enormously popular TEDtalk which was selected by TED and the Huffington Post as “the most influential idea of 2011” and because of the critically acclaimed educational documentary, World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements that chronicles his work. Working the Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence, John Hunter and Jamie Baker hold Master Classes in cities around the world for teachers to interrogate their teaching practice in a deliberative and reflective way so that they might discover new seeds of possibility for the learning they design and lead. @worldpeacemovie

Bo Adams

Bo Adams is the chief learning and innovation officer for Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta. Prior to that he was director of educational innovation at Unboundary, a transformation design studio in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in change processes, communications, and brand significance. Bo regularly pursues deeper understanding in the area of schools of the future and the future of schools. From 1995 until 2012, Bo worked at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, where he fulfilled a number of roles. His primary points of focus throughout his principalship of the Junior High School for the last nine years were faculty development, professional learning communities, assessment literacy, project-based learning, change management and educational innovation. @boadams1

Bob Lenz

Bob Lenz, chief executive officer and co-founder of Envision Education, previously founded Academy X, an awardwinning leadership and humanities school-within-a school at Sir Francis Drake High School. Bob was a leader in Drake’s whole school redesign effort. Under Bob’s leadership, Drake was named a “New American High School” (1 of 13 in 1999) by then Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, and featured on the cover of US News and World Report as an example of high school reform that works. He is recognized nationally as a leader in high school redesign, project-based learning, 21st-century skills education and performance assessment. Under Bob’s leadership, Envision Education has put in practice a highly successful redesign model that has opened a path to college and college retention for underserved urban students at Envision’s four Bay Area arts and technology high schools. Bob also launched Envision Learning Partners. Envision Learning Partners hopes to fulfill the original promise of charter schools to serve as demonstration sites for innovative educational practices to transform the broader public school system. Envision Learning Partners is working with schools, districts and networks of schools across the country as they adopt the Envision Schools College and Career Ready Student Performance Assessment System. Bob was the first in his family to receive a college

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degree, obtaining a bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s College and a master’s in education from San Francisco State University. When he is not spending time with his family San Rafael, CA, he is standup paddling, riding his bike and playing rugby.

Gabriel Rshaid

Gabriel Rshaid has been an educator for more than 20 years, having taught various subjects at the elementary and high school level. For the last 12 years, he has been a K–12 principal in independent schools, while still remaining active in the classroom. He is currently the Headmaster of St. Andrew’s Scots School, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a member of the Board of Directors of ASCD. His passions for learning and for technological developments have taken him on the intellectual journey of thinking about education in the context of how technological changes can improve the learning process, which has led him to present in numerous venues on the topics of 21st-century education and the future of learning. He is the author of Learning for the Future: Rethinking Schools for the 21st Century. He currently resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his wife and two sons.

Jamie Feild Baker

Jamie Feild Baker has worked with school leaders, boards, and teachers over the last ten years to help them define and adapt to the highly digital, social, global, fastpaced environment that is the often referred to as “the new normal.” Her work has been based in two areas—helping schools develop a shared vision for what is necessary to provide relevant preparation for their students, and creating learning plans to help the adults in schools learn, grow and transform their teaching assumptions and practices. Prior to working with school leaders, Jamie worked as a successful institutional salesman for numerous investment banking firms after graduating with a bachelor of science in foreign service from Georgetown University with degrees in international economics and finance. Later, she and her husband developed and operated for ten years a boutique hotel in downtown Memphis. An education crisis with their youngest child caused Jamie to begin to work with schools in 2002 to consider how they are systemically adapting to the dynamic and ever-changing operating environment that affects all aspects of school management from financial operations to programs and curriculum. After years of studying what elements create a culture of innovation and a culture of inquiry, Jamie became highly sought after by school leaders to work with their leadership teams and school cultures. She has published numerous articles about innovation in education and writes a monthly column for “Our Kids Media” about teaching excellence.

Jamie joined The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence as its director of strategic partnerships in 2011 and was named executive director in late 2012. @jamiereverb and @mimemphis

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Let the Revolution Begin: Search, Connect, Communicate, Make

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Pam Moran The Gutenberg Era and its teaching—write, print, read, and recall—are over. We live in a rising culture of global participation, where our human learning network expands continuously, linking curiosity with our passions to create, connect, discover, invent, and document our life journeys. Post-Gutenberg knowledge grows exponentially as we search, connect, communicate, and make. How will we educators transform ourselves? Our spaces? Our tools? Our time? How will we open new paths for 21st-century learners?

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Experience Design Thinking Thru the Eyes of the User

ROOM: C310 SPEAKERS: Pam Moran and Ira Socol

ROOM: Lifetime Fitness SPEAKER: Mary Cantwell

The essence of human learning resides in our drive to create, design, build, engineer, compose—to make. In this learning session, we explore why making is critical to the learning process and how to integrate making across curricula. We explore the enablers of making, choice and comfort, that allow students to collaborate, communicate, think critically, and apply creativity. Session participants will dive into the why, how, and what of building maker-cultures within their schools.

What is design thinking? How can this process be utilized in my classroom with my students and colleagues? In this session, you will work in collaborative teams and go through a design thinking challenge that will flex your creative muscles and connect your experience in empathetic ways. The use of design thinking and its methods will shift your mindset from teacher centered instruction to student led inquiry and action. Design thinking will give your students a different approach to solving real-world problems and a better understanding of how these problems have a global effect.

Tech Quest ROOM: Learning Studio SPEAKERS: MAIS-TEC Team

Members of Memphis Association of Independent Schools – Technology Education Consortium (MAIS-TEC) will teach about various Web 2.0 technology tools in five different stations. These tools are easy to integrate into your curriculum and to use in building your personal learning network. At each station, MAISTEC teachers will also help set up accounts for each tech tool. Stations will be repeated every 20 minutes so you can make your way through all the stations. Tools include: Twitter, Pinterest, Diigo, VoiceThreads, and iPad Apps.

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Over the Wall and Into the World: Transformative Education in the Digital Era

ROOM: D110 SPEAKERS: Laura Graceffa and Shirley Rinaldi Teaching is a willingness to connect and learn with students. New technologies including social media, Google apps and media production create opportunities to carry out the mission of learning for life. We tell the story of our journey, the good, the bad and the unexpected. In this session you will experience through the work of students, how their learning, and ours, has spilled over the walls of the school and into the world. Participants will have a chance to brainstorm ideas and build a PLN within the workshop.

A Customized Approach to Learning: Adapting A5 to the Learner + Adjusting the Curriculum ROOM: EC Commons SPEAKERS: Susan Droke, Beth Diaz, Windy May, Cathy Kyle, and Melissa Smith How can you meet the needs of the diverse learners in your classroom? Two years ago, Presbyterian Day School embarked on a journey to customize our math program with the goal of designing a learning environment that would adapt and adjust the curriculum on a daily basis to meet the needs of each learner. This workshop will immerse participants in our customized approach to teaching and learning math in grades 1-6.

Classrooms of Understanding: Scratching Below the Surface

ROOM: D109 SPEAKER: Alice Parker and Philip Cummings What does student understanding look like? How do innovative teachers equip today’s learners with the critical and creative thinking skills needed to thrive in a changing world? In this excavation of understanding, we will uncover the essentials of student understanding, delve into routines and questioning strategies that develop habits for critical and creative thinking, and unearth the best instructional practices in order to transform today’s classrooms into places of deep student learning. Join us. You’ll dig it!

Social Media+Innovation=Common Core?

ROOM: D117 SPEAKER: Don Wettrick What happens when you put a focus on collaboration and communication through social media? What does it mean to develop and maintain a student digital brand? More importantly, how in the heck does all this fit into the Common Core? This workshop looks at getting acquainted with social media, how to utilize, and promote it with your students and colleagues. We will then look at how using the 20% Google model can work in any classroom by creating a “passion-based” learning model. Lastly, we will examine how our students can become more aware of Common Core, and how they can take ownership of their education.

Leading Learners to Level Up (Ask, Don’t Tell)

ROOM: E111 SPEAKER: Jill Gough “Questions are the way points on the path of wisdom.” ~ Grant Lichtman. This session will focus on the art of questioning as a formative assessment tool. Work on becoming a falconer, leading your learners to level up through questions rather than lectures. Come prepared to develop formative assessment strategies and documents to share with learners to help them calibrate their understanding and decode their struggles. Be prepared to share your assessments with others for feedback and suggestions.

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How to Kill an Education Program in A9 10 Days, Part 1 ROOM: E1127 SPEAKERS: Kevin Dean and Jeff Rhodin Sustainability is a popular but often misunderstood buzzword in our sector. Nonprofit sustainability means more than just generating enough money to keep our organization afloat. In the first of Literacy Mid-South’s four-part track on sustainability, we will be watching The Pruitt Igoe Myth to begin a facilitated discussion on how to ensure sustainability and therefore, mission fulfillment.

Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

A10 to Middle Schoolers Can Be Fun!

ROOM: D112 SPEAKERS: Bill Wolf-Tinsman and Dani Goldstein While schools often say that they teach critical and creative thinking skills, the reality is that we are much better at delivering content than teaching 21st-century skills. This workshop will focus on how we can routinely put critical thinking and problem-solving skill acquisition at the center of our students’ efforts. Participants will experience the benefits of using a “Challenge” format as well as explore design thinking and performance tasks as learning strategies.

Education = Life: Growing Change

A11 Leaders at Every Age

ROOM: EC1129 SPEAKERS: Shelley Paul and Dr. Joanne Chu If we agree that learners must be creative thinkers, problem solvers, contributors and doers, how do we create the conditions for such learning to occur? The environments directly surrounding each of us provide rich opportunities for practicing and mastering these critical skills and mindsets. If we want our students to be change leaders, how might we first consider ourselves as change leaders? By reframing the human and physical resources of our communities we can uncover “hidden” opportunities for helping learners to act on the world now.

A12 Artful Thinking in the Classroom ROOM: EC1130 SPEAKER: Jessica Ross Artful thinking uses the power of art to engage students in thinking-centered learning. The program is one of several school-based initiatives loosely linked by the theme of visible thinking. The specific goal of the artful thinking program is to help teachers regularly use works of visual art and music in their curriculum in ways that strengthen student thinking and deepen disciplinary learning. The artful thinking program emphasizes thinking dispositions, thinking routines, and documentation of student thinking.

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A14 Teaching Methods

ROOM: EC1126 SPEAKER: Dr. Robert Dillon

ROOM: EC1132 SPEAKERS: Kate Ayers and Yuri Quintana

The adults surrounding the students at Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School have brought a new level of engagement and passion to daily learning. MRH Middle School is built around the metaphor of school as expedition, a philosophy that takes our students into the community regularly. Students are given the tools of inquiry, systems thinking and technology to grow their skills as leaders, citizens, and stewards. Our students, with voice, choice, authentic audience, and known capacity to make change in their community, are becoming the global scholars that we desire for the next generation. Learn how this journey can be one for your community also.

Case-based teaching utilizes real-world scenarios to teach concepts in a way that allows students to connect with the material in an empathetic way. Case studies can be used not only to teach scientific concepts, but can also be used to connect science to other academic disciplines by placing them within a historical framework. In addition, case-based teaching promotes the type of creative, critical thinking necessary for developing the minds of tomorrow’s scientists. In this session, you will learn about St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital’s “Cure4Kids for Teachers,” a website for K-12 teachers and health educators to find teaching materials such as lessons and videos, professional development seminars, and other resources at no cost (cure4kids.org/teachers). In addition, participants will examine case studies used to promote transformative thinking that connects students to the concepts presented in the science classroom as well as brainstorm ideas for incorporating case studies within the curriculum.

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Tech Quest ROOM: Learning Studio SPEAKERS: MAIS-TEC Team

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The Gradebook as a Design Problem: Best Practices In Assessment Session Description

ROOM: Lifetime Fitness SPEAKER: Greg Bamford When we share grades with students, we often end up talking about calculations—not learning. In this workshop, we’ll tackle the gradebook as a design problem and follow a design process to make grades and assessment meaningful and relevant for students. The speaker will share a set of emerging best practices from schools across the country, which he researched while helping a Seattle-area school rethink their approach to assessment. This session is appropriate for classroom teachers, instructional leaders, and administrators.

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Making the Peace Game Your Own

Leveraging the Power of “Us”

ROOM: D110 SPEAKERS: Ben Riggs and Stephanie Ann Taylor

ROOM: E111 SPEAKER: Jeff Buck

John Hunter’s “World Peace Game” has at its heart a core idea of setting up conflict between four groups and using it to simulate real-world situations and stimulate learning. Participants in this session will learn how to take that core mechanic and adapt it to other educational circumstances. Use the idea to simulate elections, World War I, or resource distribution in Colonial America with your students! This session will provide the theory behind the four-faction mechanic, examples of adaptation, and help for teachers in applying the mechanic to their own instruction.

How can educators tap the self-organizing power of complex systems to make progress on some of the challenging issues we face? Denver Green School has experimented with Open Space Technology and other ways to activate the collective cognitive capacity of our staff in a “sum greater than the parts” sort of way. From curriculum development to student and faculty assessments, we are developing the capacity to generate high-quality outputs in short periods of time with very high levels of engagement. This maximizes our resources of time and knowledge for teachers and administrators with hectic daily schedules and little free time. In this session you will learn about and experience some of these techniques and take away ideas about how these methods can be practiced in your school, and with your cohort of colleagues.

Common Core and Close Read through Arts Integration with Reading the Masters

ROOM: EC Commons SPEAKER: Dr. Robyne Batson A great way to get the most out of Common Core is to use works of art to guide children in learning how to examine, explore, inquire, evaluate, and think as they support their learning with evidence from a visual or written text. This can be accomplished using Reading the Masters: An Arts Integrated Curriculum. Participants will interact and collaborate while making connections with visual art, reading skills, writing strategies, and thinking using a masterpiece work of art and CCSS. Each participant will receive a CD and resources that may be instantly used in the classroom.

The 21st Century School

ROOM: D109 SPEAKER: Gabriel Rshaid The advent and generalization of the Internet has given origin to a completely new knowledge paradigm which has totally overturned most of the underlying principles on which our school systems are based. This interactive session explores the main drivers of 21st-century education through an immersive and innovative learning experience that will serve as a catalyst for reflecting on the scope and the extent of the change needed in developing a true 21st-century curriculum and related pedagogy.

Student Assessment for College and Career Success

How to Kill an Education Program in 10 Days, Part 2 ROOM: EC1127 SPEAKER: Kevin Dean

This session will be a continued discussion on sustainability in education and literacy programs following workshop A9. Using the Pruit-Igoe Myth as an example and background, this session will challenge attendees to look past financial stability to understand the four facets of sustainability: adaptive, program, leadership, and financial capacity.

B10 Using the Brain to Close the Achievement Gap ROOM: D112 SPEAKERS: University of Memphis Campus School Team: Rebecca Scott, Stacy Adams, LaTonya M. Faulkner, Undria Q. McClendon, Robin Campbell This session explores the use of Brain-Based teaching strategies and their impact on student achievement. This session is designed to give teachers information to assist them in improving student achievement by using research based strategies proven to improve classroom climate and culture, instructional strategies and motivation levels of students.

B11 Practical Student Leadership Development

ROOM: D117 SPEAKER: Bob Lenz

ROOM: EC1129 SPEAKER: Jim Foley

How do we know our students are ready for their next steps? How do we create a culture of revision and mastery learning? How do we create transformational experiences for students that transcend the traditional school experience? We will explore these questions using student work and the experiences of students and teachers at Envision Schools, a network of four innovative public charter high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What does “leadership” mean? In particular, what does it mean for elementary and high school students and the adults who teach them? How can we help all students develop both the mindset and the skills to become leaders? In this session, Jim Foley, director of the St. Luke’s Center for Leadership, will share a philosophical framework for student leadership development and give teachers hands-on experience, as both teachers and learners, with the curriculum designed to support it.

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ROOM: E1130 SPEAKER: Eric Juli

ROOM: EC1126 SPEAKERS: Kim Trefz, Kim Burns, and Sherry Creasman

Do you often hear students say, “I’m done with my work,” or, “I’m done for the day.” Are worksheets and textbooks the primary teaching resources in your school or class? At Design Lab Early College High School, an innercity public high school in Cleveland, Ohio, we are learning together how to shift our school culture from one of compliance to a culture of thinking, problem solving and learning.

How can you incorporate thinking routines in your classroom to develop great habits of the mind? This session will uncover the ways to help your students organize and structure their thinking as a variety of routines are shared and practiced. The workshop will provide a hands-on experience that will take you through the natural progression that occurs in students’ responses as they are learning to use thinking routines from 1st through 5th grade.

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Rethinking Education Reform: Moving from Classroom to Community Change Agents

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Solving for X: How We Must Teach Into the Unknown

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Derwin Sisnett

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: John Hunter

The talk will consist of a case study describing how a local community development corporation opened a charter school in a neighborhood in need of economic and academic development. Over a four-year period, the charter school became the highest performing public middle school in the state of Tennessee and led the effort to develop a 43-acre town center in a neighborhood that was once blighted. Out of the successful charter school/community development model, a charter management organization was established to scale the same work across different communities.

John Hunter, teacher and creator of the “World Peace Game,” uses real world-inspired problems to teach children how to work collaboratively, engage and take ownership of their own learning. He will discuss the challenges of preparing students for a world exponentially different than the world we grew up in; a world we cannot predict. In essence, teachers are called to prepare students for the unknown. We must solve for X each day in the classroom in order to help students develop the confidence that they have the ability to solve most anything with thinking and communication skills.

On the Highway to School Innovation

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Grant Lichtman Grant took a unique trip last fall, driving around the country for 12 weeks, visiting more than 60 public and private schools and interviewing hundreds of teachers, administrators, and students about how schools are transforming to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. His research was sponsored in part by a generous grant from The Martin Institute. He is in the process of summarizing this cornucopia of knowledge and will present a TED-length talk on the major challenges, opportunties, successess, and obstacles that schools are experiencing. His major findings suggest that schools operate along industrial age models, when we want them to act more like environmental ecosystems, and this presents a fundamental incompatability between what we are and what we want to become.

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Rethinking School in an Era of Self-Organized, Networked Learning

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Will Richardson At a moment of radical and rapid change in which longstanding institutions are being redefined by the World Wide Web, what are the implications for schools? When content, knowledge, and teachers are abundant and accessible by the technologies we carry in our pockets, what changes, not just in our practice but in our institutional purpose? For serious conversations about educational change to occur, we all need a relevant, modern context for the discussion, and that’s what we’ll build in this keynote.

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Developing the Modern Learner

The Gradebook as a Design Problem: Best Practices In Assessment Session Description

ROOM: C310 SPEAKER: Will Richardson

ROOM: Lifetime Fitness SPEAKER: Greg Bamford

The learner, not the teacher, lives at the center of education in these fast changing times. Learners today have access to amazing storehouses of knowledge and information, and, almost two billion potential teachers and co-learners to support them. The transformation to contemporary learning is all about developing the skills, literacies, and dispositions to take advantage of all the amazing new opportunities to learn that we hold in our pockets and backpacks. In this session, we will look at the profound implications of this very big, not-optional shift on classrooms and curriculum, and we will discuss how to best reframe our practice to support our students to become powerful, passionate modern learners fully prepared for the changed world they’re inheriting.

When we share grades with students, we often end up talking about calculations—not learning. In this workshop, we’ll tackle the gradebook as a design problem and follow a design process to make grades and assessment meaningful and relevant for students. The speaker will share a set of emerging best practices from schools across the country, which he researched while helping a Seattle-area school rethink their approach to assessment. This session is appropriate for classroom teachers, instructional leaders, and administrators.

Tech Quest ROOM: Learning Studio SPEAKERS: MAIS-TEC Team

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Making the Peace Game Your Own

ROOM: D110 SPEAKERS: Ben Riggs and Stephanie Ann Taylor John Hunter’s “World Peace Game” has at its heart a core idea of setting up conflict between four groups and using it to simulate real-world situations and stimulate learning. Participants in this session will learn how to take that core mechanic and adapt it to other educational circumstances. Use the idea to simulate elections, World War I, or resource distribution in Colonial America with your students! This session will provide the theory behind the four-faction mechanic, examples of adaptation, and help for teachers in applying the mechanic to their own instruction.

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Common Core and Close Read through Arts Integration with Reading the Masters

The 21st Century School

Student Assessment for College and C7 Career Success ROOM: D117 SPEAKER: Bob Lenz How do we know our students are ready for their next steps? How do we create a culture of revision and mastery learning? How do we create transformational experiences for students that transcend the traditional school experience? We will explore these questions using student work and the experiences of students and teachers at Envision Schools, a network of four innovative public charter high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Maximizing Individual Donations in Literacy and Education Initiatives ROOM: EC1127 SPEAKER: Kevin Dean

Raising money to accomplish your mission is at the heart of every nonprofit organization’s goals. The only sustainable fundraising plan is one centered on maximizing individual donors. The greatest portion of charitable giving, $217.79 billion or 73% of all contributed dollars, was given by individuals or household donors. Learn how to approach donor prospects, get your engaged audience to give the ‘stretch-gift’, and how to ensure you cultivate the best possible support base.

C10 Using the Brain to Close the Achievement Gap ROOM: D112 SPEAKERS: University of Memphis Campus School Team: Rebecca Scott, Stacy Adams, LaTonya M. Faulkner, Undria Q. McClendon, Robin Campbell This session explores the use of Brain-Based Teaching strategies and their impact on student achievement. This session is designed to give teachers information to assist them in improving student achievement by using research based strategies proven to improve classroom climate and culture, instructional strategies and motivation levels of students.

C11 Practical Student Leadership Development ROOM: EC1129 SPEAKER: Jim Foley What does “leadership” mean? In particular, what does it mean for elementary and high school students and the adults who teach them? How can we help all students develop both the mindset and the skills to become leaders? In this session, Jim Foley, director of the St. Luke’s Center for Leadership, will share a philosophical framework for student leadership development and give teachers hands-on experience, as both teachers and learners, with the curriculum designed to support it.

Shifting a School Culture from

Leveraging the Power of “Us”

ROOM: E111 SPEAKERS: Jeff Buck How can educators tap the self-organizing power of complex systems to make progress on some of the challenging issues we face? Denver Green School has experimented with Open Space Technology and other ways to activate the collective cognitive capacity of our staff in a “sum greater than the parts” sort of way. From curriculum development to student and faculty assessments, we are developing the capacity to generate high-quality outputs in short periods of time with very high levels of engagement. This maximizes our resources of time and knowledge for teachers and administrators with hectic daily schedules and little free time. In this session you will learn about and experience some of these techniques and take away ideas about how these methods can be practiced in your school, and with your cohort of colleagues.

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C12 Doing to Learning ROOM: EC1130 SPEAKERS: Eric Juli

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Teaching STEM through Case-Based

C13 Thinking Routines 101

C14 Teaching Methods

ROOM: EC1126 SPEAKERS: Kim Trefz, Kim Burns, and Sherry Creasman

ROOM: EC1132 SPEAKERS: Kate Ayers and Yuri Quintana

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ROOM: Exhibitor Hall

Tech Quest ROOM: Learning Studio SPEAKERS: MAIS-TEC Team

Experience Design Thinking D3 Thru the Eyes of the User ROOM: Lifetime Fitness SPEAKER: Mary Cantwell What is design thinking? How can this process be utilized in my classroom with my students and colleagues? In this session, you will work in collaborative teams and go through a design thinking challenge that will flex your creative muscles and connect your experience in empathetic ways. The use of design thinking and its methods will shift your mindset from teacher centered instruction to student led inquiry and action. Design thinking will give your students a different approach to solving real-world problems and a better understanding of how these problems have a global effect.

Over the Wall and Into the World: Transformative Education in the Digital Era

1:00pm

ROOM: D110 SPEAKERS: Laura Graceffa and Shirley Rinaldi Teaching is a willingness to connect and learn with students. New technologies including social media, Google apps and media production create opportunity to live the mission of learning for life. We tell the story of our journey, the good, the bad and the unexpected. Experience through the work of students how their learning, and ours, has spilled over the walls of the school and into the world. Participants will have a chance to brainstorm ideas and build a PLN within the workshop.

A Customized Approach to Learning: Adapting to the Learner + Adjusting the Curriculum

ROOM: EC Commons SPEAKERS: Susan Droke, Beth Diaz, Windy May, Cathy Kyle, and Melissa Smith How can you meet the needs of the diverse learners in your classroom? Two years ago, Presbyterian Day School embarked on a journey to customize our math program with the goal of designing a learning environment that would adapt and adjust the curriculum on a daily basis to meet the needs of each learner. This workshop will immerse participants in our customized approach to teaching and learning math in grades 1-6.

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Classrooms of Understanding: Scratching Below the Surface

Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

D10 to Middle Schoolers Can Be Fun!

ROOM: D109 SPEAKERS: Alice Parker and Philip Cummings

ROOM: D112 SPEAKERS: Bill Wolf-Tinsman and Dani Goldstein

What does student understanding look like? How do innovative teachers equip today’s learners with the critical and creative thinking skills needed to thrive in a changing world? In this excavation of understanding, we will uncover the essentials of student understanding, delve into routines and questioning strategies that develop habits for critical and creative thinking, and unearth best instructional practices in order to transform today’s classrooms into places of deep student learning. Join us. You’ll dig it!

While schools often say that they teach critical and creative thinking skills, the reality is that we are much better at delivering content than teaching 21st Century skills. This workshop will focus on how we can routinely put critical thinking and problem solving skill acquisition at the center of our students’ efforts. Participants will experience the benefits of using a “Challenge” format as well as explore design thinking and performance tasks as learning strategies.

Education = Life: Growing Change

Social Media + Innovation = Common Core?

ROOM: D117 SPEAKER: Don Wettrick What happens when you put a focus on collaboration and communication through social media? What does it mean to develop and maintain a student digital brand? More importantly, how in the heck does all this fit into the Common Core? This workshop looks at getting acquainted with social media- how to utilize, and promote it with your students and colleagues. We will then look at how using the 20% Google model can work in any classroom by creating a “passion-based” learning model. Lastly, we will examine how our students can become more aware of Common Core, and how they can take ownership of their education.

Honoring Our Learning Philosophy Through Learning Reports: Is It About Learning and Progress, Or Grades?

ROOM: C310 SPEAKER: Jill Gough Reflect and dream big while also taking small, or not-sosmall steps to plan on how to move a classroom or a school to dynamically describe, document, report, and celebrate learning. How might we honor and leverage current cultural buzzwords and Eduspeak – risk-taking, failure, personalizing learning, design-thinking, grit, and authentically make these concepts part of our learning report for each child?

D11 Leaders at Every Age

ROOM: EC1129 SPEAKERS: Shelley Paul and Dr. Joanne Chu If we agree that learners must be creative thinkers, problem solvers, contributors and “do”-ers, how do we create the conditions for such learning to occur? The environments directly surrounding each of us provide rich opportunities for practicing and mastering these critical skills and mindsets. If we want our students to be change leaders, how might we first consider ourselves as change leaders? By reframing the human and physical resources of our communities we can uncover “hidden” opportunities for helping learners to act on the world now.

D12 Artful Thinking in the Classroom ROOM: EC1130 SPEAKER: Jessica Ross Artful Thinking uses the power of art to engage students in thinking-centered learning. The program is one of several school-based initiatives loosely linked by the theme of Visible Thinking. The specific goal of the Artful Thinking program is to help teachers regularly use works of visual art and music in their curriculum in ways that strengthen student thinking and deepen disciplinary learning. The Artful Thinking program emphasizes thinking dispositions, thinking routines, and documentation of student thinking.

Schools as Community Change Agents: How

D13 Thin Walls, Risk-Taking, and Education for D9

Busting Your Literacy Program Out of Its Silo ROOM: EC1127 SPEAKER: Shannon Dixon

It is counterproductive for literacy and education providers to work in isolation. This lack of communication or collaboration leads to duplicated services, wasted program dollars, and unnecessary competition. Discover commonalities with your peers, learn how effective programs work together to reach common goals, and start on a road map to collaboration

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Sustainability Changed Everything

ROOM: EC1126 SPEAKER: Dr. Robert Dillon The adults surrounding the students at Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School have brought a new level of engagement and passion to daily learning. MRH Middle School is built around the metaphor of school as expedition, a philosophy that takes our students into the community regularly. Students are given the tools of inquiry, systems thinking and technology to grow their skills as leaders, citizens, and stewards. Our students, with voice, choice, authentic audience, and known capacity to make change in their community, are becoming the global scholars that we desire for the next generation. Learn how this journey can be one for your community also.

JUNE 13 • THURSDAY 1:00pm

Creating Reflective Learners (and Teachers)

D14 in a Harkness Classroom ROOM: EC1132 SPEAKERS: John Reynoolds

Challenging, stimulating classrooms bring students to the forefront of the lesson by empowering them to take control of their learning. This session will simulate the methodology and learning that occurs in a discussionbased, Harkness-style classroom. Participants will consider how educators employ new strategies, revamp them, and try them again in different ways. The presenter will share ways to create a student-centered learning environment with the teacher as the facilitator, where we are helping our students see their learning as a process of trial and error, recognition and understanding, reflection and improvement. The group will envision how role plays, conversation, questioning, and self-evaluation are invaluable tools for students and teachers. Participants will engage in these strategies, interact, and discuss how we can develop powerful learning opportunities for our students and ourselves.

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Master Planning School Transformation

A Whole Teacher for the Whole Child

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Bo Adams

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Gabriel Rshaid

If school is supposed to prepare kids for real life, then why doesn’t it look more like real life? This question has guided Bo Adams’ career as a teacher, administrator, strategic designer, and, now, Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School. Among such educational movements as technology integration, projectbased learning, and 21st century skills, Bo believes that nurturing learners’ curiosity and desire to make a difference are the keys to creating innovators, innovative schools, and a better world. In Bo’s talk, he will share “Someday/ Monday” ideas to enhance student engagement and to address the challenges we face as a global citizenry.

Can spirituality and focusing on personal development for teachers and leaders transform a school? At our school, we have successfully developed a non-religious spirituality program for staff, which has worked wonders for us in terms of improved school climate and atmosphere. This talk with focus on sharing the big ideas of that program and the difference it makes.

Transforming Lives by Redesigning the High School Experience

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Bob Lenz

Wrap Up

ROOM: Fellowship Hall SPEAKER: Jamie Feild Baker What did we learn? Now that we know something new, what responsibility do we have to act? What gets in the way of moving forward?

Learn how Envision Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area dramatically and thoroughly change the lives of the students in their four redesigned public charter high schools. Bob will feature three design principles for school redesign that prepare students for success in school and life - especially students who are the first in their family to go to college.

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GENERAL

I N FA O RT MI A TO I ON N I NG EFN EOR ARL M Registration

The conference registration is located in the PDS Lobby at the Main Entrance to the school. To find it from the main parking lot, look for the “Registration” sign under the portecochere that says “Presbyterian Day School.” See the maps on pages 18-20 for reference.

Information Desks

If you have questions or concerns, please visit the information desks in the lobbies of the EC building, D building, and E building marked on the map on pages 18-20.

Name Badges

Your conference name badge is your personal identification and official pass to all sessions and exhibits. Please wear it at all times during the conference.

Parking

Parking is available in the lot in front of the EC building. Overflow parking is available on the south side of the campus across Central Avenue. For an overview of the campus, consult the map on page 20.

CEU Credit

Certificates of participation are in your conference bag.

TASL Credit

If TASL credit required, please meet with Marla Phillips, (901) 508-0683, near the front of the stage in the Fellowship Hall after the Plenary is completed on Thursday.

Speaker Hospitality Room

Presenters may stop by to relax and prepare for their session. The hospitality room is located in the Elementary Conference Room, marked on the map on pages 18-19.

Wireless Info.

Wi-Fi is available throughout the conference facilities for your laptop, iPad, etc.

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Cell Phones

As a professional courtesy, attendees should silence or turn off cell phones, pagers, etc., during workshops and presentations.

Twitter:

The conference event tag is #micon13. Please include this in all your corresponding tweets, Facebook updates, blog posts, wiki pages, photos, podcasts, etc., so that they will be accessible through search/aggregation.

Choosing and Attending Sessions

There are four sessions of workshops offered over the twoday conference. Workshops are two hours long. All sessions are first-come, first-served.

Exhibit Hall

The exhibit hall is located in the North Gymnasium (the larger, double gymnasium) and provides a great opportunity for you to learn about products and services that can be used inside and outside the classroom.

Lunches

Lunches are included in the price of your registration. Lunch will be served form 12:00noon-1:00pm in the Exhibit Hall, located in the North Gymnasium. For directions, consult the map on pages 18-19.

Media/Press

The 2013 Martin Institute Summer Conference welcomes members of the media. Please check-in with Lee Rantzow at lrantzow@pdsmemphis.org or (901) 842-4613.

Special Needs

Any special requirements you may need should be relayed at registration or to one of the Information Booths, marked on the maps on pages 18-19.