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Breakout Sessions
These sessions are held concurrently from 2:15 pm to 4:00 pm Friday, November 30, 2007.
Participants must select one session when registering.
Session B1 - 21st Century Skills, Education, and Economic Development for Global Knowledge-based Workplaces
with Chris Dede
Advanced information and communications technologies are creating a flat world in which creative knowledge generation is the key resource, reshaping economic development strategies and educational approaches. This talk describes key 21st century skills that education must foster, as well as strategies by which students, schools, and colleges can implement these skills.
Session B2 - Skillful Leaders: Confronting Adult Communities That Undermine Learning
with Andy Platt
A rich literature now links the building of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and Small Learning Communities (SLC) with positive impact on student learning. Many low functioning groups, however, described as toxic, laissez faire or congenial fail to improve learning conditions for students. Others groups, described as collaborative and accountable, do make significant differences. Participants will learn a framework to describe different levels of community interaction, apply it to their own settings and leave with additional strategies to raise the level of group performance.
Participants will:
- Learn and apply a descriptive framework to distinguish between 5 levels of community functioning.
- Develop intervention strategies to coach underperforming teams to perform at higher levels
Session B3 - Closing the Implementation Gap: Transforming Research into Daily Practice
with Doug Reeves
The chasm between intention and reality is striking in education, with the vast majority of plans and initiatives winding up in the Elysian Fields (or River Styx, depending on one’s point of view) of good intentions. In this interactive session, Dr. Reeves will provide new evidence on the specific characteristics of schools that close the gap between planning and implementation. After a brief presentation of the research, participants will have the opportunity to share their questions, challenges, and success stories.
Session B4 - Using Meetings To Enhance Collaborative Cultures
with Pam Robbins
Schools that support the continuing development of students also support the continuous development of those who educate these students. Schools must be places of learning for both students and educators. Building a culture of professional learning in schools is a necessary condition for sustained learning. This session will offer several strategies to transform faculty meetings into a tool for capacity building.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
- Construct a rationale for using meetings to build and sustain collaborative cultures.
- Examine ways that faculty meetings can function as culture builders or culture busters.
- Practice meeting activities that can be used to enhance teaching and consequently, student learning.
- Discuss ways that meetings can be used as a forum to promote the sharing of successful practice and celebrate efforts that foster student learning.
- Analyze the relationship between faculty meeting activities and the development of a professional learning community.
- Reflect upon personal next steps.
Participants will leave the session with several faculty meeting activities that can be implemented immediately.