Annual Conference Live Stream
ASCD livestreamed select sessions from the 2011 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in San Francisco.
Saturday, March 26
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PT
Heidi Hayes Jacobs – Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World (interactive)
We do not need reform—we need new forms for teaching and learning. What year is your school preparing your learners for: 1990 or 2025? In this provocative and highly practical session, based on the presenter’s ASCD book of the same name, the presenter will lay out steps for transforming your school into a contemporary learning environment.
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. PT
Harvey Silver - The Strategic Teacher (interactive)
Bringing together 35 years of research on effective instruction and 30 years of experience in helping schools address student diversity, the session will provide educators with the tools needed to help all students meet today’s rigorous standards.
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. PT
Bob Sullo – The Motivated Student: Five Strategies to Inspire
Successful teaching requires you to create an environment that fosters academic success by engaging and inspiring students rather than trying to control them. In this session, learn how to manage your classroom effectively, and identify five strategies that will inspire academic achievement and unlock your students’ natural enthusiasm for learning.
Sunday, March 27
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PT
Urban Education Panel
In this session, hear from three distinguished principals who are making a difference in the lives of urban high school students: Linda Nathan, founding headmaster, Boston Arts Academy (MA); Baruti Kafele, principal, Newark Tech (NJ); Tim King, founder and president, Urban Prep Academies (IL).
1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. PT
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey - Responding When Students Don’t Get It (interactive)
How teachers respond to an incorrect answer significantly influences students’ eventual understanding. Resolving errors requires an interaction between students and teachers, with the goal of ensuring that students experience success. Participants will explore questions to check for understanding, prompts for cognitive and metacognitive processes, cues to shift attention, and direct explanations and modeling.
Monday, March 28
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PT
Geoffrey Fletcher - From Islands of Excellence with Technology to Every Classroom: An Optimist’s Perspective
A few schools and districts have been able to garner the right mix of hardware, bandwidth, tech support, and professional development to change instruction, truly engage students, and increase student achievement. This session will look what is driving change in the purchase and distribution of content and how this missing link will be a major catalyst to changing our schools.
12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. PT
Betty Garner – Getting to “Got It!”: Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn
Why do some students get it while some don’t? This session will help educators learn how to help students develop cognitive structures needed to process information for meaning, such as finding patterns, formulating predictable rules, and abstracting generalizable principles that transfer and apply learning.
ASCD Recording Policy
Video and audio recording, including streaming of sessions for commercial use is strictly prohibited. Recordings for noncommercial use my be made only with the permission of the presenter(s).