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Leading and Learning with Habits of Mind
March 12–13, 2009
Orlando, Fla.
Drawing from the series of ASCD books on the Habits of Mind, this Pre-Conference Institute explores how teachers, administrators, and parents can work together to create a learning environment designed to cultivate, assess, and report growth toward enduring and essential lifelong learning skills. Learn leadership strategies, teaching skills, assessment techniques, and school conditions intended to develop and communicate these characteristics for students and adults. Participants will
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Discover how 16 habits of mind provide your school with a shared vision.
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Learn how to operationalize the habits of mind throughout the school curriculum, instruction, and environment.
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Explore tools to gather evidence and communicate growth in the habits of mind.
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Understand the leadership strategies and techniques that encourage students and teachers to self-assess growth in their habits of mind.
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Institute Staff: Art Costa, California State University, Sacramento, and Bena Kallick, Education Consultant, Westport, Conn.
Registration Fee: $349 (ASCD Members), $413 (Nonmembers)
Materials Fee: $27 for Leading and Learning with Habits of Mind
PDI Code: PD09PC018
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Making a Difference as an Assistant Principal: Challenges, Opportunities, and Trade Secrets
March 12–13, 2009
Orlando, Fla.
Whether you're an inexperienced, aspiring, or seasoned assistant principal, here's your opportunity to discover practical strategies for blazing the bold leadership path as the assistant principal in a school. Led by an authoritative presenter, this Institute is loaded with specific tips for getting the work done and building positive, productive relationships in the process:
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Learn how to balance leadership and management tasks
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Explore time management tips
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Examine strategies to enhance the quality of teaching that students experience
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Acquire tools to build positive cultures and eliminate toxic ones
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Analyze a variety of leadership actions linked to staff and student success
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Reflect upon personal next steps
Leave this Institute with resources and an action plan you can apply immediately in your own workplace.
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Institute Staff: Pam Robbins, Educational Consultant, Mt. Crawford, Va. and Napa, Calif.
Registration Fee: $349 (ASCD Members), $413 (Nonmembers)
PDI Code: PD09PC019
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Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: How Do They Work Together?
March 12–13, 2009
Orlando, Fla.
Understanding by Design and differentiated instruction are two of the most powerful frameworks in education today. This two-day Institute provides you with strategies for combining them to enhance student achievement and promote high levels of student understanding. Learn the big ideas underlying both frameworks, and come back to your school with essential skills:
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Design lessons and units consistent with the backward-design process.
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Unpack standards to create enduring understandings, essential questions, and objectives aligned with six facets of understanding.
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Diagnose students' readiness levels, learning style preferences, and interests to complement curriculum design and implementation.
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Use a range of assessment tools and tasks to maximize all students' ability to demonstrate their achievement of key learning goals.
Here's your opportunity to explore the power of using DI and UbD to sustain continuous improvement and maximize student achievement in an era of high-stakes accountability and testing.
Please note: Come prepared to do hands-on design work with a curricular unit that focuses on differentiation and understanding. Participants should have prior knowledge and experience in the design or supervision of units using DI and UbD.
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Underachieving Students of Poverty: Leading Schools to Success Through Practices That Work
March 12–13, 2009
Orlando, Fla.
Findings from state and national studies of high-performing, high-poverty schools indicate that there's a common pattern for improvement design and intervention. Now you can examine these findings and explore improvements in curriculum, instruction, assessment, time, space, and parent engagement that contribute to increased success for high-poverty learners. Learn the steps that high-performing schools with significant populations of high-poverty students must take to succeed. Attend this Institute to learn
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How to refute the notion that high-poverty students can't achieve;
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Which strategies are most successful for teaching high-poverty students;
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Why interpreting data is critical to designing successful interventions; and
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How to structure special program staff to support teachers.
Discover how leaders in high-performing, high-poverty schools identify and work diligently to counter and eliminate educational practices and conditions—low expectations, ineffective instruction, retention, tracking, and inequitable funding—that manufacture low achievement.
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Institute Staff: William Parrett and Kathleen Budge, Boise State University, Idaho
Registration Fee: $349 (ASCD Members), $413 (Nonmembers)
Materials Fee: $68 for Saving Our Students Saving Our Schools, 2nd Edition and The Kids Left Behind
PDI Code: PD09PC021
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Creating a Professional Development Program That Works
March 12–13, 2009
Orlando, FL
Whether you're already an expert staff developer or you're taking on this role for the first time, this Institute will help you increase the effectiveness of your professional development, from stand-alone Institutes to comprehensive systemwide programs. An experienced consultant helps you work through the process of designing, implementing, and evaluating professional development using a variety of tools to guide discussion and planning. During this Institute, learn how to
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Create a vision and definition of professional development for your learning community.
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Establish a common understanding of your professional development program's content and results.
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Solve time, logistics, and sequencing issues.
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Design and implement professional development tasks and activities that align to school and district goals.
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Measure your progress and reflect on individual and group improvement.
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Evaluate the impact of professional development and sharing your success.
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Institute Staff: Sue Beers, Educational Consultant, Jewell, Iowa
Registration Fee: $349 (ASCD Members), $413 (Nonmembers)
Materials Fee: $99 for Strategies for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Professional Development: An ASCD Action Tool
PDI Code: PD09PC022
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What Works in Schools
March 12-13, 2009
Orlando, Fla.
Examine and explore specific actions schools can take to dramatically enhance their effectiveness. Bring a team to this Institute to update your district on research that identifies significant actions schools can take to improve the achievement of all students. This extended learning opportunity builds your team's knowledge and understanding of the factors that have the highest potential of increasing student achievement, including
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School-level factors, such as a viable curriculum, clear goals, effective feedback, safe environment, and collegiality among staff members.
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Teacher-level factors, such as the use of effective instructional techniques, classroom management, and classroom curriculum design.
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Student-level factors, such as prior knowledge and motivation.
Explore a model that ensures that students experience dramatic gains in their learning, regardless of their backgrounds—and learn strategies for implementing each element of the model.
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Professional Learning Strategies That Enhance Teaching with Diverse Learners and School Improvement
March 12–13, 2009
Orlando, Fla.
This Institute is rooted in a theory of action: coherently connected and motivationally effective professional learning positively influences student achievement and school improvement. Attend this two-day Pre-Conference Institute to learn five ways for administrative leaders and classroom teachers to develop a set of dynamic professional learning experiences. These learning experiences focus on supporting motivation across student groups:
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Data-conferencing with formative assessments.
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Using the lesson study process in different contexts.
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Developing walk-through approaches that address multiple purposes.
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Facilitating data-in-a-day for a snapshot of organizational learning.
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Engaging in more authentic ways to learn the strengths and knowledge in all students' families.
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Institute Staff: Margery Ginsberg, University of Washington, Seattle
Registration Fee: $349 (ASCD Members), $413 (Nonmembers)
Materials Fee: $36 for Creating Highly Motivating Classrooms for All Students: A Schoolwide Approach to Powerful Teaching with Diverse Learners
PDI Code: PD09PC024
This Institute includes free registration for the ASCD PD Online Course Embracing Diversity, Respecting Others.
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Using the Framework for Teaching for Professional Learning Communities
March 12–13, 2009
Orlando, Fla.
Lots of schools benefit from a Framework for Teaching that is research-based, aligned to the standards, and grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. Here's your opportunity to learn about the Framework and how to make it the foundation for professional conversations among practitioners as they seek to enhance their skill in the complex task of teaching. A renowned authority on the Framework explains how to use it for
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Recruitment and hiring processes.
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Mentoring and coaching programs.
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Professional development systems that link all activities to a culture of professional inquiry.
Whether you work in early childhood, elementary, middle school, or high school, you will learn how to apply the Framework for Teaching to your issues and situation.
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