Curriculum Improvement Conference 2010
2010 Curriculum Improvement Conference - Make it Happen! Save the Date: June 25-27, Philadelphia, PA Image Map
 
JUST ANNOUNCED!
Leadership Academy to take place at the 2010 Curriculum Improvement Conference!
Scheduled at no extra cost on Saturday and Sunday especially for East Coast Educators with extended school calendars!
 
 
Below is the program of sessions for the 2010 Curriculum Improvement Conference.
This schedule is tentative and may change without notice.
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010
 7:30 - 8:15am
Continental Breakfast (provided)
 8:15 - 8:30am
WELCOME REMARKS: Pamela Brown, Chief Academic Officer, The School District of Philadelphia
8:30 - 9:30am
Keynote Speaker: Grant Wiggins - A-Mission-and-Best-Practice Driven Curriculum: Why and How?
 Sessions
Curriculum Mapping for 21st Century Learning Initatives
 Leadership Planning for Administrators
Instructional
Practices
 Assessment and
Grading Strategies
Curriculum Improvement
Tactics
 9:45 - 11:00am
 11:15 - 12:30am
 Restructuring Title I Schools
Valarie Williams
 12:30 - 1:20pm
Lunch (provided)
 1:30 - 2:45pm
 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Making Ends Meet
Jim Cooney
 Results Driven Leadership
Mari Pearlman
Developing Teaching Units
Dr. Pat Johnson
Fair Grading Practices
Kim Brunswick
 
 
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 2010
 7:30 - 8:15am
Continental Breakfast (provided)
8:15 - 8:30am
Welcome Remarks & Curriculum Leadership Awards:
Kevin Baird, Chairman
Dr. Michael Rush, Executive Director
8:30 - 9:30am
Keynote Speaker: Peg Portscheller - From Surviving to Thriving: Education in the 21st Century.


 Sessions


Curriculum Mapping for 21st Century Learning Initatives


 Leadership Planning for Administrators


Instructional
Practices


 Assessment and
Grading Strategies
 
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Participants are welcome to join at no additional cost!
 9:45 - 11:00am
 Targeted Mapping: Getting Meaningful Results Quickly
Dr. Marie Alcock & Mark Truitt
 
 
Leadership Academy Kickoff
Changing Education with 21st Century Technology
Cameron Evans, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft
 11:15 - 12:30am
 Using Curriculum Mapping Data
Lee Sayago, Glenda Pierce, Lorianne Rotz
Brains That Reign
LaVonna Roth
Leading Change in Curriculum & Instruction
Kevin Baird, Chairman, Curriculum Improvement Institute
 12:30 - 1:20pm
Lunch (provided)
 1:30 - 2:45pm
 Can I Quote You?
Jeff Garthwaite
Leading the Way to Success with Data
Mark Truitt, National Consultant
 3:00pm - 4:15pm
 
Deconstructing Common Core Standards
Dr. Michael Rush, Executive Director, Curriculum Improvement Institute
 
SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010
7:30am: Breakfast(provided)

Sunday Consulting Sessions
Meet with Session Leaders one-to-one or with your team to discuss the information they presented in more detail, or to book their consulting services for the future. There will be five 35-minute consulting sessions available.

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Reprise of Friday's Sessions
For the convienience of our conference participants who are not able to attend all the sessions they would like to attend on Friday, some are being repeated Sunday morning.



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Leadership Academy
Join us as we continue the discussion of leading effective change in our schools and districts starting with a session based on Stephen Covey’s critically acclaimed The Leader in Me inspired by his bestselling book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

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LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Participants are welcome to join at no additional cost!
8:30 - 9:30am
The Leader in Me by Dr. Stephen Covey: Improving Schools through Leadership Development
Presented by Principal Muriel Summers, AB Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School
9:45 - 10:45am
Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Through Deliberate Practice of Reading and Writing
Dr. Carl Swartz, Senior Research Associate, MetaMetrics, Inc
11:am - 12:00pm
Leading With The Heart, Managing With The Soul
Dr. John Phillips, former Superintendent of the Year.
Superintendent Emeritus of GA and TX districts
 
8:30 - 9:05am Session 1
9:10 - 9:45am Session 2
10:00 - 10:35am Session 3
10:40 - 11:15am Session 4
11:20 - 11:55am Session 5
Sign-ups will be available at the conference Registration table for participants to choose when they would like to meet with Session Leaders individually during Sunday’s consulting sessions.
 
 Sessions
Curriculum Mapping for 21st Century Learning Initatives
 Leadership Planning for Administrators
Instructional
Practices
 Assessment and
Grading Strategies


 8:30-9:45am
 


 10:00-11:15am
Fair Grading Practices
Kim Brunswick
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