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27th Annual Effective Schools Conference
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March 3-6, 2010
Doubletree Paradise Valley Resort
5401 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ
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Tim Brown |
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Kay Burke |
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Lisa Carter |
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Richard A. DeLorenzo |
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Robin J. Fogarty |
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Wayne Hulley |
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Lawrence Lezotte |
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Dr. Lawrence Lezotte unites a group of exceptional education leaders who have seen the power of the Effective Schools model to improve schools. Every presenter at this conference has worked to transform education based on the correlates and concepts of Effective Schools research.
Discover how schools throughout North America have changed the variables of instruction, scheduling, and support to create the interventions necessary to leave no students behind. Get your questions answered and gain action-oriented solutions in an interactive panel session led by Dr. Lezotte. These are just some of the experiences you will have at this conference.
Effective Schools research has a documented track record for turning around failing schools. The correlates have provided schools throughout North America with a solid framework for continuous and sustainable improvement. This conference is a great opportunity to network and learn how to apply the correlates to today’s pressing issues. It focuses on important questions educators should be asking to make their classrooms as effective as possible:
- What does it mean to be an effective school in the 21st century?
- How do we ensure cultural understanding as classrooms become progressively more diverse?
- How do we make differentiation in the classroom a reality rather than a buzz word?
- How can our school keep pace with advancing technology?
- How do we transform our schools into collaborative environments where we respect, trust, and learn from each other?
- How do we make learning teams accountable for improved results?
- How do we become data driven without data driving everyone crazy?
- How do we monitor student learning to inform instruction and create interventions when needed without constantly testing students?
- How do we make our parents and community true partners in learning?
Solution Tree is proud to host the longest-running educational event in the United States. We hope you will join us to learn strategies for maintaining one important constant in these changing times—learning for all!
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Events reach capacity quickly. Please confirm your registration before making travel plans.
To receive the discounted hotel rate, mention Solution Tree.Doubletree Paradise Valley Resort
5401 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85250
Reservations
480.947.5400
Discounted rate (single or double)
$209 per night
Online hotel reservations
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Keynote Presentations
Kay Burke
Common Assessments: When Formative Meets Summative
Learn how to develop an action plan for creating valid and reliable common assessments to help students meet and exceed standards and achieve high scores on standardized tests. These common assessments embed the language of the standards and can be used diagnostically to identify students’ needs, formatively to provide specific feedback, and summatively to evaluate student work.
Lisa Carter
Redesigning and Aligning to Become an Effective School
Lisa connects Effective Schools research to the alignment of standards, curriculum, assessment, and instructional practice in order to create a new system of learning for all—one of Total Instructional Alignment! Compelling stories will deepen your understanding of how Effective Schools research and the Total Instructional Alignment process can empower educational systems.
Richard DeLorenzo
Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution
In a traditional education system, time is the constant and learning is the variable. Students progress en masse through grade levels by earning credits or seat time and reaching minimum levels of performance, as low as a D-. Hear the compelling story of how a team of visionary educators put their careers on the line to turn the traditional education system inside out to create the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) Approach to Schooling. In the RISC system, learning is the constant and time is the variable. The system is designed to ensure students master required content, not simply get by each year with very little academic knowledge and low-level skills.
Robin Fogarty
Differentiating Instruction: Not Louder and Slower
A diverse range of learners make up the 21st century classroom: developing, advanced, second language, and English language learners. Refresh your instructional repertoire and renew your spirit with inspired teaching practices. Explore a compendium of strategies that meet a variety of learning needs. Leave the session with tools to immediately share with students and colleagues.
Wayne Hulley
Getting By or Getting Better: Applying Effective Schools Research to Today’s Educational Issues
We can live our lives getting by, or we can commit to getting better. While it is true that all schools and classrooms have a culture that is unique to them, there are common issues that must be confronted in order to improve. This presentation focuses on alignment and ties all the outstanding presentations to real-world challenges. Take home practical strategies for meeting the mission of learning for all.
Lawrence Lezotte
Leading the Charge to Reform the System in Place
Dr. Lezotte addresses how to change schools from teacher-centered to learning-centered systems. Learn the core principles of a learning-centered system based on Effective Schools and human learning research. Then, explore essential leader behaviors that are necessary to initiate and sustain deep, lasting, systemwide change.
Breakout Sessions
Tim Brown
Creating a Culture of Learning: It’s Not a One-Time Thing!
Tim offers practical strategies to create and communicate a mission, a vision, and collective commitments to motivate staff. Using these strategies, educators can teach with high expectations and close learning gaps that exist for some students while helping leadership teams develop a school culture that communicates high expectations for students and themselves.
Raising Questions and Finding Answers in Our Grading Practices
As schools focus more on learning than teaching, they must also examine current grading practices, policies, and management systems to support these efforts. Learn useful tools and strategies to examine grading practices in your school or district. Tim asserts that schools must address the controversial topic of grading to make grading practices more meaningful.
Kay Burke
Performance Tasks: Authentic Learning in Action
Performance tasks present relevant problem scenarios that require students to collaborate with peers, utilize decision-making and problem-solving skills, and create quality performances and projects. Learn how to develop integrated performance task units that target multiple learning goals, differentiate products and processes to meet diverse needs, and motivate students to participate in their learning.
Differentiated Formative Assessments
In this interactive session, Dr. Burke shares a variety of creative formative assessments that meet differentiated needs. You will create a checklist and rubric for assessing a thinking skill and role-play creative processing techniques designed to help students reflect on their learning.
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Breakout Sessions (continued)
Lisa Carter
Total Instructional Alignment: Essential Tools and Processes
Explore the tools, processes, and conditions necessary to redesign and align educational systems to meet the needs of all learners. Lisa examines effective standards-based instructional tools, higher order thinking processes in instructional practice, and clarity and consistency of instructional practice through the development of essential knowledge and skills to support learning success.
Total Instructional Alignment in Strategic Planning and Lesson Design
This session will focus on Total Instructional Alignment and its application for planning and designing quality instructional experiences for all students. Learn simple techniques for planning and lesson design that will make a world of difference in the instructional experience provided for students. Learn how to create clear standards-based learning goals and objectives aligned to higher order thinking processes, develop effective questioning strategies that incorporate higher order thinking, and examine congruency in quality learning experiences for students.
Richard DeLorenzo
Nuts and Bolts of How to Reinvent Your Schools and Classrooms
Learn a step-by-step process of how to create schools where students are deeply engaged in 21st-century skills, working at their instructional levels, and progressing only after they have achieved proficiency. Understand the key factors of the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) Approach to Schooling, the timeline for quality deployment, and the lessons learned from more than 15 years of replicating this philosophy.
What Does a RISC Classroom Look Like?
Hear the testimonials of teachers and leaders who have implemented the RISC Approach to Schooling—the impact it has made on their lives and the lives of their students and how they would never go back to a traditional system. Explore RISC tools and processes and gain insight to how they would work in your classroom. Access incredible resources that will help on your journey as an educator, including additional RISC tools and processes that will help you get started.
Robin Fogarty
Differentiation in Brain-Compatible Classrooms
The rationale for differentiated instruction is captured in the idea that every brain has a different set of wiring, “a designer brain,” developed by different background experiences. Sample a palette of brain-friendly differentiation strategies in this dynamic, interactive session. Laced with choice and challenge, these engaging strategies blend the teaching/learning process into rich, rigorous, and relevant learning for every student.
Differentiating Professional Learning for Adult Learners
What do adult learners look for in their professional learning experiences? Explore the characteristics of the adult learner, their likes and dislikes, wants and needs, and how to honor their preferences by differentiating professional learning opportunities.
Lawrence Lezotte
Continuous School Improvement Based on Effective Schools Research
This session focuses on collaborative processes; consensus-building strategies relative to mission, beliefs, and values; and the selection of essential learnings. Dr. Lezotte identifies the framework necessary to support the building blocks of a continuous improvement system. The theory of action is based on the integration of three theories: Effective Schools, systems, and continuous improvement. Practical examples of successful implementation will be provided.
Tools for Supporting Continuous School Improvement
Experience a hands-on demonstration of six different tools that can be used to support continuous school improvement. Dr. Lezotte focuses on the tool designed to identify the cultural values associated with effective schools. You will also have the opportunity to work through Schein’s Three Levels of Culture and learn the principles for conducting a root-cause analysis. Finally, three online tools that support continuous school improvement—Reality Check, Teacher Best Practices, and Effective Schools Research LiNK—will be demonstrated.
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| Wednesday, March 3 |
| 4:00–7:00p.m. |
Registration |
| 7:00–8:45p.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| Thursday, March 4 |
| 7:00–8:00a.m. |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 8:00–9:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 9:30–9:45a.m. |
Break |
| 9:45–11:15a.m. |
Breakout Sessions |
| 11:15a.m.–12:15p.m. |
Lunch |
| 12:15–1:45p.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 1:45–2:00p.m. |
Break |
| 2:00–3:30p.m. |
Breakout Sessions |
| Friday, March 5 |
| 7:00–8:00a.m. |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 8:00–9:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 9:30–9:45a.m. |
Break |
| 9:45–11:15a.m. |
Breakout Sessions |
| 11:15a.m.–12:15p.m. |
Lunch |
| 12:15–1:45p.m. |
Breakout Sessions |
| 1:45–2:00p.m. |
Break |
| 2:00–3:30p.m. |
Panel Discussion |
| Saturday, March 6 |
| 7:00–8:00a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:00–9:45a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 9:45–10:00a.m. |
Break |
| 10:00–11:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
Agenda is subject to change without notice. |
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You will receive a certificate of participation after the event. Please check with your state Department of Education for CEU information. You may also register for graduate credit through Grand Canyon University.
Download Request for University Credit and Official Transcript(s) Instructions/Form |
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By Phone: |
800.733.6786
812.336.7700 |
We welcome and recommend substitutions for those who cannot attend. Substitutions may be made at any time prior to the event. If you send a substitute, please provide his or her name and send your request to registration@solution-tree.com. All cancellations must be in writing and sent to registration@solution-tree.com or Solution Tree, 555 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404. Cancellations more than 90 days prior require a $75 processing fee. Cancellations between 10 and 90 days require half of the registration fee. There are no refunds for cancellations less than 10 days prior. |
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812.336.7790
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Solution Tree
555 North Morton Street
Bloomington, IN 47404
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