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What Works is Worth Sharing: Teachers Helping Teachers - Plugged, Unplugged...Whatever!

January 31, 2012

9:30 - 2:35

Chase Collegiate School, Waterbury, CT

Some of the best professional development comes from spending a day with colleagues learning from each other – “What Works is Worth Sharing”. Participants in these programs learn about best practices, lesson plans, innovative projects and pedagogical techniques that have had a significant impact on students and schools. Sessions may include the use of technology or not ... body, mind, spirit projects ... anything that your colleagues feel can and should be shared with fellow educators. “Plugged, Unplugged…Whatever” – You’ll have an opportunity to learn about projects that don’t necessarily include the use of technology: Team and community building, debate, theatre, dance, art, experiential and project based learning and ideas for the setting and meeting professional development goals within your school.

Our January 31st event will include 20-minute classroom sessions (presented twice during the day) spanning the PK-12 spectrum — teachers sharing specific and effective 21st century curricula and projects from their schools providing immediate take-aways for participants. Presentations also include a subsequent ten minute question and answer period which can also evolve into a continuing dialogue and an opportunity for colleagues to network and make plans for visiting other schools to see innovative curriculum in action.
Ultimately, these events are about "sharing excellence”. So join your colleagues as they share what they love!

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Session Descriptions

9:30 Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:45 – 10:05 Welcome and Overview

10:15 – 10:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS I

10:55 – 11:55 Unconference Session (What's an unconference?)

12:05 - 12:35 CONCURRENT SESSIONS II

12:40 – 1:20 Lunch

1:25 – 1:55 CONCURRENT SESSIONS III

2:05 – 2:35 CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV

You will have an opportunity to attend four 30-minute sessions during the course of the day. Each Session will be offered twice—once in the morning and once in the afternoon unless otherwise indicated by (**).

School Name

First Name

Last Name

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Email Address

Workshops at a Glance: click here for full description / Put check in box next to the FOUR class(es) you will attend -- two in the morning and two in the afternoon. You will have the opportunity to change your selection on the day of the conference if you find the workshop you are attending does not meet your needs.

Getting to the Heart of the Story (Melissa Merkling, Amalia Pretel-Gray, HousatonicValley Waldorf School) GRADES PK-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Creating Classrooms Without Walls - How to Keep Your Class Connected Outside of School (Terrie Hartsoe, The Country School) GRADES K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRCULUM

Much More than Drugs and Coffee - Colombia Today, Changing a Negative Public Image (Karen Rolfini-Beckenstein, Wooster School) GRADES 9-PG / WORLD LANGUAGE

When Brain Studies Meet Chinese Written Language Learning (Jean Yu, Hotchkiss School) GRADES K-12 / WORLD LANGUAGE

Notes from an OLE Pilot (Peter Ross, The Foote School) GRADES 6-8 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

The Duff Center at Greenwich Academy:An Initiative in Project Based Learning and Experiential Education. (Connie Blunden, Ann Decker, Greenwich Academy) GRADES K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Teens (Gretchen White, Miss Porter’s School) GRADES 9-PG / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

MyClassTalk-Using an iPhone to Promote Equitable Participation (Laura Bridges-Pereira, Chase Collegiate School) GRADES K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Flipped Classroom! (Matthew Bayone, The Ethel Walker School) GRADES 9-PG / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Project Based Learning Meets Place Based Learning (Bill Sullivan, Suffield Academy) GRADES Pre-K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (**this session will be offered only once)

Social Justice: How to be Kind in an Unkind World (Toni Storlazzi, Cold Spring School) GRADES 6-8 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Experience Matters: Combining the Analytical and Personal into a “Hybrid” Essay (Ben Gott, Greens Farms Academy) GRADES 6-8 / ENGLISH/WRITING

Collaborating with Students on a Central Blog (Bill Sullivan, Suffield Academy) GRADES 9-PG / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (**this session will be offered only once)

Gaming the Classroom (Paul Caginalp, Suffield Academy) GRADES PK-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Unleashing Excel for Grading and Communicating (Joshua Lake, Pomfret School) GRADES PK-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Class Blogs are the New Killer App! (Joel Backon, Choate Rosemary Hall) GRADES PK-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Coaching as the New Leadership Skill (Marek Beck, Greenwich Country Day School) GRADES PK-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

iPads for Everyone - Judy Soto and Jennifer Krayewski

Registration fees:
(includes continental breakfast and lunch)

$45 per person for registrants 1-4

$30 per person for the next 5 registrants

$20 per person for registrants 10 and beyond

Please mail payment (Check or Money Order) to:

CAIS

P.O. Box 159

Mystic, CT 06355

Amount due:

Form Total: $0.00

28A Cottrell Street, PO Box 159,
Mystic, CT 06355
P: (860) 572-2950 F: (860) 415-0835

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