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

April 11, 2013
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 29th event will include 30-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 (unless otherwise noted) —once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

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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 [session times are listed prior to titles below] 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.

[10:15 & 2:05] Gramatically Twirling (Melissa Merkling, Amalia Pretel-Gray, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School) GRADES PK-12 / GRAMMAR

[12:05 & 1:25] The Art of Block Building (Jennifer Ellis, Wooster School) GRADES K-5 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[10:15 & 2:05] Revamp Independent Studying! Learn to be Creative with Technology to Promote Active Study Strategies (Georgina W. Duff, Rumsey Hall School) GRADES 6-8 / ACROSS THE CURRCULUM

[10:15 & 1:25] How Dropbox Can Help Organize (Donna Dubinsky, Hyde School) GRADES K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[10:15 & 1:25] Kids and Wood Boats (Toby Goodrich, Renvrook School) GRADES 6-8 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[10:15 & 1:25] The Capstone Project (Marek Beck, Greenwich Country Day School) GRADES K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[10:15 & 2:05] Building a Community (Jane Milne, Renbrook School) GRADES K-5 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[10:15 & 1:25] Ecology, Technology, and Campus Life: Creating a Tree Trail (Jacob Burt and John Cunningham, The Foote School) GRADES K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[10:15 & 2:05] Creating Choice in the English Classroom (Alissa Davis, Hopkins School) GRADES 9-12 / ENGLISH

[10:15 & 1:25] Technology to Promote Group Work (Matthew Bavone, The Ethel Walker School) GRADES 9-PG / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[12:05 & 2:05] iTeacher, iFuture (RoseMarie Wallace, Lynn Muller, Wooster School) GRADES K-12 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[12:05 & 1:25] Optimizing Student Videoconferencing in World Languages (Jonathan Shee, St. Luke’s School) GRADES PK-12 / WORLD LANGUAGE

[12:05] Flipping the Classroom: Middle School Mathematics Up-Side-Down (Angela Boratko, Watkinson School) GRADES 6-8 / MATH

[12:05 & 1:25] "Financial Literacy": Creating a Classroom Economy (Dana Johansen/Nicole DeRosa, Greenwich Academy) GRADES K-5 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[10:15] The Montessori Approach to Writing for Children Aged 3 to 6 (Orla Black, Montessori School of Greater Hartford) GRADES PK - K) / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[12:05 & 2:05] Self Esteem Engine (Zach Hayden, Oxford Academy) GRADES 9-PG / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[12:05 & 2:05] Fables, iPads and Creative Connections (Sue Das, Brunswick School) GRADES K-5 / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[12:05 & 2:05] The Embedded Librarian; Everyone Wins When Faculty and Librarians Collaborate (Nancy Florio, Canterbury School) GRADES 9-PG / ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

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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