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Atlanta, Georgia
October 28 - 30, 2009
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| About the Institute: |
This Institute will focus on creating and sustaining learning communities based on the Failure Is Not an Option® process. Teams will learn how to apply data, effectively build collaborative teams, and develop systems for improving teaching and learning. Leading educational experts will review how high-performing schools effectively promote and utilize collaborative teaming and instructional leadership to sustain student achievement. |
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| Special attention will be spent on: |
- Differentiated instruction
- Minority drop out rates
- Response to Intervention (RtI)
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| Topics at the Institute will include: |
- Challenging Racial Inequality in Our Schools
- Improving Student Achievement
- Improving Student Learning with Standards and Assessments
- DIRT on Teaching: Cultivating a Transformational Environment within Classrooms
- Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Reaching Out To Families
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| Participants will return from the Atlanta Institute with: |
- Motivation and inspiration
- Research and best practices for closing the achievement gap
- A collaborative team focused on teaching and learning
- Next day strategies and frameworks for action
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| Atlanta Institute Agenda (Tentative): |
DAY 1 Wednesday, Oct 28th
| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | INSTITUTE REGISTRATION AND WELCOME RECEPTION | | 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm | OPENING & GENERAL SESSION,
Program Facilitator: Welcome and Event Overview
- Harry Wong: There is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement
| | 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm | BREAK | | 3:45 pm – 6:00 pm | GENERAL SESSION
- Tom Guskey: Grading and Reporting Student Learning
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DAY 2 Thursday, Oct 29th
| 7:00 am – 8:00 am | MORNING BEVERAGES | | 8:00 am – 10:00 am | GENERAL SESSION
- Alan Blankstein: Failure Is Not an Option® in Action: Engaging All Students
| | 10:00 am – 10:15 am | BREAK | | 10:15 am – 11:30 am | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Lanie Snug: Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles Working as a System to Support Student Achievement
- Kent Julian
- Ellen McIntyre: Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Reaching Out to Families
- Ivannia Soto-Hinman: Building Cultural and Linguistic Bridges for ELLs and SELs in MainstreamClassrooms
| | 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | NETWORKING LUNCH | | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Lanie Snug: Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles Working as a System to Support Student Achievement
- Kent Julian
- Ellen McIntyre: Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Reaching Out to Families
- Ivannia Soto-Hinman: Building Cultural and Linguistic Bridges for ELLs and SELs in MainstreamClassrooms
| | 1:45 pm – 2:00 pm | BEVERAGE BREAK | | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
GENERAL SESSION AND TEAM TIME
- Kent Julian: LEAD It Forward: Leading Students from Where They Are to Where They Need to Be
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DAY 3 Friday, Oct 30th
| 7:00 am – 8:00 am | MORNING BEVERAGES | | 8:00 am – 10:00 am |
GENERAL SESSION
- Pedro Noguera: Creating School Cultures that Promote Academic Excellence
| | 10:00 am – 10:15 am | BREAK | | 10:15 am – 12:30 pm | GENERAL SESSION,
- Anthony Muhammad: Transforming School Culture
NEXT STEPS & CLOSING REMARKS | For full benefit of this Institute, attendance and complete participation for the entire event is highly recommended. We suggest that participants book return flights that leave no earlier
than two and a half hours after the Institute ends |
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| Register: |
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Price: $615 Discounts - Save $10 per attendee when you register now
- Save $10 per attendee when you register by 8/28/2009
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Pedro Noguera
Kent Julian
Alan Blankstein
