Location: Monticello High School, 1400 Independence Way, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Dates: July 19 | July 20 | July 21 | July 22
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Welcome Reception (Colonnade Club at UVA)
Andy Stamp, Executive Director, VSUP,
with Albemarle High School Patriot Jazz Band
Luvelle Brown, Chief Information Officer, Albemarle Public Schools
Jonathan Harber, CEO, Schoolnet
7:30am - 8:00am Breakfast
Continental breakfast and plenty of coffee will be served.
8:00am - 8:15am
Opening Remarks
Jonathan Harber, CEO, Schoolnet
8:15am - 9:00am
Welcome
Dr. Bob Pianta, Dean of the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Denis Doyle
Jonathan Harber - CEO, Schoolnet
Dr. Pam Moran - Superintendent, Albemarle County Public Schools
9:00am - 12:00pm (Coffee break at 10:15am)
Keynote Address (streamed live)
Jay McTighe, Author, Schooling by Design
Introduction by Kevin Castner, Former Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools and Educational Planning Strategist, Cambridge Strategic Services
This session will provide an overview of the book, Schooling by Design (ASCD, 2007). Read more...
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Lunch and Speaker
John Ragosta, Jeffersonian Historian
As we try to reimagine education for the twenty-first century – more vibrant, more expansive, more effectively reaching people – one of the most important tasks is to decide what must be kept and what must be swept away. Read more...
Team Meetings
District Teams are invited to collaborate and debrief during this time
1:15pm - 2:30pm
(NOTE: The following sessions run concurrently)
Case Studies
The following case studies will be streamed live.
- Northside ISD: Building a Culture of Data Use
- DeKalb County Public Schools: From a Cohesive Data Framework to Increased Student Achievement
- Denver Public Schools: Examining Student Growth - The School Performance Framework
- Virginia Beach City Public Schools: Improving Academic Achievement of African American Males
- Chicago Public Schools: Gradebook and IMS - A Powerful Duo
- Albemarle County Public Schools: Re-Imagining Curriculum, Assessment, and Teacher Performance Appraisal
2:30pm - 2:45pm: Coffee Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm
(NOTE: The following sessions run concurrently)
Case Studies
The following case studies will be streamed live.
- Cleveland Metropolitan School District: Achieving Realistic, Significant, Annual Gains
- Albemarle County Public Schools: Robust Math Performance is Not a Game of Choice
- D11 Colorado Springs: Using Schoolnet to Leverage Response to Intervention
- School District of Philadelphia: Evolving Capacity of Data Use in a Large Urban School District
- Wichita Public Schools: Using CFIP and Teacher Collaboration to Improve Student Performance
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Celebration Dinner (Ashlawn Highland)
We hope that all EduStat University Participants will join the fun!
7:30am - 8:00am Breakfast
Continental breakfast and plenty of coffee will be served.
8:00am - 8:15am
Day 2 Comments
Jonathan Harber, CEO, Schoolnet
8:15am - 9:15am
Keynote Address (streamed live)
Scott Hartl, CEO and President of Expeditionary Learning, Outward Bound
There is growing consensus that preparing our students for the demands of 21st century work and college readiness requires holding schools accountable for more than just test performance. Read more...
9:15am - 10:15am
Keynote Address
Marco Torres, Teacher, San Fernando High School (Los Angeles, CA)
It’s not about clicking and dragging! It’s not about Blogging, Podcasting, Web 2.0'in! Read more....
10:15am - 10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:30pm
(NOTE: The following sessions run concurrently)
Building an Understanding-based Curriculum and Assessment System (streamed live)
Jay McTighe, Author, Schooling by Design
In the recent book, Schooling by Design (ASCD 2007), Grant Wiggins and I propose that a robust, understanding-based curriculum includes 10 key components. In this session, we will examine these components and view practical examples. Read more...
Data Coach Team Training: Re-thinking How Schools Improve Using the Classroom-Focused Improvement Process
Instructors: Mike Hickey, Ron Thomas, Sherry Burcham, Steve Gibson, Maureen Montgomery, LaWanda Burwell
The Classroom-Focused Improvement Process (CFIP) is a six-step process for increasing student achievement that is planned and carried out by teachers meeting in grade-level, content, or vertical teams as part of their regular lesson planning cycle. The six steps in the process, when used by a collaborative team, will favorably impact the most direct determinant of student performance results: the curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices through which the students are taught. Read more...
Collaborative Work Session: Let’s Write a Grant Proposal!
Facilitator: David DeSchryver, Attorney, Brunstein & Manasevit
Participating Districts: Chicago Public Schools and Albemarle County Public Schools
Get the latest information on Innovation Grant requirements and join forces with other participating districts to create multi-district proposal plan that would result in improving districts’ data-driven practice as a key strategy in raising achievement levels.
Schoolnet 2009-2011 Product Roadmap
Luyen Chou, Chief Product Officer, Schoolnet, Inc.
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch / Team Meetings
District Teams are invited to collaborate and debrief during this time
1:30pm - 3:30pm
(NOTE: The following sessions run concurrently)
Building an Understanding-based Curriculum and Assessment System (cont'd) (streamed live)
Jay McTighe, Author, Schooling by Design
In the recent book, Schooling by Design (ASCD 2007), Grant Wiggins and I propose that a robust, understanding-based curriculum includes 10 key components. In this session, we will examine these components and view practical examples. Read more...
Data Coach Team Training: Re-thinking How Schools Improve Using the Classroom-Focused Improvement Process (cont'd)
Instructors: Mike Hickey, Ron Thomas, Sherry Burcham, Steve Gibson, Maureen Montgomery, LaWanda Burwell
The Classroom-Focused Improvement Process (CFIP) is a six-step process for increasing student achievement that is planned and carried out by teachers meeting in grade-level, content, or vertical teams as part of their regular lesson planning cycle. The six steps in the process, when used by a collaborative team, will favorably impact the most direct determinant of student performance results: the curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices through which the students are taught. Read more...
Focus Group: Combining Standards Based Instructional Management with
Web Based Gradebooks: Envisioning 21st Century Assessment
Please join District leaders from Chicago Public Schools, Albemarle County Public Schools, Northside ISD and others for a collaborative discussion around the next generation of integrated software solutions designed to support instruction, learning and assessment in the classroom and beyond. Teachers will now have access to Schoolnet's Instructional Management Suite and our GradeSpeed gradebook, providing a variety of tools to track, manage and plan instruction and administer and record data from a variety of assessments, including summative, formative, observational and authentic. This future-focused session will focus on how these systems may come together in the future to allow teachers, leadership and parents to improve teaching and learning.
Schoolnet Topic: Setting Up Your District Wide Benchmark Assessment Program
Amy Zahodnik, Vice President, Client Services
This session will focus on setting up your Schoolnet system to plan, administer and roll out your benchmark program to improve student achievement. The session will begin by demonstrating how other districts have used Schoolnet to align your benchmark program to your curriculum pacing (e.g. scope and sequence). Once the benchmarks have been administered, the next topic will focus on how to use Schoolnet's reports to analyze the data to inform instruction in the classroom. The final aspect of this topic will discuss how Schoolnet data reports can be presented to inform data discussions using existing capacity such as PLCs or data groups. Read more...
Performance Targets: Using Schoolnet to Monitor Progress
Andy Brenner, Vice President, Client Services
Please join us as Schoolnet will provide a session focusing on dashboard and performance targets and using Schoolnet as a proxy throughout the year to monitor progress towards district performance targets. Current trends in education point to performance targets, performance report cards and other metrics that are defined by school districts and pushed out to Area’s and Schools. These are often seen in the form of area and school report cards with defined metrics and targets as goals to be attained by administrators. Come join us at this session to learn about using the KPI’s, Dashboards and reporting in Schoolnet’s IMS to monitor progress towards these performance targets. Read more...
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Book Signings
Schooling by Design, Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins
Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools, by Stacey Childress and Denis Doyle
4:00pm
Buses to Monticello
Please join us for a tour of Thomas Jefferson's house, gardens and plantation.
7:30am - 8:00am Breakfast
Continental breakfast and plenty of coffee will be served.
8:00am - 8:15am
Day 3 Comments
Jonathan Harber, CEO, Schoolnet, Inc.
8:15am - 10:00am
Keynote Address (streamed live)
Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap
What skills will students need in order to get—and keep—a good job in the new global economy? And are they the same skills students will need in order to be an active and informed citizen? Are we teaching and testing the skills that matter most? How do we prepare teachers to teach in new ways? And how do we motivate the “net generation” to excellence? In this provocative talk based on his just-released book, Tony Wagner asks and answers some of the most essential questions for teaching and learning in the 21st century. He will also address some of the leadership implications of his surprising findings.
10:00am - 10:15am
Keynote Response (streamed live)
Andy Rotherham, Blogger, EduWonk
Andrew Rotherham will respond to Tony Wagner’s presentation. Like Wagner, Rotherham sees an acute need for more powerful instruction that teaches students a wider array of critical skills than most learn today as well as for better standards and measurement than is the norm today. Rotherham will emphasize the capacity, knowledge, and political obstacles that present key challenges to the push for “21st Century Skills” and discuss why educators and policymakers must be cautious in their enthusiasm for the concept.
10:15am - 10:45am
Tony Wagner and Andy Rotherham Moderated Dialogue
Moderator: Denis Doyle
10:45am - 11:00am Coffee Break
Box lunches will be available during this break.
11:00am - 1:00pm
(NOTE: The following sessions run concurrently)
Building a Blueprint for the 21st CENTURY Learning Environment (streamed live)
Student Panel (11:00am - 11:45am)
Facilitator: Marco Torres
Albemarle County Public Schools Technology Advisory Committee
Come and hear from the students we serve. Gain greater clarity about what students need from their schools and teachers to succeed. Observe as an illustration of how you might conduct focus groups in your districts to create a better understanding of your students’ perspective.
Adult Panel - with Video Intro by Marco Torres (11:45am - 1:00pm)
Facilitator: Luvelle Brown
Marco Torres - Teacher, San Fernando High School
Pam Moran - Superintendent, Albemarle Public Schools
Bob Moje - School Architect, Principal, VMDO Architects
Ntiedo Etuk - Video Game Designer, CEO and Founder, Tabula Digita
Data Coach Team Training: Re-thinking How Schools Improve Using the Classroom-Focused Improvement Process (cont'd)
Instructors: Mike Hickey, Ron Thomas, Sherry Burcham, Steve Gibson, Maureen Montgomery, LaWanda Burwell
The Classroom-Focused Improvement Process (CFIP) is a six-step process for increasing student achievement that is planned and carried out by teachers meeting in grade-level, content, or vertical teams as part of their regular lesson planning cycle. The six steps in the process, when used by a collaborative team, will favorably impact the most direct determinant of student performance results: the curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices through which the students are taught. Read more..
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch / Team Meetings / Book Signing
District Teams are invited to collaborate and debrief during this time
2:00pm Conference End!
