Session Types and Conference Objectives

Kirsten Sundell — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:19:00 +0000

Session Types

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Promising practice sessions (60 minutes) highlight powerful practices and pedagogies that transform teaching and learning in any disciplinary area and in any setting — including elementary schools, middle grades schools, high schools, shared-time or full-time technology centers and postsecondary institutions.

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Conference Objectives

1. Engaging Instruction — Engage each student in every classroom through high-quality instruction that incorporates powerful literacy and mathematics practices and project-based assignments.

2. Aligned Curriculum — Ensure each student has equitable access to challenging academic and technical curricula that align instruction, assignments and assessments with grade-level readiness standards.

3. Career Pathways — Offer each student access to career pathways and programs of study that align with workforce needs and include opportunities to earn industry or postsecondary credentials and participate in work-based learning.

4. Systems of Support — Provide each student with the personalized career guidance, advisement, social and emotional supports, and extra help and accelerated learning opportunities needed to graduate ready for college and careers.

5. Leadership for Continuous Improvement — Engage the whole school community in promoting a culture of high expectations and continuously using data to identify problems of practice and develop action plans to solve those problems.

Content Areas

College and career readiness	Project/Problem-based learning
Classroom management	Rural education issues
Continuous improvement process/networks	Science
Closing the achievement gap	Student supports
CTE/Career pathways	Social studies
Equity (cultural, racial, gender, SES)	Special education
Feedback and classroom observations	STEM
Guidance and advisement	Supporting high expectations
Literacy	Teacher collaboration
Math	Teacher /Principal preparation and development
Using technology to increase engagement and access	Intervention and enrichment
Personalized learning	Urban education issues

Making Schools Work Conference Session Information

Session Types and Conference Objectives

Session Types

Conference Objectives

Content Areas