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Please Note: All times are in the Eastern Time Zone.
Monday
October 24, 2022
- 11:00-11:50 AM: Opening Keynote & Student Performance
- 12:00-1:00 PM: Breakout Sessions
- A Personalized Approach to Professional Learning: Clear, Consistent, Cohesive, Not One More Thing!
- A Student, a Community Member, and a Superintendent Walk Into a Room…Lessons on Transforming Systems Through Inclusive Co-Creation
- Achieving Education Equity: Engaging and Amplifying Student Voices
- Awareness is Key: Why All Change Efforts Should Start Here
- Empowering and Elevating Student Voice in Policy Development and Discussions in a Post-COVID-19 System
- From the State House to the Classroom: Competency-Centered System Design Catalyzes Equitable, Rigorous, and Engaged Learning
- Students as Agents in Their Learning: The What, Why, and How
- Teachers of Color: District Pilots Designed to Increase Recruitment and Retention
- 1:15-2:15 PM: Breakout Sessions
- Avoiding the Pitfalls of Fake-quity? Our District’s Journey Towards True Educational Equity
- Creating Equitable, Community-Based, Learner-Centered Ecosystems: Where Learning Lives Everywhere
- Enacting Equity-Seeking Habits While Redesigning Assessment and Accountability From Local Communities Up to the SEA in Kentucky
- Partnering on the Path: Spring Lake Park Public Schools (MN) and LiFT Learning, a Journey to a Competency-Based Education System
- Reimagining School in Rural America: The Transcend Rural Schools Design Community
- The National Partnership for Student Success: Leveraging Federal Resources to Implement Holistic, Evidence-Based, People-Powered Student Supports
- You’ve Designed Your Graduate Profile. What’s Next? Learners Bringing it to Life.
- 2:30-3:30 PM: Breakout Sessions
- Achieving Diversity and Equity: Pathways to College Success and the Teaching Profession
- Apapacho, The Story of a Teacher-Leader Network Supporting a Capstone Graduation Assessment, Defined by a Community-Developed Graduate Profile
- Building a Professional Learning Program to Promote the Use of Performance Assessments at the Local Level
- Demonstrating the Vision of the Graduate Through Capstone and Personal Interest Projects: What do the Students Say?
- Designing a Process for Inclusive Innovation: A Radical Commitment to Equity
- Measuring Progress and Growth in a Competency-Based Model
- Strategies to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Implementation at the District Level: Lessons Learned From Three States
- We Are Empowered! Inclusive Environments, Enhanced Ownership of Learning, and Personalized, Competency-Based Pathways Have Transformed Our Education
- 3:30-4:30 PM: Book Clubs
- Becoming Einstein’s Teacher: Six Steps to Awaken the Genius in Your Students
- Define Your WHY: So You Can Live and Learn on Purpose
- Developing an Evidence Base for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Instruction
- Meet the Free Agent Learners: Changing School From the Outside In
- Redefining Student Success
- Unpacking the Competency-Based Classroom: Equitable, Individualized Learning in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work
Tuesday
October 25, 2022
- 11:00-11:50 AM: Morning Keynote & Student Performance
- 12:00-1:00 PM: Breakout Sessions
- The Bridge From Policy to Practice: Empowering Districts to Take Advantage of State Policy Flexibilities
- Changing Practice and Mindset: Implementing Competency-Based Grading Practices Schoolwide
- Exploring the Role of Assessments in the Shift to Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
- Getting Smarter Together: Finding and Sharing Information to Advance Equitable, Student-Centered Innovation in Schools
- Making Learning Count Outside of School: Credit for Learning Opportunities in Afterschool
- Making Learning Student-Centered in Michigan: Challenges, Advice, and Supports Needed
- Rebuilding Through the Unimaginable: How the Foundation of CBE Allowed Us to Survive and Rebuild for Our Learners
- The Lone Rangers: Teaching Multilingual Learners in Rural and Remote Schools
- 1:15-2:15 PM: Breakout Sessions
- Culture, Identity, and Voice: Student Perspectives on Agency and Ownership of Learning
- Dreaming Big, Starting Small: Actionable Steps to Equitable School Improvement
- Exploring Flexible Learning and Future Policy Reform Through Colorado’s Blended Learning Initiative (BLI)
- International Big Picture Learning Credential (IBPLC): Putting the Person Back in Educational Assessment
- Professional Learning for All: The Collins Story
- Student-Centered Accountability and Assessment Coalition: Emerging Opportunities for Rethinking Federal Assessment and Accountability Design
- Teaching Players to Play Instead of Selecting Superstars: The Collective Responsibility of Transforming Public Education Systems
- Where Are They Now? How a Student-Centered Approach to Education Can Transform Learning Outcomes
- 3:00-4:30 PM: Workshops
- Building 21’s Studio Model: Designing Learning Experiences for Engagement and Impact
- Learner-Centered Leadership Lab: Insights From Learner-Centered Superintendents
- Personalized Teacher Development and Evaluation Using a Competency-Based Model
- Pivoting Post-Pandemic: Designing for the Future, for the Community
- The IEP Project: Changing Mindsets to Create Strength-Based IEPs
- Understanding the Quality Criteria for Systems of Performance Assessment Tool
Wednesday
October 26, 2022
- 11:00-11:50 AM: Morning Keynote & Student Performance
- 12:00-1:00 PM: Breakout Sessions
- A Guide to Centering Students and Elevating Equity in EdTech Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation
- Approaches to Implementing Personalized, Competency-Based Education at Scale
- Competency-Based Learning: From Set-Up to Transcript
- Creating New Possibilities for School Design: Collaboratively Exploring Educational Paradigms Alongside Students
- Survey Says: Uncovering Student Perceptions to Deepen Teacher Understanding
- Using K-12 Performance Assessments and Competency-Based Transcripts in College Admissions
- We’re Empowered! How Our Voices and Choices Are Leading to Student Ownership and Personalization
- Conversations with Kids: Walking the Road to Reinvention
- Connecting Social Media and SEL: How Social Emotional Learning Can Help Students Be Better Digital Citizens
- 1:00-1:50 PM: Lunch Break / Networking Sessions (Birds of a Feather)
- Building Public Awareness, Demand and Buy In for Personalized, Competency-Based Education
- Competency-Based Professional Learning
- Elevating and Honoring Student Voice
- Getting Started on the Competency-Based Education Journey
- Leadership and Leading Change toward Learner-Centered Education
- Policy and Advocacy
- Progress and Problems of Practice in Competency-Based Education
- Research & Evaluation for Competency-Based Education
- Student-Centered Learning Community of Practice
- 2:00-3:30 PM: Workshops
- Applying the Universal Design for Learning Framework in Virtual Learning
- Building Motivating, Inclusive, and Equitable CTE Pathways Through Language Certification
- PCBL (Personalized, Competency-Based Learning) in a PBL (Project-Based Learning) Classroom
- Rigor by Design, Not Chance: Five Essential Teacher Moves Promoting Cognitive Engagement, Self-Direction, and Deeper Thinking
- Sidestepping Barriers to Implementing Family Engagement in Your Classroom
- Using Problem-Based Learning to Center Equity When Developing Educators
- 3:30-4:15 PM: Closing Keynote & Student Performance
Please Note: All times are in the Eastern Time Zone.