Creating a Culture of Teacher Excellence
Through Intervention and Leadership |
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About Failure Is Not an Option® Institutes: |
| Failure Is Not an Option® three-day institutes provide the time, structure and processes for teams to transfer their learning from renowned presenters to direct application in their school. Using the Six Principles of Failure Is Not an Option® as an organizing system, the teams collaboratively assess where they are, where they want to go and define next steps to get there. |
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions Include Information About: |
Understanding by Design Closing the Racial Achievement Gap Failure Is Not an Option®: Creating High-Performing School Cultures Teacher Leadership Response to Intervention (RtI) Aligning Curriculum, Standards and Assessments Using Data to Guide Instruction and Assessment
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Featuring presentations by: |
 Pedro Noguera - Author of Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in our Schools |  Albert Bertani - Former Chief Officer of Professional Development with the Chicago Public Schools |  Alan Blankstein - Author of Failure Is Not an Option® |  Janie Smith - Education Consultant, ASCD |  Greg Bishop - Intervention Specialist, Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals | |
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Participants will return from the Philadelphia Institute with: |
- Best practical research to sustain your learning community and your students’ achievement
- Next-day strategies for closing the achievement gap
- Motivation and inspiration to face even the toughest situations
- Frameworks for action
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Get Credit: |
| HOPE Foundation is an approved ACT 48 Provider and Institutes qualify for continuing professional development credit in most states. More information |
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Philadelphia Institute Agenda (Tentative): | Day 1
Wednesday June 24
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
| INSTITUTE REGISTRATION AND WELCOME RECEPTION OPENING & GENERAL SESSION - Bev Smith: Welcome and Event Overview
- Alan Blankstein: Failure Is Not an Option®: Creating High-Performing School Cultures
| 2:45 pm – 3:00pm
3:00 pm – 5:00pm
| Break and Book Signing
General Session Continued: - Alan Blankstein: Failure Is Not an Option®: Creating High-Performing School Cultures
| DAY 2
Thursday, June 25th | 7:00 am – 8:00 am
8:00 am – 10:00 am
10:00 am – 10:15 am
10:15 am – 11:00 am
11:00 am – 11:15 am
11:15 am – 12:30 pm
| MORNING BEVERAGES
GENERAL SESSION - Pedro Noguera: Fixing the Hole in School Reform: Creating School Cultures that Promote Academic Excellence
BREAK & BOOK SIGNING
GENERAL SESSION CONTINUED
- Pedro Noguera: Fixing the Hole in School Reform: Creating School Cultures that Promote Academic Excellence
MOVE TO BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Reed Lindley: Creating Common Mission, Vision, Values and Goals
- Lani Snug: Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles Working as a System to Support Student Achievement
- LaMarr Shields: Leave No Teacher Behind: Teaching Boys of Color
- Greg Bishop: Interventions for Success: A Response to Intervention Program
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
| Networking Lunch
| | 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Breakout Sessions
- Reed Lindley: Creating Common Mission, Vision, Values and Goals
- Lani Snug: Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles Working as a System to Support Student Achievement
- LaMarr Shields: Leave No Teacher Behind: Teaching Boys of Color
- Greg Bishop: Interventions for Success: A Response to Intervention Program
| 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm
| Beverage Break | | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm | GENERAL SESSION AND TEAM TIME - Janie Smith: Understanding by Design
| DAY 3
Friday, June 26th | 7:00 am – 8:00 am
8:00 am – 10:00 am
| MORNING BEVERAGES GENERAL SESSION - Al Bertani: Collaborative Teaming to Improve Teaching and Learning
| | 10:00 am – 10:15 am | BREAK | | 10:15 am – 12:00 pm | GENERAL SESSION CONTINUED
- Al Bertani: Collaborative Teaming to Improve Teaching and Learning
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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Price: $615 Discounts - Save $10 per attendee when you register now
- Save $10 per attendee when you register by 4/24/2009
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