21st Century Transformers: Teachers and Leaders Improving Instructional Practice

KLA Summer Leadership Retreat
June 21-22,2010 * Galt House Hotel & Suites, Louisville

Developing teachers and leaders to transform classrooms for the 21st Century learner:

• Moving from learning to understanding
• Using formative assessment to inform practice and engage learners in their own learning
• Embedding 21st Century skills to transform instructional practices that meet the needs of today's learner: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving; Creativity and Innovation; Communication and Collaboration; and Information and Media Literacy
• Creating and sustaining commmunities of practice
• Focusing leadership teams on teaching and learning for understanding

Speakers

• Ron Ritchhart
• Kerry Purcell
• David Zarowin, et al
• Abu Bakar Bin Farid, Singapore
• Sandra Nissen, Gold Coast, Australia

Breakout Sessions

• District partnerships: solving problems of practice
• Communities of practice: Assessment for learning
• School partnerships: Overcoming distrance with technology
• Eight tips for successful PLCs
• International Case Study: Implementing teaching for understanding
• Visible thinking
• Successful turnarounds
• Conducting and instructional practices assessment
• Singapore Math
• Staff professional growth
• Classroom Customer Service