MAAP Conference 2012

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR 2012 MAAP CONFERENCE

"Transforming Education & Our World"
8th Annual AERO Conference
August 4-7, 2011 | Red Lion Hotel on the River | Portland, OR

For the first time ever, AERO conference will be held on the West Coast in beautiful Portland, Oregon!

Family & Kid Friendly | Discounts for Students & Groups | First Time Attendees Welcome!

*** Volunteer Opportunities & Scholarships Available ***
We will not turn anyone away for financial reasons. Contact for details.

For more information: (720) 475-1602 & alternativeeducation@gmail.com

For more information please go to:  http://www.educationrevolution.org/conference.html

Join today’s leading scholars of holistic education to explore learning relationships and what it means to parent and educate holistically and humanely in the modern world. Add your voice as we explore authentic and healing adult-child relationships, the heart of any holistic approach to parenting and educating.

Keynote Speakers:

• Josette Luvmour PhD, author of Adult Development–Emergent Wisdom in the Family Context and Natural Learning Rhythms; co-founder of the Summa Institute, Portland, OR
• Kirsten Olson PhD, author of Wounded By Schools: Recapturing the Joy in Learning; Board Member of Institute for Democratic Education in America; Director of Old Sow Consulting, Boston, MA
• Ba Luvmour MA, author of Optimal Parenting; co-author of Natural Learning Rhythms; co-founder of the Summa Institute, Portland, ORSunday, July 31, 9:30-5:15
  Salmonberry School 867 North Beach Rd, Eastsound, Orcas Island, WA
  Sliding scale: $25-50/person
  Schools or small groups up to five people $75-100
  
  This one-day event will include plenary sessions with our keynote speakers, smaller discussion groups in breakout sessions, and open space to share and explore with friends and colleagues.
  
  For more information, contact Paul Freedman at dancingmonkey@rockisland.com or
  360 376-5111. On-line registration available soon!

For more information, contact Paul Freedman at dancingmonkey@rockisland.com or 360 376-5111. On-line registration available soon!

For the AP Summer Splash Conference

Keynote Address:  Wounded By School and Recapturing Pleasure in Learning from 9-9:45 am

Keynote Description:  Many of our students arrive in our classrooms disconnected from pleasure in learning, and with ideas and assumptions about themselves as learners—and learning itself—that make it hard for them to engage, and harder for teachers to captivate them.  In this keynote, Kirsten Olson describes her 10 years of research listening to “wounded” students, and what she learned about the process of “healing” from specific learners.  She talks about critical moments for learners—moments of “learning to believe in me” and how teachers and schools can foster them.  In a world obsessed with the quantification of learning, and the devaluing of teachers’ knowledge of students, Kirsten calls for teachers to take action and to act up to reconstruct the conditions of their work and their profession.


Workshop (Immediately following 10 am to 2 pm):  No Longer Wounded By School:  Creating Inquiry-Based Classrooms That Foster Student Voice

In this experiential, hands-on workshop using several video demonstrations that participants will analyze, we will look closely at how two-high performing high schools (Urban Academy in New York City, and the NYC iSchool) foster the capacity for rigorous student analysis, capacity to take multiple points of view and construct an arguments, with students who have formerly been disconnected from school or who have never had passionate intellectual experiences in school.  We will look at the ways in which instructional design determines outcome, and how these two schools teach students to construct intellectual arguments, how teachers create discussion-based classrooms where everyone participates, and how these schools use abundant student choice to boost student engagement.  Serving mostly under-resourced students of color, these two schools have achieved remarkable college-going results with their students, and have created coherent and rigorous intellectual environments where students feel deeply empowered, seen, and heard.  What can we learn from them?  In this workshop we dig in.

http://www.chulavistaresort.com/

Free Minds, Free People

For more information on the conference, please go to http://www.edliberation.org/fmfp-2011

The National At-Risk Education Network (NAREN) is a private, non-sectarian, non-profit educational agency dedicated to both promoting the success of at-risk youth in our schools, and supporting the educators who work on their behalf.

NARENWICH is the Wisconsin Chapter of the NAREN organization. NARENWICH strives to:

• Meet the needs of students, parents, teachers, future teachers, administrators, and the general citizenry through a professional organization dedicated to the improvement of services to Wisconsin at-risk youth.
• Provide educational options that allow learners to develop their personal, academic, and career potential on a progressive path to becoming productive citizens.
• Provide technical assistance to practitioners
• Be a change agent for the traditional education system
• Represent the common interest of at-risk learning to the greater community
• Provide professional development opportunities.

For more information about Kirsten's keynote address and the conference, please go to: http://narenwich.org/

Massachusetts Instructional Forum, sponsored by the Massachusetts Center for Charter Public School Excellence.

Kirsten Olson will be presenting a workshop entitled:  "How Democratic Is Your School?"

How much do students participate in the running of your school or classroom, and the management of their own learning? What are some of the benefits to school performance, student engagement, and higher-level learning of democratic instructional environments and school cultures?  Beginning with a self-assessment of your own school or classroom, this interactive workshop looks at some principles of democratic school organization, describes how some schools are enacting democratic governance and instructional strategies real time, and what the benefits for you might be.  You will come away with a self-designed plan for making your classroom or school more choiceful, more engaging, and more organized to put student interests at the center of your instructional planning and educational culture.

For registration information, please go to http://mainstructionalforum2011.eventbrite.com/

What is Educon?

EduCon is both a conversation and a conference.

And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas — from the very practical to the big dreams.

I will be hanging out at EDUCON 2.3 participating in conversations and meeting up with other COOPERATIVE CATALYST members.  Please be in touch!

Keynote Address on Slow Leadership

http://www.mccpse.org/