Breakout Session #1: Growing Learners Capacity to Think, Problem Solve, Innovate
What are the dispositions of confident, self-directed problem-solvers and thinkers? As we continue to imagine contemporary ways of enriching the learning experience, the Habits of Mind, a set of 16 such dispositions, are foundational to grow the thinking of every learner.
Breakout Session #1 Slides
Article: Examines each of the 16-habits-of-mind
Supporting Document: Understandings and Essential Questions for HOM
Supporting Animations: Wonder Grove for Each HOM
Keynote 1 — Students at the Center: Personalizing Learning with Habits of Mind
As the world becomes more complex and uncertain, how do we engage our learners in experiences that help them meet the challenges they are facing now and in the future? We suggest that students develop necessary dispositions for self-directed and continuous learning that build the strength of intellectual and social character students need in the contemporary world. We provide four filters of personalizing learning as a simple but powerful frame for transforming learning spaces where students thoughtfully engage with inquiry and idea generation and develop performance opportunities that are authentic and worthy of the attempt.
Keynote: Slides
Article: Examines each of the 16-habits-of-mind
Supporting Document: Understandings and Essential Questions for HOM
Article: Ed Leadership (March 2017): OrchestratingtheMove_Kallick&Zmuda
Keynote #2 — Growing a Collaborative Culture where Personalized Learning and Habits of Mind Can Thrive
How can schools become communities of inquiry where questioning, problem posing, and innovative practices are explored, designed and implemented? We need to educate our districts toward becoming communities in which thinking is valued and not just given lip service. As we build such a community, we will be providing space for generative experiences to reimagine learning. We will include reflections and tips from leaders in schools and districts featuring their practices and the benefits from taking the time to build the culture.
Keynote: Slides
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Breakout Session #2: Leveraging Task and Audience – One of the Seven Elements of Personalized Learning
How can we move beyond the classroom teacher as the sole audience for student work? The level of willingness to persist, to step back and look at an idea from another’s perspective, and to think interdependently is more likely to happen with an audience that matters. This session will share ideas and examples of how to work with students in authentic ways that deeply engages them in thinking, creating, feedback, and revision.
- Forbes: Top 25 Ideas that Could Change the World
- United Nations: 17 Goals to Transform Our World
- State of Obesity in Arkansas
- The Globe Program: Collect, Document and Visualize Data
- Social Justice Issues through Mathematics
- NASA Challenges for Students
- Global Read Aloud
- This I Believe
- Design Challenges by PBS Kids
- Real World Scholars
Breakout #2: Slides
Breakout Session #3: Leveraging Inquiry- One of the Seven Elements of Personalized Learning
How can we ask questions that help students engage and expand their thinking about what interests them? As we all know, asking powerful questions can serve to clarify one’s fuzzy thinking. Personalizing learning requires an inquiry mindset––one that is genuinely interested in what the other is trying to formulate. This session will provide tips on how to develop questions that empower investigations, curiosities, and wonderings.
Breakout #3: Slides