EdTechTeacher

21st Century School Leadership: Leading Change in Changing Times, July 9-11, 2012

As technology and globalization transform our economy and civic sphere, educators must rise to the challenge of preparing students for an ever more complex and cognitively demanding world. This workshop is designed for school leaders working to make 21st Century Learning an essential element of school culture and intellectual life. The workshop is organized around three core themes:

1. Why Change? Making the case for 21st Century Skills instruction
2. What Does Change Look Like? Envisioning and enacting 21st Century Skills
   instruction across schools
3. Assessing Change in Changing Times: Monitoring school progress towards 21st Century
   Skill goals.

In this workshop, we'll begin by closely examining the global forces transforming our world and explore the skill sets that our students will need to thrive in their future. We’ll look at strategies for convincing diverse stakeholder groups — students, teachers, parents, administrators, and school board members — about the imperatives of 21st Century Skills instruction.

To examine the role that technology can play in helping students develop these skills, we will immerse ourselves in hands-on practice with Web 2.0 tools, learning from examples gleaned from years of intensive fieldwork in technology rich classrooms. After that, we will examine several key conceptual frameworks, as well as a suite of strategies for guiding and supporting change in the instructional core, including backwards planning and logic modeling. Particular attention will be paid to the essential role of teacher-leaders in leading the way towards meaningful technology-integration. So that we understand what change looks like in the instructional core, we will address ideas from both a classroom perspective as well as through the lens of school reform.

Finally, we will examine the issue of performance assessment with 21st Century teaching and learning. Again, we’ll first address these issues from a classroom perspective before exploring how school leaders can aggregate classroom level assessments to get a school wide perspective on progress towards 21st Century Skill goals.

Participants will leave the workshop with a greater familiarity with emerging technologies, a deeper understanding of effective technology integration, and an action plan for leading change in their schools.

This workshop is designed for a wide variety of school leaders: principals, curriculum specialists, IT directors, academic technology specialists, teacher-leaders with formal roles (such as coach or department chair), and teacher-leaders with a desire to help change instruction in their school communities.

Schedule

The building opens at 8:30 am, and we strongly recommend arriving fifteen minutes early the first day. Coffee and snacks will be available each morning. Though lunch is not provided, there are a variety of food options available within walking distance.

• 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Class
• 12:00 pm - 1:00pm - Lunch
• 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Class

Instructor

Justin Reich is the co-founder of EdTechTeacher and an educational researcher. He is the project manager of the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities Project, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to examine how Web 2.0 tools are used in K-12 settings to develop 21st century skills. Justin's research includes both a nation-wide ethnographic study of classrooms using networked technologies as well as a large-scale quantitative study of over 200,000 wiki learning environments. Justin is the author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers, and his academic work has been published in Educational Researcher, Social Education, Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, and other venues. His opinion writings have been published in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Providence Journal, and other publications. He has been an Outstanding Educator in Residence for the Academy of Singapore Teachers, a Digital Media and Learning Summer Fellow with the MacArthur Foundation, and is among the 2012 class of Emerging Leaders for the International Society for Technology in Education. He also blogs for Education Week at EdTechResearcher.

Registration

To register, please complete our Online Registration Form. Please note that your registration is not complete until we receive payment. If you have any questions, please email us or call (888) 377-9518.

Payment

The cost of the workshop is $795, with a discounted price of $595 for MASCD and METAA members. There are two workshop payment options:

1. If paying by check or requesting a Purchase Order please make Check or PO payable to EdTechTeacher, Inc. and mail to:
   
   EdTechTeacher
   Attention: Ileen Matthews
   41 Kinsley Lane
   Mendon, MA 01756
   
   
2. If you plan to pay online by credit card you can pay securely via our PayPal account.

Please note: Space in our workshops is limited and they have sold-out in recent years. Spots are guaranteed on a first-paid, first-served basis, so please expedite payment as soon as possible.

Cancellation Policy

You can receive a full refund for your registration payment until June 1. After June 1, you will receive a full refund if we can replace you with a person from a waiting list. Otherwise you will receive a 50% refund for cancellation.

Waiting List Policy

If the workshop is full, we'll put you on the waiting list, and let you know what your position is on the list.

Computer Equipment

Participants are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop computer with wireless capability. You are welcome to bring a tablet such as an iPad or Galaxy in addition to your laptop, though tablets are not compatible with all web tools. EdTechTeacher does not provide computers for participants.

Professional Development Credits

We have received approval from Framingham State University (Massachusetts) to award 1 (one) graduate credit to participants at a cost of $75. To receive graduate credit participants must be in attendance for all onsite instruction and complete all assigned work.

Once registered, participants will receive additional graduate credit details.

Registrant Survey

All participants are asked to complete a pre-workshop online survey. It will be e-mailed to those who have completed both registration and payment. The survey will help us identify participant needs and objectives and may influence the topics covered during the workshop.

Questions

If you have any questions, please email us or call (888) 377-9518.