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Northern Regional Meeting !!" !# & ' '!%! $% ! !! !"# " !"# !!% !# "$% # Dr. Yong Zhao Dr. Yong Zhao is an internationally known scholar, author, and speaker. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He has designed schools that cultivate global competence, developed computer games for language learning, and founded research and development institutions to explore innovative education models. He has published over 100 articles and 20 books, including Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. http://zhaolearning.com/. He is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association, and was named one of the 2012 10 most influential people in educational technology by the Tech & Learn Magazine. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy for Education. He currently serves as the Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he is also Weinman Professor of Technology and Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Until December 2010, Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Zhao was born in China’s Sichuan Province. He received his B.A. in English Language Education from Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China in 1986. After teaching English in China for six years, he came to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in 1992. He then began his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. He received his A.M. in Education in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1996. He joined the faculty at MSU in 1996 after working as the Language Center Coordinator at Willamette University and a language specialist at Hamilton College. 1-00 WORLD CLASS EDUCATION: EDUCATING CREATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL FEATURED SPEAKER STUDENTS K-12 The world needs creative and entrepreneurial talents who are globally competent to take ROOM: H - AUDITORIUM advantage of the opportunities brought about technology and globalization and tackle the tough challenges facing human beings. But our schools are being pushed to produce homogenous, compliant, and employee-minded test-takers, as a result of seductive power of the traditional education paradigm. In this presentation, Dr. Yong Zhao challenges the traditional paradigm, debunks the myth of international tests such as PISA and TIMSS, and proposes a new paradigm of education aimed to cultivate diverse, creative, and entrepreneurial talents. Dr. Zhao proposes a new paradigm of education. He will discuss the triad model of education to prepare global, creative, and entrepreneurial talents that include: personalized curriculum/educational experience, product-oriented learning, and the globe as the campus. Yong Zhao will present Specific details of each element will be presented as follows. Point 1: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students: Personalization and Strength- based Curriculum Point 2: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students: Product-oriented Learning Point 3: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students: The Global Campus Dr. Zhao’s presentation is based on the massive amount of evidence from a variety of sources he gathered for his new book World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students (Corwin, 2012) and his Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization (ASCD, 2009). Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon 1-01 MOVING FROM DIVERSITY DAYS TO INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT ADMINISTRATION Join educators and school leaders in a dialogue that pushes past percentages and K-12 performances toward thriving 21st century schools. This workshop will propose some ways ROOM: M - 416 schools can foster a diverse, inclusive, and culturally competent school community. You will engage in activities to share best practices, and challenge existing behaviors, policies, and practices related to forwarding diversity initiatives. Activities will create the space to develop mission statements for diversity efforts at your school. You will consider the long-term and short-term goals for the institution, administration, faculty, and staff regarding cultural competency, student admissions and retention, the hiring and retention of historically underrepresented groups, etc. Lizette Dolan, The Athenian School 1-02 AFFINITY GROUP: SUMMER PROGRAM DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATION This workshop is an opportunity for Summer Program Directors to connect, share best K-12 practices, and network. ROOM: F - 105 Joseph Elftmann, Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco 1-03 CASE STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION Come participate in real life, challenging, and interesting scenarios that Division Heads have 7-8 had to deal with in the recent past. This workshop is ideal for beginning administrators and ROOM: J - 401 people wanting to get into administration. It will be led by Josee Mayette, Middle School Head at Children's Day School and Julie Galles, Assistant Head for Middle School at San Francisco School. Let's work through problems together with help from current administrators and one another. Josee Mayette, Children's Day School Julie Galles, San Francisco School 1-04 HEADS’ SESSION WITH JIM MCMANUS ADMINISTRATION Leading independent schools seems to grow in complexity almost annually. Whether it's K-12 economic uncertainty, shifting demographics, intensified competition, an AP-dominated ROOM: J - 304 curriculum, hyper-anxious parents, distraught neighbors, or capital campaign demands, there is a constant flow of challenges that keeps the head's job lively and sometimes stressful. At the same time, many heads undeniably continue to derive deep satisfaction from the work that they do, despite the ongoing pressures. Join CAIS Executive Director, Jim McManus, for this opportunity to have a conversation with head colleagues that will focus upon whatever considerations the participants wish to explore. Jim McManus, Executive Director, CAIS 1-05 EMBRACING FAMILY SYSTEM DIVERSITY COUNSELING Approximately 40% of children will witness their parents’ divorce before reaching adulthood K-12 and traditional, biological families are no longer the cultural norm. This workshop will inform ROOM: E - 201 you of issues and developmental challenges (academic and emotional) that are unique to students living in "blended" family situations; together with strategies & approaches that highlight the often overlooked benefits these students may enjoy. This workshop will focus on the realities of what's happening and provide an approach that balances the trauma of separation/divorce with a positive re-framing of the blended family experience. Carol Michelson, Tam Counseling 1-06 CULTURE - THE CURRENT THAT UNDERCUTS OUR LIVES COUNSELING Individuals exist in a world of uniqueness and similarities. Just as the commonalities of K-12 shared values, beliefs, principals, and styles of life serve to identify a people to a culture, the ROOM: F - 104 personal identities which an individual holds also serve to define the person’s cultural ties, as well as establish the person’s unique existence within that culture - a person-in-context.” In our multiracial and multicultural society, a truly competent educator and service provider must have cultural awareness, knowledge and skills. There is need to develop a deeper foundational knowledge and awareness of culture, ethnicity and race to be able to acquire culturally relevant skills. This session provides an avenue to increasing this foundational basis on the road to becoming a culturally competent educator, service provider, member of society and person-in-context. Gary Mallare, The Harker School 1-07 RESPONDING TO SCHOOL-WIDE GRIEF AND LOSS COUNSELING An independent high school suffered an unexpected student death just prior to the opening of 9-12 the 2011-12 academic year. Numerous complicating factors (including the presence of the ROOM: E - 202 student's sibling in the school community) made the process of school crisis response particularly challenging. This central loss was compounded as other schools around the Bay Area experienced several student suicides. This presentation outlines the school's response to the student loss and highlights the factors that proved crucial to positive outcome and building resilience during the long, complex response to the loss. Travis Brownley, Marin Academy Bill Meyer, Marin Academy Katie Pfeiffer, Marin Academy 1-08 AFFINITY GROUP: COUNSELING: WHAT'S HAPPENING ON YOUR CAMPUS? COUNSELING This workshop will be a gathering of counseling staff members to discuss current issues that 7-12 are relevant on their campus. Items such as handling long term psychological issues and their ROOM: F - 102 impact on academic success will be discussed. Participants are welcome to come and discuss other counseling concerns in a collaborative environment with their counseling colleagues. Lori Kohan, The Harker School Melinda Gonzales, The Harker School 1-09 HELPING ANXIOUS KIDS AND THEIR ANXIOUS PARENTS COUNSELING It is not always
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