NJAISNEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS Teaching in the 21st Century CONFERENCE 2010 October 25, 2010 • The Lawrenceville School Dear Colleagues, Schedule of the Day It is apparent that the Conference Committee gave careful consideration to making this a meaningful and timely day for all educators. “Teaching in the 21st Century” as a theme allows us October 25, 2010 all to pause and consider what we have always done, why we proceed in a certain way, and how we might do things differently. NJAIS educators are eager to move forward, and NJAIS member 8:00 – 2:45 Exhibitors- Irwin Dining Center schools have much to offer each other. 8:00 – 8:45 Continental Breakfast - Irwin Dining Center As I was visiting NJAIS campuses this summer, I saw many banners or bulletin boards that 8:45 – 10:15 Introductions and Linda L. Moore Keynote Speaker* – posted “Critical Thinking,” “Problem Solving,” “Collaboration,” “Agility,” “Adaptability,” “Initia- Lavino Field House tive,” “Entrepreneurialism,” “Curiosity,” and “Imagination,” many qualities that Tony Wagner Tony Wagner has identified as “survival skills.” I learned that some NJAIS independent schools have a Learning, Leading, and Teaching in the 21st Century Director of Sustainability and Energy Management. In classrooms, I saw student projects with currencies from around the globe, and world maps were prevalent. I realized that many NJAIS 10:30 – 11:30 Session A – Workshops teachers are not the “digital immigrants” instructing the “digital natives,” but are far more 11:45 – 12:45 Session B – Workshops advanced at taking the familiar and exploring new ways to engage learners. We are a decade into the 21st century, and New Jersey independent schools are intentionally educating students 10:30 -12:45 Featured Workshop [pre-registration required] for the future. Will Richardson This is Not a Unit: Eight 21st Century Shifts for Every There is more to be accomplished, however, as we teach in these rapidly changing times. Classroom, Every Curriculum During this Professional Development Conference 2010, participants have the opportunity to learn from colleagues who are willing to collaborate and focus on their innovations and use of a 12:45 – 1:45 Lunch – Irwin Dining Center variety of techniques, media, and teaching methods. We thank the presenters who have volun- teered to share their ideas for helping students prepare for our changing world. Faculty, staff, 1:45 – 2:45 Session C – Workshops and administrators will take home many ideas, some that can be implemented in a classroom or *The NJAIS Board of Trustees named the Keynote Speaker at the Biannual Conference in honor culture immediately, and others that will encourage thoughtful reflection on possible programs of Linda L. Moore who retired as Executive Director in June 2010. to be included in our schools at a later date. Conference 2010 also provides time for you to meet with exhibitors to learn of new products and NJAIS CONFERENCE ’10 COMMITTEE services, and opportunity for you to engage with colleagues from other schools. Sometimes it is in that informal exchange and fellowship with friends that the most exciting ideas take shape. CONFERENCE CHAI RS May this day of professional development inspire your teaching and keep you looking to the Olen Kalkus Princeton AcAdemy of the SAcred heArt future with optimism and originality. Peter Rapelye Princeton Junior School Sincerely, CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Toni Brescher Gill St. BernArd’S School Carole J. Everett Liz Duffy the lAwrenceville School NJAIS Executive Director Bill Freitas the lAwrenceville School Bill Hawkey the PenninGton School Kevin Mattingly the lAwrenceville School Register On-Line For Tom Nammack montclAir KimBerley AcAdemy PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE 2010 Marilyn Stewart the red oaks School Registrations will ONLY be accepted on-line. Go to the NJAIS website: Andrew Webster wArdlAw-hArtridGe School www.njais.org, and click on “Conference ’10 Registration.” Schools should designate one contact to register their faculty and staff. NJAIS Registration Fee: NJAIS Members: $75 per person Carole J. Everett executive director Non-Members: $100 per person Irene G. Mortensen ProfessionAl develoPment coordinAtor Please contact Leslie Valencia at 732-661-9000 or [email protected], with any questions. Leslie Valencia office AdminiStrAtor 1 LINDA L. MOORE KEYNOTE SPEAKER FEATURED WORKSHOP Pre-Registration required. Limited to the first 100 people. 8:45-10:15 A.m., lAvino field houSe 10:30 A.m.-12:45 P.m. Tony Wagner, Ed.D Will Richardson Learning, Leading, and Teaching in the 21st Century This is Not a Unit: Eight 21st Century Shifts for Every Classroom, Every Curriculum In America today, there is a new Achievement Gap: it is the gap between the new skills that all students need in the 21st century versus what is tested and Whether it’s online safety or information literacy, all too often we treat the new taught even in our best independent schools. There is also a Learning Gap— challenges that online learning networks are creating as discrete parts rather between how the Net Generation is learning and collaborating out of school than larger, more general changes in how we do our learning business. For versus what they do all day in classrooms. In his presentation, Tony Wagner instance, online safety is not something we teach in the second half of seventh will help educators to understand these gaps and then explore the most effec- grade; it’s a part of every interaction online, and certainly it should be a part tive strategies for preparing all students for careers, college, and citizenship in of every curriculum in the school. Even with our youngest students, we have the new global knowledge society. to be able to model our interactions in our own learning networks and teach them safe, effective and ethical use. We’ll look at eight of these important Tony Wagner, Ed.D global shifts and see how teachers and schools are already starting to integrate Tony Wagner has served as Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group them into the classroom in seamless, ongoing ways. (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since its inception in 2000. An initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CLG is an “R & D” center Will Richardson that helps teams to be effective change leaders in schools and districts. He is Will Richardson is internationally known for his work to make sense of the also on the faculty of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, a joint great challenges and new opportunities that global online learning networks initiative of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Business School, and bring to our schools, our classrooms, our students, and ourselves. A public Kennedy School of Government. Tony Wagner consults widely to public and school educator for 22 years, over the last four years he has delivered keynotes independent schools, districts, and foundations around the country and inter- and workshops to tens of thousands of educators across the United States, nationally and has been Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Canada, Australia, China, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Norway, and oth- for the past eight years. ers. His best-selling book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Tools Dr. Wagner has worked for more than 35 years in the field of school improve- for Classrooms was the 2008 Book of the Year for Corwin Press and has sold ment, and he is a frequent keynote speaker and widely published author on over 70,000 copies worldwide. A nine-year blogger at Weblogg-ed.com, Will education and society. Prior to assuming his current position at Harvard, Richardson is also the co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice ( plpnetwork. Tony was a high school teacher for twelve years; a school principal; a univer- com) and serves as a National Advisory Board member for the George Lucas sity professor in teacher education; co-founder and first executive director Education Foundation. of Educators for Social Responsibility; project director for the Public Agenda Foundation in New York; and President and CEO of the Institute for Responsive Education. He earned his Master’s of Arts in Teaching and Doctorate in Additional Program Information Education from Harvard University. Key: Lower: Grades K-4 Upper: Grades 9-12 Tony Wagner’s publications include numerous articles in both educational Middle: Grades 5-8 All: Pre-K–Grade 12 journals and national magazines and four books: The Global Achievement Thank you for registering on-line for “Teaching in the 21st Century.” Pre-registered Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our attendees will receive a nametag in the mail. On October 25, 2010, no check-in is nec- Children Need—And What We Can Do About It; Change Leadership: A essary. Please feel free to visit the Exhibition Area and enjoy the continental breakfast Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools (with Robert Kegan and col- in the Irwin Dining Center prior to the Linda L. Moore Keynote Address. leagues of the Change Leadership Group); Making the Grade: Reinventing If you need assistance, please note that the NJAIS information desk will be located America’s Schools; and How Schools Change: Lessons From Three in the Irwin Dining Center. Communities Revisited. Tony Wagner will be signing books in the Exhibitor Special house-keeping note: Only water is permitted in the Lavino Field House. Area in Irwin Dining Center following his presentation. 2 3 A-3 Session A Workshops 10:30-11:30 A.m. ADVISING/COLLEGE COUNSELING MIDDLE & UPPER FEATURED WORKSHOP 10:30 A.M. -12:45 P.M. “That’s Not Fair! He only got in because he’s ….” TECHNOLOGY/21ST CENTURY SKILLS ALL College admissions decisions based on institutional priorities can provoke This is Not a Unit: Eight 21st Century Shifts for Every strong reactions within independent school communities when interests such as Classroom, Every Curriculum athletics, development, or diversity lead to what students, faculty, and/or parents Whether it’s online safety or information literacy, all too often we treat the new might perceive as an unfair admissions process.