Dates
July 25
July 26
July 27

Monday, July 25

7:30am - 8:45am
Registration / Breakfast
8:00am - 8:45am
Welcome and Presentation to VBCPS staff ONLY Dr. James Merrill, Superintendent, Virginia Beach City Public Schools
8:45m - 9:30am
Welcome Dr. James Merrill, Superintendent, Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Billy Cannaday, Dean of the School of Continuing & Professional Studies, University of Virginia
Jonathan Harber, CEO, Schoolnet
9:30am - 10:45am
Keynote Address The Transformative Power of Education
Wes Moore

Keynote speaker Wes Moore is committed to being a positive influence and helping kids find the support they need to enact change. Pointing out that a high school student drops out every nine seconds, he says that public servants – the teachers, mentors, and volunteers who work with our youth – are as imperative to our national standing and survival as are our armed forces. "Public service does not have to be an occupation," he says, "but it must be a way of life."

10:45am - 11:00am
Coffee Break and Wes Moore Book Signing
11:00am - 12:15pm
Keynote Address Preparing Students for the 21st Century – What's Working in Our Schools
Bill Daggett

The skills, knowledge, and attitudes today's learners bring to our schools and the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they will need to be successful in the technological, globally- driven world in which they will live and work have changed dramatically. Dr. Daggett will describe how the nation's most rapidly improving schools are transforming what and how they teach to address these needs and offer specific recommendations on how participants can successfully position their schools to better prepare their students for this changing world.

12:15pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Workshop Preparing for the Challenges and Opportunities of the Next Three Years
Bill Daggett

Over the next three years, our schools will face a series of challenges and opportunities that will have a major impact on both students and teachers. Fueled by states moving to the Common Core State Standards and, more importantly, the new assessments tied to these standards, schools must make a fundamental shift in both what is taught and how it will be taught. Students will be assessed on standards that are far more rigorous and much more applied than in the past, and therefore teachers will need to match their instruction to those higher levels of rigor and relevance. This session will lay out why these changes are being made, the impact they will have on curriculum and instruction, and ways that the nation’s most rapidly improving schools provide a blueprint to meet the challenges successfully.

2:15pm - 2:30pm
Break
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Case Studies Note: The following sessions run concurrently.
Integrating Instructional Tech
Balanced Assessment
Responding to Student Needs
Schoolnet
  • Schoolnet Genius Bar Have a Schoolnet Technical Question? Stop by the Schoolnet Genius Bar!
6:00pm - 9:00pm
EduStat Celebration Dinner Lesner Inn

Tuesday, July 26

8:00am - 8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am - 9:00am
Morning Greeting Jared Cotton
9:00am - 10:15am
Keynote Address Formative assessment: what it is and what it isn’t -- when it works and when it doesn't
Dylan Wiliam

A number of studies have shown that helping teachers develop their use of formative assessment can have significant impact on the achievement of their students. However, these studies are today often cited in support of formative assessment practices that bear no relation to those that the research shows makes a difference. In this presentation, participants will learn to distinguish between different kinds of formative assessments (including benchmark, interim, and common formative assessments) and, more importantly, know when to use which to make the most difference to student learning. The presentation concludes with a number of practical techniques that teachers can use to embed formative assessment in regular classroom practice.

10:15am - 10:30am
Break
10:30am - 11:45am (to be continued from 12:45 – 2:00)
Workshops Note: The following sessions run concurrently.
Integrating Instructional Tech
Balanced Assessment
Responding to Student Needs
Schoolnet National Users Group
Schoolnet
  • Schoolnet Genius Bar Have a Schoolnet Technical Question? Stop by the Schoolnet Genius Bar!
11:45am - 12:45pm
Lunch
12:45pm - 2:00pm
Workshops (Continued from Morning Sessions) Note: The following sessions run concurrently.
Integrating Instructional Tech
Balanced Assessment
Responding to Student Needs
Schoolnet National Users Group
Schoolnet
  • Schoolnet Genius Bar Have a Schoolnet Technical Question? Stop by the Schoolnet Genius Bar!
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Break
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Case Studies Note: The following sessions run concurrently.
Integrating Instructional Tech
Balanced Assessment
Responding to Student Needs
Schoolnet
  • Schoolnet Genius Bar Have a Schoolnet Technical Question? Stop by the Schoolnet Genius Bar!
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Virginia Beach School Teams Reflective Discussions School Reform Initiative

Making Meaning of New Learning: These sessions will provide the participants of each school team time to reflect together on what they have learned at the conference and to consider the implications for their school’s implementation next year.

This session is for Virginia Beach only.

Wednesday, July 27

8:30am - 9:00am
Breakfast
9:00am - 9:15am
Conference Close Jonathan Harber
Jared Cotton
9:15am - 10:30am
Keynote Address Where's the Beef? Rigor and Relevance Delivered with 21st Century Tools
Bernajean Porter

What are we pretending not to know? Even knowing that the future aches for a new kind of learner, thinker, and problem-solver, all the dollars and time spent on techno gadgets still have changed little more than pockets of classrooms for kids. We need to seek higher ground for our visions and our results. Each generation of young people becomes an investment in the only future we will have - how can we escalate the reshaping of learning NOW! Enjoy a whimsical look at simple but effective strategies that focus technology’s possibilities towards shifting schools into extra H.O.T. 21st Century practices that will power up your students' future today.

10:30am - 10:45am
Break and Book Signing, Bernajean Porter
10:45am - 12:00pm
Keynote Address Creating a School Climate and Culture that Yield High Academic Performance
Baruti Kafele, Nationally Recognized Educator

Under the ongoing demands of No Child Left Behind to meet yearly federally-mandated assessment benchmarks, principals must first examine the prevailing climate and culture of their schools to determine whether or not both are conducive to academic success. In this high-energy and highly interactive workshop, Principal Kafele provides school leaders with strategies toward developing a school climate and culture that are conducive to high academic performance. Principal Kafele contends that regardless of the skill and ability levels of the teachers and administrators in the building, if they are operating within a toxic school environment, the probability for the school to perform at an optimal level diminishes exponentially.

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch and Book Signing, Baruti Kafele
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Virginia Beach Only Note: The following sessions run concurrently.
  • Resources to Support Integration of Instructional Technology Bernajean Porter and Vanguard Partners
  • Resources to Support Balanced Assessment Vanguard Partners
  • Resources to Support Responsiveness to Student Needs Baruti Kafele and Vanguard Partners

Vanguard Partners will share resources available to support the work in each of the Vanguard strands. Vanguard Partners and selected guest speakers will also be available to assist as school teams discuss and develop next steps for the 2011-2012 school year as it relates to the Vanguard initiative.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools, and Schoolnet, Inc.