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7:00am PDT

Registration and Breakfast Buffet Grand Ballroom B BLC Information Center Open - Information and Registration Georgian Coat Room

8:30am PDT

Opening Announcements and Keynote: Dr. Marc Brackett, PhD Grand Ballroom A

10:20am PDT

Asavavatana - I think Icon…I think Icon…Reading POWER in the Digital World St. James Beine-Bowden - Coding in the Early Years: Setting the Foundation Beacon Hill Cassidy - The Digital Daily Five Whittier Clark - Put on Your Thinking Cap: How to Incorporate Making Thinking Visible (MTV) Routines into any classroom Terrace Hansen - Collaborate, Make a Difference: Improving MIT OpenCourseWare through Teacher Feedback Cambridge Keynote Followup with Dr. Marc Brackett Grand Ballroom A Kirr - Shift the Culture of Your Classroom Berkeley Maranon Davis - The Skin I’m In: Empowering Students to Challenge the Myth of Meritocracy Clarendon Mull - Making Thinking Visible with Nearpod Arlington Reynolds/Calvin - Paper Prototyping Bootcamp for STEAM-Powered Learning Georgian Sumich - Transdisciplinary Learning - teaching and learning beyond single subjects. Stuart Zimmerman - From Conflict to Collaboration: Leadership shifts that changed school culture White Hill

10:30am PDT

Cusack - Making Your Way to Mathland Statler

11:00am PDT

Trimnal - It’s Time to Assess the Way We Assess: Implementing Non-Traditional Assessments Statler

11:45am PDT

Bruzzese - Multimodal Literacy: An Introduction Beacon Hill Colavecchia - Thinking Beyond the Test Berkeley Collado - Building a Learning Farm of Global Collaborators Grand Ballroom A Krause - Mindful by Design: Mindfulness, Creativity & Innovation in an Age of #AI Whittier Newman - A True Flipped Classroom Stuart Reed/Mathieson - Charlottesville 2017: Using Visible Thinking to Support Courageous Conversations Cambridge Rowell - Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?... NOT IN MY CLASS! Designing Innovative Learning Experiences to Engage All Learners Arlington Soloway/Norris - Managing Digital Curricula Using the Free, Device-Independent Roadmap.center Platform St. James Stern - Connecting to Experts to Solve Authentic Problems Clarendon Stubbs - Surface to deep in 50 minutes Georgian Teuber - Developing Better Thinkers Through Play Terrace Wilkie/McCloud - #Q2Learn: How do we help students slow their thinking down to truly drive more of their own learning? The answers are in the questions… White Hill

12:00pm PDT

Yates - Ditch the Desks! Classrooms of the Future are Here Now Statler

12:30pm PDT

Comber/Christopher - 21st Century Learning through Interdisciplinary Opportunities Statler

1:00pm PDT

Cusack - Making our way to Language and Literacy Statler

1:10pm PDT

Blake-Davis - A Triad Partnership: Providing Expanded Opportunities for Global Citizenship St. James Cassidy - Digital Portfolios in Elementary Whittier Marshall - Gamification with Augmented Reality and VR White Hill McClaskey - Personalization and UDL: The Perfect Match to Realize Learner Agency and Equity for all Learners Georgian Miller - Becoming the Leader You Would Want to Follow Beacon Hill Pittman - Accessible Project Based Learning Berkeley Polansky - Alphabet Soup: Beyond the Curriculum Terrace Polubiec - Lessons from Finland: Exercise balls, baby boxes and Karelian pies Cambridge Rimmer - Surviving the "Novemberized" Classroom: One Teacher's Practical Approach to Incorporating Alan November's Classroom Strategies Clarendon Rowell - What Are They Thinking? Strategies for Transparency in Learning to Tailor Instruction Arlington T.A. Edison CTE Students - Developing Student Leadership by Implementing PREP21: Problem, Research, Evaluate, Propose to build 21st Century Skills Stuart

1:30pm PDT

D. November - PBL: Integrating Social Justice into the Curriculum Statler

2:00pm PDT

Freedman - All Aboard the Hyperdoc Express Statler Collado - Building a Learning Farm of Global Collaborators Hancock

2:30pm PDT

Clark - Adding Student Voice to Professional Learning Statler Book Signing with Alan November Mezzanine

2:35pm PDT

Asavavatana - I'm Little and I'm Literate! Early Childhood Literacy in a Digital World Clarendon Collins - Designing Physical Microworlds for Learning Cambridge Kuropatwa - Leading Change Terrace Marshall - Passion Projects and Extended Learning: Guiding Thinkers to Embrace Difficult Problems White Hill McNulty - Using Code.org and MIT's Scratch as Assessment and Enrichment Berkeley Richardson/Bates - Growth Mindset in the Elementary Classroom - How to Transform the Thinking of Your Students and Yourself Stuart Richner - Emotionally Intelligent Design for Educational Technology Georgian Rosenthal-Tolisano - Building a Professional Development Hub for your School Whittier Sparvell - The Class of 2030:The Science of Emotions Arlington Sumich - Shifting Staff from Professional Development to Professional Learning St. James

3:00pm PDT

Lindsay - Extraordinary Inquiry: Constructing Successful Environments for Empowering Individualized, Student-Driven Inquiry and Community-Based Action Statler

3:30pm PDT

Yates - Using Pictures and Videos to Tell your Story Statler

4:00pm PDT

Newman - Mixing Gamification with Pedagogy Statler Stern - Real-World Transfer of Learning Clarendon Beichler - Creating a Culture of Learning for Educators Whittier Cobb - Children's Nonfiction Authors Collaborating with Teachers and Students ( Class ACTS) White Hill Dunbar - Building Blocks of Code with MakeCode & MinecraftEDU Terrace Gorman - Computation Thinking Across the Curriculum… Students Thinking for Solutions Arlington Jacobs - How can one bead can change your life? Cambridge Kelley - Implementing Innovation: Less us, More Them Stuart Long - Your School Library - A Dynamic Part of Your Learning Community! Berkeley Lucente - The Struggle is Real: Lessons Learned From Our First Year Of Passion Projects St. James November - 6 Questions Georgian Russac/Hall - Where Learning Meets Design: Taking Control Of The Visual Classroom Beacon Hill

6:00pm PDT

FableVision Reception FableVision Studios Summer Showcase at LearnLaunch LearnLaunch