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Dana Kickler

Lackland ISD
Instructional Technologist
San Antonio, Texas

I have been an Instructional Technologist since the 1999-2000 school year. Before that I taught 2nd grade for 3 years. I am interested in opening a public charter school that breaks all the "rules" of traditional public education.

10:20am PDT

Beine-Bowden - Coding in the Early Years: Setting the Foundation Beacon Hill Cassidy - The Digital Daily Five Whittier Zimmerman - From Conflict to Collaboration: Leadership shifts that changed school culture White Hill

11:45am PDT

Rowell - Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?... NOT IN MY CLASS! Designing Innovative Learning Experiences to Engage All Learners Arlington Stern - Connecting to Experts to Solve Authentic Problems Clarendon

12:00pm PDT

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

1:10pm PDT

Cassidy - Digital Portfolios in Elementary Whittier 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 Polansky - Alphabet Soup: Beyond the Curriculum Terrace Polubiec - Lessons from Finland: Exercise balls, baby boxes and Karelian pies Cambridge

2:30pm PDT

Clark - Adding Student Voice to Professional Learning Statler

2:35pm PDT

Asavavatana - I'm Little and I'm Literate! Early Childhood Literacy in a Digital World Clarendon Kuropatwa - Leading Change Terrace 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 Rosenthal-Tolisano - Building a Professional Development Hub for your School Whittier

4:00pm PDT

Beichler - Creating a Culture of Learning for Educators Whittier Gorman - Computation Thinking Across the Curriculum… Students Thinking for Solutions Arlington Kelley - Implementing Innovation: Less us, More Them Stuart November - 6 Questions Georgian Stern - Real-World Transfer of Learning Clarendon

6:00pm PDT

FableVision Reception FableVision Studios

8:30am PDT

Announcements and Thursday Keynotes - Pana Asavavatana, Joy Kirr and Aaron Polansky Grand Ballroom A

10:20am PDT

Cobb - Getting Our Foot in the Classroom Door--The Nonfiction Minute White Hill DaDa - Teach Across the Globe from the Comfort of your Home Beacon Hill Edwards - A School District’s Journey to Digital Literacy: Franklin’s Case Study Stuart Krause - Mindful by Design: "The Danger of a Single Story" Whittier

11:45am PDT

Asavavatana - Yes They CAN! Code, Create, and Make in Early Childhood! Arlington Hansen - 10 Tips for Getting Educators to Open Up (Number 6 will Shock You!) Cambridge Hoe - Improving Your Digital Workflow in a 1:1 Environment St. James Richner - Tech Tools for a More Positive School Climate Georgian

1:10pm PDT

Beilharz - Authentic Learning Experience using Integrated Learning and STEAM Berkeley Beine-Bowden - Coding in the Early Years: Setting the Foundation Clarendon Venables - Shifting from Inspiration to Action: A 4 step model for delivering change in schools White Hill 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… Arlington

2:35pm PDT

Beichler - Mindset for Change Beacon Hill Cassidy - Apps, Bots and Code: The New ABC’s in the Elementary Classroom Cambridge N2Learning - Schools Transform Learning St. James November - Leadership Georgian Quick - Differentiated Classrooms in Action Clarendon Zarkesh - Polyup: A Computational Thinking Playground for All White Hill

4:00pm PDT

Special Session with Stephen Wolfram Grand Ballroom A

7:30pm PDT

Global Speed Networking Georgian

9:00pm PDT

BLC Bash Georgian

7:00am PDT

Registrations and Breakfast Buffet Grand Ballroom B

8:30am PDT

Announcements and Friday Keynote: Ted Dintersmith - What School Could Be Grand Ballroom A

10:20am PDT

Bruzzese - Technology Together: Whole School Professional Development for Capability and Confidence Whittier Joseph - Skills for Innovative Leadership Beacon Hill Stubbs - Teacher Clarity: Practical strategies for deep student engagement Georgian

11:45am PDT

Kuropatwa - Behind Their Eyes - making thinking visible is not enough White Hill Miller - Sustaining Change with Teachers and Students as Change Agents Clarendon

1:10pm PDT

November - Integrating Purpose Across the Curriculum Georgian

2:15pm PDT

BLC Closing Social Georgian

2:45pm PDT

Closing and Next Steps Georgian