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BLC18

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

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

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

2:00pm PDT

Collado - Building a Learning Farm of Global Collaborators Hancock

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

4:00pm PDT

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

10:20am PDT

Asavavatana/Kirr/Polansky - Keynote Followup Grand Ballroom A Beilharz - Deep dive into Minecraft: Cambridge Cobb - Getting Our Foot in the Classroom Door--The Nonfiction Minute White Hill Collins - From STEAM to SEEDS: Designing Creative Interdisciplinary Learning Environments and Experiences in Science, Engineering, Esthetics, Design & Storytelling for Students. Arlington 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 Gorman - PBL Splash ... What Project Base Learning Done Right... Really Is Berkeley Krause - Mindful by Design: "The Danger of a Single Story" Whittier Levine - Creating a Digital Writing Circle in Grades 3-6 St. James Reed/Mathieson - Finding our way: How do we create and sustain programs that transform teaching, learning, and school culture? Terrace Rimmer - Taking a Step Back: Giving Students Ownership of their Learning Clarendon Stubbs - Vocabulary-focused strategies for deep academic engagement Georgian

11:45am PDT

Asavavatana - Yes They CAN! Code, Create, and Make in Early Childhood! Arlington Bruzzese - Inception: Who owns the learning in university? Stuart Clark - Transforming the Culture of Math Terrace Dunbar - Mirror Classrooms: Reflections on Global Collaborative Learning White Hill Freedman - Connecting to Your Classroom Community: Engaging Parents in the Learning Process Clarendon Garcia - Bringing STEM Careers to the next level with Title 1 ELLs Beacon Hill 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 Rosenthal-Tolisano - Building a Personal Learning Network Whittier Winstone/Worsnup - Give Students A Choice On How They Share Their Learning: Get Going With Apps! Berkeley

1:10pm PDT

Beilharz - Authentic Learning Experience using Integrated Learning and STEAM Berkeley Beine-Bowden - Coding in the Early Years: Setting the Foundation Clarendon Cassidy - Writing in a Digital Age Cambridge Hall - Reflection and the Development of a Learning Mindset Beacon Hill Held - Citizen Science/Citizen Engineering - Authentic Research and Engineering St. James Kuropatwa - Behind Their Eyes - making thinking visible is not enough Georgian Russac/Hall - Empower Creativity and Visual Journalism Stuart Teuber - Computational Thinking Makes Better Learners Terrace 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 Zimmerman - What Julius Caesar Can Teach Us About AI Whittier

2:35pm PDT

Beichler - Mindset for Change Beacon Hill Cassidy - Apps, Bots and Code: The New ABC’s in the Elementary Classroom Cambridge Kirr - Personalized Learning - What's Stopping You? Arlington Long - The Power of Peer Coaching Stuart Merrill/Van Ledtje - Books, Bytes, Swipes, and Likes: Crafting Digital Identity with a Global Audience Whittier Mull - Using the Question Formulation Technique to Guide School Decision Making Terrace N2Learning - Schools Transform Learning St. James November - Leadership Georgian Quick - Differentiated Classrooms in Action Clarendon Winstone/Worsnup - Developing Digital Portfolios Berkeley Zarkesh - Polyup: A Computational Thinking Playground for All White Hill

10:20am PDT

Bruzzese - Technology Together: Whole School Professional Development for Capability and Confidence Whittier Colavecchia/Quick - Classroom to Classroom: Shared Learning Experiences Beyond the Classroom Walls Berkeley Dintersmith - Keynote Followup Grand Ballroom A Joseph - Skills for Innovative Leadership Beacon Hill Kelley - We Dig Learning: Using place-based education to boost learning Cambridge Maranon Davis - My kid is on their phone, again! Shifting our perceptions on 21st Century communication White Hill McNulty - Using Google Sites as Digital Portfolios Clarendon Merrill/Van Ledtje - "I'll Help You Sheer Your Sheep!": Examining Minecraft Stories as Narratives of Care St. James Sanders, Selenkow, Short, Sweeny, - Creating Collaborative Community: Digital Notebooks as Communication Tools Arlington Shea - iOER: iOER: Interactive Open Educational Resources Terrace Staudt - Sensing Science Through Modeling Matter Stuart Stubbs - Teacher Clarity: Practical strategies for deep student engagement Georgian

11:45am PDT

Dunbar - Blue Tickets: Admission to Fearless Learning! Berkeley Gorman - Making Makers Mainstream…Connecting A Maker Culture to Curriculum Standards and the 4C’s Georgian Held - Teach Making, Coding and Electronics with Interactive Art Projects Whittier Kuropatwa - Behind Their Eyes - making thinking visible is not enough White Hill Miller - Sustaining Change with Teachers and Students as Change Agents Clarendon Montgomery - Gaston County Schools: Our Journey With Big Ideas Cambridge Mull - Making Thinking Visible with Nearpod Arlington Shea - Applying Artificial Intelligence Tools to Improve Student Writing Terrace Staudt - Sim City in the Real World Stuart Zarkesh - Polyup: Turning Math Classes to Virtual Makerspaces at Scale Beacon Hill

1:10pm PDT

November - Integrating Purpose Across the Curriculum Georgian