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Sunday
, July 22
Arlington
2:00pm •
November/Wilkie - The First Five Days - Part 1
Clarendon
2:00pm •
Rothstein/Santana - Students Becoming Sophisticated Question-Askers and Thinkers - Part 1
Georgian Coat Room
12:00pm •
BLC Information Center Open - Information and Registration
Monday
, July 23
Arlington
9:00am •
November/Wilkie - The First Five Days - Part 2
Beacon Hill
1:00pm •
Krause - Mindset, Design, Connect! Using Mindfulness, Design Thinking and Storytelling to Amplify Engaged Learning - Part 1
Cambridge
8:00am •
Rowell - Google Classroom: Community Space That Inspires, Empowers, Engages (And Makes Teachers’ Lives Easier)
1:00pm •
Rowell - Transform Learning - Innovating to Teach at the Highest Level
Clarendon
9:00am •
Rothstein/Santana - Students Becoming Sophisticated Question-Askers and Thinkers - Part 2
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center Open - Information and Registration
Tuesday
, July 24
Arlington
7:00pm •
Presenter Dinner
Beacon Hill
9:00am •
Krause - Mindset, Design, Connect! Using Mindfulness, Design Thinking and Storytelling to Amplify Engaged Learning - Part 2
1:00pm •
Cassidy - Mathematical Mashup: Teaching Primary Math With iPads
LIMITED
Cambridge
8:00am •
Rowell - Pedagogy and Best Practices for Blended Learning
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Rowell - Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?... NOT IN MY CLASS! Designing Innovative Learning Experiences to Engage All Learners
Georgian
5:00pm •
BLC Opening Reception
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center Open - Information and Registration
St. James
8:00am •
November - School and District Leadership
LIMITED
Stuart
8:00am •
Kuropatwa - Things That Suck About Digital Citizenship
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Rothstein/Santana - Better Questions, Better Decisions: Building Consensus with the Right Question Strategy
Whittier
8:00am •
Asavavatana - I'm Little and I'm Literate! Exploring Early Childhood Literacy in a Digital World
LIMITED
Wednesday
, July 25
Arlington
10:20am •
Mull - Making Thinking Visible with Nearpod
11:45am •
Rowell - Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?... NOT IN MY CLASS! Designing Innovative Learning Experiences to Engage All Learners
1:10pm •
Rowell - What Are They Thinking? Strategies for Transparency in Learning to Tailor Instruction
2:35pm •
Sparvell - The Class of 2030:The Science of Emotions
4:00pm •
Gorman - Computation Thinking Across the Curriculum… Students Thinking for Solutions
Beacon Hill
10:20am •
Beine-Bowden - Coding in the Early Years: Setting the Foundation
11:45am •
Bruzzese - Multimodal Literacy: An Introduction
1:10pm •
Miller - Becoming the Leader You Would Want to Follow
4:00pm •
Russac/Hall - Where Learning Meets Design: Taking Control Of The Visual Classroom
Berkeley
10:20am •
Kirr - Shift the Culture of Your Classroom
11:45am •
Colavecchia - Thinking Beyond the Test
1:10pm •
Pittman - Accessible Project Based Learning
2:35pm •
McNulty - Using Code.org and MIT's Scratch as Assessment and Enrichment
4:00pm •
Long - Your School Library - A Dynamic Part of Your Learning Community!
Cambridge
10:20am •
Hansen - Collaborate, Make a Difference: Improving MIT OpenCourseWare through Teacher Feedback
11:45am •
Reed/Mathieson - Charlottesville 2017: Using Visible Thinking to Support Courageous Conversations
1:10pm •
Polubiec - Lessons from Finland: Exercise balls, baby boxes and Karelian pies
2:35pm •
Collins - Designing Physical Microworlds for Learning
4:00pm •
Jacobs - How can one bead can change your life?
Clarendon
10:20am •
Maranon Davis - The Skin I’m In: Empowering Students to Challenge the Myth of Meritocracy
11:45am •
Stern - Connecting to Experts to Solve Authentic Problems
1:10pm •
Rimmer - Surviving the "Novemberized" Classroom: One Teacher's Practical Approach to Incorporating Alan November's Classroom Strategies
2:35pm •
Asavavatana - I'm Little and I'm Literate! Early Childhood Literacy in a Digital World
4:00pm •
Stern - Real-World Transfer of Learning
FableVision Studios
6:00pm •
FableVision Reception
Georgian
10:20am •
Reynolds/Calvin - Paper Prototyping Bootcamp for STEAM-Powered Learning
11:45am •
Stubbs - Surface to deep in 50 minutes
1:10pm •
McClaskey - Personalization and UDL: The Perfect Match to Realize Learner Agency and Equity for all Learners
2:35pm •
Richner - Emotionally Intelligent Design for Educational Technology
4:00pm •
November - 6 Questions
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center Open - Information and Registration
Grand Ballroom A
8:30am •
Opening Announcements and Keynote: Dr. Marc Brackett, PhD
10:20am •
Keynote Followup with Dr. Marc Brackett
11:45am •
Collado - Building a Learning Farm of Global Collaborators
Grand Ballroom B
7:00am •
Registration and Breakfast Buffet
Hancock
2:00pm •
Collado - Building a Learning Farm of Global Collaborators
LearnLaunch
6:00pm •
Summer Showcase at LearnLaunch
Mezzanine
2:30pm •
Book Signing with Alan November
St. James
10:20am •
Asavavatana - I think Icon…I think Icon…Reading POWER in the Digital World
11:45am •
Soloway/Norris - Managing Digital Curricula Using the Free, Device-Independent Roadmap.center Platform
1:10pm •
Blake-Davis - A Triad Partnership: Providing Expanded Opportunities for Global Citizenship
2:35pm •
Sumich - Shifting Staff from Professional Development to Professional Learning
4:00pm •
Lucente - The Struggle is Real: Lessons Learned From Our First Year Of Passion Projects
Statler
10:30am •
Cusack - Making Your Way to Mathland
11:00am •
Trimnal - It’s Time to Assess the Way We Assess: Implementing Non-Traditional Assessments
12:00pm •
Yates - Ditch the Desks! Classrooms of the Future are Here Now
12:30pm •
Comber/Christopher - 21st Century Learning through Interdisciplinary Opportunities
1:00pm •
Cusack - Making our way to Language and Literacy
1:30pm •
D. November - PBL: Integrating Social Justice into the Curriculum
2:00pm •
Freedman - All Aboard the Hyperdoc Express
2:30pm •
Clark - Adding Student Voice to Professional Learning
3:00pm •
Lindsay - Extraordinary Inquiry: Constructing Successful Environments for Empowering Individualized, Student-Driven Inquiry and Community-Based Action
3:30pm •
Yates - Using Pictures and Videos to Tell your Story
4:00pm •
Newman - Mixing Gamification with Pedagogy
Stuart
10:20am •
Sumich - Transdisciplinary Learning - teaching and learning beyond single subjects.
11:45am •
Newman - A True Flipped Classroom
1:10pm •
T.A. Edison CTE Students - Developing Student Leadership by Implementing PREP21: Problem, Research, Evaluate, Propose to build 21st Century Skills
2:35pm •
Richardson/Bates - Growth Mindset in the Elementary Classroom - How to Transform the Thinking of Your Students and Yourself
4:00pm •
Kelley - Implementing Innovation: Less us, More Them
Terrace
10:20am •
Clark - Put on Your Thinking Cap: How to Incorporate Making Thinking Visible (MTV) Routines into any classroom
11:45am •
Teuber - Developing Better Thinkers Through Play
1:10pm •
Polansky - Alphabet Soup: Beyond the Curriculum
2:35pm •
Kuropatwa - Leading Change
4:00pm •
Dunbar - Building Blocks of Code with MakeCode & MinecraftEDU
White Hill
10:20am •
Zimmerman - From Conflict to Collaboration: Leadership shifts that changed school culture
11:45am •
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…
1:10pm •
Marshall - Gamification with Augmented Reality and VR
2:35pm •
Marshall - Passion Projects and Extended Learning: Guiding Thinkers to Embrace Difficult Problems
4:00pm •
Cobb - Children's Nonfiction Authors Collaborating with Teachers and Students ( Class ACTS)
Whittier
10:20am •
Cassidy - The Digital Daily Five
11:45am •
Krause - Mindful by Design: Mindfulness, Creativity & Innovation in an Age of #AI
1:10pm •
Cassidy - Digital Portfolios in Elementary
2:35pm •
Rosenthal-Tolisano - Building a Professional Development Hub for your School
4:00pm •
Beichler - Creating a Culture of Learning for Educators
Thursday
, July 26
Arlington
10:20am •
Collins - From STEAM to SEEDS: Designing Creative Interdisciplinary Learning Environments and Experiences in Science, Engineering, Esthetics, Design & Storytelling for Students.
11:45am •
Asavavatana - Yes They CAN! Code, Create, and Make in Early Childhood!
1:10pm •
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…
2:35pm •
Kirr - Personalized Learning - What's Stopping You?
Beacon Hill
10:20am •
DaDa - Teach Across the Globe from the Comfort of your Home
11:45am •
Garcia - Bringing STEM Careers to the next level with Title 1 ELLs
1:10pm •
Hall - Reflection and the Development of a Learning Mindset
2:35pm •
Beichler - Mindset for Change
Berkeley
10:20am •
Gorman - PBL Splash ... What Project Base Learning Done Right... Really Is
11:45am •
Winstone/Worsnup - Give Students A Choice On How They Share Their Learning: Get Going With Apps!
1:10pm •
Beilharz - Authentic Learning Experience using Integrated Learning and STEAM
2:35pm •
Winstone/Worsnup - Developing Digital Portfolios
Cambridge
10:20am •
Beilharz - Deep dive into Minecraft:
11:45am •
Hansen - 10 Tips for Getting Educators to Open Up (Number 6 will Shock You!)
1:10pm •
Cassidy - Writing in a Digital Age
2:35pm •
Cassidy - Apps, Bots and Code: The New ABC’s in the Elementary Classroom
Clarendon
10:20am •
Rimmer - Taking a Step Back: Giving Students Ownership of their Learning
11:45am •
Freedman - Connecting to Your Classroom Community: Engaging Parents in the Learning Process
1:10pm •
Beine-Bowden - Coding in the Early Years: Setting the Foundation
2:35pm •
Quick - Differentiated Classrooms in Action
Georgian
10:20am •
Stubbs - Vocabulary-focused strategies for deep academic engagement
11:45am •
Richner - Tech Tools for a More Positive School Climate
1:10pm •
Kuropatwa - Behind Their Eyes - making thinking visible is not enough
2:35pm •
November - Leadership
7:30pm •
Global Speed Networking
9:00pm •
BLC Bash
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center Open - Information and Registration
Grand Ballroom A
8:30am •
Announcements and Thursday Keynotes - Pana Asavavatana, Joy Kirr and Aaron Polansky
10:20am •
Asavavatana/Kirr/Polansky - Keynote Followup
4:00pm •
Special Session with Stephen Wolfram
Grand Ballroom B
7:00am •
Registration and Breakfast Buffet
Mezzanine
12:00pm •
Book Signing with Aaron Polansky
St. James
10:20am •
Levine - Creating a Digital Writing Circle in Grades 3-6
11:45am •
Hoe - Improving Your Digital Workflow in a 1:1 Environment
1:10pm •
Held - Citizen Science/Citizen Engineering - Authentic Research and Engineering
2:35pm •
N2Learning - Schools Transform Learning
Statler
10:30am •
Mandeville - The Teacher's Perspective of Mystery Skype!
11:00am •
Colavecchia/Quick - Classroom of the Future: New layouts, New technology, Enhanced Student Learning
11:30am •
DeRosa - Dynamic Learning Networks | Connecting, Sharing and Learning Together
12:00pm •
D. November - Mastering the Transition to High School
12:30pm •
Mandeville - Bringing Gamified Elements to Your Classroom
1:00pm •
Hecht/Marallo - Our Instructional Technology Journey
1:30pm •
Husband-Verbeek - The Teacher's Toolbox: Cellphones as Tools
2:00pm •
Trimnal - Growth Model Approach to Differentiation: Transferring Responsibility to Your Students
2:30pm •
Lindsay - STEM Outside the Box: Creating Innovative Interdisciplinary Connections within STEM Instruction
3:00pm •
Comber/Christopher - Facilitating Authentic Student Inquiries
3:30pm •
Polubiec - Google Primer: Building Collaboration and Distributive Leadership
Stuart
10:20am •
Edwards - A School District’s Journey to Digital Literacy: Franklin’s Case Study
11:45am •
Bruzzese - Inception: Who owns the learning in university?
1:10pm •
Russac/Hall - Empower Creativity and Visual Journalism
2:35pm •
Long - The Power of Peer Coaching
Terrace
10:20am •
Reed/Mathieson - Finding our way: How do we create and sustain programs that transform teaching, learning, and school culture?
11:45am •
Clark - Transforming the Culture of Math
1:10pm •
Teuber - Computational Thinking Makes Better Learners
2:35pm •
Mull - Using the Question Formulation Technique to Guide School Decision Making
White Hill
10:20am •
Cobb - Getting Our Foot in the Classroom Door--The Nonfiction Minute
11:45am •
Dunbar - Mirror Classrooms: Reflections on Global Collaborative Learning
1:10pm •
Venables - Shifting from Inspiration to Action: A 4 step model for delivering change in schools
2:35pm •
Zarkesh - Polyup: A Computational Thinking Playground for All
Whittier
10:20am •
Krause - Mindful by Design: "The Danger of a Single Story"
11:45am •
Rosenthal-Tolisano - Building a Personal Learning Network
1:10pm •
Zimmerman - What Julius Caesar Can Teach Us About AI
2:35pm •
Merrill/Van Ledtje - Books, Bytes, Swipes, and Likes: Crafting Digital Identity with a Global Audience
Friday
, July 27
Arlington
10:20am •
Sanders, Selenkow, Short, Sweeny, - Creating Collaborative Community: Digital Notebooks as Communication Tools
11:45am •
Mull - Making Thinking Visible with Nearpod
Beacon Hill
10:20am •
Joseph - Skills for Innovative Leadership
11:45am •
Zarkesh - Polyup: Turning Math Classes to Virtual Makerspaces at Scale
Berkeley
10:20am •
Colavecchia/Quick - Classroom to Classroom: Shared Learning Experiences Beyond the Classroom Walls
11:45am •
Dunbar - Blue Tickets: Admission to Fearless Learning!
Cambridge
10:20am •
Kelley - We Dig Learning: Using place-based education to boost learning
11:45am •
Montgomery - Gaston County Schools: Our Journey With Big Ideas
Clarendon
10:20am •
McNulty - Using Google Sites as Digital Portfolios
11:45am •
Miller - Sustaining Change with Teachers and Students as Change Agents
Georgian
10:20am •
Stubbs - Teacher Clarity: Practical strategies for deep student engagement
11:45am •
Gorman - Making Makers Mainstream…Connecting A Maker Culture to Curriculum Standards and the 4C’s
1:10pm •
November - Integrating Purpose Across the Curriculum
2:15pm •
BLC Closing Social
2:45pm •
Closing and Next Steps
Georgian Coat Room
7:30am •
BLC Information Center Open - Information and Registration
Grand Ballroom A
8:30am •
Announcements and Friday Keynote: Ted Dintersmith - What School Could Be
10:20am •
Dintersmith - Keynote Followup
Grand Ballroom B
7:00am •
Registrations and Breakfast Buffet
St. James
10:20am •
Merrill/Van Ledtje - "I'll Help You Sheer Your Sheep!": Examining Minecraft Stories as Narratives of Care
Statler
10:30am •
Freedman - All Aboard the Hyperdoc Express
11:00am •
Hall - Making Connections - Using Google Forms to Promote Teaching and Learning
11:30am •
Hecht/Marallo - Student Tech Squads on the Horizon
12:00pm •
Levine - Adulting: How Understanding Executive Function Can Help Leaders Support Educators
Stuart
10:20am •
Staudt - Sensing Science Through Modeling Matter
11:45am •
Staudt - Sim City in the Real World
TBA
9:00am •
BLC19 - Pre-Conferences July 14 - 16, Main Conference July 17-19
11:30am •
Book Signing with Ted Dintersmith
Terrace
10:20am •
Shea - iOER: iOER: Interactive Open Educational Resources
11:45am •
Shea - Applying Artificial Intelligence Tools to Improve Student Writing
White Hill
10:20am •
Maranon Davis - My kid is on their phone, again! Shifting our perceptions on 21st Century communication
11:45am •
Kuropatwa - Behind Their Eyes - making thinking visible is not enough
Whittier
10:20am •
Bruzzese - Technology Together: Whole School Professional Development for Capability and Confidence
11:45am •
Held - Teach Making, Coding and Electronics with Interactive Art Projects
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