FRIDAY
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8:30 a.m.
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Welcome, introductions and context setting
Continental Breakfast at Kemper Auditorium
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Spreading Best Practices: Innovating in Context
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9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Fernando Reimers, Harvard: “Innovation & Its Diffusion” + Discussion
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10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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“Advanced Learning Without Advanced Placement In the Classroom,” Scarsdale HS
“Curriculum Design in the Shadow of the Gaokao,” Renmin HS
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10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
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Coffee |
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
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Workshops related to curriculum design |
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Buffet lunch at Kemper Auditorium
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Questions of Scale and Context
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1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Sherman Teichman, Tufts: “Educating by Conference” |
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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“Developing Best Practices by Networking,” Andover Breadloaf
“Teaching and Learning in Large Classes,” Shanghai Datong HS
“Consultants and Change,” Parthenon Group
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3:30 p.m.
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Tea |
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Workshops related to challenges of scale |
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Sessions at Peabody Museum and Addison Gallery Museum Learning Center |
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m
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Dinner |
SATURDAY
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Gaps and Bridges
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8:30 a.m - 9:15 a.m.
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John Gilmour, LEAP School, Cape Town: “Addressing the Influence of Family and Community in the Life of the Learner”
Continental Breakfast at Kemper Auditorium |
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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“Hi-Tech In Traditionally Underserved Contexts,” Middle
School for Mathematics and Science, Washington, DC
“Accelerating, Intensely” Accelerate, Challenge, Enrich (Phillips
Academy
“Supporting Change Through Faculty Learning,” Learning Communities (Phillips Academy)
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10:30 a.m.
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Coffee |
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Workshops related to gaps |
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
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Lunch @ Paresky Commons |
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Synthesis, Discussion, Challenges, Next Steps |
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Sessions at Peabody, Addison Gallery Museum Learning Center |
4:00 p.m.
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Adjournment |