October 6, 2017 Keynotes
Keynote for Middle School and High School Faculty and Staff
Bill Daggett: Dr. Daggett is the Founder and Chairman of the International Center for Leadership in Education, is recognized worldwide for his proven ability to move preK-12 education systems towards more rigorous and relevant skills and knowledge for all students. He has assisted a number of states and hundreds of school districts with their school improvement initiatives. Dr. Daggett has also collaborated with education ministries in several countries and with the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association, and many other national organizations. He also serves on several advisory boards.
The purpose of this session is to help attendees envision the future of education. Dr. Daggett has spoken to hundreds of thousands of educators and education stakeholders in all 50 states. His presentation at our professional development day will provide enlightening, entertaining, and motivating messages that help our districts and educators look at education differently by challenging their assumptions about the purposes, benefits, and effectiveness of American schools. At the end of his presentation, attendees should feel a sense of inspiration both to embrace what is best about our education system and to make the changes necessary to meet the needs of all students in the 21st century.
He will be speaking specifically, on the topic: Educating for the Future: It Can Be Done!
Rules, regulations, teaching practices, and traditions that exist in today's American education system were created during the Second Industrial Revolution. As we attempt to meet the needs of today’s students, who have lived their entire lives in the technological/information-based Third Industrial Revolution, this system is being challenged. It’s about to be challenged even more as we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution—a fusion of technologies that most can’t yet fathom. To be prepared for this changing world, today’s students need a future-focused education program that prepares them with a higher and different set of skills and knowledge than what is currently being taught. It can be done, but how?
In this presentation, Dr. Daggett will explain how these 20th century practices came about and describe why and how transformation is needed. He will share various strategies from the nation's most rapidly improving schools that have successfully addressed these challenges, such as zero-based budgeting, various staffing patterns, and innovative instructional practices, to prepare all students for the world in which they will live and work.
The purpose of this session is to help attendees envision the future of education. Dr. Daggett has spoken to hundreds of thousands of educators and education stakeholders in all 50 states. His presentation at our professional development day will provide enlightening, entertaining, and motivating messages that help our districts and educators look at education differently by challenging their assumptions about the purposes, benefits, and effectiveness of American schools. At the end of his presentation, attendees should feel a sense of inspiration both to embrace what is best about our education system and to make the changes necessary to meet the needs of all students in the 21st century.
He will be speaking specifically, on the topic: Educating for the Future: It Can Be Done!
Rules, regulations, teaching practices, and traditions that exist in today's American education system were created during the Second Industrial Revolution. As we attempt to meet the needs of today’s students, who have lived their entire lives in the technological/information-based Third Industrial Revolution, this system is being challenged. It’s about to be challenged even more as we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution—a fusion of technologies that most can’t yet fathom. To be prepared for this changing world, today’s students need a future-focused education program that prepares them with a higher and different set of skills and knowledge than what is currently being taught. It can be done, but how?
In this presentation, Dr. Daggett will explain how these 20th century practices came about and describe why and how transformation is needed. He will share various strategies from the nation's most rapidly improving schools that have successfully addressed these challenges, such as zero-based budgeting, various staffing patterns, and innovative instructional practices, to prepare all students for the world in which they will live and work.
Keynote for Elementary School Faculty and Staff
Linda Dusenbury: Dr. Dusenbury is a nationally recognized expert with 25 years experience planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based strategies and policies designed to create a safe and nurturing world for children and adolescents. Linda was an early pioneer in the field of primary prevention. Although she has been involved in many initiatives and significant research throughout her career, since 2010 Linda has directed CASEL's scan of state policies to promote social and emotional learning (SEL), preschool through high school, in all 50 states. In 2016 she helped CASEL launch the Collaborating States Initiative to facilitate development of policies and guidance that would promote statewide implementation of evidence-based SEL. Linda also assists CASEL with their ongoing reviews of evidence-based programs and, more recently, with their exploration of the intersections between social and emotional learning, and mindfulness.
The purpose of the session our PD session on social and emotional learning (SEL) will be to define what SEL is (including the 5 core competencies of SEL) and present an organizing framework for SEL in education. The session will review key research on the social and emotional needs of children, as well as research on the effectiveness of SEL approaches in schools. Research clearly demonstrates that it is possible for teachers to effectively teach social and emotional competencies, and we will explore and more deeply understand evidence-based programs and practices designed to promote academic, social, and emotional competence in all children.
A variety of tools and resources will be introduced and shared, including guides for selecting evidence-based approaches to SEL, as well as many tools and resources (available from CASEL and from MA ESE) that districts and schools can use support implementation of SEL …so that students become fully equipped for success (academically, socially, and emotionally), now – in school, and in the future – in work and beyond.
The purpose of the session our PD session on social and emotional learning (SEL) will be to define what SEL is (including the 5 core competencies of SEL) and present an organizing framework for SEL in education. The session will review key research on the social and emotional needs of children, as well as research on the effectiveness of SEL approaches in schools. Research clearly demonstrates that it is possible for teachers to effectively teach social and emotional competencies, and we will explore and more deeply understand evidence-based programs and practices designed to promote academic, social, and emotional competence in all children.
A variety of tools and resources will be introduced and shared, including guides for selecting evidence-based approaches to SEL, as well as many tools and resources (available from CASEL and from MA ESE) that districts and schools can use support implementation of SEL …so that students become fully equipped for success (academically, socially, and emotionally), now – in school, and in the future – in work and beyond.