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Fundraising - Grants, Business Partnerships
and more . . .
Want a Million Dollars for Your School? Go Get
It! Here's How . . .
Bake sales are nice, but if you want to create your dream school you need
substantial funding! It can happen. Schools across the country are
doing it, and so can you.
Enjoy a true 21st century learning experience as you participate in a variety
of structures: from presentations, to interactive activities, to dreaming,
collaborating, designing and planning. You will leave this workshop with
an action plan on how to make your dream school or project a reality.
Click here for a full description of this workshop, our
schedule of cities and dates, and
registration information.
Fee of $529 includes registration, materials, continental breakfast and snack
breaks on both days. Click here to
Register.
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pay by
credit card.
Technology and Multimedia
iKids - Technologies and
Multimedia as Tools to Design and Deliver Curriculum to 21st Century Students
Attend this workshop to
learn more about our digital natives (students)
and how to connect the curriculum to their
world. You will learn:
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How students' brains
absorb and process information in
fundamentally new ways.
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About media devices
through which students filter information
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How to incorporate
these technologies into the classroom
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See how to exceed the
standards using these technologies
Go back to your school or
classroom armed with a plan on specific
strategies for incorporating technologies and
multimedia into your lessons.
Click here
for a full description of this workshop, our
schedule of cities and dates, and
registration information. Fee of $295 includes
registration, materials, continental breakfast and snack breaks on both days.
Click here to Register.
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pay by
credit card.
After School Programs
After School Programs for 21st Century Students
Would you like your after school program to be more than mere tutoring of basic
skills? Would you like to have your students begging to attend?
Would you like to see your students achieve exponential growth in their
learning, grades and test scores?
Find out how to plan exciting after school programs for your students.
Examine case studies of actual innovative after school programs that have won
grants/funding; some received funding by the federal program, 21st Century
Community Learning Centers, while others received funding from a variety of
foundations and other sources.
In this workshop you will learning to:
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Articulate the goals of your after school program
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Analyze case studies of a variety of successful and
innovative after school programs
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Connect the program goals to those of the
school/district
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Go beyond simple skills training/practice, and make the
learning real-world, exciting and relevant to your students
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Find out how these innovative programs will increase
student achievement and test scores
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Enhance the lives of the students and their parents
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Increase parent involvement
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Make meaningful, real connections to the community -
local, regional or global!
Click here for a full description of this workshop, our
schedule of cities and dates, and
registration information. Fee of $295 includes
registration, materials, continental breakfast and snack breaks on both days.
Click here to Register.
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pay by
credit card.
Smaller Learning Communities -
Designing, Implementing and Sustaining
Smaller Learning Communities
This workshop is for educators - K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Specialists,
Principals, Professors of Teacher Education - who wish to learn key elements and
best practices in building and sustaining SLCs. These include magnet
programs, career academies, charter schools, schools-within-schools, and more.
Click here for a full description of this workshop, our
schedule of cities and dates, and
registration information. Fee of $295 includes
registration, materials, continental breakfast and snack breaks on both days.
Click here to Register.
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pay by
credit card.
Curriculum Design
Designing the 21st Century
Classroom - a two-day professional development experience -
This workshop is for educators - K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Specialists,
Principals, Professors of Teacher Education - who wish to design curriculum and
instruction that is appropriate and meaningful for students in the 21st century.
In this workshop you will design the framework for an interdisciplinary,
thematic, project-based unit of curriculum. You will build it with the
tools you obtain experientially at the workshop - classroom strategies which
support this type of curriculum, and which support the development of
self-directed, independent and interdependent student learning.
Click here for a full description of this workshop, our
schedule of cities and dates, and
registration information. Fee of $529 includes
registration, materials, continental breakfast and snack breaks on both days.
Click here to Register.
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pay by
credit card.
It's Here! . . .
Designing the
21st Century Classroom - Advanced
This is a follow up to the first
workshop, Designing the 21st Century Classroom. Here participants
who attended the first workshop will have an opportunity to analyze and further
develop the unit framework they designed in the first workshop.
Participants will reflect upon their experiences in the classroom with the first
unit design.
Click here
for a full description of this workshop, our
schedule of cities and dates, and
registration information. Fee of $529 includes
registration, materials, continental breakfast and snack breaks on both days.
Click here to Register.
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pay by
credit card.
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