CES is delighted to announce that Fall Forum 2011, A Conversation among Friends, will take place in Providence, Rhode Island on November 10-12, 2011 at the Met School at 325 Public Street.

Convened by the Coalition of Essential Schools as our annual "conversation among friends," Fall Forum provides the essential tools, knowledge, contacts, and vision to create and sustain personalized, equitable, academically challenging schools that prepare all students for successful lives. Fall Forum is the embodiment of more than 25 years of principled and proved educational practices that support all young people in all communities to learn to use their minds well. Drawing from a network of hundreds of schools and affiliated organizations, we provide support, insight, and real answers to what works to create great schools for the long haul.

Presentation Topics: 
 
You Want to change the school culture to Transform Learning and Schooling in a Large School – By Design?
 
Presenters:
Gregg Sinner,
Joe DiMartino,
Jay Midwood

Dates:
November 10-12, 2011

Location: 
The Met School
325 Public Street
Providence, RI

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Presentation Topics: 

Starting or Reviving an Advisory Program: What is Needed and HOW to Do It

Presenters:
Keisha Taylor,
Joe Militello

The Power of Positive Influence: A New Look at Leadership and Motivation

Presenters:
Bill Bryan,
Joe Militello,
Keisha Taylor

Excellence in Middle Level Teaching and Focusing on Student Needs

Presenters:
Joe Militello,
Keisha Taylor 

Dates:
November 10–12, 2011

Location:
Kentucky International Convention Center
221 Fourth Street
Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 595-4381 or (800) 701-5831

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Bring your team to Tampa and make the most of your professional development time and resources.

• Learn from speakers and presenters who are renowned and respected educational leaders, featuring Ken Robinson and Douglas Reeves as the Keynote speakers.
• Hear success stories from a diverse group of schools in the Breaking Ranks School Showcase.
• Set team goals in advance using our Conference Planning Guideand leave with a specific work plan to implement at your school.

Presentation Topics: 

Developing an Effective, Purposeful Advisory
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Presenters:
Tony Ferreira,
Joe Militello

Leadership Style: Creating a Climate that Drives Performance
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Presenters:
Bill Bryan,
Bob Rossi,
Jay Midwood

Creating 21st Century Success Through Student Agency
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Presenter:
Joe DiMartino

Presenter:
Nelson Beaudoin

• Connect with educators who are facing similar challenges through strands targeted to middle level, assistant principals, urban issues, and technology.
• Discover new products and services from NASSP exhibitors who offer tailored solutions for your school challenges. Register today and save with advance registration fees! Discounts available for Teams!

Dates:
March 8-10, 2012

Location: 
Tampa Convention Center
333 South Franklin Street
Tampa, Florida 33602
(813) 274-8511

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Presentation Topics: 

Adolescent Learning: Any Time, Any Place
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Presenters:
Joe DiMartino
Bill Bryan

Active involvement in the community helps to clarify a student’s purpose and defines the steps necessary to achieve successful adult roles. For many students the community in which they live is the ideal location for earning credits needed for graduation in both core and elective courses. This session will explore how middle and high schools can provide community connected learning experiences for adolescents, including methods to develop internships, service learning projects and other vehicles to activate the community as a classroom. In the recent past efforts to engage the community, including experiential learning, school-to-work, and place-based education, have been implemented and have largely disappeared.  This workshop will demonstrate how personalization strategies are essential to the successful and sustainable use of the community as the classroom.  This session will demonstrate how strategies to personalize the school experience including: personal learning plans, advisor/advisee programs, community mentors, student-led conferences, exhibitions and portfolios can be strengthened and become a permanent means of creating community connected learning.

The session will be 80% interactive and will employ ASCD products that include input from Mr. DiMartino: High Schools at Work both the video and facilitator’s guide; and the ASCD on line professional development tool PDinFocus, The session will also employ Personalizing the High School Experience for Each Student, an ASCD publication written by Joe DiMartino and John Clarke.

Participants will leave the session with Strategies to:

•   identify the critical competencies that are important for students to know in each class;

•    assist student’s to craft projects in each student’s interest that align with those competencies that include valid and reliable methods for demonstrating mastery

•    connect the community to school-based structures that provide the personalized, student-centered supports necessary to successfully implement community connected learning.

Dates:
Mar. 22-23, 2012

Location:
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 418-4700 or (800) 428-9000
Event line: (215) 418-4989

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Presentation Topics: 

Creating a Path to Student Success through authentic assessment
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Presenters:
Joe DiMartino
Bill Bryan

Active involvement in the community helps to clarify a student’s purpose and defines the steps necessary to achieve successful adult roles. For many students the community in which they live is the ideal location for earning credits needed for graduation in both core and elective courses. This session will explore how middle and high schools can provide community connected learning experiences for adolescents, including methods to develop internships, service learning projects and other vehicles to activate the community as a classroom. In the recent past efforts to engage the community, including experiential learning, school-to-work, and place-based education, have been implemented and have largely disappeared.  This workshop will demonstrate how personalization strategies are essential to the successful and sustainable use of the community as the classroom.  This session will demonstrate how strategies to personalize the school experience including: personal learning plans, advisor/advisee programs, community mentors, student-led conferences, exhibitions and portfolios can be strengthened and become a permanent means of creating community connected learning.

The session will be 80% interactive and will employ ASCD products that include input from Mr. DiMartino: High Schools at Work both the video and facilitator’s guide; and the ASCD on line professional development tool PDinFocus, The session will also employ Personalizing the High School Experience for Each Student, an ASCD publication written by Joe DiMartino and John Clarke.

Participants will leave the session with Strategies to:

•   identify the critical competencies that are important for students to know in each class;

•    assist student’s to craft projects in each student’s interest that align with those competencies that include valid and reliable methods for demonstrating mastery

•    connect the community to school-based structures that provide the personalized, student-centered supports necessary to successfully implement community connected learning.

Date:
Mar. 26, 2012

Location:
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 418-4700 or (800) 428-9000
Event line: (215) 418-4989

For more information and to register,
Click Here.