Keynote Speakers
Arthur L. Costa,
Ed.D.
Expertise: Habits of Mind/Cognitive
Coaching
Keynote Presentation Title: Five
Thoughts for a more Thought-full Curriculum
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Description:
Curriculum, instruction, learning and assessment are the pulse
of the school. They are what drive everything else. They are the
currency through which we exchange thoughts and ideas. They are
the passions that bind our organization together. Educators recognize
the growing need for informed, skilled and compassionate citizens
who value truth, openness, creativity, interdependence, balance
and love as well as the search for personal and spiritual freedom
in all areas of one's life. This demands that the school's curriculum
must be open and flexible enough to accommodate these new perspectives.
In this presentation, five themes will be presented as "lenses"
with which to view a thought-filled curriculum.
Biography:
He is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University,
Sacramento and Co-founder of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior
in El Dorado Hills, California.
He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant,
an assistant superintendent for instruction and as the Director
of Educational Programs for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all fifty
states as well as Mexico, Central and South America, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Islands of the South
Pacific.
Author of numerous journal articles, he edited the book, "Developing
Minds": A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking;
is the author of "The Enabling Behaviors",
"Teaching for Intelligent Behaviors",
and "The School as a Home for the Mind."
He is co-author (with Larry Lowery) of "Techniques
for Teaching Thinking","Cognitive Coaching:
A Foundation for Renaissance Schools", (with Bob Garmston)
and co-editor of "Assessment in the Learning
Organization", "The Habits
of Mind Series" (with Bena Kallick) and the
trilogy, "Process as Content" (with
Rosemarie Liebmann,).
Active in many professional organizations, Dr. Costa served as
President of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development and was the National President of A.S.C.D. from 1988
to 1989.
Dennis
M. McLoughlin
Expertise:
Leadership
Keynote Presentation Title: Care
& Celebration of the Educational Leader: A Performing Artist/an
Incredible Gift!
Description:
429, 007 calories devoted a year…. to student learning,
teacher harmony/recognition, calming/re-assuring parents, holding
the community together with purposeful magic, personal family
tsunamis….and (no kidding, I really mean this..) faith and
hope the world will make it….
WHO IS GIVING THAT ENERGY BACK TO YOU? LET’S CELEBRATE
YOU,…incredible, caring, a performing artist……
THE GREAT GIFT!
Biography:
Every generation has its pioneers, people who with
trailblazing initiatives change our idea of the world, change
the way we perceive, and Dennis M. McLoughlin is such a trailblazer.
Born in the USA buy raised in the Orient, Mr. McLoughlin combines
a world of experiences (United State Marine Corps, Shakespearean
actor, cowboy, entrepreneur, “gifted discipline problem)
with teaching experience that includes everything from Watts to
the Navajo Indian Reservation, from Watts to East Lost Angeles.
Clinically proven-school researched,
Mr. McLoughlin’s Trust Psychology/High Trust Thinking/Leadership
are influencing a major evolution, a “paradigm thinking
shift” from fragmented, non-emotional, passive management
to leadership/learning that is vital, passionate, cognitive-emotionally
integrated, intuitive, where teachers/students take all learning
to performance in an atmosphere that nurtures “a high need
to achieve,” moral commitment, and energy for the new world
of thinking, responsibility and community.
Dennis Sparks
Expertise: Leadership
Keynote Presentation Title: “Cultivating
Ourselves as Leaders"
Description:
What leaders think, say, and do matters. Their beliefs and the
depth of their understanding regarding important subjects, their
emotions, and their daily actions shape the cultures that they
lead. Because important changes in teaching and learning begin
with important change changes in leaders, this talk describes
a number of actions leaders can take to increase their effectiveness
and improve the satisfaction they receive from their work. Participants
will have an opportunity to reflect on the implications these
ideas have for both their professional and personal lives.
Biography:
Dennis Sparks is the Emeritus Executive Director of the National
Staff Development Council. He served as the Council's executive
director from 1984-2007. Dr. Sparks has also been a teacher, counselor,
co-director of an alternative high school, and director of the
Northwest Staff Development Center, a state and federally-funded
teacher center in Livonia, Michigan. He completed his Ph.D. in
counseling at the University of Michigan in 1976, and has taught
at several universities. He speaks frequently throughout North
America on various topics related to professional learning and
leadership.
He is author of Leading for Results: Transforming
Teaching, Learning, and Relationships in Schools,
2nd Edition (Corwin, 2007); Designing Powerful Professional
Development for Teachers and Principals (NSDC, 2002);
Conversations that Matter (NSDC, 2001),
a collection of his JSD interviews since 1991; co-author with
Stephanie Hirsh of Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn
(NSDC, 2000); co-author with Joan Richardson of What
is Staff Development Anyway? (NSDC, 1998); and co-author
with Stephanie Hirsh of A New Vision for Staff Development
(ASCD/NSDC, 1997).
Dr. Sparks' articles have appeared in a variety of publications,
including Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, The American
School Board Journal, The Principal, and The School Administrator.
All of Dr. Sparks' interviews and articles are accessible on the
NSDC web site at www.nsdc.org/library/authors/sparks.cfm.
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