Wednesday, February 23, 2011

NAIS Annual Conference 2011

Here is a summary listing of all my liveblogs for the NAIS Conference.

Thursday 8am iTunes U

Thursday 9:30 Opening General Session Sheena Iyengar

Thursday 12:00 The Give and Get of Global

Thursday 3pm Dan Heath


Friday 8am Blogging Heads

Friday 9:30 am Independent Matters

Friday 11:30 The College Work Readiness Assessment

Friday 1:30 Leading from the Middle

Friday 3:00 Geoffrey Canada

Friday 11:30 The College Work Readiness Assessment

The College Work Readiness Assessment: An Excellent Outcomes Measurement

The CWRA test does a fine job of measuring the value added outcomes that matter most: critical thinking, written communication, and creative problem solving.

Friday 3pm Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada, Creating Success for All Children

Passionate author and advocate for education reform, Geoffrey Canada is president and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone, Inc. (HCZ), which The New York Times Magazine called "one of the most ambitious social experiments of our time." Nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem, Canada was named one of "America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News and World Report.

Friday 1:30 pm Leading from the Middle with Patrick Bassett

Leading from the Middle

This session is led by Patrick Bassett. The president of NAIS explores the leadership role for anyone who doesn't have the ultimate power in an organization: How can one "lead from the middle"? Three principles in particular are: 1) Starting a movement: the importance of cultivating followers; 2) Sources of power (other than position); 3) Keeping the monkey on your back.

This was a not-to-be-missed session for me. I haven't added the Twitter feed to this liveblog since I expect many of the tweets will come out from other sessions.

Friday 9:30 am Independent Matters

Independent Matters

This general session features a panel of three distinguished speakers, Elizabeth Coleman, President of Bennington College, Salman Kahn, founder of Kahn Academy, and Anya Kamenetz, education futurist. You can read brief, informative and fascinating bios of all three speakers on the NAIS Conference website. I'll be threading the twitter stream from the conference through this liveblog as well. I expect some high powered tweets!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

February 24 3-4:30 pm Dan Heath

Dan Heath is the author of Made to Stick and Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard. See a brief synopsis in the video below



February 24 1:30 -2:30pm Speed Innovating

This session is going to be hard to live blog. I'll put some notes here though. Here's the session description:

Join independent school movers and shakers at the new Speed Innovating session! Maximize information and idea gathering when you attend three mini-sessions in one. The new NAIS Speed Innovating format allows you to choose the three topics that meet your needs best. Twenty presenters will sit at their own tables, leaving room for nine attendees to sit down and learn from the experience of an independent school colleague. Designed for school leaders, these intimate, 10-minute, information-packed "dates" will dispense with the small talk and background of an issue, and instead focus on the important themes, details, problems -- and solutions. After 10 minutes of inspiring ideas, you'll move on to a second speaker who will share insight on your next favorite topic. You'll get to sit down with a total of three innovative speakers who can address your most pressing needs. The cutting-edge ideas you'll take back to school will prove invaluable.