Curriculum Institute will focus beyond reading and math in age of accountability
Published: April 1, 2008
CSBA’s summer 2008 Curriculum Institute, July 11–12 in Monterey, is California’s most comprehensive annual conference on student learning and achievement. The event is considered an outstanding professional development opportunity for school trustees, superintendents and curriculum directors.
Educators who attend the Curriculum Institute will get access to the latest thinking on how to strengthen curriculum, boost achievement, create critical thinkers and engage students. This year’s institute will focus on these themes:
- educating the whole child—collaborating to move beyond reading and math
- addressing the complex needs of the 21st century student
- meeting student needs in the face of increasing budget constraints
- designing accountability systems that better prepare all students to achieve a balanced set of outcomes and to be successful in work and life
The $305 registration fee includes materials, lunch and refreshments.
A complete speaker list is still being finalized, but it will include Stanford University lecturer Denise Clark Pope, a specialist in curriculum studies, service learning and quantitative research studies. Pope spent a year shadowing successful high school students at one of California’s highest-achieving high schools. Her experience convinced her that modern students are overstressed and overscheduled, and she has devised strategies for halting student burnout.
Pope is the author of “Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students,” which won honors as an American School Board Journal Notable Book of Education for 2001. She delivered an inspired and informative talk at the 2006 Curriculum Institute on stressed-out students and how schools and parents can cooperate to improve children’s habits that affect their health and academic achievement.
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Find out more, including how to register, @ www.csba.org/TrainingAndEvents/Events/CurriculumInst.aspx