2. AuthorSpeak 2011
By the numbers…
96 Educators & Experts
1,500 Educators
77 45 minutes Sessions over 3 days
7,100 tweets from 1,600 contributors
1.2 million people reached with 28.7 million
impressions on Twitter...
10. AuthorSpeak 2011
Lunch Panel Ferriter, Kise, Marzano,
DuFour, & Eaker
Exemplary Teachers
An exemplary teacher is a…
Learner
How do you support exemplary
teachers?
Autonomy
What do teachers really need
(not money)?
Team – Principal – Time
The best form of Pro-D?
Job-embedded – Choice –
Social Setting – Reflective
Process
11. AuthorSpeak 2011
Reeves, Wiliam, Brook
Lunch Panel hart & Herbst
“Can’t cross a chasm in two
Grading jumps!”
Comprehensive Report Card
Descriptions of learning that has
happened – Evidentiary Process
Early Warning System v. Report
Cards – record of conversation
with students
Dialogue – Student-Led
Conferences
14. Embedded Formative Assessment
Ridiculous Optimism of Teachers.
We can always get better.
Never work harder than your
students.
Fold your arms.
No Hands Up.
Popsicle Sticks & Cups
Assessment =
Cause Thinking & Inform Teaching
Dylan Wiliam
15. The Science of Motivation
“Give the world something it didn’t
know it was missing”
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
2010 Nobel Prize in Physics -
Graphene
Daniel Pink
16. Educational Neuroscience
Teachers are
brain-changers.
Emotions, Memory, Langua
ge, Numerosity, Creativity &
Learning
Reverse Dyslexia.
Creativity can be taught.
David Sousa
17. Differentiation and the Brain
“Teach Up”
No rubric lower than Meeting
Expectations – don’t accept anything
else
Curriculum Coverage v. Curriculum
Abandonment
How do you build neural networks?
Less is More
Shorter is Better
On/Off Task Time
Carol Ann
Keep it Relevant
Tomlinson
18. Think Big, Start Small
The laminated daybook v.
differentiation
Gayle Gregory &
Martha Kaufeldt
19. Grading and Learning
Learning v. Earning
Performance
evidence of learning
v. Compliance list
achievement
Susan Brookhart
21. The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders
Vision-casting
Action
Plusing
Energy
Inspiring
“Would someone choose to follow
me?”
“What will I give you to remember
me by?”
Timothy Kanold
22. The Will to Lead, The Skill to Teach
Learning =
Environment + Experiences
High Will = Culture = Soil
Feedback is information
not coronation or
condemnation
High Skill = Instruction = Seeds
• Culturally Linguistically
Responsive (CLR)
Sharroky Hollie & Teaching
Anthony
• I go/Amae
Muhammad
23. On Excellence in Teaching
Deliberate practice on weakness rather
than strengths
The best teachers are the least satisfied: “I
could have done it better”
Every year teacher should critique a video
of their own lessons
Getting better at what you do (one thing
at a time)
• Common language of teaching
• Focused Feedback & Practice
• Instructional Rounds – opportunities for
observing and discussing effective
teaching
• Required Annual Growth Plans
Robert J. Marzano
24. Teacher as Assessment Leader
What did you learn this week
as a teacher?
Focus on results not people
“Go with your thoroughbreds”
Is learning a guessing game?
Roger Staubach: “Spectacular
achievements are always preceded
by unspectacular preparation.”
Thomas Guskey
25. AuthorSpeak 2011
Stop “should-ing”
on our teachers.
Alternative
Report Cards &
Parent Teacher
Interview
Sandra Herbst
26. AuthorSpeak 2011
If I Had All the Money in the
World...
....I'd send every educator
(hell, maybe even every non-
educator, too) to Solution Tree's
Authorspeak.
This event brings together 99 of ST's
authors for three days of
awesomeness in
Indianapolis, Indiana…
There were education rockstars
everywhere…
I have NO DOUBT that I will be
Tina Boorgen better at my job thanks to these three
days of learning…
