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FIND KIRSTEN
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Thu, Oct 28th, 2010 |
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New Directions In Education |
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Mt. Vernon, Illinois |
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Keynote Address "New Directions In Education" October 28-29, Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
Conference will also include several breakout sessions throughout 2 days. |
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website information to come |
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Thu, Jun 24th, 2010 |
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Education Revolution Conference |
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Albany, NY |
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The 7th Annual AERO Conference
Learner-Centered Alternatives for Everyone!
June 24th - 27th, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, NY
For more information or to register for this event: http://www.educationrevolution.org/conference.html
Pleasure in Learning: Can It Be Enhanced?
In this workshop, Kirsten Olson will profile how several adult and young adult learners healed themselves from wounds of schooling, and what connections this has to an emerging new literature on pleasure in learning. While we know that choice, novelty, a sense of control, and the right amount of challenge are associated with pleasure and “flow” in learning, can we train ourselves to better focus on pleasurable experiences in learning to optimize engagement, appetite and attention around learning? What are some basic techniques for creating more optimal cognitive states for learning?
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The 7th Annual AERO Conference
Learner-Centered Alternatives for Everyone!
June 24th - 27th, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, NY
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Mon, Apr 26th, 2010 |
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Recapturing the Joy in Learning |
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Melville Marriot, Melville, NY |
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The Lindenhurst Council of PTA and Love Laugh Learn Foundation presents a workshop for parents and educators:
Recapturing the Joy in Learning, presented by Kirsten Olson, author and education expert!
This interactive workshop will feature: How best to advocate for children and students, stories from students who struggled and how they healed, opportunities for attendees to reflect and comment on personal experiences, and how learning experiences relate to current educational trends.
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Norma Sarmiento at 631 220 4670 or sarmi@verizon.net. Dinner is $35.00 per person and includes a gourmet meal, a Grand Prize Raffle and this informative workshop. While admission to the Workshop is free, donations are greatly appreciated and tax deductible. |
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Fri, Apr 23rd, 2010 |
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Keynote for Institute for Educational Advancement |
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Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, MA |
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Keynote for Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship award recipients and their families. |
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This is an invited-only event. |
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Wed, Apr 21st, 2010 |
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Hillside School Event |
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Marlborough, MA |
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The Hillside School Parent and Family Association presentents a workshop for parents and educators, "Recapturing the Joy in Learning" Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6:30-8:30 pm, 404 Robin HIll Road. Marlborough, Ma.
This is an interactive workshop.
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Please go to the Hillside School website. |
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Tue, Apr 13th, 2010 |
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Courage and Renewal Talks |
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Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
| Event Description: |
| "Wounded by School"-Wellesley, MA |
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A conversation with Kirsten Olson
Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Kirsten Olson, award-winning author of Wounded by School. This controversial new book says that the way we educate millions of American children alienates students from a fundamental pleasure in learning, and that pleasure in learning is essential to real engagement, creativity, intellectual entrepreneurship, and a well lived life. Based on almost a decade of intensive autobiographical interviews with over 100 "ordinary" students, teachers, and parents, Wounded By School describes some of the dilemmas of those in school now. Kirsten Olson is principal of Old Sow Educational Consulting. Her work focuses on reconfiguring school culture to better support all learners and addressing learning disengagement and learning reluctance. For several years, Kirsten was a visiting assistant professor at Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and she received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005.
Co-sponsored by Courage & Renewal Northeast and Open Circle (www.open-circle.org).
If you are interested in attending either or both of these events, RSVP to Lisa Sankowski at 781-283-2861 or lsankows@wellesley.edu. $10 at the door for off-campus guests /free to the Wellesley College community. |
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Fri, Apr 9th, 2010 |
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Four Protocols for Sticky Problems |
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Worcester, MA |
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Four Protocols for “Sticky Problems”
This workshop outlines and takes participants through four specific protocols for exploring complex, difficult, and “sticky” interpersonal or organizational problems. All four protocols help identify and better utilize internal (and external) resources for exploring and deepening understandings of tough problems, building trust, and (perhaps) resolving sticky problems. We find that establishing well-understood protocols for looking at tough, complex problems are very helpful scaffolds for school leaders and staff when emotions are high, conditions seem overwhelming, or crises have too much momentum.
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Brian Anderson, Massachusetts Center for Public Charter School Excellence
http://www.mccpse.org/oppo.html |
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Tue, Mar 9th, 2010 |
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Slow Leadership |
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Worcester, MA |
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Are you very, very busy? Business leader Adrian Savage says, “True leadership is too important to rush.” In this leadership workshop we explore common management practices that suggest—no demand!—that you hurry up—and some mind and body practices that may help you slow down. We encourage you to name and identify some of the elements of frenzy that are found in every school leadership environment, and offer you real time suggestions for slowing down. We believe your ca- pacity to reduce the pace, and practice slow leadership, not only leads to better decision making, but provides an important model to your staff around personal caretaking and reflection. In this workshop, we go slow. On purpose.
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| More Information: |
Brian Anderson, Massachusetts Center for Public Charter School Excellence
http://www.mccpse.org/oppo.html |
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Sat, Feb 27th, 2010 |
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Courage To Teach One Day Workshop |
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Alumni Hall, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA |
| Event Description: |
Courage To Teach Introductory One Day Retreat for Educators. |
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Lisa Sankowski, Courage and Renewal Northeast, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
lsankowski@wellesley.edu |
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Thu, Feb 25th, 2010 |
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Can Disclosing Dyslexia Benefit Your Career? |
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Two Seaport Lane, Suite 300, Boston, MA |
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ARE YOU DYSLEXIC?
If so, please join other professionals with dyslexia (business, law, finance, the arts, engineering, science, medicine, education, journalism, etc.) for a
Facilitated discussion on
Can Disclosing Your Dyslexia Benefit Your Career?
Shared Experiences about When, Why & How to Disclose.
When: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Networking Reception - 6:30 pm to 7:15 pm
Discussion & Small Group Session - 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Two Seaport Lane, Suite 300, Boston, MA
Discussion led by Kirsten Olson, a professional facilitator and author of Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture.
Also to be discussed during the meeting:
Ways to support each other's career development
Development of a mentoring program for adults with dyslexia
Presentation by the Professionals with Dyslexia group at the annual
MABIDA conference (September 2010)
Professionals with Dyslexia is a group of adults with dyslexia and similar language based learning differences who work to support each other's success and to develop awareness of the positive aspects of their dyslexia.
For more information visit www.dyslexia-ma.org
Please register or ask questions by contacting - (617) 946-4873 or mabidaevent@seyfarth.com
Although the event is intended for adults with dyslexia and similar language based learning differences, if you would be more comfortable attending with a non-dyslexic friend, feel fee to bring him/her along. There is no charge for attending this program.
Sponsored by MABIDA (Massachusetts Branch of the International Dyslexia Association) and the law firm, Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
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Please register or ask questions by contacting - (617) 946-4873 or mabidaevent@seyfarth.com |
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