iNACOL Symposium Announces 2017 Pre-Conference Workshops

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Dear Colleagues,   iNACOL is pleased to announce the lineup of Pre-Conference Workshops scheduled to kick off the iNACOL Symposiumheld in Orlando, Florida on October 23-25, 2017.   iNACOL offers Pre-Conference Workshops on Monday, October 23, 2017 to provide focused full- and half-day interactive opportunities for deeper learning and knowledge building in personalized, competency-based, blended and online learning. These workshops provide intensive professional development in small groups and require a separate registration from the Symposium.   Space is limited, so please register for the Pre-Conference Workshops as soon as possible. Here are directions to register for Pre-Conference Workshops: If you’ve already registered to attend the iNACOL Symposium, click here to add a Pre-Conference Workshop to your existing registration. Enter your email. Click ‘continue.’ Enter your password and click ‘continue.’ From here, you can modify various aspects of your registration, including adding a pre-conference workshop. If you’ve already registered to attend the iNACOL Symposium with a group, you will need to email your pre-conference workshop choice(s) to Gigi Andrew: gandrew@executivevents.com. If you haven’t yet registered to attend the iNACOL Symposium, register here today and be sure to add a pre-conference workshop to your registration.   Below is the list of Pre-Conference Workshops offered at the iNACOL Symposium: Blended Learning Live! Student-Centered Learning Simulation Building a Personalized Learning System: Transparency, Culture and Courage Building a Successful and High-Quality Online Learning Program Building Understanding of Competency Education and Changing Grading Practices Competency Education Leadership Forum (Invitation-Only) Design at the Point of Impact: Scaling Blended and Personalized Learning in Schools and Districts  Effectively Communicating about Personalized Learning K-12 Online and Blended Learning Research Community Meeting (Free to Attend) Leadership for Learning: Bringing Key Dimensions of Leadership to Life to Enable a Learning Community New Research and Promising Practices Regarding Online Student Mobility Personalizing Learning: Helping Your Key Stakeholders (Including Parents!) Along the Journey Using Student Data to Drive Unit Design and Scheduling in a Personalized, Competency-Based System Using a Profile of a Graduate to Become a 21st Century District   Complete descriptions and presenter information for all Pre-Conference Workshops can be found on the Pre-Conference Workshop section of our website.   If you have questions regarding registering for a Pre-Conference Workshop, please contact Gigi Andrew at gandrew@executivevents.com. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando on October 23-25, 2017.   Share these Pre-Conference Workshop opportunities on Twitter: #inacol17 pre-conference workshops are now available! Check out the options & register here: http://ow.ly/SoG7302qviC @nacol Attending #inacol17? Extend your learning by attending a pre-conference workshop: http://ow.ly/SoG7302qviC @nacol     About the iNACOL Symposium   The iNACOL Symposium is the premier learning conference for those advancing powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences and shaping the future of K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning. On October 23-25, 2017, iNACOL’s annual conference will bring together more than 3,000 experts and educational leaders exploring the leading edge of powerful, personalized learning in K-12 education from across the United States and around the world, including leading practitioners and educators, policymakers, researchers and innovators from throughout the field. Attendees will find invaluable networking opportunities; access to expertise, analysis, the latest trends and research; and thought-provoking interactive sessions for leaders shaping the future of education. The Symposium includes hundreds of engaging interactive sessions, with tags to guide attendees toward highly relevant professional learning opportunities. Learn more on the iNACOL Symposium website.     About iNACOL    The mission of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. iNACOL is a non-profit organization focusing on research, developing policy for student-centered education to ensure equity and access, developing quality standards for emerging learning models using competency-based, blended and online education, and supporting the ongoing professional development of school and district leaders for new learning models. Visit our website, like us on Facebook, connect with us on LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter.   Facebook Twitter Linkedin YouTube

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Register for the iNACOL Symposium | Session Highlights

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Dear Colleagues, The iNACOL Symposium this October 2017 features 200 workshops and sessions organized around the theme: “Personalizing Learning: Equity, Access, Quality.” There are sessions focused on leading-edge school designs for personalized, competency-based education as well as blended and online learning. Experts and practitioners will share the latest research, promising practices and tools for creating powerful, personalized learning experiences for all students and building understanding to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education. The iNACOL Symposium is October 23-25, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Register here to attend. Below are highlights of a few of the 200+ sessions offered at the conference. Browse all Symposium sessions here. How Districts Innovate: New Small Schools in Cleveland Metropolitan School District Hear from a panel of district and school leaders from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). Panel members will reflect on the district’s portfolio strategy, which includes the design and launch of new high schools through the Opportunity by Design initiative. Moderated by Springpoint, panelists will discuss how the process of creating new small schools drives innovation in the district and leads to approaches like mastery-based learning and community-driven school model design. Kristen Kelly, Cleveland Metropolitan School District  Christine Fowler-Mack, Cleveland Metropolitan School District Irene Javier, Cleveland Metropolitan School District  Tara Drouhard, Cleveland Metropolitan School District  Darcel Williams, Cleveland Metropolitan School District Matthew Pilarski, Springpoint Unleashing the Most Underutilized Resource in Education: The Learner It’s easy to get caught up in the hard work of shifting a century-old system out of its traditional ways of operating. Our focus can get lost in the new structures and technology needed to support this transformation. Join Kelly Young, Executive Director of Education Reimagined, and four inspiring learners from across the country who have experienced both traditional and learner-centered learning models to hear their insights into creating environments that unleash their full potential. Kelly Young, Education Reimagined Jemar Lee, Iowa BIG  Patricia Coleman, McComb School District  Keyonna Griffin, McComb School District  Vanella Tadjuidje, Pike Road Schools  School (Re)Design: Equitable Outcomes through Personalization Everyone’s talking about personalization and equity, but what does that actually mean for school (re)design? NewSchools will lead a discussion with district and charter school leaders, who are designing for equity through personalization and innovation. Join us to hear practices and lessons learned from practitioners who are achieving equitable outcomes or are designing their schools to get there. Speakers will also share tools and resources they have leveraged to advance their efforts. Frances Messano, NewSchools Venture Fund  Arielle Rittvo Kinder, NewSchools Venture Fund  StorySLAM: Teaching and Learning in New Ways Students, teachers and principals of competency-based high schools share their experiences in an interactive StorySLAM format used in The Moth’s storytelling show. Focused on the theme of “Teaching and Learning in New Ways,” stories will illuminate the challenges and possibilities of designing competency-based, personalized learning environments. Attendees are welcome to share stories as well. Springpoint, a national organization supporting innovative high schools, will moderate. Victoria Crispin, Springpoint Leveraging the Science of Learning and Development to Build Equitable Learning Environments Despite efforts to reform our education system, we have a long way to go to ensure that all young people learn and thrive. The Building Equitable Learning Environments (BELE) Network launched in 2016 to merge improvement science, the science of learning and development, and equity in school redesign. In this session, BELE Network Learning Partners will share about this innovative approach and how organizations in the network are leveraging research to advance equity in the schools they support. Lindsay Hill, Raikes Foundation Kathleen Osta, National Equity Project Dave Paunesku, PERTS Camille Farrington, University of Chicago Consortium on School Research  Measuring What Matters: Creating A Data Dashboard with Social Emotional Indicators and Measures  Mindsets, Essential Skills and Habits (MESH) are key to student success — but how do we measure them? As we support students to be future leaders and innovators, we know MESH matters, but tracking their progress is much more complex than academics. Join us as we unpack our journey to building a holistic data dashboard that provides teachers and leaders with academic and social-emotional data for our students. Let us help you launch your work towards doing the same. Nicole Assisi, Thrive Public Schools Daniel Assisi, California Charter Schools Association Thiago Batista, Thrive Public Schools Dj Cervantes, Transforming Education Shelli Kurth, Thrive Public Schools  Think Outside the Bubble: Reimagining Assessment Reimagining assessment is reimagining what’s possible for learning. What if assessments empowered students to chart their own learning paths, gave teachers tools that respected and enhanced their professional judgement and embraced a richer, deeper definition of student success? Innovative educators from the Assessment for Learning Project will share their experiences doing just this, and will invite participants to identify opportunities in their own contexts to #rethinkassessment. Tony Siddall, Next Generation Learning Challenges Ross Lipstein, Summit Public Schools Shannon King, Fairfax County Public Schools  Alec Barron, Del Lago Academy, Escondido Unified High School District Community-Led Strategy to Implement ESSA in New Mexico Through the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) outreach, New Mexicans created a vision for public education in their state. Videos, reports, toolkits and dialogues supported the community-led recommendations to improve standards, assessments and accountability. Experience aspects of our engagement strategy, including deep listening and reflecting on home-grown assets, to inform your local work encouraging local and state education agencies to be responsive to students, families and educators. Ian Esquibel, Learning Alliance New Mexico Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Assistive Technology, Virtual Reality and More: How Will Emerging Technologies Impact our Classrooms? Are new technologies just big words or do they represent far-reaching changes to how we learn? Technology leaders have a responsibility to their institutions to find out. The CIO of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium will lead an interactive discussion among participants. Together, we will evaluate the basic principles of specific emerging technologies, consider how they will impact our institutions, and learn how to apply the same evaluation process as we consider other innovations. Brandt Redd, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium An Expanded Definition of Student Success: The Future of Assessment in High School Assessment can offer us keen insight and help our students drive their own learning. Hear from 3 XQ Super Schools about the future of assessment in high school, from new measures for AP to understanding the new SAT, to driving change with a unified set of competencies called the XQ Learner Goals. Assessment can only work when it serves, informs and enhances instruction, and these award winning leaders will share their vision for what’s next. Erin Mote, InnovateEDU Anthony Barela, Vista Unified School District Stacy Kane, Washington Leadership Academy Designing the School of the Future, Today This session will focus on how to implement a “best practice” approach to teaching through “next practice” systems. Highlights include how to use technology to drive personalized learning, student engagement, blended classrooms, prescribed learning, student collaboration, critical thinking and much more. Buddy will be assisted by his 14-year-old daughter in driving home what it looks like through the first-hand perspective of a student. Bring your tough questions and be ready to dream together. Buddy Berry, Eminence Independent Schools Brooke Berry, Eminence Independent Schools Growing Quality Online Courses and Joining Forces to Create Better Blooms: Findings from the Field Ever wonder how online courses do when put under a rigorous review by your peers? Together we are making a difference in the quality of online courses for students. We’ll examine trends from Quality Matters Official K-12 Course Reviews. Looking at data from home-grown district-developed and 3rd-party courses, we’ll see which areas of course design schools, districts and providers have worked to continuously improve, which areas have shown the most growth, and which areas always meet standards. Christine Voelker, Quality Matters  We hope to see you at the iNACOL Symposium in Orlando. Register here today, book your hotel here, and contact us with any questions. Quick Links: Register to Attend the iNACOL Symposium Session and Workshops Travel and Hotel Information FAQs Sponsorship Opportunities Exhibitor Opportunities About the iNACOL Symposium The iNACOL Symposium is the premier learning conference for those advancing powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences and shaping the future of K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning. On October 23-25, 2017, iNACOL’s annual conference will bring together more than 3,000 experts and educational leaders exploring the leading edge of powerful, personalized learning in K-12 education from across the United States and around the world, including leading practitioners and educators, policymakers, researchers and innovators from throughout the field. Attendees will find invaluable networking opportunities; access to expertise, analysis, the latest trends and research; and thought-provoking interactive sessions for leaders shaping the future of education. The Symposium includes hundreds of engaging interactive sessions, with tags to guide attendees toward highly relevant professional learning opportunities. Learn more on the iNACOL Symposium website. About iNACOL  The mission of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. iNACOL is a non-profit organization focusing on research, developing policy for student-centered education to ensure equity and access, developing quality standards for emerging learning models using competency-based, blended and online education, and supporting the ongoing professional development of school and district leaders for new learning models. Visit our website, like us on Facebook, connect with us on LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter. Facebook Twitter Linkedin YouTube

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iNACOL Symposium 2017 | Early-Bird Registration Discounts End July 13, 2017

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Dear Colleagues, Only three days remain to take advantage of early-bird registration discounts for the iNACOL Symposium. The discounted rate ends on July 13, 2017. Register to attend the iNACOL Symposium today.  Take advantage of early-bird registration discounts to attend the iNACOL Symposium onOctober 23-25, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Attendee registration is now open and early-bird registration discounts are available until July 13, 2017. Don’t miss out on early-bird pricing discounts. Register to attend the iNACOL Symposium today. Share with your colleagues and networks on Twitter: Register for #iNACOL17 w/ early-bird pricing thru 7/13. Exploring #CBE, #PL, #online and #blended learning: http://ow.ly/10peTP @nacol Early discount to register #inacol17 in FL. Theme: “Personalizing Learning: #Equity, Access, Quality” http://ow.ly/10peTP @nacol For more information about the iNACOL Symposium, see: Register to Attend the iNACOL Symposium Session and Workshops Travel and Hotel Information FAQs Sponsorship Opportunities Exhibitor Opportunities Symposium 2016 Highlights Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando. About the iNACOL Symposium The iNACOL Symposium is the premier learning conference for those advancing powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences and shaping the future of K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning. On October 23-25, 2017, iNACOL’s annual conference will bring together more than 3,000 experts and educational leaders exploring the leading edge of powerful, personalized learning in K-12 education from across the United States and around the world, including leading practitioners and educators, policymakers, researchers and innovators from throughout the field. Attendees will find invaluable networking opportunities; access to expertise, analysis, the latest trends and research; and thought-provoking interactive sessions for leaders shaping the future of education. The Symposium includes hundreds of engaging interactive sessions, with tags to guide attendees toward highly relevant professional learning opportunities. Learn more on the iNACOL Symposium website. About iNACOL  The mission of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. iNACOL is a non-profit organization focusing on research, developing policy for student-centered education to ensure equity and access, developing quality standards for emerging learning models using competency-based, blended and online education, and supporting the ongoing professional development of school and district leaders for new learning models. Visit our website, like us on Facebook, connect with us on LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter. Facebook Twitter Linkedin YouTube

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iNACOL Symposium 2017 | Early-Bird Registration Discounts End July 13, 2017

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Dear Colleagues, Only two weeks remain to take advantage of early-bird registration discounts for the iNACOL Symposium. The discounted rate ends on July 13, 2017. Register to attend the iNACOL Symposium today.  Take advantage of early-bird registration discounts (before the end of this year’s fiscal year) to attend the iNACOL Symposium on October 23-25, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Attendee registration is now open and early-bird registration discounts are available until July 13, 2017. Don’t miss out on early-bird pricing discounts. Register to attend the iNACOL Symposium today. Share with your colleagues and networks on Twitter: Register for #iNACOL17 w/ early-bird pricing thru 7/13. Exploring #CBE, #PL, #online and #blended learning: http://ow.ly/10peTP @nacol Early discount to register #inacol17 in FL. Theme: “Personalizing Learning: #Equity, Access, Quality” http://ow.ly/10peTP @nacol For more information about the iNACOL Symposium, see: Register to Attend the iNACOL Symposium Travel and Hotel Information FAQs Sponsorship Opportunities Exhibitor Opportunities Symposium 2016 Highlights Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando. About the iNACOL Symposium The iNACOL Symposium is the premier learning conference for those advancing powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences and shaping the future of K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning. On October 23-25, 2017, iNACOL’s annual conference will bring together more than 3,000 experts and educational leaders exploring the leading edge of powerful, personalized learning in K-12 education from across the United States and around the world, including leading practitioners and educators, policymakers, researchers and innovators from throughout the field. Attendees will find invaluable networking opportunities; access to expertise, analysis, the latest trends and research; and thought-provoking interactive sessions for leaders shaping the future of education. The Symposium includes hundreds of engaging interactive sessions, with tags to guide attendees toward highly relevant professional learning opportunities. Learn more on the iNACOL Symposium website. About iNACOL  The mission of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. iNACOL is a non-profit organization focusing on research, developing policy for student-centered education to ensure equity and access, developing quality standards for emerging learning models using competency-based, blended and online education, and supporting the ongoing professional development of school and district leaders for new learning models. Visit our website, like us on Facebook, connect with us on LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter. Facebook Twitter Linkedin YouTube

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iNACOL Symposium | Travel and Hotel Information

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Dear Colleagues, The iNACOL Symposium is being held on October 23-25, 2017 at the Swan & Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida. The iNACOL Symposium will bring together over 3,000 experts and educational leaders from around the world — making it the leading event for those advancing powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences and shaping the future of K-12 education through competency-based, blended and online learning. Register today to take advantage of special early-bird registration pricing. The early-bird discount for attendee registration ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on July 13, 2017. Travel and Hotel Information iNACOL has a discounted group rate at the Swan & Dolphin Resort for attendees who register by September 23, 2017. After September 23, the iNACOL group rate will no longer apply. Group rates are offered three days prior to, and three days after, the Symposium conference dates, based on availability at the time of your reservation. To receive this special group rate, you must make your hotel reservations through the Travel and Lodging page of the iNACOL Symposium website. Note: The hotel and reservation link shown on the Symposium website is the authorized hotel for the Symposium. Booking hotel rooms through 3rd party housing companies does not guarantee you a room in our block.  Share with your colleagues on Twitter: Attending #inacol17 in Orlando, FL? Make your hotel reservation by September 23 to receive the group rate: http://ow.ly/NInL3047LVX @nacol Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando. About the iNACOL Symposium The iNACOL Symposium is the premier learning conference for those advancing powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences and shaping the future of K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning. On October 23-25, 2017, iNACOL’s annual conference will bring together more than 3,000 experts and educational leaders exploring the leading edge of powerful, personalized learning in K-12 education from across the United States and around the world, including leading practitioners and educators, policymakers, researchers and innovators from throughout the field. Attendees will find invaluable networking opportunities; access to expertise, analysis, the latest trends and research; and thought-provoking interactive sessions for leaders shaping the future of education. The Symposium includes hundreds of engaging interactive sessions, with tags to guide attendees toward highly relevant professional learning opportunities. Learn more on the iNACOL Symposium website. About iNACOL  The mission of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. iNACOL is a non-profit organization focusing on research, developing policy for student-centered education to ensure equity and access, developing quality standards for emerging learning models using competency-based, blended and online education, and supporting the ongoing professional development of school and district leaders for new learning models. Visit our website, like us on Facebook, connect with us on LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter. Facebook Twitter Linkedin YouTube

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