Schedule

Coming Soon! 

Wednesday June 26th

• 9:00am-4:00pm – School Visits, Local Trips

• 5:00pm-9:00pm – Registration

• 5:00pm-6:30 - Dinner Buffet

• 6:00pm – Documentary 1: The Test And The Art Of Thinking

• 8:00pm – Documentary 2: Being and Becoming

 

Thursday June 27th

• 8:00am-10:00pm – Yoga, Breakfast, Networking, Tabling, Bookstore, Registration

• 10:00am-11:30pm – Mini Talks Group A

• 11:30pm-1:00pm – Lunch

• 1:00pm-2:30pm –  Mini Talks Group B

• 2:30pm-3:00pm – Break

• 3:00pm-5:00pm – Strand Workshops/Training

• 5:00pm-6:30pm – Dinner - Documentary: The School In The Cloud

• 6:30pm-7:45 – Keynote 1: Four Arrows

• 8:00pm-9:15 – Keynote: Bernard Bull

 

Friday, June 28th

• 8:00am-9:30pm – Yoga, Breakfast, Networking, Tabling, Bookstore, Registration

• 9:30am-10:30am – Workshops Group C

• 10:30am-10:45am – Break   

• 10:45am-12:15pm – Workshops Group D

• 12:15pm-1:15pm – Lunch, Reps meeting.

• 1:30pm-3:00pm – Panel 2 - Youth Panel

• 3:30pm-5:00pm – Workshops Group E

• 5:00pm-6:30pm – Dinner

• 6:30pm-8:30pm – Pioneers

• 8:45pm – Documentary: Six Weeks To Mothers Day

 

Saturday, June 29th

• 8:00am-9:30pm – Yoga, Breakfast, Networking, Tabling, Bookstore, Registration

• 9:30am-10:30am – Workshop Group F

• 10:30am-10:45am – Break

• 10:45am-12:15pm – Workshop Group G

• 12:15pm-1:45pm – Lunch

• 1:45pm-3:15pm – Mini-Talks Group H

• 3:30pm-5:00pm – Workshop Group I

• 5:00pm-6:30pm – Dinner

• 7:00pm-8:30pm – Keynote 3: Blake Boles

• 9:00pm – Documentary: Self-Taught

 

Sunday, June 30th

• 8:00am-10:30am – Yoga, Breakfast, Networking, Tabling, Bookstore, Registration  

• 9:30am-11:00am – Workshop Group J

• 11:00am-12:30pm – Wild Learning

• 12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch

• 1:30pm-3:00pm – Closing Evaluating Session

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Childcare will be provided during keynotes and workshops.

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External School Visits, Wednesday Morning

• Wayfinding Academy

• Venn Academy

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In Hotel School Visits, Wednesday Afternoon

• Village Free School - 1pm-3pm

• Village Home Comes to You - Teen Panel What does it mean to OWN YOUR LEARNING? - 3pm-5pm

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Friday 9:30-10:30 - Group C

• Racial Equity in Self-Directed Education, a conversation (SDE Thread)

• Graduate Education that nurtures the experience of collective wisdom: An education for our emerging future? (SDGI Thread) - Laurel Tien

• Building and Sustaining Large Learning Communities - Lori Walker

• School Starters Workshop - Jerry Mintz

• Nature's Child Global Classroom Reconnects the Learner with Mother Nature through their 54 Natural DNA Inherited Senses - Connie Giffin

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Friday 10:45am-12:15pm – Workshops Group D

• Learning as a Living Process (SDGI Thread) - Sister Fleurette Sweeney & Milt Markewitz

• Trusting the Process & Knowing When to Intervene: Literacy, Dyslexia, and Self-Directed Education (SDE thread)

• Student Rights - Kalin Parsons (National Youth Rights Association)

• Mentoring: A time for care and support - Alison Snieckus

• Student Agency:  Empowering Students to Direct Their Own Learning Journeys - Jill Keltner and Teresa Draguicevich

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Friday 3:30pm-5:00pm – Workshops Group E

• Teens as Authors of their own Learning (SDGI Thread) - Peter Berg

• Self-Directed Education Panel (SDE thread) - Bria Bloom, David Jacobo, September James, Kerry McDonald, Scott Noelle, and Willow Noelle

• Interactive Participatory Brain Dance Workshop - Ellen Kaspi

• College Students Reinvent Childhood - Kellie Rolstad

• Changing the Climate Narrative in Your Classroom to Set Kids Up for Success - Miko and Isaac Vergun

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Saturday 9:30am-10:30am – Workshop Group F

• Rethinking Adulting: Being good partners to youth (SDE Thread) - Aaron Eden and Bria Bloom

• The Wisdom Available in Relationships with Children (SDGI Thread) - Josette Luvmour

• Real Science with Everyday Materials - Sarah Stuhlsatz-Krouper

• 5 Keys to Organic Project Design for Meaningful Impact through Engaging the Wisdom of Our Youth to Save the World: (SDGI Thread) - Renee Beth Poindexter

• Conceptual Math: An Embodied Approach to Enhancing Number Sense and Awakening the Mathematical Mind - Abigail Larrison

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Saturday 10:45am-12:15pm – Workshop Group G

• Young Professionals in SDE (SDE Thread) - Blake Boles

• Children and Social Justice (SDGI Thread) - Ba Luvmour

• Deeper Learning Advocacy: Strategic Reframing for Building Political Power - Don Berg

• Person-Centered Decision Making - Amy Day & Kristen Jawad

• The School That's Inside You - Pat Montgomery​

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Saturday 3:30pm-5:00pm – Workshop Group I

• Finding Your Allies: Starting your own Local Self-Directed Education Group (SDE Thread) - Facilitated by Portland SDE & Cassidy Younghans (Rachel Munzig, Karl Keefer, etc.)

• AWARENESS THROUGH THE BODY (SDGI Thread) - Abbie Wellington

• Designing Core Values for Learning - Carol Nash

• Real Science with Everyday Materials - Sarah Stuhlsatz-Krouper

• Climate Change, Global Warming, the Green New Deal - What Educators Must Do - Dave Lehman

• The Coaching Approach for Parents & Educators - Tina-Marie Meyer & Meghan Carrico

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Sunday 9:30am-11:00am – Workshop Group J

• Social Awareness for Educators: Seeing Students in Context - Sophie Biddle

• Strengths or Weaknesses?   Which do you focus on? - Monica Cochran, M.Ed & Kathy Magnusson, M. Ed.

• How Innovative can a Public Charter School be that Serves Homeschoolers? - Inspire Charter Schools

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Mini-Talkers

 

Block A

• Jim Rietmulder

• Kent Bicknell

• Megan Ward

• Aaron Eden

 

Block B

• Margie Sanderson - NYRA

• Kerry McDonald - SDE

• Meghan Carrico

 

Block H

• Helen Hughes

• David Marshak

• Michelle Jones