A Standards and Research-Based Approach to Leading Professional Learning
From 5pm on June 28 to noon on July 2, 2009 in Portland, Maine

Register Now! Deadline extended to June 12

Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) is an NSF-funded project that has developed a set of tools and a professional development study process to help science educators deeply examine common curricular topics. During this institute CTS leaders will engage in the methodical CTS process to learn new ways to focus professional learning on the K-12 content, standards, and research on learning. Whether leaders are involved at the school, district, or state level; working in a university; leading staff development; facilitating science curriculum or assessment committees; or engaged in other types of science improvement efforts that require knowledgeable and skilled leadership, CTS is a tool that brings increased content alignment, coherency, and consistency to leaders' work.

During this institute you will experience how CTS can be a versatile tool that meets the diverse needs of a wide range of leaders and learners in science. It not only informs the leader and raises their level of knowledge, but most important, it provides them with an intellectually stimulating process for developing a common core of understanding and evidence-based dialogue within the various groups and types of teachers they work with from pre-service to novice teachers to experienced veteran teachers, to teacher leaders.

All participants I the institute will receive a copy of Science Curriculum Topic Study- Bridging the Gap Between Standards and Practice and the new facilitator's guide, A Leader's Guide to Science Curriculum Topic Study- Designs, Tools, and Resources for Professional Learning.

Participants in this institute will have an opportunity to:

• Become familiar with the CTS tools, processes, and professional development designs.
• Re-engage with national standards and cognitive research resources.
• Learn facilitation skills and techniques for leading CTS.
• Experience a variety of CTS context applications such as CTS formative assessment development, curriculum materials implementation, instructional design, etc.
• Learn how to embed CTS within a variety of professional development structures such as CTS Seminars, Lesson Study, Collaborative Inquiry into Examining Student Thinking (CIEST), Mentoring and Coaching, Video Demonstration Lessons, CTS Action Research, and Content Immersion.
• Apply CTS to their own work using a CTS Authentic Task Protocol.

Presenters:

Page Keeley is a Senior Program Director at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, the 2008-09 President of the National Science Teachers Association, and the PI and developer of the NSF-funded Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) project. She is also the PI on the NSF-funded Digital Library Project- Phenomena and Representations for the Instruction of Science in Middle Schools (PRISMS). She is the author of the science and mathematics CTS books, the Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series, and Science Formative Assessment- 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning. Page consults with school districts, MSP's, and professional development programs throughout the U.S. in the areas of leadership, standards, conceptual change instruction, and formative assessment. Page was a Fellow in the first cohort group of the National Academy for Science and Mathematics Education Leadership.

Susan Mundry is the Associate Director of Science, Mathematics, and Technology programs at WestEd where she has been helping new teachers, principals, and administrators become more effective leaders in science and mathematics for over 20 years. Susan is a Co-PI on the Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) project and the lead author on the CTS leader's guides for science and mathematics. Susan has co-authored several books, including the bestselling Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics, the Teachers as Learners toolkit, and the NSDC Book of the Year, Leading Every Day. She is the co-director of the National Academy for Science and Mathematics Education Leadership.

Joyce Tugel is a Science Specialist at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance where she directs several projects in the areas of curriculum, instruction, and professional development. Joyce provides professional development support for the CTS project works with several school districts, state departments, and MSP projects in implementing the CTS professional development approach. Joyce is a co-author on two of the books in the Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. She is a Fellow in the third cohort of the National Academy for Science and Mathematics Education Leadership.

Ted Willard is a project director for AAAS Project 2061. He oversees the project's National Science Foundation-funded initiative to create tools that support the development of goals-based curriculum materials in science and mathematics. Ted also leads Project 2061's "Using Atlas of Science Literacy" workshops and contributes to several National Science Digital Library projects. Ted was responsible for the development of the growth-of-understanding maps published in Atlas of Science Literacy, Volume 2.

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Registration includes all materials, breaks, lunches, dinner on Sunday and Tuesday nights.

To register for the Summer Leadership Instutute by Purchase Order please go through the regular on line registration. When you get to payment choose pay by check. You can then send your PO as you would a personal check. If your PO arrives with a check, there is no additional cost. If the check is not enclosed, there is an additional $20 invoice fee. For multiple persons on the same PO please be sure that each name is listed on or with the PO. The invoice fee is per PO and not per person.

Special rates are available for the NSELA SLI at the Holiday Inn Express in Portland (adjacent to the SLI hotel). Participants staying at the Holiday Inn Express receive breakfast with their room.

Portland Maine Marriott on Sable Oaks: All meetings will be held here however all SLI rooms are full.

Holiday Inn Express: Marriott: SLI rate is $129/night. Only 10 rooms are left! (as of 6/5/09)To reserve a room, call 207-775-3900 and identify yourself with the National Science Education Leadership Association.