21st Century Learning Academy 2017

21st Century Learning Academy

Corbett Preparatory School of IDS, Tampa
June 21-23, 2017

FCIS invites K-12 Teachers and Administrators to register for this informative, innovative, and collaborative professional development opportunity. Enhance your teaching skills, deepen your knowledge, and share best practices. This three-day workshop includes sessions on the following topics:

Who should attend? K-12 Teachers and Administrators
Earn 16 master in-service points by attending all sessions.

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Amishi Jha, Neuroscientist, Researcher, Associate Professor, University of Miami
Improving Attention and Resilience with Mindfulness Training
Mindfulness involves present-moment attention without emotional reactivity. This presentation will discuss recent scientific findings regarding the effectiveness of mindfulness training programs to promote resilience. A large and growing literature finds that stress degrades attention and working memory, and weakens the capacity to regulate emotions. Further, protracted periods of high stress may lead to performance failures and psychological illness. Our research investigates the benefits of mindfulness training in a broad range of high stress/high performance groups including military service members, athletes, educators, and students. We have found that attention, working memory, and mood are improved, while mind-wandering and burnout are curbed with mindfulness training. These findings suggest that mindfulness training should be further considered as a route by which to promote student and educator wellness.

Brad Rathgeber, Executive Director, One Schoolhouse
Valuing the Uniqueness of Each Student
Every student learns differently. Students learn at different paces. Students learn in different modalities. Some students are introverts. Some are extroverts. Some learn through conversation. Some learn through reflection. Some learn through doing. Some learn through failure. Some learn from repetition. Most students learn in some combination of these ways.

As educators, we know this. Those of us in independent schools are lucky that we often have the resources, small classes and support to honor this understanding. And yet, even with these advantages, we can still get incredibly frustrated knowing that no matter how much we differentiate in our classrooms, it doesn’t seem to be “enough.” Is that because we are trying approaches from the wrong direction? Should we be approaching learning from the perspective of the student rather than the teacher? We'll explore these questions in this session.

Andrew Watson, President, Translate the Brain
Putting Memory to Work
Every day, students depend on an essential cognitive capacity that they—and we—know too little about. This workshop introduces Working Memory, emphasizing its centrality to all classroom learning. It then answers three vital questions: when might we overwhelm our students’ working memory? How do we know that we have done so? And—most important of all—how do we solve those problems? Lively and practical, this workshop makes brain research useful in independent school classrooms.

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