Dates: Pre-Conference: January 12, 2010 Leadership Academy: January 13-14, 2010	Location: Florida Atlantic University (30 minutes from Ft. Lauderdale Airport) Boca Raton, Florida
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Two Day Leadership Academy: Designing Curriculum for the 21st Century

This innovative workshop features Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her latest work in Curriculum 21. Dr. Jacobs will share ideas and strategies which are featured in her upcoming ASCD book, "Curriculum 21: New Essential Curriculum for 21st Century Learners" to show participants how they can "upgrade" dated curriculum content, skills, and assessments with timely and engaging contemporary replacements.

Areas that will be featured in this conference include:

• current perspectives on "globalizing" state standards
• the extremely formidable role of testing
• the latest work on Digital Portfolios, electronic learning, and distance learning
• new scheduling options, student grouping patterns, and extended school years.

Also featured in the conference will be Dr. Ann Johnson, Jeanne Tribuzzi, and Earl Nicholas, nationally recognized for their work with public and private schools in curriculum design and implementation. They will join Dr. Jacobs to train leadership teams in using training modules and the four critical phases of mapping* outlined in Dr. Jacobs' and Johnson’s new book, "The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development," to implement Curriculum 21 in their schools or districts.

Participants will learn strategies to

• develop a shared vision and implementation plan for 21st Century Curriculum Design and Mapping
• develop Consensus and Individual Maps focused on the future
• use the Curriculum Mapping modules to design and/or adapt high-quality professional development for school or districts
• identify the support structure needed to lead and sustain change
• use assessment data to sharpen alignment and impact student achievement
• upgrade activities and assessments to integrate new technology and 21st Century skills

* The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Dr. Ann Johnson, October, 2009 (ASCD).

One Day Pre-Conference: Curriculum Mapping 101

Presented by Dr. Ann Johnson, co-author of the new ASCD book with Dr. Jacobs entitled "The Curriculum Mapping Planner." Dr. Ann Johnson will team with leading practitioner Jeanne Tribuzzi to walk you through the nuts and bolts of mapping. This interactive workshop is designed for individuals and/or teams who are just starting the mapping process or wishing a refresher.

You will learn how to lay the foundation for a successful launch of mapping in your school or district.

Areas of focus will include:

• Basic terminology
  
• Reasons for Mapping
  
• Different types of maps
  
• Choosing software to support the mapping process
  
• Quality mapping entries
• Uses of mapping
• The mapping review process

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs has served as an education consultant to schools and educational organizations nationally and internationally. Dr. Jacobs' new book, "Active Literacy K-12: Cross-disciplinary Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening in Every Classroom" was released in April 2006 by Eye-on-Education, Inc. She will take you through the process of Curriculum Mapping based on her best-selling books: "Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12" and "Getting Results With Curriculum Mapping," plus the video series "Curriculum Mapping: Charting the Course for Content," all published by ASCD. She is based in Rye, New York.	Dr. Ann Johnson is currently the Director of Professional Development for CMI and a national consultant. She has trained leadership teams in developing implementation plans, a training design, and support structures to sustain short-term and long-term change. Ann co-authored a chapter on implementation in Heidi Hayes Jacobs' book, "Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping" and was featured in ASCD’s new DVD, "Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping." She and Heidi have co-authored a training manual "Professional Development for Curriculum Mapping: Training Modules and Maps for Effective Implementation" to be published by ASCD late this fall.	Jeanne Tribuzzi is the Director of Language Arts, ESL and Foreign Language in the West Seneca Central School District in West Seneca, NY. She has served in a variety of roles in the West Seneca district for the past 17 years as a primary teacher, a middle school English teacher, the Director of Staff Development and is currently the ELA Director. Jeanne began mapping three years ago and is helping to lead that work in the district. She lives in Orchard Park, NY with her family.	Earl Nicholas serves as Director of Communication for Curriculum Designers. An experienced mapper and curriculum mapping facilitator, he is a 35-year veteran classroom teacher. Earl has also served as a software consultant since 1979, and as the district-wide mapping facilitator for a large suburban K-12 school system. Earl’s effective combination of technology expertise, classroom experience, and light-hearted story-telling have brought him high praise from both administrators and teachers in the United States and Canada. He lives in Libertyville, IL.