Pre Conference: Curriculum Mapping 101: The Basics Featuring Dr. Ann Johnson and Dr. Debbie Sullivan

Workshops and Clinic: Curriculum Mapping: Strategies for Successful Implementation Featuring Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Ann Johnson, Don Stinson, Debbie Sullivan, plus Practitioner Breakout Sessions

Dates: Pre-Conference: June 9, 2009 Workshops and Clinic: June 10 - 11, 2009

Location: (Scroll down for hotel locations) Decatur Intermediate Learning Center Indianapolis, IN 46221-4260

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For every group of 10 reservations, the 10th person is free*
(*at the lowest registration rate for the group - 1 day, 2 days, or 3 days)

Graduate College Credit Available - click here

Join us in May in Indianapolis, IN for the Curriculum Mapping Workshop and Clinic. The Workshop and Clinic will allow participants to select from the following four Workshops* in addition to the Clinic sessions:

Laying the Foundation
Creating a Shared Vision and Rethinking Your Leadership Structure to Support Mapping

Launching the Process/Getting Started
Creating Individual Maps, Initiating the Review Process, Master Mapping Strategies, and Developing Consensus Maps

Sustaining and Integrating the Mapping Process
Integrating Assessment Findings Directly into Your Map and Developing an Implementation Plan

Advanced Mapping Tasks
Updating Your Maps with 21st Century Techniques.

The Clinic will feature coaching sessions designed for mappers around the country who want to receive direct feedback on their own classroom and districts maps as well as learn strategies to help their colleagues in the revision process. Participants at the Clinic and Workshops will learn strategies to help:

• Develop quality Individual Maps
• Develop Consensus Maps
• Implement the Review Process
• Craft Essential Questions
• Use a Master Class model to refine mapping entries
• Provide useful and succinct feedback when working with colleagues
• Update maps with 21st Century tools
• Develop a shared vision for Mapping
• Design an Implementation Plan/Map
• Use the range of specific mapping software for professional development
• Integrate assessment data into the maps

* As identified in the new book by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Dr. Ann Johnson, "Professional Development for Curriculum Mapping: Training Modules and Maps for Effective Implementation" (ASCD). The book includes 12 professional development maps which are aligned to four critical phases of mapping.

Pre-Conference: Curriculum Mapping 101: Nuts and Bolts? Questions that will be addressed in this one-day workshop include:

• What is Mapping?
• Why Map?
• What are basic tasks schools carry out with Mapping?
• How can Mapping impact student performance?
• How can Mapping serve as a HUB for all school improvement efforts?

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.	Ann Johnson is a national consultant with CMI, an experienced classroom teacher, administrator, and national presenter whose practical step-by-step systemic approach to implementing curriculum mapping is based on 13 years of success in a suburban school and two years in an urban school district in Iowa. She has coached leadership teams in the development of implementation plans, a training design, and the support structure to implement the mapping process. Dr. Johnson co-authored a chapter in Heidi Hayes Jacobs’ book, "Getting Results Through Curriculum Mapping." Her district is one of two featured in Dr. Jacobs’ new DVD/video, "Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping."	Dr. Debbie Sullivan is assistant superintendent in MSD of Decatur Township in Indianapolis, Indiana, who has first-hand experience supporting a school district in implementing the curriculum mapping process. MSD of Decatur Township has been using the curriculum mapping process for the past seven years as part of the district reinvention and has worked closely with Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. Debbie has worked with teachers and administrators in beginning the curriculum mapping process and using the process to align curriculum K-12, promote articulation at a grade level along with vertical articulation across the district, target literacy strategies, and create common assessments.	Don Stinson is superintendent of MSD of Decatur Township in Indianapolis and has led the district in systemic transformational change with the goal of creating a model educational program to prepare students for the 21st century. He has been superintendent for eight years and has been instrumental in creating six small learning communities at Decatur Central High School, creating a small charter high school, partnering with several universities and opening the Goodwin Community Center. As part of the Journey Toward Excellence, the curriculum mapping process has been one of the non-negotiables in the district to support improved student achievement and the change process.

HOTELS IN INDIANAPOLIS

In Decatur Township - 5 M INUTES FROM WORKSHOP

• Country Inn & Suites, 5630 Flight School Drive, 317/821-1100

Near the Indianapolis International Airport – 10 - 15 MIN. FROM WORKSHOP

• Adam’s Mark Hotel, 2544 Executive Drive, 317/248-2481
• Hampton Inn, 5601 Fortune Circle, 317/244-1221
• Courtyard Marriott, 5525 Fortune Circle, 317/248-0300
• Holiday Inn Select, 2501 S. High School Road, 317/244-6861
  

Downtown – 20 MINUTES FROM WORKSHOP

• Hyatt Hotels, 1 South Capital Avenue-317/532-1234
• Westin Hotels, 50 South Capitol Avenue, 317/231-3928
• Omni Hotels, 40 Jackson Plaza, 317/634-6664
• Canterbury Hotel, 123 South Illinois, 317/634-3000

Indiana Wesleyan UniversityGraduate Credit
Course Title: Aligning the Curriculum for Improved Student Performance

This course provides a structured opportunity for participants of the Curriculum Mapping Institute (CMI) regional conference to reflect on the knowledge, experience, and insight gained from the conference. Candidates seeking graduate elective credit through the conference will complete a field project with IWU faculty that involves the creation and implementation of an individual curriculum map. Candidates will demonstrate the ability to diagnose student learning through the use of formative assessment data used to design an implementation plan for P-12 student learning.

Upon completion of this class, the candidate should be able to:

1. Develop quality individual curriculum maps aligned to state academic standards.

2. Develop consensus maps that articulate agreed upon academic indicators to be taught at each grade level.

3. Craft essential questions that allow for enduring understanding of “big idea” concepts.

4. Demonstrate the ability to use benchmark assessments (aligned to curriculum maps) to diagnose P-12 student learning.

5. Analyze formative and summative assessment data to design an implementation plan for learning and/or to make revisions to individual and consensus curriculum maps.

Course Credit: 2 graduate hours

Participants will sign up on-site at the CMI.

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