8:30 - 9:00 a.m.            Registration & Materials Pick up

Coffee and Juice

 During this time we will project a series of student profile video’s from the Edutopia website http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation 
 

 9:00 – 9:15 a.m.         STEM exploration in ITEST

Welcome by Joyce Maylin-Smith from the Education Development Center (EDC) www.edc.org sponsored by the ITEST program.  The EDC designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity.

and Manorama Talaiver from the Institute for Teaching through Technology & Innovative Practices, Longwood University. http://www.ittip.us/

The institute provides training on technology integration and 21st century skills for K-12 teachers and administrators
 

9:15 – 9:35                            Ken Robinson Video

9:35 – 10:00    .          Happenings in Colorado - Phil Lawson – http://www.spherit.com/about.htm

Phil Lawson will describe the work his group is doing to grow community support and effort to address issues of digital equity and STEM in Colorado using Spherit’s unique set of connectivity tools

10:00 – 10:25                Alexander Repenning http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/
Alex will describe the impact of the tools he has developed and illustrate how they can be used to grow student interest in computational thinking and computer programming.  This is an example of a successful ITEST program.  A list of other similar resources will be provided to participants.

10:25 - 10:40 .        Break and networking

10:40 - 11:20 Carolyn Staudt – www.Concord.org 

(The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. Carolyn will describe the resources available from her organization and the role ITEST played in supporting the work..)

11:20 – 12:00               Allan Jones – www.emaginos.com and Eli Regalado- www.sigmait.org

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.” Lewis Carroll. 

Allan will lead the group through a process starting with a clean slate to design an optimum school district that provides STEM, Digital Equity, reduced dropouts, etc.  He will then compare this ideal model with a known pilot program called “Schools of Discovery and Innovation”  
 

12:00 - 12:45                   Lunch & Networking

Welcome from Denver School of Science and Technology with a brief presentation of a videos from students describing why they chose/like the school.

Afternoon sessions

There will be three interactive sessions that attendees will participate in.  If you’re here as a part of a team, we recommend you split up and attend different sessions because the participants will be sharing information so each session should be different from the next. 

12:45 - 1:20 p.m.      Repeated Session 1

1:25 – 2:00 p.m.       Repeated  Session 2

2:05 – 2:40 p.m.       Repeated  Session 3

Repeated Session topics

•·      ITEST(Joyce and Mano)
o      What it is

o      How to get support for your ideas

o      How to access existing programs.

•·      Other Exemplary STEM programs (Bonnie Bracey Sutton &Vic Sutton)
o      Globaloria

o      Shodor.

o      My Wonderful World

o      High Performance Computing

•·      Identifying additional outstanding STEM programs and projects (Joyce Pitman )
o      What programs are available?

o      How do you find them?

o      How do you integrate them?

2:45 – 3:20 p.m.         Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session Topics

The three parallel sessions will only occur once, so attendees will need to select one of them to participate in.

o      Gender Equity programs  (Bonnie Bracey Sutton)

o      ELL and early reading initiatives  (John Carr - Award Reading)

o      Networking – next steps  (Allan Jones) 

3:25  -  4:00 p.m.       Wrap up Session 

•·      Highlights from 3 Interactive sessions
•·      Next Steps summary and discussion
 

In addition to the handouts available at the session, everyone attending (who provides an email address) will be sent a Workshop Summary document that will provide highlights from the sessions ands links to resources

Sigma IT would like to thank our partners and sponsors!