The JP Institute for Excellence in Education is an intensive, effective, capacity building tool for school and district-based leadership teams. After almost 20 years of being held exclusively for the benefit of JP Partner Schools, registration for the Institute is now open to ALL.
If you haven't attended a JP Institute before, here are some things you can expect:
- Nationally and Internationally respected keynote speakers!
- Our Institute Members have had the opportunity to learn from reknowned education and learning experts including Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams and David Boulton, founder of the Children of the Code Project.
- Intensive training from experienced School Improvement Specialists!
- JP's School Improvement Specialists are selected under rigorous criteria based on their performance IN THE CLASSROOM. Once they join our team, they spend 100% of their time in service to schools across the country and around the world. Simply put, no other team has the same level depth or breadth of experience.
- BROAD, CONTENT-RICH SESSIONS
- Sessions at the JP Institute for Excellence in Education spans the Five Domains of Responsive Professional Development: Leadership, Instructional Management and Data, Positive School Culture, Curriculum, and Responsive Coaching. Your school or district-based leadership team will have the opportunity to learn critical skills and content that will significantly impact your ability to build capacity and sustain results over time.
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Keynote Speakers for 2010 Announced!
After last year's successful 20th Anniversary Institute for Excellence in Education, we spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how to improve what was easily our most exciting year ever.
The answer? In additional to new and exciting sessions, we'll have not one incredible keynote speaker, but TWO!
Next July, attendees at the Institute for Excellence in Education will have an opportunity to again hear from David Boulton, co-producer and creator of the Children of the Code project AND Dr. Anita Archer, educational consultant and author of award-winning instructional programs.
And thanks to the overwhelming response this year, next year's Institute will AGAIN be open to ALL educators in addition to our JP Partner Schools.
Educators, parents, and community members in the Atlanta area (or anyone planning on being in the area) will also have the option of registering for one or both keynotes, whether or not they'll be attending the rest of the Institute sessions.
Be sure to save the dates - July 12th through July 15th 2010 - it's going to be an INCREDIBLE Institute!
 David Boulton, co-producer and creator of the Children of the Code, is a learning-activist and technologist whose articles on learning have appeared in journals and publications worldwide.
David's k-12 education orientation and vision has been presented or referenced at gatherings including: the World Futurist Society, The 21st Century Learning Initiative, at both the California and National Education Summits, the Ontario (Canada) School Board Association, The Chinese Ministry of Education, and has won the Teacher Information Network Gold Award and the Innovative Teaching Concepts Award of Excellence.
As an organizational learning theorist and technologist David designed 'learning circuits' and 'transformational learning strategies' for Boeing's reengineering program, the 'Employee Knowledge Link' system at Pacific Bell, for Apple Computer's 'Electronic Campus' (one the world's first virtual universities) and for the genealogy project of the central Mormon Church. AIG, H.P., Mazda, ALLTEL, NEW YORK Life Insurance, Bank of America and many other Global 2000 companies have implemented his organizational learning and feedback concepts.
David has founded five companies and been awarded four patents. His last start-up, DiaCom/2way (today, 'Validar') went on to win the Smithsonian Award for Innovation and appeared on Upside Magazine's Top 100 private companies list. His last patent, "A Method and Apparatus for Implementing User Feedback", has promising implications for how the networks and World Wide Web of the future will evolve and perform. He is a past member of the 21st Century Learning Initiative and the Dialogue Research Project at M.I.T.'s Organizational Learning Center.
He has been an advisor to the Chair of the California Senate Education Committee and is a member of the U.S. D.O.E.'s Gateway Project. He recently (summer 09) appeared in the PBS Television show "The New Science of Learning: Brain Fitness for Kids"
See http://www.implicity.org for more information on David Boulton's education vision and writings
Dr. Anita Archer serves as an educational consultant to school districts on effective instruction, classroom management, reading and writing instruction, and design of effective literacy programs. She has taught elementary and middle school students and is the recipient of ten Outstanding Educator awards including the 2006 Leadership Award from the University of Oregon College of Education.
Dr. Archer has been a faculty member at San Diego State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Oregon. She is nationally known for her presentations and publications on instructional procedures and literacy instruction. She coauthored Skills for School Success, a study skills program for elementary and middle school students, Advanced Skills for School Success, and REWARDS, a program to teach students advanced decoding and fluency skills, and REWARDS PLUS and REWARDS Writing with Dr. Mary Gleason. She also coauthored Phonics for Reading and has authored many other curriculum materials, chapters, books, and training materials.
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