Session+1-March+2009

=**Session I **=

//**Rethinking Assessment**//

 * Facilitator**: Denise Pope
 * Affiliation**: Stanford Challenge Success Program
 * Location**: Room 13 (MS History 6)
 * Audience**: 6-8
 * Description**: Using current research on how girls learn, examine your current principles and practices of assessment, and then redesign assessments to reflect your findings.
 * [|Collaborative Notepad]**
 * Session Recording**

**//Rethinking Learning Differences- CANCELLED//**

 * Facilitator**: Ericka Fur
 * Affiliation**: Stanford STEP instructor; Castilleja Learning Specialist
 * Location**:
 * Audience**: 9-12
 * Description**: Learn to foster the unique gifts atypical learners bring to the collaborative classroom.
 * Session Recording**

//**Defining "Interdisciplinary"**//

 * Facilitator**: Rick Reis
 * Affiliation**: Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning
 * Location**: Room 12 (MS English)
 * Audience**: 6-8
 * Description**: Contribute to the formation of Castilleja's working definition of Interdisciplinary by designing a set of criteria to evaluate a sampling of interdisciplinary programs, courses, projects, and assessments already in use at the Stanford undergraduate level.
 * [|Collaborative Notepad]**
 * Session Recording**

//College Admissions and AP programs in the 21st Century//

 * Facilitators**: Lorie Boyd and Susan Dean
 * Affiliation**: Castilleja
 * Location**: Large Presentation Room
 * Audience**: 9-12
 * Description**: What are the trends and pressures of college admissions in the 21st century? How do APs impact our curriculum? As teachers of the 21st century, are we prisoners of the College Board and College Admissions officers?
 * [|Collaborative Notepad]**


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//**Design Challenge with IDEO**//

 * Facilitator**: Sandy Speicher
 * Affiliation**: IDEO
 * Location**: Faculty lounge area on third floor of the Arillaga building
 * Audience**: 6-12
 * Description**: Put yourself in the place of a 21st century learner. Work with a team of IDEO designers and engage in a project to solve a unique and undisclosed problem.
 * Session Recording**

//**Student-teacher Boundaries in a Web 2.0 World**//

 * Facilitator**: Karen Lynn
 * Affiliation**: Castilleja School
 * Location**: Room 204-2nd floor conference room in Arillaga building
 * Audience**: 6-12
 * Description**: Participate in a roundtable with Karen Lynn to explore the ways to maintain personal boundaries in the 21st century. Who are my "friends?" How online-accessible must I be to my students? Outcome: produce a set of policy recommendations.
 * [|Collaborative Notepad]**
 * Session Recording**