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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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Appendix A
Workshop Agenda and Participants

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CENTER FOR EDUCATION TEACHER ADVISORY COUNCIL CALIFORNIA TEACHER ADVISORY COUNCIL

Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology

February 8-9, 2007


The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center

Huntington Room 100 Academy Dr. Irvine, CA

AGENDA

Thursday, February 8

12:45 pm

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Lyn Le Countryman, cochair, Workshop Planning Committee

Bruce Alberts, former president, National Academy of Sciences

Wanda Bussey, chair, National Academies Teacher Advisory Council

Stan Hitomi, chair, California Teacher Advisory Council

1:00

Keynote Speakers—Online Professional Development for Teachers—Where Are We Today and What Does the Future Hold?

Chris Dede, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Louis Gomez, Northwestern University School of Education

 

Questions from participants.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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2:15

Case Study—An Example of Interactive Online Work

Examine issues of Online Teacher Professional Development (OTPD) from a systemic perspective using an actual example of a project to promote this kind of professional development. This session is a continuation of the online discussion among participants prior to the workshop.

Chris Dede, facilitator

3:15

Break

3:45

Panel—What Does Research Say About OTPD?

Roxie Ahlbrecht, Moderator, second grade teacher, math teacher leader, Robert Frost Elementary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

 

Marcia Linn, Professor of cognition and education,

Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, science perspective

Andee Rubin, senior scientist, TERC, mathematics perspective

 

Examination of issues in OTPD from a systemic perspective. What are the challenges when studying teacher professional development? How can OTPD exploit this knowledge through the unique characteristics of the online environment?

 

How Can Teachers Make Use of What Research Says About OTPD?

Deb Smith, teacher responder, second grade teacher, Woodcreek Magnet School for Math, Science and Engineering, Lansing, Michigan

5:00

A Brief View of Three Research-Based OTPD Programs

Barbara Schulz, moderator, teacher leader, National Academies Teacher Advisory Council

 

David Zarowin, Wide World, http://wideworld.pz.harvard.edu/

James Pence, Teachers’ Domain, http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Liz Pape, Virtual High School, http://www.govhs.org/

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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5:30

Questions for the Day’s Speakers

Stan Hitomi, facilitator, chair, California Teacher Advisory Council and science and math coordinator, San Ramón Valley Unified School District

February 9, Friday

8:30 am

Brief Recap of Ideas from Thursday and Overview for the Day

Lyn Le Countryman, cochair, Workshop Planning

Committee, and biology teacher and science education professor, University of Northern Iowa

8:45

Panel—Current State of OTPD

Juliana Jones, moderator, mathematics teacher, Montera Middle School

 

What Is the Evidentiary Base for Understanding and Evaluating Professional Development?

Hilda Borko, School of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Models of OTPD

Barbara Treacy, Education Development Center, Cambridge, MA

Explore a capacity building, learning community model where teachers are trained to deliver and/or design online professional development workshops for other teachers in their district, state, consortia or other educational organization.

 

Online Teacher Professional Development from a School District Perspective

Martha Valencia, Master teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District, and trained online facilitator who has been delivering workshops to elementary math teachers, teacher responder

10:00

View from Ground Level—Small Group Discussions Lyn Le Countryman, moderator

From your perspective, what does the future hold for OTPD in your work?

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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What might be some roadblocks to a more systemic use of OTPD?

To what extent is OTPD available and used in your professional life?

Facilitators—members of the planning committee

Barbara Treacy, Education Development Center, yellow

Sue Doubler, TERC, green

Tad Johnston, Maine Department of Education, blue

Stacey Kyle, Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, red

Groups will share ideas at the end of the day.

11:15

Refreshments and Move to Breakout Rooms

11:30

Panel—What Are the Issues Around Standards, Access and Equity for OTPD?

Ford Morishita, moderator, science teacher, Clackamas High School, Oregon, and Member, National Academies Teacher Advisory Council

 

What Standards Should Be in Place for OTPD?

How should online PD be evaluated?

What should teachers and school administrators look for in OTPD?

William Thomas, Southern Regional Education Board

 

What Are the Access and Equity Issues in OTPD?

What technologies are needed for access to quality OTPD?

What are the constraints of access for OTPD?

Does OTPD level the playing field?

Raymond M. Rose, President, Rose and Smith Consulting, Texas

 

Quality Perspectives on OTPD: Changing the Paradigm?

Valdine McLean, teacher, Pershing County High School,

Lovelock, Nevada, and member, National Academies Teacher Advisory Council

12:30 pm

Lunch on the Terrace

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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1:30

Panel and Breakout Groups—Descriptive Synthesis and Visions for the Future

Sandie Gilliam, moderator, California Mathematics Council

 

What Are the Economics and Benefits?

How do we balance a state of the art small innovative program with scalability and effectiveness?

Leah O’Donnell, Senior Consultant, Eduventures

 

Possibilities for the Future—Cost, Benefit, and Equity Issues

Linda Chaput, chief executive, Agile Mind, Inc.

 

Janet English, teacher responder, middle school science teacher, on leave to serve as Director of Educational Services at KOCE-TV, Orange County, California, and Member, California Teacher Advisory Council

 

Breakout Group Discussions

 

  • Where are the gaps in the offerings for OTPD?

  • What is currently missing in OTPD for teachers that can be improved to better focus on teachers’ needs for professional development?

  • Can quality OTPD be delivered at costs that are sustainable for most school districts?

  • How can policy makers help with cost and equity issues?

3:30

Concluding Discussion—Facilitators:

Betty Carvellas, science teacher, Essex High School, and member, National Academies Teacher Advisory Council

Javier Gonzalez, mathematics teacher, Pioneer High School, and Member, California Teacher Advisory Council

 

Reports from Breakout Groups

 

Comments from Members of the Planning Committee,

National Academies Teacher Advisory Council,

California Teacher Advisory Council, and the General Audience

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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How can teachers influence the future development of use of OTPD?

What is the intrinsic value of OTPD from teachers’ perspectives?

What policies are needed locally, statewide, and nationally to develop coherent strategies for the development, implementation, and use of OTPD?

5:00

Adjourn

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Invited Guests

Dayo Akinsheye, Principal, Marie H. Reed Elementary School, Washington, DC

Deidre Alves, National TE Accreditation Associate, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Washington, DC

Maya Bassford, Program Officer, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC

Barnett Berry, Founder and President, Center for Teaching Quality, Hillsborough, NC

Nadine Bezuk, Executive Director, Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, San Diego, CA

Peter Bruns, Vice President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD

Daniel Carchidi, Senior Publication Manager, MIT OpenCourseWare, Cambridge, MA

Brenda Crouch, Consultant, Panhandle Area Educational Consortium, Chipley, FL

Margaret Crutchfield, Associate Vice President, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Washington, DC

M. Daniel DeCillis, Research Associate, California Council on Science and Technology, Riverside

Carolee Dodge-Francis, Executive Director, American Indian Research & Education Center, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Beverly A. Echols, Executive Director, Workforce and Professional Development, District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC

Myrna Estrada, Secondary Science Expert, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles

Belva Free, FloridaLearns Academy Director, Panhandle Area Educational Consortium, Chipley, FL

Susan Hackwood, Executive Director, California Council on Science and Technology, Riverside

Susan Harvey, Program Officer, S.D. Bechtel, Jr., Foundation, San Francisco

Claire Hemingway, Education Director, Botanical Society of America, Long Beach, CA

Ellen Hershey, Senior Program Officer, Stuart Foundation, San Francisco

Roberta Jaffe, Project Director eMSS, NSTA, and New Teacher Center, Santa Cruz, CA

Elaine Keeley, Administrator, Curriculum & Standards, Orange County Department of Education, Costa Mesa, CA

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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Lynn Kepp, Science Outreach Coordinator, New Teacher Center, University of California, Santa Cruz

Joellen Killion, Director, Special Projects, National Staff Development Council, Arvada, CO

George Miller, Senior Lecturer/Faculty Science Advisor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Barbara Shannon, Director, Multicultural Affairs, Westridge School, Pasadena, CA

Harris Shultz, Professor,f Mathematics, California Mathematics Project, Irvine

Sam Spiegel, Science Educator, BSCS, Colorado Springs, CO

Cornelius Sullivan, Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Barbara Thalacker, State Education Technology Director, California Department of Education, Sacramento

Jean Treiman, Executive Director, California Subject Matter Project, Sacramento

Mariam True, Executive Director, San Diego Unified School District, San Diego

Dave Vannier, Professional Development Coordinator, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Anne Westbrook, Center for Curriculum Development, BSCS, Colorado Springs, CO

Michelle Williams, Assistant Professor, Science Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Dan Wolfson, Program Manager, Educational Technology, San Diego Unified School District, San Diego

Presenters

Hilda Borko, Professor, School of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder

Linda Chaput, Chief Executive, Agile Mind, Inc., San Francisco

Louis Gomez, School of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Marcia Linn, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

Leah O’Donnell, Senior Consultant, Eduventures, Boston

Liz R. Pape, CEO, VHS, Inc, Maynard, MA

James Pence, Education Productions, Teachers’ Domain, WGBH Boston

Raymond Rose, President, Rose and Smith Associates, Cedar Park, TX

Andee Rubin, Senior Scientist, TERC, Cambridge, MA

William Thomas, Director, Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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Martha Valencia, Specialist, Instructional Technology, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles

David Zarowin, Executive Director, WIDE World, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Workshop Steering Committee

Lyn Le Countryman (Cochair), Associate Professor, Malcolm Price Lab School, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Chris Dede (Cochair), Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Susan Doubler, Center Co-Leader, TERC, Cambridge, MA

Janet English, Teacher, Director of Education Services, SVUSD, KOCETV, Huntington Beach, CA

Javier Gonzalez (CalTAC Member), Chair, Department of Mathematics, Pioneer High School, Whittier, CA

Tad Johnston, Mathematics Specialist, Maine Department of Education, Augusta

Valdine McLean, TAC Member, Science Teacher, Pershing County High School, Lovelock, NV

Barbara Treacy, Managing Director, Education Development Center, Newton, MA

National Academies Teacher Advisory Council

Roxie Ahlbrecht, Second Grade Teacher, Robert Frost Elementary School, Sioux Falls, SD

Bruce Alberts, Ex Officio, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco

Wanda Bussey (Chair), Mathematics Teacher, Rufus King High School, Milwaukee, WI

Elizabeth A. Carvellas, Science Teacher, Essex High School, Essex Junction, VT

Mario A. Godoy-Gonzalez, ESL/Bilingual Teacher, Royal High School, Royal City, WA

Michael Koehler, Mathematics Teacher, Blue Valley North High School, Overland Park, KS

C. Ford Morishita, Science Teacher, Clackamas High School, Portland, OR

Deborah Smith, Second Grade Teacher, Woodcreek Magnet School for Math, Science and Engineering, Lansing, MI

Robert Willis, Science Teacher, Frank W. Ballou High School, Washington, DC

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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California Teacher Advisory Council

Peter Arvedson, La Puente High School, La Puente, CA

Anne Marie Bergen, District Science-Oakdale, Oakdale, CA

Sandie Gilliam, Mathematics Teacher, California Mathematics Council, Scotts Valley

Stan Hitomi (Chair), San Ramon Valley Unified School District, Danville, CA

Glenn Hunt, Associate Professor, Riverside City College, Riverside, CA

Juliana Jones, NBCT, Mathematics, Montera Middle School, Berkeley, CA

Suzanne Nakashima, Teacher, Yuba City, CA

Mark Stefanski, Science Teacher, Marin Academy, San Rafael, CA

National Academies TAC Associate Members

Sherri Andrews, Science Faculty, North Carolina School of the Arts, Thomasville, NC

Peggy Carlisle, Science Teacher, Pecan Park Elementary School, Jackson, MS

Carrie Chiappetta, Einstein Fellow/Middle School Math Teacher, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

Roberta Tanner, Instructor, Loveland High School, Longmont, CO

National Academies TAC and California TAC Staff

Terry Holmer, Senior Program Assistant, The National Academies, Center for Education, Washington, DC

Donna King, Executive Assistant, California Council on Science and Technology, Riverside

Stacey Kyle, Research and Policy Associate, Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, Santa Cruz, CA

Jay Labov, Senior Advisor for Education and Communication, Study Director, Teacher Advisory Council, The National Academies, Washington, DC

Steve Olson, Science Writer/Consultant, Bethesda, MD

Donna Gerardi Riordan, Director of Programs, California Council on Science and Technology, Capitola

Barbara Schulz, Teacher/Leader, Teacher Advisory Council, The National Academies, Washington, DC

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11995.
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Teachers, like other professionals, need to stay informed about new knowledge and technologies. Yet many express dissatisfaction with the professional development opportunities made available to them in schools and insist that the most effective development programs they have experienced have been self-initiated. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers explores how the provision of professional development through online media has had a significant influence on the professional lives of an increasing number of teachers.

Growing numbers of educators contend that online teacher professional development (OTPD) has the potential to enhance and even transform teachers' effectiveness in their classrooms and over the course of their careers. They also acknowledge that it raises many challenging questions regarding costs, equity, access to technology, quality of materials, and other issues. Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers suggests that teachers be active participants in planning and implementation of any new technologies that enhance professional development. The book recommends that federal and state policy makers take on the responsibility of promoting equal access to technology while the federal government and foundations play an important role by supporting the development, evaluation, and revision of OTPD.

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