Pre-Conference Institutes

The Leader's Role in Implementing Standards-Based Grades

October 31, 2013  |  Las Vegas, Nev.

Participants will discover a variety of new ways to report student learning, techniques for involving both students and parents in the reporting process, and ways to avoid controversy and resistance in the reform process. Educators at all levels will leave this institute with a collection of new ideas and strategies for developing successful reporting policies and meaningful standards-based report cards.

Presenter: Thomas R. Guskey and Lee Ann Jung, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Registration Fee: $249 (ASCD members), $313 (nonmembers) Materials Fee: $37 for Developing Standards-Based Report Cards Registration Code: PD14GA001

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"Teaching Up" for Equity and Excellence in Today’s Classrooms 

October 31, 2013  |  Las Vegas, Nev.

The leading authority on differentiated instruction examines both needs and potentials of students from low-income and non-majority cultures and how teachers and administrative leaders can plan and deliver curriculum and instruction in a way that accelerates learning for all students.

Presenters: Carol Ann Tomlinson, ASCD Author, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and Edwin Lou Javius, Education Consultant, San Jose, Ca. Registration Fee: $249 (ASCD members), $313 (nonmembers) Materials Fee: $21 for Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom Registration Code: PD14GA002

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