1. Inventing the Entrepreneurial Faculty Jim Tracy Nancy Boyle Cushing Academy To contact us after our presentation, text NMZ to 46876

2. Commit yourself to growth & renewal

3.  New educational paradigms needed  New partnership between private and public schools  Institutional partnerships  Cushing Academy Institute for 21st Century Leadership  Athletic Leadership Program  Food for Thought  Faculty Book  Skunkworks

4. Exciting teaching innovations taking place in America’s secondary classrooms PBL Dwellings: Green Building and Design CASE Author Blogs

5. Exciting teaching innovations taking place in America’s secondary classrooms History dept. Examples: Revisioning freshman course Move to seminars-- research and discourse

6. Exciting teaching innovations taking place in America’s secondary classrooms Common Themes seen in schools visited Unified Message / Unified Commitment of School & Faculty Teacher Plan Time: Co-Teaching & Content Teachers common period & summer Teacher Interaction / Cooperation / Collaboration Project-Based Learning Work-based learning experiences & LTI's: Learning Through Internships Entrepreneurial schools & curriculum Humanities & STEM: Blended classrooms / less of a delineation of departments Assessment & Evaluation: rubrics, portfolios, holistic, student involvement Ongoing Professional Development Working with students willing to be engaged vs necessity to engage students AS: Personal Learning Plans & Individual student files being continuously developed Graduation Portfolios Flexbooks, ebooks We are far ahead of what we've seen in use of technology

7. Effective methodology focused on differentiated instruction and evaluation Chelle UDL Our tool list (Tom) Dept highlights PD Tacking student data-AS and otherwise-- how is this done? Event or student centered? Assessment- ongoing, formative v summative-- purpose of each

8. Methods to: - galvanize faculty to a greater sense of inquiry and discovery - affirm peers, encourage contributions and assuage fears around change - forge a new consensus and momentum among faculty Offer voluntary PD-- workshops, conferences, weds lunches Whenever possible, ask for input, survey make it anonymous at times Mandate in- house PD Make PD project based with classroom application (csi sessions) Grassroots along with whole community What analogy to use? Our garden being eaten, repotted, growth…

9. Inventing the Entrepreneurial Faculty Jim Tracy Nancy Boyle @nancboy Cushing Academy To contact us after our presentation, text NMZ to 46876