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

February 8 - Thursday Lunch is available in the Beckman Center cafeteria starting at 11:45 A.M.

12:45 Opening Remarks
Lyn Countryman, Co-Chair, Planning Committee
Bruce Alberts, Former President, NAS
Wanda Bussey, Chair, 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?
Dr, Chris Dede, Harvard Graduate School of Education and
Dr. Louis Gomez, Northwestern University School of Education

Questions from participants.

2:15 Alabama Case Study - An example of interactive online work
Examine issues of OTPD from a systemic perspective using an actual example of a project to promote this kind of professional development. This is a continuation of the online discussion among participants prior to the workshop.
Dr. Chris Dede

3:15 Break

3:45 Panel – What does research say about Online Teacher Professional Development?
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 Online Teacher Professional Development 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? Teacher responder
Deb Smith, Second grade teacher, Woodcreek Magnet School for Math, Science and Engineering, Lansing Michigan

5:00 Questions for the day’s speakers Facilitator
Stan Hitomi, Chair, California Teacher Advisory Council, San Ramon Valley Unified SD, Science and Math Coordinator,

5:30 Busses back to the hotel

6:30 Reception - (in the hotel )
Experiencing the Emerging Model

View existing programs

7:00 Dinner – seating assigned

8:00 View existing OTPD programs

February 9, Friday

7:30 A.M. Busses depart from hotel
Breakfast – on the Terrace

8:30 Welcome back Brief recap of ideas from Thursday
Overview for the day - Lyn Countryman

8:45 Panel - Current State of Professional Development for Teachers
What is the Evidentiary Base for Understanding & Evaluating Professional Development
Hilda Borko, School of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder

Models of Online Teacher Professional Development
Barbara Treacy, Education Development Center
Online Teacher Professional Development from a school district perspective
Martha Valencia, Master teacher LAUSD, and trained online facilitator who has been delivering workshops to elementary math teachers Teacher responder

10:00 Get refreshments and move to breakout rooms

10:15 View from Ground Level - Lyn Countryman
Break out groups by color code
From your perspective, what does the future hold for OTPD in your work?
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, EDC – yellow
Sue Doubler, TERC – green
Tad Johnston, Maine Dept of Ed – blue
Stacey Kyle, CFTL – red
Groups will share ideas at the end of the day

11:30 Panel - Standards for Online Teacher Professional Development:
William Thomas, Southern Regional Education Board

Access and Equity Issues in OTPD
Raymond M Rose – Consultant and former Vice President The Concord Consortium

Quality Perspectives on Online Teacher Professional Development from a master teacher providing a vision of discipline specific OTPD- changing the paradigm
Valdine McLean, Teacher, Pershing County High School, Lovelock, Nevada

12:30 Lunch on the Terrace

1:30 Panel - Descriptive Synthesis and the Vision for the Future
What are the economics and benefits? How do we balance a state of the art small innovative program with scalability and effectiveness?
Adam Newman, Managing Vice President, Eduventures

Possibilities for the Future - Cost, Benefit and Equity Issues
Linda Chaput, Chief Executive, Agile Mind, Inc.

Janet English, Middle School Science Teacher, on leave to serve as Director of Educational Services at KOCE-TV, Orange County, CA
Teacher Responder

Breakout groups discuss
Where are the gaps in the offerings for OTPD? Can quality OTPD be delivered at a cost that is sustainable? What percentage of district’s money that will be spent on teachers, should be spent on PD? What percentage of the money spent on PD should be spent on OTPD?

3:30 Concluding Discussion – Facilitators:
Betty Carvellas, Science Teacher, Essex High School and TAC member
Javier Gonzales, Math Teacher, Pioneer High School Math and CalTAC member

A chance for all to make comments.
Intrinsic value of OLPD from the teacher’s perspective – How can the teacher voice influence the future use of OLPD for teachers?
Comments from TAC, CalTAC and planning committee members followed by comments from general audience.

(All comments will be included in the written workshop report – this is a chance to make the comments we want included in the report)

5:00 Adjourn
Busses back to the hotel available