Schedule

Think Smart: Using Mindsets and Metacognition for Student Success
July 11-15, 2016, Santa Barbara, CA

*** Interactive activities and practical strategies will be included throughout each day’s session

Monday, July 11

Re-defining Intelligence in the 21st Century

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Registration

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Working lunch: Introduction Activities, Overview of Workshop, Core Groups, Routines and Procedures for the week

1:00 PM - 2:20 PM

PASS Theory of Intelligence Defined, Explored, Assessed

2:20 PM - 2:30 PM

Coffee break

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Winning Formula for Success (Academic and Emotional): Mindsets Plus Skill Sets Equals Results

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Developing Academic and Behavioral Mindsets in the Classroom: Students AND Educators; Read, review and respond to articles; Sharing ideas for final projects for practical application and outcomes for week’s seminar; Exit Cards

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Networking reception

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Dinner

Tuesday, July 12

Think Smart: Planning and Attention and the Brain

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Intro to the Day’s Agenda; Discussion and processing from previous day

8:45 AM - 9:50 AM

Planning: THINK SMART for School and for Life; How to teach in ways that promote students who become Self- Regulated, Metacognitive Learners

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM

Supporting Students who have challenges in Planning

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 12:00 PM

Attention; Developing Focus and Sustaining Attention; Supporting Students who have challenges with Attention; Mindfulness in the Classroom

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Q&A and application collaborations; Exit Cards

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

Wednesday, July 13

Successive Processing and the Learning Brain

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Days’ Introduction, Review and Discussion

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Simultaneous Processing:  Defined, Explored, Assessed; Strategies for Building Simultaneous Processing into Classroom Instruction

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Supporting Student with Challenges in Simultaneous Processing

11:45 AM - 12:10 PM

Q&A and applications collaborations, Exit Cards

12:10 PM - 12:45 PM

Lunch

Thursday, July 14

Simultaneous Processing and the Learning Brain: Teaching from the WHY

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Days’ Introduction, Review and Sharing

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Successive Processing:  Defined, Explored, Assessed; Strategies for Building Successive Processing into Reading and Math Classroom instruction

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 12:00 PM

Supporting Students who struggle with Successive Processing

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Q&A and application collaborations

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

Friday, July 15

Creating Cognitive Schools and Classrooms

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Day’s Introduction, Review and Discussion

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Creating a Risk-Taking, Mistake Making Classroom/School that Honors and Support All Learning Brains; Transforming Classrooms Culturally, Emotionally and Academically

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Bringing it all Together:  How to create and sustain change; Sharing of Final Projects

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Conclusion and Celebration

Please note: Schedule is preliminary and subject to change