An overview of authorspeak 2011 created by Rose Pillay, @rosepillay1.

1. AuthorSpeak 2011
“Pro-D is not an Event” – Douglas Reeves

2. AuthorSpeak 2011
By the numbers…
96 Educators & Experts
1,500 Educators
77 45 minutes Sessions over 3 days
7,100 tweets from 1,600 contributors
1.2 million people reached with 28.7 million
impressions on Twitter...

3. AuthorSpeak 2011
Organization …
Time by Chime Learning

4. AuthorSpeak 2011
Organization
Registration Schedule

5. AuthorSpeak 2011
Program

6. AuthorSpeak 2011
Program

7. AuthorSpeak 2011
Organization
Doors
Books

8. AuthorSpeak 2011
Joanne
Service with a Smile … my
personal shopper

9. AuthorSpeak 2011
Organization
Breakfast Lunch

10. AuthorSpeak 2011
Lunch Panel Ferriter, Kise, Marzano,
DuFour, & Eaker
Exemplary Teachers
 An exemplary teacher is a…
 Learner
 How do you support exemplary
teachers?
 Autonomy
 What do teachers really need
(not money)?
 Team – Principal – Time
 The best form of Pro-D?
 Job-embedded – Choice –
Social Setting – Reflective
Process

11. AuthorSpeak 2011
Reeves, Wiliam, Brook
Lunch Panel hart & Herbst
 “Can’t cross a chasm in two
Grading jumps!”
 Comprehensive Report Card
 Descriptions of learning that has
happened – Evidentiary Process
 Early Warning System v. Report
Cards – record of conversation
with students
 Dialogue – Student-Led
Conferences

12. “not what we do but why we do it”
Jeff Jones

13. Organization

14. Embedded Formative Assessment
Ridiculous Optimism of Teachers.
We can always get better.
Never work harder than your
students.
Fold your arms.
No Hands Up.
Popsicle Sticks & Cups
Assessment =
Cause Thinking & Inform Teaching
Dylan Wiliam

15. The Science of Motivation
“Give the world something it didn’t
know it was missing”
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
2010 Nobel Prize in Physics -
Graphene
Daniel Pink

16. Educational Neuroscience
Teachers are
brain-changers.
Emotions, Memory, Langua
ge, Numerosity, Creativity &
Learning
Reverse Dyslexia.
Creativity can be taught.
David Sousa

17. Differentiation and the Brain
“Teach Up”
No rubric lower than Meeting
Expectations – don’t accept anything
else
Curriculum Coverage v. Curriculum
Abandonment
How do you build neural networks?
Less is More
Shorter is Better
On/Off Task Time
Carol Ann
Keep it Relevant
Tomlinson

18. Think Big, Start Small
The laminated daybook v.
differentiation
Gayle Gregory &
Martha Kaufeldt

19. Grading and Learning
Learning v. Earning
Performance
evidence of learning
v. Compliance list
achievement
Susan Brookhart

20. AuthorSpeak 2011
“A” is for Assessment for All

21. The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders
Vision-casting
Action
Plusing
Energy
Inspiring
“Would someone choose to follow
me?”
“What will I give you to remember
me by?”
Timothy Kanold

22. The Will to Lead, The Skill to Teach
Learning =
Environment + Experiences
High Will = Culture = Soil
 Feedback is information
not coronation or
condemnation
High Skill = Instruction = Seeds
• Culturally Linguistically
Responsive (CLR)
Sharroky Hollie & Teaching
Anthony
• I go/Amae
Muhammad

23. On Excellence in Teaching
Deliberate practice on weakness rather
than strengths
 The best teachers are the least satisfied: “I
could have done it better”
 Every year teacher should critique a video
of their own lessons
Getting better at what you do (one thing
at a time)
• Common language of teaching
• Focused Feedback & Practice
• Instructional Rounds – opportunities for
observing and discussing effective
teaching
• Required Annual Growth Plans
Robert J. Marzano

24. Teacher as Assessment Leader
What did you learn this week
as a teacher?
Focus on results not people
“Go with your thoroughbreds”
Is learning a guessing game?
Roger Staubach: “Spectacular
achievements are always preceded
by unspectacular preparation.”
Thomas Guskey

25. AuthorSpeak 2011
Stop “should-ing”
on our teachers.
Alternative
Report Cards &
Parent Teacher
Interview
Sandra Herbst

26. AuthorSpeak 2011
If I Had All the Money in the
World...
....I'd send every educator
(hell, maybe even every non-
educator, too) to Solution Tree's
Authorspeak.
This event brings together 99 of ST's
authors for three days of
awesomeness in
Indianapolis, Indiana…
There were education rockstars
everywhere…
I have NO DOUBT that I will be
Tina Boorgen better at my job thanks to these three
days of learning…