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Click [|here] to submit a proposal for the January 28, 2014 Conference. ====To ask questions or make suggestions regarding presenting at a CAIS 21st Century Learning Program, please email: d_brewer@caisct.org Follow the CAIS Educators' Blog: @http://caisct.wordpress.com/====
 * == What Works is Worth Sharing: Teachers Helping Teachers ==

"Plugged, Unplugged... Whatever!"

 * January 28, 2014**
 * 9:30 - 2:35 pm**
 * Chase Collegiate School**


 * Now accepting proposals January 28, 2014**

View Sessions presented at the April 11, 2013 Conference


 * Call for Proposals**


 * In addition to our more traditional workshops, you may wish to consider offering a "flipped" workshop. The CPD will provide you with a web-based resource to post articles or videos you would like participants to review prior to your workshop so that the session will be more interactive. **

Is there something you've done with your students in the last year that you're really proud of? Join your CAIS colleagues and share what you love. This conference is about best practices, lesson plans, projects, etc. that have had a significant impact on your students and your school. These may have included the use of technology, or not ... body, mind, spirit projects ... anything that you feel can and should be shared with your fellow educators.

In a multi-year effort to concentrate our professional development offerings on 21st Century skills, the CAIS Commission on Professional Development (CPD) is seeking proposals for our next full day event on January 29, 2013. Previous programs held since 2009 have won rave reviews from your colleagues. Each event consists of Connecticut teachers hosting 20-minute sessions where they share their best ideas, lesson plans, projects and pedagogical techniques. Presentations also include a subsequent ten minute question and answer period. The question and answer session can also evolve into a continuing dialogue and an opportunity for colleagues to network and make plans for visiting other schools to see innovative curriculum in action. Participants are able to visit several classrooms throughout the day so they can see a variety of teachers and projects. And...as a presenter you, too, will have an opportunity to attend sessions.

Some of the best professional development comes from spending a day with colleagues learning from each other. Ultimately, this program is about "sharing excellence". Won't you join us and submit your proposal?

View Sessions presented at the January 27, 2011 (snow date April 7th) Conference

View Sessions presented at the October 21, 2010 Conference.

**View Presentations and handouts from the October 20, 2009 Conference.**
Below are other examples of collaborative projects to give you an idea of what is possible. Your proposal can discuss your experience with something that’s a defined project such as the NAIS Challen ge 20/20 or a project o n a smaller scale, like Trout Raising from the lower school at St. Thomas’s Day School. We are eager to consider all collaborative projects that help to define what you think encompasses 21st Century Learning Skills at your school.

• [|NAIS Challenge 20/20] • [|Trout in the Classroom - St. Thomas's Day School] • [|Youth Peace-builder Network] • [|Global Nomads Group] • Stream Team • thinwalls project

To ask questions or make suggestions regarding presenting at a CAIS 21st Century Learning Program, please email: d_brewer@caisct.org
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