Working on the Work Conference (Tampa, FL) 03.07.10 - 03.10.10
The Working on the Work Conference provides an opportunity for participants to analyze their current organizational structure (classroom, school, or district) and determine their current capacity to design the future. Participants will also develop the strategies and skills necessary to fulfill their capabilities to design the future.
What will participants learn?
Participants will learn that a focus on engagement is essential to designing the future. Participants will explore other key concepts such as individual capacity, organizational capacity, social systems, learning platform, and transformation. The role of teacher will be redefined as leader, designer, and guide to instruction, based on Phil Schlechty’s newest thinking. Additionally, participants will choose from three concurrent sessions to be offered at the conference:
Engagement 2.0: This session will focus on foundational concepts such as beliefs, engagement, student voice, Design Qualities, and design. The session will touch on the design process as well. This session is designed for those who have had little experience with the Working on the Work framework. Participants will learn how the foundational concepts assist in developing capacity to design the future and become engagement-centered.
Design 2.0: This session will move the foundational concepts from theory into practice. All participants will experience the Schlechty Center’s design process and be coached through a learning experience for students or adults. Those attending will share in a number of design challenges to deepen their understanding of capacity and design.
School Transformation 2.0: This session is designed for attendees to join three to four other conference participants from districts across the country in a simulation of a school self-study. Unlike many typical self-studies, here the teams will assess a school’s capacity, not its present performance, and will gather evidence from artifacts and interviews to draw conclusions about the potential of this school to support school transformation. The simulation experience will provide participants with valuable new skills and understandings which they can apply in their own schools as they return home to continue the work of focusing on engagement.
What will participants produce?
The participants will produce multiple work products in their concurrent sessions. The conference product will be a journal which will capture their reflections from the conference and identify their commitment to developing the capacity to design the future.
Who is the intended audience?
The Working on the Work Conference is open to all role groups, but the conference design will have the greatest impact on teachers.
Dates and Times: We will begin on Sunday evening at 5 p.m., with registration beginning at 4 p.m. On Monday and Tuesday mornings, we will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude by 4 p.m. We will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude by 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Registration Fee: $900 per participant. This price includes materials and conference meals.
Standard-Bearer School District: $800 per participant. This price includes materials and conference meals. Active Standard-Bearer School Districts have an option to use units to pay registration fees. The registration price is a half unit per participant. The superintendent of an active Standard-Bearer school district may attend at no fee or unit cost.
Not sure if you qualify for Standard-Bearer pricing? Both Active and Affiliate districts will receive the discount. (view list)
- Location and Directions
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Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza
4200 Jim Walter Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33607 - Booking Instructions
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To make room reservations, please call the Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza at 1.800.644.2685 and mention that you are attending the Schlechty Center Conference in order to obtain the correct room rate ($139 single/double). The hotel offers complimentary internet in all sleeping rooms, complimentary self-parking, and a complimentary airport shuttle service.
- Additional Information
- For More Information
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Tena Lutz
Conference Coordinator
tlutz@schlechtycenter.org
Phone: (502) 895-1942
Fax: (502) 895-7901
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Testimonials
All students deserve to learn, and it is our job as educators to reach and meet the needs of all students – not just the 30 percent there to learn. Finally, I am part of a district that is fostering such a vision and mission! Finally, there is a center for educational reform (The Schlechty Center) out there reaching and teaching districts and schoolhouses across the nation and inspiring such a vision and mission!
The WOW Conference was incredible. I came away with a deeper understanding of the framework and have already implemented the "systems" thinking resources into our Central Office staff meetings.
Thank you for the ideas and the motivation. I always learn so much when I'm with you...even things I didn't expect.