ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Energizing Students in Learning: Creating a Culture of Achievement

Register for the 2008 Conference (available July 18, 2008)

Featured Speakers are Alan November & Bob Sullo

Alan November's presentations are thought provoking, creative, and motivating. He has an uncanny ability to tap into the needs and energy of his audiences. He makes people think, question, and also important, laugh.

His background as a dorm counselor for at-risk students, classroom teacher, technology coordinator, alternative school director, city planner, new school designer, university lecturer and years of consulting around the world give him a breadth of understanding and educational experience. Alan is the author of Web Literacy for Educators and Empowering Students With Technology.

Alan's personable and friendly nature, coupled with astute observations about the economy, education and technology make him hugely popular, entertaining and engaging. For Alan, it's not the technology itself that it is important; it's the way we use it.

His ideas about global communication, collaboration, assessment, and critical thinking have inspired schools, governments and corporations around the world to rethink and redefine their approach to education and technology.

Bob Sullo is the author of Activating the Desire to Learn.  He provides the audience with a comprehensive overview of internal control psychology - a valid alternative to the reward/punishment model.

You will leave with strategies to create a need-satisfying classroom to inspire higher academic achievement. Activities in this presentation will focus on building positive relationships, creating relevant lessons for students, and making sure that expectations are simultaneously challenging and realistic.