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Revitalizing our Educational Vision for America
The revitalization of the Progressive Education Network (PEN) is vital to America as political leaders continue to create educational mandates that do not support curriculum that is tailored to the individual learning styles, developmental needs, and educational interests of the child. First formed in 1919 as The Association for the Advancement of Progressive Education, the organization played an influential role in American education reconstituted as the Progressive Educators Network. Through the decades, PEN has kept current with the changing trends in education and fought to preserve quality teaching for all children. In the early 1990s, grant money dried up and members of the Progressive Education network retreated to regional gatherings, their own schools, even their own classrooms. It is time for us to gather together once again, all of us from across the country, to be renewed and gain support from one another as we strive to teach children in meaningful ways in this test driven climate.
keynote speakers
Augusta Souza Kappner - Moving from the Margins to the Mainstream: How
progressive educators can redefine the debate
George Wood – Roots and reflections: A conversation with George
Roland Barth – The conditions under which we best learn
Bill Ayers – What’s progressive about progressive education: Teaching the
taboo
round 1 sessions
A Life Skills Curriculum with a Focus on Media Literacy and
Human Sexuality
Presenter: David Lyons and Carwai Seto, Blue oak School |
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ABC’s of Education, A Primer for Schools to COME
Presenter: Doug Goodkin, The San Francisco School |
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Aligning Practice with Values Part I: Creating and
Recreating a Model of Progressive Education
Presenter: Carlye Nelson-Major, The School in Rose Valley |
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Building on Student Strengths
Presenter: Jenifer Fox, The Purnell School |
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Decisions, Decisions - What We Learn From Choices in
Activities
Presenters: Peninsula School
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Democratic School Leadership and Progressive Education:
Intersections, Challenges, and Triumphs
Presenters: Daniel Schwartz, Jo Ann Isken, Jeffrey Benson, Bill Ayers, and Rebecca van der Bogert |
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Examining Tensions: A Discussion of the Challenges
Associated with Packaged Curriculum
Presenters: Kristin Clendenin and Chi Quach, Samuel Sewall Greeley School |
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From community service to democratic education: the work of
the school in crossing class barriers
Presenter: Shanti Elliott, Francis Parker School |
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Houses/Homes: A Multicultural Curriculum From A Child's
Point Of View
Presenter: Judith Garfinkel, The Mead School |
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Incorporating REAL Student Choice in the Middle School
Curriculum: Give students power over learning
Presenters: Judith Barnes and Dale Jones, Cupertino Union School |
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Poetry and Photography: A Framework for Exploration and
Discovery
Presenters: Todd Burleson and Jay Dillon, Hubbard Woods Elementary School |
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Reflective Practice in the progressive Classroom
Presenters: Christie Byers and Tracey Marks, Green Acres School |
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Sustaining Diversity: Discussing Supports and Challenges
for Progressive Minority New Teachers
Presenter: Betty Achinstein |
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Teaching, Empowerment, and Passion: You Have the Ability to
Change Lives Every Day
Presenter: Joel Pelcyger |
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The Game of Village: A Progressive Project Which Engages
Students in All Curricular Areas
Presenters: Caroline Jones, Michelle Martin and Simon Tyler, Prairie Creek Community School
The Game of Village How To
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The Misuse of Recent Brain Research and Educational Policy
and Classroom Teaching Practice
Presenter: Dave Lehman |
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The Public Purpose of Private Schools
Presenter: Albert Adams, Lick-Wilmderding High School |
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The Successes and Failures of Diversifying a Middle School
Presenters: Kara Stern, Tamara Pearson and Josephine Salvador, The Calhoun School |
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The Teacher's Role in Conflict Resolution
Presenter: Barbara Andrews |
round 2 sessions
680 Days: Reinforcing Your School's Expertise in Child
Development to Enlist Parents as Partners
Presenter: Peter Braverman, Green Acres School |
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A Simulation: Put Yourself in the Shoes of a Person with
Learning Differences
Presenters: Elyse Wolland, Susie Korn and Nancy McCallister, The San Francisco School |
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Aligning Practice with Values Part II: Democracy in the
Classroom and Beyond
Presenter: Carlye Nelson-Major, The School in Rose Valley |
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Back to Progressive Basics: Teaching Social Justice to 21st
Century Kids
Presenter: Trevor McNeil, Presidio Hill School |
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Collaborative Team Teaching
Presenters: Michael Gaspar and Barbara Roman, John F. Kennedy High School |
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Connecting Content and Community Through Creativity: An
Interdisciplinary Project
Presenters: Ruth Cardillo and Michelle Martin, The San Francisco School |
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Constructing Pyramids and Investigating Yeast: Building
Foundations for Learning in Depth
Presenter: Linda DeGraf, Capitol Hill Day School |
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Global Currents to Local Stewardship: The Kelp Forest Unit
as a Model of Progressive School Methods
Presenters: Gail Buschini and Linda Wagner |
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How Can I Use Project Zero Research to Develop/Assess
Student Thinking/Promote Collegiality?
Presenter: Brian Donovan, The San Francisco School |
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Intensive Study Week: An Approach to Cross-Curricular
Teaching
Presenters: Kara Combs and Amanda Monsour, Green Acres School |
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Learning Your Place: When Does Educational Inequity Begin?
Presenter: Maylan Dunn, Northern Illinois University |
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Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Bringing Latino Families to
Independent Progressive Schools
Presenter: Scott Duyan, Ray Morales, and Tim Rodgers, Blue Oak School |
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Teaching John Dewey in Middle and High School
Presenter: Catie Bell, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools |
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Teaching Literacy in the Progressive Classroom
Presenter: Kimeri Swanson-Beck, Hubbard Woods School
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Teaching the Drug War
Presenter: Jeanne Barr, Francis W. Parker School |
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What is the Point in Ranking Schools Based on One
Assessment?
Presenter: Shelley Paulson Carey |
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Why you should drop the AP and how you can do it.
Presenters: Roger Weaver and Bob Riddle, Crossroads School for
the Arts and Sciences
1. Crossroads letter to families re: decision |
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round 3 sessions
(Re)forming Accountability:
A Progressive Response to NCLB
Presenters: Frank Pignatelli, Bank Street |
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A Progressive School
Classroom Visitation Program
Presenter: Paul Brache, The Little School |
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Addressing Taboos: Religion,
Privilege and Other Things We Sometimes Don't Know How to Talk About
Presenter: Trevor McNeil, Presidio Hill School |
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Bilingual Education and
progressive Education: The Intersection
Presenter: Nicholas Meier, California State University, Monterey Bay |
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Collecting Portfolios: A
Two-Decade Journey
Presenters: Joan Elliott, Eve Richards and Eva Tarini |
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From Ponds to Louvre
Atlanta: Using local resources as the foundation for authentic learning
Presenters: Caron Morgan and Carol Wall, The Galloway School
Using local resources/field trips as the foundation for authentic, exploratory learning |
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How to Start Conversations
that Matter
Presenters: Mary Corrigan, Dallas Glenn and Steven Morris, The San Francisco School |
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Is Democracy Possible in
Schools Today? The Progressive Legacy in Chicago/Challenges to Sustaining
Presenters: Connie Goddard, Daniel Schwartz, Dan Frank and Catie Bell |
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Language Arts in the
Progressive Classroom
Presenters: Leslie Shank and David Wartik, Hubbard Woods School |
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Masque, Mud, and a Museum:
Building Self knowledge and community in the K-1
Presenter: Josie Saracino, Chris Titus Vale, Marion Newton, Camerina Aceves, Frank Smithson, Peninsula School |
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Myths and Tenets of
Progressive Education
Presenter: Barbara Andrews |
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Native Wisdom in the
Classroom
Presenter: Ronan Hallowell, New Roads High School |
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SHAKESPEARE: A Curriculum
Model for Autonomous Learning
Presenter: Joy Lenters, The Mead School |
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Stimulating Professional
Dialogue by Looking Closely at Student Work
Presenter: Terry Edeli, The San Francisco School |
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Take the Work Out of
Reader’s Workshop
Presenter: Kelly McDonough, Presidio Hill School |
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The Junior Kindergarten in
a Progressive School: The preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy
Presenter: Carol Aymar, Francis W. Parker School |
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We Have A Pond Study:
Turning Progressive Educational Theory into Practice
Presenter: Maryanne Kalin-Miller, Francis W. Parker School |
