2024 Great Ideas in Education Conference

In October 2023, John Calvert was one of approximately 150 people who were able to go through a guided tour of the 1200 building at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the building where the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history took place. This building was frozen in time, and has sense been demolished. Come listen to key takeaways and lessons learned from walking the building with the lead prosecutor in the case.

The research on Building Thinking Classrooms shows that when students work on thinking tasks in random groups on a vertical whiteboard, they are capable of co-creating incredible amounts of mathematical meaning and collective knowing-and-doing. In this session, participants will look at the Thinking Classroom practices that help students move this collective knowing-and-doing into individual knowing-and-doing while, at the same time, beginning to take responsibility for their own learning. These practices support note-making and individual work. They will intertwine with, and make extensive references to, the recently published book, Building Thinking Classrooms (Grades K-12): 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning.

This networking/discussion-based presentation shares Kansas State University-College of Education's efforts in creating a sustainable induction lab model that provides ongoing professional learning for their teacher candidates, spanning preservice teachers’ clinical experiences through their first two years of teaching in partnering districts. We propose a conceptual framework that outlines the key components of the induction lab model, and is designed to support the co-construction process with school districts and key stakeholders.