CEI Showcase '16: Full Schedule

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To start your experience, feel free to explore the full schedule and begin imagining and designing your personalized learning journey.
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6:30am

Morning Wellness: Yoga

Limited Capacity filling up

Harness the power of Om. Join your colleagues before breakfast on Tuesday and Thursday for instructor-led yoga by Erica Berens, WestinWORKOUT Fitness Studio. Yoga mats are will be provided. Meet by 6:20 a.m. the 2016 CEI Showcase registration and information table located in the lobby of the Westin Snowmass Conference Center.

Tuesday June 14, 2016 6:30am - 7:30am
Westin Conference Center

Experience, All Audiences | Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences

12:00pm

How can art, inspiration, and community enrich students’ lives?

Limited Capacity seats available

Infuse the arts into your classroom to enhance your curriculum as well as student engagement and curiosity. Tour Anderson Ranch Arts Center, where artists of all levels come from around the world to explore new ideas, hone their art-making skills, and engage in meaningful dialogue. See some of their work in action and witness their lifelong commitment to develop personal creativity and to discover, learn, and grow. Adapt your observations of their work to your own curriculum to enhance student engagement and curiosity.

Facilitators

Katherine Bell

Anderson Ranch

Heather Chikoore

Manager, Research and Impact, The Colorado Education Initiative

Manager, Research and Impact

Tuesday June 14, 2016 12:00pm - 2:45pm
Cathedral Peak

Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12 | SpaceLab: Seeing is Believing Expedition, All Audiences, K-12

12:00pm

How does art generate innovative and open-minded students?

Limited Capacity seats available

Inquiring minds wanted! Learn active looking strategies and methods of inquiry during this object-based gallery experience guided by an Aspen Art Museum educator. Experience the museum’s innovative approach of engaging audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society. Then take these techniques back to the classroom to help students build and sustain a state of alertness and wonder.

Facilitators

Michelle Dezember

Learning Director, Aspen Art Museum

Annie Henninger

Education Program Manager, Aspen Art Museum

Morgan Lee

Education Coordinator, Aspen Art Museum

Samantha Olson

Vice President, Strategy, Colorado Education Initiative

CEI Staff

Emily Love

Director - Research & Impact, The Colorado Education Initiative

Director - Research & Impact

Tuesday June 14, 2016 12:00pm - 4:30pm
Cathedral Peak

Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12 | SpaceLab: Seeing is Believing Expedition, All Audiences, K-12

1:15pm

How can educators use personal storytelling to build empathy in schools? (Pt 1 of 2)

Limited Capacity seats available

Capture the power of storytelling to nurture empathy and curiosity. Join STORY SWAP, an empathy “laboratory” hosted by Aspen Words (a program of the Aspen Institute), and explore writing techniques that maximize a story’s impact and power. Then find a partner, exchange a meaningful or transformative story about an experience as an educator, and write each other’s story as if it were your own using the first-person narrative voice: the very powerful “I.” After sharing the written stories as a group, discuss how these practices can increase empathy in your schools. www.aspenwords.org

Facilitators

Renee Prince

Aspen Words

Tuesday June 14, 2016 1:15pm - 4:30pm
Salon C

Deep Dive: Skill-Building Workshop, All Audiences, K-12 | Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12

1:15pm

How can design thinking transform problem-solving and help us deepen learning? An introduction to the tools and mindsets.

Limited Capacity filling up

Across the nation, design thinking is being used by educators, school and district leaders, and school designers as a powerful process and set of tools that ignite user-centered innovation in learning and teaching for students and educators. Participants will be guided through each stage of the design thinking process and will introduce and model key design thinking mindsets. To model approaching challenges with a “beginners mindset,” the design challenge we will explore will come from outside of education, which will allow participant to fully engage with the new process and skills without being harnessed to the current constraints.

Facilitators

Paul Beck

Innovation Specialist, Colorado Education Initiative

Personalized Learning Specialist

Amanda Holden

Assistant Principal/Google Ninja, Boulder Valley School District

I am a practicing school leader with a thirst for social change, equity, hard work, and knowledge. I am also a committed professional dedicated to the field of education and the belief that every student can succeed. Ed Tech and being innovative in our approach and practice is exciting... Read More →

Tuesday June 14, 2016 1:15pm - 4:30pm
Alpine Springs 1

Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12 | SpaceLab: Design Thinking Workshop, All Audiences, K-12

12:00pm

How can educators use personal storytelling to build empathy in schools? (Pt 2 of 2)

Limited Capacity seats available

Facilitators

Renee Prince

Aspen Words

Wednesday June 15, 2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Salon C

Deep Dive: Skill-Building Workshop, All Audiences, K-12 | Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12

12:00pm

How can stories from the grave bring life to the classroom?

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Bone up on the exciting lives of those who lay at rest in Red Butte Cemetery, the century-old graveyard in Aspen, Colorado, that is home to many former pillars of the community whose influence helped create this mountain town. See first-hand how the Aspen Historical Society preserves and presents Aspen's local history in inspiring and provocative ways. Collaborate with other educators to unearth innovative ways to use these stories as well as stories from your own community to bring local history to life in your classroom.

Facilitators

Sarah Forbes

Program Lead, Colorado Education Initiative

Manager, Research & Impact

Nina Gabianelli

V.P of Education and Programs, Aspen Historical Society

Greg Hessee

Senior Director, Colorado Education Initiative

Wednesday June 15, 2016 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Cathedral Peak

Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12 | SpaceLab: Seeing is Believing Expedition, All Audiences, K-12

12:00pm

What do nature’s hidden wonders teach us about education?

Limited Capacity filling up

Take a hike and a lesson from nature. Learn how hands-on exploration in nature can enhance the traditional classroom experience as well as student and educator curiosity. Join Arin Trook, education director at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), and Carey Favaloro, ACES naturalist, on a 3.5-mile nature walk through beautiful and varied terrain in Snowmass, Colorado. Take in the local flora and fauna while learning innovative techniques for incorporating natural exploration into a traditional academic experience.

Note: Extensive hiking experience not necessary; sneakers or sturdy shoes encouraged.

Facilitators

Carey Favaloro

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES)

Arin Trook

Education Director, ACES

Arin took over as Education Director for ACES in the fall of 2013. He has been a professional educator for the past 20 years, including a stint as a Naturalist and Educator at ACES from 1996 - 2000. He holds a BA from Stanford, a Masters in Education from UC Berkeley, and a classroom... Read More →

CEI Staff

Yee-Ann Cho

Senior Vice President, The Colorado Education Initiative

Wednesday June 15, 2016 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Cathedral Peak

Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12 | SpaceLab: Seeing is Believing Expedition, All Audiences, K-12

1:15pm

How might we leverage empathy building and a hack mindset to propel school transformation?

Limited Capacity filling up

Empathy building pushes problem solvers to better understand root causes, resulting in more thoughtful innovation and change efforts. Hacking is an approach to change that is founded on three mindsets: bias to action, failing forward to learn, and starting small. <br /> Gain tangible skills for using empathy and hacking to support personalized learning, innovation, and school transformation. Apply these design thinking tools to solve sticky challenges and develop healthier students and classrooms.

Co-facilitated by CEI’s SpaceLab team and alumni from Colorado’s first cohort of School Retool, an innovative fellowship for school leaders.

Facilitators

Haydee Ayi-Bonte

AP of Instruction, STRIVE Preparatory Schools

Design thinking, Hack mindset, 21st Century Skill building, Standards based grading, No zeros, Urban education....African Dance, Gardening, my 3 1/2 year old son.

Tara Jahn

Senior Manager, The Colorado Education Initiative

Tara Jahn joined The Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) in 2011 and works to ignite innovation at CEI by leading SpaceLab, the organization’s innovation and design thinking projects and events. She is a facilitator for School Retool, in partnership with the Stanford d.school in... Read More →

Wednesday June 15, 2016 1:15pm - 4:30pm
Alpine Springs 2

Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12 | SpaceLab: Design Thinking Workshop, All Audiences, K-12

6:30am

Morning Wellness: Yoga

Limited Capacity filling up

Thursday June 16, 2016 6:30am - 7:30am
Westin Conference Center

Experience, All Audiences | Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences