Keynote
Descriptions
Designing
the New American High Schools
The opportunity to
build a new high school poses a serious challenge and opportunity
to school boards and educators everywhere. What kind of learning,
and teaching, is appropriate for students of the 21st
Century? What kind of learning environments and facilities will
support and enhance the education of today’s and tomorrow’s
students?
Bob Pearlman, former
President of the Autodesk Foundation and consultant to Napa New
Technology High School's replication project, will take you on
a tour of the country’s new high schools and re-designed
existing high schools. You will learn about and examine the design
criteria, design principles, and design elements that characterize
these new and re-designed high schools.
New
Ingredient for Student Success: Social Networks
The recipe for student
success needs an overhaul--it lacks a crucial ingredient. A new
report from A.T. Kearney and Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network,
the 2002 Workforce Study: Connecting Today's Youth with Tomorrow's
Technology Careers, finds that a student's social network
plays a significant role in both increasing their motivation to
pursue education and careers, and in connecting students to adults
who can help them.
Bob Pearlman, the former
Director of Education and Workforce Development at Joint Venture:
Silicon Valley Network and the former President of the Autodesk
Foundation, presents the key findings of this landmark study and
shows how business, civic and educational leaders can collaborate
to increase students' social networks that connect them to higher
education, the workplace, and the community.
Pearlman is the author
of "New Ingredient
for Student Success: Social Networks".
Getting
Together for Education Reform
Can all the key parties
in the school community – teachers, administrators, parents,
unions, school committees, mayors, business and the community—get
together around a common agenda for education reform? Can adversaries
forego their special interests and instead unite together for
the common good? Bob Pearlman, a veteran school leader of collaborative
coalitions on both the East Coast and the West Coast, shares the
stories of successful collaborative coalitions in districts and
states around the country and the key lessons and processes that
make for success.
Linking
to the Future with Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Can your school district
develop a successful multi-year plan for teaching, learning, and
technology? Can it both unite its key stakeholders for implementation
and also put together the political coalition and strategy to
develop the fiscal resources necessary for success? Bob Pearlman,
lead consultant for the Boston Public Schools “Linc 2 the
Future (2001-2006)” plan and former President of the Autodesk
Foundation, shares the stories of success plans – the key
ideas in applying technology as a support to teaching and learning
and the key strategies for resource development and implementation.
Inside
the Digital Divide
Why didn’t the
wild economic expansion of the late 90’s and its enormous
workforce gap draw millions of underprivileged youth into great
careers in the New Economy? Why did companies in Silicon Valley
lose close to $6 billion a year due to lack of a homegrown workforce?
Bob Pearlman, former President of the Autodesk Foundation and
former Director of Education and Workforce Development at Joint
Venture: Silicon Valley Network, takes you inside the Digital
Divide to show you the real young people, their hopes, their skills,
and the communities and schools that support them. Pearlman shares
with you the findings of a seminal study that shows how communities
across the country can bridge their Digital Divides and provide
their young people with the skills, knowledge, personal qualities,
and connections to be successful citizens of the 21st
Century.
Workshops
All of the above keynote
topics are also available as facilitated half-day or full-day
workshops. These workshops include an overview presentation, a
review of significant case studies from around the country, and
a strategic planning session through which participants develop
action plans for use in their own communities.
