NASSPE Midwest
Regional Conference
Saturday October 14th, 2006
The NASSPE Midwest regional conference will take place on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at the Marriott at Hickory Ridge,
about 25 minutes west of Chicago's Midway Airport. More information about the Marriott Hickory Ridge is available at
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/CHIHR.
The conference will start at 9:00 AM, so if you're coming from far away, you might want to stay
overnight Friday night and/or Saturday night. For that reason, we've reserved a block of rooms for just $79 a night
. Update 9/25/06, the $79/night rooms have been sold out, however, rooms are still available for $99/night.
Session titles in RED indicate sessions addressing all-GIRLS classrooms.
Session titles in BLUE indicate sessions addressing all-BOYS classrooms.
Session titles in BLACK indicate sessions addressing both all-girls and all-boys classrooms.
Here's the schedule:
8AM to 9 AM: Registration / hot buffet breakfast
9 AM to 9:40 AM: general session for all attendees: Learning from Mistakes:
What we can learn from public schools which have FAILED in their efforts to launch or to sustain a single-sex program (Leonard Sax, Executive Director, NASSPE)
9:45 AM to 10:45 AM: first breakout session:
Do elementary boys learn better with chairs, or without them? -- and other lessons learned
from an all-boys elementary school (Jill Renn, Betsy Stahler, Chicago)
Best practices for classroom management: MIDDLE SCHOOL and HIGH SCHOOL all-boys classrooms (Dr. Abigail James, Orange, Virginia)
Success story from Toledo's all-girls elementary school (Suzanne Muggy, Toledo Public Schools, Ohio). When these girls were in
coed classrooms, only 19% passed the Ohio Proficiency Test writing component.
After adopting the single-sex format, 91% of the girls passed.
Come hear how these educators accomplished such a dramatic improvement with no change in class size or curriculum.
11 AM to 12 noon: second breakout session:
Introducing single-sex classrooms in a coed middle school
(David Chadwell, Dent Middle School, Columbia, South Carolina).
Mr. Chadwell has led a successful single-gender program at a public middle school in Columbia, South Carolina.
The program is now in its third year.
How to get middle- and high-school girls excited about math and science (Dani Brandt, Lake Forest, Illinois)
Research to Practice: the determinants of success or failure
(Professor Amanda Davis, St. Mary of the Woods, Terre Haute, Indiana).
Professor Davis will present her study of three Midwestern public middle schools which introduced single-sex classes.
She will describe factors which predicted success and factors which predicted failure at each of those schools.
12 noon to 1 PM: hot buffet lunch
1 PM to 2 PM: third breakout session:
Balancing Leadership through Self Reflection: This workshop is geared for those who wish to develop the skills needed to function in the high-stakes high-stress job of teaching and administration. These skills are particularly useful for implementing new programs such as single-sex classrooms. This workshop will provide many useful tips to enhance your single-gender program. Trent Mosley, principal, Longfellow Elementary School, Saginaw, Michigan.
Best practices for teaching math to middle-school boys (Professor Amanda Davis,
St. Mary of the Woods, Terre Haute, Indiana). Professor Davis followed six math teachers in three Midwestern public schools
offering single-sex classrooms. She will describe which strategies were successful and which were not successful.
(This session is NOT a repeat of Professor Davis' morning session.)
Dayton's all-girls public elementary school: report from Year One, Peggy Burks, founding principal of the Charity
Adams Earley Academy for Girls. The Earley Academy is an all-girls neighborhood elementary school
established in the fall of 2005 by Dayton Public Schools.
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM: fourth breakout session:
How to get middle- and high-school girls excited about math and science (Dani Brandt, Lake Forest, Illinois) (repeat of morning session)
Proven strategies to get middle- and high-school boys excited about FICTION (Dr. Abigail James, Orange, Virginia)
One public middle school's good experience with single-sex classrooms in a coed campus (Mindy Ross, Columbus, Ohio)
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM: afternoon refreshments, bookstore, meet and mingle time. During this informal session, attendees will have an opportunity to browse relevant books provided by the local Barnes & Noble bookstore, enjoy light refreshments, and chat with educators from around the Midwest.
Registration fee schedule:
For one or two attendees: $125 per person
For three, four or five attendees: $110 per person
For six or more attendees: $100 per person
Purchase orders will be accepted only from public school districts unless prior arrangements have been made with NASSPE.
You may register at any time by filling in the registration form, at www.singlesexschools.org/midwest_reg_form.html, print it out, and
either mail it to NASSPE (19710 Fisher Avenue, Suite J, Poolesville, MD 20837), or fax it to us (301 972 8006).
On-site registration will be available, space permitting, at a cost of $135 per person
regardless of the number of people registering.
I look forward to seeing you on October 14th!
Leonard Sax, MD, PhD
Executive Director, NASSPE
19710 Fisher Avenue, Suite J
Poolesville, Maryland 20837
Phone: 301 461 5065
Fax: 301 972 8006
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