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Monday

July 8
Redefining Intelligence in the 21st Century

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Registration

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Welcome Lunch

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Introduction Activities, Overview of Workshop, Core Groups, Routines, and Procedures for the Week

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

PASS Theory of Intelligence Defined, Explored, Assessed

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Coffee Break

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

Winning Formula for Success (Academic and Emotional): Mindsets Plus Skill Sets Equals Results

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM

Developing Academic and Behavioral Mindsets in the Classroom: Students AND Educators 

Read, Review and Respond to Articles

Sharing Ideas for Final Projects for Practical Application and Outcomes for Week’s Seminar

Exit Cards

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Welcome Reception

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Dinner on the Sierra Madre Patio

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Tuesday

July 9
Think Smart: Planning and Attention and the Brain

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Planning: THINK SMART for School and for Life; How to Teach in Ways That Promote Students Who Become Self-Regulated, Metacognitive Learners

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Supporting Students Who Have Challenges in Planning

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee Break

10:25 AM - 12:00 PM

Attention

Developing Focus and Sustaining Attention

Supporting Students Who Have Challenges with Attention

Mindfulness in the Classroom

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in the Portola Dining Commons

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Wednesday

July 10
Successive Processing and the Learning Brain

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

Day's Introduction, Review, and Discussion

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Simultaneous Processing:  Defined, Explored, Assessed; Strategies for Building Simultaneous Processing into Classroom Instruction

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee Break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Supporting Students With Challenges in Simultaneous Processing

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Q&A and Applications Collaborations; Exit Cards

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in the Portola Dining Commons

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Thursday

July 11
Simultaneous Processing and the Learning Brain: Teaching from the WHY

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

Day's Introduction, Review, and Sharing

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Successive Processing: Defined, Explored, Assessed; Strategies for Building Successive Processing into Reading and Math Classroom Instruction

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee Break

10:25 AM- 11:30 AM

Supporting Students Who Struggle With Successive Processing

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Q&A and Application Collaborations

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in the Portola Dining Commons

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Friday

July 12
Creating Cognitive Schools and Classrooms

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

Day’s Introduction, Review, and Discussion

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Creating a Risk-Taking, Mistake Making Classroom/School that Honors and Supports All Learning Brains

Transforming Classrooms Culturally, Emotionally, and Academically

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Coffee break

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

Bringing it all Together:  How to Create and Sustain Change; Sharing of Final Projects

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Conclusion and Celebration

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