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College and Career Readiness

High School Conferences

Past Conferences:
Massachusetts College & Career Readiness Leadership Summit (January 2008)
High Schools of the Future II: Lessons from Reforming Schools (October 2006)
College Knowledge? Standards for College Success (July 2006)
High Schools of the Future I: Lessons from Reforming Schools (January 2006)

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Past Conferences:

High Schools of the Future II: Lessons from Reforming Schools (October 2006)

October 12, 2006
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Marlborough, MA

Co-Sponsored by:
Rennie Center for Education Policy and Research
Center for Collaborative Education
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

This event was designed to help school and district leaders develop next steps in high school redesign and to help improve the state's graduation and college readiness rates. This conference was a follow-up event to our successful High Schools of the Future conference held in January 2006. Keynote speakers for this full-day conference included Pedro Noguera, professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and Olivia Ifill-Lynch, Director of Professional Learning for the School Redesign Network at Stanford University. The day also included several morning and afternoon breakout sessions consisting of presentations on key reform practices, presented by high school practitioners.

Tentative Conference Agenda
7:45 - 9:00Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30Welcoming Remarks - Commissioner David Driscoll
9:30 - 10:30Keynote: Pedro Noguera, Professor, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
10:30 - 10:45Break
10:45 - 12:15Workshops: Session I (7 workshops)
12:15 - 1:30Lunch
Luncheon Speaker: Ophelia Ifill-Lynch, Director of Professional Learning for the School Redesign Network, Stanford University
1:30 - 3:00Workshops: Session II (5 workshops)




last updated: January 25, 2008
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