2019 Conference
Focusing on Professional Learning
Learning Forward, MO
THANK YOU for attending the 2019 Show-Me Professional Learning Conference!
Keynote Speakers
Jenni Donohoo
Jenni Donohoo, PhD, is a best-selling author and professional learning facilitator with more than 15 years’ experience in leading school change. Jenni is the past president of Learning Forward Ontario. In addition to her consulting work, Jenni is on secondment to the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch in the Ontario Ministry of Education. In this role, she works alongside system and school leaders in order to improve the quality professional learning and collaboration in schools and districts.
Kristin Anderson
Kristin R. Anderson is an incredibly passionate educator who strives to bring joy, hope, and empowerment to learners across the globe by helping them unleash their brilliance. She motivates systems leaders, educators, consultants, and students to leverage their strengths and apply research principles that have the greatest impact on student learning into practice. Kristin is the author of Data Teams Success Stories Volume 1, Real Time Decisions, and the co-author of Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design with Larry Ainsworth. Kristin has developed extraordinary professional learning programs for Edison Schools, The Leadership and Learning Center, and Corwin. Over the past six years, she has studied Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn research under John Hattie and was recognized as the United States delegate and speaker at the first annual International Conference on Visible Learning in Brisbane, Australia. Since then, she has spoken at each annual International Conference on Visible Learning in San Diego, London, San Francisco and Washington D.C. and at multiple National VL institutes and symposiums in North America and Australia.
Peter DeWitt
Peter DeWitt (Ed.D.), a former school principal in Upstate, NY, previously taught elementary school for 11 years. His syndicated blog, Finding Common Ground, is published by Education Week and he is a freelance writer for Vanguard Magazine. Peter has traveled the world, developing content, visiting school sites, influencing policy, and presenting with John Hattie. He has worked with educators at schools, districts, educational service centers, and educational organizations, including the Council of Chief State School Officials.
Conference Information
Pre-Conference Only Registration Fee $50 Sunday, March 3 • 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. Regular Conference Registration Fee $275 Sunday, March 3 – Tuesday, March 5 Standard Conference Registration Fee $290 Sunday, March 3 – Tuesday, March 5 (Includes Pre-Conference and Regular Conference) Post-Conference Only Registration Fee $50 Tuesday, March 5 • 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
All conference registration cancellation requests must be received in writing (e-mail) by close of business day on Monday, February 15, 2019. Please forward these requests to: tammy@custommeetingplanners.com. No refunds will be issued after this date; however, substitutions are allowed.