Arrivals & Registration

Sierra Foyer (lobby level)

Off-Site Visit: Exploring Social Emotional Learning Through Mindfulness

With the growing interest in Social Emotional Learning in K-12 districts, mindfulness has become an increasingly popular tool to help schools achieve a healthier, happier school culture. Attendees will visit Headspace, makers of the popular mindfulness app, to tour their new facility ad learn more about the findings from Headspace’s extensive research on the science of meditation.

Welcome Reception

Sierra Ballroom (lobby level)

Dinner & Introductions

Bayview (rooftop level)

Breakfast

Sinder (outside courtyard area, private)

General Session: Cultivating Empathy in Students at the Intersection of Testimony and Technology

Sierra Ballroom (lobby level)

This presentation will provide participants with a demonstration of USCShoah Foundation's Interactive Biography from its “Dimensions in Testimony” program. Attendees will “meet” and interact with a survivor of a Holocaust concentration camp via the Foundation’s Interactive biographies, which are interactive educational tools that permit visitors to have "virtual conversations" with survivors of genocide about their life experiences.

"Dimensions in Testimony", incorporates interview content recorded with advanced filming techniques, next-generation natural language processing, and specialized display technologies to deliver an interacting learning experience that invites students to drive their own exploration of the past and consider its impact on the present. As a result, students develop knowledge, communication and critical thinking skills, and empathy -- all of which are important for active citizenship.

This presentation will inform a discussion about how technology and story can bring students new ways of learning history, building empathy, and developing critical thinking and literacy skills.

Working Groups and Sponsor Meetings

(Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice, Peninsula, Palisades)

Working groups will meet during this time period – along with one-on-one/small group meetings with sponsors and informal discussions with colleagues (“anything goes”). During the course of the day, each attendee will participate in two working groups on topics of their choosing, as well as a number of smaller meetings and discussions.

Lunch, Dessert Reception and Networking

Sinder (outside courtyard area, private)

Several “working groups” will meet during this time period to drill down on topics chosen by attendees. Examples of topics from previous summits include: Data privacy and security; Evaluating and sustaining 1:1; Digital citizenship; and Designing learning spaces. Those not participating in a working group at this time will be involved in one-on-one/small group meetings with sponsors, as well as informal “Anything Goes” discussions with colleagues.

Working Groups and Sponsor meetings

(Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice, Peninsula, Palisades)

Lessons Learned

Sierra Ballroom (lobby level)

The final session will be an opportunity to identify specific takeaways attendees will put into place in their districts. These will be included in a follow-up report to be published in Tech & Learning magazine.

Closing Dinner

Location TBD