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Welcome to BLC17! We hope you have an amazing experience! Mark the dates: BLC18 will be here in Boston July 22, 2018 through July 27, 2018!

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7:00am EDT

BLC Information Center Georgian Coat Room

7:30am EDT

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom B

8:30am EDT

Thursday Keynotes Grand Ballroom A

10:20am EDT

Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different Boylston Brennan - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You Need?: Design Thinking and PK-5 ELA Berkeley Clavello - Practical Things You Can Do to Lead by Example Terrace Cummings - Science Buddies: How 5th grade students became inquiry experts and spread the joy of being a scientist to lower elementary students in Pelham, NH. Clarendon Gorman - Powerful and Effective Technology Integration: The importance of Going Beyond SAMR Georgian Gutierrez - Technology and Special Education: A Shared Vision Cambridge Kirr - Shift the Culture of Your Classroom St. James Malan - Birds of a Feather Who'd Like to Share Software Together: Teaching Tools that Improve Efficiency and Outcomes Arlington McCurdy - Fostering Curiosity in Student Learning Beacon Hill Richards - Entrepreneurship as an Antidote to Grades and Knowledge Silos Whittier Rowell - Making Thinking Visible: Engaging ALL Learners and Tailoring Instruction White Hill Silk - Mini Machina Stuart Van Ledtje - Introducing…Livbit: Igniting Student Voice and Engaging Audience through Video Sharing Grand Ballroom A

10:30am EDT

Starling - Our Littlest Innovators Statler

11:30am EDT

Jones-Pisano - How Do You Activate Their Bird Brains? Teaching Metacognitive Learning Strategies that Promote Literacy Statler

11:45am EDT

Joy Kirr - Book Signing Mezzanine Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different Boylston Doe/Liston - Collaboration through Genius Hour and Personalized Professional Development Cambridge Kuropatwa - Things That Suck About Digital Citizenship Georgian LaPaglia - Continuing the Conversation Arlington Leighton/Picillo - Gamifying Education Berkeley Marotta - History Comes Alive through Podcasts Beacon Hill Rodriguez - Universally Designed Professional Development White Hill Salva - Refugees? Under-Schooled Learners? Boost Everyone's Achievement Clarendon Stubbs - Collaborative Classrooms: Surface to deep in 50 minutes Grand Ballroom B Taylor - Top Tips for Professional Learning Communities Newbury Venables - Content Curation - the new wave of text dependent analysis, media literacy, and social media responsibility Stuart Wilkie - Digging In to the 1st 5 Days…and Beyond! Terrace Winstone/Worsnup - Get Going with Apps Whittier

12:30pm EDT

Stearns - Number Stories: Another Genre to Study Statler

1:00pm EDT

Pierides - Creating a Gender Inclusive School Climate Statler

1:10pm EDT

Asavavatana/Van Ledtje - Talking “Technology”: Teaching Fluent Communicators in the 21st Century Terrace Cassidy - Digital Daily Five Whittier Clark - The Professional Passion Project Clarendon Gould - Design Thinking as an Essential Leadership Tool to Nurture Creativity and Inquiry In Schools St. James Keynote Followup with Eric Williams Arlington Quick - Standards Based Grading Using Digital Resources Cambridge Rodriguez - UDL: Universally Designed Leadership Beacon Hill Rogers - Teachers’ Perspectives on PEER Professional Development and How it Has Changed Teaching and Learning Stuart Rothstein - Better Questions, Better Decisions: Building Consensus with the Right Question Strategy Georgian Smith - When You Have Powerful Data on Your Side, Change is No Longer a Dirty Word Berkeley Starling - Promoting School Culture with Digital Literacy Newbury

1:30pm EDT

Jones-Pisano - 10 Lifesavers in 20 Minutes! Classroom Management Strategies that Work! Statler Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different Boylston

2:00pm EDT

T.A.Edison Students - Ship in a Box Statler

2:35pm EDT

Doe/Liston - Around the World in 20 Classrooms Cambridge Kuropatwa - Providing “Permission To Wonder”: Inquiry as thinking and learning tools Georgian Lirenman - Innovate with iPad Whittier Norris/Soloway - Supporting Synchronous Collaboration with the Collabrify Construction Tools Newbury Polansky - Authentricity: Beyond the Curriculum Stuart Richards - Blended Meeting Design: Saving Time and Serving Talents Arlington Richardson - Twitter for Beginners -The Surprisingly Easy Way to Connect Your Students with the World Berkeley Teuber - Design Sprint Part 1 White Hill Vidler - Ensuring prosperity through education Beacon Hill Walmsley - Anything TV Clarendon

2:45pm EDT

Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different Boylston

4:00pm EDT

Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different Boylston Asavavatana - Yes They CAN! Code, Create, and Make in Early Childhood! Terrace Cooper - Problem Based Learning: Scaleable Inquiry! Arlington Dunbar - Global Communication and Collaboration in the Classroom with Skype Stuart Leighton - Authentic Assessment St. James November - Critical Thinking on the Web Georgian Rogers - The ABCs of Designing Rigorous Assignments that Students Love Beacon Hill Shade - Rebranding Schools through Social Media Berkeley Teuber - Design Sprint Part 2 White Hill Thompson - FUN with Augmented Reality Cambridge Valentine - Superconnect Your Education World: Leveraging the power of relationships, networks, and a learning mindset to effectively re-design the classroom to bring schools into the 21st century. Clarendon Wilkie - #Q2Learn: Students driving their thinking & learning through “Q”uestioning; the essence of an innovative learning environment Whittier

6:00pm EDT

LearnLaunch Summer Edtech Showcase LearnLaunch

7:30pm EDT

Global Networking - An informal gathering - come prepared to engage in a topic! Georgian

9:00pm EDT

Annual BLC Bash Georgian