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Understanding By Design--Second Year In short, UbD is a framework, or t ool for designing curriculum units, performance assessments and instruction leading students to a deeper understanding of the content being taught. Participants found the sessions to be very practical and applicable to what they were doing in their classes. Several participants found the work covered in sessions provided a structure for planning their work in Service Learning, Ethical Fitness, Critical Thinking and Action Research. Our plan for next year is to carry on with this first cohort and also establish a second cohort. This new meet five Mondays  between cohort of teachers and administrators would September and April Elliott. Since this is a series, participants must attend all sessions. It is an ideal opportunity to work as a     team. The dates are: from 4 - 7 pm (dinner included). The sessions will be facilitated by Drs. Susan Clayton and Sue Tuesday - Cohort 1 Monday - Cohort 2 Sept 30 Sept 29 Oct 28 Oct 27 Feb 17 Jan 12 Feb 16 April 6 2     Please help advertise this opportunity with staff at your schools and encourage them to     contact Sue Elliott if they are interested in being part of the new group for the 2008-2009 school year.

ACHIEVING EDUCATIONAL GOALS WITH IMAGINATION If you are interested in having this e-mail sent to you (so that the links work), let me know. Scott During our Summer Institute on Imaginative Education, we are offering 2 complete days of workshops that focus on educational practices that come to the fore once one takes the imagination seriously as a major learning tool. In addition, we will be collaborating with participants about some of the central concerns of teachers, school, and districts across B.C. and further afield, such as: What will help students understand and retain more of what they learn in school? How can teachers shape the classroom experience to include children from all backgrounds? How can socially relevant topics such as media education, environmental sustainability, diversity and citizenship be woven into the core curriculum? Can assessment be used to help students learn and teachers teach, in addition to meeting accountability goals? We invite educators and scholars, and those who are both, to collaborate, discover, explore, discuss, investigate, interact, and thereby contribute to building a richer and more effective conception of what schools and other educational institutions can be. The first 2 days of workshops are followed by one day of peer-reviewed conference presentations by teachers and researchers from around the world, and Research Symposium panels on the last day. The **initial program** is available for download by [|__clicking here__]. For those interested in submitting either a 250 word proposal to the [|__conference__], or a 5000 word paper to the [|__symposium__] which both take place during the second half of the Institute, the Call for Proposal deadline is April 28, 2008 (midnight pacific time) On the SFU Centre for Imaginative Education and its well-known Imaginative Education Research Group: [|__http://www.ierg.net__] On the 2008 Summer Institute: [|__http://www.imaginativeeducation.org/conferences/index.php/institute/__] On the 3rd Annual Research Symposium on Imaginative Education: [|__http://www.imaginativeeducation.org/conferences/index.php/research-symposia/__] **About IERG & The Centre** We are a group of researchers, teachers, graduate students, parents, and others who would like to make education more effective. To achieve this aim we have developed theories, principles, and practices designed to explain, describe, and exemplify our new approach to educating. Our website ( http://www.ierg.net/) is designed to introduce you to these theories, principles, and practical techniques. We call this new approach Imaginative Education (IE) because engaging students' imaginations in learning, and teachers' imaginations in teaching, seems to us crucial to making knowledge in the curriculum vivid and meaningful to students. Our work is dedicated to showing how this can be done routinely in everyday classrooms and at home. If you would like to become a member of IERG or receive further electronic communications from us, please fill out the online form at: [|__http://ierg.net/membership/index.php__] content of your new page here.
 * The Imaginative Education Research Group invites educators to join us July 7th through 10th, 2008 at the Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel, Richmond, BC, Canada.**
 * Theme of this event: How can a focus on imagination help teachers, schools and districts achieve their educational goals?**
 * Registration information**, including discounts for groups of 5 or more associated educators, is available by [|__clicking here.__]
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