2014 School Improvement Innovation Summit Draws Education Experts, Thought Leaders to Show Tools and Resources Impacting Student Learning and Educator Effectiveness
Salt Lake City (PRWEB) June 30, 2014 -- School Improvement Network, the leader in educator effectiveness resources, today announced the 2014 School Improvement Innovation Summit, an intimate gathering of educators and experts to discuss personalized learning, effective teaching, education technology and learning from the students’ perspective, and the tools and strategies that are increasing educator effectiveness and student learning in real classrooms and systems. The Innovation Summit will be held September 28 – October 1 in the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, and features renowned education experts at the school, state, and international level.
“Amid the hundreds of education conferences, the School Improvement Innovation Summit is a unique and unmatched event that rekindles educators’ passion for teaching,” said Chet D. Linton, CEO and president of School Improvement Network. “With master teachers and international education experts, the Innovation Summit will give educators scalable innovations and solutions that can be implemented in any school or system and have a meaningful impact on educator effectiveness and students’ readiness towards college and career.”
The 2014 School Improvement Innovation Summit will feature education thought leaders including:
• Terry Holliday, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education
• David Hyerle, co-director of Thinking Schools International
• Conrad Wolfram, founder/CEO of Wolfram Group of Companies
• Jay McTighe, education writer and consultant at M.A.C.
• Lucy Hansen, principal at Agua Caliente Elementary School in California
The 2014 School Improvement Innovation Summit will also feature previews and trainings of Edivation, School Improvement Network’s new on-demand personalized learning platform.
For more information about the 2014 School Improvement Innovation Summit, visit http://www.siis2014.com.
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About School Improvement Network
Founded in 1991 by teachers, School Improvement Network has spent decades researching and documenting the best practices in education. From this research, School Improvement Network has developed Edivation, a personalized professional learning solution for educators. Research shows that districts and schools that use the tools in Edivation produce better teachers and, as a result, experience dramatic increases in student achievement, driving up student proficiency by an average of 18 percent in a single year when compared to neighboring schools. School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world, and has visited over 3,500 classrooms to document best practices in action. Learn more at http://www.schoolimprovement.com.
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Abigail Shaha, School Improvement Network, +1 (801) 572-1153, [email protected]
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