CUE 2016 Fall Conference

All conference attendees are invited to a special General Session Friday morning. The session will conclude with the keynote address, presented by Dave Burgess. Get there early, as space is limited.

Dave Burgess is the New York Times best-selling author of Teach Like a PIRATE and co-author of  P is for PIRATE: Inspirational ABC’s for Educators. He received national recognition as recipient of the 2014 BAMMY Award for Secondary School Teacher of the Year presented by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences.

As an award-winning teacher from San Diego, California, he was recognized as Teacher of the Year, a Golden Apple recipient, and a faculty standout for 17 consecutive years in categories such as Most Entertaining, Most Energetic, and Most Dramatic. He specializes in teaching hard-to-reach, hard-to-motivate students with techniques that incorporate showmanship and creativity.   His dynamic and inspirational message coupled with his outrageously energetic performance style has transformed classrooms and sparked an educational revolution around the world.

CUE 2016 Fall Conference Opening Session & Keynote Description:

Teach Like a PIRATE

Join New York Times Best‐Selling author Dave Burgess for a high‐energy, entertaining, and inspirational program that will transform the way you look at your role as an educator. Learn how to dramatically increase student engagement, design wildly creative lessons, and build a course that is a life‐changing experience for your students.  

Using a unique combination of magic and humor, Dave will reignite your passion for the education profession and show you exactly how to make school an amazing place that has students wanting to knock down the walls to get in. 

Teach Like a PIRATE has sparked a full‐scale revolution in the educational world and has inspired teachers from all over the globe to achieve new levels of excellence in their schools and classrooms. This program is your chance to experience the one‐of‐a‐kind presentational style of unbelievable intensity and outrageous energy that has transfixed audiences at packed venues across the nation.

*There is an overflow room for the keynote. The overflow room is A153 in the Administration Building and the Cafeteria in Building B.

We live in a special time. Opportunities abound for staff and students to make what happens in and beyond classrooms both more engaging and more effective, while taking advantage of connections to dynamic schools around the world. Additionally, the tools that allow taking these steps are much more easily mastered than teachers typically know. We will explore how campus and team leaders can foster an exploratory and collaborative professional environment to take advantage of these opportunities to better connect with the larger community, substantially enrich the experiences of the students, and build the professional team at your school.

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Sure, you have tweeted and maybe even snapped a photo or two and sent it to the Twitterverse; but, are you using Twitter to its full potential? This class will explore the advanced features of Twitter. Are you using lists as a great way to find important relevant people to follow? Are you archiving tweets so you can reference them later on? Do you really know what happens when you send an at reply? Does your morning online paper include hash tag searches? These items and many more will be discussed and demonstrated!

Come to be challenged! Arrive alone or in teams, bring mobiles and tablets. You'll need them! Without instructions, you'll work through an experience tapping music, hidden codes, movies, dance, art, and your own creativity. Learn how to build these for the classroom, learning some great apps along the way. To understand device capabilities, teachers and students must solve deeper problems with onboard tools. This fabulous adventure will do that. You won't stay in your seat!
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C.U.L.T.U.R.E.: Communication Uncovers Learning; Transparency Ultimately Reveals Everything! Communication is the beating heart of school culture. The positive impact of an accessible school leader who communicates well and relates well with others circulates throughout the entire system. Clear, consistent communication fosters transparency so all members of the school community are empowered by the information.

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Three assessment apps with three completely unique methodologies and pedagogies. This session will take a deep dive into Kahoot, Quizizz and Quizlet Live unearthing their differences, discovering some tips and tricks and learning their individual and unique roles in your classroom.

As educators, we sometimes see how we can exhibit leadership roles on campus, but only rarely do we step out to contribute our talents as part of the community. This doesn't mean that one has to run for office; teachers can can make a difference for those near and far in a variety of ways, and those efforts can be personally and professionally rewarding. We'll look at several approaches to getting involved in your community, and at the same time how doing so can help students see their possibilities for making a difference.

Web, Apps, Augmented Reality. All Devices.

One of the fastest growing technology practices, Augmented Reality, takes places, locations and materials and adds an additional dimension of content and learning that has never been experienced before. Augmented Reality is not just being used in the classroom, but the boardroom, billboard, magazine, city and much much more. We will also show you how easy it is to create your own Augmented Reality.

Digital video projects are powerful, but can be daunting to implement. Learn to prepare students through techniques to simplify processes, and to get students to push themselves academically.
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Have you seen Google Photos yet? It is a pretty amazing solution for organizing and sharing images. This session will overview Google Photos including all of its amazing features for organizing, finding and sharing your images quickly and effectively. You will also get to see how easy it is to create and view VR images using Google Street View.

One of the challenges I have encountered as an educational leader is transitioning from being a visible leader to a present and engaged one. A leader who not only walks into classrooms but spends time in classrooms and engages in meaningful conversations with students, teachers and families to ensure that there is continuity across all grades and that the learning is meaningful and transparent.

Limited Seats Available

All conference attendees are invited to a special General Session Saturday afternoon. The session will begin with a special presentation by The Walt Disney Family Museum and will conclude with the keynote address, presented by Rachel Gardner. Get there early, as space is limited.

CUE 2016 Fall Conference Closing Session & Keynote Description:

Rachel Gardner

Rachel Gardner is a freshman at Stanford University where she studies computer science and entrepreneurship as she prepares for a career launched by her unique high-school experience as the first CEO of Chap Research. Started at Westlake High School in Austin, TX, this extracurricular program inspires innovation through project-based learning. Rachel has been developing the program since age 15, when she was the team lead and programmer for the original project, a wireless robotics controller called the Chap Remote. Rachel is lead inventor on US Patent #9043031 for the ChapR, and led the manufacture, marketing and shipment of over 150 units to FIRST Robotics teams around the world. Rachel then assigned her patent rights to Westlake High School, and created Chap Research to give other students the same opportunities. Since its inception, the program has completed a total of 13 projects and published 3 research papers. Rachel now works to spread the model of Chap Research, speaking at events such as SXSWedu and TCEA.

Innovation Education: From Whiteboard to Reality

In an education system often focused on rubrics and step-by-step instructions, students aren’t learning the creative problem solving skills they need to excel. Meanwhile, businesses are demanding the skills to innovate and design from scratch. We need to bridge that gap between industry expectations and classroom experiences.

Chap Research is an innovation program within Westlake High School in Austin, Texas that endeavors to teach the skills needed in industry. This session will be exploring a student perspective through the experiences of the student CEO and founder of the program. Only two years old, the program has already had a significant impact on its students, and it strives to serve as an example for other schools.

The Walt Disney Family Museum

Recognized nationally for its integration of STEAM curriculum—The Walt Disney Family Museum will spotlight its most recent technology-based learning developments. Representing the museum’s education department, Katherine Coogan and Antonia Dapena-Tretter explore the potential for simple technological tools in the classroom to increase problem-solving skills for students of all ages.

With special attention paid to the museum’s signature Multiplane Camera Classroom Kit, Kate and Antonia demonstrate how Walt Disney’s 1937 innovation in animation introduced depth of field into movies such as Snow White (1937) and Pinocchio (1940). During this participatory keynote, select volunteers from the audience bring characters and backgrounds to life when invited on stage to try stop-motion animation first hand.

*There is an overflow room for the keynote. The overflow room is in the Cafeteria in Building B.

You can watch this keynote streaming live via cue.org/live