ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members; provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative; and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.

 

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This Month’s L2L News

• Register for the January L2L Webinar
• Run for ASCD Elected Office
• Serve on the 2011–12 Nominations Committee
• Join Us at Annual Conference
• Download the December/January Whole Child Podcast
• ASCD News Roundup: Most Popular in December 2010
• L2L Spotlight
  • Welcome New Leaders to the L2L Community
  • Hawaii ASCD’s Emerging Scholar Program
  • Updates from 2009 OYEA Winner Bijal Damani
  • Join the Language Varieties Dialogue
  • Virginia ASCD’s Post-Conference E-book
  • North Carolina ASCD’s Birthday Present: More Members
  • Shelly Hasinoff Coauthors Slices of Life
  • 2010 ASCD Emerging Leaders in Action
  • Events and Featured Speakers
  • Mark Your Calendar: Important Dates and Events (Annual Conference meetings included) 
  • Association News: Tips for New Teachers, ASCD EDge Turns One Year Old, Race to Nowhere, and ASCD Webinars

 

Register Now for the L2L Webinar Talking Tech-y: Finding Time to Make Social Media Happen

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. eastern time, Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Presented by ASCD Constituent Services Director Walter McKenzie

Register Now

As busy professionals, how can you maintain your current responsibilities and add social networking into the mix as well? ASCD is here to help. The third installment of a three part series on integrating social media into your work as an effective ASCD leader, this webinar is your chance for you to learn and share your tips, insights, and strategies around how to find 30 minutes a day to use ASCD EDge, Twitter and Facebook to efficiently drive traffic to your website, events, and resources.

Recent L2L Webinar recordings

•             Learn, Teach, Lead: Your Development as an ASCD Leader, December 2010

•             Post-Election Analysis: What the Midterm Election Results Mean for Education, November 2010

•             Tech Me out: Taking Strategic Communications from Page to Screen, October 2010

•             Taming the Torrent: Making Information Come to You, September 2010

View all archived L2L Web seminar recordings on ASCD EDge.

L2L web seminars are capacity-building opportunities that are available to ASCD constituent group leaders at no cost. E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org for more information.

 

You’re Meant to Lead: Run for ASCD Elected Office

The Nominations Committee wants you to consider running for elected office in 2011! You can access the application form, along with information on the open positions, at http://www.ascd.org/nominations. Completed application forms must be submitted by January 31, 2011.

 

Serve on the 2011–12 Nominations Committee

Would you like to serve on the 2011–12 Nominations Committee and prepare the slates of candidates for ASCD’s 2011 elections? If so, contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge  for a copy of the application form. Nominations Committee applications are due February 4, 2011.

 

Join Us in San Francisco for Annual Conference: Register Now and Save

Bold Actions for Complex Challenges • Moscone Center • San Francisco, CA  • March 26–28, 2011

• Early birds: Register before January 19 and save $110.
• Register as a volunteer and save 69 percent on registration.
• Send a team: Register everyone together, and every 5th person is free
• Students and seniors: You get special discounts! Contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-2723 (toll-free) or 1-703-578-9600, then press 1, Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. eastern time. This discount is not available online.
• Book your travel and lodging.

 

Tune in to the December/January Whole Child Podcast “PE, Recess, and Beyond: The Implications of Movement”

Download the Podcast Now (MP3)

Join us throughout December and January as we explore why physical activity and physical education (PA and PE) are crucial to educating the whole child. We’ll examine the research about the need for PA and PE; explore some of the recent criticism; examine the relationship between PA and PE and academic achievement, engagement, and social and emotional health and learning; and consider how physical activity can be expanded across the day.

This episode of the Whole Child Podcast starts our PA and PE conversation with moderator Sean Slade, director of ASCD Healthy School Communities, and guests

• Charles Basch, Richard March Hoe, professor of health education at Columbia University, who shares research that confirms healthier students are better learners(PDF).
• Charlene Burgeson, executive director of the National Association of Sport and Physical Education (a whole child partner) and Let’s Move in School, who discusses ways that schools and communities can support physical activity throughout the day.
• George Svejda, a physical education teacher at Sargent Shriver Elementary, in Montgomery County, Md., who talks about his experience developing students not only physically but also cognitively, socially, and emotionally.

 

ASCD News Roundup

What’s everyone talking about? Here are a few of the most popular ASCD news items from December 2010:

ASCD SmartBrief

• Ditch the Daily Lesson Plan
• The Flexible Teacher
• “Power Walkthroughs” Available for Implementing Instructional Strategies That Work

 

ASCD Inservice

• What Engages the Brain?
• Why Boys Fail
• Change is NOT Easy

 

ASCD Whole Child Blog

• PE, Recess, and Beyond: The Implications of Movement
• PE Criticism and Responses
• Project-Based Learning and Physical Education

 

From @ASCD on Twitter

• Dec. 22: What engages the student brain? More on Daniel Willingham's suggestions for getting students to engage in true thinking http://bit.ly/ihX7zK
• Dec. 31: The ASCD EDge team presents you with the no. 1 education trend for 2011: 21st century learninghttp://bit.ly/fHAaiy
• Dec. 20:  Our Nominations Committee is seeking qualified ASCD members for leadership positions. Find out more at http://bit.ly/firExK

 

New ASCD Leaders: Welcome to L2L!

Please welcome these leaders who have joined the L2L Community in the last few months:

• Susan Copley, New Hampshire ASCD Executive Director
• Olga Grigoriev, Ontario ASCD President
• Kathy McCreery, California ASCD Executive Director
• Meuriel Nystrom, Idaho ASCD Executive Director
• Chris Olszewski, Montana ASCD President
• Michael Rulon, Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community Facilitator
• Mary Seamon, South Carolina ASCD Executive Director
• Koh Thiam Seng, Singapore ASCD President

Did we miss someone? Let us know!

 

Hawaii ASCD Launches Emerging Scholar Award Program

This year, Hawaii ASCD (HASCD) is presenting an Emerging Scholar Award.  This award was created to give a beginning secondary teacher the opportunity to experience professional development at the national level. If selected, HASCD covers the recipient’s registration fees, accommodations, and travel fees to attend ASCD Annual Conference.

An eligible recipient of the award is a middle or high school teacher who has been teaching for three years or less. Selected Emerging Scholars will share what they have learned with colleagues and write an article regarding their experiences for the Hawaii ASCD newsletter.

 Contact Hawaii ASCD President Margi Almony for more information about the Emerging Scholar Award.

 

How Does Language Affect the Learning Experience? 

The Language Varieties Professional ASCD Interest Community invites you to join their online group to discuss the many ways we can support student learning by understanding the different language varieties that exist, beginning with the spoken language used by students in our classrooms. Share your experiences, ask questions, and join the discussion! Contact Professional Interest Community Facilitator Ermile Hargrove for more information.

 

Check Out Virginia ASCD’s Post-Conference E-book 

Virginia ASCD (VASCD) took its December 2010 conference program, converted the PowerPoint slideshows to movies, created an interactive e-book (Flash required) of the conference sessions, and sent out the finished product to all conference attendees as a post-conference reference. Contact VASCD Executive Director Ann Etchison for any questions about how to implement this idea for your conference or event.

 

2009 Outstanding Young Educator Award Recipient Continues Outstanding Work 

2009 Outstanding Young Educator Award winner Bijal Damani has recently been chosen as a  Microsoft Innovative Teachers Leadership Award 2009-10 Regional winner.

Bijal’s project “Building of E-Classroom and E-Portfolios for Higher Secondary Business Students for Social Entrepreneurship” has also been awarded the HP EdTech Innovators Award 2010. Bijal’s school will receive a grant of $40,000 worth of hardware and software to carry out her Social Entrepreneurship Program.

Each year, Bijal conducts a social entrepreneurship event with her Grade 11–12 Commerce-Business students. This year’s project, called Galaxy Bazaar, earned profits of INR 425,000 (approximately $10,000 US) which will be used to educate underprivileged students.

Congratulations to Bijal!

Do you know an outstanding educator under the age of 40? 
Nominate a colleague or yourself to win $10,000!

 

North Carolina ASCD’s Birthday Present: More Members

North Carolina ASCD (NCASCD) recently increased its membership by 30 percent. How did they do it? In honor of 55 years as an association, North Carolina ASCD asked each superintendent in the state to pay for memberships of all their school-based and central office administrators at a special membership rate that would be grandfathered for three years, and the response was amazing.

Congratulations and happy birthday to North Carolina ASCD! Contact NCASCD Executive Director Frances Jones for more information about this initiative.

 

Professional Interest Community Facilitator Shelley Hasinoff Coauthors Publication for National Middle School Association

Congratulations to ASCD Canadian Education Professional Interest Community Facilitator Shelley Hasinoff, who worked with David Mandzuk to write “Slices of Life: Managing Dilemmas in Middle Grades Teaching – Case Studies for Professional Development”, for the National Middle School Association. In Slices of Life, Hasinoff and Mandzuk provide teachers with a four-step model to tackle the real issues that crop up in daily classroom life.

 

ASCD 2010 Emerging Leaders in Action

In their first six months of the program, the ASCD Emerging Leaders Class of 2010 has made some wonderful contributions to ASCD:

• John Forbes, Brie Nelson, and Richard Katz wrote insightful posts on ASCD Inservice.
• Valda Valbrun participated as a panelist with Professional Interest Community Facilitators Lori Stollar and Luana Zellner in last month’s L2L Webinar “Learn, Teach, Lead: Your Development as an ASCD Leader.”
• Ayanna Cooper, Jennifer Dilks, Kimberly Kappler Hewitt, Richard Katz, Misty LaCour, Leslie Standerfer, Alina Davis, Sarah Earle, Jason Flom, Christine Landwherle, and Amy Lockhart are reviewing ASCD manuscripts and submitting feedback to ASCD publications staff.
• This month, several ASCD Emerging Leaders will travel to Washington, D.C., to attend the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy.

Many ASCD Emerging Leaders have also gotten involved with their local affiliates and are taking action to improve education at the local level. Many thanks to our incredible Emerging Leaders for their efforts!

 

 

Events and Featured Speakers

• Atlantic Canada ASCD Connected Community presents Carol Ann Tomlinson (PDF)
• California ASCD presents Mike Schmoker
• Florida ASCD presents their 50th Annual Conference
• Illinois ASCD presents ASCD Policy Director David Griffith (PDF)
• Manitoba ASCD presents Damian Cooper
• New Hampshire presents Anita Archer
• New Jersey ASCD presents ASCD Constituent Programs Director Walter McKenzie and Linda Darling Hammond (PDF)
• New York State ASCD presents Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe
• North Carolina ASCD presents ASCD Policy Director David Griffith, Doug Reeves, and David Banks
• Ohio ASCD presents Ohio-based ASCD Annual Conference presenters (PDF)
• Rhode Island ASCD presents the Pre-Service and Beginning Teachers Conference
• Texas ASCD partners with Discovery Education
• Washington State ASCD presents OYEA Winner Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral (PDF)

 

Are you featuring an ASCD author or presenter at your next event? Tell us about it by e-mailing constituentservices@ascd.org.

 

Mark Your Calendar: Annual Conference Meetings for ASCD Leaders

• Friday, March 25
  • All Day—ASCD Leadership Council Meeting                       
  • 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon—ASCD Student Chapter Service Day Project
  • 5:00–7:00 p.m.—Welcome Reception
• Saturday, March 26
  • All Day—Whole Child Central
  • 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. — ASCD Legislative Committee Meeting
  • 1:00–2:30 p.m.—ASCD Connected Communities Meeting
  • 3:00–4:30 p.m.—Emerging Leaders & OYEA Forum
  • 3:00–5:00 p.m. —Professional Interest Communities (PICs) Meeting
• Sunday, March 27
  • All Day—Whole Child Central
  • 7:30–9:30 a.m.—Affiliate Executive Directors Meeting
  • 3:00–4:00 p.m.—ASCD Annual Business Meeting
  • 4:15–5:15 p.m.—Meet the President-Elect Candidates Forum
  • 5:00–6:30 p.m. —Student Chapters Meeting

 

Association News

• Check out the Tips for New Teachers column series that recently debuted in ASCD Express—Columnist Margaret Berry Wilson shows you how to use interactive modeling to help bring calm and purpose to your classroom. Tips for New Teachers are written by experts in the Responsive Classroom approach at the Northeast Foundation for Children.
• Happy First Birthday to ASCD EDge—December 23 marked the one-year anniversary of ASCD EDge. In the past year alone, 16,000+ ASCD EDge members from 130 countries wrote nearly 500 blog posts, added more than 100 videos, uploaded more than 40 audio files, participated in 150 discussions, joined more than 140 groups, and generated more than 6,000 comments on the site. Thanks to all the ASCD EDge members who make this community thrive! Check out the top 10 ASCD EDge blog posts of 2010.
• Race to Nowhere is featured in the New York Times—This documentary by Vicky Abeles is sparking conversations with whole child implications across the country. Find a screening near you.
• ASCD offers free webinars—While L2L Web seminars are focused on building the capacity of ASCD leaders,ASCD webinars offer free professional development on a wide range of education topics. All webinars are archived, and educators are encouraged to suggest topics.