Subject: Call for Presenters for K-12 ST/DM conference

Posted by Lees Stuntz on 11/14/2003

Message:

Interested in presenting at the ST/DM K-12 2002 conference June 30 - July 2, 2004 at Skamania Lodge in the Columbia River Gorge, Stevenson, WA (45 min. from Portland OR)?


The theme of next summer’s conference will be “Communication Using Systems Thinking and Dynamic Modeling in K-12 Education,” emphasizing utilizing the systems tools to better facilitate communication in learning, in teaching and in administration. The conference will include the following topics:

® Tools for understanding and communicating in the classroom and in school administration.
® Successive improvement–how have we done it, what are the markers of our failures and triumphs?
® Case studies approach–where has SD made a difference both in education and in the world?
® Many people enter systems education through various doors. How do we create paths from those doors? What paths have worked or have not worked?
® System Dynamics as a vehicle for collaboration and questioning.
® Tools for understanding.
® The future of SD/learner-centered learning in K-12. How can we contribute toward it?

Please consider presenting a session at next summer’s conference if you have something to say on any of the above themes or if you:

® Have taught students how to communicate utilizing systems tools.
® Have utilized systems tools to teach or help solve administrative challenges.
® Have an effective piece of curriculum to present.
® Have a story about your progress as a systems educator.
® Have an administrative application of systems tools and techniques.
® Have a progress report on a plan to get systems education implemented in your classroom, school or school district (or all three).
® Have examples of learning achieved by students through systems education.
® Have students who are willing to share insights into their learning through the use of systems.
® Have created a sequence of curriculum that seems to work for your grade level in teaching systems concepts.
® Have insights into assessing systems learning.
® Have tools for assessment.
® Have an overview of how systems education fits into a curriculum for a certain grade level and/or discipline.
® Have used systems techniques to create learner-centered learning.
® Have used systems techniques to create interdisciplinary cooperation and curriculum.
® Have an effective way of introducing systems to neophytes.
® Have a good training session for more advanced participants.

Sessions will be approximately one and a half hours in length. Appropriate long sessions (2 1/2 hours) will be considered for the workshop session, especially for training at any level or games such as Fish Banks.

Process for submitting presentations for sessions:
® Feb. 1, 2004–Submit an abstract via e-mail that includes the context and history of the session topic and the experience level of expected participants.
® Mar. 1, 2004–All authors will be notified of the status of their submission via e-mail.
® June 1, 2004 –A final outline/ presentation or paper due via e-mail for incorporation into the conference CD.



Lees N. Stuntz
Creative Learning Exchange Phone- 978-287-0070
1 Keefe Road Fax- 978-287-0080
Acton, MA 01720 e-mail- stuntzln@clexchange.org
http://clexchange.org