CoSN Conference 2011: Mastering the Moment
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The most famous New Orleans Haunted History Ghost Tour. This Tour explores the grim and ghastly deeds of the old French Quarter. Escape into the past as our offbeat, theatrical New Orleans tour guides provide you with an eerie, chilling yet fun-filled adventure! We even visit a haunted bar along the way of this New Orleans Ghost Tour! Includes:
• Professional Tour Guide
• Tour of popular haunts in the French Quarter
• Deluxe coach transportation |
Exclusive CoSN Member Benefit. CoSN members are invited to learn how our Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO can be used as a professional development tool and how it is being used to create a new CTO certification program. Free event for Institutional and Corporate members. Invitations will be sent separately.
Meet the CoSN Board and Marketing Committee to hear about the benefits of membership and how you can get involved at the conference and throughout the year! Special membership rates will be offered!
CoSN-chapter members in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Texas will meet to discuss state-specific issues. Stop in to hear what your state is doing!
Don't miss this special fundraising event at the famous New Orleans landmark restaurant, Arnaud's, featuring outstanding Cajun food, stunning French Quarter setting, Jazz music and a great silent auction. Plus, all proceeds support CoSN's critical advocacy efforts. Buy your ticket with registration and Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez! Click here for more information.
The Feedback Focus Groups (FFG) are
designed to enable school leaders to frame challenges they are facing
and discuss key education technology issues in a focus group setting.
Each Forum has a specific focus of interest and concern to the K-12
education community, as well as to SIIA-member education technology
companies.
CoSN and SIIA host this Feedback Forum to share
vision, strategies and technology requirements for using mobile,
handheld devices in the classroom. Click here for more information.
The host states of TX and LA are showing off their best and most talented in this high tech showcase event.
CTO Forum
Wednesday, March 16
1:30-3:15pm
Serving our Customers: Meeting Today’s Students and Teachers on their Terms
Exclusive CoSN Member Benefit. Join in a members-only conversation with Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Education Technology at US Department of Education and the 2010 National Teacher of the Year, Sarah Brown Wessling and some current students around what our users need from technology. How do district technology leaders/CTO’s better listen to their customers? CTO Forum participates will craft solutions for using technology to engage 21st century students and challenge the preconceived notions of learning spaces.
Moderator:
Bailey Mitchell, Chair, CoSN,
Forsyth County Schools
Presenters:
Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 National Teacher of the Year
Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Education Technology at US Department of Education
Student Panelists:
Grant Bourque, Benjamin Franklin High School
Christian A. Marshall, McDonogh 35 High School
The Withrow CTO Award and TEAM Award, along with Award for Excellence in Public Service, CoSN Volunteer of the Year, and Private Sector Champion, will be presented, along with the State of CoSN address. The Hall of Fame for CoSN Volunteers will also be recognized. One ticket is included per registration
Spend a day visiting two exemplary charter high tech high schools in the Orleans Parish that have been revitalized since Hurricane Katrina. Visit with staff and students and see their aggressive technology programs despite still being in significant recovery mode. Fee includes lunch and transportation.
Ben Franklin High School is one of the Gold Medal schools in U. S. News and World Report national ranking of high schools in the United States. Previously a magnet school, after Katrina they become a charter. The curriculum at the selective enrollment school is heavily weighted in favor of science and math, as well as an highly successful journalism curriculum. In the 2007-08 school year they boasted 26 National Merit Scholars and an astounding 17 National Achievement Semi-finalists, more than any other school in the country.
Many students at Ben Franklin are also co-enrolled in the state run magnet school for the arts, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Wynton Marsalis was a graduate of a co-enrollment at Ben Franklin High School and NOCCA.
Warren Easton Charter High School is the oldest public high school in the state of Louisiana and was originally opened in 1845 for boys. Unlike Ben Franklin, Easton is not selective enrollment. The school was recently a recipient of the Gulf Coast Recovery Grant Initiative from US Department of Education and was awarded $577, 454 to facilitate an afterschool and extended learning program. Funds from the grant are being used for academic remediation, tutoring, credit recovery, enrichment programs and STEM. Movie celebrity, Sandra Bullock, has adopted the school and donated considerable money to the refurbishment of the historic building.
Easton is noteworthy in that it is a high performing school with an amazing support system for technology on campus. The delegation will observe students actively engaged in learning in technology-rich environments including: classroom management software, online learning, video conferencing, podcasting, interactive white boards, digital content, touch screens, biometric devices, cameras, clickers and more. The visit will culminate in a tour of their newly-installed STEM Lab.
Take a short bus ride to experience education technology like you’ve never seen it before.