NYNP blog post 4-14-09

Case study of summer academic program design & staff training
CSL conference workshop on BELL's Summer '08 program and training in Springfield

This Friday, April 17, I'll be co-presenting the workshop "The Transition Summer: BELL/Springfield Public Schools Rising 9th Grades Staff Training And Program Design" at the National Conference on Summer Learning in Chicago, with BELL's Chief Strategy Officer Carole Prest. The workshop will be from 2:30-4:00pm.

During the interactive workshop, we'll share lessons learned from building a new summer learning program for 8th grade students at risk for repeating the grade, including processes and outcomes. I'll also discuss BELL's training and demo BELL's e-learning, which won Training Magazine's Blended Learning and Performance Project of the Year for 2008.

This conference is hosted annually by the National Center for Summer Learning, which is based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. If you're planning on being there, I hope you'll attend our workshop and say hi!

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If you're interested in taking a look at the presentation from our workshop, the slides have been posted on the National Center for Summer Learning's website, at http://www.summerlearning.org/conference/2009/resources/TheTransitionSu mmerBELL.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/lynqmn