Podcasts
Integrated Curriculum Group Re-Imagining High School - October 24, 2009
Over 120 educators attended ICG’s Re-Imagining High School conference at The Urban School of San Francisco. Much of the program featured discussion of new directions in advanced curriculum for students in grades 11 and 12. Approximately half of the conference was devoted to sessions focused on the “re-imagining” of teaching and learning in core academic disciplines.
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UC Admissions & Curriculum Development: In this presentation, Don Daves Rougeaux, Associate Director of Admissions at the University of California, and Miya Hayes, Assistant Director for School/University Partnerships at the University of California, Berkley, discuss UC admissions procedures and how schools can work with UC when developing new advanced curriculum and courses.
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College Placement Without AP: In this presentation, Susan Lee, Director of College Counseling at The Urban School, Laura Ross, Director of College Counseling at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, and Solomon Enos from Stanford University’s admissions department discuss college admissions from a non-AP school point of view.
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Urban Laptop Conference - January 2006
More than 80 educators from 30 Bay Area schools attended Urban's first laptop mini-conference, Exploring the Impact of 1:1 in January 2006, featuring keynote speakers Saul Rockman, president of Rockman, et al; Howard Levin, technology director at Urban; and Mark Salkind, Urban's head of school.
Howard Levin, Director of Technology, The Urban School of San Francisco
In Making the Laptop Disappear, listen to Howard describe the paradigm shift occurring as schools move toward a fundamental change in how education is implemented, and what educators must do to prepare.
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Saul Rockman, President, Rockman, et al
Saul Rockman has worked toward evaluating laptop programs in national studies for more than 10 years. Hear some of his assessments of how laptop schools are doing.
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