Speaker at Opening Session
“Teaching Outside of the Box”

Billy Staples
Educator, student advocate, athlete, and motivational speaker. Author of Before the Glory: 20 Baseball Heroes Talk about Growing Up and How to Turn Hard Times into Home Runs (Health Communications 2007), available at www.hci-online.com.

This amazing teacher is on a mission to make a difference. For a dose of motivation, tune into this podcast and discover the many unconventional ways one teacher uses to make his hard-to-reach students want to learn.
Speaker at Honors Luncheon
“Sustaining Teachers, Sustaining Teaching”
Andy Hargreaves
Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Boston College, and member of KDP Laureate’s Chapter. Author of Sustainable Leadership (Jossey-Bass 2006), available at www.josseybass.com.

To maintain the quality of education in our schools, we must keep teachers in the profession. Explore why sustaining teachers is critical to sustaining teaching and how it can be done.
Speaker at General Session
“Teaching at the Crossroads: Professional Practice in a Web 2.0 World”
Will Richardson
The “Blogvangelist.” Author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin Press 2006), available at www.corwinpress.com. Don’t get left behind in this information age. Hear how one high school teacher incorporates the latest technologies into teaching and learning.
General Session
“Before, Beside, and Beyond NCLB”

Laureate Panel
Andy Hargreaves
Moderator and Laureate

Dr. Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Boston College. Author of Sustainable Leadership (Jossey-Bass 2006), available at www.josseybass.com.
Barbara Day
Laureate

Dr. Barbara D. Day, Chair of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of several textbooks on early childhood education.
Kieran Egan
Laureate

Dr. Kieran Egan, curriculum theorist and faculty member at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Author of How to Educate People (Yale University Press in press), to be available at: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks.

What does the future hold for NCLB? This distinguished panel of KDP Laureates puts this legislation—both good and bad—into perspective by describing what schools looked like before NCLB, how schools are now, and prospects for the future.
Laureate Roundtable
"The Future of the Teaching Profession"
Wesley Null
Moderator

Dr. J. Wesley Null, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Foundations in Education at Baylor University. Co-editor with Diane Ravitch of Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachers (Information Age 2006), available at www.infoagepub.com.
Barbara Day
Laureate

Dr. Barbara D. Day, Chair of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of several textbooks on early childhood education.
Kieran Egan
Laureate

Dr. Kieran Egan, curriculum theorist and faculty member at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Author of How to Educate People (Yale University Press in press), to be available at http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks.

What are the challenges facing today’s educators, and what does the future hold for those in the profession? Drawing on the work of William Chandler Bagley, founder of Kappa Delta Pi, and other prominent teacher educators and educational philosophers, this accomplished panel presents a revitalized vision for teachers in the 21st century.
Speaker at the Closing Banquet
Andrea Peterson
2007 National Teacher of the Year

2007 National Teacher of the Year, music teacher at Monte Cristo Elementary in Granite Falls, Washington. Be inspired by the 2007 National Teacher of the Year and find out how she instills in her students a thirst for knowledge and service, and encourages them to take initiative as learners.


“Teaching in the 21st Century: Plain Vanilla Just Won’t Make It!”
Dr. Raymond Meagher
Professor, Manhattan College

In today’s global competitive playing field, students must have the right knowledge, skills, ideas, and self-motivation to complete. Discover how teachers can prepare students so they do not wind up on the bench or as spectators in the 21st century. Accompanying Slide Show