Indiana NCA CASI

Presents

GATEWAY TO MASTERY^®

Summer Institute

Join us for an intensive “how to” training and fun-filled learning experience. The GATEWAY TO MASTERY institute integrates the Quality Management philosophy  of Continuous Improvement with the latest brain and assessment research, cognitive theory, child psychology and systems thinking to improve every aspect of the school and classroom.

The Summer Institute will be held at Noblesville High School, Noblesville, IN and offers 3 days of training, tools and materials as well as CRU’s and graduate credit from Indiana State University.

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Who Should Attend: Teachers, Teaching Teams, Administrators

When: June 15-June 17, 2009

Where: Noblesville High School              Map

           18111 Cumberland Road

           Noblesville, IN 46060-5650           Area Hotel Information

Tuition: $300.00  NCA members

            $350.00  Non-members - difference may be applied to the

                                              application fee.

      Includes:

• Breakfast, lunch and snacks each day.

• All learning materials, including access to the Essential Knowledge Resource for the duration of the training.

• 4 poster size classroom charts & graphs.

• A one year subscription to Culture, Knowledge, & Performance Mastery™ Web-based Tool-Kits for each participant.

Registration: The workshop is being sponsored by Indiana NCA CASI and they will handle all the registration.

Call: 800.468.7405 or E-mail: malexander2@isugw.indstate.edu

Registration Form: Download by clicking the link below.

Registration Form

Registration Deadline: June 1, 2009

Workshop Questions:

J.J. Burgard & Associates, Inc.  866.630.6995 or e-mail

"I am completely delighted with the experience from the materials to our stay. This has been the best educational learning experience of my career." -2006 Summer Institute Participant

About The Institute

Participants will gain knowledge and experience in all Three Disciplines of

GATEWAY TO MASTERY: Culture, Knowledge and Performance Mastery^™. The Burgard's will combine modeling, practice, lecture, discussions, group work and activities into the schedule which includes opportunities to learn theory and practice, experience the student’s perspective, practice the teacher’s role and receive the necessary preparation time to implement the philosophy at the start of the next school year.

Indiana State University will offer graduate level credits while CRU's will be available through Indiana NCA. The workshop is facilitated by Jeff and Jacquie Burgard who successfully developed and pioneered Continuous Improvement techniques for the school and classroom.

"I absolutely loved the entire week. Great information, excellent teachers and wonderful colleagues ...I am so excited about my upcoming school year: so are my students – they just don’t know how wonderful their new learning system will be!"                

 -2006 Summer Institute Participant

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Participants Will Be Able To:

• Apply systems thinking to their unique situation for better communication and alignment

• Learn a framework to continuously improve learning and culture

• Understand how to manage people and systems instead of behavior

• Apply effective, unobtrusive, school-wide, classroom and individual data collection techniques to enable continuous adjustments - without being a statistician

• Implement on-going staff and/or student engagement through sharing data, discussing challenges, testing theories and      planning improvement

• Acquire and utilize feedback to improve the school/           classroom system

• Tap into intrinsic motivation for improved enthusiasm

• Learn how to have high achievement and high standards

• Create a standards based, continuously improving learning system

• Understand how to effectively utilize both formative and   summative assessments

• Learn how to overcome the “Teach, Test and Forget” paradigm   and build classroom teamwork

• Enable staff and/or students to become partners in their            own improvement

• Understand how to utilize both rubric and non-rubric performance assessments in the classroom

• Develop authentic assessments of student performance

• Develop objective, easy to understand rubrics and evaluation techniques to distinguish between understanding and presentation

• Understand how to mine nearly any student work for     improvement insights

• Show students how focus their learning through better self-assessment and analysis of their own learning data 

• Capitalize on progress data to become more responsive to learning 

• Assess efficacy of improvement interventions in the school/classroom culture and learning

For More Information

To see more detailed information on all Three Disciplines of

GATEWAY TO MASTERY, click here.

“When you understand the continuous improvement philosophy and how the tools are used to implement that philosophy, I can’t ever imagine going back to any other means of conducting business in the classroom!”               -2005 Summer Institute Participant

Facilitators

Jeffrey J. Burgard

Co-owner & Educational Consultant, J.J. Burgard & Associates, Inc.; Bachelor of Arts, California State University, Sacramento. Eleven years experience as a middle school teacher; author of Continuous Improvement in the Science Classroom: conducted workshops for educators throughout the United States and Australia: presented at conferences/schools in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Nepal.

Jacqueline K. Burgard

Co-owner & Educational Consultant, J.J. Burgard & Associates, Inc.; Bachelor of Science, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. Sixteen years experience with Quality Management principles in business; worked in kindergarten and junior high classrooms: conducted workshops for educators throughout the United States and Australia.

More about J.J. Burgard & Associates, Inc.

"The two of you are great example of what our society should be doing   and how they should be thinking to help children be enthusiastic               and successful!"                                                                                                 -2006 Summer Institute Participant

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Questions about the Summer Institute

call 1.866.630.6995  or e-mail