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Register Now for KIDS WHO KNOW AND DO 2000!
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Register now for KIDS WHO KNOW AND DO 2000, the 8th Annual Conference on
Project-Based Learning, March 31 - April 1, 2000, at the San Francisco
Hilton Towers. You can download a brochure, registration form, or register
online at http://www.autodesk.com/foundation
Register by February 15 to qualify for the special Early Bird registration
fees. Also registrations for Thursday's pre-conference school-based
institutes and workshops go fast, so sign up soon.
KIDS WHO KNOW AND DO 2000 is the pre-eminent national conference on
Project-Based Learning (PBL) and School-to-Career. The conference showcases
the work of outstanding PBL practitioners, and their students, who focus
on
instructional design within the context of school reform. The 1999
conference attracted well over 1000 teachers, principals, district leaders,
parents, students and other educators for two days of learning through
inquiry, sharing, problem-solving, networking, and fun. Attendees came from
106 communities throughout California, 31 states around the country, and
several foreign countries.
Keynote speakers for Kids 2000 are Linda Darling-Hammond on School
Restructuring, J.D. Hoye on the Classroom of the Future, Ron Berger and
John
Reid on Students as Researchers, and Stephen Bingler, David Stephen, and
Elliot Washor on New School Design. They will be joined by over 100
leading
PBL practitioners and educators from around the world.
A special day of pre-conference school-based institutes will occur on
Thursday, March 30, at regional whole-school-change High, Middle,
Elementary, and Pre-K schools. In addition there will on-site
pre-conference
workshops led by J.D. Hoye and by the Buck Institute for Education.
Joining the Autodesk Foundation in sponsoring KIDS WHO KNOW AND DO 2000 are
two national organizations that are actively involved in promoting
project-based learning in education. These are the Buck Institute for
Education (http://www.bie.org) <http://www.bie.org)> , a non-profit
research and evaluation
organization in Novato, CA, and Co-NECT (http://www.co-nect.com)
<http://www.co-nect.com)> ,
one of the original New American School Design Teams. Co-NECT will be
the sponsor of KIDS WHO KNOW AND DO 2001.
For general conference information or to obtain a printed registration
brochure, contact Sanna Randolph, Autodesk Foundation, at 415-507-6232 or
sanna.randolph@autodesk.com <mailto:sanna.randolph@autodesk.com> . For an
HTML or PDF version
of the program, visit http://www.autodesk.com/foundation
Send or fax completed registration forms to A+ Events, 47 Broadway,
Fairfax,
CA 94930, 415-453-4083 (fax). For more registration information, call
800-256-6452.