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Intensive Sessions

These 3-hour sessions are designed so that attendees can dive deep into a topic. Taught by some of our best and highest-rated presenters and with a variety of topics covered, there’s something for everyone.

Upping the Academic Rigor of Your Instruction (Part I & II)
Part I: Wednesday, June 20 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Part II: Wednesday, June 20 4:00  p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
This practical session is designed for principals and teachers to help them establish and execute truly rigorous expectations for student learning. Participants will focus first on the rigor of their questioning and the tasks they assign students. We will then focus on increasing the rigor of our standards for student responses and ensure adequate support and accountability of those standards.
Dacia Toll, Achievement First

 Assessing and Improving Board Governance
Friday, June 22 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
PAVE, a non-profit organization in Milwaukee, and BoardSource, the nation’s leader in non-profit board governance, have partnered to help many independent school boards in Milwaukee improve their practice. Attendees at this intensive, interactive session will learn hands-on methods for assessing board strength and will learn from PAVE’s 20 years of experience about what excellent governance looks like for a charter school and ways to achieve it. 
Dave Steele, PAVE; Jenifer Holland, BoardSource

Fundraising Success! Winning Foundation and Corporate Grants
Friday, June 22 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Designed for beginners, participants in this session will learn how to "become fundable." Participants will explore the elements of foundation and corporate fundraising—from conducting effective prospect research and cultivating foundation relationships to developing winning proposals and regrouping when your target funders "just aren’t into you."
Kim Davis Charlot, DavisKim Consulting

The Children’s Literacy Initiative Classroom Model: Essentials of Literacy Best Practices
Friday, June 22 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Join Children’s Literacy Initiative for an engaging workshop that highlights our Investing In Innovation (i3) grant’s high-impact practices and focuses on the essentials of literacy best practices. This session will emphasize the importance of the literacy environment, physical elements in the classroom and classroom culture in literacy development.
Kelly Hunter, Children’s Literacy Initiative

The Next 20 Years
Friday, June 22 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Drawing on the course they teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the co-presenters of this session will engage participants in a spirited, highly interactive look at the next epoch for charter schools. Topics in this session will include access and equity issues confronting charters as fully public schools; leadership and instructional "pipelines"; redefining "impact" beyond replication; and growing school cultures that embrace both rich content and tough accountability.
Kay Merseth, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Nelson Smith, founder and former CEO, National Alliance for Charter Public Schools