Pucom0 0…You could build school facilities without a bond referendum?…Reform special education to focus on student learning results?…Create a school addressing the specific needs of a specific student population?…Find a curriculum that would help your school pass the SOLs and meet “Adequate Yearly Progress”?…Hear a genuine debate about school choice?Come learn how you can make it happenhere in Virginia! | Sometimes new ideas work.Sometimes they don’t.But if you never hear about them, you’ll never know.That’s why the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is sponsoring an “Excellence in Education” conference with “Out of the Box” education ideas on November 15-16 in Colonial Williamsburg. Designed for local school board members, teachers, administrators, parents and policy-makers, this conference will provide you with tools and ideas to help your schools, your students and your children succeed in the task at hand.Lam how other schools are built in less time for less money, without a bond referendum.Rud out what the President’s Commission on Special Education recommends- and how it would focus on alternatives to the current, paperwork-driven compliance model.Lam about the range of successful charter schools -from schools using Open Court reading and Saxon math to schools using “Expeditionary Learning.”how the Core Knowledge program has helped hundreds of underachieving children in schools by building a sequential curriculum based on the principle that “learning builds on learning. ” | Confirmed speakers include:George BillupsState Conference, NAACPYvonne ChanPrincipal, Vaughn New Century Learning Charter School (San Fernando, CA)Mark ChristiePresident, Virginia State Board of Education Karen DresdenPrincipal, Capital City Charter School (Washington, DC)Harold L. EllisPresident, Public-Private Infrastructure, Inc. Honorable Lisa Graham Keegan President, Education Leaders Council Lawrence PatrickPresident, Black Alliance for Educational Options Douglas StorerDirector, The Haskell Company (Winter Park, FL) Gerald TerrelVice President, Core Knowledge FoundationJohnathan WilliamsPrincipal, The Accelerated Charter School (2001 TIME Magazine School of the Year) (Los Angeles, CA) |