AGENDA: Thursday, October 1, 2009

6:00-7:30 pm  Early arrival welcoming reception hosted by Capstone Publishers (Congressional A room in the hotel lobby)

AGENDA: Friday, October 2, 2009
*Please note breakout session room assignments for Breakout Cycle I, Cycle II, Cycle III, and Cycle IV

11:00–11:30 am  Registration

11:30–1:30 pm  Welcome lunch, remarks, and keynote speaker, Bernie Trilling, Global Director, Oracle Education Foundation, and author, 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times (Great Hall 3)

1:30–2:30 pm  Panel: 21st Century Skills, A Modern Day Elephant? (Great Hall 3)

 2:30–3:00 pm  Break & Trilling booksigning

3:00–4:15 pm  Breakout Cycle I

1) The Learning Commons as a Physical Space (Capitol Room B)
2) What Box? More Opportunities than Obstacles (Capitol Room A)
3) Database 2.0—How Smart Will It Be and will We Be Able to Afford It? (Regency Foyer)
4) Workers of the Future: Can U.S. Schools Really Prepare Students to Help U.S. Businesses Compete in a Global Economy? (Columbia A)

4:30–5:45 pm  Breakout Cycle II

1) The Learning Commons as a Physical Space (Capitol Room B)
2) Workers of the Future: Can U.S. Schools Really Prepare Students to Help U.S. Businesses Compete in a Global Economy? (Columbia A)
3) Teaching in the 21st Century (Congressional B)
4) What Box? More Opportunities than Obstacles (Capitol Room A)

 6:00–7:30 pm  Cocktail reception (Landing Pavilion)

AGENDA: Saturday, October 3

8:00–9:30 am  Breakfast, with keynote speaker Lisa Layera Brunkan, cofounder, Fund our Future Washington (Great Hall 3)

9:45–11:00 am  Breakout Cycle III

1) The Learning Commons as a Physical Space (Capitol Room B)
2) Teaching in the 21st Century (Congressional B)
3) Database 2.0—How Smart Will it Be and Will We Be Able to Afford It? (Regency Foyer)
4) Leading 21st Century Skills with Your Collection: Infusing New Science Resources into Teaching, Learning, and Thinking (Capitol Room A)

11:15–12:30 pm  Breakout Cycle IV

1) Teaching in the 21st Century (Congressional B)
2) Datebase 2.0—How Smart Will It Be and will We Be Able to Afford It? (Regency Foyer)
3) Leading 21st Century Skills with Your Collection: Infusing New Science Resources into Teaching, Learning, and Thinking (Capitol Room A)
4) What Box? More Opportunities than Obstacles (Capitol Room A)

12:30–1:30 pm  Lunch (Great Hall 3)

1:30–2:30 pm  Closing presentation, SLJ Leadership Summit’s Closing Plenary Session led by Sara Kelly Johns (Great Hall 3)