Lenses on Learning

For School Administrators and Leaders

Lenses on Learning is a two module course. In each module participants read and discuss articles focusing on various aspects of mathematics, learning, and teaching. They do mathematics together; engage in small-and whole-group discussions; watch and discuss videotapes that reveal children’s mathematical thinking and the nature of standards-based classrooms; examine samples of children’s mathematical work and excerpts from teachers’ professional journals; discuss the challenges of their own administrative practice; and write in their journals. They also carry out guided assignments in their schools related to the ideas explored in the course. Participants form an intellectual community among themselves as they reflect on a range of new ideas and consider the implications of these new ideas for their practice as administrators and instructional leaders.

Module 1: Friday, Nov. 10 and Tuesday, Nov. 21 - This is a two-day module. 8:30-4:00 each day at the Canyon Lake Chophouse, Rapid City, SD

Module 2: Spring event to be determined by participants at module 1.

Credit Information: 1 graduate credit

Dates Offered: November 10 and 21 (Module 1- you must attend both days)

Location: Canyon Lake Chophouse, Rapid City

Time: 8:30-4:00 daily

Registration: email bfish@tie.net with the following information:

  Your name

   School district

   School mailing address

   Principal level: elem/ms/hs/combination

Registration Deadline: October 30

Capacity: 10