Events

January 20, 2012 (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) — OAESP mid-Winter Conference: Breakout session (9:40-10:30am) and Keynote address (10:45am-12:15pm).

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 (San Jose, CA) — New Teacher Center Symposium on Teacher Induction: Featured Speaker (9:30-11:00am)

Friday, March 30, 2012 (Poughkeepsie, NY) — Vassar College’s 11th Annual Steven & Susan Hirsch Disability Awareness Lecture

Past events:

January 30, 2011, 9:00-10:30am (Philadelphia, PA) — EduCon 2.3 Conference Panel Discussion: “Can Schools Support Student Innovation?”

February 12, 2011, 6:00-7:30pm (Washington, DC) — Politics & Prose Bookstore Author Event for We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free

February 25, 2011, 3:00-5:00pm (Washington, DC) — Panel discussion at the Newseum for We Must Not Be Afraid to be Free

March 8, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm (Washington, DC) — Faces of Learning Public discussion at DC Historical Society.

March 17, 2011, 2:30-4:30pm (Portland, OR) — Faces of Learning Master Class workshop and public discussion at the Expeditionary Learning National Conference: Hilton Portland and Executive Tower.

March 19, 2011, 12:00pm (Charlottesville, VA) — Virginia Book Festival appearance for We Must Not Be Afraid to be Free

March 23, 2011, Times TBD (San Diego, CA) — Faces of Learning Public Discussion: High Tech High

April 8, 2011, 9:00-10:30am (Atlanta, GA) — Thought Leader series discussion of Faces of Learning: National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) Annual Conference

April 16, 2011, 1:00-4:00pm (Kansas City, MO) — Faces of Learning Public Discussion: Royall Hall

May 20, 2011, 7:30-9:30pm (San Francisco, CA) — Evening remarks at WorldBlu Live: St. Regis Hotel

June 22, 2011, 6:00-7:30pm (Washington, DC) — Busboys & Poets author event for We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free

July 30, 2011, 5:00-6:30pm (Washington, DC) — Faces of Learning Public Discussion & Story Slam: Busboys & Poets

September 17, 2011,  11:30am-12:45pm (Oklahoma City, OK) Faces of Learning: The Power and Impact of Engaging Curious Minds, Oklahoma A+ Schools Annual Conference

September 21, 2011, 5:30-7:00pm (Washington, DC) — Public keynote at University of District of Columbia (4200 Connecticut Ave NW — Van Ness/UDC Metro Station — Building 41, Room A-03): “Democratic Schools? Progressive Pipe Dream or the Future of Urban Education?”

October 10, 2011, Noon-1:00pm (Houston, TX) — Keynote address at Fund for Teachers annual luncheon

October 14, 2011, Times TBD (Portland, ME) — Faces of Learning Public Discussion & Story Slam: The Telling Room

November 11, 2011, 3:00-4:30pm (Chicago, IL) — National Progressive Education Conference Panel Discussion: “Assessing What Matters in the Era of High Stakes Testing”

November 16, 2011, Times TBD (San Francisco, CA) — Keynote address for Aim High’s 25th anniversary celebration

December 12-18, 2011 (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) — Working with the staff of Haiti Partners to build more healthy, high-functioning democratic learning environments in Haiti.

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