But helping us find ways to measure them. I applaud all the innovation around this table and i just hope we can all help to bring some of these innovators that are in our Public Education system back into education as the new leaders of the next century. Thank you very much for that, michael, and thanks for the conversation. We will take a short break now and will start again at 10 45. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] all right. Were going to get started to get and keep us on track. So we are moving into the next and final topic of customizing learning, and again we with the presenters we are excited to hear from. First of will be the ceo of Summit Learning, diane tavenner. And then the executive directod principal of cornville regional Charter Schools travis works and finally ceo of thrive Charter Schools, nicole assisi. Good morning. Its good to be here. I have the good honor of leading summit Public Schools, and we have what i i discovered this summer is a shared vision for the outcomes that we expect to deliver for our students. I had the good fortune this summer of we were working with about 3000 educators across the country, and so i got to spend time in a whole bunch of cities and towns and conversation and dinner discussions with teachers and superintendents and principals and parents and University President s and is is people. And we just talked about our vision for education, and in a will that can sometimes feel very divided i was inspired by how much we actually had in common. What it really came down to is at the end of the day we all want our children to leave our system equipped to lead a good life, and related elements of a good life are to engage in purposeful work on a daily basis, to be part of a community, to have meaningful relationships, to be able to have the Financial Security to live safely. And to have the help to go back to do activity. This is something i heard consistently in every town, in every city i visited from all people. And so summit is about bringing that shared vision to life across the country. We started with our own network of schools here today we have 11 schools in two states, california and washington. We serve about 3100 students. These are diverse by design schools. Our students are reflective of the community they are in demographically, and are incredibly diverse by design. They rank among the best Public Schools in america consistently by almost every measure that there is. We are most proud of achieving our mission of preparing 100 of our students, regardless of their prior preparation or background for success in college. 99 of them are accepted to a Fouryear College each year. And a few years ago we realized that wasnt nearly enough, that College Acceptance doesnt actually equal readiness or being equipped for living a good life. And so we started on a journey to really rethink everything were doing to figure out how could we actually get to the place of our students being ready when you leave us and launch into adulthood to lead the life they want to lead . That led us to a place of collaboration. So it turned out that the work were doing was interesting to people across the country, and like tom, we have literally thousands of people visiting as each year and saying we want to be doing what you are doing. You created these tools. You develop these processes. Can you share them . So three years ago we started sharing, and we develop will recall the Summer Learning program. The program has four components to it. The first is the Technology Platform that we have built here we started building ourselves and then got a boost from some great partners, and so it is now a free platform that houses a curated curriculum thats been developed by teachers, both of them are free. And we have paired that with training and professional development that we offer as well as ongoing support from teachers and School Leaders and other educators who are familiar with our work. So the Program Comes together as the Summer Learning program. Three years ago when we started we begin working with 19 schools across the country, and about 130 teachers, about 2200 students served students served. Last report with 132 schools in 27 states, and and about 20,000 students. This year weve been a little bit overwhelmed by the interest, but so inspired to be working with over 330 schools in 40 states, in partnership and in collaboration we are all each and every one of us trying to figure out how we can take these tools and in our own communities customizing them to meet the needs of our students and our teachers and our families so that they can leave our system equipped to live a fulfilled life. The community that were working with across the country is incredibly diverse, and often want to talk about it people so its mostly Charter Schools. Not true. 76 of the schools we are working with our traditional district schools, and they are in all parts of the country, urban, suburban, rural, and represent every configuration of school that ive ever seen and sound that ive never seen and been really educated about the way schools can be designed and configured. They are very diverse across the board and i really Inspiring Group of representative schools. What we have at the core of our partnership and what brings us all together is this idea of Summit Learning. At the heart of Summit Learning is the personalization, an approach to teaching and learning, that really sees each child as an individual, as an individual human being that deserves and needs personalization in order to reach their own goals. We have been very, very fortunate to work with leading learning scientist and researchers from across the country in the development and design of the model. This is multiple years in the making with lots of relationships. And so i think one of those things where most proud of is that when schools were designed 100 plus years ago we didnt have the science that we have today. I think someone mentioned even 40 years ago we had new science that has been incorporated but even in the last ten years we have new science. We worked very hard to be at that intersection of theory and research and practice, and be the real translator of theory and practice into the learning experience. One of the key outcomes of this work has been to redefine commencement level outcomes. I want to focus the rest of the time, theyre so much to talk but as we all know. Its really hard to capture the work that we do in such a short time. We have thought about starting obviously, the best teachers backward plan, and so we backward planned from it what all of our students to leave us equipped with these outcomes that, ready to live a fulfilled life, what do they need to be able to know and do in order to be ready for that . Again, what the science tells us, what our own experience tells us, what parents tell us, what teachers and employers tell us is that these four things. The first are cognitive skills. These are the big skills, crosscutting skills that go across disciplines that are transferable and lifelong skills that will help us do the work that we need to do. The second is knowledge, and knowledge hasnt gone away. Its still important even with google. It still important that we know things and that we have it in our memory and we are able, its very hard to evaluate something if you dont know anything. Its very hard to analyze something if you dont know anything. So knowing things is actually still quite important. And then theres this whole other category that we all know intuitively, and we do, it has a been a real part of our commencement of outcomes as asa general rule and also recall the habits of success but sometimes this gets called a variety of other names, but really its the mindset and the behaviors that enable people, human beings to be successful and navigate the world around them. And then forth and perhaps most important is we know that our students need to leave us with a sense of purpose. They need to deeply understand themselves and certainly we have heard a lot of that conversation today from the other excellent presenters, is this notion the school would actually be a place where you figure out who you are and what matters to you and, therefore, what a a fulfilled e will look like for you. Suggest a quick moment of what does it actually look like in practice . If were driving towards these commencement level outcomes, what are the three pillars of Summit Learning . Again these are not new or revolutionary. Its how we constructed them into a really aligned, coherent and elegant model that is perhaps a new, with the support and the tools that we have. The core of the experiences in realworld projects. So our students grades six through 12 engage in 200 projects with real meaningful performance tasks at the end of the time they are with us. They also have a lot of personalized learning time when you learn to become learners. That really is our focus, the ability to self direct their learning while theyre developing their knowledge in a very personalized way. Finally of course relationship. A longterm onetoone mentoring relationship with a caring adult who is their School Community liaison. A quick deep dive for just a moment into each of these areas. We talked about the cognitive skills as what they are. I think one of the important things that weve done is worked with the researchers to develop a cognitive skills rubric that goes from fourth grade two preprofessional work. All of those 200 projects are allied to the cognitive skills rubric. This allows for all sorts of innovations in how we score and how we can disaggregate the role of teacher and coach from evaluated which is really a conflict of interest when you get down to it, and the ability to develop these skills over time and consistently and allow teachers within the school to authentically collaborate around very specific and targeted i know those are hard to see pictures when its a bit easier. It turns out theres eight domains and 36 dimensions of skills that our students will be assessed on in multiple ways over the time they are with us. I just got the time. The other three are equally fascinating. Maybe can i just do one quick i want to share whats underneath the habits of success, which is the Building Blocks framework which is again been curated by which the scientists that really exhibit a variety and the complexity of those habits, and that they do rise to commencement level outcomes of direction and curiosity and sense of purpose. So thank you so much. [applause] my name is travis works, Cornville Regional Charter School in maine. The struggle for me today is anyone who knows me back in maine is to pair down of what are some of our school down to less than ten minutes. So i will do my best. So at Cornville Regional Charter School, were doing a lot of different innovative programming pieces, and challenged by the remote. For a couple of questions i want to start with our, what if education could mayor adulthood . What if education could revitalize an entire community . And what if education could be a catalyst for Small Businesses . And the local economy. And Firm Believer that it can and it is happening combo at our cornville campus and are skowhegan campus in central maine. Theres a lot of areas of opportunity for redefining what education is life in america. For one we are breaking the culture of the carnegie unit system to essentially create programming thats not dependent on the Industrial Age structures. To really create programming that creates selfdirected independent thinkers that are selfmotivated and prepared for the 21st century. And to give a brief piece about that, is that we hear it in the maine area that employers are frustrated that the workforce, that is coming to them, are not selfdirected, not independent, not able to be selfmotivated and to the problem solvers. So if we can create a program that allows for all of these things to be fostered, to break down those traditional barriers and structures starting with learners at the age of four, something as simple as prek or even kindergarten level, where we put the learner where the need to be when they need to be based on what their individual needs are. Not based on age, not based on grade level but truly around the learning targets that they need when they need them. That sounds Pretty Simple but when you start looking at all the structures and all the different pieces that have to be coordinated to make that work, its the challenge that its worth the challenge. Part of breaking down that Industrial Age model with young learners is to break free of giving learners the ability for choice. Something as simple as understanding when they are hungry, why have a scheduled snack time, a scheduled bathroom break time, as scheduled recess time, a scheduled lunchtime. That punched in punch out mentality. The adults know when you need to do something so, therefore, you just do it at these times. Giving that flexibility to our learners to understand who they are as humans, and allowing them to make those choices really starts to build a culture mentality of choice and voice with in structures. So part of a program is to create that systemic impact on the local economy, and investment between learner and community. I know its hard to see but when angus king was governor of maine and i was in high school he said that maines greatest export was its youth. However, im a Firm Believer a learner can look back on work that they have done, whether its a park or business basis r building or even an organization thats driving come because the work that they did, then it would be more likely to stay in our area or for us to retain that youth. And maines latest export will become Something Else other than its youth. They can see and investment. They can see impact on the community and education and community are not in isolation. So how do we create a programming that retains our youth . Theres three major pieces that weve been building into our programming from ages k9 and eventually k12 over the next three, four years, is really leveraging the professionals within our community. We have content experts that have life experiences. And local machinist and us more about trigonometry and calculus and anyone was graduated from a Teacher Prep Program with a degree. We have engineers. We have linemen who are working in the Electrical Industry that no more about physics than most of the people in the Education Field that are teaching our youth. If we can hair our youth with our local Community Resources and throughout an opportunity to say hey, where the local engineer whos going to be working out able to help articulate these particular learning targets from 9 00 until 10 00 next week, all of a sudden the learners are now seeing that the resources within their community. Its not school its activity between school and community. The other piece that schools tend, at least in our area, tend to put up barriers with our community is when it comes to share learning opportunities. For me i am a Firm Believer that if you have these resources within your building, within your structures, why not open this up more freely . So, for example, if ever learning opportunity where learners are building a 3d printer from scratch, they are going through the entire design process, putting it together. We know theres 15 evitable feats for the learning opportunity but only ten our field. Why not throw out those additional five to our learning Community Partners and bring in . We have Multigenerational Community members come together learning sidebyside with the learners. So now we have Community Members providing content, learning sidebyside. And the final component is why not open up the facility for shared resources . Educational institutions have some of the most beautiful equipment, whether its they killed, whether its laser engravers. Whatever it may be, why not set of structures in place for local committee nevers can access and leverage of those and help boost the local economy . Those are three major pieces of our downtown campus, our new campus that weve opened up. Were going beyond the date of manufacture for learning to more customizing learning and a Community Revitalization for leveraging our Community Members for internships, mentoring but also bring in those Committee Members to really connect and offer content for our kids. Thats Cornville Regional Charter School in a very quick snapshot. [applause] hey, everyone. My name is nicole assisi. I am the cofounder and ceo of privatePublic Schools, and the prospects i wanted to talk about today was lets get personal. Why personalize learning with the matters more than ever for our students. Before i touch on that i wanted to just give you a brief overview of thrive if we located in san diego, southern california. Currently serving elementary, middle and high school. Once really great about thrive and accolades that i was proud of is that thrive was like a dense as one of 50 organizations nationally doing some innovative work of social, Emotional Learning. I think sometimes we talk about education we lose sight of the fac