And then we will have the executive director and principal of orangeville Charter School, travis and then finally nicole. Morning. Its good to be here. I have the good honor of leading summit Public Schools and we have what i discovered this summer is a shared division for the outcomes that we expect to deliver for our students. I had the good fortune the summer of working with about 3000 educators across the country and 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 Business People , and we just talked about our vision for education. In a world that can sometimes feel very divided, i was inspired by how much we actually have 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 really the elements of a good life are to engage in purposeful work on a daily basis, to be a part of a community and have meaningful relationships. To be able to have the Financial Security to live safely and to have the ability to go about your daily activity. This is something i heard consistently in every town and every said city i visited from all people. Summit is about bringing that shared vision to life across the country. We started with our own network of schools. 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 communities they are in demographically and are incredibly diverse by design. They rank among the best Public Schools in america by almost every measure that there is and we are most proud of achieving our mission of preparing one 100 of our students regardless of their prior preparation or background for success in college. 99 of them are accepted to college each year. And, a few years ago we realized that wasnt nearly enough. College acceptance doesnt actually equal readiness or being equipped for living a good life. that led us to a place of collaboration and so it turned out that the work that we were doing was interesting to people across the country and like a tom we have literally thousands of people visiting us each year and saying we want to be doing what you are doing. You created these tools you have developed these process and can you share them. Three years ago we started sharing and we developed will call the Summit Learning program. The program has four components to it. The first is the Technology Platform that we have built. We started building ourselves and got a boost from our partners and it is now a free platform that houses a curated curriculum that has been developed by teachers for teachers that is also free, both of them are free. We have compared 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 the work. That Program Comes together at the Summit Learning program. Three years ago when we started we began working with 19 schools across the country and about 130 teachers, about 2200 students served. Last year we worked with 132 schools and 27 states and about 20000 students in this year we have been a little overwhelmed by the interest but so inspired to be working with over 330 schools in 40 states this year. Where in collaboration and we are all, each and every one of us, trying to figure out how we can take these tools and in our own communities customize them to meet the needs of our students and their teachers and our families so that they can leave our system equipped to live life. The community that we are working with across the country is incredibly diverse and often when i talk about it people assume that 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 the school that i have ever seen and some that i had never seen and have been educated about the way schools can be designed and configured. They are very diverse across the board and are really an Inspiring Group of representatives schools. What we have in the core of our partnership and what brings us together is this idea of Summit Learning. At the heart of Summit Learning is this personalization and an approach to teaching and learning that really sees each child as an individual, as an individual human being that deserves and it needs personalization in order to reach their own goals. We have been very, very fortunate to work with burning scientists and researchers across the country in the development and design of the model. This is multiple years in the making with lots of relationships and one of the things that we are most proud of is that when schools were designed hundred plus years ago we didnt have the science that we have today and i think someone mentioned even four years ago we had new science that hasnt been incorporated but even in the last ten years we have new science. We work very hard to be at that intersection of theory and research and practice and be the real translators of theory and practice into the learning experience. One of the key outcomes of this work has been to redefine commitment level outcomes. I want to focus the rest of the time and there is so much to talk about as we know its hard to capture the work we do in such a short period of time but i think we have thought about starting, obviously, the best teachers backward plan and we backward plan from if we want all of our students to leave is equipped with these outcomes that theyre ready to live up to life what do they need to be able to know in 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 tell us, what employers tell us, these were things. The first are cognitive skills and these are the big skills across cutting skills that crop disciplines and transferable and lifelong skills that help us do the work that we need to do. The second is knowledge and knowledge hasnt gone away. It is still important even with google. It still important that we know things and that we have it in our memory and were able and its. Hard to evaluate something if you dont know anything. Its 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 but hasnt been a real part of our commitment level outcomes as a general rule and that is what we call the habits of success. Sometimes this gets called a variety of other names but really is the mindset and behavior that enable people, human being, to be successful and navigate the world around them. For more support, is we know the students need to leave us with a sense of purpose and they need to deeply understand himself and certainly we have heard a lot of that conversation but its the notion that school would be a place where you figure out you are and what matters to you and what life will look like for you. Just a quick little moment just like what does that look like in practice and so if youre driving for these commencement level outcomes what are the three pillars of Summit Learning . Again, these are not new or revolutionary and its how we construct them into a really aligned coherent and elegant model that is perhaps new with the supports and tools that we have. The core of the learning experience in realworld projects so our students six to 12 will engage in 200 projects as real, meaningful performance tasks and the end of the time they are with us. They also have a lot of personalized learning where they learn to become learners. That really is our focus in the ability to self direct. They are learning while they are developing their knowledge in a personalized way and finally, of course, the core is relationship and so a longterm one to one mentoring relationship with a caring adult who is there School Community liaison. A deep dive into each of these areas for quick moments, the cognitive skills and what they are and i think one of the most important things weve done is worked with the researchers to develop a cognitive skills rubric that goes from fourth grade preprofessional work so all of those 200 projects are aligned to the cognitive skills rubric and this allows for all sorts of innovations in how we score and how we disaggregate the role of teacher and coach from evaluator which is a real conflict of interest when you get down to it. And the ability to develop these skills over time consistently allow teachers and school to authentically collaborate around very specific in targets and i know. Hard to see. Heres one that is easier. It turns out there is eight domains and 36 dimensions of skills that our students will be assessed on in multiple ways over the time there with us. I just got the time. The other three are equally fascinating and maybe, can i do want quick just like i wanted to show you whats underneath the habits of success which is the Building Block framework which is again curated by a bunch of the scientists that really exhibit a variety in the complexity of the habits and how they do rise to three commitments level outcomes through curiosity and sense of purpose. Take you so much. [applause] my name is travis works, Charter School in maine. The struggle for me today is anyone that knows me back in maine is to pair down a one hour summary of our school down to less than ten minutes. I will do my best. At cornell regional Charter School we are doing a lot of different innovative programming and are challenged by the remote here. Here we go. A couple of questions i want to start with our what, if education could mirror our adulthood, what if education could revitalize and entire community . And what if education could be a catalyst for Small Businesses in the local economy . Im a Firm Believer that it can and it is happening, both in our portal campus in their other campus in central maine. There is a lot of areas an opportunity for redefining what education is like in america. For one we are breaking the culture of the carnegie unit system to essentially create programming that is not dependent on the Industrial Age structures. To really create programming that creates selfdirected independent thinkers that are selfmotivated and paired for the 21st century and to give a brief piece about that is that we here in the central maine area is that employers are frustrated that the workforce that is coming to them are not selfdirected, nonindependent, not able to be selfmotivated and be problem solvers. We can create a program that allows for all of these things to be fostered and to break down those traditional barriers and structures starting with learners at the age of four, something as simple as pre k or even kindergarten level where we put the learner where they need to be when they need to be based on what their individual needs are, not based on age or grade level but truly around the learning targets that they need when they need them. That sounds peaceable but when you start looking at all the structures and the pieces that have to be coordinated to make that work its a challenge. It is worth the challenge. Part of breaking down the Industrial Age model with young learners is to break free of giving learners the ability for choice and voice, something as simple as understanding when they are hungry. Why have a scheduled start time, scheduled after break time, a scheduled recess time, a scheduled lunch time, that punch in, punch a mentality. The adults know when you need to do something so therefore you do it at these times. Given that flexibility to our learners to understand who they are as humans and allowing them to make those cases really starts to build that culture brutality of choice invoice within structures. Part of the program is to create that systemic impact on the local economy, in investment between learner and community and i know its hard to see but when angus king was governor of maine and i was in school he said that means greatest export was if you. However, im a Firm Believer that we can look back on the work they have done whether its a park for business or building or even an organization that is driving because the work they did then they will be more likely to stay in our area or for us to retain that you. It means the greatest export will become Something Else other than its use. They can see in investment and see the impact on community and Education Community are not in isolation. So how do we create a programming that retains our youth . There are three major pieces that we have been building into our programming from ages k through nine and eventually k12 of the next three or four years is really leveraging the professionals within our community. We have content experts that have life experiences, a local machinist who knows more about trigonometry and calculus than anyone whos graduated from a Teacher Prep Program with a degree. We have engineers, we have wine men who are working in the Electrical Industry that no more about physics than most other people in the Education Field that are teaching our youth. If we can impair our youth with our local Community Resources and throw out an opportunity to say hey, we have a local engineer that will be working are able to articulate these particular learning targets from 9 00 oclock to 10 00 oclock next week and all of a sudden the learners are now seeing that they have resources within their community and its not school First Community its truly a community painted school and community. The other piece that schools tend to at least in our area, put up barriers with our community is when it comes to shared learning opportunities. For me im a Firm Believer in that if you have these resources within your building and within your structures why not open. A little more freely so for example if you have a learning opportunity where learners are building a 3d printer from scratch and they are going through the entire design process by putting it together and we know there is 15 available seats for that learning opportunity but only ten are filled why not throughout those additional five to our learning Community Partners and bring them in so we have a Multigenerational Community members coming together learning sidebyside with the learners. Now we have Community Learners providing content and learning side by side and final components is open up the facility for shared resources. Educational institutions have some of the most beautiful equipment whether its a kiln or cnc machines or whether its laser engravers, whatever it may be why not set up structures in places the local Community Members can access and leverage those and help boost the local economy. Those are three major pieces of her downtown campus, our new campus that we have opened up. Going beyond the date of manufacture for learning two more customized learning and community revitalization. We are leveraging our Community Members for mentoring and internships and also bringing in those Community Members to connect and offer content with our kids. That is 28 regional charter, in a quick snapshot. Chroni[applause] hello, everyone. My name is nicole. I am the cofounder and ceo of private Public Schools and our topic that i want to talk today is lets get personal. Why personalize learning really matters more than ever for our students. Before i touch on that i wanted to give you a brief overview of the price. We are located in san diego in california, southern california, currently serving in high school and what is great about price and the accolades that i am most proud of is that private is recognized as one of the organizations doing innovative work around social Emotional Learning because i think sometimes we talk about education we lose sight of the fact that humans are social creatures and we come together to solve problems together and additionally in san diego we been recognized by our state senate for the work weve been doing and we been named one of the top 100 schools worth visiting. Invite all of you to come and see us. We have talked about this before but essentially education hasnt changed much in the last hundred plus years, classrooms used to look like this and in some places they still do and essentially not preparing kids for the features that lie ahead for them because lets think about this that students write their that is what medicine look like when these kids were in school the gentleman sitting next to you mentioned penicillin and we invented the cylinder and yes we should use its but that was the classroom that that young doctor was in. Telecommunication instagram, twitter looked Something Like this. And this couldve been the uber driver i took to the hotel. Essentially if we teach today as we talked yesterday we truly rob are children of tomorrow and that is why we have come together and coming together is really the core of the price and what makes our Community Beautiful is that our children come from 45 different zip codes and we are arguably one of the most diverse schools out there. Of the 25 of the students at some of our campuses have a disability. A third of