Past Events
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Past Events at WPI - Worcester, MA
Training Sessions
- August 19th 2010
- October 8, 2010
- November 2, 2010
- December 10, 2010
- January 18, 2011 CANCELED DUE TO SNOW
- February 18, 2011
- March 18, 2011
- June 10, 2011
- August 8 - 12: ASSISTments Trainer Institute 2011 at WPI This event was designed especially for teacher trainers. We focused on learning about ASSISTments as well as providing a curriculum for facilitating up to 16 two hour workshops back at your district. Non-teacher trainers were welcome as well.
October 4th, 2011 Reception at WPI to celebrate our accomplishments and dream up new ways to use and share ASSISTments.
- February 15, 7:00pm - 8:30pm Register
You are invited to an ASSISTments Showcase
Neil and Cristina Heffernan of WPI invite superintendents, principals, teachers, faculty, and our special guests to meet data-driven teachers who have powered their instruction using ASSISTments. ASSISTments was cited in the 2010 National Education Technology Plan as an exemplary model for improved teaching and learning that combines formative assessment and instructional assistance. At this event, guests will move from station to station throughout the Showcase and speak with real teachers who have become ASSISTments implementation experts, sharing both artifacts from their classroom and their adoption experiences. The ASSISTments resources are web-based and offered for FREE to any interested teacher. Discover how ASSISTments uses the latest in learning research and 21st century instructional delivery strategies to empower data-driven instruction.
Monday, October 3, 2011 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Campus Center Odeum – 3rd Floor 100 Institute Rd. Worcester, MA 01609 RSVP here
Read Teacher Comments on Past Workshops
- Click here for a PDF of comments on the May 27, 2010 event.
- Click here for a PDF of comments on the June 2, 2010 event.
- Click here for a PDF of comments on the June 3, 2010 event.
- Click here for a PDF of comments on the June 4, 2010 event.
Events for Principals
Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education at East Carolina University November 12, 2011
North Carolina State Principal Preparation Training November 14 and 15, 2011
Events at Other Schools
Summer 2011
July 18, 19 and 20: Summer Institute, Bangor ME This was a training for teachers that also includes an event in April to get you rolling on ASSISTments so you are ready to learn more over the summer.
August 2 - 4: We had a special professional development series of face-to-face and online meetings for 9th grade math teachers in Maine.
Training Sessions at Schools
January 10, 2012 ASSISTments Showcase Western Massachusetts
Classes that have started
Blackstone Valley Class on ASSISTments Blackstone Valley is back with its second course on ASSISTments. For more information click here.
French River is putting on a Training Auburn Middle School - with Saturday and Wednesday evening classes. Three credits awarded at completion.
Training in Other States
Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education at East Carolina University November 12, 2011
Training put on by North Arlington High School in New Jersey December 9, 2011
North Carolina State Principal Preparation Training November 14 and 15, 2011
2010-11
- August 17, 2010 - Nashoba
- August 27th, 2010 - Millbury
- September 1, 2010 - Chicopee
- September 15, 2010 - RSU 19, Maine
- September 15, 2010 - MSAD 49, Maine
- October 21 - Tandberg (video conferencing Training) for MSAD 3 and RSU 25.
- October 28 - Westboro
- November 18 - RSU 2
- November 29 - Dover Sherborn
- Dec 2 - Newburyport
- December 9 - Nashua, New Hampshire
- January 12 - Leominster
- February 7 - North/Southboro
2009-10
- August 18, 2009 - Milton
- October 27, 2009 - Shrewsbury
- January 5, 2010 - Auburn High School
- February 2, 2010 - Auburn Middle School
- March 22, 2010 - Grafton School Committee
- March 19, 2010 - Douglass
- April 28, 2010 - Wayland
- May 11, 2010 - Norfolk, Bellingham
- May 13, 2010 - Ashland, Dover Sherborn
- June 3, 2010 - MSAD49
- June 4, 2010 - MSAD 6
- June 7, 2010 - Wayland
Earlier Districts Trained
- December 3, 2008 - Worcester Arts Magnet
- January 16, 2009 - Abby Kelly
- March 20, 2009 - Millbury
- May 4, 2009 - Bancroft School
- May 6, 2009 - North High School
Past ASSISTments in Action Events
ASSISTments in Action events are three hour-long sessions at a school where teachers using ASSISTments open their classrooms to visitors. The cooperating school hosts the event. The cooperating teachers present their work and then open their classrooms to observe students using ASSISTments.
School Administrators: For each "ASSISTments in Action" meeting, we hold a smaller (one hour long) break out group for School Administrators meant to help administrators learn why they should care about data driven instruction and ASSISTments. We will cover how you can use ASSISTments for common benchmark assessments for your school. We will talk about how school leaders can use ASSISTments to support professional learning communities looking at data. We will cover how you can use ASSISTments as a tool to collect data on how to guide your own school's reform.
- June 2, 2010: See ASSISTments in Action at a middle school in Shrewsbury MA
- May 27, 2010: See ASSISTments in Action at a middle school in Millbury MA
- January 31, 2011: Burncoat Middle School, Worcester MA
- March 8, 2011: Millbury Junior High School, Milbury MA
Conferences and More
January 9, 2012 ASSISTments Showcase Western Massachusetts
March 22 - 24 2012 NAESP Principals Conference
Neil, Cristina and a principal Teacher team from Bellingham MA will give a presentation.
Conference of Teaching Statistics
Cristina will be presenting at the conference.
Informational Events
Presentations
- Paul Reville
- Massachusetts DOE
- RI DOE
- Nov 17, 2010: Northern Main Superintendents
- November 17, 2010: Main DOE
- January 4, 2011: DSAC Western Region
- January 11, 2011: Florida Virtual School
Conferences
November 29 - December 1, 2011 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference
Neil is giving a spotlight speaker talk. ASSISTments will have a booth at this conference and present on Thursday from 10:30 to 12:00. Conference Power Point
October 26 and 27, MassCUE
We will be presenting at the MassCue Conference. We are currently scheduled for Thursday October 27th
November 9 and 10, ATMINE
Cristina will have a booth at this conference and will be presenting as well. Come learn about ASSISTments.
November 10, The School Science and Mathematics Association Conference
Neil Heffernan will be the keynote speaker at this conference. His abstract is here.
- We had booth and give a talk at ATMNE CONFERENCE in Nashua, NH
Click here for information from the conference.
- Come see us at Booth MASC/MASS Joint Conference. We will be there with the exhibitors on November 3 and 4. Learn more about the conference here.
- ATMIM Winter Conference. January 13th. Click here for more information on the conference
- March 25 Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Maine (ATOMIM) in Augusta, Maine. Conference Web Site. Cristina Heffernan will be presenting at 12-1:30.
- March 30 Association of Teacher of Mathematics in Massachusetts (ATMIM) Conference in Marlboro Massachusetts. Program Workshop #W9 10:00 - 11:30 AM. By Cristina Heffernan and Andrew Burnett.
- April 7 Technology in Education Partnership (TEP)conference held in Holyoke, MA. Main Web Site for conference. Our event on the schedule for at Room F1 at 11:10-12:10. Prof. Neil Heffernan will be presenting.
July 23 and 24 2011:
Massachusetts
- Blackstone Valley Curriculum Directors February 26, 2010
- April 7, 2010 Mass. District Meeting (This meeting already happened and was attended by 35 districts leaders from across MA but we leave the page here for details and we do have a streaming video link of the meeting). Learn how your district can participate in an exciting grant program.
- Assabet Valley Collaborative May 18, 2010. Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents from North/Southboro, Shrewsbury, Nashoba, Westboro.
Maine
- Maine Meetings: Learn how to maximize your 1-1 Laptop program.
- April 30, 2010 Southern Maine District Meeting by SAD6
- April 29, 2010 Meeting
- April 16, 2010 Maine District Meeting by MASD 49
- April 29 and July 18, 19 and 20: Summer Institute, Bangor ME This was a training for teachers that also included an event in April to get participants rolling on ASSISTments so they were ready to learn more over the summer.
- August 2 - 4: We had a special professional development series Starting with this face to face meeting and this group will continue with on-line meetings, all the participants are 9th grade math teachers in Maine.
North Carolina
- North Carolina Meetings
- April 19, 2010 North Carolina Teacher Online Training/Meeting Learn how to get started with ASSISTments in your classroom.
- April 21, 2010 North Carolina Principal and Administrator Meeting Learn how to implement ASSISTments into your school improvement plans.
- We ran a two day workshop for principals and their math department of education, funded by NC's RTTT project.
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