SUMMER INSTITUTE ON ACADEMIC DIVERSITY
The Institutes on Academic Diversity are committed to providing educators with high quality, research-based support in differentiating instruction. We offer two annual events for teachers, administrators, and other instructional personnel.
The Institutes take place on the University of Virginia grounds in Charlottesville, VA, and are a stone’s throw from Thomas Jefferson’s beloved Monticello and a short drive to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sessions end by 3:45 each day, allowing participants to soak up the cool, little city that is Charlottesville or zip out to one of the many wineries in the area.
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
| Prince | Individual Rate | Group Rate for 6 or more participants |
Early Bird Registration
| $805 | $785 |
| Regular Registration | $825 | $805 |
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GENERAL INSTITUTE SCHEDULE
See below for an overview of our Summer Institute. A sample menu for the week can be found here.
Day One
Dr. Tomlinson will spend the morning introducing principles and practices of differentiation and will also discuss the impact of learning environment on a differentiated classroom. In the afternoon, participants will have an opportunity to dive deeper into how to build a classroom community as well as lead and manage a differentiated classroom.
Day Two
In the morning, Dr. Tomlinson will present on High Quality Curriculum. Additional morning sessions will be offered during the second half of the morning for participants who want to explore the attributes of high-quality rubrics. The afternoon sessions will focus on unit design and analysis within content areas and will further address key characteristics of high quality curriculum. There will also be afternoon sessions that focus on supporting teachers with various components of differentiation.
Day Three
In the morning, Dr. Tomlinson will present on Assessment to Inform Instruction. Another session will be offered during the second half of the morning for participants who want to explore grading in a differentiated classroom. In the afternoon, participants will divide into content area and administrator sessions and focus on assessment.
Day Four
In the morning, Dr. Tomlinson will present on Modifying Instruction. In the afternoon, participants will break into content areas and learn about using different instructional strategies when they have groups that differ based on readiness, interest, and learning profiles. Administrators will focus on instructional leadership as well as information on how to plan and lead a district initiative with differentiation as the goal.
Day Five
Dr. Tomlinson closes the week with Leading and Managing Differentiated Classroom and an opportunity to synthesize the information from the week.
FEATURED PRESENTERS
Carol Ann Tomlinson, Ed.D., is William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education where she is also Co-Director of the University’s Institutes on Academic Diversity. Prior to joining the faculty at UVa, she was a public school teacher for 21 years. During that time, she taught students in high school, preschool, and middle school and also administered programs for struggling and advanced learners. She was Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in 1974. Carol is author of over 300 books, book chapters, articles, and other educational materials. She was named Outstanding Professor at Curry in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008. In 2016, she was ranked #16 in the Education Week Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings for “University-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling,” and as the #3 voice in Educational Psychology. She works throughout the United States and internationally with educators who seek to create classrooms that are more effective with academically diverse student populations.
Catherine Brighton, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Institutes on Academic Diversity, is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student Affairs, Associate Professor in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, and Co-Principal Investigator on two sponsored research projects focused on teachers’ use of literacy data to inform instruction. She earned her doctorate in Educational Psychology (Gifted Education emphasis) at the University of Virginia. Prior to that, she served as a curriculum coordinator/assistant principal, teacher of the gifted, and classroom teacher in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, (Charlotte, NC). She is the Past-President of the Virginia Association for the Gifted, Treasurer of the American Educational Research Association, Special Interest Group in Research for Giftedness and Talent, and the former Program Chair for the Research and Evaluation Division of the National Association for Gifted Children, from whom she received the 2005 Early Leader Award.
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Tonya R. Moon, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and a co-director of the Institutes on Academic Diversity. Tonya spends her professional career actively engaged in teaching assessment, research, and statistics courses at the University and conducting research in K-12 classrooms investigating teachers’ use of data for designing instructional actions. Tonya has published and presented widely on the topics of assessment, differentiation, identification of gifted students, and program evaluation. She is the co-author with Carol Tomlinson on the ASCD text, Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom, and the author of a chapter on differentiation and assessment within a diverse classroom setting in the recently released Handbook of Human and Social Factors in Assessment. She works both nationally and internationally with educators on issues associated with assessment.
Mindy Moran, Ed.D., has worked closely with K12 teachers for 20 years. She has taught courses at UVA in Classroom Assessment and Principles of Curriculum, and Differentiated Instruction. She also translated her work with differentiation in developing a suite of online educational tools through the ILab at the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. She currently works on the instructional leadership team at Albemarle County Public Schools and coordinates the Fine Arts department.
Kelly Hedrick, Ed.D., is the Principal the Edward E. Brickell Academy for Advanced Academics and Arts at Old Donation School in Virginia Beach, VA. She is the former Director of Gifted Education and Curriculum Development having overseen gifted programs and curriculum development K-12. Prior to that she directed K-12 gifted education and academy programs which included 7 specialized programs at the high school level. Dr. Hedrick has worked as a classroom teacher at the elementary and middle school levels, and served as a middle school resource teacher. The National Association for Gifted Children awarded her a 2005 Doctoral Student Award. She was named Outstanding Leader for Program Development & Support for Gifted Learners by the College of William and Mary (2011). She is the 2015 Virginia Association for the Gifted Leader of the Year. She presents on gifted education, curriculum, differentiation, and related topics at the state and national levels in addition to serving as a consultant to school divisions outside Virginia Beach focusing on curriculum, instruction, and leadership for differentiation.
Marcia B. Imbeau, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where she teaches graduate courses in childhood education and gifted education. She has been actively involved in university and public school partnerships, working regularly with her interns and their mentor teachers as a university liaison and teaching courses in curriculum development, differentiation, classroom management, and action research. The new Common Core Standards are an embedded feature of her work regarding differentiation, curriculum development and classroom management. She has been recognized for her teaching and was awarded the College of Education and Health Professions Outstanding Teaching Award in 2000 and 2003. Marcia has taught in general education classrooms, programs for students identified as gifted and talented and university-based enrichment programs for advanced learners. Among her publications are Differentiating Instruction in the Inclusive Classroom (with Barbara Gartin, Nikki Murdick, Darlene Perner), A Differentiated Approach to Common Core (with Carol Tomlinson), Parallel Curriculum Units K-5 (editor), Managing a differentiated classroom: K-8 (with Carol Tomlinson), Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom (with Carol Tomlinson).
Laurie A. Thiesfeld, is a teacher at the Edward E. Brickell Academy for Advanced Academics and Arts at Old Donation School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is a 34 year veteran teacher with experience in teaching mathematics at the middle and high school levels. She began her teaching career at Westside Public School in Omaha, Nebraska where she co-authored the district assessments and coordinated a math competency program for graduation requirements. Mrs. Thiesfeld has taught 15 years in Virginia Beach Public Schools. In 2013 she was awarded the Kemps Landing Teacher of the Year at the gifted magnet school. This year Laurie received the Gifted Teacher of the Year for Virginia Beach Public Schools and the Region II Gifted Teacher of the Year award. She currently serves as the math department chair and coordinates the tutoring services for the building.
Jenny Sue Flannagan is an associate professor and the director for the Martinson Center for Mathematics and Science at Regent University. Prior to coming on full-time at Regent, Jenny Sue was an adjunct in the Interdisciplinary Study Program for Regent’s Undergraduate Studies and was the Elementary Science Coordinator for Virginia Beach City Public Schools where she developed curriculum and professional development programs for K-5 teachers. She also served as the Middle School Science Coordinator for the division and taught grades 6-12 in Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
