July 28, 2004

Carol Ann Dahlberg (Concordia College - Moorhead, MN [retired])
Participants define their personal goals for the institute.
Helena Curtain (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) introduces a partner activity in which participants interview two others. Interview questions include where they are from, what their teaching background is, something not on their résumé, and if they were not here, where they would most like to be.
Mónica Floyd stands as she is being introduced to the group by her partner in the activity.
Ines Lormand introduces Fadia Hamid and reports they both had connections with Cairo, Egypt.
Carol Ann Dahlberg and Helena Curtain take tools out of the "curriclum toolbox."
 
Helena Curtain identifies one of the tools from the toolbox.
Small working groups report the name they have given themselves and the reasons for that name as they prepare to work with Grant Wiggins' and Jay McTighe's book, Understanding by Design.
Ines Lormand, Helena Curtain, and Linda Froehlich.
Mary Elizabeth Dunsky (University City, MO) listens to the presenters while Irma Torres (Farmington Hills, MI) takes notes on her laptop.
Jessica Haxhi, Japanese Children's Demonstration Class Teacher (Maloney Magnet School, CT) describes for institute participants how she has organized the thematic unit she is teaching in the demonstration class and why.
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