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7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Mezzanine - 2nd Floor

7:30am EDT

BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

8:30am EDT

Keynote: Tom Barrett, Kathy Cassidy, Alec Couros, Catlin Tucker Imperial Ballroom

10:20am EDT

An entire PROFESSIONAL production studio in your pocket! REALLY! Statler - 2nd Floor Enabling Student Empowerment and Achievement - Google Apps and Hapara Teacher Dashboard St. James - 4th Floor (C Wing) Keynote Follow-up with Alec Couros Arlington - 2nd Floor Keynote Follow-up with Kathy Cassidy White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Online Learning and What Works for Kids in a Global Classroom Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Storyfinding Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) What makes learning great? A journey through provocative learning and planning student-owned curriculum topics Georgian - 2nd Floor Make the APPsolute Fit! Select the Right Mobile Device Apps to Include Learners with Special Needs Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Student Created Digital WIki-Textbook Terrace - Lower Lobby The U.S. Fund for UNICEF & Global Citizenship Berkeley - 2nd Floor Tweets for Family and Global Communication Clarendon - 2nd Floor Get Inspired! Three Ways to Increase Student Engagement - Lesson Capture, LMS’s and Virtual Fieldtrips Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing)

10:30am EDT

Read Books With Your Ears Plaza Ballroom Book Signing - Tom Barrett Mezzanine - 2nd Floor

11:00am EDT

CCSS Apps Plaza Ballroom

11:30am EDT

From Collector to Curator with Symbaloo Plaza Ballroom

11:45am EDT

Building Reading Communities using Subtext Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Global STEM Classroom Collaboration Technology and 21st century skills Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Keynote Follow up with Tom Barrett Arlington - 2nd Floor Keynote Follow-up with Catlin Tucker Terrace - Lower Lobby Sensing Science: Temperature Readiness for K-2 St. James - 4th Floor (C Wing) The Three Pillars of Web Literacy and the Common Core - Part Three: Using Twitter to Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Tiny Researchers: Creating Mindful Researchers in the Age of Common Core Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) At the Core of Research: Reflective Note-Taking Strategies for Grades 3-5 Using Various Tools(CC) Statler - 2nd Floor Flip with Precision: If the first step of the journey is the Flip, the second has to be Precision. Georgian - 2nd Floor The U.S. Fund for UNICEF & Global Citizenship Berkeley - 2nd Floor Twitter as a Class Building Tool Clarendon - 2nd Floor Awakening Your Creative Genius Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing)

12:00pm EDT

Better Feedback, Stronger Interactions and Faster Grading Plaza Ballroom

12:30pm EDT

10 Writing Tools to Improve Student Writing Plaza Ballroom

1:00pm EDT

A Culture Changing Professional Development Opportunity Plaza Ballroom

1:10pm EDT

Be a Fear Fighting Facilitator: How to Empower Teachers to Overcome Fear, Learn from Failure and Take Risks Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Building Your Common Core “Apptitude” Statler - 2nd Floor Common Core: Flip Instruction and Create a Student-Centered Classroom Terrace - Lower Lobby Do You Really Know Your Students? Flipping the Classroom to Increase Personalization. Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Managing Complex Change in Technology Integration through Harnessing the Inherent Influence of Building Leaders. Berkeley - 2nd Floor The First Five Days Georgian - 2nd Floor Design Thinking for School Improvement A *NEW* session from the NoTosh team for BLC13! Arlington - 2nd Floor Being Smart with Graphs St. James - 4th Floor (C Wing) How an actual revolution led to the creation of a democratic learning tool Clarendon - 2nd Floor

2:35pm EDT

Reflection and Next Steps Imperial Ballroom