CCTNetwork2_3May2016

Critical and Creative Thinking Graduate Program

CCT Community Open House

Monday, May 2, and Tuesday, May 3, 2016
UMass Boston Campus Center or online, 4:00-9:30pm EST

• Monday: room 3540; Tuesday: room 2540

Open to the general public and CCT community.
Link for online participation by Google Hangout:
http://bit.ly/CCT2016May3
If the link above does not let you in, view the meeting streamed live in Youtube:
http://bit.ly/CCT2016May3live
( set up instructions).
Photos fromMonday near the end of this collection

Please join us for presentations from students completing coursework in the CCT program's Synthesis and Reflective Practice courses. Free and open to all, refreshments will be served. Students in the courses develop projects around a variety of topics, so this is a chance to see a range of the kinds of issues that are explored by students in the program.
(Students, alums, and prospective students are also welcome to "Open studios -- Visit CCT alums and instructors in their workplaces" on Monday 2 May 2016, 8.00-1.15; details, RSVP)

Monday

4:00 Social gathering
4:10 Sara Kaplan, Creating a Sustainable Secondary Academic Curriculum That Embraces and Encourages Learning Diversity (visual aid)
5:00 Anne Gladfelter, Becoming an After-School and Play Advocate (visual aid | audio recording)
5:50 Daniel Albert, Teaching Critical and Creative Thinking Skills Through Problem Solving in High School Math Classes (visual aid)
6:35 break
6:50 Jill Corson Lake, Sharing Wondrous Stories of this Place: A Garrison School Website for the Wider Community (visual aid | audio recording)
7:40 Kerri Arruda, Developing through CCT Studies my Ability as a Parent to take Action on Teenage Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (visual aid)
8:30 Kaylea Champion, Thinking Deeply, Creating Richly: Learner Transformation Through Narrative (youtube, one story (excerpt): )

Tuesday

4:00 Social gathering
4:40 Dustin Senger, 6 Steps To Participatory Passports For Digital Citizenry (visual aid)
5:30 David Rudewick, Empowering School Cultures
6.20 break
6.40 Amy McLaughlin-Hatch, Creativity and Art in a Facing History Classroom in a Holocaust and Human Behavior Curriculum (visual aid)
7:30 Sinem Mankir, A Reflection on My Thinking Journey (visual aid)
8:20 Myra McWethy, How I Turned a Really Rotten Incident into a Journey of Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Unexpected New Goals, and Joy! (visual aid)