Educator Registration Fee: $250; Parent Registration Fee: $275; Volume Discounts; Scholarships; CEU Info.

The Innovative Learning Conference

Presented by the Nueva Gifted Learning Conference Series

Conference Dates: October 20 – 21, 2011

You are invited to attend the 2011 Innovative Learning Conference, October 20 & 21, a two-day education conference held at the Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. Join internationally preeminent speakers and scholars in the fields of neuroscience, engineering, gaming, meeting the needs of all learners, integrated technology, education policy, parenting, and more, in more than 50 formal presentations, informative panels, and lively discussion groups that will address a broad range of topics related to the most compelling issues and effective strategies in innovative education today.

The ILC provides meaningful resources and inspiring direction for parents, teachers, and administrators, as well as continuing education credits for teachers and administrators. The conference will address a broad range of topics and innovative learning strategies developed for gifted and talented programs and broadly applicable for all learners and educators. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Conference topics include:

Cultivating Compassionate Individuals; including social-emotional learning, leadership, and resiliency
Design Thinking, Creativity, & Cognition
Embracing Technology & Gaming for Learning
Entrepreneurship & Education
Fostering Passion & Lifelong Learning; including teaching sensitive children, perfectionists, twice exceptional learners, profoundly gifted learners
Innovative Teaching & Integrated Curricula; mathematics, writing, acceleration, and differentiation in the classroom
Neuroscience & Education
Parenting & Education Policy

Some of Our Featured Speakers

Richard Shankman

Richard Shankman, M.A., is a co-founder of Mindful Schools. He has practiced mindfulness for more than forty years, and for the past twenty years has taught mindfulness to people of all ages, including elementary school children, and in prisons, jails, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation cent... Read More

John Thomas West

John Thomas West, M.Ed., M.A., accepted the position of headmaster at Mirman School for Highly Gifted Children after 27 years of teaching and administrative experience at Harvard and Harvard-Westlake schools in Los Angeles, He holds a B.A. in psychology from Macalester College in Saint Paul, M... Read More

John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown, Ph.D., is the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, visiting scholar and advisor to the provost (USC), and researcher in the fields of digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning. He formerly served as the chief ... Read More

Read about all of our speakers.

Thanks to Our Sponsors

Thank you to our generous sponsors for supporting the Innovative Learning Conference!’

Who Should Attend?

PK-12 Teachers, Parents, Homeschoolers
Superintendents, Principals, School Heads
Curriculum and Staff Developers
Educators of Gifted and Talented Students
Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Psychiatrists
Speech-Language Pathologists, Special Educators, Learning Specialists
Developmental Pediatricians and other Physicians
Researchers, Policy Makers

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“Thank you so much for creating this amazing, stimulating, and eye-opening day for our community and beyond. The speakers were an impressive group! I wish I could have attended every lecture.”
Louise Stroe, Parent