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
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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 |
- 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

“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.” |



