Had a great day yesterday at CELL.  Heard some great discussion from the panel on Education Reform in Indiana with Dr. Tony Bennett-Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mark Gerstle-Vice President of Community Relations for Cummins Inc., Dr. Wendy Robinson-Superintendent of Fort Wayne Community Schools, and Nathan Schnellenberger-President of the Indiana State Teachers Association.  Lots of good ideas were presented, for those of you on Twitter you can see some of the better ones by following us on twitter (schlofinquiry) as we retweeted some of the best comments by the panel and by audience members.  The highlight for me was getting to meet Dr. Bennett after the panel discussion and share with him what we are doing with the School of Inquiry, and get a very positive response from him-more details to be released at the Marshall County Economic Development Corporation Community Conversation on Wednesday.

Today we get to hear from Will Richardson, the Chief Learning Officer of Powerful Learning Practice.  He will be speaking about learning in a networked world, so I am very excited to hear what he has to say to us.  Then after some morning sessions-I am attending ones on Schooling for the 21st Century:  Unleashing Student Passion with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach of Powerful Learning Practice and PBL Meets STEM which is lead by Michael Gorman the Technology Integration Professional Developer from Southwest Allen County Schools-we will get to hear from Charlotte Danielson, of the Danielson Group, on Assessing Teacher Effectiveness.