{"id":66,"date":"2012-03-10T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogsksbeedu.wpenginepowered.com\/naisconference\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-03-10T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T09:46:22","slug":"nais-conference-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIS Conference Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Conference Summary<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovation\u201d was the theme of the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference in Seattle last week and I was not disappointed.\u00a0 From top-notch general sessions speakers like Microsoft philanthropist Bill Gates to \u201cTiger Mom\u201d Amy Chua and slam poet Sarah Kay, to presentations by inspirational educators like World Peace Game inventor and teacher John Hunter (who received a standing ovation), conference participants were the grateful recipients of ideas and insights that, hopefully, will help us to introduce new ways of thinking and innovations that will ultimately improve our own schools.<\/p>\n<p>Distilling the abundance of information that I downloaded into my brain in two intense days has taken awhile.\u00a0 I am glad that I took lots of notes because it has helped me to reflect on what I learned and to determine which take-aways I can best use in my capacity in the Admissions Division, but also as part of the Strategic Planning Council.\u00a0 I am encouraged and inspired by this experience to champion and pursue ideas that could be paradigm-shifting or even visionary for KS, and not to be satisfied with the status quo when we can be so much more, even if the dream seems impossible or is not shared by leadership at a particularly point in time.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the general session presentations by the four speakers already mentioned, we also heard presentations by Stephen Carter, a Yale Law Professor and Cheryl Crazy Bull \u2013 on the Board of Directors for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.\u00a0 Also sharing remarks in the general session was Patrick Barrett, NAIS President. \u00a0In addition, dozens of break-out workshops were offered. \u00a0I will share my thoughts on those in a separate post.<\/p>\n<p>I am incredibly grateful for having had this experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference Summary \u201cInnovation\u201d was the theme of the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference in Seattle last week and I was not disappointed.\u00a0 From top-notch general sessions speakers like Microsoft philanthropist Bill Gates to \u201cTiger Mom\u201d Amy Chua and slam poet Sarah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NAIS Conference Summary - 2012 NAIS Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAIS Conference Summary - 2012 NAIS Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Conference Summary \u201cInnovation\u201d was the theme of the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference in Seattle last week and I was not disappointed.\u00a0 From top-notch general sessions speakers like Microsoft philanthropist Bill Gates to \u201cTiger Mom\u201d Amy Chua and slam poet Sarah &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"2012 NAIS Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-03-10T09:46:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"pufernan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"pufernan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/\",\"name\":\"NAIS Conference Summary - 2012 NAIS Conference\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-10T09:46:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#\/schema\/person\/479a77937464f5ae0e97c134ec21f7e8\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NAIS Conference Summary\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/\",\"name\":\"2012 NAIS Conference\",\"description\":\"Just another blogs.ksbe.edu site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#\/schema\/person\/479a77937464f5ae0e97c134ec21f7e8\",\"name\":\"pufernan\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/319b96f65e5755c702556318e5be51e4304b38186fa71c6b0d48339a8e17a8a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/319b96f65e5755c702556318e5be51e4304b38186fa71c6b0d48339a8e17a8a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"pufernan\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/author\/pufernan\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NAIS Conference Summary - 2012 NAIS Conference","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NAIS Conference Summary - 2012 NAIS Conference","og_description":"Conference Summary \u201cInnovation\u201d was the theme of the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference in Seattle last week and I was not disappointed.\u00a0 From top-notch general sessions speakers like Microsoft philanthropist Bill Gates to \u201cTiger Mom\u201d Amy Chua and slam poet Sarah &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/","og_site_name":"2012 NAIS Conference","article_published_time":"2012-03-10T09:46:22+00:00","author":"pufernan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"pufernan","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/","name":"NAIS Conference Summary - 2012 NAIS Conference","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-03-10T09:46:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#\/schema\/person\/479a77937464f5ae0e97c134ec21f7e8"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/2012\/03\/10\/nais-conference-summary\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NAIS Conference Summary"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/","name":"2012 NAIS Conference","description":"Just another blogs.ksbe.edu site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#\/schema\/person\/479a77937464f5ae0e97c134ec21f7e8","name":"pufernan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/319b96f65e5755c702556318e5be51e4304b38186fa71c6b0d48339a8e17a8a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/319b96f65e5755c702556318e5be51e4304b38186fa71c6b0d48339a8e17a8a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"pufernan"},"url":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/author\/pufernan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/naisconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}