Highlights 2008
Opening Plenary Session
Thursday, July 17, 5 p.m.
Best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Project Zero, a research group at HGSE.
Read more about Howard Gardner
Plenary Session
Friday, July 18, 2 p.m.
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University. , she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education.
Read more about Linda Darling-Hammond
Closing Plenary
Saturday, July 19, 1:15 p.m.
Public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Special Event and Reception
Preparing Future Leaders: How Education Can Confront Global Challenges
Friday, July 18, 2008
5:15 p.m.–7 p.m.
Attend this exciting panel discussion on new vehicles for global problem-solving through education. Panelists include Clayton Lewis, head of the Washington International School, Washington, D.C., Jean-François Rischard, the economist and author from Paris, France and Caryn W. Stedman, AP Teacher at the the Metropolitan Learning Center Interdistrict Magnet School for Global & International Studies, Bloomfield, Connecticut.
Read more about this event and R.S.V.P. by June 23.
The Best of the Best of AP Studio Art
Exhibit Hall
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 16, 5–8 p.m.
Artworks by 30 AP Studio Art students will be on display in the Exhibit Hall during the conference. Selected from more than 25,000 portfolios that were submitted for evaluation for the three AP Studio Art Exams this year, the artworks represent the best of the best.
At the AP Exam Reading in early June 2008, college, university, and secondary school art instructors carefully review the portfolios using rigorous standards. Their evaluations enable colleges and universities to acknowledge and encourage students' accomplishments by granting appropriate college credit and placement.
This exhibition of accomplished work by AP Studio Art students features art executed in a variety of media. It represents extraordinary clarity of thought and a great diversity of content, style, and technique. The exhibition indicates the sophisticated level of achievement that students can attain while taking an AP course.
