Be our Special Guest at ECET2Lou
Elevating & Celebrating the Teaching & Teachers in JCPS
What is ECET2?
ECET2 (Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teaching and Teachers) is part of a teacher leadership movement throughout the country focused on collaboration between highly effective teachers and professionalizing the teacher profession. ECET2Lou is an invitation only event for classroom teachers and instructional coaches in Jefferson County Public Schools. The nomination process utilized the Kentucky Teacher Leadership Framework to create diverse group of attendees reflective of all facets of teacher leadership. Over 700 JCPS classroom practitioners and instructional coaches in all content areas and grade levels were nominated by peers, building level administrators, district leaders or the community. ECET2 seeks to realize a teacher’s potential by ensuring each convening aligns with its six key ingredients.
As of July 2016, there have been 5 national convenings, over 150 regional convenings
in 35 host states, and over 25,000 teachers who have attended an ECET2 event.
In Kentucky, there have been 4 state and 13 regional and district convenings
with over 2,000 teachers attending since January 2014.
JCPSForward is proud to bring the movement to Jefferson County Public Schools.
Be Our Guest
When and Where is ECET2Lou?
ECET2Lou will be held the weekend of February 24 & 25, 2017.
All events will be held at the Seelbach Hilton.
FRIDAY, FEB. 24
5:30 - Registration
6:00 - Keynote - Dr. Vicki Phillips
6:30-7:00 - Table discussions and break
7:00 - Evening sessions - choose one
- BreakoutEDU
- Screening of Most Likely to Succeed, provided by The Fund for Transforming Education in Kentucky
8:00-10:00 - Social Event, Rathskellar Lounge
- Hors d'oeuvres
- Cash Bar
SATURDAY, FEB. 25
8:00-9:00am - Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:30 - Welcome to ECET2Lou - Dr. Lisa Herring
9:30-9:45 - Break
9:45-10:45 - Breakout Sessions 1
- Networking 101
- I am a Leader
- Virtual Engagement
- Educational Influences
- Teacher Connection - Student Voice
10:50-11:10 - Cultivating a Calling 1 - Mary Kenzer, Fairdale High
11:10-11:55 - Colleague Circle 1
11:55-12:45 - Lunch
- Student Performance
- Cultivating a Calling 2 - Beau Baker, Fern Creek High
12:45-1:00 - Break
1:00-2:00 - Breakout Sessions 2
- Networking 201
- Strengths and Girls of Color
- Tenured Teacher Mentoring
- New Teacher Resources
- Goal Clarity Coaching Resources
2:00-2:10 - Break
2:10-3:10 - Breakout Sessions 3
- Networking 301/Blogging
- Authentic Assessments
- ESSA/EdPolicy
- Tech Ed Resouce Share
- Collective Voices follow up
3:15-3:45 - Colleague Circle 2
3:45-4:00 - Wrap Up, Next Steps and Door Prizes
Why ECET2Lou Stands Apart in Professional Opportunities
ECET2 events are planned by teachers, for teachers
Solutions oriented, small group discussions called “Colleague Circles” allow the teachers to have honest and meaningful discussions problems of practice with other teachers.
The convening agenda features workshops focused on pedagogy, teacher leadership, networking and issues and challenges specific to JCPS to support deeper learning in both students and educators.
Inspiring keynotes called “Cultivating a Calling” allow teachers to hear passionate and motivational stories of fellow educators.
“Why I Teach” and “Lightbulb Moment” booths allow attendees to share their passion through posting their thoughts on social media and learn how to implement these innovative, motivating initiatives in their schools.
Stronger professional learning communities are built and attendees can take these pedagogical ideas to take back to their schools to strengthen instructional practices and student instruction.
After Dr. Phillips' keynote, BreakoutEdu http://www.breakoutedu.com/ icebreaker sessions on Friday evening will be followed by a social in the famous Seelbach Rathskeller Lounge.
KY's Own Dr. Vicki Phillips to Highlight Friday Night Events
Dr. Vicki Phillips currently serves as an Education Strategist, working with organizations and ed-tech companies devoted to the engagement and professional learning of teachers – i.e., designing high quality, innovative professional development, ensuring teachers have the opportunity to learn from the experts they trust most – other teachers – and developing connected communities of teachers as well as companies and organizations focused on the enabling conditions that advance teacher learning and effective school and district leadership, both nationally (e.g., Teaching Partners, SchoolxDesign) and internationally.
Phillips most recently served as Director of Education, College Ready, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At the Foundation, she led the work to ensure U.S. high school students graduate ready to succeed in college, career and community and to improve the effectiveness of teachers by increasing their access to quality instructional tools and supports, actionable meaningful feedback and the expertise of their colleagues. In addition, Phillips and her team sought to advance tech-enabled education innovations, including new school designs focused on personalizing learning for students, and to create a more open and robust education market.
Phillips has built a strong education reform record throughout her career, at all levels – from neighborhood schools to the federal government. For nearly three decades, she has endeavored to improve education – as a teacher, state-level policymaker, leader of a nonprofit education foundation, superintendent of a large urban school district and for nearly a decade as the director of education for the world’s largest foundation.
Prior to joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she was superintendent of Portland Public Schools in Portland, Oregon. Earlier, Phillips served as Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s appointed secretary of education/chief state school officer and as superintendent in the Schools District of Lancaster, PA. She previously served at the state level in her home state of Kentucky, helping to implement the sweeping changes demanded by the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990. Phillips has worked with the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and has been a middle and high school teacher.
Born in Kentucky and raised on a small farm, Phillips was the first in her family to go to college, and earned first a bachelor's degree in elementary and special education and a master's degree in school psychology from Western Kentucky University. She holds a doctorate in international leadership and management from the University of Lincoln in England, and served as a founding member of the governing council for England’s National College for School Leadership. Phillips also holds three honorary doctorates and currently serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
ECET2 in Action - highlights of ECET2KY (January 2015)
What Teachers Across Kentucky are Saying about ECET2
ECET2 has brought me out of my cocoon and allowed me to fly. Behind the scenes and the set-up was a building of energy and camaraderie. --- Robin Burr, Berea Independent
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ECET2 was and continues to be my gateway drug to teacher leadership, and the larger Kentucky teacher network. The energy and positive solutions-oriented atmosphere was career changing for me, realizing that I was not alone. --- Carly Baldwin, Boyd County
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ECET2KY opened my eyes to another world of education beyond the hills of Eastern Kentucky. My PLN grew tremendously and now I have other educators across the state to call on when I have questions or need to bounce ideas off of. --- Latonya Rowe, Johnson County
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ECET2 helps passionate, engaged teachers find their tribe. These teachers can often feel like outliers in their schools, but being together with like-minded teachers for a day can provide them with inspiration and a network that can support them throughout their school year. --- David Grossman, Elizabethtown Independent
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ECET2 introduced me to the niche between the classroom and administration known as Teacher Leadership. There's a whole world of support networks and collegiality that many teachers don't know exists. --- Stan Torzewski, Jefferson County
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ECET2KY provides teachers with opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals who can offer feedback and support to enhance their teaching practices. --- Jana Bryant, Daviess County
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ECET2 began with such mystery that I wasn't even sure what it meant. I quickly realized that for me it means love. A tribe of passionate educators who love their students, their profession and their colleagues. From my planning committee to many educators I have met at various ECET2 convenings, I feel like I have a family that I never was able to find my first ten years of teaching. Thank you ECET2 for inspiring us all! :) --- Kip Hottman, Jefferson County
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ECET2KY has given me a voice. It lets me know that I matter and has provided me with a tribe. --- Lyndsay Nottingham, Boone County
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Open any popular media site or newsfeed and the education profession is vilified at worst, polarized at best (there’s a reason some teachers avoid the faculty lounge). There are constant headlines chicken-littling the privatization of education or the sin of ‘running schools like a business,’ or the general ruination of childhood as we know it–all at the hands of Kentucky public servants like me. In the midst of a national wave of education reform, ECET2KY listened to the most powerful voices of education: teachers. The convening carved out dedicated time to gather fire-bringers and ignite a movement. And, while that fire starter state weekend gave me momentum to come back home and continue to fight the good fight–it also gave me the impetus, and more importantly, the capacity, to continue knowing, wanting, and doing what's best for the students of Kentucky. --- Missy Callaway, Jefferson County
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