10:00 WELCOME. Katy Landless.

10:15 ­ 12:00 WHAT WE KNOW.

The MEAP and Standardized Tests:
Understanding The Impacts on Real Learning

MEAP Shreaks: The Experience of Teachers and Parents. Katy Landless, Facilitator

Leave No Child Untested: Federal and State Legislation
Nancy Creech and Dave Woodward

The Impact of Standardized Testing on Teaching, Learning,
The Culture of Schools, and the Mental Health of Children
Tanya Sharon and Michael Peterson

Why Standardized Testing Now? What is really up?
Greg Queen and Stacey Lindsay.

Students Speak: High School Perspectives on the MEAP and the Schools We Should Have but Don't.

12:00 ­ 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

12:30 ­ 1:15 WHAT WE NEED.

Group dialogue and sharing about schools our children need and deserve.

Facilitator: Bill Boyer and Katy Landless

1:15 ­ 3:00 WHAT TO DO. Action and Impact.

Facilitator: Greg Queen and Nancy Creech

Dialogue: What want to do? What has stopped you? What would help us and others to be able to take action?

Small groups devise plans and begin work to push back the MEAP, and bring forward effective learning.

• Demonstration. Tanya Sharon.
• April 27th High School Summit. Stacey Lindsey.
• Outreach strategies (write an Op Ed piece for newspapers, designing cards, bumper stickers, and more). Greg Queen and Bill Boyer.
• MEAP web-page. Michael Peterson

Small group report out.

NEXT STEPS.

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REFRESMENTS and light lunch provided by the Michigan Education Association (MEA).

DINNER at the Traffic Jam and Snug following the conference on Canfield and second avenue.

ALL are invited to Bill Boyer's Annual Groundhog Day Party. 7:00 PM to late.

929 Calumet, Detroit, Michigan 313-831-2585

Near Wayne State University, 3rd Street, South of Forest.

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A collaborative program of the

Whole Schooling ConsortiumRouge Forum