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If you have any trouble finding us, please call Dave Goldberg at 217-621-2645

Program Schedule
Check-In & Welcome
University Center
Asa Packer Dining Room, 3rd Floor

29 Trembley Drive

Bethlehem, PA 18015
Morning Sessions

Iacocca Hall
(Mountaintop Campus)

111 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Afternoon Sessions

Building C
(Mountaintop Campus)

113 Research Drive

Bethlehem, PA 18015

Wednesday Evening (Welcome & Kickoff)

**Note: Welcome session is located at the Lehigh University Center, Asa Packer Dining Room, 3rd Floor

  • 5:45-6:30pm Shuttle vans leave for Lehigh University Center from Comfort Suites (or walk 10-15 minutes)
  • 6:00pm Check-in & heavy hors d’oeuvres & drinks (beer, wine & soft drinks)
  • 7:00pm Welcoming UnCeremony
  • 7:10pm The Power of Duos: Explore key questions, key themes, key practices & exemplars in pairs, tables, and the whole room
    • Facilitated by Catelijne Coopmans + Kurt Patterson
  • 8:45pm Break for delicious desserts, coffee & tea
  • 9:15pm Debrief & setting sail
  • 10:00pm Shuttles return to Comfort Suites
Thursday (Vision, Essential Theory & Individual Practices)

**Note: Morning sessions are at Iacocca Hall, Mountaintop Campus

  • 7:00-8:00am Shuttle vans leaving for Iacocca Hall from Comfort Suites
  • 8:00-8:20am Welcome from BB & Mountaintop: Pat Farrell (Provost), Dave G (BB), Khanjan M (MT)
  • 8:20-8:30am Propose OpenSpace Activities
  • 8:30-10:00am Plenary Active Experience I: Kate Goodman, CU Denver:  The Transformative Experience in Higher Education
  • 10:00-10:30am Coffee Break
  • 10:30-11:30am Active Workshop I: Jeff Evans (Purdue) and Dave G (BB): 2 Ways to Deeper Listening: Music & NLQ
  • 11:30-12:30pm Active Workshop II: Mark Stephens (Penn State Medical): Teacher Identity Formation: UnMasking as Revelation
  • 12:30-1:15pm Lunch (Iacocca Hall)
  • 1:15-1:30pm Stroll to Bldg C-2, Mountaintop

**Note: All Afternoon sessions are in Building C-2 (shaped like an E), Mountaintop Campus

  • 1:30-2:15pm OpenSpace session I: 2-5 Topics emerge from dot voting in the morning.
  • 2:15-3:00pm OpenSpace Session 2: 2-5 Topics emerge from dot voting in the morning.
  • 3:00-3:30pm Coke Break
  • 3:30-4:30pm Mountaintop Engagement Activity, Khanjan Mehta & Bill Whitney
  • 4:30-5:15pm UNPOSTER Session Prepare
    Form groups of 2-4 & make impromptu poster using sticky flip charts, markers and magazine cutout pictures.
  • 5:15-6:15pm^ UNPOSTER Session Present
    Present your team’s poster and view other teams’ posters.  Post-its and markers used to identify cool ideas/practices.
  • 6:15-6:30pm Reflection & Day 1 Closing
  • 6:30pm Shuttle buses return to Comfort Suites.
  • 6:45pm Arrive Comfort Suites.
  • 6:45pm++ Self-organize for dinner at local restaurants
Friday (Practical, Business Models, Incentives, Ecosystems, Admin Buy-in)

**Note: Morning sessions are at Iacocca Hall, Mountaintop Campus

  • 7:00-8:00am Shuttle vans leaving for Iacocca Hall from Comfort Suites, morning sessions Iacocca Hall
  • 8:00am Emotional/Reflective  check in: One word or phrase  that summarizes overnight reflection
  • 8:15-8:30am Propose/Open Space Activities
  • 8:30-10:00am Plenary Active Experience 2, Mark Somerville, Olin College: Culture: The New Frontier for Educational Transformation
  • 10:00-10:30am Coffee Break
  • 10:30-11:30am Active Workshop I: Khanjan Mehta (Lehigh Mountaintop), From Experiences to Impacts
  • 11:30-12:30pm Active Workshop II: Dave Goldberg (BB) Change MisManagement: 4 Keys to Ineffective Educational Transformation
  • 12:30-1:15pm Delicious lunch spread
  • 1:15-1:30pm Stroll to Bldg C, Mountaintop

**Note: All Afternoon sessions are in Building C (shaped like an E), Mountaintop Campus

  • 1:30-2:15pm OpenSpace session 3: 2-5 Topics emerge from dot voting in the morning.
  • 2:15-3:00pm OpenSpace Session 4: 2-5 Topics emerge from dot voting in the morning.
  • 3:00-3:30pm Afternoon Break
  • 3:30-5:00pm The Organization Formerly Known as Big Beacon: Toward a New Beginning: Brainstorming session around key needs: Branding, Scoping (Engineering only, higher ed only, K-20, all flavors) Distinctive ideas & practices, Services to members, Business models, key exemplars to learn from.
  • 5:00-5:30pm Inspirational Ending
  • 5:30pm Shuttle vans return to Comfort Suites.
  • 5:45pm Arrive Comfort Suites.
  • 5:45pm++ Return home or go to ASEE Conference
Plenary Experiences & Workshops
Leading with Fascination: Fostering Transformative Experiences

Thursday – 8:30am – 10:00am

Facilitator: Katherine A. Goodman (CU Denver)

Short description: Remember a moment when you were amazed by the connections between your discipline and the world around you. It’s likely that this transformative experience motivated you to pursue your work. We’ll explore strategies to enhance courses and make these types of experiences more likely for students.

2 Ways to Deeper Listening

Thursday – 10:30-11:30am

Facilitators: Jeff Evans (Purdue.edu) & Dave Goldberg (ThreeJoy.com & BigBeacon.org)

Short description: One of the key shift skills (don’t call them soft skills) is the practice of listening.  Listening is so commonplace that we scarcely give it any attention, but deepening our listening is one of the surest ways to improve our leadership, our collaboration, and our general effectiveness with others.  In this interactive workshop Dave Goldberg & Jeff Evans collaborate to help participants deepen their listening by combining methods drawn from the toolkits of professional musicianship and executive coaching.  In the first half, participants are asked to listen to rhythms and music.  In the second half, participants listen to each other at two different levels of awareness.  Participants are asked to reflect on the experiences and draw more general conclusions from both sets of experiences.

Teacher Identity Formation: UnMasking as Revelation

Thursday – 11:30am – 12:30pm

Facilitator: Mark Stephens (Penn State Hershey Medical Campus)

Short description: Teacher Identity Formation (TIF) is an ongoing, integrative process underlying faculty experiences in education as they learn to ‘think, act and feel’ like an educator. Since each teachers’ process of identity formation is an individual, internal, and emotionally charged unconscious experience, it can be difficult to understand each faculty member’s unique experience as they move from student-teacher to tenured faculty. Historically, reflective writing has received the most attention as a means of exploring identity formation processes and development.  We propose that mask-making is a form of reflective expression that can provide insight into TIF.  

4 Keys to Ineffective Educational Change: How to Botch Transformation Without Really Trying

Friday – 11:30am – 12:30pm

Facilitator: Dave Goldberg (ThreeJoy.com & BigBeacon.org)

Short description: Educational change leaders make 4 common errors that slow change and limit ultimate success. This short, interactive webinar gives practical strategies to both accelerate change and enhance the probability for effective and sustained success. Learn the 4 common mistakes of educational change efforts and how to overcome them.

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