ACT Annual Conference 2006 Pictures

Keynoter Jackie Brooks, ACT President Alice Wakefield and Board Member Rheta DeVries congratulate Patricia Lins-E-Silva, Mary Ferraz, & Paula Castro, after their presentation about their constructivist school, Escola Parque, in Rio, Brazil.

Octavian and Doina Lecca, presenters from Montreal, chat with new board member Carolyn Hildebrandt.

The pre-conference program included observations at the Illinois Math and Science Academy.  Here team teachers pause to chat about the challenges and pleasures of teaching gifted high school students.

Yolanda Willis explains how Problem Based Learning leads to student understanding at Aurora East High School, Aurora, IL.

New board member Kate Chechak shows us how her fourth graders at The School at Columbia University wrote poems as lyrics, set those words to music and brought it all together using a computer program called Garage Band.

Laurie Cavey reports on how constructivist theory informs the practice of teacher education in math, science, and social studies across the K-12 spectrum at James Madison University.

Looking over the ramps and pathways hands-on exhibit sponsored by Regents’ Center for Early Developmental Education at the University of Northern Iowa.

Board members Cal Schlick and Carolyn Hildebrandt try out the ramps and pathways.

Board members Rheta DeVries and Connie Kamii catch up before the ACT Board Meeting on Thursday night.

Rheta DeVries is drumming up business for the lunch-time discussion about Constructivist Moral Education.

Richard Messina and Benjamin Peebles share data from recent studies at The Institute of Child Study Laboratory School (University of Toronto) to support the belief that real accountability in education compels educators to examine their role in the classroom and to define a brave new curriculum, one that engages the body, mind, emotions and the spirit of each child.