WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
WELCOME RECEPTION
5:30 pm - 7:30pm
Join us for our early evening opening reception poolside. Connect with colleagues and make new friends while the sun sets against the San Jacinto mountains. A perfect way to start the conference!
2011 BOOST ANNUAL OPENING RECEPTION HAT CONTEST
BOOST continues the tradition of our Annual Opening Reception so get ready to celebrate in style. Show up at the poolsite reception on Wednesday evening and show off! Ornate, glamorous headpieces, outrageous-themed head wear, fancy floral arrangements, sports-themed, program oriented or boast your company of agency flair!
Be entered into one of 3 different Hat Contest categories: Most Glamorous, Best Theme, and Most Creative.
April 27th is truly a day to celebrate in Palm Springs with colleagues from all over the country.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
CONFERENCE OPENING
8:45am
BOOST BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Join your colleagues in the Exhibit Hall for snacks, networking and lots of awesome raffle prizes! Mingle with Exhibitors and have the opportunity to learn about the latest resources, curriculum, and services to enhance your program.
VILLAGEFEST- STREET FAIR
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Locals and tourists happily mingle at the Palm Springs Villagefest held year round every Thursday evening on Palm Canyon Drive. An open-air street fair with more than 200 booths offering live music, fresh fruit stands, artists, craftsman, unique foods, and street entertainers to charm the crowd is a must for conference-goers. Admission is free and within walking distance from all of the BOOST conference hotels!
The Palm Springs Art Museum offers free public admission every Thursday evening from 4-8pm during downtown Villagefest! The Art Museum currently has 28 galleries, five art storage vaults, two sculpture gardens, four classrooms/resource centers, a 90-seat lecture hall, the 433-seat Annenberg Theater, a Museum Store and a Café in an architecturally significant building designed by architect E. Stewart Williams at the base of Mount San Jacinto. An adjacent Administration building contains offices and a 12,000-volume Library.
www.psmuseum.org
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
MORNING RECESS
7:30 am – 8:30 am
BOOST BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Join your colleagues in the Exhibit Hall for snacks, networking and lots of awesome raffle prizes! Mingle with Exhibitors and have the opportunity to learn about the latest resources, curriculum, and services to enhance your program.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
Called a "tiny literary giant" by Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, twelve-year-old Adora Svitak is the world's youngest teacher and the published author of two books. She explores new technologies and their possibilities in education through her teaching and speaking. Adora's daily video conferences with students from around the world have earned her Berrien RESA's "Best Author and Expert" award for distance learning two years in a row. Adora's books are Flying Fingers, an engaging how-to handbook on writing for teachers, parents, and kids from a student's point of view, and Dancing Fingers, a collection of poetry she co-authored with her sister Adrianna.
Adora teaches students every day and posts her teaching videos online for educators and students to watch and learn. She also works with school districts and schools to present to teachers on technology integration and best practices. Adora travels around the country, giving keynotes and featured speeches to share her kids' eye view of learning and teaching. Adora frequents national and international media outlets including NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and CNN to advocate for education innovation around the world. A prolific writer on education and education technology, Adora has written for EdTech Magazine and the New Oriental Magazine (China). A prodigious blogger, Adora writes frequent posts on 21st-century learning at The Educators' Royal Treatment, a blog dedicated to education. She was nominated in 2009 for the Edublogs Student Blog Award.
