Welcomes

Grant Wiggins
Co-Author of the Award-Winning
"Understanding by Design" Series
April 23-24, 2007

Join Houston A+ Challenge for our ongoing National Speaker Series, when Grant Wiggins will discuss:

• Why excellence in schooling requires a vigilant focus on learning for understanding -- not just teaching to the test.
  
  
• How all education reform is local. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
  
  
• How to motivate and challenge students through genuine intellectual purposes.
  
  
• Why education succeeds only if everyone in schools gets constant and powerful feedback -- and is obligated to seek and consider it.

Grant Wiggins will present this free lecture, which is open to the public:

Monday, April 23, 2007
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Hilton of the Americas
1600 Lamar, Houston, TX 77010 (map)
Register
Download a flyer (PDF)

The next day, Grant will lead a private, day-long workshop for New Visions in Leadership Academy participants, alumni and school teams.

Grant Wiggins is president of Authentic Education in Hopewell, New Jersey, and is perhaps best known as co-author, with Jay McTighe, of Understanding by Design and The Understanding by Design Handbook, the award-winning and highly successful materials on curriculum.

Grant Wiggins consults with schools, districts and state education departments on a variety of reform matters; organizes conferences and workshops; and develops print materials and Web resources on curricular change. He earned his Ed.D. from Harvard University and his B. A. from St. John's College in Annapolis.