8:30-10:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
10:00-12:00 Introductions/Welcome/Keynote: Peter Senge: Educating for Systems Citizenship
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-5:00 Session I Workshops
• Introductory Systems Thinking (Based on The Shape of Change Books): Rob Quaden and Alan Ticotsky
• Systems Games from The Systems Thinking Playbook: Dennis Meadows and Linda Booth Sweeney (2 hours)
• Developing Teacher Leaders: Using Systems Tools in School-Based Action Research Projects: Tim Lucas
• Beginning System Dynamics Modeling: Diana Fisher
• The Commons: Sustainability and Systems Thinking: Jaimie Cloud
• Converting Simple SD Models Into Games: Dennis Meadows (1 hour)
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30 After-dinner reception: Chat with system dynamics teachers, including Jay Forrester, George Richardson, Dennis Meadows.

9:00-10:30 Keynote: Elaine Johnson: Brain-Based Learning. How does what we know about the brain inform us about students’ learning?
11:00-12:00 How do we integrate brain-based learning into teaching/utilizing systems thinking and system dynamics in the classroom and organization? Small group discussion.
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session II
• The Exponential Factor: Tip the Dynamics in Your Favor to Improve Schools: Tracy Benson
• Using The System Dynamics Process To Create Classroom Lessons: Diana Fisher
• Inquiring Minds Want To Know: Sheri Marlin
• Utilizing ST/SD to Bring Inductive Reasoning to Standardized Curricula (especially Biology): Steven Roderick
• Teaching Personal Finance Using System Dynamics: John Heinbokel, Jeff Potash
• Systems Thinking and the Internet: We’ve Only Just Begun!: Anne LaVigne, Mary Scheetz, Joan Yates
• A Case Study on International Collaboration with China: Rob Skiff, Piper Stover
3:30-5:00 Session III
• An Effective Planning Tool for English Composition Writing, First through Fifth Grades: Ng Kok Leong
• A Workshop in SD Notetaking Across the Curriculum: David Wheat
• Systems and Water Science Pilot Program for High School Students: Rudy Renya, Elizabeth Pate, Ben Jurewicz
• Designing Democratic Communities for Trust in Learning: Lisa Kensler
• Let NCLB=New Curricula Leverages Brainpower (through Systems Thinking): Andrea Davidson, Joan Yates
• Using the System Dynamics Process on News Articles in the Classroom: Hongyan Zhang
• Teaching Physics in High School Using a Semiquantitative Modeling Environment: Cristiane de Olivera, Fabio Sampaio
• Advanced System Dynamics Modeling (previous experience required): George Richardson
6:00 Pre-dinner gathering with Poster Session
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:00
• Showing of DVD ...that school in Tucson, a longitudinal study about systems thinking in the classroom.
• Interest group meetings

8:30-10:00 Session IV
• System Dynamics with Young Children, a View from the Netherlands: Jan Bisschops
• Collaborative Systems Modeling Teaching the Principles of Ecological Economics: Ida Kubiszewski, Roelof Boumans
• Informing Educational Policy Using System Dynamics: Ralph Brauer, John Heinbokel, Jeff Potash
• Cross-Culturally Exploring the Potential for Systems Thinking as an Instructional Foundation: Rob Quaden, Larry Weathers, Sami Kuo, Diana Hou
• The Value of Model-Based Simulators for Teaching ST Principles and Subject Matter with Dynamic Content: Gary Hirsch
• Systems Concepts and the Design of a Household or Classroom Marine Aquarium: Alice Squires
• Thinking about Systems: A research review of student and teacher conceptions of living systems: Linda Booth Sweeney
10:00-11:30 Keynote: George Richardson: On the Foundation of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics