Friday June 18: 5:00-9:00PM Reception, dinner and brief agenda-setting talks/presentations

Chair: Sheldon White - Harvard University

Introductory Remarks from NSF --- What Are the Hard Questions?

Yaneer Bar-Yam - NECSI --- What Complex Systems Concepts Are Needed in Education? (15 min)

Jim Kaput - UMass --- Massive Educational Innovation: Challenges & Opportunities (15 min)

Uri Wilensky --- Developing a Modeling Mindset (15 min)

Jay Lemke, Terrence Deacon, --- Complex Systems implications for Educational Innovation and Design

Brief (2-4 minute) images from projects

Discussion of Working Group Structure and Outcomes

After 9:00PM - Playing with project toys, viewing videos

Saturday June 18: 8:00AM-5:30PM

Chair: Sheldon White - Harvard University

Charge to the Discussion Groups: Jim Kaput and Sheldon White

Discussion Group I: Research issues---Teaching, learning, cognition & classrooms

Discussion Group II: Research issues---Complex systems content: What should be in the core & how should a "core" be defined?

Discussion Group III: Research issues---Implementing deep, systemic education innovation

Discussion Group IV: Framing a national initiative, programs & policy (late Saturday)

Reports from Discussion Groups (30 min.)

Lunch (1 hr)

Repeat Discussion Groups (movement among groups allowed) (3 hours)

Reports from Discussion Groups (30 min.)

Writing and collating written reports through the evening for distribution before breakfast Sun.

Sunday June 19: 8AM-Noon:

Report from Discussion Group IV

Discussion of Draft Documents from Groups I-III

Design of the Public Conference

Assignments for follow-up work

The meeting will produce an outline document entitled: Agenda for a National Initiative on Complex Systems in K-16 education, that will be the basis for the follow-up concept papers as well as the follow-up conference. The concept papers will be widely distributed both in print and on the WWW via a site that will also point to relevant sites around the world.

Confirmed participants:

1. Yaneer Bar-Yam - NECSI
2. Liz Bradley - Univ of Colorado
3. John Cerniavsky - NSF
4. John Choate - Groton School
5. Jack Cohen - University of Warwick
6. Jere Confrey - UT Austin
7. Terrence Deacon - BU
8. Andy diSessa - Berkeley
9. Helen Doerr - Syracuse
10. Michael Eisenberg - U. of Colorado
11. Josh Epstein - Brookings
12. Wally Feurzeig - BBN
13. Paul Horwitz - Concord Consortium
14. Beverly Hunter - BC
15. Michael Jacobson - U. Georgia
16. Atlee Jackson - University of Illinois
17. Eric Jakobsson - NCSA
18. Jay Jaroslav - NECSI
19. Jim Kaput - UMass Dartmouth
20. Eamonn Kelley - NSF
21. Joe Krajcik - U of MI & NARST
22. Jay Lemke - CUNY
23. Roger Lewin & Birute Regine - Harvard
24. Dick Lesh - Purdue
25. Gottfried Mayer-Kress - Penn State University
26. David Meyer - UCSD
27. Ricardo Nemirovsky - TERC
28. Otto-Heinz Peitgen - Florida Atlantic University
29. Mitch Resnick - MIT
30. Alex Repenning - Colorado
31. George Richardson - SUNY Albany
32. Nancy Roberts - Lesley
33. Nora Sabelli - NSF
34. Judah Schwartz - Harvard
35. Eliott Soloway - U. Michigan
36. Bob Tinker - Concord Consortium
37. Sheldon White - Harvard
38. Uri Wilensky - Tufts