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Get re-energized at the DI event of the year!

Take four days of energy, excitement and serious education, mix it with over 5,500 passionate and motivated professionals, more than 70 top differentiated
instruction speakers and practitioners and you have the 2009 National Conference on Differentiated Instruction. Make plans now to join fellow educators on July 19-22 in Las Vegas at the DI event of the year!

Secure your space today for this sell-out event … pick your sessions later!

Topics you’ll explore
Whether you're new to differentiated instruction, a seasoned practitioner looking to enhance your skills, or somewhere in-between, you’ll find new ideas, gain new tools, and discover new resources that will make a lasting impact on the way you teach. This conference is where you get to “practice DI while you're learning about it!” You’ll also find there is ample “networking time” to mingle and meet new people.

    • Differentiated Instruction: How They Work Together
      and Response to Intervention
    • Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom
    • Managing the Differentiated Classroom
    • Introduction to Differentiated Instruction
    • Technology
    • Content Specific Interventions
    • Brain-Based Learning
    • At-Risk Strategies for At-Risk Students
    • Motivating Your Reluctant Learners
    • Administrator Specific Sessions
    • Gender-Based Learning
    • Singapore Math
    • Strategies, Strategies, Strategies
    • Plus many, many more – over 270 sessions
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    The best is yet to come, so stay tuned!

Experts you’ll meet

Come and join the nation’s top DI experts in one of the greatest cities for entertainment in the world, and return home refreshed, invigorated and emboldened to take the new school year by storm.

    • Rick Wormeli (a perennial crowd pleaser)
    • Charles Beaman, Ed.D.
    • Danny Brassell, Ph.D.
    • Jim Grant
    • Betty Hollas
    • Pat Wolfe, Ed.D. (expert on the brain and learning)
    • Marcia Tate, Ed.D. (author of the popular “Dendrites” series)
    • Char Forsten
    • Cristal McGill, Ph.D.
    • Cheryl Sigmon
    • Dr. Maggie Allen

Big lights, big city

Right in the heart of the Vegas Strip is where you’ll find the
newly transformed Riviera Hotel and Casino, the host for this
premier DI event. With breathtaking views, well-appointed rooms,
on-site convention center, and world-class amenities, the Riviera
truly offers an extraordinary experience.

For administrators only!

Take your place among the industry’s best by making yourself a part of the 2009 Differentiated Instruction Administrator Summit on July 18, the only high-level meeting on DI and leadership created exclusively for principals and administrators. Come meet Michael Fullan—celebrated author, speaker, and world-renowned leader on educational change! Participation in the Summit is limited to attendees of the National DI conference.