The pic is of Stacy Scott, his website is at http://www.makingstandardswork.com/aboutus/stacy_scott.htm

I was sleepy headed as I ate breakfast amongst a cafeteria full of teachers, and pretty much kept to myself, drank coffee, and ate the sausage and eggs they served us. The science teachers all had their own meetings from 8:30 till 9:30, so I just hid out in the computer lab.
As I arrived to the seminar, I was glad to see my friend Paul, who is the writing teacher at our school. We sat together, in the kindergarten sized classroom and set our coffees on the shin sized tables. Our presenter had his mini projector set up pointing at some white poster sized papers stuck to an inflatable bed, and as people began to filter in the ambient noise got louder and louder.
Shortly from then we began.
Our lecturer, a Ph.D, began the introduction and had a series of his slides printed in miniature for each of us, so we wouldn't have to copy notes. His lecture was titled "MakingEquityWork" (in the classroom) and as we all focused on ways we could narrow our students' achievement gap, we were also learning some rather interesting teacher related skills to create a learning oriented classroom versus a performance oriented classroom. I was surprised to learn how much influence a teacher has on their students' performance by subtle (or not so subtle) techniques.
It was an interesting talk, because we introduced stereotyping and other low expectations as performance blocking problems that often crop up. We spoke of the importance of early intervention in a childs learning, and ways that culture is defined.
We defined our school culture as being a top-down system, going from superintendents to principals, to teachers, to teachers aids and to students. We spoke of roles that we play in the instution of education. And it was a good day. I should be saying more, I'm just tired right now.
I haven't been able to call home, the phone has been a little funny, I'll go try again.