Cobb County teachers, paraprofessionals, and instructional staff are invited to participate in Cobb’s third annual Teachers Leading Cobb summer conference, held on June 12 and 13 (8:00-3:30) at Lovinggood MS and Hillgrove HS. The conference will showcase many of Cobb’s exemplary practitioners and provide quality learning time with national-level educational consultants and authors! Over 160 concurrent sessions will offer a variety of content-related topics developed to advance teacher effectiveness and improve student performance. KEY INFORMATION:

1. All participants who complete the full, two-day conference are eligible to earn one PLU and a $150 stipend.

2. Online registration is open May 6 through June 3.

3. Please follow the Registration Directions on the following page. Note: If a

session is full and you are placed on a “Wait List”, you should select an alternative session to attend. We will NOT use the wait list process for the conference.

4. You will find it helpful to print and review this Conference Program before

you register on the CCSD Academic Portal.

5. Once you have completed your online registration, please PRINT your Course Schedule and bring it with you to the conference.

6. You will receive a Conference Session Guide with room locations upon arrival at Lovinggood MS and Hillgrove HS.

REGISTRATION is May 6 through June 3

Registration Directions Log in to the Academic Portal Select: Professional Learning > Staff > Course Catalog Select: NON-CREDIT WORKSHOPS *All concurrent sessions are listed as “TLC3”, followed by the alphabetized Session Time. For example: “TLC3A1” represents the first workshop offered in Session A time slot (8:30-9:45) on June 12. Select single sessions, double sessions, or a combination of both to design your full-day schedule (8:30-3:30) for each of the two days of the conference.

*Use the Conference Program and the chart below to make your selections BEFORE registering online in PLS.

*If a session is full and you are placed on a “Wait List”, you must select an alternative session to attend. We will NOT use the wait list process for the conference.

VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE PRINT YOUR SCHEDULE! Immediately after registering for your last workshop session:

1. Point to STAFF (on left menu) 2. Select “Course Schedule” to PRINT your list of scheduled sessions.

It is extremely important that you bring your schedule with you on June 12 & 13, as it will serve as your reminder of registered sessions for each day.

June 12 - Wednesday June 13 - Thursday

Time Session Make a selection Time Session Make a

selection

8:30 - 9:45 Session A 8:30 - 9:45 Session E

8:30 - 11:15 Session AB 8:30 – 11:15 Session EF

10:00 – 11:15 Session B 10:00 – 11:15 Session F

12:45- 2:00 Session C 12:45 – 2:00 Session G

12:45 - 3:30 Session CD 12:45 - 3:30 Session GH

2:15 – 3:30 Session D 2:15 – 3:30 Session H

June 12, Wednesday Session A – 8:30-9:45 Construction Zone (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3A1 - #WS130255 Leila Barber & Lisa Portland Participants will work collaboratively to design constructed response questions, learn strategies to assist student writers approach to writing responses and analyze student work samples with a rubric. Critical Reading and Writing in Social Studies (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3A2 - #WS130256 Rhonda Webb This session will focus on effective strategies for the High School (and possibly Middle School...) Social Studies Classroom. Teacher Take Aways will be provided. The following topics will be discussed: * Note-Taking that promotes critical reading instead of copying text * Document Analysis (strategies for all level students) * Social Studies programs to infuse throughout the year (DBQ Project and CHOICES) * Teaching students to construct a well written essay ..... and how to grade it

D.R.A.W.ing in Math Class (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3A3 - #WS130257 Anthony Coley

Where would you expect to see students discussing math topics with passion? History class? NOOO. Where would you expect to see students reading and citing text evidence in their writing? ELA class? Science class? NOOOO!!! How about MATH Class? In this session, we will show you what we have done to embrace Common Core content literacy standards in our Math classes. We will show you ways to inspire your students to discuss, read, and write on Math topics using the language of the standards while staying current with our pacing. Students get to see real-world application of the math concepts they are learning on a weekly basis!

Edmodo--I know what it is; now how do I use it? (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3A4 - #WS130258

Jamie Pearson You've heard of Edmodo; you've seen what it can do; and now you're ready to learn how to use it! Bring your laptop to this interactive session to learn Edmodo basics and how to get started. Leave this session empowered to begin using Edmodo on the first day of school! Engaging Students with "Fly-Swatter" Science. (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3A5 - #WS130259 Peter Choi & Cheryl Coleman Come and see this fun vocabulary review using the "fly Swatter" Science activity Learn how to create and integrate a simple, fun, and effective content review game for your science class.

English Learners’ Acquisition of Academic Language to Obtain Reading Comprehension Skills (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3A6 - #WS130260

Mishka Barnes Within the last decade, a large number of English Learners (ELs) have enrolled in the American school system. Classroom teachers need to utilize different strategies to teach these students how to read. Many ELs have not acquired the academic language needed to become successful and proficient readers in the classroom. This presentation will provide and discuss helpful instructional strategies to help ELs gain academic language in a classroom setting. EPIC Teaching & Engaging Emotional Intelligence (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3A7 - #WS130261 Dr. Tim Elmore NATIONAL PRESENTER: Dr. Tim Elmore, national presenter and author of Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future, will present a session reflecting his definition of EPIC teaching and engaging emotional intelligence . Dr. Elmore has visited Cobb County to speak to principals and teachers who have embraced the philosophy behind teaching Generation iY. Join this empowering session to discover ways to actively incorporate engaging strategies and technology in your classroom with the iY generation of learners. Literacy and Science: A Natural Fit (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3A8 - #WS130262 Kelly Jones Many of the skills that are critical for growing strong readers and writers are also core skills in the study of science. If you find it challenging to "teach it all", this workshop is for you! You will take away some strategies for including science literature as a component to your reading and writing workshops. Literacy Now: Quick Literacy Skills for ANY Classroom (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3A9 - #WS130263 Ashlie Wells Reading isn't just for English class anymore. Literacy Now will provide teachers from ANY content with several quick and engaging literacy strategies to help implement curriculum and the Common Core. Let's help our students become life-long learners by engaging them in our content with rigor and relevance.

Promoting Student Efficacy (Grade Levels: 4-12) TLC3A10 - #WS130264 Rhonda Lokey & Patricia Jackson

Students need to become more responsible for their own learning. This session promotes the use of three instructional tools: commentary, co-constructing criteria and conferencing as strategies to support students in this gradual release of responsibility. When students are involved in the assessment of their learning it becomes part of their academic growth.

Repeat After Me--Data is My Friend (Grade Levels: 2-8) TLC3A11 - #WS130265 Karen Stargel & Jenni Mould

This session will give teachers additional guidance on how to take meaningful data on goals and objectives as well as giving them additional data spreadsheets. Easy ways to collect data;so, data doesn't consume their life. Work smarter not harder; yet, collect meaningful data.

Revenge of the "Common Core".... Strategies for ALL to Survive (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3A12 - #WS130266

Rockette Ates & Sheri Miller Participants will be able to receive and gain knowledge of the most effective reading and writing strategies to implement in a common core classroom. Participants will also take part in hands-on literacy strategies and receive a tool-box to implement with a variety of diverse learners.

Teaching Economics and Financial Literacy Through Kids Lit (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3A13 - #WS130267

Amy Hennessey Learn new strategies for embedding the economic understandings in the GPS for grades K-5. Teachers will participate in a few lesson demonstrations. Online and print materials will be shared. Leave with free classroom ready resources and disposable workbooks from the Federal Reserve System.

Teaching Evolution with Human Examples (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3A14 - #WS130268

Wes McCoy We will use materials currently being developed to investigate evolutionary biology using examples of evolution within human species. Together Everyone Achieves More: Media Specialists, Teachers, and Research (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3A15 - #WS130269 Jennifer Hogan & Erin Thaler This session will give you a practical approach for working as a team – teacher and media specialist – to create a common core-based research project. The roles of the teacher and the media specialist will be highlighted as well as how this can be done in any subject area.

We’re Engaged! Uniting Content Standards and Real-World Experiences through Technology

(Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3A16 - #WS130270 Gail Hendrix Engage students in 8th grade science, 8th grade Language Arts, 7th grade Math, 7th grade Social Studies, and 6th grade Language Arts with challenging products integrating technology with Common Core Standards. Programs used include Windows Movie Maker, Photo Story, Power Point, Microsoft Publisher (units will work with Apple software also). Web tools include Roller Coaster Ride Builder, Voki, Animoto, GoAnimate, and Scratch. Participants will receive overviews (and plans) of these collaborative units between the Media Specialist and subject area teachers.

What's My Line? (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3A17 - #WS130271 Sherry Martin

Number lines are a prevalent tool used as a visual model throughout the Common Core Math Standards. Number lines are found in multiple domains at every grade level. Come and journey with us as we trace the number line through the Common Core and see how it builds from one grade level to the next.

Session AB – 8:30-11:15 Get More Bang for Your Book: Great Children's Literature That Works for Social Studies and ELA (Grade Levels: K-2) TLC3AB1 - #WS130272

JoAnn Wood Join us as we explore great children's literature that multitasks well across the curriculum. We will read, write, listen, and talk in this hands-on, books open workshop. You will definitely add new book titles to your list of favorites as well as expand your options for how to use these titles to build mastery in both Social Studies and ELA! History is for Real! Make It Come Alive With Primary Source Documents (Grades 3-5) (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3AB2 - #WS130273 Eileen Jedlicka & Connie Perry Come work with us in learning how to connect 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Social Studies Standards with the new ELA Common Core. Acquainting students with the use of primary source documents will enable them to analyze history, interpret historical events, and humanize our nation's story so it is not solely dates and cold facts.

Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3AB3 - #WS130274 Donna Denton

PEARSON TEXTBOOK PRESENTER: Examine the components, games, online technology as well as a curriculum unit of the Investigations Series produced by Pearson New BiologyTeacher Workshop (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3AB4 - #WS130275 Portia Gayle Learn fun and practical ways to help your students succeed and become intrinsically motivated in your lessons. Instructional Framework. Essential Labs. Classroom Mangement. Smartbooard. BYOT.

One Book, Three Genres (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3AB5 - #WS130276 Diana Gobbi

If the CCGPS focus on all genres every nine weeks, how do I fit it all in? If that is something you are wondering, then this is the session for you! Discover how one read aloud book can be used to inspire research as well as reading and writing connections in all genres. Particpants will have the opportunity to review multiple texts and use them to create lesson ideas for the fall.

Pictures, Numbers, and Words, OH MY! ! A Guide to Constructed Responses (Grade Levels: 2-5) TLC3AB6 - #WS130277

Brittney Meehan & Holly Kirkpatrick Teachers will utilize and understand the concept of using a KWL chart to organize math workshop and constructed responses. This tool will drive the instruction of the lesson using pictures, numbers and words to prove the students mathematical reasoning.

Revving Up Rigor: Fueling Comprehension Across the Curriculum Through Literacy and Rigor

(Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3AB7 - #WS130278 Marikaye Travis & Ashley Morris This session will fuel participants with powerful uses of informational text, as well as different forms of media, as a tool for increasing rigor and comprehension. Teachers will observe easy steps for blending GPS and/or Common Core Standards with the College and Career Readiness Standards (literacy standards). An opportunity to walk through all four quadrants of the Rigor & Relevance Framework and to add rigor and literacy to existing lesson plans will be provided. Participants will leave with multiple low-prep/high-impact strategies provided by Common Core Lab Classroom Teachers who have "been there, done that." Find out first-hand what worked and how easy it can be to take steps toward fueling literacy comprehension in and across ALL content areas. Starlab Basics (Grade Levels: 2, 4, 6, 12) TLC3AB8 - #WS130279 Kelly Bodner & Sherry Trimble The CCSD science department has 5 Starlabs or portable planetariums available for check out. Each Starlab costs $20,000.00. For this reason we only check out the starlabs to schools with teachers who have completed a Starlab Basics training course within the past two years. Learn about how this unique resource will help your student experience outer space in a whole new way! Participants who attend this very hands-on session will learn how to set up and take down the Starlabs and receive a Sarlab basics training notebook. Please wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to crawl on the floor. We will be learning how to use a new projector so anyone who needs a refresher this session is for you too.

Session B – 10:00-11:15 Academic Professional Development Ideas and Discussion (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3B1 - #WS130280

Connie Nelson I plan to discuss program options, provide information about the district's policies, provide my personal success strategies, and lead a discussion to allow participants to share their ideas.

Alphabet Soup - CIPA, COPPA, and TOS (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3B2 - #WS130281 Marjorie Bazluki

Responsibility to uphold the regulations of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) as the usage of web 2.0 tools in the classroom increases lies on the teacher. Be able to articulate the ethical and legal imperatives of using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. Discover how to read and adhere to the terms of service for web tools.

American Literature in Context (without the Baby Spoon) (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3B3 - #WS130282

Amelia Sanders This session will explore ways in which teachers can provide background context to three different common American literature texts without spoon feeding it to students. Scaffolding strategies for both the AP/Honors classroom and the on-level classroom will be covered. The strategies covered in this session will provide the tools needed to implement Common Core Standards as well as increase student engagement.

Beyond Transformations: Creative Thinking in a Standards-Based Classroom (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3B4 - #WS130283

Elizabeth (Betsey) Kennedy While creative thinking skills won't be measured by the CRCT, their importance can't be underestimated. In this session, teachers will learn about the elements of creativity, why teaching creative thinking matters, and what it looks like in classrooms that have long lists of standards to teach. You will walk away with ideas that are easy to implement from creative thinking games that can be played in a matter of a few minutes to creative problem solving lessons that encourage students to apply what they have learned in unique ways.

BYOB Bring Your Own Brain with BYOD (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3B5 - #WS130284 Jamie Pearson

Come see what all of the fuss is about with BYOD! Expect to use your own brain in this interactive session while learning steps to implementation and how to effectively use devices FOR learning. Bring your devices with you!

Catch Students Red-Handed Doing Great Work (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3B6 - #WS130285

Dawn Allison-Ruiz & Marilyn Thomas Teach students how to read like a detective and write like an investigative reporter through Common Core mini units while using varied performance tasks and technology. Learn how to get more bang for your buck by double dipping students in the content areas through English Language Arts. If you are mentoring new teachers or have felt overwhelmed with the amount of depth and rigor from the first year of the Common Core, then this session is for you. Common Core = Common Sense: Increasing Literacy Expectations in the ELA Classroom (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3B7 - #WS130286 Sylvia Spruill & Annette Tucker Participants will examine ways to integrate informational texts with literature texts and use with learners of ALL levels - in a reading class, co-taught and the Pre-AP. Be prepared to leave with activities that will increase the rigor and depth of knowledge as you continue to implement common core in English Language Arts. EPIC Teaching & Engaging Emotional Intelligence (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3B8 - #WS130287 Dr. Tim Elmore NATIONAL PRESENTER: Dr. Tim Elmore, national presenter and author of Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future, will present a session reflecting his definition of EPIC teaching and engaging emotional intelligence . Dr. Elmore has visited Cobb County to speak to principals and teachers who have embraced the philosophy behind teaching Generation iY. Join this empowering session to discover ways to actively incorporate engaging strategies and technology in your classroom with the iY generation of learners.

Finding the Joy in Common Core (Grade Levels: K, 1) TLC3B9 - #WS130288 Elizabeth Marsili

This session will provide real-world application of how to make the Common Core Standards come alive in your classroom. Discover ways to engage the students in unpacking the standards. This is a whole brain teaching approach which will help you have fun with your kids as you navigate the standards together. We will also look at using rubrics in the classroom in order for students to self assess!

Formative Assessments that Work (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3B10 - #WS130289 Angela Shull & Joy Jones

In this session, we will present a variety of formative assessment strategies that we use in our science class to monitor student achievement. Reading and Writing in Science (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3B11 - #WS130290 Christian Cali & Ann Marie Dubick Come and see how a variety of best practice reading and writing strategies can be integrated into effective and exciting science instruction.

Rigorous Reading: Informational Text and the Common Core (Grade Levels: 11) TLC3B12 - #WS130291

Stephanie Tatum Focusing on Common Core Literacy Strands 1-9, teachers will participate in a hands-on informational text demonstration that they can take away for direct use in their classrooms.

The Flipped Classroom - The Engaged Classroom (Grade Levels: 3-12) TLC3B13 - #WS130292

Claire Brogdon Have you been thinking about flipping your classroom? This class will take a practical approach to what your Flipped Classroom could look like. We will discuss classroom management techniques, lesson considerations, various room arrangements and video screencasting. We will take time to experiment with technology, software and apps you already have in your classroom for creating screencasts. Put learning at the center of your classroom!

You Can Do It! Math Support 6-12 (Grade Levels: 6-11) TLC3B14 - #WS130293 Diane Rice

Acceleration, preview, review, pre-requisite skills, intervention and support; how can we meet the needs of diverse learners and close gaps in learning with our resistant math students? Come check out the new curriculum pacing guide for support, along with some modified strategies and resources to help motivate your struggling math students.

Session C – 12:45-2:00 40 Ways to Close a Lesson (Grade Levels: 3-12) TLC3C1 - #WS130294 Sheree Altmann & Shirley Carroll

A lesson closure is an integral, designed part of the instructional framework: a connection, a reinforcer, and a review for teachers as well as the students. In this session, teachers will examine the purposes of closings, examine the research based Primacy/Recency Effect, and take away strategies to use for formative assessment. “40 Ways to Close a Lesson” focuses on what students need as review, what students can restate as the lesson’s purpose, and what the students have learned. And in “closing,” this session, a burning question arises: How does utilizing designed closings impact student performance and achievement? Be Exemplary with intermediate (3-5) EXEMPLARS! (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3C2 - #WS130295 Vinnie Sharma How can you get your students to write in math class? Come learn about the new math Exemplars that have been purchased by the county. We will learn how to access the exemplars, how to use them in your classroom, what standards match each exemplar, and look at the rubrics.

Book Clubs: Amazingly Motivating (Grade Levels: 3-8) TLC3C3 - #WS130296 Bridget Mullett

A 4th grade lab classroom teacher explains her procedure used to set up book clubs, assess implementation of close reading strategies, and determine next steps for readers. During this session, teachers will look through suggested book club titles, learn about text sets, and determine interest in previewed books. Collaboration Using Google Forms for Engaging Students, Formative Assessment and Personalized Instruction (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3C4 - #WS130297 Valerie Bryan Techniques presented in this session may be easily adapted to a variety of purposes. Attendees will participate in a simulation of a collaborative lesson on source selection and MLA citation, featuring the use of a Google form that has been implemented by a library media specialist and English teachers at Wheeler High School. Participants will access an article from a library database, find the MLA source citation for the article and enter it in to the Google form. Methods for using the collected form data for personalized instruction and formative assessment will be explored. Simple instruction on creating a Google form will be introduced. Designing a Practical Exam (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3C5 - #WS130298 Dr. Joanne Jezequel Looking for alternate and varied forms of assessment? Learn how to develop a multi-station practical exam for your students that will increase understanding and enhance learning.

Elementary Science Olympiad (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3C6 - #WS130299 Lisa Green & Sally Creel

Elementary Science Olympiad (ESO) is an outstanding opportunity for your students to apply all the science content they’ve learned in fun science events like the classic Straw Egg Drop to Water Rockets to Mystery Architecture. Whether you decide to compete in the county ESO or just offer afterschool enrichment opportunities, this session is for you. We’ll detail plans for this year’s ESO, describe the new events, and even give away a water rocket launcher! Guided Reading in Kindergarten: Making it work! (Grade Levels: K) TLC3C7 - #WS130300 Andrea Moon Come and learn all about guided reading in Kindergarten! Participants will start by exploring the essential components of a guided reading lesson and move into what guided reading looks and sounds like in Kindergarten. Video examples will be used.

iKnow! -using iPads and screencast technology in the class to deliver and create content (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3C8 - #WS130301

Tami McIntire & Michael Eby Participants should bring an iPad. Please load the Nearpod app.(free) iRespond - It's not Just for Testing! (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3C9 - #WS130302 Jamie Pearson iRespond is not just for testing! Come to this session to find out how to use iRespond NOW for formative assessment during instruction. This easy-to-use feature of iRespond is engaging for students, provides student data for the teacher, and requires LITTLE TO NO PREP WORK! Mystery Matter (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3C10 - #WS130303 Alicia LaFontaine & Katie O'Ryan Introduction to Weather and Climate with a focus on air and air pressure. Reading Informational Texts With a Critical Approach (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3C11 - #WS130304 George Seaman This session will begin by exploring different approaches readers may take in analyzing a non-fiction text (versus a literary text). Participants will learn basic rhetorical techniques to consider in reading and analyzing informational texts. The session will also look at key questions to address in forming a more complete and critical understanding of the text. Sample lessons, activities, and resources will be shared from my experiences as an AP Language and Advanced Composition instructor.

Rocking Readers Workshop (Grade Levels: 1) TLC3C12 - #WS130305 Kim Waits & Kim Olson

This class will provide you with some useful information on how to take 1st graders and build them as independent readers. You will see how to unpack literary standards and integrate them into center rotations. You will see how centers can be effective as well as daily 5 or daily 4.

RtI Made Easy! (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3C13 - #WS130306 Lara Salzman & Beth Kartheiser

Want a sneak peak at the new RTI Portal going live SY 2013-14? This is a great opportunity to explore how easy the RTI process can be with Cobb's new RTI electronic student referral portal. You will hear testimonial from pilot schools as well as having the chance to get started using the program yourself. SLDS: Student data as easy as 1, 2, 3! (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3C14 - #WS130307 Angie Baker GA DOE PRESENTER: SLDS –Statewide Longitudinal Data System provides access to students data in order for teachers and instructional leaders to make informed instructional decisions for students. SLDS is provided via the Cobb Academic Portal. This session will cover accessing SLDS, what data is presented and uses for how the data can be useful in educating students.

The Cognitive-Motor Link (Grade Levels: K-8) TLC3C15 - #WS130308 Mark Anderson

Come ready to move and learn about the connections between movement and it's relationship to student achievement, preparation readiness, and the release of hormones that decrease stress. A brief demonstration of http://www.intelleboost.com will be given.

WHAT!! no timed math facts test?? What's a teacher to do (Grade Levels: 1-2) TLC3C16 - #WS130309

Jimmie Salinas This session will give 1st and 2nd grade teachers strategies and activities to help students build addition and subtraction fluency with basic facts. Teachers will be able to take back these ideas and activities and implement them immediately into their classrooms. Students will improve their understanding of facts.

Wrangling Rigor & Sharpening Skills: Getting Freshman Prepared for High School Social Studies (Grade Levels: 9) TLC3C17 - #WS130310

Sarah Kietzman Take your freshman to the next level with confidence in the Common Core! Using strategies that incorporate elements of The DBQ Project, teachers will gain ideas to help put Common Core and rigor into everyday. Set your freshman on the right path and ready to take on analytical thinking and writing in the courses to come.

Session CD – 12:45-3:30 98% of all statistics are made up (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3CD1 - #WS130311 Dina Sherwood In the real world, data are gathered, displayed, summarized, examined, and interpreted to discover patterns and deviations from patterns. Decisions or predictions are often based on these results. Explore how statistical reasoning is developed in grades 6 - 8 through discussions and activities based on the Common Core standards. CCGPS Math 8 In the Trenches (Grade Levels: 8) TLC3CD2 - #WS130312 Kristie Bryan Math 8 teachers will celebrate successes and determine areas of opportunity during the first year of implementing CCGPS. Teachers will gain a better understanding of the resources and tools that are available to support the curriculum. Participants will analyze performance tasks and other activities to increase student engagement and success.

Flip - The New Normal Classroom (Grade Levels: 3-8) TLC3CD3 - #WS130313 Natalie Hutchins

This class will appeal to teachers who are ready to engage in the power of creating teacher-students in your classroom. You and your students will learn to assess student learning daily, without the heartburn of stacks upon stacks of paper. Flipping solves the problems of absenteeism, re-teaching lessons, engaging all types of learners, and eases differentiated learning with powerful FREE tools. With BYOD and the technology Cobb has provided at the local school level - Flip your way into the New Normal Classroom! Freedom, Rights, and Equality Common Core Units of Study for 3rd Grade (Grade Levels: 3) TLC3CD4 - #WS130314 Kelly Urbano Teachers will be provided with an overview of reading workshop. They will also be led through 2 units of study focusing on how to integrate social studies and language arts. We will discuss the use of extended texts as well as other resources to support these units of study.

Get More Bang for Your Book: Great Children's Literature That Works for Social Studies and ELA (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3CD5 - #WS130315

JoAnn Wood Join us as we explore great children's literature that multitasks well across the curriculum. We will read, write, listen, and talk in this hands-on, books open workshop. You will definitely add new book titles to your list of favorites as well as expand your options for how to use these titles to build mastery in both Social Studies and ELA! Grades 3-5 focus! Having Fun Learning Physics and Breaking Some Eggs. (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3CD6 - #WS130316 Berkil Alexander Teachers will fabricate an egg dropping device and explore its value as a teaching tool.

Simulations and Social Studies (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3CD7 - #WS130317 Jane C. Moore Participants will be actively engaged in this researched-based and standards-based simulation session. Teachers will experiment with government, economic and world studies simulations. New active strategies on how to teach government and economic terms will be explored and demonstrated. Aristotle said "What we learn to do, we learn by doing."

So You Want Me to Teach What? (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3CD8 - #WS130318 Dr. Gilda Lyon

GA DOE PRESENTER: You came into education thinking you only had to teach your technical content standards. However, with the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) and other mandates, daily instruction requirements include components from core content areas as well. This workshop is designed to provide you with the necessary instructional tools to allow an easier transition to meet these new expectations. Topics covered will include differentiation, CCGPS literacy standards, literacy projects and more from all career content areas. Leave the workshop with a plethora of ideas and materials in hand that you can immediately implement in the classroom. Upon completion, participants will apply differentiation techniques, CCGPS integrated literacy skills, and literacy projects in their classrooms to provide students with a variety of strategies to improve students achievement. Starlab Basics (Grade Levels: 2, 4, 6, 12) TLC3CD9 - #WS130319 Kelly Bodner & Sherry Trimble The CCSD science department has 5 Starlabs or portable planetariums available for check out. Each Starlab costs $20,000.00. For this reason we only check out the starlabs to schools with teachers who have completed a Starlab Basics training course within the past two years. Learn about how this unique resource will help your student experience outer space in a whole new way! Participants who attend this very hands-on session will learn how to set up and take down the Starlabs and receive a Sarlab basics training notebook. Please wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to crawl on the floor. We will be learning how to use a new projector so anyone who needs a refresher this session is for you too.

Use PBL (Problem based Learning) to Engage Blended Learning (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3CD10 - #WS130320

Cristin Kennedy Project based learning makes learning more meaningful for students of any age, in any subject. Web 2.0 technology/tools make it possible to engage students in active and collaborative learning. Put the two together to make the most of student learning. (Hands-on exploration included with time.)

Session D – 2:15-3:30 "D.R.A.W." for Literacy Using "Blackboard" (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3D1 - #WS130321 Tracy Efaw

D.R.A.W. (Discussion, Reading, And Writing) is a schoolwide literacy initiative designed to encourage using literacy strategies across all content areas. This initiative complements the Common Core Curriculum by encouraging teachers of all disciplines to become reading and writing teachers in their content areas. Using Blackboard technology, teachers gain access to a plethora of informational texts, resources, and strategies which can be used to transform student learning. This literacy initiative bridges the gap between what students know now and what they will need to know and do with the increased rigor of the Common Core.

Benchmarks 101: What Teachers Need to Know (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3D2 - #WS130322 Kari Reeve & Stephen Bell

Why are we doing benchmarks? How are they created? Why do they look like they do? Where are we going with them? Come hear two classroom teachers, and members of the Assessment Academy, share their benchmark insights and find answers to these and other questions.

Chart it, Picture it and Move it - Engaging your Students (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3D3 - #WS130323 Janice Ritchey

Using Non-linguistic representations to engage your students through graphic organizers, pictorials, and kinesthetic

Co-teaching, sometimes sticky but always sweet. (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3D4 - #WS130324 Robert Cameron & Shauna Bristol

Building better teacher relationships to maximize student learning. Knowing yourself and your co-teacher.Recognizing you are a team and working with your strengths to opperate a successful classroom. Dual not Duel (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3D5 - #WS130325 Lisa Nelson & Cara Cesa Scheduling service for your dually identified EL/SpEd students can be difficult. Come learn how an ESOL teacher and a Special Education teacher are making a co-taught pull out model work for their dually identified students.

Flipping a Video Lesson to Incorporate the Common Core (Grade Levels: 4-12) TLC3D6 - #WS130326 Cynthia Bishop

Gain practical, hands-on experience in "flipping" a classroom lesson. We will take a look at three platforms (Edmodo, Google Docs, and TedEd) that can simplify the development, delivery, and assessment of meaningful lessons that comply with Common Core Standards. Laptop required. Growing an Elementary S.T.E.M. Program (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3D7 - #WS130327 Dana Jones & Sally Creel Are you interested in helping your elementary school become more STEM focused or even DOE STEM certified? Join us as we share motivation, steps, resources, ideas, and tips to help you grow a thriving STEM program and earn certification from the state.

iPads, I want you to meet Common Core! (Grade Levels: K-8) TLC3D8 - #WS130328 Tracey Borup

With technology-embedded Common Core State Standards at various levels, see how apps for iPads can deepen the rigor and relevance within the Common Core context. This session will begin with a content-organized and Common Core-aligned repository of useful apps, along with sample and model lessons that use these apps for the classroom.

Let's Get Organized ! ...in SMART Notebook (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3D9 - #WS130329 Jackie Ragan & Mary Royal

VENDOR PRESENTATION: This session will provide the participants with the knowledge of how to organize lessons, units of study, and/or topics in SMART Notebook. This session will also show them how to effectively organize resources using the Attachments Tab.

Moving, Doing, and Learning (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3D10 - #WS130330 Kimberly McCarter

This session includes innovative strategies to increase student engagement in learning the analysis skills required in the mastery of the common core standards. The session will highlight a variety of interactive, kinesthetic activities that students enjoy participating in that really require that students internalize skills to achieve success. The presenter will provide directions and sample materials to teachers and lead the teachers through sample activities. SLDS: Student data as easy as 1, 2, 3! (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3D11 - #WS130331 Angie Baker GA DOE PRESENTER: SLDS –Statewide Longitudinal Data System provides access to students data in order for teachers and instructional leaders to make informed instructional decisions for students. SLDS is provided via the Cobb Academic Portal. This session will cover accessing SLDS, what data is presented and uses for how the data can be useful in educating students.

Terrific Teens: Laying the Foundation for Understanding the Base-ten System (Grade Levels: K, 1) TLC3D12 - #WS130332

Krista Bennett Do your students ever struggle with the numbers 11 - 19? This interactive session will provide participants with the tools necessary to support young learners as they construct knowledge of the teen numbers. Participants will take part in standards-based lessons and will receive electronic versions of all learning materials. Using Voicethread increase H.O.T. skills (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3D13 - #WS130333 Denise Danielson Voicethread will engage your students in online conversations while they use Higher Order Thinking Skills. (Bring Laptop & Subject related Photos)

June 13, Thursday Session E – 8:30-9:45

"Hard Core" Battle Scars of the CCS (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3E1 - #WS130334 Kelly Beer & Dayan Shannon

An interactive session. With one year of common core behind us we will look back at a unit/lesson - What worked? What didn't? Where do we go from here? Presenters (8th grade co-teachers) will share triumphs and challenges of teaching the common core standards as well as solutions going forward. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect and brainstorm with colleagues. The primary focus will be paid a close reading and vocabulary.

Accessing the Foundational ELA Skills of the Common Core (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3E2 - #WS130335

Rezenia Wilson This session will infuse a multi-sensory approach to teaching the Foundational ELA skills of the Common Core State Standards. These standards are directed toward fostering students’ understanding and working knowledge of concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system. Current research has brought great emphasis on the importance of using all of the senses including visual (sight), auditory (hearing), kinesthetidtactile (touch and balance), gustatory (taste), and olfactory (smell) as much as possible to enhance learning and retention. Through the use of multi-modalities, participants will be able to help their students access the Foundational Skills of the CCSS by incorporating the creative process to learning and retaining new information. Be Exemplary with Primary Exemplars (Grade Levels: K-2) TLC3E3 - #WS130336 Nicole Cain How can you get your students to write in math class? Come learn about the new Math Exemplars that have been purchased by the county. We will learn how to access the Exemplars, how to use them in your classroom, what standards match each Exemplar, and look at the rubrics.

Beyond Literary Analysis: Using Information Texts to Invigorate Common Core Writing

(Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3E4 - #WS130337 Crystal Kidd This session will provide teachers with a way to combine information texts and writing in a creative way. Although materials will be most useful to an American Literature class, I will also provide suggestions for how to adjust the assignments for other areas of Language Arts instruction. Particpants will be able to walk out of the room with classroom ready lesson plans that can be adapted for any level.

BYOB Bring Your Own Brain with BYOD (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3E5 - #WS130338 Jamie Pearson

Come see what all of the fuss is about with BYOD! Expect to use your own brain in this interactive session while learning steps to implementation and how to effectively use devices FOR learning. Bring your devices with you! Digging into the McGraw Hill Textbook Resources (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3E6 - #WS130339 Rosemarie Meagh Digging into the new textbook resources. This session will cover our new math resources available for 6th-8th grade in 2013 - 2014. A review of the textbook and its online components will be addressed. Items presented but not limited to include applications, videos and interactive resources. Don't forget the brain in your lesson plan (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3E7 - #WS130340 Sue O'Neill Considering how a student's brain works is a vital component in considering how to teach any subject matter. There are proven tricks, techniques and considerations that will improve student engagement and information retention. An added benefit is that this approach makes learning more fun. Economics Paradigm Shift: 2013! “What do you mean you know this from the sixth grade?” (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3E8 - #WS130341 Jennifer Dawson & Pamela Roach 2012-2013 brought the year where seniors in economics experienced déjà vu in the fundamentals unit. In the upcoming school year, teachers should see a spread of the déjà vu to all students who were in Georgia for the sixth and/or seventh grades. Middle school is building the foundation of economics, and the way it is taught matters; high school will have to up the game in order to adjust to this new reality. Interactive presentation will include demonstrations, simulations, practical tips, and proven methodology to fully embrace this new paradigm. Presenters are a 2012 GCEE Economics TOTY and 2010 GCEE TOTY finalist.

Edmodo- One Cool Tool to Connect, Engage and Collaborate (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3E9 - #WS130342

Deborah Aughey The e-Learning space Edmodo enables the 21st Century teacher to make “home to school” connections relevant, engaging and personalized. From the students’ perspective, teachers will enroll in a class and interact with the student tools for Part I. In Part II, participants flip to the teacher role to create a class and use the instructor functions. Whether the teacher intends to use it as a message center or a fully functioning Flipped Classroom, attendees will feel confident with how Edmodo can enhance curricular experiences, encourage safe social networking and differentiate learning. For a second session, I will either repeat this session or I can do "Advanced Edmodo"- Collaboration Extending Thinking During Extended Text (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3E10 - #WS130343 Angela Fry & Tim O'Neill Are your students disengaged during extended text? In this session, we will discuss strategies that will encourage student participation through journaling and deep conversation amongst peers. We will also share ideas for holding students accountable during this time!

Get SWAG: Students With Academic Growth (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3E11 - #WS130344 Nicole Meador & Maggie Phillips

Get SWAG: Students With Academic Growth session will be filled with behavior management strategies and classroom organizational skills that will help teachers manage their students. The strategies learned will excel their student's academic potential by eliminating long transitional times and disruptions that impede students success. This session will help teachers to organize their classroom in a way that will allow students to become responsible for their behavior as well as their classroom environment. Ground Water Investigation (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3E12 - #WS130345 Jay Stanhope This activity investigates how ground water can be polluted. It is a two part activity. Part 1 is a demonstration of water ground water is and how a pollutant can enter ground water. Part 2 is a Superfund Activity from a presenter at NSTA. It is called Water Muddle Up. It is a more in-depth investigation of the types of pollutants that can enter a lake and how they enter the lake.

Help! Digital Resources to the Rescue! (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3E13 - #WS130346 Tracey Borup

Are you looking for digital ways for students to express what they have learned? Are you looking for digital resources for students to reinforce their knowledge? Do you need new and creative ideas for your classroom? If you answered yes to one of these questions, this class is for you! Integration Station! (Grade Levels: 3) TLC3E14 - #WS130347 Tresa Snow During this session I will give ideas and strategies to integrate Science and Social Studies with the ELA Common Core standards. I will show ways to get it all done in an effective manner.

Motivating and Engaging Students: High Impact - Low Prep Strategies (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3E15 - #WS130348

Mitchell Askew Join us to experience and customize strategies that motivate, engage and assess student learning. Learn how one simple tweak to a lecture or power point presentation can instantly engage any student. Experience everything from use of technology, kinesthetic movement, to silent desk drills. The only limitation is your imagination.

REAL RIGOR? Where Do I Find It? What Do I Do With It? (Grade Levels: 7) TLC3E16 - #WS130349

Robin Polonec & Barbara Rothschild "REAL RIGOR" is designed to show teachers how text sets encourage provocative thought and stimulating conversation among students of all ability levels. Text sets provide opportunities for students to practice using reading strategies to learn content information as well as promoting focused student collaboration. Complex text sets correlate strongly with the Common Core Curriculum and parallel the content standards. Rest and Relax! You've Conquered Rigor and Relevance! (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3E17 - #WS130350 Carolyn Byrd & Bridget Mullett Common Core requires that we increase the rigor of student work, while making that work relevant to today's learners. In this session, you will gain an understanding of the meaning of RIGOR and RELEVANCE in student work, as you move Common Core and CCGPS standards through the Rigor and Relevance Framework. You will leave this session with an understanding of this tool, which can be used to plan relevant, differentiated, engaging lessons that meet the challenges of Common Core. (This session is appropriate for any subject area.) Teaching CCGPS Statistics in High School (Grade Levels: 9-11) TLC3E18 - #WS130351 Laura Speer & Jennifer Isasi This session will provide activities to introduce the concepts for Statistics in Coordinate Algebra, Analytic Geometry, and Advanced Algebra. We will do the activities, so teachers can see what the activity looks like. Additionally, teachers will be provided with worksheets, detailed instructions for activities, and sample test questions for the unit.

Tried and True Practical Strategies to Manage even the Most Challenging Foreign Language/ESOL Classroom (Grade Levels: 8-12) TLC3E19 - #WS130352

Glynis Ramos-Mitchell Learning another language has a significant impact on how one socializes since it involves the adoption of new social and cultural behaviors and ways of thinking. It is critical then, that teachers equip themselves with savvy sociocultural awareness and classroom management skills to cultivate an environment of trust and respect where students have broadened perceptions of themselves and others, and feel free to express themselves without ridicule. In this session, the presenter will share practical real life proven strategies that will empower you to effectively communicate in, manage, and address, challenging scenarios in your classroom, knowing that the outcome will be positive for you and your students.

What's Next in Science Education (Grade Levels: K-8) TLC3E20 - #WS130353 Sally Creel New Next Generation science standards are on the horizon. Come and learn what these will mean for you and your students. STEM resources, opportunities for common core integration, best practices, and more will be demonstrated during this session to prepare you to boldly go where no teacher has gone before!

You Can Use Technology (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3E21 - #WS130354 Dawn Allison-Ruiz

Teachers will be able to get several online resources to take away from this session. We will highlight websites that you can use on a daily basis in the classroom. With so little time, who has time to research all of the sites out there? This will help you to see and decide which things would work best for you and your student population.

Session EF – 8:30-11:15 Interest Library 101:Getting Started (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3EF1 - #WS130355 Mae Hoskins & Luz Montanez In this session, teachers will learn what an interest library looks like, how to set one up, and how it will support text complexity and independent reading in a classroom. It is a perfect way to offer students choices that will move them forward in meeting CCGPS Reading Standard 10. Plus, students love it!

Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3EF2 - #WS130356

Donna Denton PEARSON TEXTBOOK PRESENTER: Examine the components, games, online technology as well as a curriculum unit of the Investigations Series produced by Pearson

Managing Your Middle-School Monsters (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3EF3 - #WS130357 Virginia McAnear & Clint Podell

This session is to teach/re-teach the managing of (particularly) small groups in a middle-school classroom. Ideas, strategies, and resources for setting up and maintaining behavior/job groups and differentiated ability groups will be recommended. Presenters will walk participants through a "day in the life", modeling what has WORKED in our classrooms. If participants set these Rituals and Routines early in the school year (and remain consistent), they can achieve an organized, differentiated, well-run environment for their students and themselves.

Not Just Another Pretty Picture...Using Visual Literacy to Increase Student Engagement (Grade Levels: K-8) TLC3EF4 - #WS130358

Kimberly Piercy & Judith Condon Hook students with rich, diverse visual media and take them to new levels of higher order thinking! Join us in an interactive presentation as we interact with artwork, find reputable resources for your classroom and use visuals to prompt formative and summative learning tasks. Reading, Writing and Detecting (Grade Levels: 4-12) TLC3EF5 - #WS130359 Martha Battle Teachers will participate in reading and interpreting primary sources as the session illustrates best practices with document based lessons. Using the DBQ Project model and materials, social studies and ALP teachers will explore the successes and weaknesses of DBQ lessons previously taught and will anticipate improved delivery and use of the lessons in the coming school year. Moving from classroom discussion and modeling to assessment possibilities, the session will point the way to successful creation of further document centered lessons. At the heart of the session will be the application of these processes to the enhancement of student skills in Common Core Literacy in History/Social Studies.

Teaching Analytic Geometry- Common Core Style! (Grade Levels: 10) TLC3EF6 - #WS130360 Robert Lohuis Teachers will get an overview of the 10th grade curriculum for Analytic Geometry. Vertical progressions will be described to make the connection between Coordinate Algebra and Advanced Algebra. Teachers will also participate in a session that will provide insight into how to teach the common core standards to students with a beginning, work session, and closing in mind. Thinking Skills in the Common Core: Getting Started the Right Way (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3EF7 - #WS130361 Robin Fogarty NATIONAL PRESENTER: Dr. Robin Fogarty, returns to Cobb County to support our focus on the Common Core and the rigor of the thinking skills that are required for our learners. Dr. Fogarty will speak to the "teaching students explicitly how to think, to analyze critically, to hypothesize with confidence, to clarify with purpose and to make inferences that matter is the mark of college and career readiness". This session will explore literacy-filled curriculum across all disciplines.

Turn Your Classroom Inside Out and Upside Down with Innovative Teaching Strategies (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3EF8 - #WS130362

Erika Beck & Julie Bolin This session will present innovative and alternative teaching strategies that will activate your students' creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects that engage and motivate students while addressing the rigor of Common Core. Teachers K-12 will have an opportunity to learn about strategies and work in grade-level groups to create activities relative to their grade level or content area that can be utilized from the first day of the new school year. We've Got This Down to a Science: Lessons for the Middle School Science Classroom (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3EF9 - #WS130363 Kristen Crain & Elizabeth Truelove, David Brown, Brenda Roth This session will focus on effective lessons and strategies in the middle school classroom. Activities for Earth, Life, and Physical will be presented. Concepts connecting Common Core and utilizing different technology strategies will be shared.

Session F – 10:00-11:15 "Give me Choice" - using "choice-based" centers in the classroom (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3F1 - #WS130364

Brandy Ruhl & Mi Kormos Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), or choice-studio, is a teaching format that allows students to be in control of the ways in which they learn. When students have more choices, they become more active participants in the learning process, build confidence, and hone their creative problem solving skills. This session will show how to to use choice-based features to enhance student engagement and meet common core standards in the classroom.

Accommodating Struggling Learners in Mathematics (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3F2 - #WS130365

Amanda Hazelip & Marcia McComas With this session, participants will learn how to accommodate struggling learners with Common Core content and how to differentiate for their learning in the co-taught mathematics setting. Participants will look at the prerequisite skills needed for middle school math, how to incorporate UDL into their teaching, and how to make the most of their time in the co-taught setting to reaching struggling math students with appropriate strategies.

Blackboard Basics (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3F3 - #WS130366 Tracy Hall

Learn the fundamental basic Blackboard operations from uploading course materials and organizing your Blackboard classroom. You will also learn how to create tests in Blackboard and how to pull test questions to create quizzes. Correct usage of Blackboard will save time and most importantly school resources.

BYOB Bring Your Own Brain with BYOD (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3F4 - #WS130367 Jamie Pearson

Come see what all of the fuss is about with BYOD! Expect to use your own brain in this interactive session while learning steps to implementation and how to effectively use devices FOR learning. Bring your devices with you! CCGPS Adv Alg Overview (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3F5 - #WS130368 Elizabeth Hayden & Lynn Barry Participants will investigate the similarities and differences between the GPS and CC GPS third course. Additionally, participants will see an overview of course pacing, unit analysis and lesson plans. Participants will do some tasks and discuss ways to implement task requirements and encourage active participation from students.

Creating Independent Studiers (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3F6 - #WS130369 Jennifer Crawford Creating good student assessments is challenging, but how can you help students learn to prepare for these assessments? Instead of using study guides and Jeopardy review games, have students participate in the review process themselves. Help students anticipate the types of questions you might ask so that they can be independent studiers as well as independent learners. Game Based Design in the classroom: Story, Learning, Fun! (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3F7 - #WS130370 Ian Lindsay Creating a story based model for your subject matter can increase student engagement and teach them practical application of the subject matter. This session is for educators who would like to implement this model but may not know where to start. How Social Studies and the ELA CCGPS Work and Play Well Together in Kindergarten (Grade Levels: K) TLC3F8 - #WS130371 JoAnn Wood Kindergarten Social Studies works and plays beautifully with the new ELA standards. Come explore how reading, writing, speaking, and listening are all enhanced with a dynamic and lively Social Studies program. Bring your own ideas to share! Math Survival Guides for Middle School (Grade Levels: 6, 7) TLC3F9 - #WS130372 Audra Bothers & Carrie Newman In this session, teachers will learn how to effectively implement interactive notebooks in the mathematics classroom. Teachers of Math 6 and Math 7 will also get files that they can use for their MSGs (Math Survival Guides). This is a great tool that benefits all learners, and it makes life easier on teachers and parents as well!

More Motivating and Engaging Strategies: High Impact - Low Prep Strategies (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3F10 - #WS130373

Mitchell Askew Everyone is welcome! Whether it is your first time or your second helping, join us as we experience and customize even more strategies that motivate, engage and assess student learning. Learn how to empower the students to run the class like a corporation with the bottom line being their class average. Engage students with any formative assessment by adding one tweak. The only limitation is your imagination.

Need a Title (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3F11 - #WS130374 Rosana Machado

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Not Your Mother's Read Aloud (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3F12 - #WS130375 Diana Gobbi Need a new twist on read alouds? In this session, learn how to use read aloud as a vehicle for small group questioning that leads into Whole Class Conversation, a structured way to invite higher order thinking and discussion about a text. Leave with some great book titles and strategies to use with your own students. Organizers, Summarizers, and Other –izers (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3F13 - #WS130376 Tara Bogozan Simple strategies for most content areas that help teachers meet the demands of Common Core reading, writing, and research components. Strategies can be used during various parts of the lesson or unit and can help teachers convey the language of the standards clearly and quickly.

Rigor, Relevance and the At Risk Learner (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3F14 - #WS130377 Shannon Thorpe & Bower Taylor

Participants will understand the struggles of at-risk learners in their classrooms, and will be able to provide strategies and instruction to improve rigor and relevance for these and all learners.

Rock Their Socks Off With Cool Apps for Performance Assessments (Grade Levels: K-11) TLC3F15 - #WS130378

Peggy Creighton Based on an article by the presenter to be published in the May/June issue of Library Media Connection magazine, this presentation details technology-rich performance tasks that school librarians and classroom teachers in grades K-12 may use in support of Common Core standards in English Language Arts, Writing, and Social Studies. A variety of apps and websites are featured. Performance tasks are designed to appeal to 21st-century learners and to incorporate the Common Core's emphasis on subject-specific vocabulary, rigor, evidence, and nonfiction text.

STEM in the Elementary Classroom (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3F16 - #WS130379 Colleen Cauffiel & Sally Creel

S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) is gaining a lot of attention in the US and across Georgia. Leaving many to wonder what it is and what it looks like in an elementary classroom. We’ll explore both in this session. Participants will experience STEM lessons and receive examples of more. Student Success: Where IT and AT Intersect (Grade Levels: 3-12) TLC3F17 - #WS130380 Helen Upshaw This session will define Assistive Technology, while providing examples of Assistive Technology. Participants will walk away with what to “look for” and “ask for” from their teachers/peers in order to achieve success for ALL students. Success for ALL students can be achieved by using standard instructional technology and accessibility features that are built into Windows OS 7 and Office 2012. Through the use of purposeful integration of technology we can facilitate learning for Generation iY. This is where IT and AT intersect!

You want me to DO WHAT? (Grade Levels: 5-9) TLC3F18 - #WS130381 Heather Hartley & Crystal Moore This session is packed full of strategies designed to help students analyze and dissect a writing prompt, read and mark informational text, then discuss and write a well formed response. Strategies are taken from Literacy TA.

Session G – 12:45-2:00 A Process for Planning to Increase Performance (Grade Levels: 1-12) TLC3G1 - #WS130382

Rhonda Williams Participants will understand how to use an instructional framework for lesson planning to increase student performance in the co-taught setting. This session will provide participants with insights, as well as some practical strategies to create meaningful learning experiences for students. A Standards Approach to Learning (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3G2 - #WS130383 Robert Lohuis Forget the 0-100% scale! Taking cues from Marzano's research, an introduction to creating learning goals/measurement topics, how to formatively and summatively assess, and how to create rubrics that reflect the learning goals and their depths of knowledge will be discussed and modeled. Teachers will have an opportunity to create their own DOK rubrics with these concepts in mind. Attaining Rigor & Relevance with STEM Based Projects (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3G3 - #WS130384 Cheryl Crooks I would like to share the Checklist of the 4 Criterion we used for the STEM based projects in the staff development for our teachers. The STEM based projects met the critierion of crossing curriculums, Daggett's 4th Quadrant/ Bloom's Higher Levels, 2 or more STEM objectives from the DOE, and a literacy component. The checklist and training we adapted for our STEM Symposium is transferrable to many levels.

Builder or Breaker? (Grade Levels: 4-8) TLC3G4 - #WS130385 Zarinaha Satterwhite & Necole Bryant-Young

The Builder or Breaker? is an interactive workshop that helps teachers infuse life skills into daily instruction, so that students become more accountable for their attitude, behavior, and learning. As opposed to teaching life skills in isolation, this workshop equips teachers with strategies for helping students "build" the skills necessary to navigate common core tasks, in any subject area as well as life, successfully. But It Doesn't Rhyme: From Reading to Analyzing Poetry (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3G5 - #WS130386 Aliyyah Salam Reading poetry is one thing; analyzing it is another. Learn how to teach one easy step in the process of reading poetry that will increase student comprehension and get them past just reading the poem, to analyzing theme, mood, and tone. Participants will also walk away with methods to engage reluctant readers using multiple medias to help students see some links between analyzing poetry for theme, mood, and tone and other genres.

Changing The Attitude of Education (Grade Levels: 10-12) TLC3G6 - #WS130387 Jacqueline Valentine & Lisa Gipson Changing The Attitude of Education is a session to help teachers (especially CTAE) better engage their students in the learning process. This will be an interactive course that will encourage the participants to "work smarter, not harder". Essay Extravaganza (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3G7 - #WS130388 Julie Jenkins Teachers will gain insight on "Essay Scorer", an incredible tool rich with varied prompts and data assessment at your fingertips. Learn how to incoporate this software and keep electronic portfolios which are great for writing conferences, inclusion classes, and enriching rigor the 6+1 traits of writing! You will be amazed at how user friendly the program is and your students growth in writing will be substantial !

Fraction Flow For Grades 3-5 (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3G8 - #WS130389 Rachel Scott

In grades 3-5 Common Core has a definite flow with the study of fractions. This session will look at this flow and explore activities and stations that can be differentiated as student progress through those grades.

Historian Primer-Getting Ready for DBQ (Grade Levels: 6) TLC3G9 - #WS130390 Jodi Bitler

6th graders and DBQ's do go together if you get them ready. Before introducing a DBQ-introduce the needed skills early in the year. This session will focus on pre-DBQ lessons that will give students the skill set to be DBQ experts!

Integration in the Classroom (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3G10 - #WS130391 Terri Davis

In this session teachers will examine the Common Core ELA standards and the Science and Social Studies GPS. We will work together to create integrated lessons that are easy to use in the classroom and are teacher facilitated. At the end of this session teachers will have a better understanding of integration and how they can integrate throughout the school day.

Lights, Camera Action! Taking a Look at Screencasting applications (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3G11 - #WS130392

Claire Brogdon If you are considering the Flipped Classroom next year, come take a look at a few of the free apps and websites we can use to create videos for lessons. We will practice with a few of the apps and discuss some of the equipment you might already have at your school. Both the participants just starting their "Flipped Classroom" journey and those that want to hone their skills will enjoy this practical look at screencasting resources.

Science Fair: From Stress to Success! (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3G12 - #WS130393 Jennifer Gates Are you interested in having a science fair at your school? Are you worried that managing multiple student projects will become overwhelming? Learn how to successfully organize a local school fair without pulling your hair out in the process. Participants will receive sample student guidelines, judging forms, and information about plans for next year’s elementary county science fair. Shifting Lanes: From the Sage on the Stage to the Guide on the Side in the ELA Classroom (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3G13 - #WS130394 Monica Hobbs & Marcy Denney This session will provide tips on moving from a teacher-centered classroom to a student-centered classroom. Participants will learn how to implement a framework that will foster student-centered learning. Also participants will receive guidance on planning curriculum maps that will incorporate technology and authentic student learning.

Walk a Mile in their Shoes (Grade Levels: 6) TLC3G14 - #WS130395 Margaret Moss

Come understand how the standards and strategies used at the elementary level help build foundations in math. Discover how these foundations impact progress in mathematics for sixth grade students. Walk away with strategies to use to support your students as they start the first year of middle school. You Too Can Flip Your Science Class! (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3G15 - #WS130396 Nikki Bisesi & Katie Kilkenny Come join in a discussion on how you can flip your science classroom. We will discuss ways that work for us and brainstorm ideas on how to flip subjects that might be a little more difficult to flip.

Session GH – 12:45-3:30 Differentiating The DBQ (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3GH1 - #WS130397 Sarah Turner & Trey Coggins This session will cover differentiating the DBQ process for all levels of students. We will offer strategies for setting up the DBQ. We will also cover differentiating document analysis, pre-writing, and essay writing. We will provide differentiated document analysis sheets, graphic organizers, and model using Google Docs. to differentiate the writing process. Harnessing the Power of the Internet to Encourage Better Writing. (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3GH2 - #WS130398 Denise Danielson & Lindsay Garcia Writing strategies will be demonstrated. Free websites will be shown a resources for inspiring writing topics. Teachers will be shown how to use Voicethread as a tool to use to encourage better writing and promote peer evaluations.

Number Talks for Elementary Special Educators (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3GH3 - #WS130399

Amanda Hazelip & Marcia McComas Number talks were developed for classroom teachers to engage students in "mental math" through grappling with interesting mathematics problems. Educators can use number talks regularly as introductions to the day’s mathematical practice, as “warm ups” for other lessons, or as stand-alone extended engagements with mathematical concepts. In this session specifically for special educators they will learn: *what processing deficits affect students in math and how to adapt number talks for students with processing deficits in mathematics *what a classroom number talk is; * how to follow students' thinking and pose the right questions to build understanding; * how to prepare for and design purposeful number talks; * how to develop strategies for the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Practical Technology Applicatons for the Tech-Phobic (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3GH4 - #WS130400

Amelia (Amy) Zschaber Technology is an amazing tool that develops authentic student engagement and self-efficacy, but many teachers are overwhelmed by options, platforms, usage, and functionality. This translates to technology fear and phobias. But, there is nothing to fear! Become a technology black-belt (or hey, at least a yellow-belt) in this fun, relevant, and engaging course designed to help you get started with technology applications in the classroom. Participants will be given hard-copies of “How-To” guides and links to videos that will help extend learning beyond the session. Participants should expect to learn: (1) How to measure the usefulness of a technology tool in five minutes or less. (2) How to easily post visual information (pictures/videos/slideshows) to a blog/website. (3) Why a digital camera should be a required part of the teacher tool-kit (and how they drive learning). (4) How to easily create classroom recordings and videos using just a laptop. (5) How to utilize free, online, applications that fuel self-efficacy and align to CCPS. (6) How to fearlessly engage in new technology with confidence.

Rigor-Relevance-Common Core...OH MY! (Grade Levels: 1-5) TLC3GH5 - #WS130401 Dr. Danielle Hickerson

Do you feel lost in the shuffle between rigor and relevance and the common core standards? Do you need clarification for rigor and relevance? If so, this is the session for you. Participants will participate in a rigorious and relevant lesson, learn the components of the rigor and relevance framework, and practice writing a lesson using the common core standards. Surviving the CCGPS Coordinate Algebra Course (Grade Levels: 8-9) TLC3GH6 - #WS130402 Emily Freeman I will give my approach to teaching Common Core Coordinate Algebra and share my experiences (good & bad). We'll share classroom successes and figure out what we tried that worked well. Then we'll find out what didn't work well and discuss possible solutions. Did you struggle teaching some of the unfamilar topics? I will help you with that too.

Thinking Skills in the Common Core: Getting Started the Right Way (Grade Levels: K-12) TLC3GH7 - #WS130403

Robin Fogarty NATIONAL PRESENTER: Dr. Robin Fogarty, returns to Cobb County to support our focus on the Common Core and the rigor of the thinking skills that are required for our learners. Dr. Fogarty will speak to the "teaching students explicitly how to think, to analyze critically, to hypothesize with confidence, to clarify with purpose and to make inferences that matter is the mark of college and career readiness". This session will explore literacy-filled curriculum across all disciplines.

Session H – 2:15-3:30 ...But I'm NOT the ESOL teacher! (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3H1 - #WS130404 Sean Bagley & Michael Sinnett

Teachers often struggle with what to do with their EL kids in their regular ed classes. We're going to teach some vocabulary strategies based on Marzano strategies that all teachers can use for all students to improve the basis of all learning--vocabulary. The 6 Marzano steps will help all students grasp the subject matter in order to help them be successful.

Chemistry Demos That Teach and Engage! (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3H2 - #WS130405

Linda Patterson If you find a need to pump up your demos in chemistry classes you teach, while still connecting to the standards, this is the training course for you! Creating a Culture of Thinking (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3H3 - #WS130406 Ashley Melville How can social studies classrooms become places of intellectual stimulation where learning is viewed not in test scores but in the development of individuals who can think, plan, create, question, and engage independently as learners? This session will offer educators research-based solutions for creating just such cultures of thinking. Participants will learn how thinking can be made visible through thinking routines designed by researchers at Harvard’s Project Zero. These thinking routines are simple strategies for scaffolding thinking that are meant to be woven into a teacher’s ongoing classroom practice. By applying these processes, thinking becomes visible as learners ideas are expressed, discussed, and reflected upon.

Don't Flip Out! - Learn How to Implement the Flipped Model of Instruction in Your Elementary Classroom (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3H4 - #WS130407

Sheila Fisher & Patrick Young Can't get it all done? Want to spend class time on more engaging activities? Participants will learn how to begin implementing the Flipped Model of instruction in elementary classrooms and how to differentiate learning for their students. Tips on video taping your lessons, using Google documents and Edmodo to flip your class will be shared. F.A.M.E. (Family Achievement Makes Excellence- Giving ESOL Families the Tools for Success) (Grade Levels: K-5) TLC3H5 - #WS130408 Kathy O'Hara-Rosa & Michelle Jorgensen F.A.M.E. (Family Achievement Makes Excellence) is a program that builds on the home-school partnership. It is aimed to meet the needs of the entire ESOL family through tutoring, enrichment, and family literacy. This presentation will provide an overview of the program along with strategies that have been found successful for our ESOL students and their families.

FBI Busts Boredom with Buddy Readers (Grade Levels: K-3) TLC3H6 - #WS130409 Brad Cohen & Peggy Creighton Learn how Addison Elementary fostered parental involvement with our Fathers Being Involved (FBI) program to incorporate dads as reading mentors using technology resources such as ebooks, Kindles, ipads, and subscription-based online resources to build reading skills in the primary grades. Photos and videos of this program in action as well as demonstrations of the reading apps, websites, and subscription resources we used will be shared. In addition, we will share how the FBI program is played out through the rest of the school with monthly FBI breakfasts, meetings, and volunteer opportunities for our dads. Follow the journey of our FBI program so your school may be able to enjoy the same benefits as ours! Helping Students with Disabilities Achieve the Goals of the Common Core through Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (Grade Levels: 9-12) TLC3H7 - #WS130410 Kathy Arnold & Melissa Lummis This session will provide participants engaging ways to help students with disabilities access the common core standards. Particpants will be able to explain the history of UDL and provide examples that can implemented in the classroom. Presenters will provide attendees will resources and strategies they can implement in their classrooms.

Hold Me, Touch Me, Teach Me: Using everyday manipulatives to increase relevance in middle grades math. (Grade Levels: 6-8) TLC3H8 - #WS130411

Austin Smith & Susan Ridgeway Many middle school students find it difficult to learn abstract mathematical concepts. Often the use of manipulatives can make these concepts more concrete, but the right manipulative is not always available. This session will share some different methods for using existing manipulatives to teach abstract concepts as well as ways to create manipulatives from everyday and household objects.

Problem-Based Learning: A Multi-Literacy Approach to Common Core (Grade Levels: 6-12) TLC3H9 - #WS130412

Michael Bennett Learn how to create a multi-literacy classroom using Problem-Based Learning to teach real-world applications of Common Core. Session will focus on developing a PBL lesson plan that you can use in your classroom to engage your students when we return to school in August. Teachers+Media Specialists = Common Core Dream Come True (Grade Levels: 1-5) TLC3H10 - #WS130413 Dawn Alexander & Susanne Smith East Side's media specialist and a classroom teacher share valuable resources, ways to meet common core standards by working together, and examples of how they are already doing this! Leave this session ready to start next school year knowing you might be making a few more trips to the media center.

Using Social Media to Increase Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships (Grade Levels: K-8) TLC3H11 - #WS130414

Tim O'Neill & Angela Fry In this session, participants will increase their knowledge of various educational resources to both expand their own Professional Learning Networks as well as engage students with higher level thinking while incorporating technology. Participants will leave this session with multiple websites and resources which can be implemented into their classrooms to increase rigor, relevance, and relationships while empowering students.

Who Has Time for Reading Conferences? (Grade Levels: 2-5) TLC3H12 - #WS130415 Marti Rosner

"How can I possibly do this? There's no time!" If you're struggling to move your readers forward, this session will show you a way to get more from them in a short period of time. Conferences, approached through meaningful conversation, offer knowledge to guide students up the text complexity ladder.

Your Guide to Interactive Science Notebooks (Grade Levels: 3-5) TLC3H13 - #WS130416 Stacey Duffy

Come and learn how to use interactive notebooks as ongoing assessment and feedback tool. Interactive notebooks assist student in developing higher order thinking and reasoning skills. It is the perfect tool to integrate language arts, particularly writing, and mathematics. During the session you’ll see sample student journals from Cobb students and even create a few entries in your very own journal!