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PresenterThursday 10:15-11:30 a.m.

Session 1

Thursday 12:30-1:45 p.m.

Session 2


Session 3

Jack Berckemeyer

Room #132

Understanding 10-15-Year-OldsBeing able to figure out the inner workings of adolescents is key to being a great middle school teacher. Come discover helpful teacher tips on how to relate to young adolescents. Share and apply teaching ideas that meet the needs of middle school students. This session will also provide practical ideas to help with classroom management and behavioral issues from structuring your room to methods for getting a class to simmer down. Connect with your students and discover new ways to relate to them that will surely improve learning.

Teaching Strategies that Motivate Students Looking for fun and motivating ideas for your middle level classroom? This is a hands-on session that provides real, quality strategies in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, grammar, listening, and speaking skills. No philosophy here, just creative ideas to motivate the middle level learner. This is a great session for new (and experienced) teachers.

Effective Use of Team TimeThis practical session focuses on the real-life issues surrounding teaming. We will provide informative examples to help with effective use of team time and how teams can work together to deal with kids, curriculum, and professional development. You might even laugh at Jack’s descriptions of the characteristics of a team member. Based on his book, Taming of the Team.

Kim Campbell

Performing Arts Center

Orchestra Room

Trauma-Informed ClassroomJoin Kim to discuss what trauma is and how our schools and classrooms can meet the needs of students dealing with trauma.

If You Can’t Manage Them, You Can’t Teach ThemHaving the ability to manage kids is a must in creating a classroom where all students have an opportunity to learn. Join Kim as she discusses practical techniques to implement in your classroom to help create a positive learning climate. Based on her book, If You Can’t Manage Them, You Can’t Teach Them, co-authored with Dr. Kay Herting Wahl.

Shake, Rattle and RollLooking for a little “spice” to fire up your students? Want quick, easy activities to engage your class? If so, join Kim and learn hands-on activities and strategies designed to motivate the middle school student. You’ll be shown how some dynamite activities (many of them used in Kim’s geography classes) can be easily adapted to any subject matter.

Monica Genta


Choir Room

180 Days of Celebrating Education Teachers carry 3 P’s with them every day: Passion, Purpose, Positivity. Because of those essential elements, we naturally want to celebrate awesome in classrooms, but that can be hard with all those “extra” things that come when working in schools. Learn to focus on those little amazing moments that have the power to change everything in schools and in lives (because sometimes it’s the small things that make the biggest difference). This session is full of tips, tricks, stories, solid ideas on how to celebrate education with your students and staff on a daily basis!

The Rooted ClassroomPeople often say education is broken, but that’s not true. Education is evolving into something beautiful. No longer are reading, writing, and arithmetic the foundation of learning. It is now about, relationships, relationships, relationships.

If we want to see the fruits of education, first we must build deeply rooted relationships with our students. So how do we do this? This session is full of stories, strategies, and successes of what school looks like when we focus on getting those roots secure and watching as our students flourish. Based on Monica’s book, The Rooted Classroom: Building Deeply Rooted Relationships with Students.

Game ChangersEvery student who walks into your classroom deserves to LOVE that experience. In order to do that we have to reflect on the everyday practices we have in place and transform them from average to awesome! A bell ringer is average, but a learning attack is awesome! Collecting homework is average, but Olympic sprinting to gather them is awesome! Small tweaks to the great things we are already doing makes a big difference. Come learn how to be a game changer for kids and for education! Based on her book, Game Changers: Innovative Teaching Strategies.

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Session 2


Session 3

Percy Hill


Black Box Theatre

Understanding Bully PreventionThis session will review research and strategies that relate to the understanding and prevention of bullying. The participants will have the opportunity to engage in discussion about local, state and national efforts to assess the successes of programs that may be involved in developing and/or expanding programs for bully prevention in schools. In addition, this session will discuss literature and “first-hand” experiences with “empowering the bystander” by teaching and encouraging “upstanding” behaviors to help prevent bullying.

Making the Connection: The Essential TriangleThis session is all about making the connection between family, child (student) and the school. The impact of engaging the “ESSENTIAL TRIANGLE” to maximize the successes of each child in school will be the main topic of discussion. We’ll discuss what parents can and should do to be connected with their child’s school community; and we’ll share ideas and initiatives that lead our schools to offer opportunities to become a sharing and family-friendly community. Each participant will be provided with many activity-based ideas and initiatives to incorporate at school and community.

Games That Make You Go “Ah!”Engage in a variety of fantastic cooperative games and super team building activities that will surely make you go “AH”. The games and activities presented will fit all age groups from kindergarten through high school. (Percy even uses these with his college students, and they love them!)

Laura Hinds

Library

Tackling the Text: Using Annotation to Help Students Better Understand Complicated TextIf you’ve ever asked a middle school student to highlight a text as they read, you have probably noticed that they often highlight the entire text or they don’t take the cap off of the pen. In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to help students to annotate and interact with text by using five strategies we know all good readers use.

Socratic Questioning: A Student-Centered Approach to Addressing HOT QuestionsSocratic Seminars enable students to seek a deeper understanding of text by exploring higher order thinking (HOT) questions through thoughtful dialogue. In this introductory workshop, participants will learn strategies that will help students create HOT questions and conduct Socratic Seminars. We will also discuss resources that will help students prepare for seminar discussions and tips that will help you manage those seminars.

Middle School Debate 101We all know middle school students love to talk and love to argue even more. Put that passion for argument to work for you in your classroom by conducting debates with your students. They will sharpen their research, reading, writing, critical thinking and oratory skills all while having fun and gaining real-world experience. In this session, you will learn about strategies for preparing students for debate, easy ways to plan for and structure debates, and helpful resources.

Rachael McCoy


Small Band Room

Vocabulary: Words Are More Than QuizzesToss those dictionaries and prepare for some fun and interactive strategies for teaching vocabulary. Acquisition of new vocabulary is crucial to comprehension and understanding in all subject areas yet is often taught through mundane tasks. It’s time to liven up those lessons, come and find out how.

This Shift is Crazy: Moving Towards the Growth Mindset“I can’t do this!” The famous four words from students, right? What if all the frustration from kids, parents, and teachers could be eliminated with one simple word. “Yet!” “I can’t do this… yet!” Come explore how changing the way we think about thinking can change everything and walk away with ideas for how to implement the growth mindset in your classroom to instill some grit in your students… and you!

A Guide to Guided ReadingGuided reading is the best way to propel students to the next level by focusing intently on their individual needs. It uses differentiated learning and teaching principles to “meet students where they are.” It is crucial to the success and acceleration of reading proficiency. Come and find out how to incorporate a guided reading model into your daily lessons and watch students develop stronger fluency, comprehension, and most importantly confidence in their reading ability.




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Session 2


Session 3

Anthony Purcell

Room #131

Student Achievement and Recognition Not all students care about grades, but still want to show off what they know and do. Badges are an easy way to motivate students to accomplish work without using grades.

Standards-Based Grading in a Traditional Setting This session will share ideas about how to start standards-based grading in your classroom even if your school is doing traditional grading.

Dedra Stafford

Room #133

Snap4Edu #CriticalThinkinginAnySubjectUsing the camera feature or pictures, we can get kids analyzing text, primary sources, and pictures in a language they understand. Snap uses “Snap Chat”-LIKE methods for having students put their thoughts in annotations and demonstrate understanding. A little technology + critical thinking = lots of fun.

10 Google Tips and Tricks You Need to KnowFrom Google extensions to an in-depth look at Google Docs, Slides, Drawings and more, we will focus on the little tips and tricks that make Google tools awesome in the classroom. Come in, bring your tips, and share!

Teaching Kids to Thrive (Grades 3-12)In order for students to thrive in their frenzied, fast-paced, hyper-connected environments, it is imperative for them to learn important non-cognitive competencies. This workshop addresses how teachers can help students develop the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills of social and emotional learning. From growth mindset to gratitude, we will cover a variety of SEL skills our students need. Based on her book, Teaching Kids to Thrive, co-authored with Dr. Debbie Silver.

Leigh Stovall

Room #134

Fact or Fake? Media Literacy LessonsTeaching students about reliable sources in this digital age can be a challenge. We will examine available online resources to use in the classroom and participate in a sample lesson.

Students Asking Questions: The QFT ModelQuestioning, especially student questioning, is a major trend in education. The book, Making Just One Change, gives detailed instructions on how to implement the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). It is a simple and easy-to-replicate process, based on research from the Right Question Institute. http://rightquestion.org/. This is a hands-on session using QFT with participants, showing how they can make connections and how this can be implemented in their classrooms.

Literacy Strategies for the Social Studies ClassroomEach Social Studies class offers teachers an opportunity to teach literacy through using their content. We all need help finding effective and relevant strategies for our classroom. You will leave this practical session with ideas and resources for incorporating literacy standards in your Social Studies classroom.




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Session 3

Dr. Shannon Vincent


Large Band Room

Dealing with Difficult Parents and StudentsDo you have students in your classrooms who challenge you simply for the sake of a challenge? Do you succumb to the challenge? Or do you continue on the path of student success? This session will offer you the opportunity to meet several students who challenged the rules, the expectations, the dress code, the teachers, and the principal, DAILY. Learn how to turn those situations into positive experiences and survive the difficulties they present each day.

Why Black Boys Fight ... and Other Unanswered QuestionsThis session will highlight a presentation of findings in a research project entitled “Violence-Related Offenses Among African American Males at the Middle School Level” (2003). We will discuss other factors leading to violence-related actions, the issues surrounding underachievement, student perceptions, teacher perceptions, and possible solutions to help students achieve.

Building Equity in Our SchoolsThis session will give light to how and what is necessary to consider equity in our schools and classrooms. From course selection to reward systems, we will analyze equity vs. equality and how our students can be affected. This session is designed to make you think outside the box and create situations of success for your school.

Cathy Walker & Bo Gamble

Room #131

Leadership Matters!The culture of the school comes from the top. It’s important that everyone feels safe, encouraged and empowered. Join Cathy and Bo as they share their insights on successful leadership and how self-efficacy can play a major role in how one approaches goals, tasks, and challenges.

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PresenterFriday 10:15-11:30 a.m.

Session 4

Friday 12:30-1:45 p.m.

Session 5

Friday 2:00-3:15 p.m.

Session 6

Jack Berckemeyer

Room #132

Managing the MadnessJack provides real-life examples and solutions that help with classroom disruptions and management issues. This funny, informative, and entertaining session is designed to explain just why students interrupt our classroom and cause havoc within the school. See how you can develop useable action plans for students and discover not-so-typical ideas to manage a classroom. Based on Jack’s book, Managing the Madness.

Three Hot Topics: Vocabulary, Student-Led Conferences, and Mini coursesExplore how several initiatives can help your school with motivation and morale. Jack will talk about how to implement mini- courses, how student-led conferences can increase parent involvement, and how, in the age of assessments and testing, it is imperative that students not only know the content, they also need to grasp the vocabulary of testing. Fast paced and informative.

Kim Campbell


Orchestra Room

Restorative Justice: What is it and How Does it Work?Research shows that suspending students does NOT change behavior, but rather increases the chances of students dropping out of school and having a direct correlation from the school to prison pipeline. Join Kim to discuss new strategies and new ways to address behavior that uses restorative justice practices by educating students rather than relying strictly on punishment and consequences. Participants will leave the session with several ideas being implemented in Kim’s school in which they are finding tremendous success.

Engaging Boys71% of discipline referrals in public schools are boys. Join Kim as she discusses brain development of boys, strategies to engage boys, and ways to motivate boys to be successful in your classroom. Participants will leave with hands-on activities that work with boys…and the girls love them too!.

Brain Boosters on SteroidsKids can only actively listen to you for as many minutes as their age. Therefore, we must move our students or they will move us in ways we wish we could forget. Join Kim as she demonstrates and models several brain boosters to get kids moving and having fun in your classes.

Chris Culver

Room #135

Beyond the Yellow Highlighter: Making Meaningful Annotations and Text ConnectionsThere are more than the words on the page and we, as teachers, want students to be able to identify various parts of the text and move beyond their highlighting of text. This session will equip teachers with the processes and resources needed to encourage students to move beyond highlighting and make meaningful connections as well as annotations with any text they read. Do you have what it takes to push your students to the reach their highest level and to grapple with any text no matter the level of difficulty? If so, come join Chris!

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Session 4

Friday 12:30-1:45 p.m.

Session 5

Friday 2:00-3:15 p.m.

Session 6

Kelly Forbes

Room #135

Cultural Proficiency: How Fluent Are You?In this session, you will examine and reflect upon your own level of cultural proficiency, and discuss how our teaching is altered, for better or for worse, based on our own levels of cultural proficiency/competency. By pushing yourself a little out of your comfort zone, you will leave this session with a better understanding of how we, as educators, can have a deep respect for all cultures as we continue to strive for academic success in our schools and classrooms. This session is for any educator/school leader who desires a school in which everyone is seen for who they are and valued as such.

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Monica Genta


Choir Room

What Time Is It? Game Time!Get your game face on for this ridiculously engaging session that will get you feeling like a kid again. We know students love the following: competition, candy, and crazy fun! Why not combine all three for this intensely entertaining hour where you can learn some new games that are bound to get your kids learning and loving your subject. Say goodbye to your Jeopardy power-point and come get some fresh ideas that will lead you to educational victory!

Boom! The Sound of Engaging ScienceGet ready to engage in some super fun, exciting, and mind-blowing activities linked to NGSS! Come discover how science is not really just a subject, but more importantly a way of thinking. Demonstrations, experiments, and hands-on activities during this session will get participants excited and motivated to bring real world science back to their students. It’s time our kids are saying WOW when it comes to learning and the time is NOW. Warning! Fire will be used during this presentation.

Percy Hill


Black Box Theatre

Attention Teachers of Elementary Classrooms! Teach Your Students the Important “Soft Skills” through Activity-Based Learning.This session is chock-full of activities that help young students learn and practice many of the most important skills needed to be part of a community of kindness, respect, empathy and positivity. Each activity is carefully designed and presented with a purposeful lesson attached.

Participants will be amazed by the many different activities available to promote the important “soft skills” within the elementary classroom.

Bring Your Middle School Advisory to a Level of Excitement and Engagement through Problem Solving and Team-Building StrategiesThis session will present each participant with situations and scenarios that promote critical thinking skills and cooperative learning through collaboration with others. A major focus of this program is to look at the culture of our school and consider the tangible and intangible evidence that contributes to a safe and productive environment.Each participant will engage in a large variety of activities to promote and encourage building communities where everybody belongs. Everyone will leave with many “hands-on” team-building and problem-solving initiatives. The activities presented are a perfect “fit” for middle school advisory sessions!

Games That Make You Go “Ah!”Engage in a variety of fantastic cooperative games and super team-building activities that will surely make you go “AH”. The games and activities presented will fit all age groups from kindergarten through high school. (Percy even uses these with his college students, and they love them!).

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Session 4

Friday 12:30-1:45 p.m.

Session 5

Friday 2:00-3:15 p.m.

Session 6

Laura Hinds

Library

Centergize Your Classroom: Learning Centers in the Middle School ClassroomHave you been thinking about implementing learning stations in your classroom but aren’t sure where to begin? This hands-on session will provide you with some practical ideas for creating meaningful center activities, teaching students how to work in them, and managing them throughout the year.

A Tell-Tale Trial: Using Short Stories and Novels to Create a Mock TrialMost Language Arts teachers now have a series of standards that require students to cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of that text. Mock trials can provide a way for students to delve deeply into a text and use that text to create a strong argument. In this session, you will learn how to create a mock trial based on a short story or novel that involves a crime. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, critical thinking, and oratory skills all while having fun and gaining real-world experience. This hands-on session will allow you to participate in several elements of a mock trial and learn how to apply this structure to any short story or novel with a criminal element.

Rachael McCoy


Small Band Room

Ditch the Desks! A Guide to Setting Up FLEX Seating in Your Classroom Have you ever considered changing the landscape of your classroom? Ever considered flex seating? Now is the time! Giving students choice and movement in their learning revolutionized my classroom. Creating an environment with Rachael’s students and for her students proved to be nothing short of incredible. Today’s learners need more: more movement, more choice, more engagement. Come see how a few options can provide so much MORE.

ACE’d It!: How Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Can Help You Win in the ClassroomCome and discover what ACEs are all about. We will discuss the toxic stress that kids are facing today and how it is adversely affecting behavior and academic progress. More importantly, come and discover how to do something about it by creating a healthy, supportive classroom environment where ALL kids can thrive!

Unleashing Student Strengths: Focusing on What Makes Students GREAT!Investing time and energy into student strengths can and will pay off in dividends. In fact, character development can lead to huge academic gains in the classroom. Learn the differences between interests, skills, and strengths and how teaching using a strengths-based mindset revolutionized my classroom. Find out how to highlight students’ strengths and shine a light on not what students are great at, but what makes students great!

Anthony Purcell

Room #131

Stop the Worksheets: Games in MathWorksheets are boring! There are ways to get students actively engaged in the classroom and still show what they are learning. Come find ways to have students have fun and not always know they’re learning.

Math Strategies to Encourage ThinkingStudents often want the easy way out of work. They want to find the answer that is “okay” and then move on to the next task. This session will provide ideas to help you find different ways to encourage thinking inside the math classroom.




Session 4

Friday 12:30-1:45 p.m.

Session 5

Friday 2:00-3:15 p.m.

Session 6

Dedra Stafford

Room #133

Creating a SEL Culture in Your Building(Admin session)Before teachers teach the SEL skills they have to use them. How do you get teachers to buy in and want to shift the culture to one that focuses on resiliency, empathy, gratitude, self-efficacy and so much more? Come in and have an honest discussion over SEL and how you can help teachers grow to love teaching them.

101 Ideas for Moving, Learning, and ThinkingIf you want kids to learn and remember research says they have to MOVE. Come in for 101 ways (well almost 101). We will move your students from passive to active with easy to implement engagement ideas that work in most any area. We will highlight and demonstrate web resources and non-tech ideas for the classroom to engage and motivate students while learning any content area. Come in and bring your cape, because you will look like a super teacher when you use these effective techniques.

Get Your Classroom Thinking! Deeper Learning Strategies for Any Classroom (Grades 5-12)Today’s students must not only know facts but also be skilled at identifying salient information and then structuring it for meaning, long-term retention, and application. Summarization is a proven mechanism to boost student achievement, but how do you make it engaging for students? It’s time to revitalize learning and shatter the tedium associated with summarization.

Leigh Stovall

Room #134

Mentoring: The Way to Grow and Keep New TeachersResearch shows that teacher retention is higher when new teachers receive support. Participants will examine materials that can be used for mentor programs and exchange ideas about how to develop a program that fits the needs of their school.

Picture This: Students Finding Evidence to Defend a ClaimWriting is a tough thing for many students. Research is even more painful. This introductory lesson uses pictures books to help students learn how to 1) make a claim, 2) find evidence to support a claim, and 3) defend a claim using the evidence they found. This is a hands-on, practical session where participants will go through the process and come away with graphic organizers for their classroom.

Building Relationships Through ClubsUse of clubs is an excellent way to build relationships among students and between teachers and students. In this interactive session, you will learn about the variety of clubs as you rotate through stations. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about logistics, interact with other participants, and create a plan for implementation.

Dr. Shannon Vincent


Large Band Room

Effective LeadershipDr. Vincent will continue the discussion of the research findings presented in the “Why Black Boys Fight . . . and Other Unanswered Questions” session. This time will give participants the opportunity to ask questions, share successes, analyze reasons for findings, and reach an understanding of the perpetual need to meet African American male students’ emotional and academic needs.

The African American Male: Student’s Guide to Great Teaching Often, educators guess at what ALL students need to be successful. We try one strategy; it does not work; we try a different strategy; and it does not work. This session offers participants real insight into the minds of African American male students who answer this question for us: “What makes a great teacher?” You will be amazed at the answers, suggestions, needs, and desires from African American male students who range from honor students to those previously expelled. Are you looking for answers? We have them for you.

When Girls FightGirl Fight! It is the worst thing to have to break up. Neither girl wants to stop fighting and that is obvious! More than that, it takes several staff members to break it up. For many years, we have wondered what makes girls fight at school. Is it the boys? Is it reality TV? Is it the neighborhood expectation? This session will answer many questions about why girls fight at school, what starts the fight, and what finishes it. When asked what teachers and administrators can do to prevent fights, the girls very candidly describe what they need from school personnel. Get insight into the girls’ thoughts, feelings, and reasons for fighting each other.


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