9th Annual Social Thinking Global Providers’ Conference
June 24­–26, 2016
Friday, June 24, 2016 8:30 a.m. - 4:20 p.m.
Michelle Garcia Winner & Pamela Crooke
8:30 - 8:45
8:45 - 10:15
90 min.
10:15 - 10:35
Perspectives: Viewpoints from Another Lens
EYNOTE
Jed Baker, Ph.D., Director of the Social Skills Training Project
Managing Anxiety and Frustration in Children, Teens and Caregivers
Break
Jed Baker, Ph.D.
10:35 - 12:00
85 min.
12:00 - 12:50
Q and A - Related to his keynote
address
Keri Shoenbrun &
1:35 - 1:45
1:45 - 2:30
45 min.
2:30 - 2:50
2:50 - 3:30
40 min.
3:30 – 3:40
Daphne Papageorge
Middle & High School track:
Using Social Thinking
School-Wide
Elizabeth Burke
Different Treatment
Ideas
Terese Jurgensen &
Alicia Martin
Stephanie Hubbell &
Sarah Bartosch &
Stephanie Pepi
Beyond Test Scores: Building SchoolWide Social Thinking Programming in
Achievement-Driven Settings
Social Inquiry: A Classroom-Based
Approach for Students with Social
Learning Challenges at the Secondary
Level
Books on a Shelf vs. Real Culture
Change: Using Partnership to Infuse
Social Learning into School-Wide
Systems
Is it Skill or is it Will?
Utilizing the Social Thinking-Social
Communication Profile to Create Parent
Partnerships and Tiered Systems of
Supports for Home and School
10 Minute Transition
Sogol Shafiei
Tricia LaPlante
Using Social Thinking to Predict and
Increase Inclusion Success
Break
Jennifer Jones &
Julie Smith &
Social Thinking…Out of the Therapy
Moving Social Thinking Out of the
Office and into the Classroom through
Concrete Specific, and Kind Feedback
Allyson R. Martin
Room, and into the Classroom
Tiffany Myers
Ryan Wexelblatt
Teaching Guys to Communicate Like
Guys
10 Minute Transition
& Debbie Meringolo
Interactive Session about Mental Health
and Parent Concerns
Michelle Garcia Winner, Ryan Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, & Nancy
Tarshis
Interactive Session about Using the We
Thinkers Curriculum
(4-7 years old)
4:20 - 6:00
Between a Rock and a Calm Place:
Classroom Strategies for Students with
Anxiety-Related Behaviors
Connecting Common Core, Social Thinking and Digital Literacy in the Classroom
Nancy Cotton
3:40 - 4:20
40 min
Social Thinking 101
Jessica Minahan
Lunch Provided by Social Thinking
Elementary School track:
Using Social Thinking
School-Wide
12:50 - 1:35
45 min.
Dr. Pamela Crooke
Wine and Cheese Party and a New Product Review
Nancy Clements &
Pamela Crooke
Interactive Session about School-Wide
Implementation of Social Thinking
Components
Saturday, June 25, 2016 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Michelle Garcia Winner & Pamela Crooke
8:30 - 8:45
8:45 - 10:15
90 min.
10:15 - 10:35
10:35 - 12:00
85 min.
12:00 - 12:50
12:50 - 1:50
60 minutes
1:50 – 2:20
30 min
2:20 - 2:40
2:40 – 4:00
80 min.
Perspectives: Looking Inside Out
EYNOTE
Dr. Ross Greene & Michelle Garcia Winner
Complementary Angles: Using Collaborative & Proactive Solutions in Tandem with Social Thinking to Solve
Problems and Teach New Skills – A Brand New Discussion
Break
EYNOTE
Dr. Ross Greene & Michelle Garcia Winner
(continued)
Lunch Provided by Social Thinking
EYNOTE
Matthew Geary & Christa Perkins
Lessons Learned Combining CPS (Collaborative & Proactive Solutions) and Social Thinking School-Wide Across our
School District
EYNOTE
Dr. Ross Greene & Michelle Garcia Winner
(continued)
Break
EYNOTE
Dr. Ross Greene & Michelle Garcia Winner
Wrap up and Q and A
Sunday, June 26, 2016 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
9:00 - 10:30
90 min.
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 12:00
75 min.
(includes
audience
activities)
12:00 - 12:50
12:50 - 1:35
45 min.
1:35 - 1:45
EYNOTE
Dr. Pamela Crooke & Michelle Garcia Winner
If You Build It, They Will Come (So let’s build it right)
Break
Nancy Clements
Being the Boss of Your Brain: Brain
Boards and Beyond!
2:30 - 2:45
2:45 – 4:30
105 min.
Ann Gray
Using Humor, Theatre, and Collaborative
Script Writing to Teach Social Thinking
Concepts
How to Implement Peer Coaching:
Communication Program for Teens &
Young Adults
Lunch Provided by Social Thinking
Nancy Tarshis, Noor Al Radi,
& Allison Brudner
What If: Using Social Thinking to Teach
The Power of Imagination?
Linda Murphy
Elizabeth Sautter &
How Can We Encourage Kids to Think
Critically? Exploring Mindful Use of Language by Parents and Professionals
Kristen Wilson
Emily Vizza
Amy Cummings &
Teaching Update: Why We Modified
Whole Body Listening Larry Books to
Create a 2nd Edition
10 Minute Transition
Laurie Kaufman &
1:45 - 2:30
45 min.
Shawn Amador
Katy Shamitz
Complete Stranger to BFF: Using the
New and Improved Friendship Sequence
to Teach Students to Evaluate Their Peer
Relationships and Make True Friends
The Social Thinking Model and Twice
Exceptional Education
Break
EYNOTE
Dr. Pamela Crooke & Michelle Garcia Winner
New Directions and Q and A
Judith Kuegler
Zoom- A Year of Social Thinking at a
Kindergarten through 12 School