11TH ANNUAL BEST PRACTICES SHOWCASE
March 4, 2017
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Registration beginning at 7:30 a.m.
Sessions beginning at 8:00 a.m.
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS
2701 SPRING STREET
FORT WAYNE, IN 46808
Has your school corporation canceled all your professional development? Are you wondering about…? Are you struggling with…?
Join us Saturday, March 4th as educators share with educators their best practices.
Please note sessions require advance registration. All seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis with a limit of 23 attendees to most
sessions. Review the 75 scheduled sessions and plan your Showcases experience today!
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SESSION A (8:00-8:50 am)
Title
A1
Dazed and
Confused?
A2
Common Sense
Approaches to
Classroom
Management
A3
Strategies for
Literacy Success
A4
THINKING
MAPS!!!
A5
Enhance Your
Instruction with
Technology
A6
Guided Math
Description
Join us for a session on small group guided reading strategies.
Strategies will be presented for primary readers. . . .fluency, phonics
and comprehension. We will also offer guidance on using data to
organize groups and target instruction.
During this session, we will focus on a common sense approach to
classroom management that focuses on teaching self-discipline while
maintaining or building relationships with the students. We can
replace the typical educator responses of anger, lectures, threats, or
repeated warnings with empathy followed by logical consequences.
Literacy strategies focusing on Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary
skills. Designed for English Language Learners, but can be beneficial
for all students.
Presenter
Joy Forbes and
Deb Honn
Indian Village
Elementary
John Snyder
Whitko High
School
Heather Schrock
and Tiffany
Heine - Prince
Chapman
Academy
Have you ever wondered? Are you curious? Come be inspired and
Kelly Monasa
learn how to utilize a Thinking Map to build comprehension skills and and Susan
writing skills!! This session is open to teachers K-12
Pastre –
Northcrest
Elementary
Curious about how to not only use technology in classrooms, but
Shannon
incorporate it into what you are already doing? Learn how various
Quigley and
apps including See Saw, One Note, Showbie, Instashare, and others
Sara Shipe
make technology not just an “extra thing to do” but one that will
Harris
enhance what you are already doing in your classroom.
Elementary
Guided Math is a way to meet the mathematical needs of all students
Vincent Serrani
through a familiar small group station based routine. With guided
Weisser Park
Math, students receive game time, technology time, whole group
Arts Magnet
School
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Audience
Elementary
Room
DOER 004
All Levels
DOER 062
K-8
DOER 050
K-12
DOER 047
Elementary
DOER 061
Elementary
DOER 161
revised 2/6/2017
A7
Building
Empathy in a
Classroom
A8
Play, Explore,
Create, and
Learn
A9
A Paperless
Classroom??
Learn How!
A10
A Better Means
of Assessing
Student
Achievement
A11
Keep Them
Engaged!
A12
Art’s Impact on
Project-Based
Learning
instruction, enrichment and remediation each day during their math
block.
Building empathy in the classroom creates a positive classroom
culture, strengthens community, and prepares students to be leaders in
their communities. Join us to find out simple – anybody can do these
things – ideas for creating and building empathy in your classroom
Jessica Patton
sand Tara
Walulik
St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton
Do you want to teach and empower your students through play?
Melissa
Come to an interactive session where you can walk away with ideas to LaShure - West
use in your classroom.
Noble
Elementary
This session will show you how to get started with creating a
Sean Miller paperless classroom. We will be using interactive student response
East Allen
apps such as AnswerPad and Plickers as well as the paperless
County Schools
homework app Showbie. This session will also focus on making
Social Studies “fun” for both teachers and students.
This session will explore ways to assess student mastery by crafting
Casey Stansifer
student-friendly rubrics that clearly outline criteria for student
- Northwest
success. A clean, detailed rubric will make communicating
Allen County
expectations easier prior to the assessment, AND it will make
Schools
delivering feedback easier after students turn it in. Not only will you
learn ideas on how to craft rubrics, but you will gather ideas on how
to USE them for instruction and how to get students to USE them
before, during, and after the lesson.
Utilize the student’s desire to move and socialize to your advantage.
Stephanie Apt
Experience various checks for understanding paired with frequent
Memorial Park
brain breaks to not only gather student data, but to keep the
Middle School
engagement and energy high in the middle school math classroom.
The collaboration of a middle school art teacher with a high school
Brenda Betley
English teacher to incorporate the elements and principles of art to
and Rita
improve student design, communication of concepts, and presentation Whitman for any classroom’s project-based learning activities will be offered.
Prairie Heights
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Elementary
DOER 164
Elementary
DOER 225
All Grades
DOER 230
All Grades
DOER 231
Middle
School/High
School
DOER 232
Grades 5-12
JPII 115
revised 2/6/2017
Art design and writing concepts, techniques, and standards will be
delivered to attendees with art journal samples to make and take.
A13
Using
Technology to
Individualize
Lessons
A14
High Ability
Education
A15
Reading Art!
In an education system where the gaps between the highest students
and the lowest students seem to be growing how can we design
instruction so that it is meaningful to the lowest student and the
highest. Learn how technology can help break down some of these
gaps and barriers, and shift the focus of the lesson from being teacher
driven to student driven.
There are many facets to high ability education. In this session, you
will learn about a variety of ways to help high ability learners find
success and reach their potential-emotionally and academically.
Would you like to see how easy it is to incorporate art in literacy?
Come see how you can combine the two together and make learning
fun!
Formerly B8
Middle School;
Ward Education
Center
Mark Rose Homestead
High School
Middle
School/High
School
JPII 113
Carrie Shappell
- East Allen
County Schools
Angela
Applegate and
Renee Wyss Fairfield &
Lindley
Elementary
Schools FWCS
Middle
School/High
School
All Grades
JPII 114
JPII 301A
Presenter
Scott Fudge Churubusco
Elementary
School
Wendy Meek
and Jenn Fitch
Northwest
Allen Schools
Audience
Elementary
Room
JPII 318
Elementary
JPII 307
SESSION B (9:05-9:55 a.m.)
Title
B1
For the Love of
Books!!
Description
Read-Alouds are crucial to any classroom across all grades and
subjects. Come see a plethora of books and how to use in multiple
grades and cross-curricular.
B2
Interactive
Writing -Jazzing
up writing with
Are you looking for a way to jazz up your interactive writing? Come
and see some examples, idea starters, and tricks to start a fire in your
young writer. This will help and excite and motivate young writers!
Walk away with sample in your hand to try on your own
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some dazzling
tricks
B3
Teaching With
Technology:
Engaging
Students with
SeeSaw
B4
WNP's RTI
Journey, a
Teacher's
Perspective
Come find out about some engaging ways to keep your young students
excited about learning. We will be focusing on how you can use the
SeeSaw app to enhance student learning, along with a few other ways
to incorporate technology!
Lisa Unger &
Holly Talboom
Southwick
Elementary
School
Elementary
JPII 316A
Have you ever wondered how to implement a tier system without
tears? Do you have trouble reaching your high ability students while
still meeting the needs of your struggling learners? Learn how West
Noble Primary structures their framework around I Ready, local
assessments, standards based report cards, and data log meetings. Let
us guide you through our journey, so you don't have to cry over yours.
Lorri Garner,
Danielle Sitts,
Michelle
Griffith, Julie
Hanna, Robert
Martin, Elias
Rojas, & Brian
Shepherd West Noble
Primary School
Tiffany
Armstrong Abbett
Elementary
School
Deaneen
Pashea, Faith
Erexon, Kari
Rathke, and
Jaime Carroll –
East Noble
School
Corporation
Shannon
Gregory
Elementary
DOER 191
Elementary
DOER 166
Elementary
DOER 063
All Grades
DOER 165
B5
More Than Story
Time
Mentor texts are a great way for students to connect a character or
story to many different content standards in reading and writing. A
single book can cover multiple standards and concepts.
B6
Comprehension
Skills
Want to improve your student’s comprehension skills? Come Notice
and Note with us!
B7
This workshop will focus on the environment a strong leader can help
develop amongst team members. Our team will discuss collaboration
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Leadership For
Fun and
Effective
Collaboration
B8
Reading Art!
that is not only effective for student growth, but enjoyable and helpful
for educator growth as well. My team and I will introduce action steps
that allow collaboration to flow more organically. Our goal is to
combine some insight and enthusiasm that will encourage all educators
in building effective and fun collaboration teams
Would you like to see how easy it is to incorporate art in literacy?
Come see how you can combine the two together and make learning
fun!
Moved to A15
B9
Google
Classroom
B10
Writing
Measurable IEP
Goals
This session will teach you from start to finish how to set-up and use
Google Classroom in your day along with giving you a few extra tips
along the way.
Writing measurable IEP goals and monitoring student progress is a
difficult process. Come learn how following a few concepts and
frameworks can help make your job easier.
B11
Actively Learn
Actively Learn is an online reading program containing an assortment
of texts for reading across curricula, from primary social studies
sources to science articles to poems and short stories and novels.
Students have text features when reading, including looking up
definitions, letting the instructor know they do not understand a
section, leaving comments for other students to see, immediately
seeing peer responses, and receiving real-time instructor feedback on
their work. Reading becomes much more of an interactive process
with Actively Learn. It will be helpful to have a laptop and access to
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Fort Wayne
Community
Schools
Angela
Applegate and
Renee Wyss Fairfield &
Lindley
Elementary
Schools FWCS
All Grades
David Woldford All Grades
DOER 229
Lindsey Lortie
and Cassie
Lepper - East
Allen County
Schools Special
Education
Jason Beer
Homestead
High School
Southwest
Allen Schools
All Grades
DOER 226
Grades 6-12
JPII 107
revised 2/6/2017
B12
Learning a New
Language:
Immersion VS
Instruction
B13
Cooperative
Learning in the
Classroom
B14
ISTEP Prep for
Extended
Response
Questions
(Mathematics)
the internet. I will walk participants through how to sign up and begin
using the program.
This presentation will review two opposing theories on second
language acquisition: Immersion Methods and Explicit Instruction.
Some ideas for combining both approaches by reinforcing explicit,
scaffolded vocabulary and grammar instruction with interactive selfexpression activities will be presented.
Cooperative Learning can create a successful classroom culture, one
that is safe, fun, and, most of all, enables students to learn from each
other. In this session, we will discuss some easy to implement
cooperative learning strategies to use in the classroom.
The workshop discusses a weekly/monthly standardized test prep
lesson that is scaffolded to students’ math ISTEP scores. Our goal is to
make the often overwhelming extended response questions less
intimidating and encourage students to persevere and collaborate
though problems they cannot quickly answer.
Amy Selman Carroll High
School
Middle
School/High
School
JPII 110
Ben and Carrie
Shappell - East
Allen County
Schools
Jacob Scare
Memorial Park
Middle School
Middle
School/High
School
JPII 112
Middle
School
JPII 308
SESSION C (10:15-11:05 a.m.)
Title
C1
Changing
Lives...1 Brain at
a Time
C2
My Classroom is
Like a Video
Game
Description
Students are blessed with amazing teachers who really reach
students. Then why are there so many students who struggle
cognitively and physically, with emotional and social problems?
Students need something different, and it has nothing to do with
instruction. We will examine what the brain needs to function at its
best and allow students to reach their FULL potential! This program
will change the lives of your students, their families, and you!
Many of our students’ favorite hobby is playing video games. They
will spend countless hours persevering through a video game, but
will give up very easily when it comes to academic work. What if we
could design our curriculum to model the mechanics of a video game
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Presenter
Matt Martin Plainfield
Community
Middle School
Audience
K-12
Room
DOER 062
Matt Brenner Covington
Elementary
Elementary
DOER 230
revised 2/6/2017
while focusing on students mastering academic content? This session
will provide participants with a model of instruction based on video
game research that engages students and ensures mastery
Hooks, goal-writing ideas, rewards, scaffolding techniques, and
rapport-building strategies will be shared along with ways to move
your students towards a sense of autonomy.
Becky Richhart
and Lori Heise Meadow's Edge
Elementary
School, PennHarris-Madison
School
Corporation
Want strategies to stretch your writers' potential and increase their
Shannon
C4
Be an Amazing
creativity? Children's book author, teacher, and gifted coordinator,
Anderson - Van
Writing Teacher! Shannon Anderson, will share her experience from the classroom and Elementary
as a professional writer to give you tips and exercises you will use for School
many years to come.
Robin and Robyn will bring their brand of teaching humor directly
Robin Dietrich
C5
The Mind's Eye-- from their 5th grade classrooms to encourage THINKING and
and Robyn
Visualizing and
VISUALIZING while reading.
Schaetzel Comprehension
Kankakee Valley
Intermediate
School
Anger is not a problem by itself because it is merely a feeling a lot
Dr. John
C6
Anger
like happiness. Every student will become angry at some point during Brinkman
Management: A school, but explosive anger can be harmful and damage the delicate
University of
Humanistic
relationships within the classroom setting when left unaddressed.
Saint Francis
Approach to
This curriculum has been adapted to help elementary and junior high Robin Gene
Unconditional
school students relate better to others by understanding the origins of VanDeventer, MS
Positive Regard
their anger behavior so explosion is less likely to occur.
Ed.
Coordinator
In School Skills
Program
Park Center, Inc.
C3
Get HOOKED
on Motivation!
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Elementary
JPII 114
Elementary
DOER 231
Elementary
DOER 232
Elementary
and Middle
School
JPII 301A
revised 2/6/2017
C7
Google Forms
C8
Classroom
Management 101
C9
Art Across the
Curriculum
C10
12 Highly
Effective
Formative
Checks for
Understanding to
Implement
NOW"
C11
Engage Students
with Pop Culture
CANCELLED
C12
Easing into a
Digital World
Using Google Forms for assessments and more in the classroom.
David Woldford
All Grades
DOER 047
Do you ever feel like your classroom is complete chaos? Do you feel
like your classroom needs to be more organized with more clear
expectations? Come and listen to some strategies that can help you
as a teacher transition from activities, manage a classroom in
different settings (small group, whole group, partner work,
conferencing), and see classroom management in action. You will
also get a literacy activity to use in your classroom.
Attendees will learn how to incorporate art to go along with their
curriculum studies (math, language arts, science and social studies).
Each attendee with receive a booklet with color photographs to
follow along during the presentation and to use later in the classroom
From Hattie to Marzano, all educational research highlights one truth
in student achievement: frequent, effective formative checks for
understanding is the key. This session will empower you with 12
formative instructional practices that you can easily implement that
will increase your productive talk, critical thinking, and collaboration
among students.
Mrs. Katherine
Frisk
Memorial Park
Middle School
All Grades
DOER 004
Jim Buchler
All Grades
Art Teacher
Heritage/Woodlan
Elementary
Sandy Adams
All Grades
Consultant,
specializing in
Depth of
Knowledge and
Rigorous
Instruction
DOER 050
Today's students will watch Youtube videos and reality TV for hours
on end, yet they often have trouble concentrating in the classroom.
Come learn ways to incorporate a little fun and pop culture into your
lessons with Iron Chef, the Amazing Race, Epic Rap Battles, and
more!
Going one-to-one or just need some fresh and innovative ideas on
how to incorporate technology effectively? Our session will highlight
creative ways (and free sites) on how to embed technology into your
lesson plans for engagement, alternative instruction, and ease
Chantell Manahan All Grades
- MSD of Steuben
County
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Jody Bergman
and Sarah
Heppner Greensburg Jr.
High School
Middle
School/High
School
JPII 115
DOER 164
revised 2/6/2017
C13
Build Your PLN
(professional
learning
network)
I began building my PLN a little over a year ago (February 2016)
after 26 years of teaching, and it is one of the best professional
decisions I have ever made. Join this session to gain an
understanding of why you should have an online PLN, discover
where to find people to connect with, and start building your own
PLN. Device needed to fully participate in this session.
Kara Guiff - Oak
Hill United
School
Corporation
Middle
School/High
School
DOER 161
C14
Building
Community
Partnerships
C15
Individualizing
Instruction
Through the
Flipped
Classroom
How can we best engage our students in our content? Do you want to
incorporate community partners in your classroom, but you are just
not sure where to start? Learn how to utilize your community to
create authenticity in the classroom and best engage your students.
How to effectively flip your classroom to allow for the
individualization of instruction. Learn the framework and receive
support to assess and teach small groups. Kelsey Pierce –
DeKalb High
School
Middle
School/High
School
DOER 061
Bill Skelton
Mathematics
(Honors Alg. 2 /
Geometry)
Homestead High
School
Middle
School/High
School.
Preferably
one to one
computing.
Math
focused.
JPII 113
SESSION D (11:15-12:05 a.m.)
Title
D1
The Biggest
Reader- A 30
Book Reading
Challenge
Description
Are you ready to challenge your students and find ways to promote a
love of reading? This session details an action research project which
was conducted throughout the 2013-14 school year in a fifth grade
class. These students put independent reading to the test to see how it
would impact their academic success as well as their attitudes toward
reading. The project was so successful that it is still being
implemented with the teacher's current class today! You will leave
this session energized and ready to get your student excited about
reading!
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Presenter
Julie McCoy and
Barbara Boggs Haley
Elementary/FWCS
Strategic
Initiatives
Audience
Elementary
Room
JPII 316A
revised 2/6/2017
D2
Practical Tips for
Using Google
Apps in the
Classroom
D3
Amplify the Joy
of Reading with
Technology
D4
Choosing Words
to Teach:
Strategies and
Activities for
Teaching
Academic
Vocabulary
D5
Building
Relationships
through the Fruit
of The Spirit
D6
Behavior
Modification for
ALL Students
This session is led by a Google Certified Educator and will teach
participants tips and tricks on how to utilize Google Apps for
Education (GAFE) in the K-12 classroom. Participants will learn
about using Google tools like Google Cast, Fluency Tutor, and
Doctopus to make a more productive and engaging learning
environment. Some prior familiarity with Google Apps will be
beneficial for participants who are attending.
Low-stress/High-impact/No-budget ideas to Amplify the Joy of
Reading among students and staff in your building using technology.
If you are looking for new ways to work vocabulary into your
instruction (and for students to remember taught vocabulary) then
this session is for you! Bring a picture book or text you will soon use
to teach reading, science, or social studies and walk away with a
ready to go strategy and/or activity to do with your lesson. Proven,
easy to implement strategies and ideas will be shared
“Do you ever wonder how you can connect further with your
students? How to reach that one child who just doesn't seem to care?
What about getting parents involved? Or maybe you just want to
connect further with those within your school?
Learn how to implement these 9 Character traits that will change
your relationships with students, parents and colleagues!"
Tried and true techniques for managing small to significant behaviors
in the school setting. Please email any specific behaviors that you
would like to have addressed. Make it - Take it's will be available for
some of the techniques/strategies.
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Matt Brenner Covington
Elementary
Elementary
JPII 318
Kristin Patrick &
Stephanie Dale Brooks School
Elementary
Cynthia McKenzie
- Bremen Public
Schools
K-8 Literacy
Coach
Elementary
JPII 308
Elementary
JPII 307
Lynn Stone
Meredith Gaines
Jenny Moore
Lakewood Park
Christian School
Elementary
DOER 063
Michele Loveall - Elementary
Ouabache
Elementary School
revised 2/6/2017
JPII 112
D7
Paperless
Rubrics in the
Art Room
We will share how we develop and why we use paperless rubrics in
the 3-12 Visual Arts classroom.
D8
40 Days of
Gratitude
Introducing a program of 40 days to cultivate an attitude of Gratitude
to create a calmer, more productive environment as well as stronger
connections in any work or study group. This program meets as a
group once a week but thrives on daily interactions and shared
challenges through emails and private social media groups. In this 40
Days we change our own behaviors and begin to create a positive
change in our community
A project-based, differentiated activity that allows students to pursue
their individual passions, and encourages creativity, culminating in a
public presentation. Learn more about how to begin, monitor and
evaluate, and encourage students to become lifelong learners.
One of the most essential needs in our schools today are learning
environments where children’s ideas, questions, and needs are the
main priority in what we do. Through my own research and
experience as an educator, I have found that one of the most
significant shapers of my environment is the culture of that
environment.
Fun interactive assessments that you can create or search the library
and adjust the Kahoot just for your classroom. Quick and easy to read
results show you instantly what your students know.
The Read Aloud Committee is back with great titles for 2017.
Discover more great titles you can use in your classroom. Whether
it’s a picture book, chapter book, or a selection from a novel, you will
come away with great read aloud titles you can use with your
students!
D9
Genius Hour
D10
Creating the
Learning
Environment
D11
Kahoot
D12
2017 Indiana
Read Alouds
Too Good to
Miss!
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Missy Czaja and
Bernadette Weller
- New Haven
Intermediate and
New Haven High
School
Marlas Robrock
mYoga Studio
Grades 3-12
Any
ProjectBased class
DOER 229
All Grades
DOER 226
Deb Blaz - Angola
High School
All Grades
JPII 110
Drew Graber –
Heritage
Intermediate
School
All Grades
DOER 166
Jennifer Sholl EACS
All grades
DOER 191
Charles Pieri
Read Aloud
Committee ChairElkhart Public
Library
All Grades
DOER 165
revised 2/6/2017
Hella Rumschlag
Mohawk Trails
Elementary
Sue Salamone
Johnson County
Public Library
Connecting to people outside of their school community helps
students care more about the quality of their work, engage in
learning, increase their digital citizenship skills, step outside their
comfort zones, and see themselves as citizens of a global society.
Join this session to hear examples of successful connections, get and
share ideas for connecting, and begin to build connections for your
students. Device needed to fully participate in session.
In a typical World Language classroom there is a wide range of
D14
Meeting All
abilities and skill levels. While Student A has mastered the day’s
Needs in the
activity and finished 10 minutes before class ends, Student B is still
World Language struggling to grasp the basic concepts. How do you keep the high
Classroom
achieving students engage in the language without you guiding them?
Learn how to have engaging, self-paced, ready-to-go activities for
your high achieving students in the World Language classroom.
Includes both technology based and hands-on activities.
Participants will be presented and work a variety of mathematically
D15
Mathematically
rich math problems for grades 7 – 12. Creating mathematical
Rich Problems to discourse in your classroom will be modeled as participants work
Create
through the problems. Many great resources for mathematically rich
Mathematical
problems and for mathematical discourse will be shared, discussed,
Discourse
and provided for participants to use in their classrooms. Come join
D13
Making Global
Connections for
Your Students
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Gigi ShookRetired
Center Grove High
School
Kara Guiff - Oak
Middle
Hill United School School/High
Corporation
School
Sara Chronister
Maple Creek
Middle School
JPII 107
Middle
School/High
School
JPII 114
Middle
School/High
School
DOER 225
Lillian Zehner,
Carroll Middle
School
Bill Reed
Secondary Math
and STEM
Specialist
revised 2/6/2017
the fun of working some cool math problems you didn’t have to
create!
Indiana
Department of
Education
SESSION E (12:15- 1:05 p.m.)
Title
E1
Using
Technology to
Mix Learning
and Fun
E2
LEGOS and
iPads Creating is
Awesome
E3
Developing
Details in
Narrative and
Informative
Writing Grades
2-6
Description
With the multitude of web-based tools and apps available for teachers
to use with their students, it is difficult to determine which are the
most useful in a classroom setting. This session will introduce
participants to several web-based tools and apps that can enhance
student learning in the classroom. These tools include websites such
as Prodigy Game, Storyboard That, Quizizz, and Quizlet Live.
This session will include hands on learning with Legos and free iPad
apps in the elementary classroom. Teachers will learn how to
incorporate legos into digital projects on the iPad using free apps.
Teachers should come with iPads and will be loading free apps to use
during the session. This session is hands on and interactive and
teachers will leave with lots of ideas to use in the elementary
classroom.
Discover how writers us a repertoire of details to develop the heat of
their message. We will look at mentor texts for details, and then
consider how we can teach these qualities of craft strategically to our
students.
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Presenter
Matt Brenner Covington
Elementary
Audience
Elementary
Room
DOER 004
Anita Goodwin
Elementary
and Sandy
Sprunger - South
Adams Elementary
School
DOER 007
Mindy Hoffar
All Write
Consortium
Director
DOER 050
Elementary
revised 2/6/2017
E4
Classroom
Management
The Key to Student Success: Yes, it really is easy for 99% of your
students.
Michele Loveall - Elementary
Ouabache
Elementary School
DOER 164
E5
Plan, Prep, &
Organize Daily 5
in the Primary
Classroom
E7
Looking Back at
What Students
Know in Order
to Help Learning
Grow
In this session, we will share our method of planning, prepping, and
organizing Daily 5 for the year focusing on mini-lessons, work on
writing, and word work. We will provide resources that we created
and share samples of purchased resources.
Nikki Strasser &
Amanda
Waybright - Eel
River Elementary
Elementary
DOER 062
This presentation will focus on how Teacher-Librarians can use
power standards from the AASL 21st Century Learner Standards to
measure student learning in their library programs by using formative
and summative assessments. Teacher-Librarians can prove the impact
that they are making on students' learning and the important and vital
role their library programs play in the education process. Within this
presentation attendees will see real life examples of how power
standards, assessments, and professional learning communities are
utilized in the Warsaw Community Schools Library program.
In this session, participants have the opportunity to explore the
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) Assessment. This
tool helps people to identify and understand their conflict-handling
style and how that affects interpersonal and group dynamics.
Wendy Kovach Warsaw
Community
Schools/Gateway
All Grades
DOER 161
Natalie Wagoner
Director of the
Career Center &
Employer
Relations
All grades
DOER 061
E8
ConflictHandling Styles
During this session, we will explore the characteristics of all conflict
handling styles. Then, we will learn to use the five practical,
situation-specific styles for dealing with conflict effectively. Because
there is only a brief time for this session, we will only scratch the
surface. So be sure to come ready for discussion to get the most of
the time!
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University of
Saint Francis
revised 2/6/2017
E9
Structure and
Assessment in
Project-Based
Learning
E10
Are You Ready
For 2017
ISTEP+ Math
Grades 6-8 and
10?
E11
BreakoutEdu It's Time for
Something
Different
E12
Google Apps for
Education
E13
Teaching
Children About
Consent
Project-Based learning, when structured correctly and implemented
effectively provides the teacher and students the opportunity to not
only learn and teach content and all levels of understanding, but also
allows for unparalleled differentiation. This allows all students to
learn and the teacher to facilitate that learning the most effective way
to best meet the needs of all students.
This session will examine the strategies needed to be successful on
the 2017 ISTEP+ assessment for mathematics for grades and 10.
Participants will learn the importance of having a solid curriculum
map in place aligned to the 2014 mathematics standards to ensure
students are ready to meet the demands of ISTEP+ testing. This
session will demonstrate how to use IDOE documents to create a plan
of action. This will be a "dialogue style" session between presenter
and the participants.
Join a group of educators to solve clues, crack codes, and, hopefully,
"break out" what is in a locked box. If you haven't seen this, you need
to! BreakoutEdu is designed to help students work on problem
solving and teamwork while utilizing any curriculum material.
Bob Loy Creekside Middle
School
Middle
School/High
School
Bob Trammel
Independent Math
Consultant
Middle School
and High
School Math
Teachers and
School
Administrators
Kara Guiff - Oak
Hill United School
Corporation
Middle
School/High
School
DOER 232
This session will focus on using Google Apps For Education (GAFE)
to make your classroom more interactive and collaborative. We will
use Google Docs, Drive, Forms to create, share, and complete
documents all in one spot to make your classroom more efficient. We
will also discuss the use of Google Hangouts in order to take your
kids beyond the classroom walls.
This workshop examines and defines "consent" in the context of
establishing healthy boundaries, building healthy relationships, and
promoting human dignity and explains why it's never too early for
parents, educators, and other professionals to teach children about
consent. The workshop looks at specific messages we can give to
children of all ages to counter rape culture mentalities and prevent
sexual assault.
Sean Miller - East
Allen County
Schools
Middle
School/High
School
JPII 301A
Laurie Gray
Middle
School/High
School
DOER 231
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DOER 047
JPII 114
revised 2/6/2017
E14
Creating
Continuity and
Alignment in
School
Expectations
While Retaining
Teacher
Autonomy
E15
Yoga for Stress
Relief
Project-Based learning, when structured correctly and implemented
effectively provides the teacher and students the opportunity to not
only learn and teach content and all levels of understanding, but also
allows for unparalleled differentiation. This allows all students to
learn and the teacher to facilitate that learning the most effective way
to best meet the needs of all students
Josh Wenning
Region 8 Educator
Service Center
Executive Director
Holly Wenning
Homestead High
School
Secondary (612) – Teachers,
Administrators,
Curriculum
Coordinators
Reduce stress and become centered and grounded with 50 minutes of
deep breathing, movement and mindfulness. Gentle Flow Yoga is a
great way to help alleviate the symptoms of our stressful lives and
move us toward finding our center to reduce stress overall.
Valerie Powers
University of Saint
Francis
Power of One
Yoga Studio
All Grades
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DOER 230
revised 2/6/2017
JPII 115