Schedule for LifeLines for Educators 2017
Successful Strategies for Academic Achievement
Saturday, January 21, 2017, 8:00-3:15
Main campus of Union University
Though pre-registration is not required, pre-registering will reserve a place in your desired
sessions.
Certificates of Attendance will be given for Sessions 1, 2, 3, 4, & the keynote.
Lunch will be on your own between the keynote speaker and session 3.
Some revisions might be made to the schedule.
SESSIONS AT A GLANCE
Room
A-7
(40)
A-9
(40)
D-52
(42)
D-53
(50)
D-54
(50)
BAC-44
(52)
Session 1:
8:30-9:30
Session 2:
9:45-10:45
Keynote
Speaker
11:00-11:45
Session 3:
1:00-2:00
Session 4:
2:15-3:15
Parts is parts – or are
they? -- Fractions can
Make Sense!
Parts is parts – or are
they? -- Fractions can
Make Sense!
CHAPEL
Stronger Together:
Why Planning Together
Creates Better Students
Stronger Together:
Why Planning Together
Creates Better Students
Annette Cornelius
Elem/Mid Sch
Effective Classroom
Management: Reaching
Challenging Students
Annette Cornelius
Elem/Mid Sch
Effective Classroom
Management: Reaching
Challenging Students
Teresa Luna
Michelle Tillman
All Grades
Teach Like a Champion
and Inclusion Students
Michelle Tillman
All Grades
Teach Like a Champion
and Inclusion Students
Tiffany Purnell
Elementary
“Say Dyslexia”:
Tennessee Dyslexia Law
Tiffany Purnell
Elementary
“Say Dyslexia”:
Tennessee Dyslexia Law
Rosetta MayfieldBurford
All Grades
Cracking the Code:
Explicit Phonics and
Spelling Instruction
Rosetta MayfieldBurford
All Grades
Cracking the Code:
Explicit Phonics and
Spelling Instruction
Jennifer Jordan
All Grades
Jennifer Jordan
All Grades
Reading Strategies:
Bridging the gap
between abstract and
concrete
Reading Strategies:
Bridging the gap
between abstract and
concrete
Callie Hodge
Middle School
Callie Hodge
Middle School
Jennifer Jordan
Elementary
It’s the Little Things
that Count: How
Research-Based
Interventions Can Make
a Big Difference in your
Classroom
Jennifer Jordan
Elementary
It’s the Little Things
that Count: How
Research-Based
Interventions Can Make
a Big Difference in your
Classroom
Beth Stratton &
Clinton Smith
All Grades
High Expectations =
Effective Classroom
Management
Beth Stratton &
Clinton Smith
All Grades
High Expectations =
Effective Classroom
Management
Rachel Dreyer &
Kellie Haywood
All Grades
Fun Ways to
Differentiate
Instruction
Beth Sisson
All Grades
Recapturing our
Motivation: Are you an
Egg, a Carrot or a
Bean?
Recapturing our
Motivation: Are you an
Egg, a Carrot or a
Bean?
Belinda Anderson
All Grades
Things You Should
Never Say in an IEP
Meeting
Belinda Anderson
All Grades
Things You Should
Never Say in an IEP
Meeting
Rachel Dreyer &
Kellie Haywood
All Grades
Fun Ways to
Differentiate
Instruction
Beth Sisson
All Grades
Beth Sisson
All Grades
Beth Sisson
All Grades
BAC-45
(30)
BAC-87
(36)
Transforming Negative
Behavior into Positive
Behavior in our
Classrooms
Transforming Negative
Behavior into Positive
Behavior in our
Classrooms
LaToshia Chism
All Grades
LaToshia Chism
All Grades
English Language
Learner Success:
Strategies for
Modifying and
Accommodating in the
Classroom
English Language
Learner Success:
Strategies for
Modifying and
Accommodating in the
Classroom
Katie Watson, Kaylee
Gallagher, & Brigit
Turner
Elementary
Katie Watson, Kaylee
Gallagher, & Brigit
Turner
Elementary
Using Online
Assessments to
Increase Academic
Achievement and
Feedback
Using Online
Assessments to
Increase Academic
Achievement and
Feedback
Michael Young
Mid Sch/High Sch
Fun and Fast
Assessments
Michael Young
Mid Sch/High Sch
Fun and Fast
Assessments
Jessica DeVries
Elementary
Jessica DeVries
Elementary
SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
Session
Room
Level
Presenter/Title
Annette Cornelius
Instructor, University of Memphis
1&2
1&2
1&2
1&2
1&2
1&2
A7
A9
D-52
D-53
D-54
BAC-44
Elem &
Mid Sch
Elem
All
Mid Sch
All
All
Parts is parts – or are they? -Fractions can Make Sense!
Tiffany Purnell
2nd grade teacher, East Elementary,
Humboldt City Schools
Effective Classroom Management:
Reaching Challenging Students
Jennifer Jordan
Director of Literacy & Instructional
Interventions, Lauderdale County
School District
“Say Dyslexia”: Tennessee Dyslexia
Law
Callie Hodge
6th grade ELA teacher, Medina Middle,
Gibson County Special School District
Reading Strategies: Bridging the gap
between abstract and concrete
Belinda Anderson
3rd gr teacher & teacher coach,
Chester County Schools, and adjunct
professor, Freed Hardeman University
Recapturing our Motivation: Are you
an Egg, a Carrot or a Bean?
Beth Sisson
Instructor, Bethel University
Description
The lack of conceptual understanding of fractions is often the
reason Johnny cannot “do fractions”. State Standards require
more than just following procedures or standard algorithms.
Visualization, multiple representation, and modeling strategies
will be used in making sense of fractions and fractional
operations. Or what does it really mean to “invert and
multiply” (“K-C-F”)?
In this session, I plan to give strategies on ways that fellow
educators can use to effectively manage their classrooms. My
strategies will include and focus on ways to manage the
behavior of challenging students, such as, students with ADHD
and behavioral disorders.
The Tennessee General Assembly passed the “Say Dyslexia” bill
in June 2016. The “Say Dyslexia” bill requires schools to screen
students for characteristics of dyslexia and to provide
appropriate interventions for those students who are
identified through screening. Participants will learn more
about the specific requirements of the law related to screening
requirements and specific dyslexia intervention strategies.
Many reading concepts/strategies are, by nature, abstract.
Because of the complexity of so many reading strategies, we as
teachers find it difficult to translate these to our students. In
this session you will be given tested and practical strategies to
use in your classroom when teaching abstract reading
concepts.
Successful strategies for academic achievement can only be
achieved if the morale of the faculty and staff are at an all level
high! It is impossible to assess, manage or instruct a classroom
if you are exhausted, underappreciated, or overwhelmed.
Come find out if you are a bean, a carrot or an egg and
recapture your motivation for teaching.
When we decided to teach, we never imagined how much time
we would have to spend with other regular and special
Things You Should Never Say in an IEP
Meeting
1&2
1&2
3&4
3&4
3&4
BAC-45
BAC-87
A7
A9
D-52
All
LaToshia Chism
Peer Model Teacher, Jackson Madison
County Schools
Elem
Transforming Negative Behavior into
Positive Behavior in our Classrooms
Katie Watson, Kaylee Gallagher, &
Brigit Turner
ESL teachers, Thelma Barker
Elementary, Jackson Madison County
Schools
All
English Language Learner Success:
Strategies for Modifying and
Accommodating in the Classroom
Michelle Tillman
Elementary Supervisor of Curr &
Accountability, Haywood County
Schools
All
Elem
Stronger Together: Why Planning
Together Creates Better Students
Rosetta Mayfield-Burford
Asso. Professor of Spec Ed, Bethel
University
Teach Like a Champion and Inclusion
Students
Jennifer Jordan
Director of Literacy & Instructional
Interventions, Lauderdale County
School District
Cracking the Code: Explicit Phonics
and Spelling Instruction
Beth Stratton & Clinton Smith
Asst. Professors of Spec Ed, University
of TN at Martin
3&4
3&4
3&4
D-53
D-54
BAC-44
All
All
All
It’s the Little Things that Count: How
Research-Based Interventions Can
Make a Big Difference in your
Classroom
Rachel Dreyer & Kellie Haywood
7th gr math teacher/teacher leader
and 4th gr math teacher, Haywood
County Schools
High Expectations = Effective
Classroom Management
Beth Sisson
Instructor, Bethel University
Fun Ways to Differentiate Instruction
education teachers, school counselors, administrators, and
parents. IEP meetings can be scary. Many teachers feel
nervous and intimidated by these meetings. This session will
give you some tips to help put you at ease before you go into
those meetings.
Many educators don’t understand the underlining issues of
defiant behaviors some of our students display in the
classroom. This session will be designed to help educators
understand how to use positive behavior supports as well as
interventions to create more of a learning atmosphere for the
teacher and students in the classroom.
This session provides an introductory overview of second
language (L2) acquisition stages and cultural considerations for
teachers of English Learners (ELs). Using these considerations,
the ESL teacher team from Thelma Barker in JMCSS will
provide general and discipline-specific strategies for modifying
classwork, making TN Ready standards accessible, and
accommodating for differing levels of English proficiency at the
elementary level.
In order to provide students with the best educational
experience, teachers must use the team approach. No longer
can teachers “teach in isolation”, but encourage students to be
team players or work in groups in the classroom. Teachers
must lead by example in this ever-changing world of education.
This session is a hands-on application of a group of Teach Like
a Champion strategies that can be implemented to ensure
more engagement in the inclusion classroom by all students.
Teachers will be able to model and practice these strategies to
take back to their classroom.
Learning to read requires students to “Crack the Code” of
English. Participants will learn about the six syllable types, and
the relationship between phonics and spelling. Participants
will leave the session with an understanding how to identify
decoding deficits using a diagnostic tool and a multisensory
routine for phonics/spelling instruction.
Sometimes as educators we forget the little things that can
make a big difference in our classrooms. This presentation will
provide the classroom teacher with small, but effective
strategies that can be used in the classroom to help students
of all academic and behavioral backgrounds succeed in the
academic setting. The strategies presented will cover
Response to Instruction and Intervention as well as Positive
Behavior Support concepts that will help all of your students
be successful.
Effective classroom management comes from setting high
expectations. Teachers will be shown research-based
strategies to help create a positive classroom environment.
Teachers will be given techniques to build a respectful culture
where negative behavior is minimized.
This session is designed to give teachers exciting ways to
engage students in reading and math instruction by using
differentiated Instruction! Differentiated Instruction Strategies
for whole group, Tier 1 instruction will be presented. Teachers
3&4
3&4
BAC-45
BAC-87
MS/HS
Elem
Michael Young
Math teacher, South Gibson County
High School, Gibson County Special
School District
Using Online Assessments to Increase
Academic Achievement and Feedback
Jessica DeVries
1st gr inclusion teacher, Martin
Primary School, Weakley County
Schools
Fun and Fast Assessments
with be able to use these strategies as soon as they return to
their classroom!
Technology is becoming an important component of effective
teaching. By being able to create online assessments, teachers
can increase student achievement by using online assessments
to generate instantaneous data to drive classroom instruction
as well as allowing students to become more comfortable
taking assessments online, as the state of Tennessee moves
towards eliminating the paper assessment.
My presentation will give ideas/resources for informal and
formal assessments to use in your classroom for ELA and Math.
These assessments will give other choices for teachers to use
other than pencil and paper forms of assessments. I will also
offer ideas on how to use the assessments to help track
progress or needs of students.
Sponsored by Bethel University, Freed Hardeman University, Phi Delta Kappa, Union University, University of
Memphis at Lambuth, and the University of TN at Martin
PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THE EVALUATION FORM BEFORE YOU LEAVE.
HAVE A GREAT REST OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!