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06/12/19

Continental Breakfast

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 7:30 AM | End Time: 8:30 AM

Keynote: The Future Begins Now

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 8:30 AM | End Time: 10:00 AM | Speaker(s): Erica Orange

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Erica Orange will discuss several emerging trends for 2019 and beyond that are shaping and impacting the future. Using macro sociocultural, economic and technological trends as a catalyst, she will talk about how today’s major growth areas will uncover both the short- and long-term opportunities of tomorrow, and how all will disrupt the current landscape.

Book Signing

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 10:30 AM

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Erica Orange

Creating Rigorous Tasks through Taxonomy

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 12:00 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Deana Senn | Total Capacity: 100

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What is a Rigorous Task?  Participants will learn how to create a rigorous task that is aligned to a Standard.  The use of the Marzano taxonomy will be the basis of creating rigorous tasks in this session.

More Effective Leaders Make More Effective Students: How to Build & Maintain Leadership Teams

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 12:00 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Speaker(s): Gail Charles-Walters, Rebecca Koelln, Tammy Quist | Total Capacity: 120

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We all understand that there is an empirical link between effective leadership and student success. What students need are schools that share in a district-wide culture of distributed leadership. Yet even the most competent school leader has a limit on the number of people they can influence. In this session you'll learn how to build, support, and retain an effective Community of Practice and overcome any challenges you may encounter along the way.

Igniting School Transformation

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Speaker(s): Betsy Carter, Gwyneth Marr | Total Capacity: 51

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Does your school have a clearly defined, shared definition of highly effective, standards-based Tier-1 instruction? What does it look and sound like? How do I create a plan to achieve this vision in every classroom?  How will I measure progress? School leaders will learn how to: the need for a theory of action and a clear vision for effective standards-based Tier 1 instruction; understand the missing data links for classroom rigor; and successfully lead second-order change. Join other school leaders in this interactive, thought-provoking session that will change the way you LEAD. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Coaching for Capacity

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 12:00 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Eric Paul | Total Capacity: 100

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Leaders are often trained to solve problems, and direct others to carry out those plans. This makes it difficult for many leaders to truly “coach” their staff to become thinkers and problem solvers. This session will discuss ways to change your “directing mindset” and discover ways that you can better utilize a coaching mindset to build capacity and problem solving skills with your team.

How to Teach Math for Conceptual Understanding in Grades K-5

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Jackie Speake | Total Capacity: 100

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Join the discussion of Do’s and Don’ts in teaching math for conceptual understanding in grades K-5. Learn how to utilize guides to help select and design tasks that lead to conceptual understanding in students, and maintain instructional strategies that foster student thinking and reasoning. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Using the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model: Conditions for Learning

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher | Speaker(s): Kathleen Marx | Total Capacity: 35

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Session is focused on the conditions the teacher establishes in the classroom to create the environment for learning. Join the ongoing debate about the importance of the Conditions for Learning in a classroom. The critical question for this session is: how do classroom conditions effect student achievement? *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Equity and Rigor Through a Systems Approach

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Michael D. Toth | Total Capacity: 60

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How can we ensure that our schools give every student access to instruction that builds critical social, emotional, and cognitive learning? Many educational leaders are working hard to close achievement gaps and reduce negative student behaviors but find it difficult to surface the root causes of these issues.

The School Instructional Maturity Model (SIMM) allows educational leaders to achieve sustainable positive change through an in-depth systems approach to school improvement. Author Michael Toth will share examples and school data from education leaders nationwide who have implemented school improvement methodologies aligned to the SIMM framework, successfully re-focusing and re-energizing their faculty and realizing equitable outcomes for diverse student populations.

Participants will engage in discussions and interactive exercises, plot their own school’s current state along the SIMM continuum, and develop a vision around SIMM for moving their schools to the next level in order to reach all students.

*Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Foundational Skills for the 21st Century

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): David Liben, Meredith Liben | Total Capacity: 100

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This session will follow the contours of our book of the same title by showing how a research-based approach to foundational skills in grades K-3 will support all students. A special emphasis will be placed on early and rapid diagnosis and support of students who are not progressing in a timely way and how to provide needed attention. The session will include a review of both free and commercial foundational skills programs with proven track records. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Developing Student Ownership

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Robert Crowe, Jane Kennedy | Total Capacity: 150

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Learn to make your classroom truly student centered. This means giving students the authority, capacity, and responsibility to own their learning. Developing student ownership builds academic motivation that, in turn, leads to increased student achievement . Walk away with a variety of methods to implement the most effective and efficient , research-based strategic learning practices in curriculum, instruct ion, assessment , and climate that foster this ownership. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Survival Guide to Implementing Student Teams

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Sara Croll, Jackie Galloway, Amy Thisse | Total Capacity: 80

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The most important gift we can give students is to prepare them to be autonomous, fully accountable problem solvers. Implementing student teams in the classroom is the single most effective method to developing these skills but can also be one of the most challenging.  In this session learn practical strategies for implementing student teams for the first time. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Creating Conditions for Rigorous Learning

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 12:00 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Natalie Araujo, Jacqueline Collis, James Mills, Renee Nellenbach, Stephanie Woodford | Total Capacity: 100

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Learn how to build conditions for a rigorous school culture from the ground up beginning with operationalizing high expectations for the learning for all students. Creating conditions for rigorous learning requires a focus on student management systems inside the classroom and school wide, but in this session you'll soon discover that it's much more.

Creating Positive and Collaborative Classroom Communities

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 12:00 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Ron Nash | Total Capacity: 200

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Join Ron Nash as he models strategies that will engage students and raise the positive energy level in K-12 classrooms. This is a highly interactive and fast-paced session where participants will pair, share, reflect, laugh, and learn. Ron will emphasize face-to-face dialogue, critical-thinking skills, and the importance of taking risks on behalf of kids. If you're looking for sit and get, this ain't it!

How to Teach Math for Conceptual Understanding in Grades 6-12

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Hagit Sela, Kimberly Wood | Total Capacity: 50

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Join the discussion of Do’s and Don’ts in teaching math for conceptual understanding in grades 6-12. We will utilize guides to help us select / design tasks that lead to conceptual understanding, and help us maintain our instructional strategies that foster student thinking and reasoning. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Feedback to Change Practice

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 12:00 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Amy Dujon | Total Capacity: 150

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Does your feedback produce measurable change practice? In this hands-on session leaders will examine the current effectiveness of their feedback practices, learn new techniques to give feedback in any setting, and develop strategies for soliciting honest opinions on their own feedback.  Through collaboration, tools, and practice learners will leave with a renewed sense of confidence to cultivate effective instructional practices throughout their learning community.

Engaging All Learners: Meeting the Indicators of ELA Core Actions

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Kirstie Lickliter | Total Capacity: 80

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What does a literacy classroom that engages in student-centered lessons look like? In this session, we discuss the correlation between the ELA Instructional Shifts and Core Actions. Learn clear-cut strategies to ensure lesson plans and instructional techniques guide students to meet the full intent and rigor of the standards. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

DNA of an ELA Rigorous Lesson

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Michelle Fitzsimmons | Total Capacity: 100

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Get a detailed look at a lesson when it meets the rigor of the Core Actions and College and Career Standards. Then, learn how to build one of your own. We’ll also consider how to develop lessons where knowledge is provided in a variety of ways – where students have opportunities to process the knowledge – and tasks are developed that allow students to demonstrate that they have met the learning outcomes for a lesson. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

The Language Lens for Content Classrooms: How ALL Educators Can Support English Learners

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Sarah Ottow | Total Capacity: 35

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Join us in a hands-on overview of the “nuts and bolts” of working with English language learners. Discover why ALL students can be considered Academic Language Learners in any classroom. This is the perfect session for educators of linguistically diverse students. It will help you develop an equity-based mindset and provide you with a toolkit of language and literacy practices to proactively respond to this growing population in our schools. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Coaching for School-Wide Change (ELA)

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 10:30 AM | End Time: 12:00 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Rita Bean, Jacy Ippolito | Total Capacity: 100

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Perfect your coaching skills for individual and school-wide change, especially in the literacy program. Understand why it's so important to develop a school culture that is receptive to coaching. Examine the evidence that shows the importance of coaches and teacher leaders working collaboratively with principals to develop a school culture in where teachers can share, reflect on, and improve their teaching.

Activities include:

  • Describing barriers and bridges to facilitating change in school culture and literacy learning
  • Highlighting approaches to developing teams that work effectively to inquire and problem-solve
  • Suggesting ways to work collaboratively with other school leaders (coaches, principals, teacher leaders) and directly addressing the real-world challenges

On top of discussion-based protocols and adult learning routines, participants will be able to raise and share ideas on how to best implement the most effective coaching programs.

Lunch

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 12:00 PM | End Time: 1:00 PM

Building Classrooms of Community Through a SEL Lens

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Camile Earle-Dennis | Total Capacity: 65

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Are you looking for new and innovative ways to bring SEL into your classrooms? This session will guide participants through an experience of building and re-building community in their existing classrooms through a SEL lens and framework. At Learning Sciences International, our Schools For Rigor work naturally layers in SEL components to build and re-build community in our schools and classrooms. Learn the ways in which you can activate and amplify student voice and create a strong sense of belonging and partnership within your community of learning. Participants will walk away with a new perspective and tangible products they can implement and build upon in their classrooms tomorrow.

Creating Conditions for Rigorous Learning

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Natalie Araujo, Jacqueline Collis, James Mills, Renee Nellenbach, Stephanie Woodford | Total Capacity: 150

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Learn how to build conditions for a rigorous school culture from the ground up beginning with operationalizing high expectations for the learning for all students. Creating conditions for rigorous learning requires a focus on student management systems inside the classroom and school wide, but in this session you'll soon discover that it's much more.

Creating Rigorous Tasks Using Combined Skills

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Deana Senn | Total Capacity: 100

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What are the different ways to achieve Rigor? Participants will learn how to create a rigorous task that is aligned to a Standard. Rigor is created through combining skills within the task. Rigor can be achieved through this process in classrooms K-12.

Coaching for Capacity

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Eric Paul | Total Capacity: 80

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Leaders are often trained to solve problems, and direct others to carry out those plans. This makes it difficult for many leaders to truly “coach” their staff to become thinkers and problem solvers. This session will discuss ways to change your “directing mindset” and discover ways that you can better utilize a coaching mindset to build capacity and problem solving skills with your team.

Applied Standards Tracker: Using Standards Tracker Data to make Instructional Decisions

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Kelly Burton, Britt Hartle | Total Capacity: 45

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This is an advanced, hands-on session for participants who are ready for a deeper dive into getting the most out of the Standards Tracker. Participants will learn advanced features of the system, inlcuding how to use daily tracking data to make instructional decisions, form groups, and collaborate with peers. Prerequisite(s): Must have a Standards Tracker account. Please bring a laptop or electronic device in order to get the most out of this technology session.

Power of Teams: The Role of the Principal Supervisor in Whole School Reform

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Robin Dehlinger, Jonathan Hinke, Jane Respess | Total Capacity: 80

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Engagement from district leaders can accelerate growth for schools.  Leaders who engage with the learning and remove impediments to implementation model for school leaders and teachers a deeper commitment to creating rigorous standards-based classrooms.

Feedback to Change Practice

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Amy Dujon | Total Capacity: 150

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Does your feedback produce measurable change practice? In this hands-on session leaders will examine the current effectiveness of their feedback practices, learn new techniques to give feedback in any setting, and develop strategies for soliciting honest opinions on their own feedback.  Through collaboration, tools, and practice learners will leave with a renewed sense of confidence to cultivate effective instructional practices throughout their learning community.

Coaching for School-Wide Change (ELA)

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Rita Bean, Jacy Ippolito | Total Capacity: 100

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Perfect your coaching skills for individual and school-wide change, especially in the literacy program. Understand why it's so important to develop a school culture that is receptive to coaching. Examine the evidence that shows the importance of coaches and teacher leaders working collaboratively with principals to develop a school culture in where teachers can share, reflect on, and improve their teaching.

Activities include:

  • Describing barriers and bridges to facilitating change in school culture and literacy learning
  • Highlighting approaches to developing teams that work effectively to inquire and problem-solve
  • Suggesting ways to work collaboratively with other school leaders (coaches, principals, teacher leaders) and directly addressing the real-world challenges

On top of discussion-based protocols and adult learning routines, participants will be able to raise and share ideas on how to best implement the most effective coaching programs.

Distributed Leadership: The Key to Sustainable Team Growth

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 1:00 PM | End Time: 2:30 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Speaker(s): Carl Blythe, Carla Johnson | Total Capacity: 70

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Long gone are the days of the principal as the sole instructional leader.  Effective principals have learned that developing the leadership capacity of the school community and leadership teams is critical in establishing and maintaining an instructional, results-focused school culture. Instructional Leadership Teams increase school leaders’ and instructional leadership team members’ abilities to improve teaching and learning in a results-focused learning environment.

Book Signing

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 2:30 PM | End Time: 3:00 PM

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• Michael Toth • Jane Kennedy • Robert Crowe • Nic Weatherly • Jacy Ippolito • Rita Bean • Sarah Ottow • Meredith Liben • David Liben • Paul Gavoni • Amy Dujon • Sara Croll

Results Round Table Showcase - Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader Room

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 3:00 PM | End Time: 4:30 PM | Total Capacity: 200

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Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader Room Which success stories are most relevant to you and your team? Which results will get you and your team where you desire to be? This is YOUR opportunity to network with experts and interact with fellow attendees at the same time. This session is designed to provide every attendee with an excellent opportunity to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and to see your “AHA” moment from today through a practitioner’s lens. What's better than this opportunity? You’ll get to choose and participate in three topics of interest relevant to you and your role. Speed networking, anyone? Table topics will be provided on site.

Results Round Table Showcase - School Leader Room

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 3:00 PM | End Time: 4:30 PM | Total Capacity: 201

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School Leader Room Which success stories are most relevant to you and your team? Which results will get you and your team where you desire to be? This is YOUR opportunity to network with experts and interact with fellow attendees at the same time. This session is designed to provide every attendee with an excellent opportunity to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and to see your “AHA” moment from today through a practitioner’s lens. What's better than this opportunity? You’ll get to choose and participate in three topics of interest relevant to you and your role. Speed networking, anyone? Table topics will be provided on site.

Results Round Table Showcase - District Leader Room

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 3:00 PM | End Time: 4:30 PM | Total Capacity: 100

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District Leader Room Which success stories are most relevant to you and your team? Which results will get you and your team where you desire to be? This is YOUR opportunity to network with experts and interact with fellow attendees at the same time. This session is designed to provide every attendee with an excellent opportunity to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and to see your “AHA” moment from today through a practitioner’s lens. What's better than this opportunity? You’ll get to choose and participate in three topics of interest relevant to you and your role. Speed networking, anyone? Table topics will be provided on site.

Results Round Table Showcase - Teacher Room

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 3:00 PM | End Time: 4:30 PM | Total Capacity: 201

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Teacher Room Which success stories are most relevant to you and your team? Which results will get you and your team where you desire to be? This is YOUR opportunity to network with experts and interact with fellow attendees at the same time. This session is designed to provide every attendee with an excellent opportunity to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and to see your “AHA” moment from today through a practitioner’s lens. What's better than this opportunity? You’ll get to choose and participate in three topics of interest relevant to you and your role. Speed networking, anyone? Table topics will be provided on site.

LSI Technology: Q & A for New and Interested Users

Start Date: 06/12/19 | Start Time: 4:30 PM | End Time: 5:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Total Capacity: 150

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This session is for attendees who are interested in learning more about LSI technology. Participants do not need Tracker or iObservation licenses to attend this session.

There will be four sessions on the following technology platforms:

  • Growth Tracker ensures every teacher receives PD that is high-quality, job-embedded, and focused on instructional strategies proven to raise student achievement. LSI Growth Tracker is not just another library of videos or online courses. The web-based platform delivers research-based content and allows for teacher growth through collaboration.

    Audience: Teachers, School Leaders, Coaches, Curriculum, Professional Development, District Leaders

  • Standards Tracker makes planning standards-based lessons and monitoring every student’s proficiency, on every standard, every day, a snap. Clear learning targets and powerful instant reports help students and teachers see a clear path to success. Incredible gains are possible.

    Audience: Teachers, School Leaders, Coaches

  • Trend Tracker is a tool for leaders to monitor the trends and progress of their school. Leaders can use the tool weekly, monthly or quarterly to gather data via school "walks" and analyze trends with reports about their school and district.

    Audience: School Leaders & District Leaders

  • iObservation is the leading observation technology platform that offers an interactive web-based data management system for classroom walkthroughs, observations, and teacher and leader evaluation.

    Audience: Teachers, School Leaders, & District Leader

06/13/19

Continental Breakfast

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 7:00 AM | End Time: 8:00 AM

Keynote: The Power of Student Teams: Achieving Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Learning

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 8:00 AM | End Time: 9:30 AM | Speaker(s): David Sousa, Michael D. Toth

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Michael Toth & David Sousa Keynote

Book Signing

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 9:30 AM | End Time: 10:00 AM

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• David Sousa • Michael Toth

Voices of Moseley: The Power of Teams to Create Student Efficacy

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Elizabeth Buzzanca, Jillian Lee, Sarajean McDaniel, Patricia Parker Perry, Michelle Wilds | Total Capacity: 50

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Students and teachers from Moseley Elementary in Putnam County, Florida will share how the power of teaming transformed their classrooms.

Academic Teaming for Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Learning

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Heather Ehlschide, Michael D. Toth | Total Capacity: 150

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Building off the keynote, this immersive session introduces a research-based core instructional model—student academic teaming—which has been implemented in schools and districts nationwide to achieve incredible outcomes for all students socially, emotionally, and cognitively. Participants will learn how student academic teaming has increased equity and access for diverse student populations including English Language Learners, students with special needs, students who have struggled behaviorally or academically, and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Author Michael Toth will share examples and school data to show how high-performing student academic teams elevate core instruction for all students, raising rigor to a level far beyond that of traditional pedagogy.

Creating Rigorous Tasks through Taxonomy

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Deana Senn | Total Capacity: 100

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What is a Rigorous Task?  Participants will learn how to create a rigorous task that is aligned to a Standard.  The use of the Marzano taxonomy will be the basis of creating rigorous tasks in this session.

Clearing the Lens for ELA/Literacy Standards-Based Observations

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Carla Moore | Total Capacity: 90

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Bring the focus of observations into clear view. There are many attributes to look for during observations. What are the critical "look-fors" to see aligned student evidence, equity and access for all students, and evidence of the standards being implemented as intended? Join Carla Moore to delve into classroom scenarios looking for the most critical attributes.

How to Choose High Quality Math Tasks for K-5 Students

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Jackie Speake | Total Capacity: 100

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With the abundance of math activities and worksheets offered in textbooks and online, how can we make sure that the tasks we assign to our students provide the best learning opportunity? In this session we will introduce a tool to analyze the quality of K-5 math tasks based on two dimensions: the aspect of rigor (Conceptual, Procedural, Application), and the cognitive complexity level (DOK). Paying attention to both dimensions is crucial in developing students’ proficiency and success in math assessment. *Please note that this session's content will be the same as "How to Choose High Quality Math Tasks for 6-12 students," only with elementary examples.*

Developing Text Questions Worth Asking

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Kaija Robinson | Total Capacity: 100

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Not all questions are created equal. During this session, you'll gain a deeper understanding of question types and creating questions that help develop better readers. You'll walk away with the tools you need to aid in the development of a series of questions, evaluating question quality and providing feedback.  Ask questions worth asking and they will lead to tasks worth doing.

Creating Positive and Collaborative Classroom Communities

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Ron Nash | Total Capacity: 200

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Join Ron Nash as he models strategies that will engage students and raise the positive energy level in K-12 classrooms. This is a highly interactive and fast-paced session where participants will pair, share, reflect, laugh, and learn. Ron will emphasize face-to-face dialogue, critical-thinking skills, and the importance of taking risks on behalf of kids. If you're looking for sit and get, this ain't it!

Elementary Transformation to Rigor

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Speaker(s): Tracy Bollinger, Shelly Pospeshil | Total Capacity: 100

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Elementary Principals share their journey of transforming their school to rigor.  The session will provide practical ideas for implementation and answer questions from participants along the way. Bring your curiousity and be ready for rich conversations.

How to Help Students Who Lag in Literacy

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): David Liben, Meredith Liben | Total Capacity: 200

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This session will look at research-based methods that address supporting students who have unfinished literacy learning in practical, scalable ways. When does repairing phonics gaps make sense? When should you go straight to improving reading fluency? How do you build vocabulary and knowledge quickly to aid comprehension? The emphasis will be on integrating instruction with meaningful text for older students. The session will include a review of commercial and free online materials to support this work,

Structures for Classroom Coaching

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Tracy Duval, Leslie Frick | Total Capacity: 50

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The coaching process to rigor involves planning, observing, providing face-to-face feedback and ongoing support for teachers to change habits and teaching behaviors. This session will give you the the basic structure of the coaching process.

Engaging the Rewired Brain

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): David Sousa | Total Capacity: 300

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Technology is changing our brains. It is impacting our attention spans, memory, thinking processes, and social interactions--and the effects are even more pronounced in the brains of our students. We might not know exactly what it all means, but one thing is perfectly clear: to ensure that today’s students succeed, educators must recognize these changes and rethink the way they teach. Join Dr. David Sousa, a highly respected consultant in educational neuroscience and author of “Engaging the Rewired Brain,” for a fascinating session about the research findings in educational neuroscience, specific strategies for working with the rewired brain, and how technology-induced changes may benefit learners.

Deliberate Coaching: A Toolbox for Accelerating Teacher Performance

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Paul Gavoni, Nicholas Weatherly | Total Capacity: 120

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Learn to create a teacher success process that can be used by district and school leaders, coaches, or any other professional. Based in the science of human behavior, you’ll discover a process that has been used to positively accelerate individual, group, and organizational performance in Fortune 500 Companies and struggling schools. Better still, this process has been proven to help children with disabilities communicate, improve teacher instructional performance, helped principals achieve goals in school improvement plans, and even helped professional mixed martial artists achieve world championship titles.

Using the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model: Cognitively Complex Tasks

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Kathleen Marx | Total Capacity: 50

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During this hands-on session, you will learn research-based strategies that help students expand, apply, and deepen their understanding of content. We will also explore techniques for teaching investigative, problem-solving, experimental inquiry, and decision-making skills that you can implement immediately in your classroom.

Beginning Steps for School Improvement

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Phil Carr, Patricia Denholm | Total Capacity: 80

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Learn four initial steps to improving your school as a school leader.

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Data

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): David Tudor | Total Capacity: 80

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Teachers and school leaders are often overwhelmed with data and struggle with how to use it to impact student achievement. Cutting through all of the piles of data to develop a plan that actually helps teachers identify where students are and what they need can make teaching and learning more efficient and yield higher student achievement results for all students.  In this session participants will learn how to develop a plan to leverage the data they have to maximize student outcomes.

Beginning Your Journey with Student Teams

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Emily Gulley, Lisa Lienemann | Total Capacity: 53

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Based on Sara Croll's book, Student Teaming, You Got This: A Teacher's Survival Guide. Come learn the basics of student teams and learn practical strategies for immediate implementation.

Taking the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model to the Next Level with ELA & Math Evidences

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 10:00 AM | End Time: 11:30 AM | Role: Teacher, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Melissa Bloom, Penny Sell | Total Capacity: 80

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What happens when the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model is paired with our new ELA/Literacy and Math  Supplemental Evidences? Participants will be introduced to this exciting addition to FTEM’s Universal Evidences, including resources in iObservation, which will enrich feedback to teachers to support rigorous instruction across all core content areas. Written in the language of the standards, evidences were designed along with Student Achievement Partners to help teachers achieve focus, coherence, and rigor specific to standards and grade levels

Lunch

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 11:45 AM | End Time: 12:45 PM

Deliberate Coaching: A Toolbox for Accelerating Teacher Performance

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Paul Gavoni, Nicholas Weatherly | Total Capacity: 120

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Learn to create a teacher success process that can be used by district and school leaders, coaches, or any other professional. Based in the science of human behavior, you’ll discover a process that has been used to positively accelerate individual, group, and organizational performance in Fortune 500 Companies and struggling schools. Better still, this process has been proven to help children with disabilities communicate, improve teacher instructional performance, helped principals achieve goals in school improvement plans, and even helped professional mixed martial artists achieve world championship titles.

How a Great City School Increased Rigor, Equity, and Closed Achievement Gaps

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Speaker(s): Lindsey Devers Basileo, Wayne Knutson | Total Capacity: 80

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Increase rigor, close subgroup gaps and expand equity. How do you accomplish this? It might seem like a tall order, but Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) accepted the challenge. Their goal was to make rapid progress towards becoming a national model for urban education by ensuring an accountability system with safeguards for the most vulnerable students, including Black, Hispanic, low-income students, students with disabilities, and English learners. Join us to learn how 22 schools in DMPS did just that. Hear from the DMPS Associate Superintendent, LSI’s Chief Executive Officer and their own certified What Works Clearinghouse reviewer to discuss the Schools for Rigor partnership and subsequent results.

Leadership for Transforming Instruction

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Amy Dujon | Total Capacity: 150

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School and district leaders, this is the session you’ve been asking for. Author Amy Dujon taps into her behind-the-scenes experience working with schools and districts across the country to let you know that it is possible to implement meaningful school-wide instructional transformation. The author of The Gritty Truth of School Transformation: Eight Phases of Growth to Instructional Rigor, will paint a clear picture of true implementation and provide practical strategies that schools of all shapes, sizes, and socio-economic and academic backgrounds can implement immediately to motivate and ensure high-impact success.

In Praise of Foibles: The Impact of Fear, Failure, and Miscues on Continuous Improvement

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Ron Nash | Total Capacity: 200

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In an educational system where right answers rule, how can we reshape and deal with the way we perceive failure, snags, miscues, and miscalculations? Can we banish fear from classrooms and welcome failure as a partner in progress? Slip on a pair of comfortable shoes – grab a writing instrument – and join Ron Nash for 90 minutes of mayhem and unforced errors in this presentation based on Ron's new book, In Praise of Foibles.

Daily Practice of STEM: Engaging Students in Cognitively Complex STEM Tasks

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Speaker(s): Jackie Speake | Total Capacity: 100

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Focuses on the classroom that meets the demands of engaging students in cognitively complex tasks, specifically STEM tasks, and adapting instruction to integrate classroom techniques to help students think like scientists and an engineers. Discover powerful tools to help implement a thriving classroom culture to ensure all students have equitable access to STEM learning that aligns to the full intent and rigor of the science, specifically 3-dimensional learning that includes the engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas.

Classroom Coaching in the Moment

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Tracy Bollinger | Total Capacity: 80

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Experienced coaches learn to provide on-the-spot coaching in specific classroom situations  This session will utilize coaching scenarios to focus on situations that require quick decision-making.

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Data

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): David Tudor | Total Capacity: 80

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Teachers and school leaders are often overwhelmed with data and struggle with how to use it to impact student achievement. Cutting through all of the piles of data to develop a plan that actually helps teachers identify where students are and what they need can make teaching and learning more efficient and yield higher student achievement results for all students.  In this session participants will learn how to develop a plan to leverage the data they have to maximize student outcomes.

Developing Text Questions Worth Asking

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Kirstie Lickliter | Total Capacity: 80

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Not all questions are created equal. During this session, you'll gain a deeper understanding of question types and creating questions that help develop better readers. You'll walk away with the tools you need to aid in the development of a series of questions, evaluating question quality and providing feedback.  Ask questions worth asking and they will lead to tasks worth doing.

Disciplinary Literacy K-12: Connecting Adult and Student Learning

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Megin Charner-Laird, Christina Dobbs, Jacy Ippolito | Total Capacity: 50

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This interactive 90-minute session guides you through a new framework connecting disciplinary literacy adult learning with student learning. Based on their new book with Learning Sciences International, Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction, the presenters will review their “inquiry and instruction” framework and provide snapshots of effective disciplinary literacy K-12 classroom instruction as well as related professional learning structures. You’ll be invited to actively participate in designing new student learning routines based on your existing expertise and the ideas generated in this session.

Using the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model: Scoring

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Penny Sell | Total Capacity: 50

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Using video from an actual classroom example, learn how to identify the strategies the teacher is using in the lesson. You’ll leave the session with a deeper understanding of how to use the Marzano Focused Teacher evaluation model as an observation tool and how to give supportive feedback using a scale. We will discuss shifts in scoring practices within the model and experience a full observation cycle, including planning conference, observation, and reflection conference.

My Kids Can’t Read Grade Level Text! What Do I Do? (Elementary)

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Kaija Robinson | Total Capacity: 100

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How can we ensure that we are building a foundation for college and career readiness for our students?  Research indicates that reading a number of texts within a topic grows knowledge and vocabulary far faster than any other approach. In this session, we will uncover how to create a thoughtfully sequenced series of texts that is designed to build knowledge and vocabulary around a topic and provide equity and access to all students.

New CCRS-ELA Aligned Core Programs - What's the Best Fit for Your Setting?

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Meredith Liben | Total Capacity: 10

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This session is devoted to an understanding of five new, high quality aligned core ELA programs that have come out since College and Career Readiness Standards have become widespread. David has worked extensively with these programs over the past eight years and is familiar with their unique characteristics. This session will explain the research underlying the programs and show results they have already achieved with high needs students. This will be followed by details about each of the programs. Emphasis will be on how they are aligned, why they are high quality, and how they differ from each other.

Creating Success Criteria

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Leala Taylor | Total Capacity: 80

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What is Success Criteria? Participants will learn how to create quality Success Criteria and how to involve students in using the Success Criteria to determine their own learning.

Taking your Student Teams to the Next Level

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Sara Croll, Geri Fishman | Total Capacity: 80

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Student teams are becoming the culture of your classroom. Now you need to take them to the next level.  Learn how to allow students to become autonomous owners of team learning.  Experience practical strategies to develop student coaching and  and support within and across teams.

Igniting Teacher Teams

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Jessica Freeman, Jody Honaker | Total Capacity: 101

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Teacher Teams (PLCs) have the power to drive instructional practices that bridge learning gaps. This session will examine the structures, required leadership, and standards-based planning processes to create functional PLCs.

The Language Lens for Content Classrooms: How ALL Educators Can Support English Learners

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Sarah Ottow | Total Capacity: 80

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Join us in a hands-on overview of the “nuts and bolts” of working with English language learners. Discover why ALL students can be considered Academic Language Learners in any classroom. This is the perfect session for educators of linguistically diverse students. It will help you develop an equity-based mindset and provide you with a toolkit of language and literacy practices to proactively respond to this growing population in our schools.

Why SEL should be SECL!

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): David Sousa | Total Capacity: 300

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Schools have long focused mainly on developing their students' cognitive skills. In this session, we look at recent research showing the powerful impact that social and emotional forces have on cognitive processing and learning. Having a greater understanding of how these forces work can give teachers a deeper insight into what instructional strategies will allow for successful social and emotional learning while also promoting cognitive development. We maintain that the SEL acronym should be updated to include the closely integrated and inescapable cognitive component. Thus SEL becomes SECL!

How to Help Students Who Lag in Literacy

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 12:45 PM | End Time: 2:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): David Liben | Total Capacity: 100

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This session will look at research-based methods that address supporting students who have unfinished literacy learning in practical, scalable ways. When does repairing phonics gaps make sense? When should you go straight to improving reading fluency? How do you build vocabulary and knowledge quickly to aid comprehension? The emphasis will be on integrating instruction with meaningful text for older students. The session will include a review of commercial and free online materials to support this work,

Book Signing

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:15 PM | End Time: 2:45 PM

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• Megin Charner-Laird • Jane Kennedy • Robert Crowe • Nic Weatherly • Christina Dobbs • Jacy Ippolito • Sara Ottow • Meredith Liben • David Liben • Paul Gavoni • Amy Dujon • Sara Croll • David Sousa

Refining Your Coaching Practice to Support Rigorous Instruction

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Wendi Dabney, Jessica Freeman, Jody Honaker, Sussy Jimenez, Elizabeth Ziegler | Total Capacity: 70

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Participants will hear from instructional coaches who have engaged in refining their coaching practices to improve classroom instruction at their schools.  Instructional Coaches will share their learning, tools, hints and tips to best support core instruction and build capacity with their teachers.

Igniting School Transformation

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Speaker(s): Betsy Carter, Gwyneth Marr | Total Capacity: 100

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Does your school have a clearly defined, shared definition of highly effective, standards-based Tier-1 instruction? What does it look and sound like? How do I create a plan to achieve this vision in every classroom?  How will I measure progress? School leaders will learn how to: the need for a theory of action and a clear vision for effective standards-based Tier 1 instruction; understand the missing data links for classroom rigor; and successfully lead second-order change. Join other school leaders in this interactive, thought-provoking session that will change the way you LEAD. *Please note that there will be a break from 12:00PM-1:00PM for lunch.*

Using the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model: Organizing Students as a Condition for Learning

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher | Speaker(s): Joan McCormick Gibbons | Total Capacity: 80

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Learn how to change the atmosphere in your schools and encourage the student-centered learning of new content. Using the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, you’ll be able to tap into the power of peer influence by organizing students into appropriate groups that go deeper into content or dive into cognitively complex thinking strategies.

Empowering Teacher Teams

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Peggy Voigt | Total Capacity: 100

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This session will empower functional PLCs to go the next level. Once PLCs have a process for standards-based planning they must examine student work and use data to make decisions. Efficient and effective opportunities for students to bridge the learning gap are the result of powerful PLC ownership.

Deliberate Coaching: A Toolbox for Accelerating Teacher Performance

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Paul Gavoni, Nicholas Weatherly | Total Capacity: 120

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Learn to create a teacher success process that can be used by district and school leaders, coaches, or any other professional. Based in the science of human behavior, you’ll discover a process that has been used to positively accelerate individual, group, and organizational performance in Fortune 500 Companies and struggling schools. Better still, this process has been proven to help children with disabilities communicate, improve teacher instructional performance, helped principals achieve goals in school improvement plans, and even helped professional mixed martial artists achieve world championship titles.

Clearing the Lens for Math Standards-Based Observations

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Carla Moore | Total Capacity: 90

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Bring the focus of observations into clear view. There are many attributes to look for during observations. What are the critical "look-fors" to see aligned student evidence, equity and access for all students, and evidence of the standards being implemented as intended? Join Carla Moore to delve into classroom scenarios looking for the most critical attributes.

Principals as Instructional Coaches

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Janis Andrews, Patricia Denholm | Total Capacity: 100

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The principal, as a coach and learner, has the potential to create a cultural shift from compliance to energized growth. This session will examine strategies to create that shift, investing in the those teachers most interested in learning and growing to help all students. The principal, as coach, is the spark for the momentum of instructional change.

Building a Community of Practice with Early Childhood Leaders

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team | Speaker(s): Stephanie LaPlante | Total Capacity: 40

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Learn how to implement early childhood developmentally appropriate practices while still providing rigorous instruction. We’ll examine how teachers can shift toward a more student-centered format that’s challenging and helps children connect to content knowledge they already have. Hear from an early childhood practitioner about what's working and getting student learning.

My Kids Can’t Read Grade Level Text! What Do I Do? (Secondary)

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Kaija Robinson | Total Capacity: 80

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How should we be building a foundation for college and career readiness for our students?  Reading a number of texts within a topic grows knowledge and vocabulary far faster than any other approach. In this session, you will learn how to create a thoughtfully sequenced series of texts designed to build knowledge and topic vocabulary while providing equity and access to all students.

How to Choose High Quality Math Tasks for 6-12 Students

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Hagit Sela, Kimberly Wood | Total Capacity: 50

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With the abundance of math activities and worksheets offered in textbooks and online, how can we make sure that the tasks we assign to our students provide the best learning opportunity? In this session we will introduce a tool to analyze the quality of 6-12 math tasks based on two dimensions: the aspect of rigor (Conceptual, Procedural, Application), and the cognitive complexity level (DOK). Paying attention to both dimensions is crucial in developing students’ proficiency and success in math assessment. *Please note that this session's content will be the same as "How to Choose High Quality Math Tasks for K-5 students," only with secondary examples.*

Coaching Teacher Teams (PLCs)

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Valerie McClellan, Jacob VanWinkle | Total Capacity: 80

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How do you grow PLCs from teachers who just meet together to make operational decisions into teams that plan for rigor. Powerful PLCs plan, analyze, and calibrate minute-to-minute student data to strengthen core instruction and plan for adjustments to move all students.

Leading Second Order Change

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Lisa Lienemann | Total Capacity: 50

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What is 2nd Order Change? How do you lead 2nd Order Change?

Creating Rigorous Tasks Using Combined Skills

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Deana Senn | Total Capacity: 101

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What are the different ways to achieve Rigor? Participants will learn how to create a rigorous task that is aligned to a Standard. Rigor is created through combining skills within the task. Rigor can be achieved through this process in classrooms K-12.

Developing Student Ownership

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Robert Crowe, Jane Kennedy | Total Capacity: 150

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Learn to make your classroom truly student centered. This means giving students the authority, capacity, and responsibility to own their learning. Developing student ownership builds academic motivation that, in turn, leads to increased student achievement . Walk away with a variety of methods to implement the most effective and efficient , research-based strategic learning practices in curriculum, instruct ion, assessment , and climate that foster this ownership.

Supporting Students to Become Content Experts (Grades 6 - 12)

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader | Speaker(s): Michelle Fitzsimmons | Total Capacity: 100

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What does it take to read like a historian, a scientist or an artist? Participants will understand the definition of disciplinary literacy and the need to support students to read and write like an expert in their specific content area. Participants will explore the student and teacher actions of their discipline and learn instructional strategies that will assist students in learning within their content area.

Creating Success Criteria

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Leala Taylor | Total Capacity: 86

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What is Success Criteria? Participants will learn how to create quality Success Criteria and how to involve students in using the Success Criteria to determine their own learning.

Building Classrooms of Community Through a SEL Lens

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader | Speaker(s): Camile Earle-Dennis | Total Capacity: 100

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Are you looking for new and innovative ways to bring SEL into your classrooms? This session will guide participants through an experience of building and re-building community in their existing classrooms through a SEL lens and framework. At Learning Sciences International, our Schools For Rigor work naturally layers in SEL components to build and re-build community in our schools and classrooms. Learn the ways in which you can activate and amplify student voice and create a strong sense of belonging and partnership within your community of learning. Participants will walk away with a new perspective and tangible products they can implement and build upon in their classrooms tomorrow.

Creating Positive and Collaborative Classroom Communities

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Ron Nash | Total Capacity: 200

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Join Ron Nash as he models strategies that will engage students and raise the positive energy level in K-12 classrooms. This is a highly interactive and fast-paced session where participants will pair, share, reflect, laugh, and learn. Ron will emphasize face-to-face dialogue, critical-thinking skills, and the importance of taking risks on behalf of kids. If you're looking for sit and get, this ain't it!

Academic Teaming for Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Learning

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 2:45 PM | End Time: 4:15 PM | Role: School Leader, District Leader | Speaker(s): Heather Ehlschide, Michael D. Toth | Total Capacity: 150

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Building off the keynote, this immersive session introduces a research-based core instructional model—student academic teaming—which has been implemented in schools and districts nationwide to achieve incredible outcomes for all students socially, emotionally, and cognitively. Participants will learn how student academic teaming has increased equity and access for diverse student populations including English Language Learners, students with special needs, students who have struggled behaviorally or academically, and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Author Michael Toth will share examples and school data to show how high-performing student academic teams elevate core instruction for all students, raising rigor to a level far beyond that of traditional pedagogy.

LSI Technology: Q & A for Current Users

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 4:15 PM | End Time: 5:00 PM | Role: Teacher, Instructional Coach/Teacher Leader, School Leader, District Leader, Leadership team

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This session is for current users who would like to enhance their experience with LSI technology by learning implementation tips and tricks from experts. Participants will need to have Tracker and/or iObservation licenses to attend this session.

There will be four sessions on the following technology platforms:

  • Growth Tracker ensures every teacher receives PD that is high-quality, job-embedded, and focused on instructional strategies proven to raise student achievement. LSI Growth Tracker is not just another library of videos or online courses. The web-based platform delivers research-based content and allows for teacher growth through collaboration.

    Audience: Teachers, School Leaders, Coaches, Curriculum, Professional Development, District Leaders

  • Standards Tracker makes planning standards-based lessons and monitoring every student’s proficiency, on every standard, every day, a snap. Clear learning targets and powerful instant reports help students and teachers see a clear path to success. Incredible gains are possible.

    Audience: Teachers, School Leaders, Coaches

  • Trend Tracker is a tool for leaders to monitor the trends and progress of their school. Leaders can use the tool weekly, monthly, or quarterly to gather data via school “walks” and analyze trends with reports about their school and district.

    Audience: School Leaders & District Leaders

  • iObservation is the leading observation technology platform that offers an interactive web-based data management system for classroom walkthroughs, observations, and teacher and leader evaluation.

    Audience: Teachers, School Leaders, & District Leader

Networking Reception

Start Date: 06/13/19 | Start Time: 5:00 PM | End Time: 7:00 PM

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This year’s networking reception is designed to facilitate networking opportunities for all attendees. This is also a great opportunities to meet our authors. Be sure to bring your books for signings! Will YOU plan to join us for some light snacks and beverages while you network with other attendees, featured speakers, authors, and more?
06/14/19

Continental Breakfast

Start Date: 06/14/19 | Start Time: 7:30 AM | End Time: 8:30 AM

Keynote: Understanding Rigor in the Classroom

Start Date: 06/14/19 | Start Time: 8:30 AM | End Time: 10:45 AM | Speaker(s): Robert J. Marzano

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This session begins with a discussion of the many interpretations of rigor and makes the case that there is so much variance in these interpretations as to make the construct almost meaningless in terms of guiding teacher practice. The session then provides a concrete and operational definition of rigor specifically designed for classroom instruction. Strategies are provided for enhancing rigor when addressing both declarative and procedural knowledge The importance of habits of mind is also detailed in terms of their relationship to rigor. Finally, techniques for using project-based learning as a wholistic framework for enhancing rigor are also provided.

Keynote: Get It On! What It Means to Lead the Way

Start Date: 06/14/19 | Start Time: 10:45 AM | End Time: 11:45 AM | Speaker(s): Keni Thomas

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The Ranger motto is Rangers Lead the Way. Leadership is the core of every skill developed as a Ranger. But, leadership is not a position but rather an example set by every Ranger. Whether approaching the beaches of Normandy or the mountain ranges of Afghanistan, the world is made better when leadership is owned by each member of the team. Keni Thomas’ stories of Task Force Ranger are extraordinary examples of leadership. And, the stories are not about Generals, Colonels or Captains. For example, Private David Floyd was in charge of one person that day - himself. But his leadership and example saved lives. In the pace of life, it is easy to lose perspective on our value to others. Make no mistake: Your presence is crucial! The individuals to the left and right are directly affected by the result of your actions. Each team is a puzzle with invaluable pieces. When you raise your hand or assume a task, you have put on the “uniform”. Duty follows that responsibility. Good is never enough because better is expected. Keni Thomas helps attendees see themselves in the light of extraordinary. It is a choice made by many each day to impact those around them. It is the ultimate definition of LEADING THE WAY...

Book Signing

Start Date: 06/14/19 | Start Time: 11:45 AM | End Time: 12:45 PM

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• Robert Marzano • Keni Thomas
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