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Conference Schedule Friday, Dec. 7 FRIDAY 8:00 am - 4:00 am Registration — Nicollet D 8:00 am - 9:00 am Coffee Break with Exhibitors — Exhibit Hall 9:00 am - 10:15 am Keynote Speaker: SOS Players — Skits Outreach Services, Inc. — Nicollet Ballroom 10:15 am - 10:45 am Break with Exhibitors — Exhibit Hall 10:45 am - 12:00 pm Plenary Session Observing Quality After School: An Accountability Model that Fits Community Education — Regency Room Session will present a validated quality accountability approach ideally suited for use in after school programs that draw upon the expertise of community partners and that emphasizes experiential methods. Charles Smith, High/Scope Educational Research Foundation 10:45 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions How to Get Kids in the Door. What we Know from Research and its Implications for our Programs — Greenway A This is a question that many of our after school programs ask. Join Sherry Boyce for an overview of research and promising strategies about recruiting youth to participate in programs. Participants will have an opportunity for discussion as well as take home tools to help them examine their programs’ strategies for recruitment. Sherry Boyce, Regional Extension Educator, Youth Worker Institute, Cloquet, Minnesota Let’s Get Real: Addressing Bullying and the Prejudice that Fuels It — Greenway C Learn to identify and address the prejudice and the bias that fuels bullying and harassment among youth. Judy Logan, workshop facilitator, The Respect for All Project Camp Invention and Club Invention: Science and Creativity Enrichment for Grades 1-6 — Greenway D This presentation will highlight science and creativity enrichment programs for elementary students from the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. Science, math history and the arts are combined in a fun, exciting format that has kids begging for more! Susan Clarke, Regional Coordinator, Invent Now Kids, Inc., Eden Prairie, Minnesota and Allison Knoph, Oak Point Intermediate School, Eden Prairie, Minnesota Maximize Your Marketing — Greenway E Learn how to plan, organize, and create publications and ad campaigns designed to market programs, create positive press for your district, and support referendum votes. Discuss ways to engage, educate, and motivate customers by appealing to their needs, wants and emotions. Beth Holsen, Imagine Design Power Hour: Healthy School Initiative — Greenway F Learn more about the Power Hour program that promotes healthy living and obesity prevention strategies for elementary students and their families! Reid Mortensen and Susan Nygaard, Community Education Department, Anoka, Minnesota “Real” Them In: What Your Students Want in an After School-Program — Greenway G Engage students in real-world learning to enrich their lives in after school programs. Suzanne Downing, MicroSociety, Inc. and Sharon Pastori, Regional Director, MicroSociety, Inc. What’s Your Game Plan for Teaching Middle Years Math? — Greenway H Motivate the middle years students in your after school programs with math games using cards and dice. Help students develop mastery of all operations using an interactive approach. Areas covered include all operations, integers, and algebra, place value on probability, and more! Participants will be provided with reproducible game board handouts, strategies for classroom and resource management, and ideas for adapting the games for all levels including ESL students. Jane Felling/Joyce Evans, Box Cars & One Eyed Jacks, Alberta, Canada 28
Conference Schedule Friday, Dec. 7 Inclusive Community Education/Maximizing Your Assets by Utilizing Volunteers with Disabilities in Youth Programs — Greenway I Minnesota CEND members and guest speaker Larry Sanftner will offer a new vision for inclusion of people with handicaps both as instructors and volunteers for after school youth programs. Dalaine Remes, Mary McComiskey and Larry Sanftner, CEND Service Learning: Including Two School Wide Service Projects — Greenway J Learn about the Hawks Night Council, a service group for students in grades 6-8 who run “Penny Playoffs,” an annual charity drive for the Salvation Army, as well as an anti-tobacco campaign in conjunction with “Kick Butts” day. Michele Carlson, Youth Development/Enrichment Coordinator of Hermantown, Minnesota Engaged Communities, Service-Learning, Academic Success: Making Connections — Nicollet D1 Interested in learning more about service learning, how to connect to school reform and curriculum development initiatives? More about funding opportunities at the state and national levels. Seek additional classroom materials or classroom project ideas. Joe Herrity, Consultant, Community Education, Service Learning, School Improvement and 21st CCLC Before and After School programs, Iowa Department of Education The Imperative for Using Data to Provide Equitable Programming — Nicollet D2 Is your community population reflected in your Community Education Programs? As a service of Public Education, we have an obligation to equity. This “how to” session will discuss not only the why, but will give you usable resources and ideas that will get you to “how” in your community the very next day. Dan Jett, West Metro Superintendent, and Jackie Johnston, Community Education Director, Chaska School District Youth Leaders Making a Difference in the Community — Nicollet D3 After years of Homecoming Celebrations marred by vandalism, student injuries, vandalism and “Class Wars,” the Farmington High School Youth Development Committee decided that change was in order. Hear how these students lead a collaborative, intergenerational, community-wide initiative, which resulted in a positive change in school and community norms. Panel: Marianne Feely, Kelly Vossen and the Farmington High School Youth Development Students Knowing When Enough is Enough: Letting Go and Taking Control Through Effective Time Management — Superior A Life is more than work and it is often work that keeps us from living life to its’ full potential. This session will provide a better understanding to workshop participants of how to alleviate stress, remove clutter, and take control of their life through effective time management at work and home. Effective time management can demystify clutter and make others happy to be around you. Louise Summers, Community Education Director, Montgomery County Schools, Montgomery County, Kentucky. Biases, Assumptions and Stereotypes — Lake Superior B This workshop is designed to assist participants in understanding the source and impact of biases, assumptions and stereotypes on individuals and the work/community environment. Dolores H. Fridge, Senior Consultant, National MultiCultural Institute 10:45 am - 1:45 pm Site Visit to the School of Environmental Studies — Departs from Hyatt Hotel Lobby The School of Environmental Studies (SES) is a magnet high school for 400 junior and senior high school students residing primarily in the Rosemount/Apple Valley/Eagan School District. SES is known for its innovative, interdisciplinary, and experiential curriculum. In 1999 SES received, in a ceremony at the White House, the U.S. Department of Education’s prestigious “New American High School Award.” The award recognized SES’s outstanding work in preparing students for college, its high graduation rate, its many successful partnerships, and its community orientated focus. Lunch included in site tour. 29 Hospitality “Friendly Flakes” Located at the Warming House and throughout the Conference, there will be hospitality volunteers affectionately known as the “Friendly Flakes.” They are able and willing to help make the most of your Minneapolis experience, be it finding a session, negotiating the downtown skyway system or finding a great place to explore. Smile if you catch them taking your picture for the official conference slideshow. FRIDAY
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