25ANNUAL TH - Southern Regional Education Board

THURSDAY, 9:30 A.M.120-MINUTE SESSIONSREGULAR SESSIONS54. Effective Teaching in Career/Technical Education: UsingResearch-Based Instructional StrategiesROOM: HERMITAGE DPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 6ECODE: HS, TCIncrease student engagement, motivation and learning with two keyinstructional strategies for career/technical education: cooperative learning(CL) and project-based learning (PBL). Take your implementation to thenext level and learn to use CL and PBL hand-in-hand to actively engagestudents in challenging assignments.PRESENTER(S): Heather Sass, Director, Career/Technical Teacher Preparation Project,SREB, Atlanta, GAREGULAR SESSIONS55. Reader’s Choice: How Student Novel Selection Leads toReading SuccessROOM: GOVERNOR’S CHAMBER DPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: M, SUOBJECTIVE: 1ACODE: HSTraditional language arts classes have students reading the same book, oftenaloud and at the same time. Learn how choice novel selection can allowstudents to choose the reading material, progress at a natural pace andcomplete reflective and objective assignments that incorporate the CommonCore State Standards.PRESENTER(S): Allison Armstrong, Language Arts Instructor, Piper USD 203,Kansas City, KS56. Mars and Venus Also Apply to Middle Grades School StudentsROOM: LINCOLN DPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 1ACODE: MGAligning English/language arts strategies to the Common Core StateStandards (CCSS) requires some judicious “gender tweaking” when it comesto instruction, assignments and assessments. This session will analyze someCCSS indicators and how objectives need gender-based inquiry and choices.PRESENTER(S): Dorothy Dolasky, School Improvement Consultant, SREB, Atlanta, GA57. VESTED: Including All Learners in the Mixed-Ability ClassroomROOM: RYMAN STUDIO ABCPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 1CCODE: HS, MGLearn about the VESTED Instructional Approach and how its six stages oflesson delivery can help teachers provide greater inclusion and accessibility inthe content areas. Participate in a model lesson and examine how it tends tothe needs of all students: English-language learners, mainstream, exceptionaland gifted.PRESENTER(S): Cynthia Cardenas-Kolak, President, Kolak Group Inc., Houston, TXPRESIDER: Virginia Dean, GA58. Welcome to the Middle Grades! Making the Transition SuccessfulROOM: CHEEKWOOD G-HPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: S, ROBJECTIVE: 2ACODE: MGParticipants will leave with ideas on how to design a transition programfrom the elementary to the middle grades. Questions that will be answeredinclude: What do students experience as they move to the middle grades?From your perspective as a teacher, principal, counselor or parent, what isthe transition like for students?PRESENTER(S): Deborah Bass, School Improvement Consultant, and Barbara Moore,Associate Director, MMGW, SREB, Atlanta, GA59. Educating Parents About the Need for a Rigorous CurriculumROOM: CANAL BPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 2DCODE: HSIn this session, the presenter will share a presentation that a former principalused when conducting orientation for incoming ninth-graders. Parents areprovided with data that confirm students’ course-taking patterns match theirpostsecondary plans to ensure smooth transitions.PRESENTER(S): Linda Dove, School Improvement Consultant, SREB, Atlanta, GA60. It’s Time to End the Plague of School DropoutsROOM: PRESIDENTIAL BALLROOM APRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 2ECODE: HS, MGParticipants will learn not only what to do but how to aid at-risk studentsso more graduate. The session will focus on the 15 Effective Strategiesdeveloped by the National Dropout Prevention Center, as well as toolsdeveloped as “best practices” by some of America’s outstanding schools andprograms.PRESENTER(S): Franklin Schargel, Author, School Success Network, Albuquerque, NM61. Work-Based Learning: A Model Program for Continued SuccessROOM: GOVERNOR’S CHAMBER CPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: M, ROBJECTIVE: 2FCODE: TCThis session will provide a framework for starting a work-based learningprogram or strengthening a current curriculum. Participants will receivecopies of a student’s work portfolio. Discussions will focus on establishingpartnerships with local businesses, the need for consistent studentmonitoring and the teacher’s role in site placement.PRESENTER(S): Loretta Dixon, Director of CTE, and Linda Eldridge, Coordinator ofWork-Based Learning, Boyd County Technical Center, Ashland, KY62. Evolution of Change at a Texas High SchoolROOM: DELTA ISLAND EPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: L, UOBJECTIVE: 3BCODE: HSLearn about a new operating system that maximizes creativity, autonomyand mastery at a Texas high school. The tread that holds student and adultmotivation is the feeling that one belongs to something greater than oneself.All efforts are centered on HSTW ’s 10 Key Practices. The session willprovide new insights for improving a high school.PRESENTER(S): Daniel Girard, Principal, W. Charles Akins High School, Austin, TX;and Martha Quijano, School Improvement Consultant, SREB,Atlanta, GA63. Managing the Mayhem: Chicago Public School’s TurnaroundInitiativeROOM: PRESIDENTIAL BALLROOM BPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: L, UOBJECTIVE: 3BCODE: HSThis session will describe how Chicago Public School’s Office of SchoolImprovement has become a pioneer in the national turnaround movement.When general strategies are not enough, we provide comprehensiveframework for whole-school improvement by putting students first,involving families and communities, and providing skilled and committededucators.PRESENTER(S): Cleo Aquino, Director of External Development, and Donald Fraynd,School Improvement Officer, Chicago Public Schools, Office of SchoolImprovement, Chicago, IL—R – Repeated Session – 2011 Pacesetter School or Award Recipient – MMGW Top 50 Most-Improved School (2008-2010)• – Top 50 High-Implementation MMGW Site (2010)25