25ANNUAL TH - Southern Regional Education Board

FRIDAY, 2:15 P.M.FEATURED PRESENTATIONSSTEVESASSAMANCAROLSTEELE569. STAR Power: Enabling Students to Shine BrightROOM: PRESIDENTIAL BALLROOM BPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 5DCODE: HS, MG, TCLearn how to motivate your students to be increasingly responsible for their own school and life experiences. Increase yourown responsibility as a professional educator by acquiring skills and techniques that encourage students to make gooddecisions on their own, eliminate troublesome behavior and become empowered.PRESENTER(S): Steve Sassaman, Consultant, Performance Learning Systems, Madisonville, GA570. Inspired Responses: Dealing With What Can’t Be AnticipatedROOM: BAYOU ABPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 8DCODE: HS, MG, TCIn this session, the author of The Inspired Teacher: How to Know One, Grow One or Be One will address advanced teachingskills, such as interpreting the unexpected, developing sensitivity to context, testing hunches and hypotheses, andimprovising effectively.PRESENTER(S): Carol Steele, Instructional Coach, Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators, Grand Rapids, MIREGULAR SESSIONSREGULAR SESSIONS571. Down-to-Earth Reading in the Middle GradesROOM: GOVERNOR’S CHAMBER CPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: S, ROBJECTIVE: 1ACODE: MGTo improve as readers and meet the Common Core State Standards, studentsmust use keys to enable them to unlock a text. Learn how students are ableto increase comprehension of a wide variety of texts using summarizing,visualizing, predicting, inferring, analyzing, comparing and other techniques.PRESENTER(S): Judith Holbrook, Teacher, Fayette County, Peachtree City, GA572. Student, Know Thyself: Understanding Self-Assessment inWriting and in LifeROOM: BELLE MEADE CDPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: L, ROBJECTIVE: 1BCODE: HS, MG, TCNews flash: Teachers are crunched for time! This presentation will introducethe concept of students self-assessing their own work. Different ways thatteachers can save time while improving student learning, along with provenself-assessment strategies, will be shown. Learn how students have grown intheir use of soft skills and academics.PRESENTER(S): Meleah Meadows, Sonography Teacher, and Bonner Slayton,Literacy Specialist, Moore Norman Technology Center, Norman, OK573. First Stop: Career Assessment; Next Stop: The STARSROOM: CANAL APRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: L, SUOBJECTIVE: 1CCODE: HS, TCLearn how a technology center has promoted student success byimplementing age-appropriate assessments, key transition planning anda Response to Intervention called STAR (the Student Teacher AssistanceRoom). These services are solutions to effective differentiated instruction,program placement and student retention.PRESENTER(S): Colleen Buehl, Student Support Services, and Gloria Harris-Willis,Career Assessment Specialist, Cuyahoga Valley Career Center,Brecksville, OH574. Does Your Inclusion Teacher Have the Duties of aParaprofessional?ROOM: CHEEKWOOD FPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 1CCODE: HS, MGIn too many schools, inclusion classes do not take advantage of having twoteachers in a classroom. The inclusion teacher does nothing more importantthan take attendance and walk around monitoring behavior. Learn the sixapproaches to co-teaching and how to incorporate them into an inclusionclassroom so students benefit from the strengths of both teachers.PRESENTER(S): Linda Dove, School Improvement Consultant, SREB, Atlanta, GA575. Great Middle Grades Guidance and Advisement: StudentsPrepared for SuccessROOM: CHEEKWOOD G-HPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: N/AOBJECTIVE: 2CCODE: MGWhile the classroom is the first line of defense, a good early warning diagnosticassessment and intervention system can help schools counteract chronicallypoor student performance. Learn how preparing middle grades students withthe skills and habits required for success in high school and beyond is crucial.Students must possess the habits of success to become successful.PRESENTER(S): Peggy Fillio, School Improvement Consultant, SREB, Atlanta, GA576. Freshman Academy Strategies for SuccessROOM: BELMONT BPRESENTING SCHOOL TYPE: L, SUOBJECTIVE: 2DCODE: HS, MGThrough planning and implementation, this high school was able to createa strategy for success for its freshmen. Creation of the Strategies for Successclass and a collaborative faculty have led to student success and improvedachievement. We succeed only because our students succeed.PRESENTER(S): Patti Dennis and Dandy Peeler, Teachers, and Doug Kretchmar,Freshman Counselor, Choctaw-Nicoma Park, Choctaw, OK—R – Repeated Session – 2011 Pacesetter School or Award Recipient – MMGW Top 50 Most-Improved School (2008-2010)• – Top 50 High-Implementation MMGW Site (2010)79