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CONCURRENT SESSIONS | SET G<br />
DECEMBER 6, <strong>2016</strong><br />
TUESDAY<br />
9 AM - 12 PM<br />
CONTINUES<br />
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM<br />
WEDNESDAY TUESDAY<br />
MONDAY<br />
SUNDAY<br />
SATURDAY<br />
G01 |<br />
Fundamentals of Professional<br />
Learning<br />
Facilitating group decision making?<br />
Implementing Learning Forward’s<br />
Standards for Professional Learning?<br />
Modeling effective professional<br />
development teaching strategies?<br />
Engaging adult learners? How does a<br />
beginning staff developer know where<br />
to start and what to do? Focus on each<br />
of these questions and create your own<br />
answers. Learn multiple strategies and<br />
techniques for advancing successful<br />
professional development. This session is a<br />
repeat of A01.<br />
Ann Delehant, Learning Forward, Webster, NY,<br />
adelehant@gmail.com<br />
Denny Berry, University of Virginia,<br />
Charlottesville, VA, dberry@virginia.edu<br />
Area of Focus: Learning Designs<br />
G02 |<br />
Hacking Leadership: A Disturbing<br />
Guide<br />
May you always be courageous, stand<br />
upright, and be strong in leading the<br />
disturbances necessary to change the<br />
system you work in. Gain a foundation in<br />
communicative intelligence and adaptivity<br />
so that people and the organization can<br />
grow. Explore ways to effectively disturb<br />
the system you work in while surviving the<br />
turmoil by understanding that each of us is<br />
the nexus of leadership and change. Apply<br />
a process for creating innovations in your<br />
school or district.<br />
Antonia Issa Lahera, California State<br />
University - Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA,<br />
aissalahera@gmail.com<br />
Kendall Zoller, Sierra Training Associates,<br />
Foresthill, CA, kvzollerci@gmail.com<br />
Area of Focus: Leadership<br />
G03 |<br />
Formative Assessment in a Brain-<br />
Compatible Classroom: How Do We<br />
Really Know They’re Learning?<br />
Whether they are called multiple<br />
intelligences or gifts, students come to<br />
class with many different ways of knowing.<br />
Gain strategies that help move you from<br />
deciding what you want students to know<br />
and be able to do to knowing when they<br />
have mastered essential <strong>learning</strong>. Consider<br />
both traditional and more authentic forms<br />
of assessing a student’s way of knowing;<br />
leave with product ideas and strategies for<br />
assessing student <strong>learning</strong>.<br />
Marcia Tate, Developing Minds, Conyers, GA,<br />
marciata@bellsouth.net<br />
Area of Focus: Data<br />
G04 |<br />
Coaching Teams to Use Formative<br />
Assessments for Results<br />
Learn how to coach teacher teams to<br />
unlock the power of classroom formative<br />
assessment to motivate students and<br />
increase achievement. Experience a<br />
process for engaging teacher teams<br />
in developing frequent formative<br />
assessments and analyzing results.<br />
Guide teams in using tools to respond to<br />
formative data with timely and targeted<br />
action that moves student <strong>learning</strong><br />
<strong>forward</strong>. Facilitate teams in <strong>learning</strong> about<br />
and applying a formative assessment<br />
driven-instructional cycle and a variety of<br />
formative assessment practices.<br />
Nancy Love, Research for Better Teaching,<br />
Acton, MA, love@rbteach.com<br />
Robin Whitacre, Idaho Springs, CO,<br />
whitacre@rbteach.com<br />
Nina Smith, Santa Fe, NM, smith@rbteach.com<br />
Area of Focus: Data<br />
G05 |<br />
Achieving Racial Equity: The Fierce<br />
Urgency of Now<br />
Engage educators in the deep work of<br />
personal, professional, and systemic<br />
transformation. Acquire proven practices<br />
for enhancing cultural competence and<br />
culturally responsive teaching. Learn how<br />
to create and sustain a systemic approach<br />
to racial equity. Examine the deeper causes<br />
of race-based educational disparities.<br />
Gary Howard, Gary Howard Equity Institutes,<br />
Seattle, WA, garyrhoward@earthlink.net<br />
Area of Focus: Equity<br />
CONFERENCE<br />
ICONS<br />
Special symbols provide<br />
additional information for<br />
<strong>conference</strong> attendees. These<br />
sessions are marked with icons.<br />
Most sessions are appropriate<br />
for all attendees.<br />
BASIC for participants with<br />
limited background in the<br />
content.<br />
ADVANCED for attendees<br />
who have knowledge of the<br />
session content.<br />
Sessions that have content<br />
and skills for educators<br />
serving TITLE 1 / economically<br />
disadvantaged populations.<br />
Explore REDESIGN PD in<br />
sessions marked with this<br />
icon.<br />
Common Core State<br />
Standards will be found in<br />
these sessions.<br />
Sessions appropriate for<br />
SUPERINTENDENTS are<br />
flagged with this icon.<br />
Sessions where participants<br />
should BYOD—Bring your<br />
own device.<br />
Gain a global perspective<br />
in sessions marked with<br />
this icon.<br />
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