2014-15+Professional+Development

**7:30 - 8:30 Registration & Sign-in** **8:30 - 8:45 First general session** **9:00 - 9:45 Concurrent Session 1** **10:00 - 10:45 Concurrent Session 2** **11:00 - 11:45 Concurrent Session 3** **12:00 - 1:00 Lunch** **1:00 - 2:45 Curriculum Meetings (content disciplines)** **2:50 - 3:00 Second general session** **__Get Your MBA-Movement Based Academics Ideas, activities, research substantiating the power of physical activity an​d​ brain development__  - (elementary) ** **Description: This is an opportunity for personalized professional development on the topics you find most relevant. Come meet with us and work through how to implement the new strategies/technology resources you have identified. ** **Description: This session will highlight the basics for understanding and supporting students with High Functioning Autism and/or Asperger System. The strategies presented can be used help students be successful academically and socially in the general education environment. ** **Description: The pedagogues in this session will be traversing into the macrocosm of vernacular. Confused? Lost? Bored? That's how our students feel when we use academic vocabulary they don't understand. Join me in exploring strategies for teaching academic vocabulary including why teaching vocabulary is important, engagement strategies for vocabulary acquisition, and vocabulary games that allow kids to "play with words." Join me for a convivial time! (That means fun!) **
 * Blue River Cohort** **Professional Development Day** **Monday, January 5, 2015** **Dorchester Public Schools** **8:30 am - 3:00 pm**
 * SESSION 1 ||
 * Presenter: Dr. JoAnne Nausler **
 * Grade Level: K-6 **
 * Room: 5th Grade Classroom **
 * Description: **
 * ** Meaningful movement strategies to enhance school success **
 * ** Strategies to be used in your classrooms...math & movement, just one example **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Bring your fun game, prepare to laugh, learn, & share **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Personalized PD__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenters: Lynne Herr and April Kelley **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: All **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: JH Math/Science Room **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__20 Ways to Help Your Students with Asperger Syndrome__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Mary Flory **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: Upper Elementary through High School **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: High School SS Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Teaching Academic Language in the Content Areas__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenters: Jill Johnson **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: 5 - 12 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Language Arts Room **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Who is Doing the Talking in Your Classroom?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Using Questioning to Develop Student Understanding - Who is Doing the Talking in Your Classroom__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Lenny VerMaas **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: All **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Math Room **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Teachers ask a lot of questions. Do your questions encourage student thinking and deepen understanding? We will look at several strategies to make your questioning more effective. Wait time 1 and 2, planning higher-level questions in advance, holding all students accountable, creating a variety of types of questions and other strategies will be shared. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Patricia Scarborough <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: Art Classroom <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Nebraska landscape artist Patty Scarborough will share her love of painting in pastels. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Her style of teaching is to offer students any and all information they need to begin a painting and to carry it through to completion. Starting with a short demonstration, she'll work through getting started, color choices, dealing with perspective and composition in a conversational style. Those taking this workshop will have ample time for hands on experience.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Art Teachers – Pastels__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Student Engagement__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Toby Boss <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: All <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Science Room <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Engagement Presentation

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Student engagement is the key to learning and…. a lot of fun!. For sense and meaning to occur, the human brain needs to be activated in order to make connections to the content. This session will provide a variety of techniques such as musical cards, run the tournament, academic games and lineups to engage students both verbally and kinesthetically. This will be an active session, so come ready to have a great time. ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SESSION 2 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Secure Your Own Mask First!”TM__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">– (personal) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Dr. JoAnne Nausler **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: Personal Health/Wellness **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: 5th Grade Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The elements of well being including health and humor **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The flight attendant reminds us to take care of ourselves before we help others, therefore healthy and active living should be daily priorities!​ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ideas & Action Strategies for yourself & easily transportable to the classroom **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Bella Criare Scriveri, or Beautiful Creative Writing, is one of the fastest‑growing approaches to creative, narrative writing in America today. If you are looking for the training to help teachers get to the “next level” in their instruction of creative writing for young writers, then this workshop is a must! Designed, implemented, and researched by Ron, he has used it successfully in classrooms ranging from primary to high school. In this workshop, Ron will give teachers extremely powerful tools to help students acquire the skills to see the world, translate it into meaningful language, and then transfer this learning into student‑ generated, creative narratives. Just to name a few strategies that Bella incorporates, Ron will share how to improve word usage, fluency, and how to create student portfolios and numerous other assessments. Bella Criare Scriveri allows teachers and students alike to get to the “heart of the art” and creates an environment that inspires a passion for writing in students. This program has been used to increase achievement in state standard writing tests with outstanding results and it has been used successfully to help high school students prepare for the written component of the SAT. If you, your school, or your school district is looking for a way to improve student writing, then this is one workshop that you must experience! ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Since I’ve improved as a writer, I can read a little faster, before I was a very slow reader and I didn’t like reading books. Now I can almost know what is going to happen.” – Louie, age 11 ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: This is an opportunity for personalized professional development on the topics you find most relevant. Come meet with us and work through how to implement the new strategies/technology resources you have identified. ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Students love to explore, invent, build, figure things out and be actively engaged in their learning. STEM activities provide an opportunity for students to work in teams to learn how to approach and solve problems they care about. This presentation will look at the ingredients for a STEM activity as well as provide resources and possible activities. ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Come share your favorite app, Chrome extension, web site or other tech tool or tip with other elementary teachers. Give one, get many in this informal sharing session. All information will be collected in a Google form and shared with participants. ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share your favorite tip or tool via this Google Form ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See the Collection of Tools vis this Google Sheet ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The pedagogues in this session will be traversing into the macrocosm of vernacular. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Confused? Lost? Bored? That's how our students feel when we use academic vocabulary they don't understand. Join me in exploring strategies for teaching academic vocabulary including why teaching vocabulary is important, engagement strategies for vocabulary acquisition, and vocabulary games that allow kids to "play with words." Join me for a convivial time! (That means fun!) ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Writing - Elementary__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Ron Coniglio **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: K-6 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: 4th Grade Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Personalized PD__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenters: Toby Boss **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: All **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Science Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__STEM, Building Bridges Between Science, Technology, Engineering and Math__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Lenny VerMaas **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: 6 - 12 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Math Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Tech Tools SmackDown__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenters: Lynne Herr **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: All **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: JH Math/Science Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Teaching Academic Language in the Content Areas__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenters: Jill Johnson **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: 5 - 12 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Language Arts Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SESSION 3 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Move To Improve!​__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - (secondary) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Dr. JoAnne Nausler **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: Secondary **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: 5th Grade Classroom **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ideas & Strategies for secondary t​teachers, ​health & physical activity settings **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reminders about the latest info in​ the profession **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Can we make movement fun? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A great opportunity to laugh, learn, share, & re-charge. **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: NETA (Nebraska Educational Technology Association) offers great opportunities to showcase awesome technology-infused student and teacher work from your classroom! Come work with Lynne, the NETA contest chair, to explore contests and prepare your entries! The 2015 contest entries are due January 23, and information and entry forms can be found on the [|__NETA site.__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Teachers who sponsor winning student contest entries earn a free NETA conference registration and district reimbursement for both days of substitute teacher costs. Several contests allow teachers to enter their own work, and you could win NETA conference expenses, classroom grants or a trip to the national ed tech conference (ISTE) in Philadelphia in late June. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__NETA Contest Entries__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Lynne Herr **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: JH Math/Science Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Writing – Elementary cont.__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Ron Coniglio **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: K-6 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: 4th Grade Classroom **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you need help ideating which materials you can use as evidence in your Title I Schoolwide Plan Peer and Self Review? This session will provide an opportunity to work through parts A, B, C, & 1 of the review rubric and coordinate information that can be used as evidence for your school district’s review. ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Teachers ask a lot of questions. Do your questions encourage student thinking and deepen understanding? We will look at several strategies to make your questioning more effective. Wait time 1 and 2, planning higher-level questions in advance, holding all students accountable, creating a variety of types of questions and other strategies will be shared. ** Engagement Presentation **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Student engagement is the key to learning and…. a lot of fun!. For sense and meaning to occur, the human brain needs to be activated in order to make connections to the content. This session will provide a variety of techniques such as musical cards, run the tournament, academic games and lineups to engage students both verbally and kinesthetically. This will be an active session, so come ready to have a great time. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Schoolwide Plan Peer and Self Review Rating of Schoolwide Effectiveness for Title I - Unpacking the Rubric__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Karma Ridpath **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: Title I Schoolwide Programs **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: Title I Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Using Questioning to Develop Student Understanding - Who is doing the talking in your classroom?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Lenny VerMaas **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: All **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Math Classroom **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Student Engagement__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter: Toby Boss **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: All **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Room: HS Science Classroom **

**__Art Teachers__**
**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Join artist Susan Hart in a quick exploration of abstract collage. You will begin your journey learning to stain your own paper, seeking new ways of inspiration and culminating your adventure by creating an abstract collage. Bring your willingness to play. ** =__**Music Teachers**__= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please join Dr. Duane Bierman, Director of Bands at UNK, for a day of percussion techniques, tips, music and much more! _
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:00 am – 10:45 am: Patricia Scarborough (Pastels Artist) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Curriculum Meeting **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:00 pm – 2:45 pm: Susan Hart (Mixed Media Artist) **

**Blue River Cohort** **Professional Development Day** Tuesday, September 2, 2014 McCool Junction Public Schools 8:30-3:00 7:30-8:30 Registration and Sign in 8:30-10:30 General Session: 10:45--11:45 Concurrent Session1 11:45--12:45 Lunch 12:45 - 1:45 Concurrent Session 2 2:00-3:00 Curriculum meetings
 * Keynote: <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Dave Burgess

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16.66px;">Concurrent Session 1

 * 10:45-11:45 **

Presenter: Dave Burgess Grade Level: K-5 Room: Music Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: This is a follow-up to the keynote presentation customized for elementary staff. **//__Reading Strategies for Secondary Teachers__//** Presenter: April Kelley Grade Level: 6-12 Room: English Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: Are you looking for some new practical reading strategies to help you increase comprehension in any content area? In this session, we'll explore instructional strategies you can use to help your students become critical thinkers as they read. __ //**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using NWEA/MAP Reports to Improve Student Learning **// __ //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success? // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Room: Math Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Presenter: Lenny VerMaas, lennyvermaas@gmail.com, @LennyVerMaas, http://lvermaas.wikispaces.com/ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: Target Audience: teachers in Friend, Dorchester or Shickley who use MAP assessments from NWEA. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MAP has many different reports. We will look at some of the most frequently used reports and see how they can be used to track student learning, target level of instruction, and help students set learning goals. Opportunities will be provided to share how schools and teachers are using MAP assessments <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Website used this morning:
 * //__Elementary Teach Like a Pirate__// **
 * Lenny's NWEA resources
 * ESU's NWEA site

**//__Writing in the Content Area for Secondary Teachers__//** Presenter: Derek Ippensen Grade Level: 6-12 Room: Social Studies Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: Writing is an essential part of the learning process. To help "non-writing" teachers become content area writing teachers, Derek Ippensen will review points of emphasis and the types of writing, and provide tips for creating effective writing assignments in the secondary content-area classroom. **//__Technology Playground and Indivudualized Support__//** Presenter: Lynne Herr Grade Level: 6-12 Room: Learning Center <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: Lynne will be available to assist teachers with individual technology needs, and participants will also share favorite apps and tools with each other. You can also attend one of the following: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">1. __Expediting Extemp E-filing with Rachel Haider__: Originally designed for speech coaches to gather Extemp speaking sources for digital files. Come see how to use Google Chrome Extensions paired with Google Drive or Evernote to digitally curate electronic news sources for use with students. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">2. __30 Tech Tools for Language Learners with Jill Elswick__: A handout of 30 different tech ideas to use for vocabulary plus demonstrations of any on the list.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16.66px;">Concurrent Session 2

 * 12:45-1:45 **

**//__Secondary Teach Like a Pirate__//** Presenter: Dave Burgess Grade Level: 6-12 Room: Music Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: This is a follow-up to the keynote presentation customized for secondary staff. Presenter: April Kelley Grade Level: K-5 Room: English Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: Are you teaching everything out of the core reading program and your students still not performing well on the assessments? Join us during this session to learn how to strengthen your core reading program for comprehension instruction. __ //**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using NWEA/MAP Reports to Improve Student Learning **// __ //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success? // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Room: Math Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Presenter: Lenny VerMaas, lennyvermaas@gmail.com, @LennyVerMaas, http://lvermaas.wikispaces.com/ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: Target Audience: teachers in Friend, Dorchester or Shickley who use MAP assessments from NWEA. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MAP has many different reports. We will look at some of the most frequently used reports and see how they can be used to track student learning, target level of instruction, and help students set learning goals. Opportunities will be provided to share how schools and teachers are using MAP assessments <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Website used this morning:
 * //__Reading Comprehension in the Elementary__// **
 * Lenny's NWEA resources
 * ESU's NWEA site

**//__Writing in the Content Area for Elementary Teachers__//** Presenter: Derek Ippensen Grade Level: 6-12 Room: Social Studies Room <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: Writing is an essential part of the learning process. To help elementary teachers move from teaching mostly narrative writing to include content area writing, Derek Ippensen will review pints of emphasis and the types of writing, and provide tips for creating effective writing assignments in their elementary content-area classroom. **//__Technology Playground and Individualized Support__//** Presenter: Lynne Herr Grade Level: K-5 Room: Learning Center <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Description: Lynne will be available to assist teachers with individual technology needs, and participants will also share favorite apps and tools with each other. You can also attend one of the following: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">1. __Using Tech Tools in the RtI Process to Engage Emerging Readers with Karma Ridpath__: By using tech tools, emerging readers will become more engaged in their reading intervention opportunities. Participants will receive a handout of tech tools that can be incorporated into existing early literacy reading interventions. Alignment to pre-packaged early literacy lessons will also be addressed. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">2. __Marzano Meets Technology with Marla Weber__: This poster session will show technology can be used effectively with some of the Marzano strategies