Annalisa Miner & Lisa Wymore

MS | HS

🙋

Are you new to working with English learners (ELs) or needing a refresher on some best practice considerations? Join us to discuss critical foundational pieces of serving ELs, which will include: understanding the importance of knowing a students background, culture, and prior schooling and then tips and considerations for teaching reading to ELs.

Jessie Blohm & Melissa Blohm

E

🙋

In this session, Pre-K through 3rd grade teachers will walk away with a deeper understanding of the levels of phonological awareness by learning activities to incorporate into their classroom and reflect on the key components of a quality phonological awareness assessment.

Tina Graven, Holly Ritter

& Sue Longcor

E | MS | HS

🙋

Regie Routman (2003) has written that "One of the strongest predictors of reading achievement is the quality of the teacher-student relationship. In reading conferences, you give a student or group of students your undivided attention and develop strong relationships with them." In this session, you will discover how to begin the year by building relationships with your readers and writers through conferring.

Chelsie Byram

E |MS

🙋

Science is shared, read, viewed, spoken and written making science and literacy a perfect match. How can educators seamlessly marry the two together?

Danielle Hakeman &

Ashley Bultje

E |MS | HS

💻

Intermediate grade teachers (grades 3 and up) will build background knowledge in morphology to support students' literacy skills development in decoding, vocabulary development, and spelling. This session is particularly valuable for teachers of reading and/or science.

Cari Teske & Ann Thomas

E | MS | HS

🙋

Let's take a look at what digital resources are available that can enhance literacy experiences for students. We will walk through ideas you can implement with students that empower them as learners.

Annalisa Miner & Lisa Wymore

E

🙋

Are you new to working with English learners (ELs) or needing a refresher on some best practice considerations? Join us to discuss critical foundational pieces of serving ELs, which will include: understanding the importance of knowing a students background, culture, and prior schooling and then tips and considerations for teaching reading to ELs.

Melissa Blohm & Andrea Raber

E | MS

🙋

Which sight words should we teach our students? Are there instructional methods that can have a greater impact than others? How do we ensure students are able to transfer newly learned words into their independent reading and writing? This session will uncover how we can shift from a “just-have-to-memorize-them” approach to highly effective instructional routines rooted in the science of how the brain learns to read.

Kelly Westley & Kelsey Bowers

E | MS | HS

💻

When teachers have a deep understanding of what students must know and be able to do, the rate of student learning can double (Hattie, 2012). Teacher clarity answers the questions, what am I learning? (learning intentions), why am I learning? (relevance) and how will I know I have learned it? (success criteria). As clarity increases students are empowered to take ownership over their learning. In this session, participants will learn about each component of teacher clarity: learning intentions, relevance, and success criteria. Participants will come away with a process of how to establish clarity in their role.

Melissa Blohm & Keith Halverson

E

💻

Why can't we teach Social Studies and Literacy together? In this session participants will be exposed to the power Disciplinary Literacy brings in breaking down the silos between the two content areas.

Danielle Hakeman, Andrea Raber & Lorelei Lake

E | MS | HS

💻

Participants will build their understanding of signs and symptoms of dyslexia and ways to support students with word level reading difficulties.

Kelly Westley & Kelsey Bowers

E | MS | HS

🙋

This session will highlight three high-impact strategies that work, and more importantly when they work. Participants will explore how students move from surface learning, to deep learning and transfer. Annotations are effective, but when? When is reciprocal teaching best implemented? When should classroom discussion be leveraged? This session will align three strategies to each phase of learning.

MaKenzie Hakeman

and

Math Team:

Jennifer Schilling

Jeff Struck

Amie Smith

E | MS

💻

Connecting literacy and math through instructional routines.