Breakout Sessions*

National Presenters coming to Summer Symposium 2020

Ross Greene: Supporting Students with Social, Emotional and Behavior Challenges

Karen Flories: Leading Teacher Clarity

Ricky Robertson: Building Resilience

Dominique Smith: Engagement by Design

Tommy Thompson: Visible Learning Mindframes

Kagan: Active Student Engagement Strategies for the Classroom

NWEA: Understanding Instructional Reports to Drive Instruction

Local Presenters coming to Summer Symposium 2020

Kevin Lien: Engagement Inventory - A tool to measure real student engagement

  • Would you like to quantitatively evaluate real student engagement? This tool and ancillary information in regard to student engagement can supply individual and collective comparative data to assure optimum active learning to the highest order and magnitude. Attendees will view the tool, understand justification for its reliability and validity, and practice calibrated utilization.

Mitch Reed: The Little Things That Make A Big Difference

  • Conversation is a constant in our lives, but we often don’t have enough meaningful conversations, even among the people with whom we interact every day. Listening leads to understanding. Understanding leads to the capability to support.

Poornima Dsouza and Anita Manning: Break the Ice

  • Break the Ice session will bridge the culture gap, gain knowledge of the impact of life experiences, and needed understanding to take effective action. The participants will involve in a vernacular and simulation activity to gain an experience of how it feels to be an outsider. The session will empower contributors through discussion, activity, gallery walk followed by Coffee, Culture and Conversation.

Tony Martinet: Let's Communicate: Discourse and Dialogue in the Classroom

  • The session will explore research about discourse and dialogue in the classroom. Participants will utilize a framework for classifying student communication to make discourse and dialogue in the classroom an intentional part of lesson design to enhance learning. Different techniques and activities will be presented and utilized by participants to develop first-hand experience for implementation into their own lesson. For secondary school audiences.

*Breakout information will be coming soon.