Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Tuesday Early Birds 

7:15a.m.-8:15 a.m.

• Strong Start: Keys to Success with DreamBox Reading Plus, Natalee Hawks, MA, DreamBox

• Montana Aligned to Standards Through-Year (MAST) Assessment: Shaping the Future of Assessment in Education, Krystal Smith, MS, OPI and New Meridian

• OPI MTSS Professional Learning & Modules Guided Tour for District and Building Implementation Teams, Michelle Trafton, MEd, and Carla Heintz, MA, OPI

• Transitional Resilience: Supporting Students and Schools Through Transfer Movements, Crystal Hickman, OPI

• Kickstart Your School Wellness Policy for Student Success, Molly Stenberg, Montana Team Nutrition

• Power Up with PBS! Nikki Vradenburg, EdD, Montana PBS

• Using Your Local Data: The Montana Statewide Longitudinal Data System, Nicole Frieling, PhD Candidate, OPI

Tuesday Welcome & Keynote

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

• Limitless Learning: Learn, Lead and Live Without Barriers, Dr. Jo Boaler, Stanford University

Tuesday Role-Alike Facilitated Discussions

10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

• Coaches (Systems, Instructional), Jennifer Pierce, MTSS OPI Coaches

• Administrators, Kathy Kidder, Helena’s Capital High

• Special Education, John Gorton and OPI Special Education Staff

• MS/HS Math and Science, Michelle McCarthy

• Literacy/ELA, Rachel Gott/ Stephanie Swigart

• Counselors/Mental Health Providers, Crystal Hickman/Courtney Hubbs

• Early Childhood, Lucy Beltz/Jackie Ronning 

• Assessment/Testing Coordinators, KITE (MAST) Platform Lab, Cedar Rose, MEd, and Tressa Gravely, MS, OPI

Tuesday Lunch & Learns

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

• Strong Start: Keys to Success with DreamBox Learning Math, Natalee Hawks, MA, DreamBox

• Be An Inclusive Champion! Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools, Terri Norman, MT Special Olympics

• EVERFI Financial Literacy, EVERFI

• Deafblindness 101, Theresa Baldry, Kim Brown, Kari Tarter, UM Rural Institute and Montana DeafBlind Project

• SLTC: Screening Linked to Care, Kayleigh Brown, Rural Behavior Heath Institute

• Code Switching: The Art of Communicating in Two Worlds, Crystal Hickman, OPI

• Using EdReady Math for Building Career Readiness, Ginny Gist, MTDA

• MTSS SPDG Grant Teams Lunch & Learn [Invitation Only], Tammy Lysons, MEd, & OPI MTSS Coaches

Tuesday Afternoon Session Block

1:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.  

• Teaching & Learning Multidimensional Mathematics, Dr. Jo Boaler and Cathy Williams, Stanford

• Coaching for Systems and Teacher Change, Jennifer Pierce, PhD, AIR

• Best Practices for Tier 2 Support, Paula Schultz, MEd

• UM Rural Institute Resources, Dr. Susan Bashinski & UM Rural Institute Staff

• Keys to Ensuring Academic Engagement and Success for EL, Homeless and Foster Care Students, Christy Hendricks, OPI & Serena Wright, OPI

• Engagement Techniques that Work, Lindsay Mahoney, MEd, & School Improvement Team, OPI

• EdReady Montana 101 for Math & English, Virg Hale, Jaime Middleton, Jacquie Teasdale, Ginny Gist, MTDA

• Active Strategies that Engage Students and Bring Literature to Life, Dr. Beverly Chin, UM

• Instructional Strategies for Standards Based Classrooms, Andrea Meiers & Jenny Combs, Lockwood

• Early Writing Project: Data-Based Instruction for Students with Intensive Writing Needs, Erica Lembke, PhD, University of Missouri

• Using Response to Intervention (RTI) to Determine Specific Learning Disability (SLD), Tessie Bailey, PhD, Progress Center at AIR

• Flourishing in the Face of Secondary Trauma and Burnout, Dr. Reneé Schoening, Whitworth University

Best Practices Expo 

4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.