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7:30am - 10:30am
Registration
Location: Mezzanine
8:00am - 9:00am
1 hr PD
Forensics Discipline Caucus Meeting
Facilitator(s): Jessica Skordal, Forensics Representative (Bentonville West High School)
Location: Meeting Room 1
This session the Forensics Representative will provide important information from ACTAA, while facilitating an opportunity for open dialog on Forensics-related items.
Interest Areas: Forensics
9:00am - 10:00am
1 hr PD
The Pros of Language Learning Models (AI) in Debate
Presenter(s): Chris Flowers, Alter Ethos Speech & Debate
Location: Meeting Room 3
This presentation will demonstrate how to ethically use AI to research, breakdown and develop arguments for LD, FF, Policy, and Congressional Debate. The session will include a group discussion on the potential pitfalls and benefits of AI use in the instructional debate.
Interest Areas: Debate
10:00am - 10:15am
Break
Location: Mezzanine
10:15am - 11:15pm
1 hr PD
Instructing Speech & Debate and LEARNS Act, Part II
Presenter(s): Zackery Tucker, 1st Vice President (ASU-Beebe)
Location: Meeting Room 1
With the active implementation of the LEARNS Act and the start of a new school year, this session will continue conversations from Summer Worksop on ACTAA’s position statement on indoctrination in the classroom and establishing norms to assist teachers and students participate in our activity within Arkansas L.E.A.R.N.S..
Interest Areas: Forensics & Debate
Session Resources:
11:15am - 12:45pm
1.5 hr PD
Teaching is a Creative Act
Presenter(s): Chris Flowers, Alter Ethos Speech & Debate
Location: Meeting Room 3
Famed music producer Rick Rubin’s 2023 book The Creative Act: A Way of Being explores creativity and communicates how people can transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. This presentation looks at teaching as an act of creativity based on applying the text’s concepts to the role of the teacher.
Interest Areas: General Session
12:45pm - 2:30pm
2 hr PD
Opening Luncheon
Location: Ballroom 1
The association will join together for a provided lunch to celebrate successes in the profession and organization. Associational leadership will set the stage with a vision the next year.
The luncheon program agenda will be posted here.
2:30pm - 4:30pm
2 hr PD
Connecting Through Comics: Graphic Novels in the Classroom
Presenter(s): Hope Hargrove & Ryan Gibbons, ASU-Beebe
Location: Meeting Room 1
By adding graphic novels to your teaching toolbox, you’ll help engage your students in important critical-thinking and storytelling skills in a unique way. In this session, faculty from Arkansas State University - Beebe will share how they use comics in the theatre classroom.
Interest Areas: Theatre Arts
Tournament Advisory Committee (TAC) Forum/
Debate Discipline Caucus Meeting
Facilitator(s): Sean Petersen, TAC Chair (Don Tyson School of Innovation)
Location: Ballroom 2
Join us as we discuss our tournament season for the 2023-24 academic year and potential changes.
Interest Areas: Debate & Forensics
4:30pm - 6:00pm
2 hr PD
Dinner (On Your Own)
Enjoy visiting fellow educators at any of the wonderful restaurants downtown Hot Springs has to offer. Click here for a list of local fare.
Committees are encouraged to schedule time during the dinner break, to meet and handle any important business required for Fall Conference reporting. Committee chairs will provide QR codes for PD credit to members who participate in committee work.
If a committee plans to meet during this time, chairs should email zatucker@asub.edu to book a room and get listed on the schedule.
6:00pm - 8:00pm
2 hr PD
Member Social: The Inside Track
Location: The Hotel Hot Springs Restaurant
Building a professional learning community must include building a community. This organized evening activity will allow participants to network and build relationships within the profession and association in a social environment. The event is a Dutch treat.
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