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Tuesday June 9, 2026
Tuesday June 9, 2026
Half Day Sessions:
MORNING SESSIONS 9:00am-12:00pm
Title: SC Employability Credential 101 (NEW Teachers only)
Presenter: Kim Watkins, Rhonda Mumford
Description: This session is designed for new teachers or new to the credential teachers only. Regulations, Resources and Notebooks will be shared. All Content Standards will be discussed while highlighting new math resources.
Title: Transition Bootcamp (TASC)
Presenter: Sloan Lincks, Michele Meier, Stephanie Shepherd, and Sara Comstock
Description: Bootcamp for new transition teachers - all of the information and resources you will need to meet compliance and execute evidence based practices in secondary transition.
AFTERNOON SESSIONS PM 1:00pm-4:00pm
Title: PM- SC Employability Credential Essentials of Math WorkGroup
Presenter: Kim Watkins, Rhonda Mumford
Description: The South Carolina High School Employability Credential provides eligible students with disabilities the opportunity to attain a uniform, state-recognized credential. This interactive math-focused workgroup session will explore how to design and deliver standards-aligned lessons that build foundational and applied math skills such as solving equations, analyzing functions, understanding geometric relationships, interpreting data, and applying probability concepts. Emphasis will be placed on real-world problem solving, helping students connect mathematical concepts to workplace and everyday situations.
Title: PM- Indicator 13 Support: Session 1 (invite only)
Presenter: Elizabeth Moore, Ginger Daniel
Description: Follow up support for districts that have been designated as requiring assistance for Indicator 13
Full Day Sessions:
Full Day Sessions (9:00am-4:00pm)
Title: Embrace the Science of Learning at All Grade Levels for the Win: Student Success
Presenter: Zack Groshell
Description: Join Dr. Zack Groshell as he shares the science and practical strategies for structured teaching and active participation—from managing attention and behavior to ensuring every student is involved in learning. The strategies can be used across all content areas and grade levels and will help teachers present new material clearly, reduce cognitive overload, and support efficient learning for all students. Whether you are teaching students or supporting classroom teachers, you will leave with tools to implement the science of learning across content areas.
Title: Explicit Instruction Academy- Session 6 (Invite Only)
Presenter: Ginger Catoe, Deanna Parish, Susan Thomas
Description: Our 6th and final session of the Explicit Instruction Academy. Current EIA members only.
Title: Closed (invite only): Cohort 1 District Behavior Coordinator Convening
Presenter: Mya Kelley, Crystal Ceresani, Georgia McKown
Description: BASC Cohort 1 DBCs will gather to reflect on the year, create action steps for next school year, and to learn and grow together in efforts to sustain, deepen, and even expand the behavior systems work accomplished throughout their district. The session will prioritize the use of outcome data, data-based decision making, and sustaining MTSS-B through systems, practices, and data coming to life.
Title: Closed (invite only): Cohort 2 District Behavior Coordinator Convening
Presenter: Sarah Miller and Karen Elfner
Description: BASC Cohort 2 DBCs will gather to reflect on the year, prepare for the upcoming kickoff and start to the school year, and determine an action plan for rolling out MTSS-B for the first time in their project schools. The session will prioritize a year-long scope and sequence, with efforts to continue to provide high-quality coaching to school teams to keep momentum moving forward and install systems that support behavior.
Title: Collaborative Service Delivery for Inclusion
Presenter: Dr. Alissa Rausch
Description: A key barrier to inclusive opportunities is effective collaborative teaming between early care and education programs and service providers. This session will share strategies for implementing services in early childhood settings to ensure all young children with disabilities have access to and participation in inclusive experiences and positive outcomes. This session will support participants to1) connect inclusion to developmentally appropriate practice, 2) use tools to support general educators to plan routines and activities with every child in mind, 3) engage in collaboration including coaching and consultation centering educator well-being, and 4) partner with families to write strengths-based IEPs with inclusion in mind. General education providers and assistants, early childhood special educators, related service providers, and administrators are invited to this interactive workshop focused on the individual structures and process in the community that can support children and families to receive services across environments.
Wednesday June 10, 2026
Wednesday June 10, 2026
Half Day Sessions:
MORNING Sessions 9:00am-12:00pm
Title: Engaging Early Literacy Strategies Based on the Science of Reading
Presenter: Dana Bennett
Description: This interactive session will equip participants with literacy strategies to help young children practice and maintain essential literacy skills. You'll share and exchange ideas with peers to create a comprehensive list of strategies and leave with a plan to increase positive literacy outcomes.
Title: Indicator 13 Support: Session 2 (invite only)
Presenter: Elizabeth Moore, Ginger Daniel
Description: Follow up support for districts that have been designated as requiring assistance for Indicator 13.
AFTERNOON Sessions 1:00pm-4:00pm
Title: Supporting Early Mathematics Through Play and Exploration
Presenter: Jo Wallace
Description: High-quality early math experiences build the foundation for children’s academic success and confidence as problem-solvers. This interactive session will engage participants in discussion, reflection, and hands-on math stations that model high-quality, developmentally appropriate instruction. Participants will leave with practical strategies, ready-to-use ideas, and clear action steps to strengthen instruction and support all young children as confident mathematical thinkers.
Title: SC Employability Credential Essentials of Math WorkGroup
Presenter: TASC support, Rhonda Mumford
Description: The South Carolina High School Employability Credential provides eligible students with disabilities the opportunity to attain a uniform, state-recognized credential. This interactive math-focused workgroup sessionwill explore how to design and deliver standards-aligned lessons that build foundational and applied math skills such as solving equations, analyzing functions, understanding geometric relationships, interpreting data, and applying probability concepts. Emphasis will be placed on real-world problem solving, helping students connect mathematical concepts to workplace and everyday situations.
Full Day Sessions:
Full Day Sessions (9:00am-4:00pm)
Title: Design Instruction that Makes Learning Stick
Presenters: Zack Groshell
Description: Join Dr. Zack Groshell as he provides strategies for designing instruction through clear explanations, effective practice, adaptive teaching, and research-informed professional practice. The strategies for designing instructional lessons can be used at all grade levels and across all content areas.This session will enable teachers, coaches, and those responsible for instructional design and delivery in schools and districts to identify, plan, and implement core instructional practices that can be used across the tiers.
Title: All Things Behavior from BASC: Come Engage With Us About Tier 1 MTSS for Behavior, to Thinking Functionally, to Alternatives to Exclusionary Discipline
Presenter: Megan Carpenter, Catherine Griffith, Steven Rufe
Description: All things Behavior! Calling all free resource appreciators! Come check out all of BASC's Tier 1, Behavior as Communication & Serving a Function, and Alternatives to Exclusionary Discipline Resources. During this session, participants will explore all of BASC's resources and build an action plan to use them in their settings.
Title: Closed (invite only): Combined Cohort 1 & 2 District Behavior Coordinator Convening
Presenter: Georgia McKown, Crystal Ceresani, Mya Kelley
Description: Back by popular demand, we will gather both cohorts of DBCs together to convene for a day full of shared learning, collaboration, sharing of ideas and challenges, and a re-orientation to our overall goals of installing and coaching systems, practices, and data routines that help support behavior acorss all settings for all students.
Title: Putting It All Together: Designing Instruction with High Leverage Practices in the Universal Design for Learning Framework
Presenter: Alisa Lowery and Susan Thomas
Description: The purpose of this session is to use the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in your instructional design. Proactive instructional design is a hallmark of the UDL framework and is critical in including all learners by providing both physical and cognitive access to instruction. Goals, methods, materials, and assessments combine to create our curriculum. A UDL-based curriculum emphasizes flexibility in goals, methods, materials, and assessments to reduce barriers and honor learner variability across representation, expression, and engagement. We can use the UDL Design Cycle, partnered with High Leverage Practices and individualized evidence-based practices, to design inclusive lessons. This session should support your instructional design with those tools and processes. In the afternoonfour high-leverage instructional practices that can be used universally and can be intensified to meet the individual needs of students in both general and special education settings. Participants will learn the critical components for utilizing cognitive strategies, scaffolding, feedback, and task difficulty, sequencing, and choice. There will be a time for participants to identify and design methods to specially design these strategies within the UDL framework.
Title: Fundamentals and Proficiency in Sentence Writing
Presenter: Kendall McLeod and Jackie Hahn
Description: "Instruction in Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy is appropriate for students who need a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms, such as ""subject,"" ""verb,"" or ""infinitive."" Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy can be used as a developmental writing curriculum or as a quick set of lessons to improve students' understanding of these concepts.Once students have that basic understanding, they may move on to Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy. Together these components constitute a strategy for recognizing and writing 14 sentence patterns with four types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex."
Multi Day Workshop(Must Attend Multiple Days) TPOT Training (INVITE ONLY)
Multi Day Workshop(Must Attend Multiple Days) TPOT Training (INVITE ONLY)
Title: Closed (invite only): TPOT Reliability Training
Presenters: Nichole Hudgens & Joanne Osterland
Description: The Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT) for Preschool Classrooms reliability training prepares attendees to accurately observe and document preschool teacher implementation of the Pyramid Model practices using the published version of the TPOT instrument. This is an intensive, two-day workshop that requires prerequisite knowledge, preparation, and participation in the entire workshop. Participants who successfully complete the workshop and meet reliability standards will receive a certificate indicating reliability status and can serve as reliability partners to other observers. Successful completion will indicate that the TPOT workshop participant is reliable with the instrument development team. Registration is limited and early registration is suggested. Participants in the workshop receive the manual and a set of scoring booklets in the workshop.
***Must attended BOTH days: June 9th and 10th.
Tuesday June 9th 9:00AM-4:00PM
Wednesday June 10th 9:00AM-4:00PM
ASL Interpreters ONLY
ASL Interpreters ONLY
ASL Interpreters ONLY:
Tuesday, June 9 from 9:00AM to 12:00PM: Functional Strategies for STEM Interpreting in Educational Settings
Presented by NTID Regional STEM Center (NRSC) STEM Interpreting Team
As an Interpreter, what is your first response when you learn you will be interpreting in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) content areas? Some of us are thrilled! For others, “I became an Interpreter so I wouldn’t have to do math or science”, is a very common response. However, if you felt confident in your approach to interpreting in STEM content areas, would your reaction change? What if we showed you that you know more about STEM content that you think you do? Moreover, how to apply that to your work. As interpreters, our own self talk can be the most hindering factor in our growth and development. The ability to reframe the work can be the most powerful tool in your kit. In this workshop you will employ real-world experiences with STEM from your everyday life! We’ll describe and help you apply non-traditional preparation strategies for interpreting in STEM classes and events and parallel the scientific method with approaches to interpreting work and apply what we learn.
This PROFESSIONAL STUDIES activity is offered for 0.3 RID CEUs and assumes participants will enter with at least SOME prior Content Knowledge Level - No partial credit will be awarded. Activity Code: 0338.0626.001
Tuesday, June 9 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM: Classifiers in STEM: A Resource for Conceptual Clarity for Educational Interpreters
Presented by NTID Regional STEM Center (NRSC) STEM Interpreting Team
In the K–12 classroom, an interpreter is often the bridge between a complex scientific phenomenon and a student’s "aha!" moment. However, when STEM subjects are on the focus, that divide becomes even more expansive. Traditional sign vocabulary can be missing, and heavy fingerspelling can leave a student—especially one experiencing language deprivation—lost in a sea of letters. This interactive, hands-on workshop moves beyond the "label" and dives into the depiction. We will explore how to utilize Classifiers (Depicting Verbs) to transform abstract STEM concepts into visual, three-dimensional stories. Participants will learn to move away from the "English on the hands" approach and towards breaking form to provide more clarity to the students they work with.
This PROFESSIONAL STUDIES activity is offered for 0.3 RID CEUs and assumes participants will enter with at least SOME prior Content Knowledge Level - No partial credit will be awarded. Activity Code: 0338.0626.002
Wednesday, June 10 from 9:00AM to 12:00PM: Astronomy NOT Astrology - the other Star Signs
Presented by NTID Regional STEM Center (NRSC) STEM Interpreting Team
This workshop is intended to strengthen educational interpreters’ understanding of astronomy. Throughout the workshop, interpreters will engage in deliberate practice in the form of listening, reflecting, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, and collegial discussions regarding the aforementioned deliberate practice. This deliberate practice will deepen participants’ understanding of general astronomical concepts, the Solar System, and their own interpreting processes.
This PROFESSIONAL STUDIES activity is offered for 0.3 RID CEUs and assumes participants will enter with at least SOME prior Content Knowledge Level - No partial credit will be awarded. Activity Code: 0338.0626.003
Wednesday, June 10 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM: Ethical Decision Making in Educational Settings
Presented by Eric Weber, Ed.D., CI, NADIII
Making ethical decisions is difficult, but interpreters can improve those skills through regular deliberate practice. This session focuses on analyzing educational scenarios through the lenses of NAIE Code of Ethics, NAD-RID Code of Ethics, and other guidelines of the profession. Participants will learn and apply the D.E.C.I.D.E. approach to decision making to various educational scenarios in light of guidelines of the profession.
This PROFESSIONAL STUDIES activity is offered for 0.3 RID CEUs and assumes participants will enter with at least SOME prior Content Knowledge Level - No partial credit will be awarded. Activity Code: 0338.0626.004
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