Big Course Catalogue August 26 PD

Course Catalog
All District Professional Development

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Rochester Community Schools,
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Adams High School & Van Hoosen Middle School

Dear RCS Staff Member,
It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that we welcome you to the 2014-15 school year for
our all-district welcome and professional development day. Dr. Adolph Brown, a highly regarded
motivational speaker and passionate educator, will start us off as our keynote speaker. Following that,
our very own Rochester Community Schools colleagues will be presenting on a variety of topics in
which our staff will find relevant, engaging, and pertinent to their everyday roles. Additionally, we are
asking most staff members to attend a mini-keynote session on an initiative that has been embraced by
many staff members Cultures of Thinking (Visible Thinking Routines). Our K-2 colleagues will be
attending a mini-keynote session on a powerful new diagnostic tool called I Ready. We want to thank
you for your efforts and commitment to continual learning as well as thank the staff who gave time in
preparation and presenting today.
Sincerely,
Dr. Robert Shaner
Debi Fragomeni
Dan Romzek
Beth Davis
RCS Curriculum Department
Board of Education

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Schedule of the Day

*MiniKeynote: Cultures of Thinking Presentation with Todd Bidlack in AHS Auditorium
**Mini-Keynote: I Ready Training at VH Computer Labs - This is a double session! (Kdg. in Lab A; 1st Grade in Lab B;
2nd Grade in Lab C)

8:00 AM
Registration/Check-In/Snacks
Elementary/MS in AHS Cafeteria
High School in AHS Media Center
8:30 8:45 AM Welcome: (Gymnasium) Dr. Shaner, Doug Hill, Lisa Nowak
8:45 9:45 AM Keynote: (Gymnasium) Doc Brown
10:15 11:00 AM
Breakout Session A
*High School AHS Auditorium Mini Keynote (required for High School)
** K-2 Early Schools VH Labs Mini Keynote (required for K-2)
11:15 12:00 PM
Breakout Session B
*Elementary AHS Auditorium Mini Keynote (required for Elementary 3-5 to
attend in Session B or Session D; Optional for K-2)
**K-2 Early Schools VH Labs Mini Keynote (continued from Session A)
12:00 1:00 PM
Lunch
K-2 in VH Cafeteria
All Others AHS Locations
1:15 2:00 PM
Breakout Session C
*Middle School AHS Auditorium Mini Keynote (required for Middle School)
**K-2 Late Schools VH Labs - Mini Keynote (required for K-2)
2:15 3:00 PM
Breakout Session D
*Elementary AHS Auditorium Mini Keynote (required for Elementary 3-5 to
attend in Session B or Session D; Optional for K-2)
**K-2 Late Schools VH Labs Mini Keynote (continued from Session C)
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Mini-Keynote Sessions

I Ready: The District, as part of its comprehensive assessment program, will be implemented
the I Ready diagnostic interim assessment program which is entirely web-based at the K-2 level.
This easy to use and engaging program will give teachers valuable data and will help inform
instruction in the area of mathematics and reading. The program is aligned to the Common
Core State Standards. It will be administered three times throughout the year. Teachers will
learn more about it at the training sessions. Please note, these are double sessions for K-2
teachers and will be held at the Van Hoosen Middle School Computer Labs (K in Lab A; 1st grade
in Lab B; 2nd Grade in Lab C). We have divided the sessions as follows: early start schools will
be in the morning; late start schools will be in the afternoon.

Cultures of Thinking: All teachers in grades 3-12 will attend a mini-keynote provided by our
own Todd Bidlack. Todd, principal of Delta Kelly, has extensive knowledge in Ron Ritchharts
work with Cultures of Thinking and Visible Thinking Routines. Staff throughout the district have
embraced these strategies and have used them with great success in the classroom. K-2 staff
are welcome to attend one of the two elementary sessions offered if they choose.
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Additional Information
Parking: We are encouraging as much carpooling as possible. Please try to meet in a common
location and carpool to Adams High School and/or Van Hoosen Middle School. Do not park in
any undesignated areas or in fire lanes at either of the schools as cars may be ticketed.

Lunch: We are pleased to provide lunch for the entire staff. Lunches will be served box-style
and will include a sandwich/roll-up, chips, fruit, cookie, and drink. There will be a vegetarian
offering. Participants are always welcome to bring their own lunches or snacks. All K-2
teachers will eat lunch in the Van Hoosen Cafeteria. All other staff will eat at AHS locations.
Feel free to pick up a box lunch and find a comfortable spot!

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Breakout Session A
10:15 AM 11:00 AM

A-1 Interactive Read Aloud
Presenter: Valerie Ruckes
Room: AHS 142
Levels: K-5 Teachers

Participants will be introduced to the benefits of
incorporating daily read-alouds that occur outside of
the literacy block, that will engage students, improve
classroom discussions, and deepen thinking. As a
result, students will learn to use evidence from the
text to support their thinking.

A-2 A Thematic Approach to Reading
Strategies
Presenter: Melissa Duggan and Michelle Ingraham
Room: AHS 233
Levels: 3
rd
5
th
Grade Teachers

Take a brief break from the common core units with
two highly engaging thematic units. Fluency Camp
and Comprehension Carnival are sure to entice and
engage readers while working on valuable skills and
strategies.

A-3 Teaching Mathematics Successfully
Presenters: JoJo Dosch, Renee Lane and Nicole
Richman
Room:AHS 234
Levels: Upper Elementary through 9
th
Grade Math
Teachers

This session will focus on effective teaching of
mathematics, promoting learning through problem
solving, and having students do math versus telling.

A-4 Fine Motor Skills for Handwriting and
When and How to Ask for OT Support
Presenter: Occupational Therapy Dept.
Room: AHS 225
Levels: Early Elementary

Describe various developmental motor skills for
handwriting and methods and techniques for
improving them in early elementary students. Outline
various supports offered by the RCS OT Dept. and
when and how to access our services.

A-5 K-2 Writing Assessment
Presenter: Laura Schiller
Room: AHS 210
Session Repeated: B-7, C-22 and D-26

The new district writing assessment will be shared
along with prompts, rubrics, and learning
progressions.

A-6 Teaching Kindness Through Song
and Literature
Presenter: Colleen Mestdagh
Room: AHS 228
Session Repeated: C-5

Kindness and self-knowledge are not explicitly
written into most curriculum standards yet they
are the most important qualities a child can
learn in school for success in a civilized
society. More than a collection of songs and
lessons, Force Field for Good, is an ongoing,
year long, practical approach to creating a
kindly classroom community of students who
share a passion for self-reflection and aspire to
well-being for every member of their class.

A-7 Tech and Augmented Reality in the
Classroom
Presenter: Rick Krause and Amber Gress
Room: AHS 251
Levels: K-5 Elementary Teachers
Session Repeated: C6

Learning and technology go hand-in-hand these
days. Come visit our session to learn how to
effectively use technology and augmented reality, in
accordance with Common Core Standards, in the
classroom. This is a fun, innovative experience!

A-8 Flipped Classroom for Elementary
Teachers
Presenter: Ryan Golden
Room: AHS 229
Levels: Elementary Teachers

In the flipped class the typical class is flipped, where
homework is done in school and the mini lesson is
viewed at home. What used to be the lecture is done
at home by teacher-created videos and what was
once homework is to be done in the classroom.

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A-9 Standards for Mathematical Process
Presenter: Monica McCauley, Beth Jones and
Kendra Seitz
Room: AHS 223
Levels: 3
rd
, 4
th
and 5
th
Grade Teachers

We will be modeling questioning techniques to help
teachers provide deeper mathematical thinking

A-10 English Language Proficiency of ELs
Presenter: Michele LaPorte
Room: AHS 231
Levels: All Participants

Participants will develop a better understanding of
our English learners and their levels of proficiency.
Participants will develop an awareness of
expectations of ELs as well as take home a list of
linguistic accommodations for scaffolding instruction.

A-11 Visual Thinking Activities for Language!
Presenter: Mary Tangora
Room: AHS 219
Levels: Resource Teachers
Session Repeated: B-1, C-2 and D-2

Exploring Visual Thinking Routines for Language!
program.

A-12 Wake Up the Neighborhood! Teaching
with Passion
Presenter: Brian Dalton
Room: AHS 136
Levels: Teachers and Administrators
Session Repeated: B-13

To show how passion acts as a roadmap to a
successful classroom. By being passionate, you take
your classroom from forgettable and non-engaging,
to a memorable experience that students want to be
a part of. As noted by Denis Diderot . . . "Only
passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to
great things."

A-13 Kindergarten Literacy Stations
Presenters: Jen Weller, Nikki Plumer and Lauren
Murri
Room: AHS 235
Levels: Kindergarten Teachers
Help teachers set up daily literacy centers and
stations that are effective, engaging, purposeful, and
fun!

A-14 Got Joy? Strategies for Perpetuating a
Culture of Positive Progress in Your
Classrooms and School Community
Presenter: Seth E. Berg
Room: AHS 236

Through storytelling and the articulation of some
simple & connected strategies, along with some
hands on participation in personalized planning
processes, participants will work to fine tune their
capacity as drivers of positive progress. During this
session we will collaboratively explore the limitless
potential and importance of joyful engagement as a
critical component of meaningful learning and growth.
Participants will be introduced to & investigate related
tools, strategies, and concepts including tech
integration, reflective writing, and shared leadership.

A-15 Go Green with Google Drive
Presenter: Sharla Lawshea
Room: AHS 214
Levels: Teachers Intermediate/Advanced Google
Skill Level
Session Repeated: D-27

Save paper and time by utilizing the sharing features
in Google Drive! Conduct a See Think Wonder,
Headlines, Compass Points and many more CoT
routines by sharing a template with your students.
Learn the various sharing options to distribute
activities and assignments with individual students or
the entire class. Share, organize and assess student
work with Google add-on Doctopus. Doctopus
provides teachers with control over sharing
configuration, folder organization, file naming, and full
visibility of work in progress. All participants will leave
with templates to use in your classroom.

A-16 Integrating the Arts in Mathematics and
Science
Presenter: Kati Cottone and Sheryle DeHondt
Room: AHS 123
Levels: Teachers Grades 6-8 Mathematics,
Science, and Art

One of Albert Einsteins most famous quotes states,
Imagination is more important than knowledge. To
think that one of the worlds greatest contributors to
science and mathematics would realize the
significance that creative thinking and imagination
has is surely testimony for us all to live by. In this
session, we will explore innovative and creative ways
to implement the arts into a mathematics and science
curriculum.
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A-17 The Effectiveness of Music in Every
Classroom
Presenter: Tara Hammen-Bantjes
Room: AHS 238
Level: All Grades and All Subject Areas

In this interactive session for core curricular teachers,
we will experience how integrating skills and easy
techniques from the music classroom will enhance
student learning and development in every content
area.

A-18 What is Your True Color?
Presenter: Michael Behrmann
Room: AHS 241
Level: Teachers and Administrators

This session is for teachers and administrators who
are interested in finding their True Color personality
trait and how it impacts their roles as educators.

A-19 Is National Board Certification for You?
Presenter: Jan Pardy, MEA Rep for NBCT
Room: AHS 243
Level: K-12 Teachers
Session Repeated: B-20, C-30, D-30

What is National Board certification? What are the
requirements and timelines? How much does it cost?
These and other questions about new certification
laws will be addressed during this informational
session.

A-20 Renewing Your Teaching Certificate
Presenter: Rebecca Campbell
Room: AHS 138
Level: Teachers with Teaching Certificates Expiring
Soon

Time to renew your teaching certificate? This
overview will help you get your ducks in a row so you
are good to go come May! Also, how to stay updated
and keep your records ready so that you can easily
renew when it is time to renew, even if its a few
years away!

A-21 SmartBoard Lessons
Presenter: Matt Cottone
Room: AHS 154

SmartBoard Basics for outstanding lessons

A-22 Supporting English Learners in the
General Ed Classroom
Presenter: Karen Gelardi
Room: AHS 140

Participants will be provided a breif overview of
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
and learn some strategies to support English
Learners vocabulary development in the content
areas.

A-23 Bumping Up Instruction How To
Easily Create Amazing Lessons
Presenter: Megan Maguire, Lisa Newman and Dan
Mooney
Room: AHS 144

Creating amazing authentic lessons is very
rewarding, yet very time consuming. Come and learn
about how to "bump up" a lesson you already have to
make it more engaging for students and to promote
higher levels of thinking.

A-24 Formative Assessment
Presenter: Geri Devine
Room: AHS 248

Learn about ways to incorporate formative
assessment into your daily instruction.

A-25 Creating Library Cards Efficiently
Presenter: Don Morris
Room: AHS 215
Levels: K-5 Instructional Literacy Specialists (ILS)

Elementary Instructional Literacy Specialists will
learn to create library cards using CIMS data for their
entire building in a very short time.

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Breakout Session B
11:15 AM 12:00 PM

B-1 Visual Thinking Activities for Language!
Room: AHS 219
Session Repeated: C-2 and D-2

program.

B-2 Thinking Routines for Close Reading
Across the Curriculum
Presenter: Emily Sommer and Katie Antrup
Room: AHS 234
Levels: High School Teachers

Examples of thinking routines that any high school
teacher could use to help students be more analytical
readers of informational texts.

B-3 Visible Learning Strategies for Social
Studies
Presenters: Michael Bennion and Bryan LIndstrom
Room: AHS 231

To encourage teachers to reflect on the type of
thinking they are asking students to do. Focus will be
on matching the routines with the type of thinking
teachers are asking students to do. Also, how to use
routines as formative assessments will be addressed
in the session.

B-4 Using Visible Thinking Strategies to
Teach the Math Common Core Standards
Presenter: Amy Hoekstra and Natalie James
Room: AHS 229
Levels: Upper Elem., Middle, and High School Math
Teachers

Learn how to use visible thinking routines, discovery
lessons, and effective questioning to promote deeper
level thinking in the math classroom. Some of the
routines that will be explored are Zoom in, Generate-
sort-connect-elaborate, Concepts maps, Claim-
support-question, and Micro-lab protocol.

B-5 A Fine Arts Visible Thinking Adventure
Presenter: Alison Ma and Laura Cline
Room: AHS 225
Levels: K-12 Art and Music Teachers

In this break-out session we will explore examples of
Visible Thinking routines in the elementary music and
art classrooms. Come join us as we share our
experience implementing two school-wide projects
and view videos of students in action. Participants
will also have an opportunity to discuss examples of
student work and discover new ways to encourage
creative thinking.

B-6 Gizmos: Online Science Simulations
Presenter: Lisa Ogiemwonyi
Room: AHS 147
Levels: Middle and High School Science Teachers

Science students in grades 6-12 will have access to
online interactive science simulations called Gizmos
for the 2014-2015 school year. Through Gizmos,
students can change key variables, generate and test
hypotheses, and engage in extensive what if
implementation. Gizmos will help students become
familiar with manipulating and analyzing science
scenarios in an online format. Come set up a
Gizmos account and learn how to use them with your
students.

B-7 K-2 Writing Assessment
Room: AHS 210
Levels: K-2 teachers
Session Repeated: C-22 and D-26

progressions.

B-8 Improving Note-Taking Skills as Part of
the Research Process
Presenter: Ashely Painter and Julia Satterthwaite
Room: AHS 228
Levels: Middle and High School Teachers

We will present ideas on how to help students better
read and take notes during the research process to
improve their ability to both write and present
research effectively.

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B-9 Strengthening Teacher/Student
Relationships in the Classroom
Presenter: Mary Jo Hickey
Room: AHS 241

All teaching protocols work better when a teacher has
good relationships with students. This workshop will
focus on how to identify and foster those
relationships

B-10 Overview of Anxiety Geared Toward
Secondary Counselors and Teachers
Presenters: Angie Wornson, Whitney Cuson and
Lauren Greve
Room: AHS 144
Levels: Middle and High School Counselors and
Teachers

This session will be overview of what anxiety looks
like at the secondary level. Strategies and tips for
counselors, teachers, and parents will be given. On-
line and outside resources will be shared.

B-11 Pesky Primary Sources: How to Help
Students with Common Core Reading
Presenter: Gayle Martin
Room: AHS 146
Levels: For all levels and subjects but best for
teachers who are uncomfortable teaching non-
fiction/complex texts

This session will explain the 3 Draft Reading
Process that can be adapted to any level to help
students understand complex tests, especially
primary non-fiction texts. It is a process that can be
done with teacher guidance, with peers, or
independently. The process can serve as an end in
itself, or it can be preparation for a class discussion
or Socratic seminar.

B-12 Integrating Informational Writing and
Current 1
st
Grade Units
Presenters: Ember King, Patricia Galuszka and
Barbara Wilkins
Room: AHS 142
Levels: First Grade Teachers

Are you ever feeling like you are running out of time
for all the curriculum? This session will have you
feeling less overwhelmed and more prepared. We will
take a look at Writing CCSS, Battle Creek Science
units, and NGSS for 1st Grade and share some ideas
on how to integrate them.

B-13 Wake Up the Neighborhood! Teaching
With Passion
Presenters: Brian Dalton
Room: AHS 136
Levels: Teachers and Administrators
Repeat of Session A-12

To show how passion acts as a roadmap to a
successful classroom. By being passionate, you take
your classroom from forgettable and non-engaging,
to a memorable experience that students want to be
a part of. As noted by Denis Diderot . . . "Only
passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to
great things."

B-14 Got Joy? Strategies for Perpetuating a
Culture of Positive Progress in Your
Classrooms and School Community
Presenter: Seth E. Berg
Room: AHS 236

Through storytelling and the articulation of some
simple & connected strategies, along with some
hands on participation in personalized planning
processes, participants will work to fine tune their
capacity as drivers of positive progress. During this
session we will collaboratively explore the limitless
potential and importance of joyful engagement as a
critical component of meaningful learning and growth.
Participants will be introduced to & investigate related
tools, strategies, and concepts including tech
integration, reflective writing, and shared leadership.

B-15 Edgenuity
Presenters: Adrean Smith and Jeff Fosnaugh
Room: AHS 223
Levels: Counselors, Administration and Teachers

Discuss online learning.

B-16 Staying Safe with Social Media
Presenters: Doug Hill/MEA and Jennifer Miller/MEA
Staff Attorney
Room: AHS 235
Levels: All

We will be examining past issues with social media
nationwide as well as discussing ways to keep
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yourself safe as a professional educator who may be
using social media.

B-17 Positive Interactions
Presenters: Julie Rains and Erika Lusky
Room: AHS 226
Levels: All Teachers

In this session, we invite learners to investigate
classroom interactions, one of the 8 Cultural Forces
outlined in Dr. Ron Ritchharts work. We will explore
the language of reflective listening and collaborative
discourse, demonstrating how students develop and
generalize these skills. Participants will document
thinking, view instructional videos, and engage in
collective discussions.

B-18 Using Pinterest and a Blog to
Supplement Classroom Instruction
Presenter: Debbi Bovio
Room: AHS 124

Teachers of all subjects will find Pinterest to be an
inspirational social media outlet that is designed to
promote exploration and engage learners in an
endless plethora of topics. Visual learners enjoy the
websites format as they glance and click their way to
endless tutorials, biographies, instructional websites
and blogs. In short, you can harness everything the
internet has to offer on virtual bulletin boards you
create for your students to explore. You can take this
one step further by adding images from your blog,
your school webpage, or any other website to provide
specific, detailed instructions for students who want
more information. Learning becomes an exciting,
endless process that engages students through a
self-motivating learning process. Best of all, the
student in YOU will enjoy using Pinterest to explore
and discover new ideas. Find out why millions enjoy
using Pinterest and how thousands of teachers have
FUN using it!

B-19 The Effectiveness of Music in Every
Classroom
Presenter: Tara Hammen-Bantjes
Room: AHS 238
Level: All Grades and All Subject Areas

In this interactive session for core curricular teachers,
we will experience how integrating skills and easy
techniques from the music classroom will enhance
student learning and development in every content
area.

B-20 Is National Board Certification for You?
Room: AHS 243
Repeat of A-19, Repeated in Sessions C30 and D30

session.

B-21 App Slam
Presenters: Steven Book and Jess Matthew
Room: AHS 125
Level: All Teachers

Jess and Steven will demonstrate different apps that
are used in their classroom on a daily basis with
quick demos on each app, it's importance in the
classroom, and a quick tutorial about how to use
each app. The apps will be presented in quick, high-
energy, engaging "SLAMS". Are you ready to get App
Slammed?!

B-22 Science Interactive Notebooks
Presenters: Carolyn Mammen and Monica Harvey
Room: AHS 154
Level: All Teachers and Administrators

How to and tips on incorporating Interactive Student
Notebooks in a classroom

B-23 Supporting English Learners in the
General Ed Classroom
Presenter: Karen Gelardi
Room: AHS 140
Level: All Teachers

Participants will be provided a breif overview of
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
and learn some strategies to support English
Learners vocabulary development in the content
areas.

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B-24 Google Drive How to Navigate and
Organize Your Google Files with Ease
Presenter: Dale Anne Hopkins
Room: RHS 251
Level: All Participants

When you use Google Apps with students and staff, it
is important to develop some file management
strategies to keep your documents organized. In this
session you will learn these organizational
techniques as well as creating Google contact
groups, and then figuring out the sharing method that
will work best for you.

B-25 Renewing Your Teaching Certificate
Presenter: Rebecca Campbell
Room: AHS 138
Level: Teachers with Teaching Certificates Expiring
Soon

Time to renew your teaching certificate? This
overview will help you get your ducks in a row so you
are good to go come May! Also, how to stay updated
and keep your records ready so that you can easily
renew when it is time to renew, even if its a few
years away!

B-26 Going Deeper: The Power of
Questioning
Presenters: Nate Czupinski and Jill Jessen
Room: AHS Media Center
Level: Middle or High School Teachers in Science,
SS, LA

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his
answers."- Voltaire Unlock the power of responsive
questioning to guide student thinking and expand
depth of knowledge. This deeper understanding is
achievable through a responsive teaching approach
with questioning at its core. Discover how combining
power questions and collaborative language builds
reading comprehension across all content areas.
Take away versatile tools that you can use in your
classroom tomorrow.

B-27 Google Power Searching
Presenters: Judy Freels and Brenda Carlson
Room: AHS 214
Levels: K-12 Classroom Teachers

Participants will be exposed to advanced search
techniques to improve efficiency, credibility of web
resources, and problem solving skills.
B-28 Robert Rauschenbert Power of Art
Grant for K-12 Art Teachers
Presenter: Erica Davis
Room: AHS 215
Levels: K-12 Art Teachers

This is a special grant only available to K-12 Art
Teachers who teach special needs learners (of all
ability level from LD ADHD, CI, EI, ASD, visually or
hearing impaired etc...) I will explain the grant, what
the awardee receives for his/her classroom, and the
process for applying, materials needed and timeline
for submission.

B-29 JEPD: Meaningful, Flexible and
Relevant
Presenter: Casey Wescott
Room: AHS 233

Job Embedded PD will be looked at from a different
point of view where educators are able to target
specific areas of PD in a meaningful, flexible, and
relevant way. A process and resources will be
presented along with an example of how it has
impacted students.

B-30 Formative Assessment
Room: AHS 248
Session Repeated: C-27 D-28


Lunch
12:00 PM 1:00 PM
K-2 in VH Cafeteria
All Others AHS Locations

Breakout Session C
1:15 PM 2:00 PM

C-1 Visible Learning Strategies for Social
Studies
Presenters: Michael Bennion and Bryan LIndstrom
Room: AHS 231
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Repeat of Session B-3

To encourage teachers to reflect on the type of
thinking they are asking students to do. Focus will be
on matching the routines with the type of thinking
teachers are asking students to do. Also, how to use
routines as formative assessments will be addressed
in the session.

C-2 Visual Thinking Activities for Language!
Room: AHS 219
Repeat of Sessions A-11 and B-1

program.

C-3 Visible Thinking in the Elementary
Classroom
Presenters: Kim Mroczek and Kristin Zagula
Room: AHS 234

In this session, you will learn routines to help promote
engagement, understanding, and independence for
all learners within your classroom. We will show you
how to incorporate technology to enhance visible
thinking. This session will focus on the book, Making
Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchart. Ritcharts thinking
routines are applicable to any grade level or subject
area in order to help structure classroom discussion
and hold all learners accountable for thinking.

C-4 MCTM 2014
Presenters: Lori Smillie and Susan Rapp
Room: AHS 225
Levels: All Math Teachers

Highlights from the MCTM Conference and how
teaching mathematics is changing.

C-5 Teaching Kindness Through Song and
Literature
Presenter: Colleen Mestdagh
Room: AHS 228

Kindness and self-knowledge are not explicitly written
into most curriculum standards yet they are the most
important qualities a child can learn in school for
success in a civilized society. More than a collection
of songs and lessons, Force Field for Good, is an
ongoing, year long, practical approach to creating a
kindly classroom community of students who share a
passion for self-reflection and aspire to well-being for
every member of their class.

C-6 Tech and Augmented Reality in the
Classroom
Presenter: Rick Krause and Amber Gress
Room: AHS 251

Learning and technology go hand-in-hand these
days. Come visit our session to learn how to
effectively use technology and augmented reality, in
accordance with Common Core Standards, in the
classroom. This is a fun, innovative experience!

C-7 Peer Response Groups in Writing
Workshop
Presenter: Merritt Golick
Room: AHS 136

Create authentic audience and purpose in Writing
Workshop through peer response groups. Low-tech
and high-tech models will be shared.

C-8 Discussing Student Thinking in the
Elementary Classroom
Presenters: Laura Walsh, Wendy Campbell, Andrea
Blake and Alexis Schwarz
Room: AHS 154
Levels: Elementary Teachers and Administrators

Teachers will be invited to partake in a gallery walk
where they can examine a variety of student work
from grades 3-5. Teachers will then participate in a
discussion format where they will have the
opportunity to speculate about students' thinking, ask
questions about students' thinking, and discuss
implications for teaching and learning.

C-9 How To Survive Essay Grading without
Going Crazy or Write More, Grade Less
Presenters: Sarah Millard and Loren Gosling
Room: AHS 142
Levels: Teachers K-12

12

We will share ideas on how to implement more
writing w/o increasing the grading load. Ideas will
come from the AP Lit and Comp Listserve, Mike
Schmokers Focus: Elevating the Essentials to
Radically Improve Student Learning, and from tried
and true classroom experiences.

C-10 Effective Communication with Parents
and Students
Presenter: John Kelley
Room: AHS 243
Levels: Teachers, Counselors and Administrators

Strategies and tips to communicate with students and
parents in a variety of situations (routine, stressful,
crisis).

C-11 Making Math Practices Visible
Presenter: Jill Gumz
Room: AHS 138
Levels: Secondary Math Teachers

This session highlights methods to teach secondary
math students skills needed for the CCSS
Mathematical Practices including use of specific
Making Thinking Visible Strategies.

C-12 Flipped Classroom for Elementary
Teachers
Presenter: Ryan Golden
Room: AHS 229

In the flipped class the typical class is flipped, where
homework is done in school and the mini lesson is
viewed at home. What used to be the lecture is done
at home by teacher-created videos and what was
once homework is to be done in the classroom.

C-13 When is That Assignment Due? Using
Technology to Share Information with
Parents and Students
Presenter: Tiffany Goliday
Room: AHS 140

Blogging, classroom websites, remind 101, google
apps, myrcs, and more!

C-14 Using William Glasser to Make Students
CHAMPs
Presenters: Danielle Smith, Jen Jarchow and Dave
Pontzious
Room: AHS 236
Levels: All Teachers and Administrators

Participants will learn the basic foundations of Choice
Theory and implement those strategies through the
CHAMPs Framework

C-15 A Toolkit of Annotation Strategies
Presenter: Emily Sommer
Room: AHS 125
Levels: Secondary Teachers

Demonstrating a variety of annotation strategies that
students can use for active reading

C-16 JEPD: Meaningful, Flexible and
Relevant
Room: AHS 233
Repeat of Session: B-29

Job Embedded PD will be looked at from a different
point of view where educators are able to target
specific areas of PD in a meaningful, flexible, and
relevant way. A process and resources will be
presented along with an example of how it has
impacted students.

C-17 Ten Great Uses for Google Forms!
Presenter: Lisa Fosnaugh
Room: AHS 214
Levels: Administrators and Teachers

We will explore several ways Google Apps for
Education can be used to harness collaboration, data
collection, and survey feedback from all stakeholders
of your building. Examples include focus on
community members, staff, students, and families.

C-18 Social Justice
Presenters: Channon N. Washington and Sarah
LoPatin
Room: AHS 238

Information and discussion about the relationship
between educational achievement and social
injustice as is relates to race, gender, nationality,
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ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexual orientation.
religion, etc. This session would introduce the
fundamentals of this topic and application to the
classroom and school culture in general.

C-19 Aspiring Principals/Instructional
Leaders
Presenters: Pasquale Cusumano and Neil Deluca
Room: AHS 241
Levels: Teachers that aspire to be Principals

We will explore and discuss what the Assistant
Principal and Principal positions entail. Our main
focus will be on what it takes to be an effective
Instructional Leader.

C-20 Using Pinterest and a Blog to
Supplement Classroom Instruction
Presenter: Debbi Bovio
Room: AHS 124

Teachers of all subjects will find Pinterest to be an
inspirational social media outlet that is designed to
promote exploration and engage learners in an
endless plethora of topics. Visual learners enjoy the
websites format as they glance and click their way to
endless tutorials, biographies, instructional websites
and blogs. In short, you can harness everything the
internet has to offer on virtual bulletin boards you
create for your students to explore. You can take this
one step further by adding images from your blog,
your school webpage, or any other website to provide
specific, detailed instructions for students who want
more information. Learning becomes an exciting,
endless process that engages students through a
self-motivating learning process. Best of all, the
student in YOU will enjoy using Pinterest to explore
and discover new ideas. Find out why millions enjoy
using Pinterest and how thousands of teachers have
FUN using it!

C-21 Modeling in Chemistry
Presenter: Debbie Stys
Room: AHS 148
Levels: High School Physical Science and Chemistry
Teachers

Teaching Chemistry with a different approach.

C-22 K-2 Writing Assessment
Room: AHS 210
Repeat of Sessions: A-5 and B-7

progressions.

C-23 Standards for Mathematical Process
Presenter: Monica McCauley, Beth Jones and
Kendra Seitz
Room: AHS 223
Levels: 3
rd
, 4
th
and 5
th
Grade Teachers

We will be modeling questioning techniques to help
teachers provide deeper mathematical thinking

C-24 Gmail and All Things Google
Presenter: Kathleen OConnor Ford
Room: AHS 209
Levels: Beginner/Intermediate Gmail Users

Gmail - Email for the Modern Age.

C-25 Going Deeper: The Power of
Questioning
Presenters: Nate Czupinski and Jill Jessen
Room: AHS Media Center
Level: Middle or High School Teachers in Science,
SS, LA

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his
answers."- Voltaire Unlock the power of responsive
questioning to guide student thinking and expand
depth of knowledge. This deeper understanding is
achievable through a responsive teaching approach
with questioning at its core. Discover how combining
power questions and collaborative language builds
reading comprehension across all content areas.
Take away versatile tools that you can use in your
classroom tomorrow.

C-26 Socratic Discussions
Presenters: Kelley Cusmano and Jean Wood
Room: AHS 226
Levels: High School English Teachers

This session will show teachers how to successfully
pull of Socratic discussions in their classroom. We
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will show you what a Socratic Discussion looks like,
the positives & negatives to including one, how to
assess instruction and how this activity aligns to
Common Core standards

C-27 Formative Assessment
Room: AHS 248
Repeat of Session A-24 and B-30


C-28 Staying Safe with Social Media
Presenters: Doug Hill/MEA and Jennifer Miller/MEA
Staff Attorney
Room: AHS 235
Levels: All

We will be examining past issues with social media
nationwide as well as discussing ways to keep
yourself safe as a professional educator who may be
using social media.

C-29 K-2 Technology Collaboration
Presenters: Sarah Harcourt and Laura Kirklin
Room: VHMS Media Center
Levels: K, 1, 2 and Special Ed Teachers

Presenters will share ideas and slides from morning
meeting, math and other areas. Participants will be
able to share their slides for their routines and subject
areas as well. At the end there will be a complete file
for everyone to use back in their classrooms.

C-30 Is National Board Certification for You?
Room: AHS 144
Repeat of Session: A-19 and B-20

session.

Breakout Session D
2:15 3:00pm

D-1 Exam View Software
Presenter: David Thomson
Room: AHS 226
Levels: Secondary Math Teachers
ExamView is a piece of assessment software
available in our district. This presentation will
introduce the software and explain some of the
features, and discuss how it has been utilized in the
classroom.

D-2 Visual Thinking Activities for Language!
Room: AHS 219
Repeat of Session: A-11,B-1 and C-2

program.

D-3 Visible Thinking in the Elementary
Classroom
Presenters: Kim Mroczek and Kristin Zagula
Room: AHS 234
Repeat of Session C-3

In this session, you will learn routines to help promote
engagement, understanding, and independence for
all learners within your classroom. We will show you
how to incorporate technology to enhance visible
thinking. This session will focus on the book, Making
Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchart. Ritcharts thinking
routines are applicable to any grade level or subject
area in order to help structure classroom discussion
and hold all learners accountable for thinking.

D-4 Pesky Primary Sources: How to Help
Students with Common Core Reading
Presenter: Gayle Martin
Room: AHS 146
Levels: For all levels and subjects but best for
teachers who are uncomfortable teaching non-
fiction/complex texts

This session will explain the 3 Draft Reading
Process that can be adapted to any level to help
students understand complex tests, especially
primary non-fiction texts. It is a process that can be
done with teacher guidance, with peers, or
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independently. The process can serve as an end in
itself, or it can be preparation for a class discussion
or Socratic seminar.

D-5 Improving Note-Taking Skills as Part of
the Research Process
Presenter: Ashley Painter and Julia Satterthwaite
Room: AHS 228
Levels: Middle School and High School Teachers

We will present ideas on how to help students better
read and take notes during the research process to
improve their ability to both write and present
research effectively.

D-6 Strengthening Teacher/Student
Relationships in the Classroom
Presenter: Mary Jo Hickey
Room: AHS 241

All teaching protocols work better when a teacher has
good relationships with students. This workshop will
focus on how to identify and foster those
relationships.

D-7 Basics of Co-Teaching at the Secondary
Level
Presenter: Tiffany Gauthier
Room: AHS 225
Levels: Any co-teaching teachers or those who have
an interest in co-teaching at the secondary level.

Participants will receive an overall view of the basics
of co-teaching at the secondary level, specially how
to get the special education teacher involved. Various
activities and resources will be shared.

D-8 Effective Communication with Parents
and Students
Presenter: John Kelley
Room: AHS 243
Levels: Teachers, Counselors and Administrators

Strategies and tips to communicate with students and
parents in a variety of situations (routine, stressful,
crisis).

D-9 Classroom Management and Classroom
Efficiency
Room: AHS 233

Classroom management can be as simple or
complex as you make it. Several easy classroom
management tools go a long way in helping with
classroom management. Efficiency in a classroom is
difficult to achieve to maximize class time and
student learning. Take a look at a few easy
techniques to implement to create more time allowing
for enhanced student learning.

D-10 Peer Response Groups in Writing
Workshop
Presenter: Merritt Golick
Room: AHS 136

Create authentic audience and purpose in Writing
Workshop through peer response groups. Low-tech
and high-tech models will be shared.

D-11 10 Great Uses for Google Forms!
Presenter: Lisa Fosnaugh
Room: AHS 214
Levels: Administrators and Teachers

We will explore several ways Google Apps for
Education can be used to harness collaboration, data
collection, and survey feedback from all stakeholders
of your building. Examples include focus on
community members, staff, students, and families.

D-12 Edgenuity
Presenters: Adrean Smith and Jeff Fosnaugh
Room: AHS 223
Levels: Counselors, Administration and Teachers

Discuss online learning.

D-13 Social Justice
Presenters: Channon N. Washington and Sarah
LoPatin
Room: AHS 238

Information and discussion about the relationship
between educational achievement and social
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injustice as is relates to race, gender, nationality,
ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexual orientation.
religion, etc. This session would introduce the
fundamentals of this topic and application to the
classroom and school culture in general.

D-14 App Slam
Presenters: Steven Book and Jess Matthew
Room: AHS 125
Level: All Teachers

Jess and Steven will demonstrate different apps that
are used in their classroom on a daily basis with
quick demos on each app, it's importance in the
classroom, and a quick tutorial about how to use
each app. The apps will be presented in quick, high-
energy, engaging "SLAMS". Are you ready to get App
Slammed?!

D-15 Homework Revamped
Presenter: Julie Frerichs
Room: AHS 215
Level: Anyone looking to eliminate busy-work type
of homework and put more responsibility in the hands
of the student.

Homework is revamped for students to make it more
authentic and not just fill in the blank busy work.

D-16 Science Interactive Notebooks
Presenters: Carolyn Mammen and Monica Harvey
Room: AHS 154
Level: All Teachers and Administrators

How to and tips on incorporating Interactive Student
Notebooks in a classroom.

D-17 How to Survive Essay Grading without
Going Crazy or Write More, Grade Less
Presenters: Sarah Millard and Loren Gosling
Room: AHS 142
Levels: Teachers K-12

We will share ideas on how to implement more
writing w/o increasing the grading load. Ideas will
come from the AP Lit and Comp Listserve, Mike
Schmokers Focus: Elevating the Essentials to
Radically Improve Student Learning, and from tried
and true classroom experiences.

D-18 Teach Like a Pirate
Presenter: Cara Lougheed
Room: AHS 251
Level: Focus is on secondary teachers but all are
welcome

Ill share with teachers the 6 principles of teaching
"like a pirate" to help bring enthusiasm and energy
into the classroom.

D-19 Aspiring Principals/Instructional
Leaders
Presenters: Pasquale Cusumano and Neil Deluca
Room: AHS 241
Levels: Teachers that aspire to be Principals

We will explore and discuss what the Assistant
Principal and Principal positions entail. Our main
focus will be on what it takes to be an effective
Instructional Leader.

D-20 AP US History Redesign
Presenter: Chad Zwolinski
Room: AHS 229
Levels: Middle and High School US

Changes to the AP US History course including a
move to more common core and skill based
understanding.

D-21 Google Forms/Flubaroo
Presenter: Bethany Dunning
Room: AHS 126

Using google forms to gather information for use for
formal and formative assessment.

D-22 Gizmos: Online Science Simulations
Presenter: Lisa Ogiemwonyi
Room: AHS 147
Levels: Middle and High School Science Teachers

Science students in grades 6-12 will have access to
online interactive science simulations called Gizmos
for the 2014-2015 school year. Through Gizmos,
students can change key variables, generate and test
hypotheses, and engage in extensive what if
implementation. Gizmos will help students become
familiar with manipulating and analyzing science
scenarios in an online format. Come set up a
Gizmos account and learn how to use them with your
students.
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D-23 Gmail and All Things Google
Presenter: Kathleen OConnor Ford
Room: AHS 209
Levels: Beginner/Intermediate Gmail Users

Gmail - Email for the Modern Age.

D-24 When is That Assignment Due? Using
Technology to Share Information with
Parents and Students
Presenter: Tiffany Goliday
Room: AHS 140

Blogging, classroom websites, remind 101, google
apps, myrcs, and more!

D-25 Discussing Student Thinking in the
Elementary Classroom
Presenters: Laura Walsh, Wendy Campbell, Andrea
Blake and Alexis Schwarz
Room: AHS 154
Levels: Elementary Teachers and Administrators

Teachers will be invited to partake in a gallery walk
where they can examine a variety of student work
from grades 3-5. Teachers will then participate in a
discussion format where they will have the
opportunity to speculate about students' thinking, ask
questions about students' thinking, and discuss
implications for teaching and learning.

D-26 K-2 Writing Assessment
Room: AHS 210
Repeat of Sessions: A-5 and B-7

The new District writing assessment will be shared
progressions.

D-27 Go Green with Google Drive
Presenter: Sharla Lawshea
Room: AHS 214
Levels: Teachers with Intermediate/Advanced
Google Skill Level
Repeat of Session: A-15

Save paper and time by utilizing the sharing features
in Google Drive! Conduct a See, Think, Wonder,
Headlines, Compass Points and many more CoT
routines by sharing a template with your students.
Learn the various sharing options to distribute
activities and assignments with individual students or
the entire class. Share, organize and assess student
work with Google add-on Doctopus. Doctopus
provides teachers with control over sharing
configuration, folder organization, file naming, and full
visibility of work in progress. All participants will
leave with templates to use in your classroom.

D-28 Formative Assessment
Room: AHS 124
Repeat of Session A-24, B-30 and C-27

D-29 Bumping Up Instruction How to Easily
Create Amazing Lessons
Presenters: Megan Maguire, Lisa Newman and Dan
Mooney
Room: AHS 144

Creating amazing authentic lessons is very
rewarding, yet very time consuming. Come and learn
about how to bump up a lesson you already have to
make it more engaging for students and to promote
higher levels of thinking.

D-30 Is National Board Certification for You?
Room: AHS 144

These and other questions will be addressed during
this informational session.

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