2009 Conference on Teaching & Learning Sessions
Session Descriptions
All 2009 Conference on Teaching & Learning—Leading and Learning in the 21st Century sessions are ticketed (with the exception of Networking Breakfasts, General Sessions, and Debriefing Sessions), and only participants with the correct tickets will be admitted. Sessions fill up quickly, so preregister to reserve your spot today!
Conference Sessions for Friday, October 30
(Please note the following key: L=Level, F=Focus, A=Audience)
Friday Morning Networking Breakfast and Discussions—7:15–8:00 a.m.
Qualities of Effective Principals in the 21st Century
James Stronge, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
If you're a building-level administrator, it's important that you do your work well and that you do the right work. Attend this discussion to explore the qualities of effective principals and how they influence student achievement.
Ideas and Strategies to Integrate Technology in Your School or District
Dan Cherry, Educational Consultant, Newport, N.H.
If you're an administrator, technology director, or technology teacher leader, bring your hurdles, hopes, and fears to discuss opportunities for your school or district. Make a plan, set some benchmarks, and learn from colleagues.
Opening General Session—8:15–9:30 a.m.
Why Is Everyone Talking About 21st Century Skills?
Paige Johnson, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Tucson, Ariz.
Explore a new model of education in the 21st century at this engaging look at the P21 Framework for 21st Century Learning. Learn why so many states have adopted this framework and how education leaders have used the framework to move education forward in their states, districts, and schools.
Morning Sessions—10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
1101T Using Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy to Enhance Student Learning
Dan Cherry, Educational Consultant, Newport, N.H.
How do you make sure your plans for technology match with the realities of NCLB standards, curriculum changes, and assessments? Attend this session to learn what works, what is still a challenge, and how to reach your goals for technology integration.
Repeated Session: 1201T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
1102T Action Cycles to Strengthen Motivation and Learning in Diverse Classrooms
Margery Ginsberg, University of Washington, Seattle
Bridge the gap between student motivation, classroom teaching, and student learning. Featuring examples from successful, low-income schools, this session provides you with a cycle of action and inquiry for ongoing instructional improvement.
Repeated Session: 1202T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1103T Teaching for Understanding and Minority Student Achievement: How Can Leaders Successfully Address These Priorities?
Donnell Gregory, Antioch University McGregor, Dayton, Ohio
Explore ASCD’s popular Understanding by Design framework and how it has proven effective in promoting high levels of minority student achievement. Learn how to “design backwards” based on a consensus of what all learners should know, understand, and be able to do at key points in their education.
Repeated Session: 1203T
L: Beginner F: Teachers and teacher leaders A: All levels
1104T Schooling by Design
Allison Zmuda, Educational Consultant, Woodbury, Conn.
ASCD’s Schooling by Design proposes 10 key components to a robust curriculum and assessment system needed to achieve understanding- and transfer-based learning. Attend this session to get an overview of each of these components in a mission-driven learning organization.
Repeated Session: 1204T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1105T The Roles and Responsibilities of Building and District Leaders in Identifying and Selecting the Very Best Educators
James Stronge, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Attend this session to focus on how to make a difference in school improvement and student success by recruiting, selecting, and sustaining the very best educators. Learn what works in creating a research-based hiring process.
Repeated Session: 1205T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: Superintendents, central office staff, school-based administrators A: All levels
1106T The Leader’s Role in Implementing Professional Learning Communities
Deborah Wortham, Steelton Highspire School District, Pa.
Explore research- and practitioner-based strategies for leaders of elementary, middle, or high schools, and learn how implementing the prescribed leadership behaviors serves as the framework for improved student achievement.
Repeated Session: 1206T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
1107T Strategies for Success for English Language Learners
Virginia Rojas, Educational Consultant, Brunswick, N.J.
A renowned expert gives you an overview of effective programs and instructional conditions for English language learners and describes how to support secondary students’ language acquisition and academic achievement in mainstream classrooms.
Repeated Session: 1207T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: Secondary
1108T Personalized Learning that Supports 21st Century Standards
Joe Di Martino, Educational Consultant, West Warwick, R.I.
Attend this session to explore how schools prepare high school graduates for success in postsecondary education or career experiences by helping them become accustomed to demonstrating skills such as thinking critically, research, synthesizing knowledge, and applying knowledge in a variety of settings.
Repeated Session: 1208T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: Secondary
1109T Supervising the Art and Science of Teaching
Robert J. Marzano, Educational Consultant, Centennial, Colo.
Drawing from the ASCD best-selling book The Art and Science of Teaching, this session describes 10 critical areas of instructional practice and how administrators can supervise teaching in a way that keeps the focus of attention on student learning.
Repeated Session: 1209T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1110T School Transformation Through Schoolwide Differentiation
Lane Narvaez, Conway Elementary School, St. Louis, Mo.
Discover how one school transformed its approach to teaching and learning and changed how teachers, students, and parents defined student success by using schoolwide differentiation.
Repeated Session: 1210T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: All levels
1111T The 21st Century Classroom: Imagining, Designing, and Implementing Effective Thinking and Learning
Gerard Alford, Educational Consultant, Brisbane, Australia
Without the ability to think critically and creatively, students leave our schools at a distinct disadvantage. Attend this session to find out how to equip teachers and schools with the ability to impart these skills and make them the priority of our education process.
Repeated Session: 1211T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
1112T The ABCs of Coaching and Mentoring for Principals
Shirley Kilgore, Educational Consultant, Fairburn, Ga.
Drawing from experience and research, this presenter discusses practical strategies for results-oriented coaching and mentoring. From highly successful schools to winning athletic teams, explore coaching and mentoring behaviors and learn how to implement them.
Repeated Session: 1212T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: All levels
1113T How Does Standards-Based Grading Support 21st Century Learning?
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Find out why standards-based grading is an essential component of 21st century learning, and explore a system of standards-based grading based on the use of effective formative assessment.
Repeated Session: 1213T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1114T Response to Intervention: Making it More than an Acronym
Pat Addison, Educational Consultant, Fairfax, Va.
What is response to intervention (RTI) and why has it become such an important topic for schools? Answer these and other questions during this interactive session highlighting strategies for providing a comprehensive intervention system that addresses the needs of all students.
Repeated Session: 1214T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1115T An Informal Conversation with Paige Johnson
Paige Johnson, Partnerships for 21st Century Skills, Tucson, Ariz.
Join our Opening General Session speaker, Paige Johnson, in an informal give-and-take session as she explores the topic of 21st century skills and how this framework affects standards, assessment, professional development, curriculum, instruction, and learning environments.
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
1116T Making Time to Lead: Strategies to Organize and Lead More Effectively
Pam Robbins, Educational Consultant, Mt. Crawford, Va.
If you’re a school leader, you know that managing concerns over safety, resources, and the physical plant can devour precious time. Attend this session to explore how to accomplish more with less by using time management strategies, high-impact behaviors, and a plan to organize time-consuming tasks.
Repeated Session: 1216T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
Afternoon Sessions—1:30–3:30 p.m.
1201T Using Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy to Enhance Student Learning
Dan Cherry, Educational Consultant, Newport, N.H.
How do you make sure your plans for technology match with the realities of NCLB standards, curriculum changes, and assessments? Attend this session to learn what works, what is still a challenge, and how to reach your goals for technology integration.
Repeated Session: 1101T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
1202T Action Cycles to Strengthen Motivation and Learning in Diverse Classrooms
Margery Ginsberg, University of Washington, Seattle
Bridge the gap between student motivation, classroom teaching, and student learning. Featuring examples from successful, low-income schools, this session provides you with a cycle of action and inquiry for ongoing instructional improvement.
Repeated Session: 1102T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1203T Teaching for Understanding and Minority Student Achievement: How Can Leaders Successfully Address These Priorities?
Donnell Gregory, Antioch University McGregor, Dayton, Ohio
Explore ASCD’s popular Understanding by Design framework and how it has proven effective in promoting high levels of minority student achievement. Learn how to “design backwards” based on a consensus of what all learners should know, understand, and do at key points in their education.
Repeated Session: 1103T
L: Beginner F: Teachers and teacher leaders A: All levels
1204T Schooling by Design
Allison Zmuda, Educational Consultant, Woodbury, Conn.
ASCD’s Schooling by Design proposes 10 key components to a robust curriculum and assessment system needed to achieve understanding- and transfer-based learning. Attend this session to get an overview of each of these components in a mission-driven learning organization.
Repeated Session: 1104T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1205T The Roles and Responsibilities of Building and District Leaders in Identifying and Selecting the Very Best Educators
James Stronge, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Attend this session to focus on how to make a difference in school improvement and student success by recruiting, selecting, and sustaining the very best educators. Learn what works in creating a research-based hiring process.
Repeated Session: 1105T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: Superintendents, central office staff, school-based administrators A: All levels
1206T The Leader’s Role in Implementing Professional Learning Communities
Deborah Wortham, Steelton Highspire School District, Pa.
Explore research- and practitioner-based strategies for leaders of elementary, middle, or high schools, and learn how implementing the prescribed leadership behaviors serves as the framework for improved student achievement.
Repeated Session: 1106T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
1207T Strategies for Success for English Language Learners
Virginia Rojas, Educational Consultant, Brunswick, N.J.
A renowned expert gives you an overview of effective programs and instructional conditions for English learners, and describes how to support secondary students’ language acquisition and academic achievement in mainstream classrooms.
Repeated Session: 1107T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: Secondary
1208T Personalized Learning that Supports 21st Century Standards
Joe Di Martino, Educational Consultant, West Warwick, R.I.
Attend this session to explore how schools prepare high school graduates for success in postsecondary education or career experiences by helping them become accustomed to demonstrating skills such as thinking critically, research, synthesizing knowledge, and applying knowledge in a variety of settings.
Repeated Session: 1108T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: Secondary
1209T Supervising the Art and Science of Teaching
Robert J. Marzano, Educational Consultant, Centennial, Colo.
Drawing from the ASCD best-selling book The Art and Science of Teaching, this session describes 10 critical areas of instructional practice and how administrators can supervise teaching in a way that keeps the focus of attention on student learning.
Repeated Session: 1109T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1210T School Transformation Through Schoolwide Differentiation
Lane Narvaez, Conway Elementary School, St. Louis, Mo.
Discover how one school transformed its approach to teaching and learning and changed how teachers, students, and parents defined student success by using schoolwide differentiation.
Repeated Session: 1110T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: All levels
1211T The 21st Century Classroom: Imagining, Designing, and Implementing Effective Thinking and Learning
Gerard Alford, Educational Consultant, Brisbane, Australia
Without the ability to think critically and creatively, students leave our schools at a distinct disadvantage. Attend this session to find out how to equip teachers and schools with the ability to impart these skills and make them the priority of our education process.
Repeated Session: 1111T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
1212T The ABCs of Coaching and Mentoring
Shirley Kilgore, Educational Consultant, Fairburn, Ga.
Drawing from experience and research, this presenter discusses practical strategies for results-oriented coaching and mentoring. From highly successful schools to winning athletic teams, explore coaching and mentoring behaviors and learn how to implement them.
Repeated Session: 1112T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: All levels
1213T How Does Standards-Based Grading Support 21st Century Learning?
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Find out why standards-based grading is an essential component of 21st century learning, and explore a system of standards-based grading based on the use of effective formative assessment.
Repeated Session: 1113T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1214T Response to Intervention: Making it More than an Acronym
Pat Addison, Educational Consultant, Fairfax, Va.
What is response to intervention (RTI) and why has it become such an important topic for schools? Answer these and other questions during this interactive session highlighting strategies for providing a comprehensive intervention system that addresses the needs of all students.
Repeated Session: 1114T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1215T Capacity Building Professional Development and Evaluations: Are You Making a Difference?
Ann Cunningham-Morris, ASCD, Alexandria, Va.
Attend this session to discover the various models for capacity building professional development, the different levels of evaluation that should be included in your professional development plan, and tools and strategies for evaluating your efforts.
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
1216T Making Time to Lead: Strategies to Organize and Lead More Effectively
Pam Robbins, Educational Consultant, Mt. Crawford, Va.
If you’re a school leader, you know that managing concerns over safety, resources, and the physical plant can devour precious time. Attend this session to explore how to accomplish more with less by using time management strategies, high impact behaviors, and a plan to organize time-consuming tasks.
Repeated Session: 1116T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
Friday Debriefing & Reflection Session—3:45–4:45 p.m.
Deborah Wortham, Steelton Highspire School District, Penn.
If you've ever had difficulties remembering what you learned at a meeting and how you were planning to use it, then our Debriefing and Reflection Sessions are the perfect solution. Each Debriefing and Reflection Session is facilitated by experienced consultants who are experts on learning transfer into the job world. No advance reservation required.
Conference Sessions for Saturday, October 31
(Please note the following key: L=Level, F=Focus, A=Audience)
Saturday Morning Networking Breakfast and Discussions—7:15–8:00 a.m.
What is Effective Feedback?
Sue Brookhart, Educational Consultant, Helena, Mont.
Join your colleagues in discussing ways to give feedback that helps students learn. Discuss insights from your own experiences with feedback, including how students responded.
Personalizing the Learning Environment for Each Student: What Can Instructional Leaders Do?
Judi Herm, Educational Consultant, Denver, Colo.
Come meet others who are interested in sharing ideas about how instructional leaders can and must help create learning environments dedicated to the whole child, where all students feel healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
Saturday Morning General Session—8:15–9:30 a.m.
Curriculum 21: A Model for Upgrading the Curriculum for 21st Century Learners—What to Cut? What to Keep? What to Create?
Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consultant, Rye, N.Y.
A renowned authority on curriculum explains how to upgrade dated content, skills, and assessments with timely and engaging contemporary replacements. Explore promising plans emerging from the field that represent practical and creative out-of-the-box school designs for 21st century learners, including new scheduling options, student grouping patterns, and technologies.
Morning Breakout Sessions—10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
2101T Better Learning through Structured Teaching
Doug Fisher, Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, Calif.
The author of the ASCD book Better Learning through Structured Teaching introduces you to the Gradual Release of Responsibility model and how it moves the dynamics of your classroom from teacher to student responsibility for learning. Explore all four stages of this approach.
Repeated Session: 2201T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2102T Leadership and Responsibility: Being More Than a Role Model
Paula Mirk, Independent Consultant, Rockland, Maine
This session will provide you with a comprehensive approach to building cultures of integrity in schools and school systems. You will explore steps to take immediately to balance academic rigor with attention to the ethical development of young people.
Repeated Session: 2202T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
2103T Using Formative Assessment Strategies in a Professional Learning Community
Sue Brookhart, Educational Consultant, Helena, Mont.
Learn how to increase teacher knowledge and skill, and as a result increase student motivation and achievement, by organizing a Professional Learning Community that meets regularly and works between meetings to develop skills in classroom formative assessment.
Repeated Session: 2203T
L: Beginner F: Teacher leaders A: All levels
This session has been cancelled.
2104T Global Praxis: How to Learn and Work Collaboratively with Students from Different Cultures, Religions, and Lifestyles
Marlene Pannell, Educational Consultant, New York, N.Y.
Attend this interactive session to learn how schools reflect international, political, religious, and social perspectives, and learn frameworks for student engagement and strategic activities that capture and appreciate differences.
Repeated Session: 2204T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2105T Using Walkthrough Data to Enhance Teacher and Student Learning
Bobb Darnell, Educational Consultant, Lake Zurich, Ill.
Discover how walkthroughs reinforce attention to a school improvement focus, provide useful data about school improvement targets, stimulate collegial conversation, and deepen understanding about what is really going on at your school. Explore numerous forms and proven techniques.
Repeated Session: 2205T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2106T Instructional Leader: Skills, Talents, and Strengths
Phyllis Pajardo, Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, Va.
If you’re an instructional leader, you want to be able to anticipate challenges while you manage the complex issues you’re already dealing with. This session helps you reach that goal through a leadership development plan focusing on personal mastery and ongoing job-embedded professional development.
Repeated Session: 2206T
L: Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
2107T Train Your Brain to Make Productive Change
Jim Roussin, Educational Consultant, Sherman, Tex.
This session relates the research on the brain to the capacity for humans to change so you know which leadership behaviors help create positive change, diminish resistance, and successfully guide an impending change in your environment.
Repeated Session: 2207T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2108T Principal as Learner: Strategies for Your Leadership Development
Connie Mayo, Educational Consultant, Chapmansboro, Tenn.
Here’s an opportunity to explore the needs of school principals and examine avenues for their learning as they lead teachers and students in the learning process. Understand how ongoing learning benefits principals’ leadership performance at all levels.
Repeated Session: 2208T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: All levels
2109T Instructional Leader as a Professional Developer: Roles and Responsibilities
Deborah Childs-Bowen, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala.
Discover research-based principles, standards, and practices associated with leading effective professional development. Explore ways to address the needs of adult learners through processes that promote collaborative inquiry and true professional growth.
Repeated Session: 2209T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders A: All Levels
2110T The Assistant Principal: Choices and Challenges
Pam Robbins, Educational Consultant, Mt. Crawford, Va.
Whether you’re a current or aspiring assistant principal, here’s your opportunity to develop ways to respond effectively to the choices and challenges of student behavior, learning experiences, and the emotional side of leadership and its effects.
Repeated Session: 2210T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: Elementary, middle, and secondary
2111T The Differentiated Administrator: Roles and Responsibilities
Sandra Page, Educational Consultant, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Are you exploring differentiation at the grade, department, school, or district level? If so, this session will help you coordinate the multiple steps to build awareness, encourage and support trying new ideas, and ensure quality teaching applications.
Repeated Session: 2211T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2112T Same Path, Different Shoes: Preparing Urban Leaders to Work in Urban Schools
Latish Reed, University of North Carolina
How do you recruit leaders for urban schools? What are some effective strategies for retaining them? Attend this session to answer these questions and explore ways to engage teachers and leaders interested in working in urban schools.
Repeated Session: 2212T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders A: All levels
2113T Tools and Strategies for Implementing the Framework for Teaching
Gayla Moilanen, Educational Consultant, Reston, Va.
Explore a framework for teaching that has been adopted by thousands of educators and used to prepare and hire new teachers, mentor novices, observe and assess teaching performance, and guide professional development.
Repeated Session: 2213T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2114T The Influential Principal
Lis Johnson, Educational Consultant, San Diego, Calif.
Discover how to use your influence as a school leader to help others embrace the transformation in school culture needed to enrich and promote student learning. This session helps you strategically plan your leverage points to begin influencing stakeholders in advancing a vision for improved student academic achievement.
Repeated Session: 2214T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2115T Connecting Homework to Classwork: Equitable Strategies that Support Student Learning
Cathy Vatterott, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo.
Through examples of successful K-12 programs, this session provides the information and inspiration teachers and school leaders need to jump-start change in homework practices in their buildings or districts. Explore issues of feedback vs. grading of homework, differences in students’ home environments, and more.
Repeated Session: 2215T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2116T Assess for the Success of Each Whole Child
Judi Herm, Educational Consultant, Denver, Colo.
Find out how assessment can support rather than just evaluate learning when you focus on the whole child. Explore assessments that motivate the unmotivated, restore the desire to learn, and encourage students to keep learning.
Repeated Session: 2216T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
Afternoon Breakout Sessions—1:30–3:30 p.m.
2201T Better Learning Through Structured Teaching
Doug Fisher, Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, Calif.
The author of the ASCD book Better Learning through Structured Teaching introduces you to the Gradual Release of Responsibility model and how it moves the dynamics of your classroom from teacher to student responsibility for learning. Explore all four stages of this approach.
Repeated Session: 2101T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2202T Leadership and Responsibility: Being More Than a Role Model
Paula Mirk, Independent Consultant, Rockland, Maine
This session will provide you with a comprehensive approach to building cultures of integrity in schools and school systems. You will explore steps to take immediately to balance academic rigor with attention to the ethical development of young people.
Repeated Session: 2102T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based Administrators A: All levels
2203T Using Formative Assessment Strategies in a Professional Learning Community
Sue Brookhart, Educational Consultant, Helena, Mont.
Learn how to increase teacher knowledge and skill, and as a result increase student motivation and achievement, by organizing a Professional Learning Community that meets regularly and works between meetings to develop skills in classroom formative assessment.
Repeated Session: 2103T
L: Beginner F: Teacher leaders A: All levels
This session has been cancelled.
2204T Global Praxis: How to Learn and Work Collaboratively with Students from Different Cultures, Religions, and Lifestyles
Marlene Pannell, Educational Consultant, New York, N.Y.
Attend this interactive session to learn how schools reflect international, political, religious and social perspectives, and learn frameworks for student engagement and strategic activities that capture and appreciate differences.
Repeated Session: 2104T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2205T Using Walkthrough Data to Enhance Teacher and Student Learning
Bobb Darnell, Educational Consultant, Lake Zurich, Ill.
Discover how walkthroughs reinforce attention to a school improvement focus, provide useful data about school improvement targets, stimulate collegial conversation, and deepen understanding about what is really going on at your school. Explore numerous forms and proven techniques.
Repeated Session: 2105T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2206T Instructional Leader: Skills, Talents, and Strengths
Phyllis Pajardo, Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, Va.
If you’re an instructional leader, you want to be able to anticipate challenges while you manage the complex issues you’re already dealing with. This session helps you reach that goal through a leadership development plan focusing on personal mastery and ongoing job-embedded professional development.
Repeated Session: 2106T
L: Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
2207T Train Your Brain to Make Productive Change
Jim Roussin, Educational Consultant, Sherman, Tex.
This session relates the research on the brain to the capacity for humans to change so you know which leadership behaviors help create positive change, diminish resistance, and successfully guide an impending change in your environment.
Repeated Session: 2107T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2208T Principal as Learner: Strategies for Your Leadership Development
Connie Mayo, Educational Consultant, Chapmansboro, Tenn.
Here’s an opportunity to explore the needs of school principals and examine avenues for their learning as they lead teachers and students in the learning process. Understand how ongoing learning benefit principals’ leadership performance at all levels.
Repeated Session: 2108T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: All levels
2209T Instructional Leader as a Professional Developer: Roles and Responsibilities
Deborah Childs-Bowen, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala.
Discover research-based principles, standards, and practices associated with leading effective professional development. Explore ways to address the needs of adult learners through processes that promote collaborative inquiry and true professional growth.
Repeated Session: 2109T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based Administrators and Teacher Leaders A: All Levels
2210T The Assistant Principal: Choices and Challenges
Pam Robbins, Educational Consultant, Mt. Crawford, Va.
Whether you’re a current or aspiring assistant principal, here’s your opportunity to develop ways to respond effectively to the choices and challenges of student behavior, learning experiences, and the emotional side of leadership and its effects.
Repeated Session: 2110T
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators A: Elementary, middle, and secondary
2211T The Differentiated Administrator: Roles and Responsibilities
Sandra Page, Educational Consultant, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Are you exploring differentiation at the grade, department, school, or district level? If so, this session will help you coordinate the multiple steps to build awareness, encourage and support trying new ideas, and ensure quality teaching applications.
Repeated Session: 2111T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2212T Same Path, Different Shoes: Preparing Urban Leaders to Work in Urban Schools
Latish Reed, University of North Carolina
How do you recruit leaders for urban schools? What are some effective strategies for retaining them? Attend this session to answer these questions and explore ways to engage teachers and leaders interested in working in urban schools.
Repeated Session: 2112T
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders A: All levels
2213T Tools and Strategies for Implementing the Framework for Teaching
Gayla Moilanen, Educational Consultant, Reston, Va.
Explore a framework for teaching that has been adopted by thousands of educators and used to prepare and hire new teachers, mentor novices, observe and assess teaching performance, and guide professional development.
Repeated Session: 2113T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2214T The Influential Principal
Lis Johnson, Educational Consultant, San Diego, Calif.
Discover how to use your influence as a school leader to help others embrace the transformation in school culture needed to enrich and promote student learning. This session helps you strategically plan your leverage points to begin influencing stakeholders in advancing a vision for improved student academic achievement.
Repeated Session: 2114T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
2215T Connecting Homework to Classwork: Equitable Strategies that Support Student Learning
Cathy Vatterott, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo.
Through examples of successful K-12 programs, this session provides the information and inspiration teachers and school leaders need to jump-start change in homework practices in their buildings or districts. Explore issues of feedback vs. grading of homework, differences in students’ home environments, and more.
Repeated Session: 2115T
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
2116T Assess for the Success of Each Whole Child
Judi Herm, Educational Consultant, Denver, Colo.
Find out how assessment can support rather than just evaluate learning when you focus on the whole child. Explore assessments that motivate the unmotivated, restore the desire to learn, and encourage students to keep learning.
Repeated Session: 2116T
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
Saturday Debriefing & Reflection Session—3:45–4:45 p.m.
Connie Mayo, Educational Consultant, Chapmansboro, Tenn.
If you've ever had difficulties remembering what you learned at a meeting and how you were planning to use it, then our Debriefing and Reflection Sessions are the perfect solution. Each Debriefing and Reflection Session is facilitated by experienced consultants who are experts on learning transfer into the job world. No advance reservation required.
Conference Sessions for Sunday, November 1
(Please note the following key: L=Level, F=Focus, A=Audience)
Morning Breakout Sessions—8:30–10:30 a.m.
3101T Understanding by Design in the Early Childhood Classroom
Opal Davis Dawson, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Ky.
Students between the ages of 3 and 6 are sponges for understanding and are capable of capturing information in the form of essential questions. Learn how to design essential questions that are appropriate at this level and help students take away insights about the content.
L: Beginner F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders A: Elementary
3102T Closing the Achievement Gap: From Research to Practice
Ashley Griffin, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Here’s a session that helps you address the achievement gap using the practical application of evidence-based approaches for school improvement. Learn how to incorporate transactional school reform into everyday practices and focus on how a classroom or school can be structured to provide a variety of contexts for achievement.
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
3103T Improving Student Learning: One Principal at a Time
Jane Pollock, Educational Consultant, Centennial, Colo.
If classroom observations ever seem nerve-wracking and perfunctory to you, attend this session to learn how to ensure that the interaction between teacher and observer results in improved performances for both teachers and students. Discover practical strategies that complement your current evaluation and supervision or help you develop new frameworks.
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders A: All levels
3104T The Role of the Principal in Implementing Building Academic Vocabulary
Judi Herm, Educational Consultant, Denver, Colo.
Learn what principals can and are doing to ensure their implementation of ASCD’s research-based model for Building Academic Vocabulary leads to higher student literacy and narrowing of achievement gaps.
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
3105T Supporting 21st Century Learners: Practical Strategies for Partnering with Families, Communities, and Businesses
Lis Johnson, Educational Consultant, San Diego, Calif.
Maximize the opportunities you have to invest and tap into support networks that can promote your school. This session introduces you to marketing skills that engage businesses, community members, parents, and families in supporting your educational plans and vision.
L: Beginner F: All job fields A: All levels
3106T Powerful Strategies to Help Special Needs Students be Successful Learners
Robi Kronberg, Educational Consultant, Littleton, Colo.
Special needs students can thrive in educational environments where their needs are recognized and supported. Attend this session to examine a variety of strategies that help these students develop self-awareness of their strengths and acquire competency in core subjects.
L: Experienced F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders
A: All levels
3107T Leadership for Creating and Sustaining High Performing Schools
Deborah Childs-Bowen, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala.
Emphasizing the powerful role of the professional development planning team in school improvement, this session explores how high performing schools use effective professional development processes such as lesson study, study groups, inquiry teams, and action research.
L: Experienced F: School-based administrators A: All levels
3108T Managing Conflict: Strategies for Leaders
Bobb Darnell, Educational Consultant, Lake Zurich, Ill.
Discover how leaders can prevent, pre-empt, and conquer workplace conflict. Using simulations and case studies, understand what contributes to workplace conflict and how to strengthen personal and team relationships, repair damages, and enhance your leadership credibility.
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators and central office staff A: All levels
3109T Preparing Successful Teacher Leaders: What have We Learned?
Ann Ifekwunigwe, Educational Consultant, Durham, N.C.
Attend this session to get a deeper understanding of the relationship between teacher leadership and student achievement, explore examples of successful teacher leadership models, and learn practical tips for greater empowerment of teacher leaders.
L: Beginner/Experienced F: All job fields A: All levels
3110T Technology that Teaches 21st Century Skills for Digital Learners
Erik Palmer, Educational Consultant, Aurora, Colo.
If you’re not exactly sure how to use the array of Web sites and new technologies to improve instruction, attend this session to get practical insights on how to use collaborative online writing, blogs, wiki files, discussion boards, and podcasting to modify lessons with new writing tools.
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders A: All levels
3111T The Art of Effective Communication in Successful School Leadership
Janie Ray Smith, Educational Consultant, Alexandria, Va.
This session uses problem-solving scenarios, various message formats, and practical ideas and discussions about difficult communication issues to help you improve your communication skills with all stakeholders.
L: Beginner/Experienced F: School-based administrators and teacher leaders A: All levels
3112T Creating a School for Each Student
Nelson Beaudoin, Educational Consultant, Poland, Maine
Explore how your school can change its focus from “all” students to “each” student and garner greater academic success. Learn how your school can place students in the center of learning by connecting with the skills and interest of each student and creating a climate that focuses on personalization.
L: Experienced F: All job fields A: Secondary
Closing General Session—11 a.m.–12 noon
21st Century Education: What It Is, How to Ensure It
Mike Schmoker, Educational Consultant, Flagstaff, Ariz.
To ensure that students get a 21st century education, you have to have a school system that ensures that students receive what they need to succeed in careers, in college,and as informed citizens. An acclaimed school improvement expert explains how to provide such an education by using simple, straightforward activities across the grade levels and in any discipline.