Session Descriptions
All 2010 ASCD Summer Conference on Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design, What Works in Schools, and Curriculum Mapping sessions are ticketed. Only those participants with the correct tickets will be allowed to enter a session. Sessions will fill quickly, so preregister to reserve your spot today.
How to Target Your Learning Needs
Conference sessions may be geared toward participants with different levels of experience, different positions, or different school levels. You may attend the sessions of your choice; this information can help you choose the most appropriate sessions for your needs and interests.
Audience
Sessions may be most helpful for superintendents, central office staff, school-based administrators, teacher leaders, teachers, or all job fields.
Audience level
Sessions may be most helpful for participants at the elementary, middle, secondary, higher education, or all levels.
Level of Session
Beginner participants have limited knowledge of the topic and want to learn about it.
Experienced participants are already familiar with the topic and want more information.
Advanced participants know a lot about the topic and want more advanced information.
Tuesday, June 22
90-Minute Morning Sessions: 8:30–10:00 a.m.
1100T Connecting Understanding by Design, What Works in Schools, and Curriculum Mapping: Curriculum for the 21st Century (Repeated)
Jay McTighe, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Columbia, Md.; Grant Wiggins, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Hopewell, N.J.; Robert J. Marzano, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Centennial, Colo.; and Heidi Hayes Jacobs, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Rye, N.Y.
Hear the leading experts on Understanding by Design, What Works in Schools, and curriculum mapping discuss their work and explain how educators can use these models to increase classroom success for today's students. Explore the relationships among these models and how they individually and together can improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, and learning environment.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1101T Change and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Kristina Doubet, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
This session helps you recognize the changing needs of K–12 learners and why and how you can differentiate instruction to address these new needs. Learn practical strategies that help you adjust classroom environments and instruction to accommodate student diversity.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1102T Understanding by Design and Writing Across the Curriculum (Repeated)
Erik Powell, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Attend this session to explore strategies to get the most out of student writing using Understanding by Design. Using actual student work—including blogs, Web 2.0, and 21st century skills—from a variety of subjects, the presenter helps you begin a draft of your own writing-based UbD unit.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1103T Developing Quality Maps (Repeated)
Ann Johnson, Educational Consultant, Ames, Iowa
Whether you’re just starting to map or have been mapping for years, this session deepens your understanding of quality maps and helps you take your maps to the next level. Learn how to identify the quality components on maps, produce quality maps, and sharpen the alignment of maps to standards.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1104T Leadership for Content Literacy through Academic Vocabulary (Repeated)
Mary McDonough, Educational Consultant, Centreville, Mass.
If you want to learn more about ASCD’s Building Academic Vocabulary program, here’s a session that gives you strategies and ideas for successful implementation. Discover the leadership actions and supportive resources you need for systemic implementation of teaching academic vocabulary for content literacy.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
1105T Understanding Mathematics by Design: Stages 1 and 2 (Repeated)
Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Learn how Understanding by Design can help you design and implement units of mathematics instruction. And see how backward design, authentic assessments, and constructivist teaching come together in an easy-to-use framework for mathematics curriculum. Bring course materials or standards to the session.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1106T Mapping English/Language Arts to Create a Literacy Framework (Repeated)
Nan Wiseman, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Attend this session to have an expert coach you through the mapping process for language arts and show you how common assessments can be developed from the curriculum mapping conversations. Learn how to create a language arts map and use the mapped literacy strategies to create assessments and interventions.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1107T Equipping Students for Success in the 21st Century: The Whole Child Approach (Repeated)
Patricia Reynolds, Intermediate School 73, Flushing, NJ
How can you prepare students for a changing world? Attend this session to explore that question and learn the role of 21st century skills in shaping teaching and learning. Examine 21st century skills models and their implications for classrooms that help students be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1108T Differentiated Instruction for English Language Learners (Repeated)
Maria Molina, Educational Consultant, Miami, Fla.
Find out how to meet the needs of English language learners by using differentiated instruction. An expert explains the non-negotiables of the DI model and how you can incorporate differentiated instruction into classrooms that include English language learners.
Audience : Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1109T The Principal’s Role: Leading UbD in Your School (Repeated)
Opal Dawson, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Ky.
If you’re a school-based leader responsible for implementing Understanding by Design, attend this session to understand the leadership actions that are proven to increase student achievement—from articulating a vision, to encouraging collaboration, to renewing the energy of teachers.
Audience: Teacher Leaders/School-Based Administrators
Audience Level: Elementary
Level of Session: Experienced
1110T Creating Consensus Maps (Repeated)
Debbie Sullivan, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Creating consensus maps is a great way to promote a consistent curriculum for all students. Attend this session to learn how to create school or district consensus maps beginning with state standards and involving all teachers. Be ready to share and practice mapping with emphasis on language arts.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
1111T Designing Effective Homework (Repeated)
Debra Pickering, Educational Consultant, Littleton, Colo.
Examine the research for and against homework. Understand why there has been so much public debate about the effectiveness of homework. Learn how to ensure homework is used effectively as a strategy, and get recommendations related to time and purpose, feedback, accountability, and parental involvement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1112T A District's Journey to Student Success for ALL (Repeated)
Maria Chrzanowski and Stacey Harris, Amarillo ISD, Tex.
Discover what it’s really like to implement differentiated instruction. Two presenters, who are part of a districtwide effort, explain what to do—from the first encounter to the implementation of strong support systems, and a plan for accountability.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1113T Unit Implementation: What Worked, What Didn't, and What You Can Do About It (Repeated)
Elizabeth Rossini, Educational Consultant, Fairfax, Va.
After you’ve used Understanding by Design to create a unit, how do you determine what worked, what didn’t, and what to do about it? Attend this session to answer that question and explore tools and strategies for adjusting unit designs based on observations of students, student work, and student feedback.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
1114T Becoming a Great High School: Six Strategies and an Attitude That Make a Difference (Repeated)
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Virtually all high schools are under pressure to get better. And what high school leaders need is a researched-based model to guide them to higher student achievement. Attend this session to get an overview of the 6 + 1 model for moving from good to great, with examples of high schools making this transition.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: All
1115T Cultivating Teacher Leaders for Understanding by Design (Repeated)
Janie Smith, Educational Consultant, Alexandria, Va.
What kind of support system do you need to implement Understanding by Design? Attend this session to answer that question and examine strategies for building capacity in schools and districts that want to implement and sustain ongoing work related to Understanding by Design.
Audience: Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
1116T Flexible Grouping in a Differentiated Instruction Classroom (Repeated)
Eric Carbaugh, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
A hallmark of differentiated classrooms is the use of flexible grouping of students. Here’s a session that helps you identify successful flexible grouping practices, apply flexible grouping to multiple educational scenarios, and successfully manage flexible grouping.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginning
1117T Assessing for Understanding (Repeated)
Everett Kline, Educational Consultant, Princeton, N.J.
Explore ways to assess not only for the quality of a student’s work, but also to track the degree to which a student’s understanding deepens over the grades. This session introduces you to scoring systems that measure both quality and sophistication and helps you determine what would be a fair, honest, and credible scoring system for your own setting.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginning
1118T Standards-Based Grading: Generating Overall Scores and Final Grades for Academic and Nonacademic Topics (Repeated)
Bea McGarvey, Educational Consultant, South Portland, Maine
Attend this session to increase your understanding of the formative feedback process with special emphasis on how to determine topic scores, compute final grades, average the scores, and come up with grades for nonacademic areas, including effort, work completion, and following directions.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1119T Professional Learning Communities and Differentiated Instruction: How to Get Started (Repeated)
Cindy Strickland, Educational Consultant, Troy, Va.
An essential step in implementing differentiated instruction is setting up and nurturing small group professional learning communities devoted to the effort. Here’s a session that explains how to do that and gives you sample activities that help teachers explore and refine their practices of differentiated instruction.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
1120T Understanding by Design: Troubleshooting Student Learning Challenges Before They Happen to Make Teaching More Effective When They Do (Repeated)
Allison Zmuda, Educational Consultant, Virginia Beach, Va., and Donna Herold, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Troubleshooting guides are a great way for your staff to work together to make it more likely that student learning occurs and misunderstandings are overcome. Attend this presentation to see troubleshooting guides that have been developed to support student learning and have also provided rich opportunities for staff collaboration.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
1121T The Art and Science of Teaching to Support School Improvement (Repeated)
Diane Paynter, Educational Consultant, Parker, Colo
Explore and practice the dynamic fusion of art and science that results in exceptional teaching and outstanding student achievement. An expert presenter provides you with a logical planning sequence for effective instructional design, plus design questions that help you implement effective units of instruction.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
90-Minute Mid-Morning Sessions: 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon
1200T Connecting Understanding by Design, What Works in Schools, and Curriculum Mapping: Curriculum for the 21st Century (Repeated)
Jay McTighe, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Columbia, Md., Grant Wiggins, Author and Educational Consultant, Hopewell, N.J., Robert J. Marzano, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Centennial, Colo., and Heidi Hayes Jacobs, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Rye, N.Y.
Hear the leading experts on Understanding by Design, What Works in Schools, and curriculum mapping discuss their work and explain how educators can use these models to increase classroom success for today's students. Explore the relationships among these models and how they individually and together can improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, and learning environment.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1201T Change and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Kristina Doubet, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
This session helps you recognize the changing needs of K–12 learners and why and how you can differentiate instruction to address these new needs. Learn practical strategies that help you adjust classroom environments and instruction to accommodate student diversity.
Audience Level: All
Audience: All
Level of Session: Introductory
1202T Understanding by Design and Writing Across the Curriculum (Repeated)
Erik Powell, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Attend this session to explore strategies to get the most out of student writing using Understanding by Design. Using actual student work—including blogs, Web 2.0, and 21st century skills—from a variety of subjects, the presenter helps you begin a draft of your own writing-based UbD unit.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1203T Developing Quality Maps (Repeated)
Ann Johnson, Educational Consultant, Ames, Iowa
Whether you’re just starting to map or have been mapping for years, this session deepens your understanding of quality maps and helps you take your maps to the next level. Learn how to identify the quality components on maps, produce quality maps, and sharpen the alignment of maps to standards.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1204T Leadership for Content Literacy through Academic Vocabulary (Repeated)
Mary McDonough, Educational Consultant, Centreville, Mass.
If you want to learn more about ASCD’s Building Academic Vocabulary program, here’s a session that gives you strategies and ideas for successful implementation. Discover the leadership actions and supportive resources you need for systemic implementation of teaching academic vocabulary for content literacy.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
1205T Understanding Mathematics by Design: Stages 1 and 2 (Repeated)
Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Learn how Understanding by Design can help you to design and implement units of mathematics instruction. And see how backward design, authentic assessments, and constructivist teaching come together in an easy-to-use framework for mathematics curriculum. Bring course materials or standards to the session.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1206T Mapping English/Language Arts to Create a Literacy Framework (Repeated)
Nan Wiseman, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Attend this session to have an expert coach you through the mapping process for language arts and show you how common assessments can be developed from the curriculum mapping conversations. Learn how to create a language arts map and use the mapped literacy strategies to create assessments and interventions.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1207T Equipping Students for Success in the 21st Century: The Whole Child Approach (Repeated)
Patricia Reynolds, Intermediate School 73, Flushing, NJ
How can you prepare students for a changing world? Attend this session to explore that question and learn the role of 21st century skills in shaping teaching and learning. Examine 21st century skills models and their implications for classrooms that help students be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1208T Differentiated Instruction for English Language Learners (Repeated)
Maria Molina, Educational Consultant, Miami, Fla.
Find out how to meet the needs of English language learners by using differentiated instruction. An expert explains the non-negotiables of the DI model and how you can incorporate differentiated instruction into classrooms that include English language learners.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1209T The Principal’s Role: Leading UbD in Your School (Repeated)
Opal Dawson, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Ky.
If you’re a school-based leader responsible for implementing Understanding by Design, attend this session to understand the leadership actions that are proven to increase student achievement—from articulating a vision, to encouraging collaboration, to renewing the energy of teachers.
Audience: Teacher Leaders/School-Based Administrators
Audience Level: Elementary
Level of Session: Experienced
1210T Creating Consensus Maps (Repeated)
Debbie Sullivan, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Creating consensus maps is a great way to promote a consistent curriculum for all students. Attend this session to learn how to create school or district consensus maps beginning with state standards and involving all teachers. Be ready to share and practice mapping with emphasis on language arts.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
1211T Designing Effective Homework (Repeated)
Debra Pickering, Educational Consultant, Littleton, Colo.
Examine the research for and against homework. Understand why there has been so much public debate about the effectiveness of homework. Learn how to ensure homework is used effectively as a strategy and get recommendations related to time and purpose, feedback, accountability, and parental involvement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1212T A District's Journey to Student Success for ALL (Repeated)
Maria Chrzanowski and Stacey Harris, Amarillo ISD, Tex.
Discover what it’s really like to implement differentiated instruction. Two presenters, who are part of a districtwide effort, explain what to do—from the first encounter to the implementation of strong support systems and a plan for accountability.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1213T Unit Implementation: What Worked, What Didn't, and What You Can Do About It (Repeated)
Elizabeth Rossini, Educational Consultant, Fairfax, Va.
After you’ve used Understanding by Design to create a unit, how do you determine what worked, what didn’t, and what to do about it? Attend this session to answer that question and explore tools and strategies for adjusting unit designs based on observations of students, student work, and student feedback.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
1214T Becoming a Great High School: Six Strategies and an Attitude That Make a Difference (Repeated)
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Virtually all high schools are under pressure to get better. And what high school leaders need is a researched-based model to guide them to higher student achievement. Attend this session to get an overview of the 6 + 1 model for moving from good to great, with examples of high schools making this transition.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: All
1215T Cultivating Teacher Leaders for Understanding by Design (Repeated)
Janie Smith, Educational Consultant, Alexandria, Va.
What kind of support system do you need to implement Understanding by Design? Attend this session to answer that question and examine strategies for building capacity in schools and districts that want to implement and sustain ongoing work related to Understanding by Design.
Audience: Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
1216T Flexible Grouping in a Differentiated Instruction Classroom (Repeated)
Eric Carbaugh, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
A hallmark of differentiated classrooms is the use of flexible grouping of students. Here’s a session that helps you identify successful flexible grouping practices, apply flexible grouping to multiple educational scenarios, and successfully manage flexible grouping.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1217T Assessing for Understanding (Repeated)
Everett Kline, Educational Consultant, Princeton, N.J.
Explore ways to assess not only for the quality of a student’s work, but also to track the degree to which a student’s understanding deepens over the grades. This session introduces you to scoring systems that measure both quality and sophistication and helps you determine what would be a fair, honest, and credible scoring system for your own setting.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1218T Standards-Based Grading: Generating Overall Scores and Final Grades for Academic and Nonacademic Topics (Repeated)
Bea McGarvey, Educational Consultant, South Portland, Maine
Attend this session to increase your understanding of the formative feedback process with special emphasis on how to determine topic scores, compute final grades, average the scores, and come up with grades for nonacademic areas including effort, work completion, and following directions.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1219T Professional Learning Communities and Differentiated Instruction: How to Get Started (Repeated)
Cindy Strickland, Educational Consultant, Troy, Va.
An essential step in implementing differentiated instruction is setting up and nurturing small group professional learning communities devoted to the effort. Here’s a session that explains how to do that and gives you sample activities that help teachers explore and refine their practices of differentiated instruction.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
1220T Understanding by Design: Troubleshooting Student Learning Challenges Before They Happen to Make Teaching More Effective When They Do (Repeated)
Allison Zmuda, Education Consultant, Virginia Beach, Va., and Donna Herold, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Troubleshooting guides are a great way for your staff to work together to make it more likely that student learning occurs and misunderstandings are overcome. Attend this presentation to see troubleshooting guides that have been developed to support student learning and have also provided rich opportunities for staff collaboration.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
1221T The Art and Science of Teaching to Support School Improvement (Repeated)
Diane Paynter, Educational Consultant, Parker, Colo
Explore and practice the dynamic fusion of art and science that results in exceptional teaching and outstanding student achievement. An expert presenter provides you with a logical planning sequence for effective instructional design, plus design questions that help you implement effective units of instruction.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
3-Hour Afternoon Sessions: 1:00–4:00 p.m.
1301T 21st Century Essential Curriculum
Heidi Hayes Jacobs, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Rye, N.Y.
Based on her groundbreaking new ASCD book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Heidi Hayes Jacobs shares her perspectives on what is essential to prepare 21st century learners for the future. Explore practical and dynamic strategies to help you upgrade the classroom curriculum, move your school into 21st century instructional practice, integrate digital literacy into instruction, and develop new assessments.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1302T Understanding by Design Designer Guides
Grant Wiggins, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Hopewell, N.J.
Grant will unveil the new Understanding by Design Designer Guide. Participants will learn what is in the guide, how to use it, and participate in some of the design exercises. The guide is based on the new and improved UbD Template and reflects years of analysis and feedback from UbD users.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1303T 10 Components of an Understanding-Based Curriculum
Jay McTighe, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Columbia, Md.
Understanding by Design coauthor Jay McTighe guides you through the 10 key components of a robust, understanding-based curriculum, with examples of these components. Focus on the theory and practical use of a coherent curriculum, from the learners’ perspective, that includes content standards and accountability test scores.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2-Hour Afternoon Sessions: 1:30–3:30 p.m.
1401T Response to Intervention and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Tanya Santangelo, Arcadia University, Glenside, Pa.
Explore the commonalities and the points of divergence of two popular models: differentiated instruction (DI) and Response to Intervention (RTI). Learn how the two models can be successfully integrated in ways that ensure the growth of every student.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1402T Using Understanding by Design on the Early Childhood Classroom
Opal Dawson, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Ky.
Students between the ages of 3 and 6 are sponges for understanding. Here’s a session that explains how to use Understanding by Design to maximize their understanding. Learn how to question students during classroom discussions; check their understanding; and help them make sense of facts, skills, and ideas.
Audience: Teachers
Audience Level: Elementary
Level of Session: Experienced
1403T Leadership to Improve Your Supervising and Supporting Skills
Vera Blake, Educational Consultant, Dumfries, Va.
Research shows that leadership is an essential ingredient in the improvement of student achievement. Find out how much of the success of school leaders—both teachers and administrators—is anchored in establishing and sustaining powerful and positive relationships through supervision and support of faculty.
Audience: Administrators
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner/Experienced
1404T Mapping an Implementation Plan
Ann Johnson, Educational Consultant, Ames, Iowa
How do you craft a plan to successfully implement curriculum mapping? Attend this session to answer that question and learn the steps that take you through the process of developing an implementation plan to ensure successful curriculum mapping in your school or district.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1405T Managing Your Secondary Differentiated Instruction Classroom (Repeated)
Sandra Page, Educational Consultant, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Attend this presentation to learn ideas from master teachers in differentiated classrooms who explain how to manage classroom routines—including paperwork, group work, discussions, and questioning—so students take ownership of everyday tasks.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: Beginner
1406T Beginning the Journey: Making Sense of Understanding By Design for the Urban Leader/Teacher (Repeated)
Donnell Gregory, Educational Consultant, Dayton, Ohio
Here’s an introduction to the Understanding by Design framework that is helping thousands of educators in urban districts plan more engaging and effective curriculums. Learn which instructional and assessment techniques are most effective for developing and deepening student understanding.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: Beginner/Experienced
1407T Supervising the Art and Science of Teaching
Robert J. Marzano, Educational Consultant, Centennial, Colo.
Based on the ASCD book The Art and Science of Teaching, Robert J. Marzano explains how to supervise teaching in a way that keeps the focus of attention on student learning and allows individual teachers flexibility and creativity in their teaching practices.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1408T Where to Start Creating a Vision and Goals for Mapping
Nan Wiseman, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Start your implementation of curriculum mapping with this session. Learn how to create a shared vision for a curriculum initiative, set long- and short-term goals, build collaborative structures into the school schedule, and develop a leadership team to help direct the work.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1409T Differentiating Professional Development for Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Cindy Strickland, Educational Consultant, Troy, Va.
If you’re a staff developer, administrator, or teacher leader, here’s your opportunity to discover how to support teachers in their journey toward differentiated instruction by using professional development activities that are differentiated for teachers’ varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness.
Audience: Superintendents/Central Office Staff/School-Based Administrators/ Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner/Experienced
1410T Designing Essential Questions that Spark the Intelligence
Allison Zmuda, Virginia Beach, Va., and Donna Herold, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
To help your students cultivate deep intellectual connections over time, attend this session to explore the role of essential questions as a vital part of curriculum and instructional design. Learn the design standards for an essential question, view examples, and discover how to create powerful essential questions.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner/Experienced
1411T Standards-Based Grading: Generating Overall Scores and Final Grades for Academic and Nonacademic Topics (Repeated)
Bea McGarvey, Educational Consultant, South Portland, Maine
Attend this session to increase your understanding of the formative feedback process with special emphasis on how to determine topic scores, compute final grades, average the scores, and come up with grades for nonacademic areas including effort, work completion, and following directions.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner/Experienced
1412T Leadership Teams and Curriculum Mapping (Repeated)
Debbie Sullivan, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Focus on how to establish and sustain school and district leadership teams for implementing curriculum mapping. An experienced presenter guides you through the process and helps you begin a draft plan for establishing a leadership team in your school or district.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1413T Understanding by Design and Writing Across the Curriculum (Repeated)
Erik Powell, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Attend this session to explore strategies to get the most out of student writing using Understanding by Design. Using actual student work—including blogs, Web 2.0, and 21st century skills—from a variety of subjects, the presenter helps you begin a draft of your own writing-based UbD unit.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1414T Using Interactive Whiteboards and Clickers to Enhance Strategies from the Art and Science of Teaching (Repeated)
Debra Pickering, Educational Consultant, Littleton, Colo.
Attend this session to increase your understanding of how research-based instructional strategies can be even more effective when they are enhanced with technology. Learn how technologies help you with instructional feedback, formative assessment, nonlinguistic representations, thinking skills, and student engagement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1415T Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Making the Connection (Repeated)
Nanci Smith, Educational Consultant, Cave Creek, Ariz., and Janie Smith, Educational Consultant, Alexandria, Va.
Discover how to get Understanding by Design and differentiated instruction to work together seamlessly to provide all students with access to high quality curriculum that is clearly focused on standards and goals and matched to the varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness levels.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1416T Using Lesson Study to Support Teacher Growth with Differentiation
Jessica Hockett, Educational Consultant, Evanston, Ill.
For years, teachers in Japan have used lesson study to collaboratively improve, refine, and reflect on how teaching impacts student learning. Here’s your opportunity to learn about this approach and how it leads to creating lessons that account for the full range of student readiness, interest, and learning profiles.
Audience: Administrators/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
1417T Differentiation, Assessments, and Understanding by Design (Repeated)
Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Learn how to build formative and differentiated assessments around the Understanding by Design framework. This session introduces you to an assessment matrix that tracks each student’s learning or outcome, but is still practical for the classroom teacher.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
1418T Building Academic Vocabulary and the Whole Child
Diane Paynter, Educational Consultant, Parker, Colo.
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are not well prepared for school have the toughest time making the grade. Here’s a session that explains how to overcome those disadvantages by teaching subject-specific vocabulary. Learn the steps, strategies, and tools you need to use this approach.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1419T Differentiated Instruction for English Language Learners (Repeated)
Maria Molina, Educational Consultant, Miami, Fla.
Find out how to meet the needs of English language learners by using differentiated instruction. An expert explains the non-negotiables of the DI model and how you can incorporate differentiated instruction into classrooms that include English language learners.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
1420T Classroom Formative Assessment and Grading (Repeated)
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Explore research-based strategies for establishing a system of standards-based grading that capitalizes on the power of formative assessment. And discover how to design classroom assessments that determine final grades in a way that is consistent and fair to students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
1421T Capacity Building Professional Development and Evaluations: Are You Making the Difference?
Ann Cunningham-Morris, ASCD, Alexandria, Va.
What are the capacity building professional development models you should have in place to ensure that professional learning translates to the classroom? Join the presenter in examining models for capacity building professional development and the levels of evaluation that should be included in your professional development plan.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
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Wednesday, June 23
3-Hour Morning Sessions: 8:30–11:30 a.m.
2101T Schooling by Design
Jay McTighe, ASCD, Author and Educational Consultant, Columbia, Md.
Based on the ASCD book Schooling by Design, Understanding by Design coauthor Jay McTighe explores how the principles of learning should influence your school’s mission and education practice. Learn how to guide your school’s improvement effort and focus teachers on the “big ideas” and processes contained in content standards.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2102T Differentiated Instruction and Curriculum Mapping: What's the Fit?
Heidi Hayes Jacobs, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Rye, N.Y., and Carol Ann Tomlinson, ASCD Author and Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Discover how to enhance the power of curriculum maps by developing them with student differences in mind. Two renowned experts explain the key principles and practices of effective curriculum mapping and how they can help plan for content requirements and learner needs.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
90-Minute Morning Sessions: 8:30–10:00 a.m.
2201T Changing Teacher Practice with DI: A District's Story (Repeated)
Wil Parker, Educational Consultant, Arlington, Va., and Lynda Wood, Associate Superintendent for Instruction, Southfield, Mich.
Learn how ASCD and Southfield Public Schools, a northern suburb of Detroit, are changing teacher practice at all levels as a result of districtwide implementation of differentiated instruction. Here’s real evidence of changing practice as a result of DI implementation and the impact on student achievement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2202T Assessing for Understanding (Repeated)
Everett Kline, Educational Consultant, Princeton, N.J.
Explore ways to assess not only for the quality of a student’s work, but also to track the degree to which a student’s understanding deepens over the grades. This session introduces you to scoring systems that measure both quality and sophistication and helps you determine what would be a fair, honest, and credible scoring system for your own setting.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2203T Strategic Conversations for Instructional Leaders (Repeated)
Robyn Jackson, Educational Consultant, Washington, D.C.
Prominent ASCD author Robyn Jackson explains how to use strategic conversations to target your instructional leadership to meet each teacher’s needs and help each teacher become a master teacher. Learn how to diagnose teachers’ will and skill and determine what will work best for each teacher and situation.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: All
2204T Curriculum Mapping: Leading the 21st Century Schools (Repeated)
Don Stinson and Nan Wiseman, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Get an overview of what a 21st century school system looks like and how curriculum mapping is at the center of systemic change. Learn how curriculum mapping enables professional learning communities and leadership teams to improve the quality of learning for all students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2205T Response to Intervention and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Tanya Santangelo, Arcadia University, Glenside, Penn.
Explore the commonalities and the points of divergence in two popular models: differentiated instruction (DI) and Response to Intervention (RTI). And learn how the two models can be successfully integrated in ways that ensure the growth of every student.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2206T Walkthroughs and Instructional Rounds: What Are They? How Do They Impact Student Learning? (Repeated)
Deborah Childs-Bowen, Educational Consultant, Birmingham, Ala.
Here’s a crash course on walkthroughs and instructional rounds: what they are; who does them; how they are done; and their effects on leaders, teachers, students, and school culture. Explore these issues in the context of Robert Marzano's framework for Supervision of the Art and Science of Teaching.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
2207T Differentiating Professional Development for Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Cindy Strickland, Educational Consultant, Troy, Va.
If you’re a staff developer, administrator, or teacher leader, here’s your opportunity to discover how to support teachers in their journey toward differentiated instruction by using professional development activities that are differentiated for teachers’ varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness.
Audience: Superintendents/Central Office Staff/School-Based Administrators/ Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
2208T Developing Quality Maps (Repeated)
Ann Johnson, Educational Consultant, Ames, Iowa
Whether you’re just starting to map or have been mapping for years, this session deepens your understanding of quality maps and helps you take your maps to the next level. Learn how to identify the quality components on maps, produce quality maps using a step-by-step process, and sharpen the alignment of maps to standards.
Audience Level: All
Audience: All
Level of Session: All
2209T Using Interactive Whiteboards and Clickers to Enhance Strategies from the Art and Science of Teaching (Repeated)
Debra Pickering, Educational Consultant, Littleton, Colo.
Attend this session to increase your understanding of how research-based instructional strategies can be even more effective when they are enhanced with technology. Learn how technologies help you with instructional feedback, formative assessment, nonlinguistic representations, thinking skills, and student engagement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
2210T Creating Consensus Maps (Repeated)
Debbie Sullivan, Associate Superintendent for Reinvention, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Creating consensus maps is a great way to promote a consistent curriculum for all students. Attend this session to learn how to create school or district consensus maps beginning with state standards and involving all teachers. Be ready to share and practice mapping with emphasis on language arts.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2211T Differentiation, Assessments, and Understanding by Design (Repeated)
Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Learn how to build formative and differentiated assessments around the Understanding by Design framework. This session introduces you to an assessment matrix that tracks each student’s learning or outcome, but is still practical for the classroom teacher.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2212T Developing Differentiated Lessons with Middle and High School (Repeated)
Eric Carbaugh, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
Learn how to create engaging lesson plans to meet the needs of the wide range of interests, learning preferences, and readiness levels of middle and high school students. Topics include writing clear learning goals, using formative assessment to drive instruction, and incorporating differentiated strategies.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: All
2213T Making Meaning: Learning Through Inquiry and Dialogue (Repeated)
Grant Wiggins, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Hopewell, N.J.
At the heart of Understanding by Design is learning through inquiry and dialogue. Attend this interactive session to explore what dialogue is and isn't and how meaningful talk depends upon the right kind of curriculum, built on genuine questions and problems.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
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2214T Strategies, Tips, and Tools for the UbD Classroom (Repeated)
Allison Zmuda, Virginia Beach, Va., and Erik Powell, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Join your colleagues to share strategies, tips, and tools that have supported the implementation of Understanding by Design (UbD) in your classrooms, schools, and districts. The facilitator will guide you as he shares successful strategies and prompts table-group sharing and discussion.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2215T What Will I Do to Help Students to Interact with New Knowledge? (Repeated)
Vera Blake, Educational Consultant, Dumfries, Va.
If you’ve ever been disappointed with your students’ ability to acquire new knowledge, here’s a session packed with effective ways to help students take in new information. Explore strategies that support new learning and retention of concepts and skills taught in your classroom.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2216T Classroom Formative Assessment and Grading (Repeated)
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Explore research-based strategies for establishing a system of standards-based grading that capitalizes on the power of formative assessment. And discover how to design classroom assessments that determine final grades in a way that is consistent and fair to students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2217T Makeovers: Before and After Examples of Differentiated Instruction in the Secondary Classrooms (Repeated)
Carol O’Connor, Cheryl Black, and Kimberly Rodriguez,, Cypress-Fairbanks School District, Houston, Tex.
Join a team of coaches who have been on a yearlong journey of helping teachers differentiate their secondary classrooms. Here’s an opportunity to examine data and artifacts—including activities, lessons, and units—designed for differentiated instruction in secondary classrooms.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: Beginner
2218T Math Is Different: Getting Big Ideas to Hands On in the Secondary Math Classroom (Repeated)
Nanci Smith, Educational Consultant, Cave Creek, Ariz.
If you’ve ever felt that it is inappropriate or difficult to differentiate math, or that you can just differentiate simply by adjusting problem difficulty, then come to this session to explore how to develop rigor and differentiation in math by developing clear curricular goals.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: All
2219T Supporting Academic Success for English Learners in Mainstream Classrooms (Repeated)
Virginia Rojas, Educational Consultant, North Brunswick, N.J.
Discover how to shift the paradigm with current ESL practices away from a deficit, remedial model to a model focused on building ESL’s academic competence through intellectually challenging, grade-level curriculum and shared ownership of students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2220T Technology and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Sherida Britt-Dozier, Educational Consultant, Silver Spring, Md., and Andrew Ryan, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Md.
Attend this session to learn how to use the Internet to help you apply the principles of differentiated instruction. Discover meaningful curriculum resources that require students to apply critical and creative thinking, solve problems, explore complex decisions, and respond to meaningful text.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2221T Beginning the Journey: Making Sense of Understanding by Design for the Urban Leader (Repeated)
Donnell Gregory, Educational Consultant, Dayton, Ohio
Here’s an introduction to the Understanding by Design framework that is helping thousands of educators in urban districts plan more engaging and effective curriculums. Learn which instructional and assessment techniques are more effective for developing and deepening student understanding.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: Beginner/Intermediate
90-Minute Mid-Morning Sessions: 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon
2301T Changing Teacher Practice with DI: A District's Story (Repeated)
Wil Parker, Educational Consultant, Arlington, Va. and Lynda Wood, Associate Superintendent for Instruction, Southfield, Mich.
Learn how ASCD and Southfield Public Schools, a northern suburb of Detroit, are changing teacher practice at all levels as a result of district wide implementation of differentiated instruction. Here’s real evidence of changing practice as a result of DI implementation and the impact on student achievement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2302T Assessing for Understanding (Repeated)
Everett Kline, Educational Consultant, Princeton, N.J.
Explore ways to assess not only for the quality of a student’s work, but also to track the degree to which a student’s understanding deepens over the grades. This session introduces you to scoring systems that measure both quality and sophistication and helps you determine what would be a fair, honest, and credible scoring system for your own setting.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2303T Strategic Conversations for Instructional Leaders (Repeated)
Robyn Jackson, Educational Consultant, Washington, D.C.
Prominent ASCD author Robyn Jackson explains how to use strategic conversations to target your instructional leadership to meet each teacher’s needs and help each teacher become a master teacher. Learn how to diagnose teachers’ will and skill and determine what will work best for each teacher and situation.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: All
2304T Curriculum Mapping: Leading the 21st Century Schools (Repeated)
Don Stinson and Nan Wiseman, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Get an overview of what a 21st century school system looks like and how curriculum mapping is at the center of systemic change. Learn how curriculum mapping enables professional learning communities and leadership teams to improve the quality of learning for all students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2305T Response to Intervention and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Tanya Santangelo, Arcadia University, Glenside, Penn.
Explore the commonalities and the points of divergence in two popular models: differentiated instruction (DI) and Response to Intervention (RTI). And learn how the two models can be successfully integrated in ways that ensure the growth of every student.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2306T Walkthroughs and Instructional Rounds: What Are They? How Do They Impact Student Learning? (Repeated)
Deborah Childs-Bowen, Educational Consultant, Birmingham, Ala.
Here’s a crash course on walkthroughs and instructional rounds: what they are; who does them; how they are done; and their effects on leaders, teachers, students, and school culture. Explore these issues in the context of Robert Marzano's framework for Supervision of the Art and Science of Teaching.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginning
2307T Designing Professional Development for Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Cindy Strickland, Educational Consultant, Troy, Va.
If you’re a staff developer, administrator, or teacher leader, here’s your opportunity to discover how to support teachers in their journey toward differentiated instruction by using professional development activities that are differentiated for teachers’ varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness.
Audience: Superintendents/Central Office Staff/School-Based Administrators/ Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
2308T Developing Quality Maps (Repeated)
Ann Johnson, Educational Consultant, Ames, Iowa
Whether you’re just starting to map or have been mapping for years, this session deepens your understanding of quality maps and helps you take your maps to the next level. Learn how to identify the quality components on maps, produce quality maps using a step-by-step process, and sharpen the alignment of maps to standards.
Audience Level: All
Audience: All
Level of Session: All
2309T Using Interactive Whiteboards and Clickers to Enhance Strategies from the Art and Science of Teaching (Repeated)
Debra Pickering, Educational Consultant, Littleton, Colo.
Attend this session to increase your understanding of how research-based instructional strategies can be even more effective when they are enhanced with technology. Learn how technologies help you with instructional feedback, formative assessment, nonlinguistic representations, thinking skills, and student engagement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Beginner
2310T Creating Consensus Maps (Repeated)
Debbie Sullivan, Associate Superintendent for Reinvention, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Creating consensus maps is a great way to promote a consistent curriculum for all students. Attend this session to learn how to create school or district consensus maps beginning with state standards and involving all teachers. Be ready to share and practice mapping with emphasis on language arts.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2311T Differentiation, Assessments, and Understanding by Design (Repeated)
Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Learn how to build formative and differentiated assessments around the Understanding by Design framework. This session introduces you to an assessment matrix that tracks each student’s learning or outcome, but is still practical for the classroom teacher.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2312T Developing Differentiated Lessons with Middle and High School (Repeated)
Eric Carbaugh, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
Learn how to create engaging lesson plans to meet the needs of the wide range of interests, learning preferences, and readiness levels of middle and high school students. Topics include: writing clear learning goals, using formative assessment to drive instruction, and incorporating differentiated strategies.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: All
2313T Making Meaning: Learning Through Inquiry and Dialogue (Repeated)
Grant Wiggins, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Hopewell, N.J.
At the heart of Understanding by Design is learning through inquiry and dialogue. Attend this interactive session to explore what dialogue is and isn't and how meaningful talk depends upon the right kind of curriculum, built on genuine questions and problems.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2314T Strategies, Tips, and Tools for the UbD Classroom (Repeated)
Allison Zmuda, Virginia Beach, Va., and Erik Powell, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Join your colleagues to share strategies, tips, and tools that have supported the implementation of Understanding by Design (UbD) in your classrooms, schools, and districts. The facilitator will guide you as he shares successful strategies and prompts table-group sharing and discussion.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2315T What Will I Do to Help Students to Interact with New Knowledge? (Repeated)
Vera Blake, Educational Consultant, Dumfries, Va.
If you’ve ever been disappointed with your students’ ability to acquire new knowledge, here’s a session packed with effective ways to help students take in new information. Explore strategies that support new learning and retention of concepts and skills taught in your classroom.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2316T Classroom Formative Assessment and Grading (Repeated)
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Explore research-based strategies for establishing a system of standards-based grading that capitalizes on the power of formative assessment. And discover how to design classroom assessments that determine final grades in a way that is consistent and fair to students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2317T Makeovers: Before and After Examples of Differentiated Instruction Secondary Classrooms (Repeated)
Carol O’Connor, Educational Consultant, Flagler Beach, Fla.; Cheryl Black and Kimberly Rodriguez, Cypress-Fairbanks School District, Houston, Tex.
Join a team of coaches who have been on a yearlong journey of helping teachers differentiate their secondary classrooms. Here’s an opportunity to examine data and artifacts—including activities, lessons, and units—designed for differentiated instruction in secondary classrooms.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: Beginner
2318T Math is Different: Getting Big Ideas to Hands On in the Secondary Math Classroom (Repeated)
Nanci Smith, Educational Consultant, Cave Creek, Ariz.
If you’ve ever felt that it is inappropriate or difficult to differentiate math, or that you can just differentiate simply by adjusting problem difficulty, then come to this session to explore how to develop rigor and differentiation in math by developing clear curricular goals.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: All
2319T Supporting Academic Success for English Learners in Mainstream Classrooms (Repeated)
Virginia Rojas, Educational Consultant, North Brunswick, N.J.
Discover how to shift the paradigm with current ESL practices away from a deficit, remedial model to a model focused on building ESL’s academic competence through intellectually challenging, grade-level curriculum and shared ownership of students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2320T Technology and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Sherida Britt-Dozier, Educational Consultant, Silver Spring, Md., and Andrew Ryan, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Md.
Attend this session to learn how to use the Internet to help you apply the principles of differentiated instruction. Discover meaningful curriculum resources that require students to apply critical and creative thinking, solve problems, explore complex decisions, and respond to meaningful text.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2321T Beginning the Journey: Making Sense of Understanding by Design for the Urban Leader (Repeated)
Donnell Gregory, Educational Consultant, Dayton, Ohio
Here’s an introduction to the Understanding by Design framework that is helping thousands of educators in urban districts plan more engaging and effective curriculums. Learn which instructional and assessment techniques are more effective for developing and deepening student understanding.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: Beginner/Intermediate
3-Hour Afternoon Sessions: 1:00–4:00 p.m.
2401T Teaching for Transfer: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Do It
Grant Wiggins, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Hopewell, N.J.
What exactly is transfer, and how must typical instruction change when transfer is the acknowledged goal? Attend this presentation to learn how to develop transfer goals and use instructional strategies that make student transfer more likely.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2402T Leading the Implementation of a Schoolwide Vocabulary Program
Robert J. Marzano, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Centennial, Colo.
Find out how schools and districts can ensure that all students have the background knowledge they need to succeed in learning and in life by implementing an academic vocabulary program. A renowned expert details the steps to creating such a program and the instructional strategies that are necessary for teaching basic and advanced vocabulary.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
2403T Leadership for Schoolwide Differentiated Instruction
Carol Ann Tomlinson, ASCD Author and Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
In a session designed for teacher leaders and administrative leaders, world-renowned authority Carol Ann Tomlinson explains key principles and practices that have been effective in bringing about schoolwide differentiation. Learn what works based on research on school change and on the practices of leaders who have created schools and classrooms that are effective in teaching a wide variety of learners
Audience: Teacher Leaders/School-Based Administrators
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2-Hour Afternoon Sessions: 1:30–3:30 p.m.
2501T Developing English Language Arts Units Using Understanding by Design
Erik Powell, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Learn how to use backward design to sharpen the focus of writing assignments, challenge students to think more critically about literature, and align curriculum with standards. And explore ways to use essential questions to guide discussions, facilitate research, and improve literary analysis.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2502T What Will I Do to Help Students to Interact with New Knowledge? (Repeated)
Vera Blake, Educational Consultant, Dumfries, Va.
If you’ve ever been disappointed with your students’ ability to acquire new knowledge, here’s a session packed with effective ways to help students take in new information. Explore strategies that support new learning and retention of concepts and skills taught in your classroom.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2503T The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development
Ann Johnson, Educational Consultant, Ames, Iowa
Using the new ASCD book The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development by Heidi Hayes Jacobs, this session helps you design, implement, and sustain future-oriented curriculum design and mapping in your school or district.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2504T Differentiated Instruction for Readiness for Middle and High School
Jessica Hockett, Educational Consultant, Evanston, Ill.
If you’re a middle or high school teacher, attend this session to learn how to address your students’ different readiness levels, while maintaining high expectations and worthwhile curricular goals for everyone. Discover how to push all students to grow and avoid a “within-class tracking” system.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2505T Supporting Underprepared Students with Rigor
Robyn Jackson, Educational Consultant, Washington, D.C.
It’s true that rigor is important, but how do you help students access highly rigorous instruction without killing them in the process? Attend this session to answer that questions and learn strategies to support underprepared students and help them access the highly rigorous instruction.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: All
2506T Designing Effective Homework (Repeated)
Debra Pickering, Educational Consultant, Littleton, Colo.
Examine the research for and against homework. Understand why there has been so much public debate about the effectiveness of homework. Learn how to ensure homework is used effectively as a strategy, and get recommendations related to time and purpose, feedback, accountability, and parental involvement.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2507T Mapping English and Language Arts to Create a Literacy Framework
Jeanne Tribuzzi, West Seneca Central Schools, West Seneca, N.Y.
Discover how to frame language arts expectations to ensure that best practice literacy instruction and state standards are incorporated into all grade levels. This presentation takes you through the process of unwrapping language arts standards to create maps that set direction of literacy instruction at the school or district level.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2508T The Art and Science of Teaching and the Whole Child
Tim Westerberg, Educational Consultant, Dillon, Colo.
Drawing from the ASCD best-selling book The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert Marzano, an experienced educator and consultant explains how to use high-probability strategies as a framework for designing instruction that promotes the development of children who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2509T The Understanding by Design Technology for Learning Connection: Linking Understanding by Design and Evolving Collaborative Uses of Web 2.0 (Repeated)
Donna Herold, Joel E. Ferris Senior High School, Spokane, Wash.
Explore specific Web-based strategies for Stage Two and Stage Three planning in the Understanding by Design framework. Understand the observable indicators of successful technology integration in the classroom and how they can help you create more effective design of teaching-learning activities.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
2510T What Will I Do To Help Students Generate and Test Hypotheses About New Knowledge?
Mary McDonough, Educational Consultant, Centreville, Mass.
Here’s your opportunity to outfit your teaching practice with surefire strategies for teaching students to use and process their knowledge through higher level thinking. Learn how to improve your students’ motivation, retention, understanding, and ability to transfer knowledge with tasks that engage students in meaningful use of knowledge.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
2511T Developing DI Units in Elementary Classrooms (Repeated)
Sandra Page, Educational Consultant, Chapel Hill, N.C.
What steps do you take to differentiate a lesson? Do you vary instruction to appeal to students’ learning preferences, interests, or readiness levels? Come to this session to explore steps to preparing a differentiated lesson that offers appropriate challenge levels or options based on interests or learning profile.
Audience: Teachers/Teacher Leaders
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2512T Leadership Teams and Curriculum Mapping (Repeated)
Debbie Sullivan, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Focus on how to establish and sustain school and district leadership teams for implementing curriculum mapping. An experienced presenter guides you through the process and helps you begin a draft plan for establishing a leadership team in your school or district.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2513T Response to Instruction and Intervention: RTI2
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey, San Diego State University, Calif.
Beef up your Response to Intervention approaches by strengthening your core instructional practices. Two presenters introduce you to Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI2) that helps you continually examine classroom instructional design and the improvement of the overall educational system.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
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2514T Deepening Students’ Ability to Extend and Refine Their Own Learning
John L. Brown, Educational Consultant, Alexandria, Va.
Drawing from the ASCD book The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert Marzano, this session explores ways to design extending and refining learning activities, including comparison/contrast, classification, analogical reasoning tasks, and questioning strategies that promote critical thinking skills.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
2515T Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Making the Connection (Repeated)
Nanci Smith, Educational Consultant, Cave Creek, Ariz.
Discover how to get Understanding by Design and differentiated instruction to work together seamlessly to provide all students with access to high quality curriculum that is clearly focused on standards and goals and matched to the varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness levels.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2516T Unit Implementation: What Worked, What Didn't, and What You Can Do About It (Repeated)
Elizabeth Rossini, Educational Consultant, Fairfax, Va.
After you’ve used Understanding by Design to create a unit, how do you determine what worked, what didn’t, and what to do about it? Attend this session to answer that question and explore tools and strategies for adjusting unit designs based on observations of students, student work, and student feedback.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
2517T Understanding Mathematics by Design: Stages 1 and 2 (Repeated)
Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Learn how Understanding by Design can help you to design and implement units of mathematics instruction. And see how backward design, authentic assessments, and constructivist teaching come together in an easy-to-use framework for mathematics curriculum. Bring course materials or standards to the session.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2518T Technology and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Sherida Britt-Dozier, Educational Consultant, Silver Spring, Md., and Andrew Ryan, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Md.
Attend this session to learn how to use the Internet to help you apply the principles of differentiated instruction. Discover meaningful curriculum resources that require students to apply critical and creative thinking, solve problems, explore complex decisions, and respond to meaningful text.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2519T Supporting Academic Success for English Learners in Mainstream Classrooms (Repeated)
Virginia Rojas, Educational Consultant, North Brunswick, N.J.
Discover how to shift the paradigm with current ESL practices away from a deficit, remedial model to a model focused on building ESL’s academic competence through intellectually challenging, grade-level curriculum and shared ownership of students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
2520T Synchronizing Culture and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Wil Parker, Educational Consultant, Arlington, Va.
Learn how culture and diversity are optimal lenses to implement differentiated instruction in diverse learning communities. Understand the strengths and challenges of embracing culture and DI, and explore how culture provides evidence of a commitment to students and their learning.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Elementary/Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: All
2521T Professional Learning Communities and Differentiated Instruction: How to Get Started (Repeated)
Cindy Strickland, Educational Consultant, Troy, Va.
An essential step in implementing differentiated instruction is setting up and nurturing small group professional learning communities devoted to the effort. Here’s a session that explains how to do that and gives you sample activities that help teachers explore and refine their practices of differentiated instruction.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced/Advanced
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Thursday, June 24
3-Hour Morning Sessions
90-Minute Morning Sessions
90-Minute Mid-Morning Sessions
3-Hour Morning Sessions: 8:30–11:30 a.m.
3101T Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design
Carol Ann Tomlinson, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and Jay McTighe, ASCD Author and Educational Consultant, Columbia, Md.
Teachers everywhere are under way more pressure to address required content standards, teach for student understanding, and reach an increasingly diverse student population. Attend this session to discover how to use Understanding by Design and differentiated instruction in tandem to help you develop and incorporate content standards into an understanding-based curriculum that includes instruction that supports the success of all students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
3102T Never Work Harder Than Your Students
Robyn Jackson, Educational Consultant, Washington, D.C.
Do you feel like you are dragging your students through the curriculum? Do you wish that they took more ownership over their own learning? Then attend this session to learn how to differentiate between your work and their work and how to support your students so that they can do the work of learning for themselves.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Secondary
Level of Session: All
90-Minute Morning Sessions: 8:30–10:00 a.m.
3201T Synchronizing Culture and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Wil Parker, Educational Consultant, Arlington, Va.
Learn how culture and diversity are optimal lenses to implement differentiated instruction in diverse learning communities. Understand the strengths and challenges of embracing culture and DI, and explore how culture provides evidence of a commitment to students and their learning.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Elementary/Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: All
3202T Understanding by Design: Troubleshooting Student Learning Challenges Before They Happen to Make Teaching More Effective When They Do (Repeated)
Allison Zmuda, Virginia Beach, Va., and Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Troubleshooting guides are a great way for your staff to work together to make it more likely that student learning occurs and misunderstandings are overcome. Attend this presentation to see troubleshooting guides that have been developed to support student learning and have also provided rich opportunities for staff collaboration.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
3203T Promoting Student Independence through Learning Contracts in a DI Middle School Classroom (Repeated)
Sherida Britt-Dozier, Educational Consultant, Silver Spring, Md.
Find out how to encourage more independent, self-paced learning options for students in a mixed-ability setting by using learning contracts. While this session focuses on middle schools students, the rationale and best practice involved in learning contracts are applicable to all age levels.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle
Level of Session: All
3204T The Understanding by Design Technology for Learning Connection: Linking Understanding by Design and Evolving Collaborative Uses of Web 2.0 (Repeated)
Donna Herold, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Explore specific Web-based strategies for Stage Two and Stage Three planning in the Understanding by Design framework. Understand the observable indicators of successful technology integration in the classroom and how they can help you create more effective design of teaching-learning activities.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
3205T Formative Assessment
Doug Fisher, San Diego State University, Calif.
This session focuses on the use of assessments to guide instruction. More specifically, the session will outline ways that teachers can check their students' understanding of the content. There are a number of ways that expert teachers do this, including oral, written, tests, projects, and collaboratively as a course-alike or grade level team. Taking this to scale, teachers can develop a system of formative assessment that guides student learning. Participants will identify useful instructional routines for checking form understanding; determine which assessments can be used formatively for planning instruction; and, analyze a formative assessment system that includes feed-up tools, feedback tools, and feed forward tools.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
3206T Laying the Foundation for Differentiated Instruction: Building Capacity for Change (Repeated)
Nanci Smith, Educational Consultant, Cave Creek, Ariz., and Mary Lester Zeigler, Alamo Heights ISD, San Antonio, Tex.
Get up close and personal with a collaboration between ASCD and Alamo Heights ISD in San Antonio, Tex., to build capacity for differentiated instruction. Learn the steps of the journey so far, campus efforts at ongoing professional learning communities (PLCs), future plans, and lessons learned along the way.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
CANCELED
3207T Revisiting the Six Facets of Understanding (Repeated)
John L. Brown, Alexandria Public Schools, Va.
Attend this session to explore the six facets of understanding from the Understanding by Design framework. Learn how to apply the facets to your work with UbD's backward-design process and how to use the six facets as a tool for unpacking standards, including the design of essential questions.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
3208T The Power of Productive Group Work (Repeated)
Nancy Frey, San Diego State University, Calif.
The power of peer-to-peer learning is well documented by research, so why is it so hard to make collaboration with peers a necessary part of your classroom practice? This session introduces you to a way to ensure group work is productive and equips you with what you with the instructional routines you need to ensure group work is useful.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
3209T Where to Start: Creating a Vision and Goals for Curriculum Mapping (Repeated)
Jeanne Tribuzzi, West Seneca Central Schools, West Seneca, N.Y.
This session offers you a great opportunity to discuss strategic planning and draft short- and long-term goals for setting the direction for creating an articulated curriculum. Plus, you’ll learn how to build a leadership team to direct the work.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
3210T Curriculum Mapping: Leading the 21st Century School (Repeated)
Don Stinson, MSD of Decatur, Indianapolis, Ind.
Get an overview of what a 21st century school system looks like and how curriculum mapping is at the center of systemic change. Learn how curriculum mapping enables professional learning communities and leadership teams to improve the quality of learning for all students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
3211T Walkthroughs and Instructional Rounds: What Are They? How Do They Impact Student Learning? (Repeated)
Deborah Childs-Bowen, Educational Consultant, Birmingham, Ala.
Here’s a crash course on walkthroughs and instructional rounds: what they are; who does them; how they are done; and their effects on leaders, teachers, students, and school culture. Explore these issues in the context of Robert Marzano's framework for Supervision of the Art and Science of Teaching.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Elementary
Level of Session: Beginner
3212T Curriculum Mapping: Guiding Intervention (Repeated)
Nan Wiseman, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Discover how to lead interventions by using curriculum maps. This session introduces you to the process and gives you time-saving tips, working maps of intervention sessions, and a framework of intervention that ensures students learn at their ability level and beyond.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
90-Minute Mid-Morning Sessions: 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon
3301T Synchronizing Culture and Differentiated Instruction (Repeated)
Wil Parker, Educational Consultant, Arlington, Va.
Learn how culture and diversity are optimal lenses to implement differentiated instruction in diverse learning communities. Understand the strengths and challenges of embracing culture and DI, and explore how culture provides evidence of a commitment to students and their learning.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Elementary/Middle/Secondary
Level of Session: All
3302T Understanding by Design: Troubleshooting Student Learning Challenges Before They Happen to Make Teaching More Effective When They Do (Repeated)
Allison Zmuda, Educational Consultant, Virginia Beach, Va., and Thomas Rye, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Troubleshooting guides are a great way for your staff to work together to make it more likely that student learning occurs and misunderstandings are overcome. Attend this presentation to see troubleshooting guides that have been developed to support student learning and have also provided rich opportunities for staff collaboration.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
3303T Promoting Student Independence through Learning Contracts in a DI Middle School Classroom (Repeated)
Sherida Britt-Dozier, Educational Consultant, Silver Spring, Md.
Find out how to encourage more independent, self-paced learning options for students in a mixed ability setting by using learning contracts. While this session focuses on middle schools students, the rationale and best practice involved in learning contracts are applicable to all age levels.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Middle
Level of Session: All
3304T The Understanding by Design Technology for Learning Connection: Linking Understanding by Design and Evolving Collaborative Uses of Web 2.0 (Repeated)
Donna Herold, Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Wash.
Explore specific Web-based strategies for Stage Two and Stage Three planning in the Understanding by Design framework. Understand the observable indicators of successful technology integration in the classroom and how they can help you create more effective design of teaching-learning activities.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
3305T Formative Assessment
Doug Fisher, San Diego State University, Calif.
This session focuses on the use of assessments to guide instruction. More specifically, the session will outline ways that teachers can check their students’understanding of the content. There are a number of ways that expert teachers do this, including oral, written, tests, projects, and collaboratively as a course-alike or grade level team. Taking this to scale, teachers can develop a system of formative assessment that guides student learning. Participants will identify useful instructional routines for checking form understanding; determine which assessments can be used formatively for planning instruction; and, analyze a formative assessment system that includes feed-up tools, feedback tools, and feed forward tools.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
3306T Laying the Foundation for Differentiated Instruction: Building Capacity for Change (Repeated)
Nanci Smith, Educational Consultant, Cave Creek, Ariz., and Mary Lester Zeigler, Alamo Heights ISD, San Antonio, Tex.
Get up close and personal with a collaboration between ASCD and Alamo Heights ISD in San Antonio, Tex., to build capacity for differentiated instruction. Learn the steps of the journey so far, campus efforts at ongoing professional learning communities (PLCs), future plans, and lessons learned along the way.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
CANCELED
3307T Revisiting the Six Facets of Understanding (Repeated)
John L. Brown, Alexandria Public Schools, Va.
Attend this session to explore the six facets of understanding from the Understanding by Design framework. Learn how to apply the facets to your work with UbD’s backward-design process and how to use the six facets as a tool for unpacking standards, including the design of essential questions.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
3308T The Power of Productive Group Work (Repeated)
Nancy Frey, San Diego State University, Calif.
The power of peer-to-peer learning is well documented by research, so why is it so hard to make collaboration with peers a necessary part of your classroom practice? This session introduces you to a way to ensure group work is productive and equips you with what you with the instructional routines you need to ensure group work is useful.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Experienced
3309T Where to Start: Creating a Vision and Goals for Curriculum Mapping (Repeated)
Jeanne Tribuzzi, West Seneca Central Schools, Orchard Park, N.Y.
This session offers you a great opportunity to discuss strategic planning and draft short and long-term goals for setting the direction for creating an articulated curriculum. Plus, you’ll learn how to build a leadership team to direct the work.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
3310T Curriculum Mapping: Leading the 21st Century School (Repeated)
Don Stinson, MSD of Decatur, Indianapolis, Ind.
Get an overview of what a 21st century school system looks like and how curriculum mapping is at the center of systemic change. Learn how curriculum mapping enables professional learning communities and leadership teams to improve the quality of learning for all students.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: All
3311T Walkthroughs and Instructional Rounds: What Are They? How Do They Impact Student Learning? (Repeated)
Deborah Childs-Bowen, Educational Consultant, Birmingham, Ala.
Here’s a crash course on walkthroughs and instructional rounds: what they are, who does them, how they are done, and their effects on leaders, teachers, students, and school culture. Explore these issues in the context of Robert Marzano's framework for Supervision of the Art and Science of Teaching.
Audience: All
Audience Level: Elementary
Level of Session: Beginner
3312T Curriculum Mapping: Guiding Intervention (Repeated)
Nan Wiseman, MSD of Decatur Township, Indianapolis, Ind.
Discover how to lead interventions by using curriculum maps. This session introduces you to the process and gives you time-saving tips, working maps of intervention sessions, and a framework of intervention that ensures students learn at their ability level and beyond.
Audience: All
Audience Level: All
Level of Session: Advanced
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