CSS Toolkit: Attendance
Kate Bishop, CWA Coordinator, North Sacramento District Office, CA

Discover specific, successful programs that can reduce tardiness and increase ADA within 30 days.

Strand: CSS Toolkit
Grade Level: K–12

SHINING STAR SCHOOLS—Academic Improvement, COST, and Student Support
Pennycook Elementary, Solano County; McKevett Elementary, agricultural area of Ventura County

These Shining Star schools present how they used the SB65 Comprehensive Student Support strategies to make impressive gains in academic improvement, coordinated services, and student support.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Model Practices in Continuation Education
Linda Coyne, Director, Principal & Field Colleague, and Reyna Toledo, Outreach Consultant, Pinnacles High School, Soledad USD, CA

This session will focus on a continuation high school which has undergone structural, program, and staff changes to create a school without failure, so students can realize their educational dreams while enjoying their educational experience more fully. Improvements in attendance, transfer policies, home-school communication, curriculum, test preparation, community collaborations, and implementation of WASC recommendations have helped to create a model program.

Strand: Dropout Prevention Strategies
Grade Level: 9–12

Behind Closed Doors: Secrets to Effectively Facilitating Classroom Learning Activities
Cristal McGill, Ph.D., Education Consultant, Impact Learning, Inc., CO

Participants will leave with one of the biggest secrets to lead any group to the most productive mental viewpoint from which to maximize learning. Effective instruction means finding ways to keep students physically and emotionally engaged in the learning process. This fast-paced, innovative, and dynamic session explains why, while demonstrating how to put these ideas into practice.

Strand: Resiliency, NEW!
Grade Level: K–12

Placer County Foster Youth Services: Agency and Community Collaboration
Tad Kitada, Director of Prevention Services; Patty Archer-Ward, Integrated Services Manager, Placer County Office of Education, CA

Placer County has a unique integrated children’s services program that incorporates child welfare, probation, public health nursing, mental health, and education across the system. Foster youth services have been integrated into the system to provide holistic child- and family-centered services. This system has been acknowledged by both California state and federal agencies as a model of integration and collaboration.

Strand: Foster Youth