SHINING STAR SCHOOLS—Academic Improvement and Resiliency
Delano High School, rural San Joaquin Valley; Galt High School, rural/suburban Sacramento County

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

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: 9–12

SHINING STAR SCHOOLS—Academic Improvement, Attendance, Resiliency, and Student Behavior
Sun Empire Elementary and Oak View Elementary, small rural schools in the San Joaquin Valley

These Shining Star schools present how they used the SB65 Comprehensive Student Support strategies to make impressive gains in attendance, resiliency, and student behavior.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

SAP Referral-Intervention
Marlena Uhrik and Robin Rutherford, School Health Education Consultants, Safe and Healthy Kids Program, Learning Support & Partner Division, California Department of Education, CA

This session will discuss heavy use of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) in California high schools and co-occurring behaviors indicative of such use. We will look at current trends and decisions teens are making and the need for intervention. Find out how Student Assistance Programs (SAP) can be used as a referral-intervention process for students exhibiting at-risk behavior associated with drug and alcohol abuse. Handouts about SAP policy and sources of funding will be discussed.

Strand: Dropout Prevention Strategies, NEW!
Grade Level: K–12

Conscious Classroom Management
Rick Smith, Author, Trainer, Keynote, Education Consultant, Conscious Teaching, CA

Why is it that good classroom management is often invisible? How can we understand, internalize, and use these invisible skills with our students? This lively, fun, and interactive session gives K–12 teachers a framework for seeing and practicing the often invisible skills of effective classroom management and organization. Participants will leave with a refreshed outlook, and with ideas they can use the next day in helping with classroom management, lesson planning, and stress reduction.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–12

Improving AYP Special Ed Subgroup
Jim Huckeba, Ph.D., Director, Special Services, Hesperia USD, CA

For the past eight years, Hesperia USD has seen a dramatic decrease in the number of students being identified as special education students, while at the same time seeing improved academic achievement for all students. In this workshop, learn to apply an RTI model in which all students are evaluated and research-based strategies are used to address the needs of all students, regardless of their labels.

Strand: Instructional Strategies, Special Education, NEW!
Grade Level: K–12

Changing the Odds: Practical School-Wide Strategies that Reduce Youth Violence, Aggressive Behavior, and Bullying on Campus
Mark Katz, Ph.D.

We will review common risks and adversities that place children and youth at serious risk for chronic school failure, bullying, and aggressive or violent behavior. We then present programs and practices that are yielding hopeful outcomes for several of these risks. Finally, we review a process of combining these programs and practices in a school setting, and discuss how this process can positively alter the social climate of a school campus.

Strand: Safe Schools, NEW!
Grade Level: K–12