Conference Sessions
Strands
Thursday, February 8
Preconference 1:00–4:30 PM
Friday, February 9
Session A 9:30–10:45 AM
Session AB 9:30 AM–12:15 PM
Session B 11:00 AM–12:15 PM
Session C 2:15–3:30 PM
Saturday, February 10
Session D 8:00–9:15 AM
Session DE 8:00–10:45 AM
Session E 9:30–10:45 AM
Personalization
A11
Current Status Inventory: Advisory
Robin Shrode, Owner/Founder/Co-Founder, Impact Educational Consulting/American Alliance for Innovative Schools; Elena Taylor, Counselor, Nimitz High School
This session will discuss the implementation of an advisory program, its successes and failures, as well as a powerful assessment process to ensure continuous improvement. Participants will learn about how one high school implemented an advisory program that is now in its sixth year, and the successes and challenges they experienced. The session will also demonstrate how the program was assessed to ensure student voice through student focus groups and facilitated student and teacher conversations. This process leads to suggestions for program adjustment and improved effectiveness. Protocols will be modeled during the session with attendee participation.
Implementation Level 1 & 2
Strands:
Personalization, NEW!
AB12
40 Developmental AssetsŪ
Kathy Estes, Coordinator, San Bernardino Safe & Drug Free Schools, San Bernardino Co. Superintendent of Schools
The 40 Developmental AssetsŪ grow out of groundbreaking research on factors that are vital for helping youth succeed in life. The Search Institute demonstrates a powerful correlation between the forty assets and achievement, positive engagement in school and extracurricular activities, positive relationships with peers and adults, and social competence. At every turn the research supports that the more assets a student has in place the more likely they are to be successful. In a time when educators, policy makers, parents, and community members are struggling to address the pressing concerns of youth, the asset-building approach offers renewed hope and energy for a positive future.
Implementation Level 1, 2 & 3
Strands:
Personalization
AB13
Creating Great Places to Learn
Clay Roberts, Search Institute Senior Trainer, Search Institute
In this session Clay will continue to focus on how to bring the relationship between staff and students back into schools. With this connection young people develop to their highest levels of academic achievement and performance.
Implementation Level 1, 2 & 3
Strands:
Personalization, NEW!
B11
Formation of a Ninth Grade Community
Pete Oberg, SLC Coordinator, Lakewood High School Center for Advanced Technologies
The presentation outlines the opportunities to foster relationships, increase personalization, maximize student achievement, increase AYP, and decrease discipline referrals and tardies. Instructional strategies employed will be PowerPointŪ, audiovisual, question/answer, topical handouts, and internet links.
Implementation Level 1 & 2
Strands:
Personalization, NEW!
C12
Developing Young Leaders: Peer Mentoring/Advisory
Pete Oberg, SLC Coordinator, Center for Advanced Technologies, Lakewood High School
This presentation outlines the opportunities to foster relationships with the school community and to develop interpersonal skills to enhance success in a global society. Issues to be addressed are the development, implementation, and suggested curriculum of the advisory period. The presentation will include PowerPointŪ, video, handouts, and question/answer time.
Implementation Level 1 & 2
Strands:
Personalization, NEW!
C13
Personalization Advisories: What, When, How
Bob Daniel, Principal, and Team from Tascosa High School, Amarillo ISD
Going from zero to twenty-three hundred in seventy-five minutes is a challenge, but our team will share triumphs and tribulations in implementing a schoolwide advisory. We will use PowerPointŪ, music, photographs, and anecdotes to give participants a roadmap of our journey. We have a separate focus for each of our four-day-per-week program. Monday: advising, study skills, college preparation, job interviewing skills, general life skills, and emphasis on the advisory teacher as the student’s personal advocate at school. Tuesday: reading day—articles of high interest appropriate for each grade level will be read. A prompt and discussion questions will be provided. Wednesday: activity day—fun personality inventories, school spirit contests, and our favorite academic activity, Rebel Olympics, are featured on this day. Friday: video announcements and teacher activity choice. All activities and articles are provided for teachers.
Implementation Level 1
Strands:
Personalization, NEW!
DE11
Framework for Understanding Poverty
Kathy Estes, Coordinator, Health, San Bernardino Co. Superintendent of Schools
This workshop is based on the research done by Dr. Ruby Payne, a noted educator from Houston, Texas. The premise of the presentation is to identify how children of poverty learn differently from those who come from the middle class or wealth. The learning style is different, not necessarily inferior. This is a highly interactive workshop allowing participants to analyze their own orientation and practice new strategies in engaging students of poverty. We will cover the twelve key points of Dr. Payne’s research and behavioral and learning strategies that are effective in engaging students and their families in the academic process.
Implementation Level 1, 2 & 3
Strands:
Personalization, NEW!
D12
High School Advisory: How It Works!
Karen Myers, Gale George, SLC Coordinators/Teachers, Serrano High School, Snowline Joint USD
Come and see how you can integrate an advisory program into your school. Learn the process to make the curriculum specific to your site and how to involve teachers and students in the development of advisory curriculum. Discover ways to incorporate other school-related issues into the advisory program to relieve core subjects from the impact of outside activities. Develop a lesson that will be effective at your site.
Implementation Level 1 & 2
Strands:
Personalization
DE13
Supporting High Expectations, Academic Monitoring, Cultural Development, and Personalization through Advisory
John Spiegel, Principal, Crawford IDEA High School, San Diego USD
The Invention and Design Educational Academy (IDEA High) is one of four small schools at the Crawford Educational Complex. In its third year of implementation, IDEA is a theme-based school with an engineering and architecture career focus. Advisory is a critical part of a student’s educational program, meeting with an advisor four days a week. Students are connected to an adult who helps them monitor their academic progress, complete an individualized learning plan, accomplish grade level requirements, set goals for themselves, and organize a culminating portfolio. The advisory program at IDEA was designed around five essential questions, which will be discussed during the presentation:
- What are our purposes and goals for advisory?
- How do we organize an advisory program to support our students?
- What is the substance/content of our advisory program?
- How do we assess the quality of our advisory program?
- How do we hold students and advisors accountable for the work that needs to be accomplished in advisory?
Participants will be provided with samples of the documents that organize and define the advisory experience for students in IDEA. A historical perspective will be discussed on how the advisory program has been modified and changed each year. In addition, advisors will participate in a panel question/answer session to discuss the rewards and struggles of working in their advisory role.
Implementation Level 1, 2 & 3
Strands:
Personalization
E12
What Students Say About SLCs
Michael Butler, Vice President; Vivian Hsu, Project Associate, Public Works, Inc.
This presentation will showcase key findings from surveys of 10th and 12th grade students at 12 high schools in LAUSD. Participants will learn what students said about personalization, teacher expectations/rigor, postsecondary preparation, etc. Participants in this session will have an opportunity to examine student survey data themselves and draw their own conclusions about the value of student voice for SLC implementation.
Implementation Level 1 & 2
Strands:
Personalization, NEW!