Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling Program
Cliff Rudnick, Administrator, Learning Support & Partner Division, California DOE, CA; Brian McKibben, Administrator for School Support Services, Oakland USD, CA

This session will provide a short overview of the Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling Program established in the 2006–07 Budget Act, along with an opportunity for discussion of effective implementation practices in light of the recently released California Results-Based School Counseling and Student Support Guidelines.

Strand: NEW!, Best Practices
Grade Level: 7–12

Response to Intervention (RTI) & Comprehensive Student Support
Jim Anderson, Intervention & Team Coordinator, Health & Human Services, Los Angeles USD; Judy Magsaysay, Principal/Field Colleague, Pio Pico Elementary School, Santa Ana USD, CA

How will the new federal IDEIA legislation affect your CSS program? This session will cover the history behind the legislation, how other states are interpreting the law, and how California is making plans to implement it. This informative and exciting session is designed to help you better understand RTI philosophy and how you can use RTI to strengthen your CSS program.

Strand: NEW!, Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Improve Motor Skills—Accelerate Progress for ADHD and Other Learners
Cindy Roth Pahr, M.Ed., Founder, EduClime, CA

Many ADHD students with motor difficulties are misunderstood, resulting in negative school experiences and failure. Learn fun, effective strategies to help students with fine motor, gross motor, visual tracking, and sensory skills. You can employ these strategies on Monday morning and have a repertoire of ideas to share with teachers who need assistance with students in these areas. Handwriting emphasized.

Strand: Engaging At-Risk Students
Grade Level: K–6

Welcoming Diversity in Our Schools: Acknowledging and Supporting Students of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents
Arielle Rosen, Family Services Manager, LA Gay & Lesbian Center; Jen Durham, Family Advocate, CA

This interactive workshop will address the unique issues facing students with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) parents, outline specific strategies and best practices for creating safe and welcoming classrooms and schools for all students, and provide space for educators and parents to explore their own fears, challenges, and concerns about incorporating LGBT families into existing diversity curriculum.

Strand: NEW!, Engaging At-Risk Students
Grade Level: K–12

You Can’t Make Me! Managing the Oppositional Defiant Student
Ernest Mendes, Consultant/President, Mendes Training & Consulting, Inc., CA

This interactive session will help you better understand the oppositionally defiant student. ODD will be addressed in the context of the emotional intelligence competencies required on the part of the adult to manage ODD in the classroom. Teachers will learn to flow with resistance through a specific set of environmental and interpersonal strategies designed to reduce defiance in the ODD child.

Strand: Engaging At-Risk Students
Grade Level: K–12

Children Change the World: Student Empowerment & Leadership
Diana Martinez, Outreach Consultant; Theo Scott-Femenella, Student Council President, 6th Grade; Selene Scott-Femenella, Student Activist, 4th Grade; Northwood Elementary, North Sacramento SD, CA

This shining star school team will impart strategies for empowering young students to make a difference in the world through a facilitation model of leadership. A brother/sister team present Northwood Student Council’s successful grant writing, global service learning, and community involvement. Paragon School, serving SED students, will share how they create positive change and healing through this strength-based approach.

Strand: Family and Community Collaboration
Grade Level: K–6

Differentiating for English Learners in Content-Matter Classrooms
Rose Mary Vilchez, Staff Development Specialist; Michelle Mitchell, Instructional Support Specialist; Riverside District Office, CA

Participants will experience and participate in interactive strategies that provide students with opportunities to engage in content matter and academic language. Interactive strategies serve as a scaffold to support students’ language and content learning.

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

Framing Your Thoughts: A Student-Friendly Writing Program
Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist/CSS Field Colleague, Riverside Staff Development Center, Riverside USD, CA

Participants will learn a meta-cognitive, multisensory approach to teaching writing. The presenter will demonstrate how to apply these strategies to help students succeed on class and state writing prompts. Teachers and support staff will leave with practical strategies to engage students in the writing process and help them to become independent writers.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–12

Finally…Time to Teach! We Don’t Pay Students to Behave
Melanie Lattimer, Teacher, Park Hill Elementary School, San Jacinto USD, CA

In this session, you will walk away with powerful, proven, and practical strategies to eliminate 90% of low-level misbehavior today! Educators everywhere are using these strategies K–12 because they are time-tested, research-based, and they work. Not just theory for thought, these are the tools of tomorrow…giving you more time to teach!

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

The Importance of Humor in Education
Cristal McGill, Ph.D., Education Consultant, ASU Faculty Associate, Impact Learning Inc., CO

Humor strengthens the relationship between students, teachers, and staff, enhances communication, reduces stress, makes a course more interesting, increases retention of subject matter, and could raise test scores. This interactive workshop will help you see, hear, and feel what effective strategies are all about. Come expecting to be physically engaged and mentally stimulated throughout this high-powered session.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–12

Changing the Odds: Practical School-Wide Strategies that Reduce Youth Violence, Aggressive Behavior, and Bullying on Campus
Mark Katz, Learning Development Services, CA

During this workshop we review common childhood risks and adversities that place children and youth at risk for chronic school failure, bullying, and aggressive or violent behavior. We then present programs and practices that are yielding hopeful outcomes for these risks. Finally, we review how to combine these programs and practices into a school setting to improve the social climate.

Strand: Safety and Violence Prevention
Grade Level: K–12

Preventing Violence and Raising Academic Achievement
Dr. Joseph Marshall, Jr., Cofounder and Executive Director of the Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers, CA

This session will help administrators, counselors and teachers make lasting and effective connections with youth. Learn about the life-changing strategies that the Omega Boys Club has successfully used to assist youth.

Strand: NEW!, Safety and Violence Prevention
Grade Level: K–12

The Missing Piece: The Parent Component— Added Session
Janie Hamilton-Marchini and Marla Loew, Teachers, Pearson Elementary School

Awarded the Promising Practices Citation from CEP and the "Golden Ruler" Award from ICCE, this interactive presentation includes weekly parent-child activities for families to develop meaningful dialogues supporting character education, social skills and curriculum. Parent-student sample assignments focus on developing character traits such as responsibility, respect, compassion and service learning. These topics, translated into Spanish, validate how parent participation builds a strong relationship between home and school, as well as embracing the community as a learning tool. K-6.

Strand: Family and Community Collaboration
Grade Level: K–6