Shining Star School—Resiliency
Emiko Nakamura, Principal, Lillian Rice Elementary School; Chula Vista Elementary School District

Shining Star schools are Comprehensive Student Support schools that scored well in this year's annual peer review of their application and showed significant gains in academic improvement by meeting their API and AYP targets. This Shining Star School presents how resiliency-creating programs and strategies support the whole child and often have a significant role in students' academic success.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K-6

Shining Star School—Academic Achievement & ELL
Richard Smithey, Principal; Monica Reece Deaton, Outreach Consultant, Delano High School; Delano Joint Union HSD

Shining Star schools are Comprehensive Student Support schools that scored well in this year's annual peer review of their application and showed significant gains in academic improvement by meeting their API and AYP targets. This Shining Star school presents how they used the Comprehensive Student Support strategies to make impressive gains in academic achievement for their English language learners.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: 9-12

Model Practices in Continuation Education
Linda Coyne, Director/Principal/CSS Field Colleague; Reyna Toledo, Outreach Consultant, Community Education Center, Soledad USD, CA

This session will focus on a continuation high school that has become a school without failure, so students can realize their educational dreams while enjoying their experience more fully. Improvements in attendance, transfer policies, home-school communication, curriculum, test preparation, data analysis, community collaborations, student incentives, and school safety programs have helped to create a model program.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: 9–12

The DREAM Project: Developing Resiliency through Education, the Arts, and Mentoring
Kate Bishop, CWA Coordinator/CSS Field Colleague, North Sacramento District Office, CA

Are you ever frustrated by the lack of sports, art, music, and other enrichment programs in impoverished schools? Kate Bishop and a dedicated committee of school employees and business partners have raised over $100,000 in three years to benefit students. Learn how to raise funds to provide the programs your students need to become bonded to and excited about school.

Strand: NEW!, Family and Community Collaboration
Grade Level: K–12

Strategies That Build Rapport and Connections and Motivate Students to Stay in School
Nancy Blackwell, President, Longevity of Success, CO

Learn to positively influence the student relationship with practical application and practice. Become aware of the difference between the influence of power and the power of influence. Also, receive strategies such as music, modeling, paired shares, and discussions. Learn how to have more time to do what you entered the profession to do—teach.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: 9–12

Student Engagement Now
Ernest Mendes, Consultant/President, Mendes Training & Consulting, Inc., CA

This session will exemplify how to create anticipation, curiosity, enthusiasm, confidence, and cooperation in the classroom. Increase in your own short-term memory and learn how to open the gates to long-term memory recall! This brain-based training will teach participants how to deliver and ifferentiate instruction through four memory paths and four of the brain’s natural learning systems.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–12

Violence in Our Schools Today: What Can We Do?
Rick Kent, Math Teacher, Chaparral Middle School, Moorpark, Unified School District.

Aggressive and violent behaviors are increasing in America’s schools. Increasing numbers of youth confront their parents, teachers, and school personnel with persistently threatening and destructive behaviors. It is all too clear that violence corrodes the educational process and threatens the safety of students and teachers. Time To Teach contains techniques to demonstrate how those behaviors can be eliminated.

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

California Youth Connection Youth Recruitment & New Chapter Orientation Process Workshop
Jonathan Pearson, Legislative & Policy Coordinator, California Youth Connection, CA

California Youth Connection (CYC) staff will explain the process of developing a CYC chapter in a county that does not have an existing one. In addition, CYC staff will also present techniques on ways to get youth more involved with CYC in counties that have existing chapters. Workshop participants will be provided with the information needed to start a CYC chapter in their home counties.

Strand: NEW!, Foster Youth
Grade Level: K–12

Governmental Relations Update & Crafting Your Message to get the Legislative Support You Need
Xavier Del Buono, Educational Consultant, Del Buono & Associates, OK

Join Xavier Del Buono, for an update on how the legislative efforts on behalf of the CSS program are proceeding. Xavier will share what messages are key to communicate to your legislators at this time and what legislative initiatives are on the horizon that could help or hinder your program. Learn how to best contact, communicate and connect with your legislators so you win their support. School Leaders and Program Advocates won't want to miss this session which will include time for questions and answers from our program's founder and writer of the original SB65 Legislation.

Strand: NEW!, Family and Community Collaboration
Grade Level: K–12