CSS Toolkit: Attendance
Kate Bishop, CWA Coordinator/CSS Field Colleague, North Sacramento District Office; Patrick Yrarrázaval-Correa, Principal, Carr Intermediate School, CA

Discover specific, successful programs that can reduce tardiness and increase ADA at your school. Attendance strategies are a key element for successful learning outcomes at any school. This session will provide you with concrete, proven strategies that address a variety of family issues, and can enlist community agencies, parents, teachers and children to be part of attendance success.

Strand: CSS Toolkit
Grade Level: K–12

Shining Star Schools—Resiliency
Enrique Pin, Principal; Javier Chavez, Outreach Consultant, Almaden Elementary School; San Jose USD; Bruce Lauria, Principal; Outreach Consultant, Vista Grande Elementary School; Ontario-Montclair 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. These Shining Star Schools present 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

E3

Shining Star School—Student Behavior
Virginia Dold, Principal; Brigitte Knight, Outreach Consultant, E.R. Taylor Elementary; San Francisco USD
Shining Star schools are SB65 Comprehensive Student Support schools that scored well in this year’s annual peer review and showed significant gains in academic improvement by meeting their API and AYP targets. Throughout the conference these schools will demonstrate how they achieved their outstanding results.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K-6

E5

The Diploma Project—Addressing the Dropout Issue in the Los Angeles USD
Debra Duardo, NDPN Board Member/Director; Erika Torres & Michelle Hogan, LAUSD Dropout Prevention, Intervention & Recovery, Los Angeles USD, CA

The Diploma Project provides middle and high school students and their families with multiple pathways to a high school diploma through strategic counseling, adult and options school programs, and continual academic and personal support. Participants will learn effective strategies and tools they can take back to their districts and schools to help address the complicated issues surrounding dropouts.

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

E6

What Is So Special About Special Education?
Judy Geske, Student Services/Sp. Ed., Banning District Office, CA

What is special education and which students are found eligible for individualized services? Why are laws so strict about special education and what are the results of special education services for students who are struggling in school? This session will examine the complexities of special education and attempt to unlock the hidden meaning of the role of services for children.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–12

E7

Building Respect, Responsibility, and Resiliency in At-Risk Adolescents
Vicki Phillips, M.Ed., Director, Personal Development, CA

Learn how to teach students who “don’t want to be told what to do” to want to be responsible and respectful, by using their need to feel “powerful” as the foundation for developing character, resiliency, and emotional intelligence. Vicki Phillips will share the philosophy from her one-semester curriculum, Personal Development, purchased by over 1450 secondary schools.

Strand: Engaging At-Risk Students
Grade Level: 7–12

E10

The Kids Left Behind: Intervene Successfully with Underachieving Children
William Parrett, Director, Center for School Improvement & Policy Studies, Boise State University; Dr. Robert Barr, Speaker and Author, ID

Specific topics will include improvements in leadership, curriculum, instruction, assessment and data literacy, reorganization of time, space, and transitions, understanding poverty, targeting interventions, and parent and community engagement. This session will provide participants with the opportunity to compare the work of high-achieving schools with their own efforts and to build action plans.

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

E12

(PAT) Parents As Teachers
Rebecca Lindquist, Principal; Victor Lemus, Outreach Consultant, Sun Empire Elementary School, Kerman USD, CA

Parents as Teachers is a program designed to bring parents and teachers together to help students succeed in early literacy. Teachers model best practices for developing reading skills to parents. Parents use skills with students as they build confidence in reading under teacher supervision.

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

E14

Energizers Galore—A Playshop for the Not-So-Serious
Tim Burns, Educator/Author, Educare Institute, NM

Ready for some full-on fun? Want to move, play, laugh, and learn? Then attend the Energizers Galore workshop. Come ready to move, play, and participate, and leave with activities you can use in any setting. The aim of the workshop is to provide you with activities you can use immediately for the benefit of students and colleagues.

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

E15

Cyberbullying and Internet Safety
Steve Wolf, Field Training Officer, Irvine Police Department, CA

Learn how to protect your students on the web in this interactive internet safety workshop. Participants will gain practical strategies to implement safety standards at school regarding MySpace, chat rooms, instant messaging, interactive chat, California Education Codes, and more. Steve Wolf will discuss online dangers and what teachers, parents, students, and school communities can do to protect children.

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

E16

What Can You Do About Cutting and Self-Injury?
Suzanne Etheridge, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Orange County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, CA

Self-injury is a serious problem among teens. This session will help counselors and administrators recognize cutting, self-abuse and self-injury; understand the issue better; and develop effective education, prevention and intervention strategies. Discuss how you can incorporate these strategies into your current student support systems, both on and off campus.

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

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Conference Session EF

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:15–4:00 pm

EF4

SST Live!
Steve Berta, Director Health Ed & Safe Schools/Faculty, San Jose State Univ./Field Colleague, Santa Clara COE: Health Ed/Safe Schools; Vicki Butler, Coordinator/Field Colleague, Corona-Norco Special Ed, Corona-Norco USD; Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist/Field Colleague, Riverside Staff Development Center, Riverside USD, CA

This is a rare opportunity to observe an actual SST meeting with a student, parent, and school staff. Participants will observe the meeting and debriefing session via video camera. An SST field colleague will moderate the session to facilitate a large group debriefing following the meeting.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

EF8

A New Framework for Understanding ADHD: Power Tools for Nontraditional Learners
Frank Kros, MSW, JD, Executive Vice President, The Children’s Guild, MD

Based on the latest research, 14 practical strategies are provided to enhance the effectiveness of your teaching, improve the quality of your therapeutic interventions, and strengthen your helping relationship with ADHD students. Highly interactive, this “learn and do” workshop incorporates brain scans, film, music, art, manipulatives, and movement to transform your thinking about and boost your skills with ADHD students.

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

EF9

The Power of Video to Open Minds and Hearts: Using Gay Youthto Educate Your Faculty
Pam Walton, Producer/Director/Former H.S. Teacher, Pam Walton Productions, CA

This workshop will present the groundbreaking film Gay Youth. The film can sensitize faculty to an issue that is too often ignored. This workshop will include specific strategies for reaching out to students, parents, and administrators, as well as time for attendees to share their experiences. Gay Youthand study guide will be available for purchase.

Strand: Engaging At-Risk Students
Grade Level: 7–12

EF11

Mindfully Resolving Conflicts: Facilitation for Diversity Issues
Rainbow Markell, Diversity Trainer, Stir Fry Seminars & Consulting, CA

Explore what it takes to develop authentic and meaningful relationships, even in conflict, using role-play, training vignettes, and discussion, and addressing issues such as racism and cultural differences. Learn skills to train others in group process, conflict facilitation, and a variety of cross-cultural communication techniques. This workshop benefits teachers, teacher educators, administrators, counselors, and student leaders.

Strand: Marketing Session, Family and Community Collaboration
Grade Level: K–12

EF13

Building Multiple-Paragraph Essays: ALL Students Can Write at Standard
Carolyn Hood, Master Trainer, Learning Headquarters, CA

This exciting session features a standards-aligned writing system designed to help all students master grade-level writing genres. Learn interactive techniques to differentiate instruction and motivate students to add sensational sentences, smooth transitions, rigorous content, and genre-based structure to their multiple-paragraph compositions. Leave with research-based organizers proven to engage students in writing powerful narrative, response to literature, and persuasive essays.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–8

EF17— Added Session

The California Community College Foster Youth Success Initiative (FYSI): Building the Bridge to Higher Education for Students from Foster Care
Timothy Bonnel, SFA Programs Coordinator, California Community College System Office; Tracy Fried, Consultant, Tracy Fried & Associates, CA

Forging partnerships to establish and support a “college going” culture for youth in foster care is critical in youth’s transition to independence and crucial to success in post secondary education. This interactive seminar will provide participants with tools and strategies for forming an effective network of collaborative partnerships between the social service and secondary and post secondary education systems. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss unique challenges and identify cooperative solutions for forging partnerships to engage youth in post secondary education.

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

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