Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

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

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

The Resilient Educator: Survival and Success in Today’s Classroom
Jeff Goelitz, Project Intervention Coordinator, Institute of HeartMath, CA

To stay the course in today’s complex school environments, educators need stamina and vision to remain effective and healthy over the long run. Over the last decade, practical tools have been developed and field-tested to help educators better respond to stressful or challenging circumstances—key factors in health, career longevity, and overall performance. Handouts included.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–12

It is Possible! Writing at Standard: Leave No Child or Teacher Behind
Linda Fisher, Principal-in-Residence, Learning Headquarters, CA

Imagine transforming your school into a data-driven learning community where teachers are motivated and students are actively engaged in standards-based writing. Linda Fisher will lead you through the process, strategies, and research-based tools that have proven successful in raising achievement for allstudents. You’ll leave with comprehensive handouts and a repertoire of skills to use immediately.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–8

Principal Academy
Sue Kaiser, Principal, Sierra Vista Middle School, Hacienda La Puente, CA

It is possible to change your school! Find out how Kwis Elementary went from being one of the most challenged schools in the area to being a California Distinguished School. You’ll learn step-by-step how this change occurred and how you can use similar methodology to create success in your school. Share your challenges and your questions, as well as your own success stories.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–7

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

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

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Add RTI to Your Educational Alphabet Soup
Terry Metzger, Principal, Marengo Ranch Elementary, Galt Union ESD, CA

This session will discuss the basics of Response to Intervention (RTI) legislation, goals, and models, as well as possible steps for implementation of an RTI model at the school level. A focus on blending SST, COST, and RTI will help participants effectively provide services to at-risk students.

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

Data to Reduce the Number of Dropouts
David Kopperud, Education Programs Consultant, Counseling, Student Support and Service-Learning Office, CDE, CA

The California Student Information System has developed unique student identification numbers matched with exit codes that identify students who have dropped out of school. Learn how this statewide database can be used to identify dropouts and to bring children back to school, as well as how school truancy rates and truancy notifications can be used to keep students in school.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–12

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

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

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

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

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Writing Measurable Objectives: It’s the S.M.A.R.T. Thing to Do!
Cliff Rudnick, Administrator, Learning Support & Partner Division, California DOE, CA

This session will focus on the development, monitoring, and evaluation of measurable objectives using the S.M.A.R.T. concept. Attendees will discuss and share how objectives in their schools and districts are monitored and evaluated within a continuous improvement model.

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

Model Continuation High School Practices: Moving from Mediocre to Magnificent
Mari Bordona, Principal/K–12 Alt. Programs; Rebecca Tourtellotte, Assistant Principal/K–12 Alt. Programs; Adam LaMunyon, Support Teacher, Sierra High School, Azusa USD, CA

Sierra High School is an alternative education program that provides a personalized, caring, and enriched environment that enables student to develop to their fullest potential. This session will provide an overview of best practices in alternative education, including creative teaching strategies, safe and civil policies, benchmarking standards, developing student leaders, and strengths-based collaboration.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: 9–12

From Improvement to Excellence
Doug Escheman, Principal, Covillaud Elementary, Marysville Joint USD; Donna Cummings and Rick Wise, Probation Officers, Yuba County Probation, CA

Doug Escheman has provided trainings all over the US in educating children at poverty-ridden school sites. His presentations address raising test scores, the “basic needs” theory he put into effect at his school, and the importance of a community partner base. This session will bring tears to your eyes and offer hope for all those who work at challenging school sites.

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

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Shining Star

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.

Session details and topics will be available in July.

Strand: Best Practices

Healing the Healer Within
Victor La Cerva, M.D., Consultant, Speaker and Writer, New Mexico

Because of the nature of their work, many teachers do not take care of themselves properly. This interactive workshop explores tools for balancing the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of ourselves; ways to reduce stress in the moment; the anatomy of anger and how to become more emotionally fluent; and techniques to avoid burnout and still make a difference.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–12

Overview of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist/CSS Field Colleague, Riverside Staff Development Center, CA

This presentation will provide an overview of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This civil rights legislation directly affects every teacher and administrator in a public school setting. Learn how to best meet the needs of students who require a 504 plan.

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