Conference Sessions
Strands
Thursday, February 7
Session A 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Session B 1:15 AM–3:15 PM
Friday, February 8
Session C 9:30–10:45 AM
Session CD 9:30 AM–12:15 PM
Session D 11:00 AM–12:15 PM
Session E 2:15–3:30 PM
Saturday, February 9
Session F 9:30–10:45 AM
Session FG 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Session G 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Personalization
A2
Differentiated Coaching
David Holden, Instructional Coach, Mar Vista
High School, Sweetwater Union HSD, CA
This session is for teacher-leaders and instructional coaches who would like guidance on how to most effectively work with reluctant staff members or with those whose experience levels vary widely. Administrators will learn how to best support an instructional coaching program at their sites. All attendees will receive a packet that includes coaching guidelines, sample forms, conversation protocols, sample meeting agendas, and a list of resources.
Strands: Personalization
CD10
Advisory Programs: Personalization and
Achievement for Every Student
Deb Christenson, Curriculum Coordinator;
Jeanne Fauci, Director,Wildwood Outreach
Center, CA
Advisory programs create a personalized middle and high school environment that enhances students’ academic achievement and social/emotional growth. In this interactive presentation, participants will learn from nationally known experts the key components to creating a successful advisory program. Discover how to implement or expand an advisory program at your school that will support your school’s mission and goals and enhance the learning experience for every student.
Strands: Personalization, NEW!
CD11
Mindfully Resolving Conflicts: Facilitation
for Diversity Issues
Rainbow Markell, Director/Diversity Trainer,
Stir Fry Seminars & Counseling, CA
Explore what it takes to develop authentic and meaningful relationships, even in conflict, using role-play, training vignettes, and discussion, and addressing the issues such as racism and cultural differences. This workshop also teaches 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. “The Art of Mindful Facilitation” provided as a handout.
Strands: Personalization, NEW!
CD12
Using PLCs to Build Collaboration and
Personalization within SLCs: Are you
Driving a ’60s Model School Design?
Corine Sayler, Assistant Principal, Syracuse
High School, Davis School District, UT
This presentation is intended for those interested in using PLCs to further collaborations and identity. It uses the experience of a large traditional high school’s restructuring into SLCs and the development of a school-wide vision for personalization. Activities include a PowerPoint® presentation, examples of structures that can be put into place, and several activities designed to give participants a model they can take back to work with at their schools.
Strands: Personalization
E11
Imagine a School Where Nobody Fails:
Personalized Interventions for Struggling
At-risk Students
Jill Long, SLC Project Director, McMinnville
High School, McMinnville School District #40,
OR; Ken Jupp, Director, Kenn Jupp &
Associates, UK
The Listening Book is a guided process in which the teacher/SLC team and struggling student collaborate to personalize interventions and support, improve and sustain relationships, develop a network of peer support, and foster ownership of teaching and learning and the learning community. In addition to creating personalized interventions, the Listening Book process provides valuable feedback on how the school is performing and how it can improve. 2:15–3:30 P.M.
Strands: Personalization, NEW!
E12
High School Advisory: How It Works!
Gale George, SLC Coordinator/Teacher; Karen
Myers, SLC Coordinator/Teacher, Serrano High
School, Snowline Joint USD, CA
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.
Strands: Personalization
E13
Relationship Building in SLCs: Defining the
Third R
Michael Butler, Executive Vice President;
Marcell Gilmore, Public Works, Inc., CA
This session will provide participants with an overview of evaluation results from SLC grantees in LAUSD, focusing on personalization. The conference session will include presentation of student and staff survey results tied to personalization, as well as evidence on structural supports and strategies employed to enhance adult-student relationships as part of SLC implementation in the nation’s second largest school district.
Strands: Personalization
E14
Personalization Advisories: What, When,
How
Bob Daniel, Principal; Bill Pickett, Teacher; Jana
Parsells, Teacher; Kisaundra Harris, Teacher;
Sharon Cassidy, Teacher, Tascosa High School;
Teresa Railsback, Curriculum Specialist/SLC
Grant Coordinator, Tascosa/Palo Duro High
School, Amarillo ISD, TX
Our team will share the triumphs and tribulations of implementing a schoolwide advisory.We will use PowerPoint®, 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 and skills; Tuesday: reading day;Wednesday: activity day; Friday: video announcements and teacher activity choice. All activities and articles are provided for teachers.
Strands: Personalization
FG10
Why Try? Innovative Interventions that
Provide Hope and Motivate Youth to
Overcome Poverty, Violence, and Failure
Christian Moore, Co-founder, Why Try
Organization, UT
This presentation provides tools to help youth answer, “Why try in life?” Christian Moore walks the audience through several methods to teach emotional intelligence and life skills such as anger management, problem solving, overcoming peer pressure, and keeping laws and rules. This workshop emphasizes a strength-based approach to helping youth overcome their challenges using multiple intelligence methods that emphasize the youths’ learning styles.
Strands: Personalization, NEW!
FG11
Role of Structures in Student Achievement
Mike Neubig, Co-founder, American Alliance
for Innovative Schools, Capture Educational
Consulting Services, OH
This presentation focuses on creating school day structures that provide flexible blocks of time for personalized programs, while maintaining the positive elements of the existing structures.We will demonstrate a research-based scheduling system that is proven to enhance the school environment and improve student achievement, specifically at the all-important ninth grade level. Participants will be asked to design schedules that they believe may be useful in their own teaching settings.
Strands: Personalization, NEW!
FG12
Building an Advisory Program from the
Ground Up
Dennis Clancy, Career Technical Education;
Beth Winningham, College Counselor/Adjunct
Professor CSU Northridge, Monroe High
School, Los Angeles USD, CA
Advisory programs allow students and teachers to develop meaningful relationships that facilitate teaching and learning. Participants will discover practical strategies to create an advisory program that offers academic, social, and developmental LAB support for students. Learn how advisory can influence school-wide literacy initiatives, foster college awareness, raise student achievement, and build a collaborative culture at your school. Presenters will demonstrate model lessons that participants can use as advisory curriculum building blocks.
Strands: Personalization