Response to Intervention (RTI) & Comprehensive Student Support (CSS)
Jim Anderson, Intervention Team Coordinator, CSS Field Colleague, Health & Human Services, LAUSD, CA

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.

While many schools have succeeded in meeting their overall API target goals, a large number of them are struggling in their efforts to achieve the same success across their significant subgroups, especially with English Language Learners. During this presentation, participants will learn about the strategies Dolland Elementary has implemented, which have resulted in impressive API gains for their ELL subgroup during the last four years.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: 2-5

Response to Intervention (RTI) & Comprehensive Student Support (CSS)
Jim Anderson, Intervention Team Coordinator, CSS Field Colleague, Health & Human Services, LAUSD, CA

How will the new federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (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: Best Practices; Foster Youth; VetORC
Grade Level: K-6

Student Success Teams: A Link to RTI and Beyond
Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist/CSS Field Colleague, Riverside Staff Development Center, CA; Vicki Butler, CSS Field Colleague, Director, Val Verde USD, CA

The presentation will provide participants with best practices in implementing Student Success Teams (SST) at their school sites. Participants will obtain ideas on how to integrate Response to Intervention (RTI) while maintaining the fidelity of the SST process. Participants will also network with other schools to share ideas on all elements of the SST process.

Strand: Best Practices; VetORC
Grade Level: K–12

Add RTI to Your Educational Alphabet Soup
Terry Metzger, Principal, Marengo Ranch Elementary, 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 Student Success Teams (SST), Coordination of Services Team (COST), and RTI will help participants effectively provide services to at-risk students.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K-6

Shining Star School–COST
Ken Quon, Principal; Jennifer Carpenter, CSS Outreach Consultant/Field Colleague, Glenelder Elementary School; Kirk Fujikawa, Principal; Connie Price, CSS Outreach Consultant, Smythe Academy of Arts and Sciences

Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how they used the CSS strategies to coordinate state and federal programs and personnel services in a collaborative and integrated fashion to meet the needs of their students and their families.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Shining Star School–Resilience
Loraine Mason, Principal; Randall Edwards, CSS Outreach Consultant, Haddon Avenue Elementary School; Josie Koivisto, Principal; Mary Dobson, CSS Outreach Consultant, Margaret White Elementary

Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how resilience-creating programs and strategies support the whole child and often have a significant role in student' academic success.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Building a Student Assistance Program (SAP)
Portia Lee, Director; Patti Azevedo, MA, MS, MFTI, Mental Health Coord., PUSD: Safe Schools & Health Students Dept., CA

This workshop highlights lessons learned in implementing a Student Assistance Program (SAP) at middle and high school campuses. A discussion of accomplishments, mistakes made, and lessons learned will provide participants with an understanding of how to structure a SAP and a system for implementing referrals, running educational support groups, and effectively establishing links with outside agencies.

Strand: NEW!; Best Practices; CASCWA
Grade Level: 7–12

Dropout Prevention Specialist (DPS) Certification: Program Overview
John Dooley, Vice President, National University Division of Extended Learning, CA

National University's Dropout Prevention Specialist Certification Program complies with the CA Education Code for outreach consultant (ORC) training. This six-course program sequence is taught by very experienced CA ORCs who also serve as adjunct faculty with National University. Classes
meet online for two hours, one evening per week. Program information available at: http://www.nu.edu/Academics/Schools/ExtendedStudies/811-200.html.

Strand: NEW!, Best Practices

How to Become a Model Continuation School
Linda Coyne, Principal/Director; Joe Domingues, Reyna Toledo Community Education Center, CA

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

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: 9–12

Shining Star School– Student Behavior & Attendance
Monica Oakes, Principal; Diane Lemstrom, CSS Outreach Consultant, Kynoch Elementary School; Karin Smith, Principal; Ricardo Padilla, CSS Outreach Consultant, New Lexington Elementary School

Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how they used the CSS strategies to improve student behavior and improve student attendance.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Shining Star School–COST
Anne Michaelson, Principal; Helen Zavala, CSS Outreach Consultant, Sultana Elementary School

Shining Star Schools are 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.

This Shining Star School presents how they used the CSS strategies to coordinate state and federal programs and personnel services in a collaborative and integrated fashion to meet the needs of their students and their families.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Dropout Prevention Specialist (DPS) Certification: Program Overview
John Dooley, Vice President, National University Division of Extended Learning, CA

National University's Dropout Prevention Specialist Certification Program complies with the CA Education Code for outreach consultant (ORC) training. This six-course program sequence is taught by very experienced CA ORCs who also serve as adjunct faculty with National University. Classes
meet online for two hours, one evening per week. Program information available at: http://www.nu.edu/Academics/Schools/ExtendedStudies/811-200.html.

Strand: NEW!, Best Practices

OK, I've Had the Soup: On to the Main Course! (RTI, Part II)
Terry Metzger, Principal, Marengo Ranch Elementary, CA

This session is for those already familiar with CSS and RTI. The focus will be implementation of an RTI model at the elementary school level to meet the needs of all learners. Learn about academic conferences and how targeted instruction at the Tier I level can make a difference for struggling students, and get some ideas for Tier II instruction and materials.

Strand: Best Practices; VetORC
Grade Level: K–6

Shining Star School–Academic Achievement
Karen Snyder, Principal; Adriana Rivarola, CSS Outreach Consultant, Aero Haven Elementary; Elva Reyes, Principal; Irma Herrera, CSS Outreach Consultant, Soto Street Elementary

Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how they used the CSS strategies to make impressive gains in students' academic achievement.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Shining Star School–SST
Mary De Splinter, Principal; Christine Mohatt, CSS Outreach Consultant, Elder Creek Elementary School; Bruce Lauria, Principal; Lori Michno, CSS Outreach Consultant, Vista Grande Elementary School

Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how they used the Student Success Team Process as an early identification and intervention approach to help students achieve success in school.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Getting Creative, Being Present, Taking Care of Yourself and Your Students
Victor La Cerva, MD, Consultant, Speaker & Writer, NM

Many teachers and school administrators, because of the nature of their service work, do not take care of themselves appropriately. They often work long hours, forget to take breaks, interact poorly with coworkers, and spread their stress around the living room when they get home. We will use the notions of creativity and being present to explore:
* balancing the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of ourselves;
* dancing creatively with our stress in the moment;
* how to become more emotionally fluent.

Strand: Best Practices; Foster Youth & Juvenile Detention; VetORC
Grade Level: K–12

How to Support Homeless Students and Foster Youth
Faye Eastman, Coordinator, Foster Youth Services; Brenda Dowdy, Homeless Education Program Specialist, San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools

Participants will learn about the difficulties homeless and foster youth experience. Information will be discussed on a variety of ways participants can help youth to become academically, socially, and behaviorally successful.

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

Models of Dropout Prevention
Speakers will include representatives from the Grossmont Union HSD, Vista USD, Chula Vista ESD, and others

Ten school districts have been designated as Models of Dropout Prevention by the State School Attendance Review Board. As Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell stated, “These school districts have taken on that challenge by creating a safety net for students with persistent school attendance or behavior problems.” Superintendent O'Connell presented the districts with their awards at the annual state CASCWA conference in Long Beach in April. These sessions will present the components of these award-winning programs.

Strand: NEW!; Best Practices; CASCWA
Grade Level: K–12

Shining Star School–Academic Achievement
Yadhira Bravo, CSS Outreach Consultant, Diamond Elementary School; Dr. Raymond Isola, Principal; Andrea James, CSS Outreach Consultant, Sanchez Elementary School

Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how they used the CSS strategies to make impressive gains in students' academic achievement.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Shining Star School–COST
Frances Contreras, Principal; Maria Saiz, CSS Outreach Consultant, Grace Thille Elementary School; Victor Leach, CSS Outreach Consultant, Pennycook Elementary School

Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how they used the CSS strategies to coordinate state and federal programs and personnel services in a collaborative and integrated fashion to meet the needs of their students and their families.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–6

Preventing Special Education Through Early Intervention Supplementary Reading
Debra Bradley, Superintendent; Cherisse Baatin, Principal; Gary Klor, Director of Special Education; Kathy Stratton, Resource Specialist, Sausalito Marin City Schools, CA

Preventing Special Education Through Early Intervention describes our district's effort to provide K-2 students with targeted reading intervention based on their assessed needs. We identify the students who may be at risk for reading failure and offer them a supplementary reading program that helps them succeed in their regular education classes. Our panel will provide participants with an overview of our Early Intervention program as well as specific recommendations and suggestions to help them replicate this model.

Strand: NEW!, Best Practices
Grade Level: K–2

They're Here, They're Queer, Now What?
Judy Chiasson, Program Coordinator, Office of Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity, LAUSD, CA

Increased visibility of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and concerns is causing schools to examine their practices in the nexus of legal, cultural, and community perspectives. School personnel often feel unsure of how to proceed. This workshop will examine the legal, ethical, and practical considerations of addressing sexual orientation and gender identity in public school settings.

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

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

The California Student Information System has developed unique student identification numbers that are matched with exit codes that identify students in the K-12 public school system who have dropped out of school for multiple reasons. David Kopperud, a consultant from the Califronia Department of Education, will discuss how this statewide database can be used to identfy dropouts and to bring children back to school. He will also discuss the use of the school truancy rates and truancy notifications to keep students in school.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–12

Shining Star School–Student Behavior & Attendance
Miriam Fox, Principal; Michelle Randall, CSS Outreach Consultant, Northview Intermediate; Shannon Corbett, Principal; Rocio Ortiz, CSS Outreach Consultant, Garvanza Elementary School

Shining Star schools are 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. Shining Star Schools are 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.

These Shining Star Schools present how they used the CSS strategies to improve student behavior and improve student attendance.

Strand: Best Practices
Grade Level: K–8