“Power Five”–Habits that Change Behavior
Greg Solomon, Inst. Music Teacher, Vista Heights Middle School, CA

With just five simple habits, you will learn how to change the behavior of disruptive students in your classroom. Understand the power of care and how misbehavior is a good thing. Train yourself and your students to enjoy purposeful change. Teach to your expectations and give consequences for inappropriate behavior. Then step back and watch the learning begin.

Strand: NEW!, Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–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 your own shortterm memory and learn how to open the gates to long-term memory recall! This brain-based training will teach participants how to deliver and differentiate instruction through four memory paths and four of the brain's natural learning systems.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–12

Inside Secrets of Creating a Responsive Classroom Climate
Cristal McGill, Ph.D., Education Consultant, ASU Faculty Associate, Teacher Education Programs, CO

Participants will leave with one of the biggest secrets to lead any group to the most productive mental viewpoint from which to maximize the learning from that experience. This highly practical session explores a series of seldom-discussed techniques. Each idea can stand alone as a useful tool. This fast-paced, innovative, and dynamic session explains why, while simultaneously demonstrating how to put these ideas into practice.

Walk away with a “neural explosion” of ideas guaranteed to lift any learning activity to an entirely new level.

Come expecting to be physically engaged and mentally stimulated throughout this high-powered session.

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

All Students Can Write At-Standard, Multi-Paragraph Essays
Carolyn Hood, Master Trainer, Learning Headquarters, CA

This exciting session features a standards-aligned writing system designed to help all students master those difficult-to-conquer, grade-level writing genres. Learn interactive techniques to differentiate instruction and motivate students to integrate strong sentences, smooth transitions, rigorous content, and genre-based structure into their multiple-paragraph essays. Leave with research-based organizers for engaging students in writing powerful narrative, response to literature, and persuasive compositions. Use these effective modeling strategies immediately to catapult your students into successful, standards-based writing!

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–8

Empty the Cup . . . Before You Fill It Up: The Missing Piece of Classroom Management & Student Engagement
Ernest Mendes, Consultant/President, Mendes Training & Consulting, Inc., CA

How do I get my students in a proper learning state where they are “ready to learn” when they may view my class as simply an interruption in their day? The social and emotional brain of your students is starving for expression and for a breath of air. When? Before, during, and after your lesson begins. Based on the best-selling book, Empty the Cup Before You Fill It Up, this session will share a handful of ways to honor your students' emotional and social needs and quickly refocus on instruction and the content standards you are supposed to address. Help your students be “Ready to Learn.”

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–12

Body in Motion, Brain in Gear–Using Movement to Enhance Attention and Improve Learning
Tim Burns, Educator/Author, Learn for Life, NM

This informative, enjoyable, and fast-paced workshop blends research and practical application within a framework of brain maturation and development, focusing on those areas of the brain that tie together movement, attention systems, and learning readiness. You will gain knowledge and tools you can use immediately for the benefit of all students. Handouts will be provided.

Strand: Instructional Strategies, Foster Youth
Grade Level: K–12

Student Engagement: Experience It!
Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist/CSS Field Colleague, Riverside Staff Development Center, CA; Vicki Butler, Director, Val Verde USD, CA

This session will provide participants with multiple methods to engage students in the learning process by experiencing engagement strategies across curricular areas. Leave this session with practical engagement strategies that can be used immediately with students.

Strand: Instructional Strategies; VetORC
Grade Level: K–12

Dynamic Vocabulary and Sentence-Building Strategies
Carolyn Hood, Master Trainer, Learning Headquarters, CA

Increasing the rigor and sophistication of student writing has never been easier! Learn meaningful techniques to help all students access higherlevel vocabulary, build powerful sentences, utilize sentence variety, and extend the complexity of writing through research-based strategies. Participants will learn to promote academic and descriptive vocabulary through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic pathways. Teachers will leave with a plethora of interactive techniques to assist all gifted students in writing above and beyond!

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–6

It Is Possible! All Students Can Write at Standard (K–6)
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. A Milken National Award-winning principal will lead you through the process, strategies, and research-based tools that have proven successful in raising achievement for all students. Through dynamic video clips, instructional strategy demonstrations, and comprehensive handouts, you'll gain a repertoire of skills to use immediately..

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–6

Project Read Report Form: Comprehension Strategies for Nonfiction
Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist/CSS Field Colleague, Riverside Staff Development Center, CA

Many students struggle with comprehension in content area subjects. This presentation will provide an overview of Project Read Report Form strategies. These are multisensory strategies designed to teach students how to find the main idea and supporting details, make inferences, and organize content subject matter for retention and retrieval.

Strand: NEW!; Instructional Strategies, Foster Youth
Grade Level: 3–12

Strategies That Build Rapport and Connections, and Motivate Students to Stay in School
Nancy Blackwell, Founder/Lead Trainer, Longevity of Success, CO

The number one concern of teachers is how to take care of the management aspects of being an instructor so that they can do what they came to do: teach. The skills offered in this program will positively influence the single most powerful leverage point in education: the teacher-student relationship. This workshop will be oriented to practical application and practice.

Strand: Instructional Strategies; VetORC
Grade Level: 9–12

Energizers Galore–A Playshop for the Not-So-Serious
Tim Burns, Educator/Author, Learn for Life, 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: Instructional Strategies; VetORC
Grade Level: K–12

English Language Learners: Instructional Strategies that Work
Laura Guzman, Coordinator; Terry Baron, LRET Division, English Learner & Support Services, CA

This session will address the specific needs of English Language Learners and provide practical strategies you can use in class. Participants will be provided with instructional sequence and strategies for actively engaging students, accelerating learning through scaffolding of instruction, and explicitly teaching academic language. Practical application, tips, and strategies you can use will be included in the handouts provided.

Strand: Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: K–8