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Click here to register **Agenda ** 7:30-8:30 Registration and Sign in 8:30-8:45 First General Session: Overview of the Day 9:00-9:45 Concurrent Session 1 10:00-10:45 Concurrent Session 2 11:00-11:45 Concurrent Session 3 11:45-12:30 Lunch 12:30 - 2:30 Curriculum Meetings (Content Disciplines) 2:40-3:00 Second General Session: Closing
 * Blue River Cohort Professional Development Day** Friday, January 4, 2013 McCool JunctionPublic Schools 8:30-3:00

First General Session

 * 8:30-8:45 **

Gymnasium Introductions Focus: Engagement


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Concurrent Session 1

 * 9:00-9:45 **

__//**Get started with the iPad**//__ //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Lynne Herr Grade Levels: All Room: 9 Have an ipad you haven't used much yet because you're not sure how to get started? We'll work on basic ipad tips for entering and manipulating text, sound, still photos and movies. We will also review basic settings like sound control, wireless network access and email on the ipad.

**Concurrent Session 2 ** ** 10:00-10:45 ** __//**Gear up with the iPad**//__ //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Lynne HerrGrade Levels: AllRoom: 9 Have the basics down but not sure how to find and use great apps for your content area or how to incorporate limited numbers of ipads into the classroom? Let's brainstorm together!

**Concurrent Session 3 ** ** 11:00-11:45 ** __//**Get geeky with the iPad**//__ //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Lynne HerrGrade Levels: AllRoom: 9 Spend time exploring new apps and developing model projects to show your students. You want time to work with the ipad and apps with someone there to help if you get stuck? This session is for you!

**Blue River Cohort Professional Development Day** Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Friend Public Schools 8:30-3:00 Click here to register

**Agenda ** 7:30-8:30 Registration and Sign in 8:30-8:45 First General Session: Overview of the Day 9:00-9:45 Concurrent Session 1 10:00-10:45 Concurrent Session 2 11:00-11:45 Concurrent Session 3 11:45-12:30 Lunch 12:30 - 2:30 Curriculum Meetings (Content Disciplines) 2:40-3:00 Second General Session: Closing

First General Session

 * 8:30-8:45 **

Gymnasium Introductions Focus: Engagement


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 * [[file:esu6mediacohort/Blue River Cohort Professional Development Day 8.4.12.pdf|Download]]
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Concurrent Session 1

 * 9:00-9:45 **

__//**Get started with the iPad**//__ //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Lynne Herr Grade Levels: All Room: 9 Have an ipad you haven't used much yet because you're not sure how to get started? We'll work on basic ipad tips for entering and manipulating text, sound, still photos and movies. We will also review basic settings like sound control, wireless network access and email on the ipad.

__//**RTI 101**//__ //What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success?// Presenter: April Kelley Grade Level: PreK-12 Room: Music If you keep hearing about RTI and you’re not quite sure what it is and how it will affect you, then this is a session for you. Come learn about the basics of RTI and how it’s being implemented in schools. We’ll discuss the 3 tiers and 8 essential elements.

**//__Curriculum Leader Meeting __//** Presenter: Toby Boss Grade Levels: All Room: Media Center This will be an organizational meeting for the curriculum leaders of each grade level/subject area.

**//__Accountable Talk: Ways to Cause Effective Classroom Discussions __//** //What will I do to establish or maintain classroom procedures?// Presenter: Jen MadisonGrade Levels: 5 - 12Room: 13 Do you use discussion as a way to have students interact with new content or understand text? Discussion is a powerful, research-based strategy; however, sometimes discussions don't always cause engagement or produce understanding as hoped. In this session we will study ways to increase the effectiveness of our class discussions. (key Ideas: accountable talk stems, structured partners, routines)Link to Prezi: @http://prezi.com/uonjhoryb1uf/effective-discussions/?auth_key=a3d9062adc7c5f7509eced70ea41383f6573cdcc

**//__Learning with Brain in Mind Equals Student Engagement and Improved Student Achievement __//** //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Lenny VerMaas lennyvermaas@gmail.com, http://lenny-brainbased.wikispaces.com/

Grade Levels: All Room: 6 Looking at how the brain works reveals several characteristics that will enhance students' engagement and learning in your classroom.
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**//__Introduction to the Teaching Pyramid __//** //What will I do to establish and maintain classroom rules and procedures?// Presenter: Carrie Gottschalk Grade Levels: Pre K - 3rd grade Room: 10 This session will introduce you to the Teaching Pyramid approach as well as offer resources to prevent challenging behavior.

**//__Understanding and Connecting with the iY Generation __//** //What will I do to establish and maintain effective relationships with students? // Presenter: Suzanne Whisler Grade Levels: All Room: 3 Students grow up too fast, but also too slowly. This session will help participants understand and connect with iY Generation, and provide them with tips to help the iY Generation find their future.

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**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Evernote: A 21st Century Organizational App __//** //What will I do to help students record and represent knowledge?// Presenter: Laura Kroll Grade Levels: All grades Room: 17 This free app allows you to easily sync any information from any platform. Come, see how Evernote can be the best organizational tool you've ever used!

**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Concurrent Session 2 ** ** 10:00-10:45 ** __//**Gear up with the iPad**//__ //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Lynne HerrGrade Levels: AllRoom: 9 Have the basics down but not sure how to find and use great apps for your content area or how to incorporate limited numbers of ipads into the classroom? Let's brainstorm together! __//**RTI Decision Rules**//__ //What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success?// Presenter: April Kelley Grade Levels: K-6 Room: Music "Decision Rules” is one of RTI’s 8 essential elements. Come learn how other schools have established decisions rules to provide instructional guidance on: assessments that will be used, how the data are validated, proper program placement, and criteria for making instructional decisions at each tier. Walk away with some sample decision rules from other schools.

__//**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a Math App for That **//__ //What will I do to help students effectively interact with new knowledge?// Presenter: Lenny VerMaas, lennyvermaas@gmail.com http://nmpdsagenda.wikispaces.com/Apps Grade Levels: K-8 Room: 6 Lets look at some mathematics apps that can be used in grades K-7. Bring your favorites and share.

__//**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">IQ isn't the Half of it! Nurturing a Social-Emotionally Intelligent Child **//__ //What will I do to establish and maintain classroom rules and procedures?// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Presenter: Carrie Gottschalk Grade Levels: Pre K - 3rd grade <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Room: 10 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">There is no doubt that acquiring knowledge in reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic are essential. However, a child’s potential to learn and acquire academic knowledge boasts a strong correlation to his ability to self-regulate and manage social situations. This session looks at tools and strategies to help encourage healthy emotion recognition and regulation, including how to teach and promote necessary social skills for social success!

**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Connecting your class with Edmodo __//** //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What will I do to engage students? // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Presenter: Casey Pohl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Grade Levels: All <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Room: 14 //<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Edmodo // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. See how to use this "facebook" type application in your classroom.

**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Drop Box and Google Drive: Cloud Storage Solutions __//** //What will I do to help students record and represent knowledge?// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Presenter: Guy Stark <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Grade Levels: All <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Room: 15 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This session will focus on ways to share and save files to the cloud for easy, anytime access.

**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Making Instruction Stick __//** //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What will I do to help students effectively interact with new knowledge? // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Presenter: Mitzi Hoback <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Grade Levels: All <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Room: 19 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">How do we teach so that students will remember? In this interactive session, YOU will first be the student and learn something new. Then, you will be the evaluator, and reflect with other participants on the effectiveness of the lesson. This ties to Marzano's Design Question 2: What will I do to help students effectively interact with new knowledge?

**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are Our Students Engaged? __//** What will I do to engage students? Presenter: Suzanne Whisler Grade Levels: All Room: 3 "Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire." ~ William Butler Yeats Do you crave strategies that you can use in your classroom to engage your students? This session will provide participants with a variety of practical strategies that enhance learning and engage students.


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**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Concurrent Session 3 ** ** 11:00-11:45 ** __//**Get geeky with the iPad**//__ //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Lynne HerrGrade Levels: AllRoom: 9 Spend time exploring new apps and developing model projects to show your students. You want time to work with the ipad and apps with someone there to help if you get stuck? This session is for you! __//**RTI Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring**//__ //What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success?// Presenter: April KelleyGrade Levels: K-6Room: Music These are two of RTI’s 8 essential elements. During this session we’ll talk about options you have for universal screeners and suggestions for progress monitoring individuals. We’ll practice looking at individual student data and making some instructional decisions for those students. **//__New Teacher Sharing Session__//** Presenter: Jen MadisonGrade Levels: AllRoom: 13 Woot! Woot! You survived (and hopefully, thrived) during your first few weeks! This session is for EIS 2012-13 participants and any teachers new to their districts. We will review a few craft knowledge strategies, reflect upon the first weeks of school, and help one another address questions and challenges. //__<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">**Improving Homework Effectiveness** __// //What will I do to help students practice and deepen their understanding of new knowledge?// Presenter: Lenny VerMaas, lennyvermaas@gmail.com http://lenny-homework.wikispaces.com/
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Grade Levels: 3-12 Room: 6 Homework is one of the more frequently used teaching strategies.It is also the source of more discussion between teacher, student and parent. We will look at eight strategies to make homework more effective.
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//__<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">**Prevention: The Secret Weapon (Praise, Teach, Reinforce, Reward)** __// //What will I do to establish and maintain classroom rules and procedures?// Presenter: Carrie Gottschalk Grade Levels: Pre K - 3rd grade Room: 10 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This session focuses on addressing pervasive and persistent challenging behavior through prevention. Why is it that a child’s problem behaviors continue, or even escalate, regardless of how we respond or what we do? It’s a trap we fall into all too often, and a hamster wheel we get stuck on; Problem – Punish – Forgive – Problem – Punish – Forgive, over and over again. Come learn new strategies for escaping the hamster wheel and addressing problem behaviors from a different angle.

**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Quick Checks for Understanding: How do YOU know if your STUDENTS know? __//** //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success? // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Presenter: Mitzi Hoback <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Grade Levels: All <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Room: 19 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Formative assessment should inform our instruction! Learn and practice some quick and easy ways to find out if your students "get it".

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**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">SmartBoard Tricks and Tips __//** //What will I do to engage students?// Presenter: Phyllis Severson Grade Levels: All Room: 22 I have a Smartboard - now what do I do with it?

**//__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Poverty: The Hidden Rules __//** //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What will I do to establish and maintain effective relationships with students? // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Presenter: Nancy Meyer <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Grade Levels: All <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Room: 8 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This session will highlight the hidden rules of poverty, middle class and wealth, providing educators with an insight into how poverty affects students’ emotions, attitudes and behaviors.

**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lunch ** ** 11:45-12:30 **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Curriculum Meetings

 * 12:30-2:30 **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Second General Session

 * 2:40-3:00 **