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Who We Are ELEVATE! is the premiere professional development for primary Pre-K - 2nd grade educators. Our selection of highly accomplished national speakers are either current teachers, administrators, specialists, coaches or consultants working in schools.

All ELEVATE conference sessions are based on research and/or evidence-based content and practices, and guaranteed to be presented in a way that engages attendees in hands-on activities and models instructional best-practices.

Founded in Research

Every session you attend will provide you with lesson ideas and activity resources that you can take back to your classroom and use immediately!

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Vetted Speakers

At ELEVATE, we set the bar high! All presenters are required to support their presentation content with current research, model bestpractice instructional methods, incorporate active-engagement strategies within their sessions, and provide complementary lesson plans/activities for attendees to take back and use immediately in their classrooms.

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Topics Covered at ELEVATE! Phoenix

Science of Reading

Data Driven Instruction

School Culture

English Language Arts

Fine Motor

School Leadership

Math

Classroom Management

Play Based Learning

The Arts

STEAM

Writing

Science

Social Emotional Learning

Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility

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why you should attend elevate Join a growing community of over 100k primary educators who follow Elevate Your Classroom and co-founder Mr. Greg Smedley-Warren.

Learn from award-winning and nationally recognized classroom educators and educational leaders who remain practitioners in schools across the country.

Participate in conference sessions founded in research and created with the teacher in mind.

Enjoy keynotes and inspiration from nationally renowned educators like Mr. Greg, Gerry Brooks, Kim Bearden, and Jack Hartmann.

Specific administrator sessions so school and district leaders can support the work you are doing.

Network and stay connected with fellow primary educators and leaders as you experience a worldclass conference that will provide immediate takeaways for your classroom.

Opportunity to continue your learning after the conference by joining Elevate! Academy for a full year of online, on-demand professional development.

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Featuring CHOICE LEADERSH IP With Adam Dovico As a school leader, you have thousands of choices you make each day. From personnel decisions (who's going to cover that teacherless classroom today?) to small things that matter a lot to people (how quickly can we get the copy machine fixed?), you must consider multiple perspectives and consequences with every choice you make. CHOICE Leadership is all about just that, making decisions around key leadership competencies such as culture, human resources, operations, instruction, coaching, and equity. Join fellow school leaders as we examine, discuss, and construct approaches to tackle real-life scenarios we face in school each day.

School, district, and aspiring leaders, come join Dr. Adam Dovico for a special leadership session at Elevate!

Phoenix! Leaders will come together to work through real-life scenarios that you face each day. We will work collaboratively to find multiple solutions and perspectives that will strengthen your leadership and prepare you for new challenges ahead. You will realize that making informed and brave choices is what leadership is all about!

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Phoenix Keynote

#HappyClassrooms

By Greg Smedley-Warren

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An inspirational message about the lessons our students teach us each day in the classroom. In this uplifting message, Mr. Greg will share stories from his classroom and the lessons he has learned and how they can be implemented in other classrooms. The #happyclassrooms is a way for teachers around the world to share positive experiences from their own classrooms. Mr. Greg will describe in detail the mission of this hashtag and how it relates to your teacher’s attitudes toward education and their classroom.

About Greg Howdy! I am Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard. I have been teaching for 16 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 13th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling. I plan to never leave the classroom as the kids are what drive me to continue my growth as a teacher and person. I received my bachelors degree from Indiana University and received my ELL certification from David Lipscomb University. At the beginning of my career I spent two summers teaching in Ecuador which only helped to fan the flames of my passion for teaching. In 2015 I was selected as Teacher Of The Year by my peers. I have a monthly broadcast on YouTube called Submission for Smorgie LIVE. I enjoy blogging, creating curriculum and resources for my classroom and conducting professional development sessions to help teachers around the world make their classrooms a more fun, effective and interactive place to teach.

When I’m not in the classroom, blogging and doing all things teach, I enjoy spending time with my family. I live in Nashville, Tennessee with my husband (known as The Mister on my blog), our 4 yr old daughter, Adelynn and our goldendoodle, Butters.

Phoenix Keynote

Fight Song: Six Steps to Passion, Power, Peace, and Purpose

By Kim Bearden

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Kim will focus on ways to overcome feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and underappreciated.

Through the use of her own personal journey and how she overcame tragedy, betrayal, heartbreak, and pain, Kim will help audience members realize their influence and strength. Her six principles will leave participants feeling empowered and ready for any challenges they face.

About Kim Kim Bearden is the cofounder and a language arts teacher at the highly acclaimed Ron Clark Academy, an innovative middle school and educatortraining facility in Atlanta. Each year, over 15,000 educators from around the world visit Kim’s classroom and attend her workshops to learn better ways to engage students, build relationships, foster creativity, enhance communication, and create a climate and culture for success. In 2016, Kim was honored at the White House for being inducted into to the National Teachers Hall of Fame. She was selected from over 70,000 nominations to be honored as the Disney American Teacher Awards Outstanding Humanities Teacher, and the Milken Family Foundation selected her to receive the Award for Excellence in Education.

She is the winner of the InfluencHer Award, the University of Georgia Outstanding Educator Award, and the Turknett Character Award for Servant Leadership.

Mercedes-Benz recognized her in their Greatness Lives Here campaign, and Women Works Media Group has named her one of Georgia’s Most Powerful and Influential Women. Over the past thirty-four years, she has been a teacher, instructional lead teacher, curriculum director, school-board member, staffdevelopment trainer, and middle-school principal. Kim is a bestselling author of three books: Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me; Talk to Me: Find the Right Words to Inspire, Encourage, and Get Things Done; and Fight Song: Six Steps to Passion, Power, Peace, and Purpose. Additionally, Kim shares her passion and love for her craft with audiences around the world as a keynote speaker and professional development trainer.

Phoenix Keynote

Focusing on YOU Helps You Focus On Others

By Gerry Brooks

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Gerry will inspire you and make you laugh, as he shares advice and practical ideas that will help you focus on personal and school climate and culture. He will challenge you to be the best you can be in all aspects of your personal and professional life, and how that will allow you to support your students, their parents, and your coworkers in the best way possible.

About Gerry Gerry Brooks is a veteran educator in Lexington, Kentucky. His educational experience includes six years in the classroom, two years as an intervention specialist, and 12 years as an administrator.

He is a passionate public speaker whose focus is on encouraging and helping teachers improve their instructional abilities. He also has a desire to help administrators successfully lead their staff.

An encouraging speaker, he has spoken to educational groups all around the nation. His focus is on encouraging teachers to improve their instruction through personal climate and culture strategies. He desires to help administrators focus on how to lead all staff in a positive and constructive manner.

Phoenix Keynote

Sneaking through the Brain’s Backdoor to Deliver Phonics Faster and Get Kids Reading!

With Katie Garner

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Did you know that the brain has a backdoor for learning that's easily hacked into? Using brain science as a roadmap, discover how to take advantage of early developing “backdoor” learning systems to fast-track letter sound mastery and make phonics easily predictable. No more having to tell kids, “It just is…It just does…You just have to remember…” when they can’t read or spell a word. Instead, you will be armed and ready to help them crack the code they NEED to read!

About Katie Katie Garner (author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind) is an international keynote speaker, author, literacy consultant and teacher with 25 years of classroom experience and a passion for infusing neuroscience into phonics instruction. Her "backdoor to the brain" approach to fast-tracking phonics skills for reading shifts the paradigms associated with science of reading-based instruction. Katie’s fast-paced, dynamic presentations spotlight brain-changing, evidence-based strategies for boosting existing reading and phonics curriculum with the latest neural research showing how our brains learn best. Her practical and proven methods have been the topic of both lecture and panel discussions at Harvard University and MIT, as well as the subject of numerous professional journal articles and publications.

Katie’s Facebook Group, Science of Reading Meets Science of Learning is a popular learning hub for over 145K+ educators from around the world and provides access to free instructional resources in the group files. bit.ly/SoRgroup.

Phoenix Entertainment

Dance Party w/Jack Hartmann With Jack Hartmann

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Let Music Make Learning Fun! Jack sings live and demonstrates fun and creative movements to a wide variety of early childhood topics including: language development and phonological awareness skills, basic math with counting and number skills, spatial awareness, patterning and more. And, fun skill-building songs on social and behavioral management are also included. This presentation is very uplifting and interactive and offers a great variety of Jack’s best songs.

About Jack Jack Hartmann’s Super Fun Learning Songs are all about making learning even more fun with the very best in children’s educational music. Jack’s music is research-based and teacher approved to focus on helping children learn important state, national and early childhood standards. All of Jack’s songs and videos engage children with not only great educational content, but with cool beats kids love and fun movements.

Jack Hartmann received his BA in Child Psychology from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL and his MA degree in Clinical Psychology from Assumption College in Worcester, MA. Jack began his career of working with autistic children at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, Florida and then he worked as a social worker with delinquent youth in St. Petersburg, Florida and in psychiatry at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jack has presented his wonderful children’s music at teacher workshops and conferences in almost every state in the United States. He has been a keynote and workshop leader at the annual NAEYC and the National Head Start conferences, S.D.E. conferences all across the country and many local and state pre-school, kindergarten and 1st Grade conferences.

Phoenix Special Evening Session A “SoR” Soiree! REAL TALK about the Science of Reading, the Science of Learning, and the Kids Who Eat their Shoe and Lick the Carpet!

With Katie Garner

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Research on the science of reading brings us closer to understanding how the brain learns to read, but not how the brain actually LEARNS? And yet, the science of learning is equally important, especially considering that the "end user" of reading instruction may be five years old and busy eating his shoe. The accepted use of abstract and complex phonics terminology—digraphs, trigraphs, diphthongs, fluids, glides, fricatives, nasalizations, etc.— can make learning slow and difficult. This is because our brains are wired to make connections and it's easier to learn and store information when there's an emotional hook to hang it on.

By aligning skill concepts with feelings and behaviors kids know and understand, like having a crush (au/aw), getting hurt (ou/ow), being sneaky (y), listening to your mom or babysitter when they’re nearby (Mommy E® / Babysitter Vowels®) etc., we can leverage their emotional intelligence to fast-track phonics knowledge and get them READING— easier, earlier and faster!

About Katie Katie Garner (author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind) is an international keynote speaker, author, literacy consultant and teacher with 25 years of classroom experience and a passion for infusing neuroscience into phonics instruction. Her "backdoor to the brain" approach to fast-tracking phonics skills for reading shifts the paradigms associated with science of reading-based instruction. Katie’s fast-paced, dynamic presentations spotlight brain-changing, evidence-based strategies for boosting existing reading and phonics curriculum with the latest neural research showing how our brains learn best. Her practical and proven methods have been the topic of both lecture and panel discussions at Harvard University and MIT, as well as the subject of numerous professional journal articles and publications.

Katie’s Facebook Group, Science of Reading Meets Science of Learning is a popular learning hub for over 145K+ educators from around the world and provides access to free instructional resources in the group files. bit.ly/SoRgroup.

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Phoenix Presenters

Vera Ahiyya Vera Ahiyya was raised in El Paso, Texas with her wonderful mother and amazing grandparents. Vera has taught Kindergarten and first grade for the last 16 years. Her online presence is dedicated to collaborating with other educators by spreading her vast knowledge and love of inclusive children’s books. She is the author of Rebellious Read Alouds, a professional development book for educators. She is also the author of two picture books, You Have a Voice and KINDergarten.

Vera's sessions:

Exploring skin color with books and art - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility Rebellious Read Alouds - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility There’s a Book for That! - ELA

Keri Brown Keri works as a math interventionist for grades K-2 in Alabama. She’s taught both kindergarten and 1st grade her entire teaching career. She’s all about mixing hands-on activities and meaningful tech use into her lessons.

Thriving to be a lifelong learner, she is always on the lookout for fresh ways to engage her students and help fellow teachers. She shares her teaching ideas and what she’s learned along the way through her platform, Enchanted Kinder Garden.

Keri's sessions:

Creating Independent Writers in Primary - Writing Revitalizing Small Groups and Reading Centers with SoR - Science of Reading

MaríaMercedes Champion ¡Hola! My name is MaríaMercedes Champion, an early childhood teacher and consultant educated in Colombia, Spain and the USA, with over 18 years in the Pre-k classroom. I love creating songs, activities, and a playful rich language environment for my students. I am passionate about sharing what I have learned and created with other educators, to learn and PLAY together.

MaríaMercedes' sessions:

Playful Assessment at the ECE level - Data Driven Instruction Puppets and Characters as a MAGICAL Teaching Tool - Play Based Learning

Phoenix Presenters

Jake Daggett Jake is an Ohio native who began his teaching career in Milwaukee, WI in 2015. Having specialized in literacy and phonics instruction, Jake built a following on social media for his engaging and rhythmic phonics lessons.

He is extremely passionate about structured literacy and inclusive classrooms. Jake is in his 8th year of teaching and currently teaches First Grade. On the side, Jake mentors college students as they work through their senior year courses in elementary literacy. He is thrilled to be back for a third year at ELEVATE!

Jake's sessions:

Get Movin' & Groovin' with Classroom Engagement! - Classroom Management Sound Walls in K-2 Classrooms - Science of Reading An Interactive, Multisensory Phonics Block - ELA

Christina DeCarbo Christina (Miss DeCarbo) is a PreK-5 literacy coach, reading specialist, national presenter, and curriculum author from Northeast, Ohio. She is trained in structured literacy at the Associate Level through the Orton Gillingham Academy and LETRS. Her research-based sessions are packed with engaging lessons and creative tools to help students reach their greatest potential as readers, writers, and problem-solvers. Christina loves collaborating with educators on Instagram @missdecarbo. As a mom of two little ones, she enjoys spending time with family and drinking coffee!

You can learn more about Christina on her website at www.missdecarbo.com.

Christina's sessions:

You're Invited to a Vocabulary Party! - ELA Make it Multi-Sensory! Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Fun - ELA Don't Wait- Integrate! Connecting Science, Social Studies, and Literacy - CrossCurricular

Phoenix Presenters

Holly Ehle Holly is a full-time educator who has over 20 years of experience teaching kindergarten and serving as an early literacy specialist. She currently has the very unique opportunity of teaching both beginning readers AND preservice teachers in her new position as a Professor of Reading Science, teaching both in the college classroom and in the university’s science of reading pre-k - 4th grade model school program. Holly is passionate about student engagement, differentiated instruction, early literacy, and educational neuroscience. She is currently wrapping up her Ph.D. in Reading, Language, & Literacy with a specialization in Educational Neuroscience and loves helping teachers better understand exactly how the brain learns when beginning to read and write. Professionally, her mission is to teach EVERY child to be a proficient reader and writer, including those with dyslexia and/or other learning challenges. Outside of the classroom, her mission is to help teachers bridge the gap between research and practice in fun and engaging ways. Holly is also dedicated to giving back to educators who work so hard in the classroom, and it was this shared passion that forged her connection with the Kindergarten Smorgasboard/ELEVATE team.

Holly's sessions:

Solving the Mystery Behind Letter Confusions & Reversals! - Science of Reading The Importance of Sound-to-Spelling Activities and Orthographic Mapping - Science of Reading Heart Words! How to Most Effectively Teach (Regular & Irregular) High Frequency Words - ELA

Jamie Hubbard Hello! I am Jamie Hubbard, Early Childhood Specialist and Voluntary PreK Director for Rutherford County Schools in Tennessee. This is my 21st year in education and pre-K students and teachers are my passion. I have a wonderful husband and 9 beautiful grown kiddos who are all making their own waves in this world. My mission in life is to help others find their joy in their lives, jobs and experiences!

Jamie's sessions:

Math, ELA and Dramatic Play Stations with Dollar Store Finds! - Cross-Curricular Building Math Minds - Math * Jamie is unfortunately no longer able to join us in Phoenix. However, her sessions will be available for all attendees in a digital on-demand format, and will be available once the conference begins.

Phoenix Presenters

Katie Knight Katie Knight teaches 1st grade and loves to share her hacks, plans and ideas! Katie welcomes you in, gets real, has you laughing, and helps you feeling energized and equipped to take action! Katie speaks nationally at conferences, and you can find her on social media, Teachers Pay Teachers and her blog, under Teacher To The Core!

Katie's sessions:

The Science of Writing a Perfect Paragraph - Writing Science of Reading : Take a shared reading approach to Science and Social Studies Science of Reading Data Bros - Data Driven Instruction

Melysa Mei Melysa is currently a Pre-K teacher in the country’s largest school system where she practices an open-ended child-led philosophy through play.

With over 16 years and a variety of experiences in the realm of early childhood, Melysa spreads the play-based love through her business, Pre-K Spot. When she is not teaching she is hanging with her husband, two young boys and rescue doggy.

Melysa's sessions:

Playful Storytelling: Building Play, Literacy, and SEL Skills through Storytelling - ELA The Processes of Play - Play Based Learning

Alexia Pendleton Alexia Pendleton is a Kindergarten teacher in Atlantic City, NJ, where she was named teacher of the year for the 2020-2021 school year. She is a wife, mother, hip hop choreographer, and fitness instructor. Known as the @dancerteacher on social media, she loves empowering educators with her high energy sessions. She loves to encourage, motivate, and uplift students, teachers, and administrators for absolute excellence in education!

Alexia's sessions:

Go DJ that’s my DJ! - The Arts Hip Hooray, it’s time to Slay! - The Arts

Phoenix Presenters

Abigail Peterson Abigail Peterson is a current Instructional Coach, supporting teachers within their individual K-5 classrooms. She is a K-8 Nevada licensed teacher, national speaker and creator of the educational brand, Kindergarten Chaos, LLC. After teaching Second Grade, she had the opportunity to teach Kindergarten and immediately fell in love with it. She lives in Las Vegas, NV with her husband and is looking forward to a brand-new, grandbaby this year!

Abigail's sessions:

Intentional Routines & Procedures for the Kindergarten Classroom - Classroom Mgmt.

Making Math Matter - Math

Hilary Statum

Hilary's sessions:

Hilary Statum is an ESL teacher and Reading Instructor in Middle Tennessee with over 15 years of experience at the school she attended. She has experience teaching kindergarten, first, transitional-first, second, fourth, and fifth graders! She is the published author of two books, Solar System for Kids and Kindergarten Activity Book: Unicorns and the face behind Pencils to Pigtails, a blog for parents and teachers. She holds a Master’s Degree in Instructional Leadership and enjoys coordinating and teaching her school district’s free parent English class. Her favorite days are spent with her two young girls and baby boy, husband, parents, siblings, and the rest of her very large extended family. You can connect with Hilary on all social media platforms using the handle @pencilstopigtails.

ESL Instructional Tips and Tricks - ESL Simple Science - Science

Phoenix Presenters

LeAnna Wolkis-Goldstein LeAnna Wolkis Goldstein is an energetic and passionate Kindergarten Teacher from Arizona with over 25 years of teaching experience. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University, a Master’s Degree from NAU, an Early Childhood Endorsement and achieved the rigorous advanced credentials of National Board Certification. While teaching in her award-winning classroom, The “Wolkis Wonderland,” she designs mini hands-on center based stations that are brought to life with novel realia. As a nationally recognized presenter, LeAnna empowers educators to create cooperative learning environments utilizing music, movement & manipulatives that foster 100% student engagement. Follow along inside LeAnna’s magical experiences on Instagram: @wolkiswonderland Twitter: @WolkisWonders and her website: Wolkis Wonders

LeAnna's sessions:

Encouraging a Growth Mindset: Every Students a Persistent Problem-Solver - SEL Powered By : Dice, Dominoes & Decks Of Cards - Math

Katie Wonderly Katie is an eighth-year elementary music teacher, making music with her favorite young musicians in Oklahoma City. She graduated with her Bachelor's Degree in Vocal Music Education from Oklahoma City University and is a Kodály-certified educator. She was named the 2020 Putnam City District Teacher of the Year and the 2021 Outstanding Young Music Educator for the Oklahoma Music Educators Association. Katie is passionate about teaching music by all people to all people, aiming for every student to leave her room knowing their voice matters and that they are an essential part of the ensemble.

Katie's session:

Playing in Primary - The Arts

Phoenix Sessions At Elevate you get to create your own schedule. The following pages contain all of the breakout sessions available for you to choose from.

special session

A “SoR” Soiree! REAL TALK about the Science of Reading, the Science of Learning, and the Kids Who Eat their Shoe and Lick the Carpet!

By Katie Garner

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Special Session

Research on the science of reading brings us closer to understanding how the brain learns to read, but not how the brain actually LEARNS? And yet, the science of learning is equally important, especially considering that the "end user" of reading instruction may be five years old and busy eating his shoe. The accepted use of abstract and complex phonics terminology— digraphs, trigraphs, diphthongs, fluids, glides, fricatives, nasalizations, etc.— can make learning slow and difficult. This is because our brains are wired to make connections and it's easier to learn and store information when there's an emotional hook to hang it on. By aligning skill concepts with feelings and behaviors kids know and understand, like having a crush (au/aw), getting hurt (ou/ow), being sneaky (y), listening to your mom or babysitter when they’re nearby (Mommy E® / Babysitter Vowels®) etc., we can leverage their emotional intelligence to fast-track phonics knowledge and get them READING—easier, earlier and faster!

Phoenix Sessions At Elevate you get to create your own schedule. The following pages contain all of the breakout sessions available for you to choose from.

Science of Reading

Solving the Mystery Behind Letter Confusions & Reversals!

By Holly Ehle

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Science of Reading

Ever wonder why students confuse visually similar letterforms?

Want to know why (or how) some children write their names or some letterforms mirror-image backwards? In this session Holly will share the educational neuroscience behind why letter confusions & reversals occur and exactly what you, as a teacher, can do to “fix” them!

Research supporting this session

The Importance of Sound-to-Spelling Activities and Orthographic Mapping

By Holly Ehle

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Science of Reading

The Importance of Sound to Spelling Activities and Orthographic Mapping: This session will review why teaching using a speech-toprint approach is so important at the primary level and will share dozens of engaging activity ideas on how to put this into action in your classroom! After this session you will understand why phonemic awareness is essential to mapping words into permanent memory, why we do NOT want to teach highfrequency words as images on flashcards, and you will better understand why decodable texts are so important for beginning readers!

Research supporting this session

Phoenix Sessions

Sound Walls in K-2 Classrooms

By Jake Daggett | Science of Reading Do I need a word wall? Do I need a sound wall? How do I use a sound wall? How do students use a sound wall? What IS a sound wall? Answer all these FAQs and more in Jake's exploration of both phonological and orthographical sound wall usage.

Research supporting this session

Revitalizing Small Groups and Reading Centers with SoR

By Keri Brown | Science of Reading Let’s ditch the overwhelm when it comes to tweaking what we’ve been doing and making sure we are using Science of Reading strategies in our intervention, small groups and centers. In this session, we will go over some routines that you can incorporate into your daily lesson to add in SoR. Walk away with activities and ideas that you can use with your primary students.

Research supporting this session

Science of Reading : Take a shared reading approach to Science and Social Studies

By Katie Knight | Science of Reading This is a jam packed session that will equip you with a list of comprehension questions that you can apply to any book ! We will also dive into shared reading and play a reading game that will help your students comprehend at a deeper level! Katie is known for sessions that are fast-paced and fun! You will leave energized and equipped!

Research supporting this session

Phoenix Sessions

english language arts

There's a Book for That!

By Vera Ahiyya

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ELA

Join Vera in an engaging and interactive professional development session for Kindergarten teachers, where we will dive into the world of picture books and their role in enhancing comprehension skills. Explore a variety of captivating picture books across different content areas while discussing corresponding comprehension questions. Together, we will collaboratively design fun and accessible activities that cater to the needs of all learners, ensuring an enriching experience for everyone involved.

Research supporting this session

An Interactive, Multisensory Phonics Block

By Jake Daggett

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ELA

No matter the curriculum, phonics has been in the news more than ever as districts move towards selecting curricula that are science of reading-aligned. Learn how to get moving and grooving with multisensory and kinesthetic approaches to your daily phonics block.

Research supporting this session

Phoenix Sessions

Heart Words! How to Most Effectively Teach (Regular & Irregular) High Frequency Words

By Holly Ehle | ELA

Research supporting this session

As primary teachers, we all know how important it is to teach our students to read high frequency words quickly and fluently! But do you know what the science of reading has revealed about how to do it in a way that best aligns with how children’s brains learn? In this session, you will learn that the human brain actually stores words in permanent memory by phonological representation and that when we teach kids to memorize words as visual images they are only stored temporarily as general easily confusable images.

Join Holly in this session to learn how to make word learning permanent using evidence-based instructional activities!

You're Invited to a Vocabulary Party!

By Christina DeCarbo | ELA

Research supporting this session

In this hands-on session, Christina teaches you how to cultivate a classroom of little learners who love words! We’ll dive into the bestpractices for vocabulary instruction, and discover the importance of oral language, direct and indirect instruction, morphology, context, word play, and more! You’ll walk away with a bag of party favors that includes lessons, activities, games, and strategies that will turn your students into voracious vocabulary experts! (Please bring a box of crayons to the party.)

Make it Multi-Sensory! Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Fun

By Christina DeCarbo | ELA

Research supporting this session

In this jam-packed session, Christina shares her favorite phonemic awareness and phonics activities, games, and centers for your whole-group and small group reading instruction. Discover research-aligned activities that will help students become skilled and confident decoders. Leave with tons of tried-and-true ideas, strategies, and tips that you can implement right away. You and your students will love these practical, hands-on, and multisensory activities for phonemic awareness and phonics fun!

Phoenix Sessions

Playful Storytelling: Building Play, Literacy, and SEL Skills through Storytelling

By Melysa Mei | ELA Let's discover the seamless blend of storytelling and play! We'll explore how narratives can spark imagination and enhance play, while also being a pivotal tool for literacy and social-emotional learning (SEL) in early childhood education. Learn strategies to scaffold storytelling that enriches language skills, fosters empathy, and supports emotional understanding in young learners. You'll gain practical insights into integrating storytelling into your daily curriculum, effectively nurturing play, literacy and SEL. Let's learn innovative methods to cultivate a play-based story-rich environment that promotes learning and development. It's time to transform your classroom with the magic of storytelling, creating a dynamic, playful, and educational experience for your students.

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Science

Simple Science

By Hilary Statum | Science In this unique hands-on session, you'll go through the scientific steps and complete several investigations perfect for primary grades! These 10 classroom-approved, low-prep, and highengagement experiments use items you already have on hand.

Hilary also shares favorite science books, perfect standard pairings, and research tips for your little mad scientists. Return to your classroom with detailed lesson plans, photos, and planning & reflection sheets for each of the 10 experiments!

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math

Making Math Matter

By Abigail Peterson | Math Struggling with understanding the math standards and explicitly teaching the different standards within the five major strands of math? Take a deep breath as Abigail breaks down the major strands of kindergarten math: Counting & Cardinality, Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Number & Operations in Base Ten, Measurement & Data, and Geometry. She shares a plethora of ideas for whole-group instruction, and independent practice for many of the standards across all strands.

Powered By : Dice, Dominoes & Decks Of Cards

By LeAnna Wolkis-Goldstein | Math Reinforce math concepts the fun way—with entertaining centers & motivating games! See how to differentiate your instruction for your Little Learners while modeling how to share your thinking in many ways. Explore how to use dots, dice, dominoes, and decks of cards to lead your students through the introduction of math standards. Encourage your junior mathematicians to record their thinking using objects, words, pictures, and numbers.

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Building Math Minds

By Jamie Hubbard | Math What should Math look like in a PreK classroom? Join me for a look at whole group, small group and play centers/stations that put the MAGIC back in math! * Jamie is unfortunately no longer able to join us in Phoenix.

However, her sessions will be available for all attendees in a digital on-demand format, and will be available once the conference begins.

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cross curricular

Math, ELA and Dramatic Play Stations with Dollar Store Finds!

By Jamie Hubbard | Cross Curricular Creating fun and engaging activities and play stations in your classroom does not have to be expensive! Join me for a dive into the Dollar Store - let's see what fun we can create! * Jamie is unfortunately no longer able to join us in Phoenix.

However, her sessions will be available for all attendees in a digital on-demand format, and will be available once the conference begins.

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Don't Wait- Integrate! Connecting Science, Social Studies, and Literacy

By Christina DeCarbo | Cross Curricular The science of reading is not just about phonics! In this session, Christina focuses on the language comprehension side of the reading rope. Learn the importance of background knowledge and the critical role it plays in our students’ comprehension skills.

Discover creative whole-group and small-group activities that will help you integrate science, social studies, and literacy skills with ease, engagement, and fun!

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Centers Management Made Simple

By Mr. Greg | Cross Curricular Get familiar with standards-based and differentiated math and literacy centers and explore ways to effectively manage your math or literacy centers. Plus discover how center wheels and tubs help make managing and rotating centers simple for you and your students through the use of choice and voice.

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Kick Your Day off RIGHT With Morning Meeting

By Mr. Greg | Cross Curricular I'll show you how 10-20 minutes each morning can change the dynamics of your classroom and make it more like a family. You'll learn the components of morning meetings as well as ideas for greetings, activities & morning messages to use in your classroom starting tomorrow!

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The Arts

Playing in Primary

By Katie Wonderly | The Arts Music is for everyone, including our littlest learners! In this session, Katie will be sharing her favorite lesson ideas and classroom management tips and tricks for playing musical instruments in the primary classroom!

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Go DJ that’s my DJ!

By Alexia Pendleton | The Arts Embedding student leadership strategies throughout the day using hiphop pedagogy.

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Hip Hooray, it’s time to Slay!

By Alexia Pendleton | The Arts Provide tips and strategies to infuse Hip Hop music and dance to engage students and create a joy centered culturally responsive classroom.

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Play Based Learning

The Processes of Play

By Melysa Mei | PBL Get ready to dive into play! It's time explore the rich depths of "process over product" in the realm of early childhood education.

We will unveil the multifaceted processes of play, revealing how they create uniquely meaningful and personalized learning experiences for each child. We'll journey through the perspectives of both children and educators, uncovering how play shapes individual learning paths. Gain practical insights and tools to transform your classroom with purposeful, process-driven play.

This is more than a learning opportunity; it's a chance to revolutionize your approach to education, making every moment of play profoundly impactful. From making choices to documentation, we will go on an essential exploration into making play a powerful conduit for growth and discovery in your classroom.

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Puppets and Characters as a MAGICAL Teaching Tool

By MaríaMercedes Champion | PBL Puppets and characters are the perfect tools for capturing the attention of young children and building their social-emotional, math, and even writing skills. Come find the perfect puppet or character for teaching difficult concepts, creating strong homeschool connections, and growing your children's language and communication skills.

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social emotional learning

Encouraging a Growth Mindset: Every Students a Persistent ProblemSolver

By LeAnna Wolkis-Goldstein | SEL Build time throughout your day to support your students’ efforts as they try new things, attempt to solve problems, become risk takers, and leap into the unknown as they reach their full potential. Learn how to develop an atmosphere in which children embrace challenges and demonstrate persistence when tackling learning outside their comfort zone. LeAnna focuses on creating a mindset in your classroom that allows students to learn through their mistakes and stay motivated as they travel along the path to success!

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writing

The Science of Writing a Perfect Paragraph

By Katie Knight | Writing It all starts at the sentence level! Come and hear the best tips for winning the battle of capitalizing and punctuating! Katie shares ideas that excite your students and make them WANT to write.

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Creating Independent Writers in Primary

By Keri Brown | Writing Yes! Kindergarteners can be independent writers. Change your students’ mindsets – they really CAN do it! Gain writing ideas and teaching strategies to make it happen. I’ll cover minilesson ideas to kick off the start of the school year. Find out how to showcase seasonal and themed words and how to give each of these words to your students.

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Classroom Management

Get Movin' & Groovin' with Classroom Engagement!

By Jake Daggett | Classroom Management In the latest Active View of Reading, we know motivation is a key factor for reading success. Explore some kinesthetic ways to incorporate TPR, rhythm, and movement in your classroom management and student engagement.

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Intentional Routines & Procedures for the Kindergarten Classroom

By Abigail Peterson | Classroom Management Intentional and effective classroom management tips for your teacher bag of tricks! Get new ideas for teaching specific routines and procedures that kindergartners need to know. Abigail covers the rules, routines, and procedures that are essential to a successful school year. As well as what picture books she suggest to teach certain classroom rules & concepts and how to apply them to your kindergartners.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility

Exploring skin color with books and art

By Vera Ahiyya | D.E.I.A. Join us for an engaging professional development session tailored to early childhood educators! Discover innovative approaches in utilizing books and art as powerful tools to foster meaningful conversations about skin color with your students. Gain practical strategies and insights to promote diversity, inclusion, and empathy in the classroom while cultivating a positive learning environment for all.

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Rebellious Read Alouds

By Vera Ahiyya | D.E.I.A. Children yearn to see themselves in our classrooms. In this session, we'll discover how our culture reveals itself in the classroom and make connections between diversity and our students using children's books. Confidently engage in conversations about cultural backgrounds and identify higher-order thinking questions to use with children's books about diversity. You'll walk away with a toolbox full of strategies to help you talk about diversity.

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data driven instruction

Playful Assessment at the ECE level

By MaríaMercedes Champion | Data You know that young children need to play to learn but are you ready to assess their strengths and set goals for instruction through play? Let’s talk about how to assess little ones so you can plan engaging activities every day, creating a rich playful learning environment for each of your students.

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Data Bros.

By Mr. Greg & Katie Knight | Data This session will help teachers win at the game of data. Mr. Greg and Katie Knight will share classroom-tested and research-based ideas to help you get your data fast, understand reports to take instructional action, and celebrate learning growth. All ideas and resources shared will work no matter what program your school uses!

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ESL

ESL Instructional Tips and Tricks

By Hilary Statum | ESL Do you feel confident you are reaching EVERY learner? In this interactive session, discover research-based strategies to help multilingual students reach their full potential. Hilary draws on over a decade of experience using these time-tested strategies to help students AND parents master vocabulary words, build communication confidence, and develop a love for languages. She also shares common mistakes to avoid. Teachers will return with a toolkit of ideas, new games to play, and resources to reach every student!

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Research Supporting Sessions All ELEVATE conference sessions are based on research.

It is one of our requirements to be a speaker for ELEVATE. Below are some of the sources from research that our speakers are using within their classrooms for best instructional practices, and to build their Professional Development sessions for ELEVATE! Adjapong, E. S., & Emdin, C. (2015). Rethinking pedagogy in urban spaces: Implementing hip-hop pedagogy in the urban science classroom. Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 11, 6677.

Adjapong, E. S., & Emdin, C. (2015). Rethinking pedagogy in urban spaces: Implementing hip-hop pedagogy in the urban science classroom. Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 11, 6677.

Al-Omari, A. A. (2013). The Relationship between Decision Making Styles and Leadership Styles among Public Schools Principals. International Education Studies, 6(7), 100-110.

Allen-Hughes, L. (2013). The social benefits of the morning meeting: Creating a space for social and character education in the classroom.

An, S. (2020), "The impact of STEAM integration on preservice teachers' disposition and knowledge", Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 27-42.

Archer, Anita L., and Charles A. Hughes. Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching. Guilford Press, 2011.

Bangert-Drowns, R., Hurley, M., Wilkinson, B. (2004). The effects of school-based writing-to-learn interventions on academic achievement: A meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 74, 29– 58. Students understand and retain material read or presented in science, social studies, and mathematics when they are asked to write about it https://colegiopspchubut.com.ar/storage/2023/02/Best-Practices-in-Writing-Instruction-ThirdEdition.pdf#page=16 Batiyrovna, Mamatova Madina. "Preschool Age Children’s Fine Motor Skills Development." American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 03, no. 04 (April 30, 2021): 516–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/volume03issue04-83.

Beck, I. L. (2013). Bringing Words to Life, Second Edition: Robust Vocabulary Instruction. Guilford Publications, Incorporated.

Beers, G. Kylene, and Robert E. Probst. Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies. Heinemann, 2016.

Beers, K., & Probst, E. (2017). Disrupting thinking: Why how we read matters: Why how we read matters.

Scholastic.

Ben Mardell, Jen Ryan, Mara Krechevsky, Megina Baker, Savhannah Schulz, Yvonne Liu Constant (2023) A Pedagogy of Play: Supporting Playful learning in classrooms and schools Berninger, V. W. (2000). Development of language by hand and its connections with language by ear, mouth, and eye. Topics in Language Disorders, 20(4), 65–84. https://doi.org/10.1097/00011363200020040-00007 Bishop, R. S. (1990). Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom, 6(3).

Bishop, R. S. (1990). Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom, 6(3).

Research Supporting Sessions Boaler, J., Chen, L., Williams, C., & Cordero, M. V. (2016). Seeing as Understanding: The Importance of Visual Mathematics for our Brain and Learning. Journal of Applied & Computational Mathematics, 05(05) Bondy, E., & Ketts, S. (2001). “Like Being at the Breakfast Table”: The Power of Classroom Morning Meeting. Childhood Education, 77(3), 144-149.

Boyer, N. & Ehri, L.C. (2011). Contribution of phonemic segmentation instruction with letters and articulation pictures to word reading and spelling in beginners. Scientific Studies of Reading, 15(5), 440-470.

Boylan, F., Barblett, L., & Knaus, M. (2018). Early Childhood Teachers’ Perspectives of Growth Mindset: Developing Agency in Children. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 43(3), 16-24. https://doi.org/10.23965/AJEC.43.3.02 Brady, S. A. (2020). A 2020 perspective on research findings on alphabetics (phoneme awareness and phonics): Implications for instruction. The Reading League Journal, 1(3), 20-28.

Broughton, A. (2016). Straight outta K-1: An autoethnographic analysis of a black male teacher's experience employing hip hop in a kindergarten-first grade classroom (Order No. 10127120). Available from Diversity Collection; Social Science Premium Collection. (1809746685).

Brown, S & Vaughan, C. Play, How it Shapes the brain.Opens the imagination, and Invigorates the SoulNew York: Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2009.

Buckner, L. (n.d.). Calming Spaces in Schools and Classrooms Calming Spaces in Schools and Classrooms. Retrieved July 5, 2023, from https://jurupausd.org/ourdistrict/ps/pico/Documents/Calming-Spaces-in-Schools-and-Classrooms.pdf Burkins, J. M., and Yates, K. (2021). Shifting the balance: 6 ways to bring the science of reading into the balanced literacy classroom. Stenhouse Publishers.

Candice R. Stefanou, Kathleen C. Perencevich, Matthew DiCintio & Julianne C. Turner (2004) Supporting Autonomy in the Classroom: Ways Teachers Encourage Student Decision Making and Ownership, Educational Psychologist, 39:2, 97-110, DOI: 10.1207/s15326985ep3902_2 Carlson, A. G., Rowe, E., Curby, Tw., ((2013) Disentangling Fine Motor Skills' Relations to Academic Achievement: The relative contributions of Visual -Spatiial Integration and Visual-Motor Coordination> Thr Journal of Generic Psychology. Volume 174 issue 5 ‌CASEL. (2022). What Is the CASEL Framework? CASEL. https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-isthe-casel-framework/ Charara, Jeanane; Miller, Emily Adah; Krajcik, Joseph (2021) Knowledge in Use: Designing for Play in Kindergarten Science Contexts; Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research. Volume 7. Number 1. 2021. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1288405 Chenoweth, R. (2019, September 5). Rudine Sims Bishop: “Mother” of multicultural children’s literature.

Osu.Edu. https://ehe.osu.edu/news/listing/rudine-sims-bishop-diverse-childrensbooks/ Christie, J (2001) Play as a learning medium. In S. Reifel (Ed.), Theory in context an out (Vol. 3. pp. 358 365). Westport. CT:Ablex.

Cook, Deirdre. (2000). Voice practice: Social and Mathematical talk in imaginative play> Early Child Development and Care, 162, 51-63. EJ 610 324 Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1997). Early reading acquisition and its relation to reading experience and ability 10 years later. Developmental Psychology, 33(6), 934-945.

Dallalfar, A., Kingston-Mann, E., & R. Timothy Sieber. (2011). Transforming classroom culture : inclusive pedagogical practices. In Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. Palgrave Macmillan.

Dehaene S. Inside the letterbox: how literacy transforms the human brain. Cerebrum. 2013 Jun 3;2013:7.

PMID: 23847714; PMCID: PMC3704307.

Dehaene, Stanislas. “Inside the Letterbox: How Literacy Transforms the Human Brain.” Cerebrum : The Dana Forum on Brain Science, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 3 June 2013, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704307/.

Research Supporting Sessions Dehaene. S. (2009). Reading in the brain : The New Science of How We Read. Penguin Books.

Derman, Meral Taner., Zeteroglu, Elva Sahin., Birgul, Arzu Ergisi. (2020) The Effect of Play-Based Math Activities on Different AReas of Develompment in Children 48 to 60 months of age https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244020919531 ‌Dixon, K. (2022). School to Home Connections Through Literacy: SEL Book Bags School to Home Connections Through Literacy: SEL Book Bags. https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi? article=1178&context=theses Duke, Nell K., and Kelly B. Cartwright. “The Science of Reading Progresses: Communicating Advances beyond the Simple View of Reading.” Reading Research Quarterly, vol. 56, no. S1, 7 May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.411.

Duursma, E., Augustyn, M., & Zuckerman, B. (2008). Reading aloud to children: The evidence. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 93(7), 554–557.

Dweck, C. (2023, March 27). Carol Dweck revisits the “growth mindset” (opinion). Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset/2015/09? qs=carol+dweck Ehri, L. C. (2000). Learning to read and learning to spell: Two sides of a coin. Topics in Language Disorders, 20, 19–36."

Ehri, L. C. (2020). The science of learning to read words: A case for systematic phonics instruction.

Ehri, L.C. (2014). Orthographic mapping in the acquisition of sight word reading, spelling memory, and vocabulary learning. Scientific Studies of Reading, 18(1), 5-21.

Ehri, L.C. (2014). Orthographic mapping in the acquisition of sight word reading, spelling memory, and vocabulary learning. Scientific Studies of Reading, 18(1), 5-21.

Enriquez, G., Clark, S. R., & Della Calce, J. (2017). Using children’s literature for dynamic learning frames and growth mindsets. The Reading Teacher, 70(6), 711–719. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1583 Fiona J. Duff & Charles Hulme (2012) The Role of Children's Phonological and Semantic Knowledge in Learning to Read Words, Scientific Studies of Reading, 16:6, 504-525, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2011.598199 Fountas, I. C., & Pinnell, G. S. (1996). Guided reading: Good first teaching for all children. Heinemann.

Fountas, I. C., & Pinnell, G. S. (1996). Guided reading: Good first teaching for all children. Heinemann.

Furman, C. E. (2017). Making Sense with Manipulatives: Developing Mathematical Experiences for Early Childhood Teachers. Education & Culture, 33(2), 67–86. https://doiorg.prescottcollege.idm.oclc.org/10.5703/educationculture.33.2.0067 Gage, N.A, MacSuga-Gage, A.S. (2017 Winter) Salient Classroom Management Skills: Finding the Most Effective Skills to Increase Student Engagement and Decrease Disruptions. Rep Emot Behav Disord Youth,17(1):13-18. PMID: 30686938; PMCID: PMC6345407..

George Georgiou, Tomohiro Inoue & Rauno Parrila (2023) Are Vocabulary and Word Reading Reciprocally Related?, Scientific Studies of Reading, 27:2, 160-168, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2022.2123275 Nagy, W. E., & Anderson, R. C. (1984). How Many Words Are There in Printed School English? Reading Research Quarterly, 19(3), 304.

Gibbs, Anna S.; Reed, Deborah K. (2023) Shared Reading and Science Vocabulary for Kindergarten Students; Early Childhood Education Journal. Volume 51. Number 1. 2023. https://eric.ed.gov/? q=science+kindergarten&id=EJ1361895 Gold, J., & Gibson, A. (2001). Reading aloud to build comprehension. Reading Rockets. https://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-aloud-build-comprehension (Originally published

by Northwest Education) Gold, J., & Gibson, A. (2001). Reading aloud to build comprehension. Reading Rockets. https://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-aloud-build-comprehension (Originally published

by Northwest Education)

Research Supporting Sessions Goodrich, J. Mark; Fitton, Lisa; Chan, Jessica; Davis, C. Jamie. (2023) Assessing Oral Language When Screening Multilingual Children for Learning Disabilities in Reading. Intervention in School and Clinic.

Volume 58. Number 3. Jan 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10534512221081264 Gornto, J. S. (2009). The impact of student leadership in classroom management on student achievement (Order No. 3376763). Available from Publicly Available Content Database; Social Science Premium Collection. (305175201).

Graham, S., & Hebert, M. A. (2010). Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading. A Carnegie Corporation Time to Act Report. Alliance for Excellent Education.

Graham, S., Hebert, M. (2011). Writing-to-read: A meta-analysis of the impact of writing and writing instruction on reading. Harvard Educational Review, 81, 710–744. Increasing time in writing and instrcution in writng will also benefit reading skills. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279741659_Writing_to_Read_A_MetaAnalysis_of_the_Impact_of_Writing_and_Writing_Instruction_on_Reading Graham, S., Macarthur, C. A., & Fitzgerald, J. (2019). Best practices in writing instruction (third edition).

The Guilford Press.

Greene, M. L., & Sawilowsky, S. (2018). Integrating the arts into head start classrooms produces positive impacts on kindergarten readiness. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45, 215–223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.01.003 Hammond, Z. L. (2015). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Corwin.

Hammond, Z. L. (2015). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Corwin.

Hennessy, Nancy Lewis. The Reading Comprehension Blueprint: Helping Students Make Meaning from Text. Paul H. Brookes Publishing, 2021.

Hochman J. Wexler N. & Lemov D. (2017). The writing revolution : a guide to advancing thinking through writing in all subjects and grades. Jossey-Bass a Wiley Brand.

Honey, M., Pearson, G., & Schweingruber, A. (2014). STEM integration in K-12 education: Status, prospects, and an agenda for research. National Academies Press.

Hughes, L. (2013). The Social Benefits of the Morning Meeting 1 Title Page The Social Benefits of the Morning Meeting: Creating a Space for Social and Character Education in the Classroom The Social Benefits of the Morning Meeting 2 Acknowledgements. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED541211.pdf Jennifer M. Zosh, Emily J. Hopkins, Hanne Jensen, Claire Liu, Dave Neale, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, S. Lynneth Solis and David Whitebread 92017) Learning through play: a review of the evidence Jordan N.C., Kaplan D., Ramineni C., & Locuniak M.N. (2009 May). Early math matters: kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes. Develomental Psychology, 45(3):850-67. doi: 10.1037/a0014939.

Joyful Number Talks in Kindergarten. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 13(2). https://doiorg.prescottcollege.idm.oclc.org/10.22329/jtl.v13i2.5684 Kim, J. E. (2010). Hip-hopping pedagogy: An examination of hip-hop enacted in the classroom (Order No. 3417327). Available from Social Science Premium Collection. (746606139).

Kindle, K. J. (2009). Vocabulary development during read-alouds: Primary practices. The Reading Teacher, 63(3), 202–211.

Kyriacou, C. (1987). Teacher stress and burnout: an international review. Educational Research, 29(2), 146–152. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013188870290207 Lange, J. (2021). The importance of using manipulatives in math class (dissertation). Deanna Marie Pecaski McLennan. (2020).

Learning for Justice. (2021). Social justice standards. https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/social-justice-standards

Research Supporting Sessions Lemov, Doug. Teach like a Champion 3.0. Wiley, Wiley, 2021. " Mahiri, J. (Ed.). (2017). Deconstructing race : multicultural education beyond the color-bind. Teachers College Press.

McClain, Janna Brown; Schrodt, Katie. (2021) Making Space for Multilingualism: Using Translanguaging Pedagogies to Disrupt Monolingual Language Ideologies within a Culturally Responsive Kindergarten Curriculum. Reading Teacher. Volume 75. Number 3. Dec 2021. https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2050 McEwing, H. E. (2011). Music, Movement, and Early Literacy: A Best Practices Primer for "Gotta Move!".

Children & Libraries, 9(2), 29-35. https://www.proquest.com/docview/884340836 Moats L. C. (2020). Speech to print : language essentials for teachers (Third). Paul H. Brookes Publishing. - Zgonc, Yvette. (2010). Interventions for all : phonological awareness. Peterborough, NH :Crystal Springs Books.

Moats, L. (2020, Summer). Teaching reading is rocket science: What expert teachers of reading should know and be able to do. American Educator. American Federation of Teachers.

Moats, L. C., & Tolman, C. A. (2019). LETRS: Language essentials for teachers of reading and spelling.

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Montgomery, A. (2012). Bridging the Advocacy Gap with Song-based Picture Books. The Canadian Music Educator, 54(2), 41-44. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1283764798 Murata, A., & Stewart, C. (2017b). Facilitating Mathematical Practices through Visual Representations.

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Neumann, S. B., Copple, C., & Bredekamp, S.(2000). Learning to read and write: Developmentally appropriate practices for young children. National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Newton, E., Padak, N. D., & Rasinski, T. V. (2008). Evidence-based instruction in reading: A professional development guide to vocabulary. Pearson Education.

Newton, E., Padak, N. D., & Rasinski, T. V. (2008). Evidence-based instruction in reading: A professional development guide to vocabulary. Pearson Education.

Nordholm, D., Wermke, W., & Jarl, M. (2022). In the eye of the storm? Mapping out a story of principals’ decision-making in an era of decentralisation and re-centralisation. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 1-21.

Ocak, G. (2010). The Effect of Learning Stations on the Level of Academic Success and Retention of Elementary School Students. The New Educational Review.

Rasinski, T. V. (2003). The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategies for Building Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension. In Google Books. Scholastic Inc. https://books.google.com/books? hl=en&lr=&id=6LTSIaZYA4YC&oi=fnd&pg=PA4&dq=fluency+and+comprehension&ots=t4KKLhfUrw&si g=Yw8zRrvHiKb9s4pjR-bYM4WgaVs#v=onepage&q=fluency%20and%20comprehension&f=false Reading Research Quarterly, 55(S1), S45–S60.- Hennessy N. L. (2021). The reading comprehension blueprint : helping students make meaning from text. Paul H. Brookes Publishing. - Gotlieb, R., Rhinehart, L., & Wolf, M. (2022). The “Reading Brain” is Taught, Not Born: Evidence From the Evolving Neuroscience of Reading for Teachers and Society "W. https://www.thereadingleague.org/wpcontent/uploads/2022/10/The-Reading-Brain.pdf Responsive Classroom. (2013). About responsive classroom. Retrieved March 14, 2013, from http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/about-responsive-classroom ‌Responsive Classroom. (2014, January 3). Reinforcing, Reminding, and Redirecting | Responsive Classroom. Responsive Classroom. https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/reinforcing-remindingand-redirecting/ Reutzel, D. R. (2009). Reading Fluency. ASHA Leader, 14(5), 10. https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.ftr1.14052009.10 Rice University. (n.d.). Diversity defined. https://canvas.rice.edu/courses/252/pages/diversity-defined

Research Supporting Sessions Robertson, S. (2009). Connecting Reading Fluency and Oral Language for Student Success. The ASHA Leader, 14(5), 11–11. https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.ftr2.14052009.11 Schlesinger, N., Gray, S., & Schlesinger, N. W. (2017). The impact of multisensory instruction on learning letter names and sounds, word reading, and spelling. Annals of Dyslexia, 67(3), 219–258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-017-0140-z" Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2019). Exploring systems thinking in school principals ‘decision-making.

International Journal of Leadership in Education, 22(5), 573-596.

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