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3-5 CONFERENCE GUIDE
Dear Educators,
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Welcome to the GYTO 2025 Charlotte Regional Conference! We're thrilled to have you join us for a celebration of learning, collaboration, and inspiration. Get ready for an exciting journey as we throw it back to some of the most beloved sessions from previous years, promising unmatched content that will invest in you as an educator and a human.
Come as you are, and get ready to be in a room surrounded by inspiring humans who understand your day in and day out, and are here to collaborate and support you every step of the way!
Your dedication to education is commendable, and we're here to support you every step of the way. Let's embrace this opportunity to learn, grow, and create lasting connections. Together, we'll make this conference a memorable and enriching experience. Thank you for all that you do for our students and the community.
We are ready for two days of light, laughter, love, and learning, and we hope you are, too! Get your notebooks, colorful pens, and get ready to get hands-on. Because it is go time for best instructional practices - GYTO style!
Amelia, Chris, & LaNesha
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11:30-1:00pm LUNCH
1:00-2:30pm SESSION 3
2:40-4:10pm SESSION 4
8:00-9:40am SESSION 1
10:00-11:30am SESSION 2 11:30-1:00pm LUNCH 1:00- 2:30pm SESSION 3
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3 - 5 s e s s i o n s
SET THE STAGE TO ENGAGE
i h Hope and Wade King
tired of conventional teaching methods that seem to lack the ability to e your students' interest? Hope and Wade King, esteemed educators hors of the best-selling book "The Wild Card," are ready to guide you lizing your teaching approach with excitement, creativity, and a magic. In this session, you will:
er innovative and unconventional methods to engage your students the confines of textbooks and worksheets.
o tap into your students' intrinsic motivation by cultivating an ment that inspires, values, and instills a genuine eagerness to learn. nize how engagement serves as the bridge to student mastery. e strategies to meet and exceed educational standards through a nonnal path.
ss the power of drama, storytelling, and suspense to create moments of and joy in your classroom Join Hope and Wade in this dynamic and g session as they lead you on a transformative journey to turn your om into an engaging and immersive learning environment "Set the Stage ge" is a masterclass in high-impact engagement strategies designed to standards in a non-traditional way, all while enhancing student on, mastery, and retention.
NEON READ ON With Hope King
Close Reading? So what’s all the buzz about? Hope will break it down step-by-step as she teaches you strategies that will empower young readers to attack complex texts with ease. Come to this session prepared to GET YOUR NEON READ ON where you will uncover and experience new possibilities to creating successful readers.
with LaNesha Tabb
Get ready to transform your writing block into an engaging, high-energy experience! In this session, you'll discover a fun, step-by-step approach that turns your students into confident, independent writers. You’ll learn how to guide students through the writing process with tools that make organizing ideas, tracking progress, and taking ownership of their writing a breeze. We will focus on Syntactic Awareness: A game-changing way to teach grammar that ditches boring worksheets and taps into students' natural language instincts and so much more! Walk away with exciting, practical strategies that will supercharge your writing lessons and get your students pumped to write! These strategies will not only make writing fun but also improve reading scores by focusing on writing skills!
THE MATH, SCIENCE, AND SOCIAL STUDIES OF READING
With Amelia Capotosta
Time is always running out during the school day, and we can't create more of it. Instead, let's focus on ways to maximize it! In this session Amelia will give you strategies to squeeze every last rigorous drop out of books in your classroom, while still keeping activities engaging! Learn ways to create cross-curricular lessons using one book to cover standards across all subject areas. By involving all subject areas (yes, even specials!) we can meet the deeper learning needs of students today and tomorrow. Amelia will be the coach of your content area teams, making sure they are all a “good sport” on the way to planning lessons that will accelerate your learners beyond traditional education into a rigorous and relevant flow of knowledge and skills across the curriculum!
AROUND THE WORLD IN 30 BOOKS
With Amelia Capotosta & LaNesha Tabb
Pack your bags and get ready for a globe-trotting journey like no other! Join Amelia and LaNesha or should we say Carmen Sandiego and Waldo, to take our students on an exciting literary adventure around the world! In this actionacked session, Amelia and LaNesha will introduce you to 30 amazing books hat will help you bring global perspectives to your classroom
ut it doesn't stop there—these aren't just any books Each title is handpicked to park curiosity, build background knowledge, and integrate ELA and Social tudies content seamlessly. You'll discover how to use these books to boost ocabulary, strengthen writing skills, and deepen comprehension while teaching ritical social studies concepts. Watch as your students become stronger, more nformed readers as they explore cultures, traditions, and stories from all over he world. Walk away from this session with ready-to-use ideas and strategies hat will help you create rich, interdisciplinary lessons all while making learning fun, engaging adventure for your students! Whether you ’ re building ackground knowledge or taking your students on a cross-continental reading ourney, this session has you covered. Get ready to ignite a love of learning and xploration!
GET YOUR GAME ON 2.0
With Wade King
Greetings, valiant educators! Brace yourselves for a morphing good time as you journey into the realm of educational magic! Join Wade as he takes you through the morphing grid in an interactive training full of fun and excitement to help equip you to wield the transformative power of gamebased and interactive learning to captivate students’ imaginations and elevate classroom engagement! In this session, you will:
Morph into Engagement (Power Up Your Classroom): Buckle up and get ready to set the stage for the magical quest to discover how we can morph ordinary lessons into extraordinary adventures
1. It’s Morphin Time: Unleash the Power! Identify and utilize Hope and Wade King’s Rules of Rigor to ensure every student plays a pivotal role in the quest for knowledge, power up lessons and activities with application rather than memorization, and use Zordon’s guidance to set and establish crystal- clear expectations for a harmonious learning environment.
2. Megazord Mastery: Explore collaborative challenges that transform your classroom into a powerhouse of learning Witness firsthand how combining forces can lead to the ultimate triumph of rigorous learning
3. Gear up, brave educators! Let’s embark on a journey where the Power of Rigor and the Magic of games and activities collide, creating an educational experience that transcends the ordinary! May the Rigor Protect You!
BACK (MATH) TO THE FUTURE
With April Graves
“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.” In this session, we’ll be taking on the mindset of Marty McFly and discussing how past, present, and future tense questioning during daily math warm-up time can be used to successfully increase mathematic achievement. Teachers will be fully equipped with a structured game plan to precisely power up their math time machine.
Two days filled with our favorite research-based workshops that will guide you in creating rigorous and engaging lessons all year long!
Swag that will make you want to bring an extra suitcase! Not to mention all the free goodies from our sponsors!
r e g i s t e r n o w L E T ' S G E T
Training specifically designed for your position from some of today's top educators and administrators who are experts at their craft, with strategies that can be implemented the very next day!
Each attendee receives a professional development certificate for hours of quality professional development over the conference’s two days. two days of content hands-on workshops free swag certificate for 12 pd hours gyto 2-day all access pass: $450
REGISTER NOW WITH JUST A DEPOSIT! Final payment won’t be due until January 2025 Invoice and check options are also available for schools and districts.
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amelia capotosta
Amelia has been making learning magical in Ohio classrooms for over 12 years She has a passion for literacy and using authentic texts to create engaging and rigorous lessons Her classroom is a place where students feel loved and empowered, and she strives to ignite a love of reading in all of her students. Amelia enjoys spreading the effectiveness of authentic texts in the classroom and she does this on her social media platforms @ameliacapotosta.
Amelia believes in the power of taking research-based strategies, and tackling the toughest standards with engaging lessons. Her goal is to enable educators to design and implement differentiated lessons that reach all learners in their classrooms
She is also a mama to 3 wonderful boys and loves spending time reading, playing, and exploring with them!arious conferences all over the country, and oh yeah, being a wife and mom! LaNesha firmly believes that little kids can do BIG things! She is passionate about authentic, global, and culturally relevant teaching strategies from the youngest grades.
wade king
Wade King attended Anderson University, where he received both his undergraduate degree and his Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision Wade has been recognized as a District Choice Teacher and Teacher of The Year.
His students’ outstanding achievement scores and growth on standardized tests were some of the highest scores in the state of South Carolina. Mr. King attributes his students’ success to a “ no excuse ” policy that he models himself
The relationships he fosters with his students, their families, and community is the driving force behind his teaching. Mr. King’s classroom is filled with music, engagement, rigor, and discipline. He strives to prepare his students for their futures and not their pasts, while also placing an emphasis on global learning
april graves
With 20+ years of teaching experience, April Graves, a Spelman College alumna, is a proud 4th grade teacher in the city of Atlanta.
She has served her school district as a teacher leader, mentor, professional development presenter, and she’s been celebrated as a Teacher of The Year.
April has a fun, firm formula that ensures academic growth and continually cultivates a love for math in every student that she encounters Follow @Aprilalldae on social media to check out her polished style and the passion that she brings into her classroom each day.
lanesha tabb
LaNesha Tabb is a proud kindergarten teacher from Indianapolis When she's not in the classroom, you can catch her working with school districts, speaking at various conferences all over the country, and oh yeah, being a wife and mom!
LaNesha firmly believes that little kids can do BIG things! She is passionate about authentic, global, and culturally relevant teaching strategies from the youngest grades.
hope king
Hope King is a decorated educator with over eleven years of experience teaching first through sixth grades. Hope holds a Master’s Degree in Reading. Since working and traveling with Get Your Teach On, Hope has trained thousands of educators
Hope enjoys meeting teachers from all over the country as she shares her passion for student engagement and rigorous content-driven instruction. Hope is the popular blogger behind the website Elementary Shenanigans and is a teacher author for the website Teachers Pay Teachers. Hope is the co-author of the book “The Wild Card” written with her husband Wade King.
Hope is a cofounder of the Get Your Teach On Conference.