Spring

into Classroom Success with Greg’s Best Classroom Hacks: A Pre-K, Kinder and 1st Grade workshop with Greg Smedley Warren

Are you looking for ways to improve Small Group and classroom management?

Do you want new ideas to bring inspiration and excitement into your classroom?

Join IL ASCD and Greg Smedley-Warren for a full-day workshop covering four timely and relevant topics! The multiple registration options are available to meet anyone's busy schedule!

Topics and Agenda

Explore, Excite, Discover

In this session, you will learn easy, classroom-proven ideas, activities, and games that make engaging students easy! This session includes sensor bin ideas, math and literacy ideas, and art projects! You will leave with ideas and inspiration to bring back to your classroom!

Classroom Management Tips & Ideas

Is classroom management making you crazy? How about some research-based strategies, ideas, and tips to take the chaos out of classroom management? Learn the power of relationships, consistency, and expectations, as well as some easy-toimplement tips and tricks to make your classroom run like a well-oiled machine, all without any behavior programs, rewards, or incentives!

Kick Your Day Off RIGHT With a Morning Meeting

Are you looking for a tool to improve your classroom management and community? Look no further than morning meeting. You will see 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, and morning messages to use in your classroom!

Small Group Instruction Simplified

Can you reduce your workload and simplify your small group instruction? This session will show you how to incorporate what you're already doing in your whole group instruction into small groups to cut your planning in half! In this session, you'll learn organization tips, research-based lessons, and activities and see small group instruction in action in a real kindergarten classroom.

APRIL 21, 2023

IEA SPRINGFIELD, LIVE VIRTUAL OR ONDEMAND 9:00AM-3:00PM CT

REGISTRATION INCLUDES: BREAKFAST, SNACKS, DRINKS HANDOUTS, 5 PD HOURS, AND PARKING. ( LUNCH ON YOUR OWN)

Thursday, March 2nd - SESSION F: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

F01 Games Galore!

UTOPIA A

P • K • 1 (Repeats I01)

Mary Amoson

Need some fresh, new ideas for games and activities kids LOVE to play and that teach the standards? Don’t miss this session! It’s loaded with kid- tested and approved games and quick assessment techniques for learning, practicing, and extending the content.

F02 Vocabulary Rocks

UTOPIA B

K • 1 (Repeats K02)

Matt Halpern awareness to full blown number sense mastery. I’ll also give you ideas and activities to take back into the classroom to implement.

A rich vocabulary is one of the foundational components of successful literacy learning. Deepening children’s vocabulary is critical to helping them read, write, and talk about ideas. How can we plan for vocabulary instruction across the day? What are the best ways to maximize vocabulary learning within the framework of what we’re already doing? Join Matt for some tips, strategies, and fun ways to grow your students’ vocabulary.

F04 Phonemic Awareness High-Yielding Activities for the Classroom

UTOPIA D

P • K • 1

Deedee Willis

If phonics is the racecar, phonemic awareness is the gasoline. Are all phonemic awareness skills created equally? Which skills and activities yield the best results? Deedee will demonstrate which activities, based on the science of reading, to focus on to help all learners become readers.

F05 #TeacherHacks: Top Tips

EUPHORIA

P • K • 1

Hillary Statum

F03 From Nonsense to Number Sense: Math Matters

UTOPIA C K

Keri Brown

Let’s talk about why math matters for our primary students. We will cover how we can take a child from zero

Discover the ah-ha moments of classroom teachers just like you! This session is jam-packed with top teacher tips from effective parent communication tools to classroom management techniques that work. First year teachers and veteran teachers alike will benefit from a wide variety of tips ranging from what to do with early finishers to how to run centers like a pro. Return to your classroom with a renewed sense of energy and a toolkit full of classroom tested and approved strategies!

Thursday, March 2nd - SESSION F: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

F06 Promoting Children’s Deeper Thinking with Open-Ended Questioning

NIRVANA A

P • K • 1

Debra Honegger

Explore the different types of open-ended questions we ask that move students to more complex levels of play and to deeper thinking about academic content. Lots of questions will be shared and brainstormed. You will leave with question stems that can be used with your students tomorrow to deepen your children’s thinking.

F07 Science Mash

NIRVANA B

P • K • 1

Katie Mense

The Science Mash-Kids are naturally curious about the world around them.Tap into that curiosity by blending Science into your literacy and math instruction. In this session, Katie will show you lots of fun, hands-on ways to integrate science into your daily learning by doing the “Science Mash”. Your students’ excitement and love of Science will catch on in a flash!

F08 SEL in Picture Books

NIRVANA C

K • 1

Amany Elgendy

We have heard of calm down corners, we have heard of taking deep breaths, and we have implemented some strategies. Have you used picture books in your classroom to help students realize they are not alone when it comes to big feelings? Join me in our conversation of SEL in Picture Books, and how to utilize them in our classrooms.

F09 Decrease Stress and Increase Productivity CONNECTION

P • K • 1

Mica Ike

This workshop allows participants to explore decreasing stress in and out of the workplace, and increase productivity in the classroom and in their lives. Participants are given steps to take towards self-care, information that will ensure protection from the damaging effects of stress, and the opportunity to improve classroom performance and overall well-being.

F10 COVID 19 and Its Effects on the Social Emotional Needs of the Children in ECE IMAGINATION

P • K • 1

Dana Trummer-Imla

Ashley Passfield

The last few years have shown educators how strong the effects of trauma in the home can be on the classroom setting. The children in early childhood classrooms were not given the chance to have a “normal” classroom experience. Come to our session to delve into the ideas on how the children coming into the classrooms in the next couple years might act or respond. Lets talk about how their experiences might differ from other children and how we as educators can help their transition into the classroom?

Thursday, March 2nd -

F11 Self-Care: the Pathway to Inner Peace INNOVATION

P • K • 1

Carissa Jaminet