ILASCD Pre-K and Kindergarten Conference 2021

March 4–5, 2021

PROGRAM GUIDE

You are invited to attend the 40th Annual ASCD Conference for Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten Educators It is time for the 40th Annual ASCD Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten Conference!

The 2021 Conference features 100 sessions with 70+ Speakers, including Kim Adsit, Adam Peterson, Gerry Brooks, Danny Brassell, Shawn Brown, Donna Whyte, Kim Jordano, Katie Mense, Keri Brown, Vera the Tutu Teacher, Tommie Mabry and many more! You can expect to leave feeling refreshed, inspired, and with tons of practical ideas to use in the classroom ASAP! The 2021 dates are March 4-5 and participants will have access to EVERY session recording for 60 days after the event!

THANKS to the Conference Planning Committee Kathy Brown Peggy Carr Michelle Cimarossa Kathleen Conn Ruth Cormier Michael Creasey Jan Dews Laura Ettema Jamie Evans Julie Frisch Sandy Greenham Gina Harding Debra Honegger Cathleen Hughes

Leanne Jebens Terry Jostes Judy Kmak Pam Kunkel Erika Liburd Rochelle Luttrell Sarah Martino Michelle Matt Lindsey Neff Carol Owles Rebecca Pencak Cathy Pope Leea Shelton Tammy Schmidt

Ryan Nevius

Executive Director 2

Kerry Shilkaitis Katherine Spengler Cindy Snyder Trevor Steinbach Katherine Stengele Meda Sullivan Bev Taylor Clint Thorton Angela Winger- Bryant Robert Winters Tia Zerbe Nancy Zulawski

Bev Taylor Conference Chair

Bill Dodds Associate Director

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS March 1, 2021

CLICK here TO REGISTER NOW online

The 2021 Conference looks a bit different....

Please keep the following in mind as you prep for the 40th Annual Pre-K & Kindergarten Conference.

• You don’t need session tickets for the Breakout sessions. There are over 100 breakouts sessions covering all the hot topics in the Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom. Sessions are hands-on and interactive! This is not a ZOOM MEETING! • Watch all the Sessions! You have access to all session recordings and handouts for 60 days after the conference dates!

• This conference is for YOU! We specialize in a unique experience specifically designed for Pre-K and Kindergarten superheroes! The days of adapting down your Professional Development and attending all grade level conferences are OVER! • Who doesn’t love to shop? Check out all exhibitors for your classroom and teaching needs in the Interactive Expo Hall.

• There’s no reason we can’t network with our colleagues from around the country. Many times the best ideas come from our fellow educator. We will feature Live interactive chat rooms!

• Every fifth person who registers from your school or district may attend the ASCD Pre-K and Kindergarten Conference at no cost.

Please call ASCD at 800-933-ASCD (2723), Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. eastern time if you have any questions regarding the conference registration.

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Conference Schedule

THURSDAY MORNING KEYNOTE 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE 9:45 - 10:45 a.m. Session A 11:15 - 12:15 p.m. Session B 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Session C 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Session D 3:45 - 4:45 p.m. Session E

Becoming the Best You Can Be with Gerry Brooks

FRIDAY MORNING KEYNOTE 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Friday, March 5, 2021 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE 9:45 - 10:45 a.m. Session F 11:15 - 12:15 p.m. Session G 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Session H 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Session I 3:45 - 4:45 p.m. Session J

Early Childhood Trauma Matters: Understand Them to Teach Them with Tommie Mabry

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Sessions

Handouts Handouts will be made available through the URL link provided after registration closes in February.

• All sessions will be 60 minutes in length.

There will be 15 minute breaks between each session.

• No need to select sessions in advance.

• With our virtual format, you will be able to view ALL sessions over the eight week viewing window.

• The Conference viewing window will close on May 5, 2021.

Session Target Audience P= Pre-Kindergarten K= Kindergarten 1= First Grade A= Administrators

Upcoming Conferences

Professional Development Hours

We hope to see you in person or online in 2022 and 2023 at the Schaumburg Renaissance in Schaumburg, Illinois.

March 2-4, 2022 March 1-3, 2023

Earn 12 PD hours over the days of the conference.

In order to receive credit for Professional Development Hours, you will need to: 1. Complete a Google doc listing the sessions attended.

2. Complete the Evaluation form for each day on the Google doc.

3. You will receive your Evidence of Completion form.

4. Enter the earned hours into ELIS.

Graduate Credit Get 1 hour of graduate credit for your attendance at the 2020 Conference through St. Francis University. Contact Gina Korczak at GKorczak@stfrancis.edu

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CLICK here TO REGISTER NOW online Follow and share your 2021 Kindergarten experiences and pictures using our official Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts. @ILASCD

Conference confirmations will be emailed.

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Featured Presenters KIM ADSIT

VERA AHIYYA, THE TUTU TEACHER

Kim, a former Teacher of the Year, has taught kindergarten for 30 years. She has been a national presenter for more than 20 years, where she focuses on sharing curriculum and strategies that incorporate child-centered activities. She emphasizes the fun of early childhood education by tapping into the curiosity of young children that plants the seed for lifelong learning. Kim has been selected as an Expert Teacher, and she serves as a teacher mentor. She has a Specialist Degree in Early Childhood Education as well as an At-Risk Endorsement. Kim has authored many teacher resources that are available at: https://Teacherspayteachers.com/store/ kim-adsit https://www.facebook.com/KinderGals/ https://www.instagram.com/kindergals/ https://www.pinterest.com/ kindergalkim/kindergals/

Vera Ahiyya (née Corbett) was born in Germany and raised in El Paso, TX. Originally a pre-med student, Vera realized her calling as an educator at Austin College in Sherman, TX, where she majored in History and earned her MA in Education. Vera has taught Kindergarten and first grade for the last 14 years in Texas, Boston, and Brooklyn. Vera’s online presence is dedicated to influencing other educators by spreading her vast knowledge and love of diverse children’s books. Vera’s unwavering commitment to social justice and diversity is also the focal point of her professional development presentations for other educators. Vera lives in Brooklyn with her husband Lonnell and her dog, Mozi. https://thetututeacher.com/ MARY AMOSON

Mary has enjoyed 14 years in the kindergarten classroom, where she enthusiastically uses technology and handson activities to engage her little learners. She loves sharing the ideas, activities, and tools that have worked with her kindergartners through her blog, Sharing Kindergarten. She is committed to instilling passion in teachers because she believes that passion is truly the secret to increasing learning and achievement. https://www.facebook.com/ SharingKindergarten https://sharingkindergarten.com/newsletter/ 6

Featured Presenters DANNY BRASSELL

123 ANDRÉS

For the past two decades, Dr. Danny Brassell has served as an educational advisor to students ranging from preschoolers to rocket scientists. While he has held a variety of titles and worked with leaders from a variety of fields and disciplines, Danny has always considered himself first and foremost a teacher. A recognized authority on leadership development, motivation and communication skills, Danny has been honored consistently for his strategic intellect and practical solutions. Audiences rave about Danny’s ability to deliver meaningful and memorable messages that are applicable for individuals within all levels of organizations. A gregarious, sought-after author, speaker and business consultant, Danny is characterized by friends, colleagues and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful and compassionate individuals in business today. Thousands, from small business owners to corporate executives, have enjoyed his energetic, interactive and informative presentations. https://education.dannybrassell.com/

Andrés and Christina are the Latin Grammywinning music duo 123 Andrés, and their catchy songs get the whole family dancing and learning, in Spanish and English. 123 Andrés tours nationally with concerts for children of all ages and their families. https://123andres.com/

2021 KEYNOTE GERRY BROOKS

Gerry Brooks is principal at an elementary school in Lexington Kentucky. His educational experience includes six 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 contribute to administrators successfully leading their staff. As a passionate 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 positively and constructively. His following on social media has developed through humorous videos that focus on realworld educational experiences. https://www.youtube.com/gerrybrooks 7

Featured Presenters KERI BROWN

JACK HARTMANN

Keri Brown is a kindergarten teacher in Central Alabama. She has taught for 13 years in Kindergarten and First Grade. She loves traveling, meeting other teachers and creating resources for her students.

She is obsessed with all things technology and loves teaching binders how to use it. Reading picture books, crafting in the classroom and enjoying being a classroom family are a few of her favorites. In her free time, Keri loves sharing her teaching adventures on her Instagram, Enchanted Kinder Garden. https://www.instagram.com/ enchantedkindergarden/

Jack Hartmann’s Super Fun Learning Songs are all about making learning even more fun with the very best in 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. https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann https://jackhartmann.com/ BRANDY HEMPEN

ASCD’s class of 2018 Emerging Leader Dr. Brandy Hempen has experience teaching at the primary, intermediate, junior high-grade levels.

Over the past ten years, she has also served as a curriculum coordinator, response to intervention teacher, and instructional coach for a K-8 school district in southern Illinois. She has a a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in differentiated instruction, and a doctoral degree in educational technology and leadership. She presents nationwide on a variety of educational topics and takes great pride in the handson approach she incorporates throughout each workshop. Her passion for bringing education to life is simply contagious. https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UCN2YQxQYvjp7bD59YL_OLQg

SHAWN BROWN

Shawn Brown, originally from Chicago, formed Role Model Productions, Inc to serve today’s youth. He now writes and implements unique and entertaining curriculum enhancement programs for childcare centers, elementary grades and private schools.

He uses infectious music for hooking his audience into learning and moving while having “Super Fun.” Mr. Brown and The Super Fun Show team travel to schools and conferences all over the country with his hit live show, “The Super Fun Show.” https://www.youtube.com/user/ superfunshowdotcom https://superfunshow.com/shawn-brown/ 8

Featured Presenters KENDRICK JOHNSON

KIM JORDANO

Kendrick Johnson is founder of Frontier Educational Consulting.

He began his career as a high school English teacher in Chicago.

Kendrick also spent time working with curriculum and assessment development at the district level, and then transitioned into working with teacher preparation residency programs. Kendrick’s areas of expertise include behavior/ classroom management, data-driven instruction, and culturally relevant and responsive teaching. In his current role as a consultant, Kendrick is committed to providing school districts with researchbased professional development and consulting services around instructional leadership, teacher development, and curriculum design in order to equip leaders and teachers with the tools necessary to cultivate and sustain a robust culture of teaching and learning at their schools.

Kimberly Jordano has incorporated over 30 years of teaching experience into her kindergarten classroom. A master teacher and languagearts mentor in the Los Alamitos School District in California, Kimberly holds a master’s degree in English as a Second Language (ESL). Kim is a fulltime kindergarten teacher in Los Alamitos California, a national teacher presenter and teacher blogger. You can find her posts daily on https://www.instagram. com/kinderbykim/. Kim‘s kindergarten blog is http://kinderbykim.blogspot. com/ and you can find all of her creative teacher resource materials on https://www. teacherspayteachers.com/kinderbykim Kimberly’s goal is to keep the joy in kindergarten while teaching the standards in a meaningful child-centered way!

JEFF KOZIATEK

A speaker should be: engaging, interactive, entertaining, and provide great content that is both easy to and apply.

Jeff brings his street performing background to the table as he engages his audience, delivering quality business tools and concepts with explosive energy, laughs, and professionalism. Jeff collaborates with his clients to ensure that his presentations are the perfect complement to their event and bring exceptional value to their people. https://www.coreauthenticity.com/

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Featured Presenters TOMMIE MAYBRY

MARSHA MCGUIRE

Dr. Tommie Mabry is founder of Tommie Mabry Company and the best selling author of A Dark Journey To a Light Future and If Tommie Can Do It, We Can Do It. Tommie strives to give educators and students a true look at many factors that daunt academic achievement. His platform tackles the experiences and challenges that at-risk students face in communities and educational environments. By focusing on real-life topics such as, Adverse Childhood Experiences(ACEs), Trauma, Bullying, Life Skills, Classroom Management and more, Tommie gives teachers a positive outlook on teaching and learning how childhood adversities affect students’ persistence and resilience levels. As an advocate for education and student success, Tommie has travelled around the country encouraging educators to focus on the whole student and motivating youth to never give up on hope. The world today is full of childhood trauma and toxic stress. In many cases, the home life is the source of the child’s trauma. Many of these children suffer from childhood adversity after being exposed to neglect, sexual, physical and mental abuse. The Tommie Mabry Company has touched many lives and opened doors for youth by acknowledging Tommie’s personal struggles and demonstrating his success after graduating from Tougaloo College with a Masters of Arts in Child Development and developing the https://www. tommiemabry.com/.

Marsha McGuire is a kindergarten teacher in Cadillac, Michigan where she has accumulated over 15 years of experience teaching in early childhood classrooms. Her undergraduate degree was completed at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and her graduate degree in Early Childhood Education with a focus on Differentiated Instruction at Grand Valley State University.

Marsha is also the author and creator behind the blog, A Differentiated Kindergarten, where she shares ideas, activities, and products. Her blog has become an avenue to aide other instructors in developing practical, developmentally appropriate, and differentiated instructional strategies in their classroom. https://differentiatedkindergarten.com/ KATIE MENSE

Katie has taught kindergarten for more than 14 years and has a passion for creating fun, hands-on lessons and to meet the needs of all students. As a student who struggled through school, she truly understands that every student has different needs and learning styles. Katie has an MA in Education and also earned an additional 24 hours through a STEM grant. She loves to share her ideas and teaching experiences on her award-winning blog, https:// littlekinderwarriors.com/ or on social media @littlekinderwarriorsd 10

Featured Presenters DONNA WHYTE

ADAM PETERSON

Donna Whyte is a certified teacher, an education consultant and an author.

Her positive attitude, high energy, and her many practical ideas make her presentations exciting and valuable to educators. Donna has published several books including You Can’t Teach a Class You Can’t Manage and a 2nd edition of Morning Meeting ~ Afternoon Wrap Up. She is also the author of Social, Emotional and Behavioral Interventions, The Reading Aptitude Continuum and My Writing Words. https://www.thesmartiezone.com/

Adam Peterson is an educator, speaker, author, and vlogger most known for his YouTube channel, Teachers Learn Too. A kindergarten teacher with over 13 years in the classroom, Adam now dedicates his time to helping teachers create meaningful and engaging experiences for their students! He’s on a mission to make classrooms as fun as possible to ensure every day is the best day ever in school! https://adampetersoneducation.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UC82IGdESAo9xTp38JVrbW6w GREG SMEDLEYWARREN

DEEDEE WILLS

Deedee began her teaching career in San Diego where she taught at a school with 96% second language learners.

After several years of teaching second grade, she became her district’s literacy coach. She helped to train and implement balanced literacy to the K – 2 staff, but found she missed the classroom and returned to teach Kindergarten. She runs the popular blog https://mrswillskindergarten.com/

Greg has been teaching for 15 years. He spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and is now in his 11th year in Kindergarten, which he’s determined is his calling and passion.

He received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and ELL certification from David Lipscomb University. In 2015 he was selected as Teacher Of The Year. When not in the classroom, Greg enjoys blogging and doing all things teach. His husband (known as The Mister online) is a large part of his blog, social media, and their conference, ELEVATE. They recently added a daughter Adelynn to their family and complete the fam with their dog Butters. https:// thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/ 11

KEYNOTE

Thursday, March 4th - 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Gerry Brooks

Becoming The Best You Can Be What we sometimes forget is how important it is to each individual working with students. This keynote will focus on the importance of personal climate and culture to become the best educator you can be no matter what position you hold.

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION A: 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

A01 Kindergarten Tech Crunch

A02 Next Generation Student Scientists

Keri Brown

Adam Peterson

K• 1

P•K•1

Technology is one of the biggest and most exciting changes in the kindergarten classroom.

Learn how to take full advantage of your devices with tips and ideas for integrating tech into your daily schedule. Learn to app smash, create QR codes and more!

Learning the science standards has never been more fun than this. With a few surprises and exciting twists to your curriculum, Adam will show you ways to make science come alive in your classroom. This handson session will have you and your staff working together to solve problems in ways that can be adapted for even the youngest of learners!

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Thursday, March 4th - SESSION A: 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

A05 Calendar Time

A03 Interventions: Literacy First Aide for the Little Ones K•1

P•K•1

Mary Amoson

Kim Adsit

Fill your teacher toolkit with inexpensive, new ideas for teaching and reteaching the requirements across ELA, math, and sight words during this session. Discover Mary’s fresh activities and games as she walks you through her actual school calendar from her actual classroom. You will discover how you can easily incorporate number sense, ELA and reading ideas, and listening and speaking skills... all that leave your Kinders begging for more.

Wondering what to do when you have tried everything including standing on your head and your kids still don’t get it? In this session Kim will share her favorite intervention strategies for sight words, letter recognition, and foundation skills in literacy. She will also share how she organizes individual tutorial bags for her students so that each child has ownership of the standards they are learning. You will leave this session well equipped with a new bag of tricks for all of your struggling learners.

A06 Shared Reading: A Year’s Worth of Ideas!

A04 Wrangling Up the Kindergarten Writing Standards!

K•1

Mary Pat LaRocca Celine Hill

K•1

Kim Jordano

Come to this presentation and get MANY Shared Reading tips and tricks to use each month throughout the school year! Quality Shared Reading ensures that every child has FUN literacy opportunities EACH day!

We will share monthly poems & songs, our favorite Shared Reading resources and strategies, and how Shared Reading changes and evolves throughout the kindergarten year.

Don’t let the Kindergarten writing standards overwhelm you! Kimberly will show you easy to implement kid tested strategies to make writing successful for all your kinders! Including engaging and creative ideas for Opinion Writing, Narrative and “How To’s!”

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CLICK here TO REGISTER NOW online P - Pre-Kindergarten

K - Kindergarten

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1 - First Grade

A - Administrators

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION A: 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

A09 EMO-tional About Teaching: Using Emojis to Teach with an Emotion in Mind.

A07 One time, I did a TEDx talk...

Intentionalizing the Accidental Teacher Leadership Journey P•K•1•A

P•K•1•A

Tiffany Watkins

Heather Duncan

Participants will learn how to use emojis as a tool to teach their young students how to identify, communicate and convey a feeling.

Participants will also have the opportunity to explore the use of emojis throughout the curriculum i.e., Literacy- identify and label the characters feelings in the beginning, middle and end of a story.

I didn’t set out to become a teacher leader, but after a series of fortunate events I realized leadership was calling me. Do you feel the pull of something...bigger? Learn about the various stages in the leadership journey and spark your thinking around ways YOU can grow (or help your teachers grow!) as Teacher Leaders!

A10 Aprendiendo de Manera Divertida en la Escuela y en la Casa

A08 Remote Learning: How Do We Reach Our Students?

P•K•1•A

P•K•1

Karen Jones Carol Hepner

Martha Mancera Zahidee Marcano

Remote Learning, Digital Days or E-Learning has changed us as teachers. We hope to give everyone some ideas on how to merge the learning in class and home. This year has shown us that we need to be thinking outside the box more than ever before.

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K - Kindergarten

Los participantes aprenderán estrategias de juegos educativos que se pueden implementar tanto en la escuela como en la casa. Los participantes aprenderán ideas para hacer de los juegos educativos una conexión de escuela – hogar.

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1 - First Grade

A - Administrators

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION B: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

B01 Sight Words

B04 Songs, Stories and Community for Young Learners

P•K•1

Deedee Wills

P•K•1•A

123 Andrés

What if we have been teaching sight words all wrong? What if we could move students away from memorization and explicitly taught sight words in a way that helped all learners? What if you could focus on PREVENTION instead of INTERVENTION? Join Deedee as she shares and walks you through sight word instruction that will change the way you teach forever!

Music brings us together and helps us connect, both with each other and with characters in our stories!

Whether you are teaching in-person, virtually or in a hybrid classroom, music can help build community and deepen literacy connections by exploring character and setting from texts and stories. During this session Christina and Andrés of 123 Andrés offer ideas for incorporating arts and music into your teaching, for joy, brain breaks, community, and literacy.

B02 COVID and the Classroom P•K•1•A

Greg Smedley-Warren How our classroom is adapting our teaching, classroom management, centers, and engagement whileteaching face-to-face during Covid-19.

B05 The Reading Breakthrough K•1

Danny Brassell Get ready to move! Discover great ways to motivate your struggling and reluctant readers to read, as Danny demonstrates strategies and books designed to help you increase interest in reading – both in school and at home. Plus, learn about effective, FREE web-based tools you can use to enhance your students’ reading attitudes and aptitudes.

B03 Instructional Learning P•K•1•A

Shawn Brown What are you doing to keep the children drawn into the learning process? What methods and materials work the best for optimum productivity? Puppets, music and “oh my what’s that”?

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K - Kindergarten

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1 - First Grade

A - Administrators

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION B: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

B06 Get Ready, Get Fit, Go

B08 Questioning to Grow Young Minds

Jack Hartmann

Deb Bible

P•K•1

P• K•1•A

Songs for Social Skills, Fitness, Health and Brain Breaks! Let Jack show you songs, movements, and activities to help your children stay healthy, fit and learn to get along with others and build self esteem. Teachers will learn easy - to - learn songs to get children building their brains and bodies in the classroom or at home. Crossing the midline, stretching, stress reduction, coordination, listening and getting the wiggles out will all be presented with the coolest original songs by Jack.

Participants will learn ways to deepen their own and their students’ questioning skills to enhance student learning and engage student curiosity.

B09 What’s Special About Using The Framework for Teaching in Early Childhood P•K•1•A

Pam Rosa Lisa Hood

B07 Make the Shift from a FIXED To a GROWTH MINDSET Program

As an early childhood special education teacher or evaluator have you ever thought, “How can I use The Framework for Teaching to support and grow teaching practice when early childhood students have moderate to severe learning challenges in _______?” and “What are examples of The Framework’s Level 3 and 4 instructional practices “in action” for these children?” These are GREAT questions that will be targeted in this session. Learn about practical, highleverage resources and strategies that you can IMMEDIATELY apply in early childhood special education classrooms for high learning impact.

P•K•1

Carrie Flint Reduce “I CAN’T” language and selfdefeating attitudes of students with fixed mindsets. This workshop presents proven, GROWTH MINDSET teaching strategies that will engage all students to positively increase their confidence and success in participating in physical activities and developing their gross motor skills.

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K - Kindergarten

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1 - First Grade

A - Administrators

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION B: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

B10 Building Empathy and Community: Anti-Racism in Early Childhood Education P• K•1•A

Cheryl Okuda Amber Powel Nathan Gygar 2.0 is a partnership of educators that feel passionate about anti-racism work and the opportunity to connect with other professionals. Our session would share our ideas and inspire conversations with other Early Childhood Educators to create empathetic, inclusive, and safe environments for our youngest learners of any/all backgrounds.

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION C: 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

C01 Get Your Students Writing Independently P•K•1

C02 Five Ways to SQUEEZE in Fine Motor

Keri Brown

Katie Mense

P•K•1

Change your students’ mindsets—they really CAN become independent writers! Keri provides writing ideas and teaching strategies to make it happen. Find out how to showcase seasonal and themed words and give these words to each of your students. See a video of a writing block in action so you’ll know just what to do back in your classroom.

Your standards are plenty and your curriculum is fastpaced. You know as a teacher that those little hands in front of you need to build fine motor skills, but there’s seemingly no time to teach it! Join Katie as she gives you five concrete, practical ways to “squeeze” fine motor skills into your day. From ways to integrate sensory bins to building a proper pencil grip, this session will give you tips of the trade from inside the trenches of a Kindergarten classroom to implement immediately back in yours!

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CLICK here TO REGISTER NOW online P - Pre-Kindergarten

K - Kindergarten

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1 - First Grade

A - Administrators

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION C: 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. teacher takeaways from virtual learning... all to help you. We will cover planning for success, integrating fun, and how to tackle small groups. Bring your questions so you can leave with digital excitement.

C03 Foundations of Reading P•K•1 Donna Whyte

Join Donna to explore the role of alphabetic principles and sight word recognition in emergent/ early readers. Learn the 4 components of letters/sounds and how each plays a role in literacy development. Examine how the brain learns high frequency sight words and learn fun activities for ensuring effective transformation of skill to reading. This is an opportunity to better understand your young readers and the key elements to success.

C06 Everyday Is The B.E.S.T. Day Ever P • K • 1• A

Adam Peterson Turn every day in your classroom into the most positive experience possible! This motivational message is full of ideas to easily implement Adam’s B.E.S.T. Day Ever routine into your own classroom. From building relationships to going above and beyond the expectations, Adam’s tip and tricks will have you laughing, learning, and ready to head back to your classroom!

C04 Let’s Kick it Up a Notch with Some Literacy Center Fun! P•K•1

Kim Jordano Kim will share tons of literacy center ideas that will immerse your kids in letters, sounds, rhyming, sequencing, sight words and more! All activities are designed to be easy to implement and keep your kindergarteners engaged and excited to learn!

C07 Little Big Minds: STEAM for Our Youngest Learners P•K•1

Lindsey Herlehy Cassandra Armstrong STEAM-integrated activities are for all learners, including those in an early childhood setting. Participate in a series of play-based STEAM activities that promote three-dimensional learning through studentcentered activities. Early learners will engage in scientific investigation and inquiry that fosters curiosity, creativity, and innovation through play and open exploration.

C05 Remote Learning in Kindergarten P•K•1

Mary Amoson Let’s talk all about remote learning in Kindergarten.

Mary will walk you through her actual classroom experience and share true P - Pre-Kindergarten

K - Kindergarten

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1 - First Grade

A - Administrators

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION C: 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

C08 Being Honest and Open with Young Children About Racism

C10 Creating Virtual Classrooms for use in Google Classroom

Arathi Jayaram

Pamela Rizkallah Christina Beck

P•K•1

P•K•1

We need to, and can, teach young learners about racism and other social justice issues, through play, storytelling, and discussions. I teach about racism all year long and will share ideas on how educators can be open and honest with little learners. My perspective is that I am a brown, queer, anti-racist, early childhood educator and bring this to be authentic to my topic.

Participants will be taught how to create visually appealing virtual classrooms for use in Google classroom with embedded links. Participants will explore various chrome extensions.

C09 For the Love of Math!

Facilitating Meaningful Learning Experiences that Cultivate Capable and Confident Mathematicians P•K•1•A

Toni Galassini Gavin Creaden Participants will engage in, and reflect on, classroom routines and strategies which elicit divergent thinking, generate rich mathematical discourse, as well as promote a sense of student agency and identity allowing ALL early learners to see themselves as creative, capable, and confident doers of mathematics.

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K - Kindergarten

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A - Administrators

Thursday, March 4th - SESSION D: 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

D03 Making the Most of Your Math Manipulatives

D01 Teaching Tolerance Standards Linked to Children’s Books P•K•1•A

P•K•1 Kim Adsit

Vera “The Tutu Teacher” Now more than ever, educators need to ensure their students are prepared for success as global citizens.

Using the Teaching Tolerance Social Justice standards for grades K-2, Vera will walk you through which books will best help you engage your students in thoughtful, developmentally appropriate conversations.

Do you have math manipulatives like pattern blocks, colored tiles, or unifix cubes in your classroom?

Are you trying to think of more ways to use them to teach EVERY math strand?

Kim will share ideas for counting, shapes, measurement, addition, subtraction, number combinations, and composing & decomposing numbers. You will be able to dig those manipulatives out of the closet and get busy TOMORROW!

D02 Differentiating Reading Lessons in the Kindergarten Classroom K•1

D04 Sing a Song of Shared Reading P•K•1 Deedee Wills

Brandy Hempen Need a way to engage all students in your reading classroom? Join Dr. Brandy Hempen in this workshop showcasing how differentiating instruction could be the key to maximizing student growth (while still keeping your sanity).

Teach to the reading standards in a way that keeps all of your little learners engaged! This workshop will include real classroom activities and a blueprint on exactly how you can make differentiating instruction part of your everyday routine.

Discover how to make the planning process manageable and reading class fun, meaningful, and magical!

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Kick reading engagement into high gear with daily poetry and shared reading fun! Deedee will show you how to keep your students engaged and motivated, while meeting the phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and reading fluency standards. Reach students from all types of learning styles while they sing, move, and fall in love with poetry in your classroom. AND YES! You can do that virtually!

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Thursday, March 4th - SESSION D: 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

D05 Fabulous Fine Motor Morning Work Bins

D07 Creating Interactive Activities for Remote Learning and Small Group Instruction

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Marsha McGuire

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Jill Rafter Roseann Misheck

Morning work has kicked worksheets to the curb. Learn how to revamp your morning work routine with morning work bins that are handson and engaging. You will gather ideas for starting your year out with morning work bins that focus essential fine motor skills needed for developing the dexterity and strength needed for writing. These activities will evolve and grow so that students can continue to use those same fine motor skills, and some new ones, as they practice essential literacy and math skill.

The remote learning adventure of 2020 forced us into uncharted territory. Creating remote learning activities that were meaningful and engaging was challenging, time consuming, and mentally exhausting. It also provided an opportunity for us to learn new teaching platforms and connect with students and families in unique ways. This session will provide an overview of strategies and programs that can be used both in and out of the classroom including SeeSaw, Google Slides, Boom Cards, Interactive Bitmoji classrooms, Loom, and creating individual learning kits.

D06 Get Moving: Learn 12 Awesome Brain Break Songs for Your Class P• K• 1

The Awesome Squad Attendees will learn high energy songs with The Awesome Squad that are full of movements that can be implemented in their classroom immediately. They will learn new ways to teach children how to use the body to create rhythms and foster imagination while simultaneously encouraging movement that enhances brain function and fitness by crossing the center line. Note: Don’t miss this session even if you attended our presentation from last year. We will be debuting new brain break songs for this conference!

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Thursday, March 4th - SESSION D: 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

D09 Collaboration with Early Childhood to Bring Playbased Learning to Kindergarten

D10 A PreK and Kindergarten Journey to Collaboration P•K•A

Michelle Escapa Diane Richey

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Michelle Thompson Susan Kondrat

This session will describe a journey taken by a Preschool For All (PFA) and a Kindergarten Individual Development Survey (KIDS) Coach, along with preschool and kindergarten teachers in order to strengthen cross-sector partnerships, align teaching and learning, and align assessments and data.

In this session teachers and administrators will learn how one district utilized collaboration between their early childhood teachers and kindergarten teachers to bring a play-based model to their all-day kindergarten setting.

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Thursday, March 4th - SESSION E: 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

E01 Creating a Music-full Classroom For All! P•K•1

E03 Teach Through Uncertainty

Carole Stephens

Jeff Koziatek

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Highly usable music for the classroom or e-learning.

Making music lifts spirits, encourages engagement, and advances learning skills.

Miss Carole will share songs, fingerplays and flannelboards you can use in your classroom OR for online learning. Let’s be ready for anything! Use music to encourage physical, linguistic, socio-emotional, creative and cognitive learing across your curriculum.

With a smile!

It is difficult to gather motivation, teach, or empower others when we are rocked with feelings of fatigue, frustration, and anxiety; however, goals must be achieved and students must be cared for. You can accomplish these things with a compass, a mindset, and a team. Come find clarity in uncertainty!

E02 Whoa! What Happened To Our Classroom?!?!

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Adam Peterson

Kendrick Johnson

What?! Wow! Awesome! Those are words every teacher loves to hear, right? Adam’s love of teaching, combined with his creativity, had his students saying this quite often. Whether it’s for a class party, book review, or to boost engagement, Adam’s room flips are sure to excite even the most reluctant learners.

Take a trip through a wild forest, go on a Pokemon hunt, explore a bat cave, and more in this fun learning experience.

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E04 Restorative Behavioral Practices: Using the Behavior Management Cycle to Establish Positive Classroom Culture

Start fostering restorative behavior management practices the first weeks of school by building positive, healthy relationships with students and establishing social capital within your classroom community. The restorative behavior management approach will provide you with strategies to promote high expectations, maximize time on task, and ensure that learning is the top priority. Leave knowing how to apply this restorative behavior management system with your own students.

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Thursday, March 4th - SESSION E: 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

E05 Are YOU okay?

Navigating a Bumpy Sea

E07 A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words

P•K•1 Donna Whyte

P•K•1 Lana Briggs Eduardo Perez

The challenges educators face in today’s school environments are a huge hurdle to their ability to teach. While we are all in the water – some of us are on a yacht, others have a motorboat, sailboat or just a life preserver.

You might even feel like you are drowning.

We each need to acknowledge the obstacles and address the roadblocks of the virtual sea of learning. Join Donna to explore the role of “toxic positivity” when life is out of your control and you feel uncertain. This session is sure to help you navigate your circumstances this year.

Participants will learn to build oral and/or written language in a classroom setting, as well as in a remote learning setting. Strategies will be provided to help develop background knowledge and pre-teach complex vocabulary to students in Pre-K to 1st grade. These strategies will help young learners become confident writers and presenters while making text to real world connections.

E08 Remote Learning during a Pandemic in an Urban School District

E06 Using Fairy Tales to Teach Problem Solving

P•K•1•A Elizabeth Triplett

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Purpose of this session is to describe and explain processes of urban preschool teachers on qualities and other elements that foster remote learning. It is hoped that heuristic tools excavated could be used as a guide to further opportunities and conducive climates for non-digital and digital resources.

Trevor Steinbach Belinda Veillon Have your students make predictions, respond appropriately to information and ideas conveyed orally, and seek answers to questions through active exploration in a fun way as they explore fairy tales. Learn this approach today and implement the process tomorrow with your favorite story or big book.

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Thursday, March 4th - SESSION E: 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

E09 GAME-SET-MATH® for Ages 4-6! Take the Ball - and Run with It!

E10 Starting a PBL Project in your Classroom

P•K•1 Jan Ackmann

P•K•1 Gloria Wittenberg Jeanne Brasel Eryn Kamaryt

Hands-on math for your classroom - Standards-aligned and fun! Your students will thank you - math confidence and testing scores will soar! Learn hands-on math for your classroom using bright, tactile numbered balls 0-20. Math games, math tied to Literacy, Problem-solving, Large motor skill math and more! Let’s do this!

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Have you always wanted to try problem based learning but didn’t know where to start? We’ll help guide you through the steps to start a successful PBL project in your classroom! We’ll also share some of our favorite PBL’s we’ve done throughout the years to give you ideas.

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KEYNOTE

Friday, March 5th - 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Tommie Mabry

Early Childhood Trauma Matters: Understand Them to Teach Them When mentioning socioeconomic issues in persistence for students, “culture of poverty” is a key factor that implies that poverty is passed from one generation to the next through learned behavior. Physiological, social influences and esteem needs are deficiency needs, which arise due to deprivation. This interactive session provides participants with a better understanding of how adverse childhood experiences affect students’ persistence and resilience levels, as well as specific strategies to engage all learners. Participants will learn how effective relationship building with children is fundamental for student and school success. This session will give strategic measures to determine how changing the culture and climate in the school is progressing. Participants will learn how to take an inside-out approach to gather information to inform the overall school’s journey toward differentiation.

Friday, March 5th - SESSION F: 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

F01 Reading Centers, Oh Yeah!

F02 Teach, Play, Learn! How To Create A Purposeful, PlayDriven Classroom

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Keri Brown

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The magic happens in small group so your students must be engaged! You can make it happen with meaningful and well thought out reading centers. Learn how to plan, schedule and implement successful reading centers for every day of the week.

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Adam Peterson Ever feel like you’re bogged down with curriculum, standards, and new manuals?

Well, never fear, Adam is here! Using tried and true methods, Adam will have you laughing, moving, playing, and learning as 26

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION F: 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. you explore ways to make your standards more fun than ever before. With simple tweaks and classroom hacks to board games, card games, and more, you can have your students of any age learning through play in so many ways!

F05 Assess But Don’t Stress P•K•1

Mary Amoson Does assessment and data collection drive you crazy?

It won’t after you apply Mary’s tips and tricks for making it quick and fun. Explore how to organize your assessments without the stress while discovering engaging, interactive, and child-approved ideas for using data to drive your instruction.

F03 Words, Words, Words: Activities and Mini Lessons P•K•1 Kim Adsit

Come along to the Wacky Wonderful World of Words! In this session Kim will share how she teaches words— sight words, vocabulary, word families-through strategy mini lessons. She will share how she organizes and implements the mini lessons. Then she will share mini lessons that will teach word strategies that your kids can use as they become fluent readers. Your kids will become strategic readers as they learn how to attack words with confidence!!

F06 Marvelous Differentiated Math Stations P•K•1

Marsha McGuire Make math stations your students’ favorite time of the day by introducing fun and engaging activities that address their interests, learning profiles, and readiness. Marsha introduces tips and techniques that will quickly take your math stations to the next level.

Gather ideas for organizing materials and creating a classroom of independent and eager learners. Marsha also provides standards-based examples to illustrate counting, number recognition, counting on, decomposing, adding/subtracting, and geometry.

F04 Diving into the Dollar Store!

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Kim Jordano Keep the Kindergarten Standards engaging and fun for all learners. Kimberly will show you how to take your dollar store finds and turn them into creative standards based activities for Math and Literacy Centers!

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION F: 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

F09 Get to Know the Latest & Greatest Picture Books!

F07 Let Us Be Your Fine Motor Friends!

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Katie Maks Tanya Boyle

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Steph McHugh Mary Hamer

In this session, you’ll learn the reasons why some children don’t have adequate fine motor skills, why we as educators need to work to close this gap, how you can embed fine motor activities within your current schedule, and how you can incorporate tech and fine motor together in one!

A crazy-love for all things picture books has led two bff librarians from Yorkville to curate collections of updated, diverse, entertaining, & thought-provoking picture books for their elementary libraries…. and they would love to share those books with YOU! Join them as they highlight a long list of their faves!

F08 Happy and Calm: The Best Activities for Yoga and Mindfulness

F10 STEM for ALL Learners P•K•1•A

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Kristina Ross Amy Haber

Bari Koral Ever wish you could wave a magic wand and create instant calm? Want to feel ready for the year no matter what it looks like? Join Kids yoga expert and popular recording artist Bari Koral in this interactive session. Bari is known for her casual and fun approaches to creating peace. Discover instant calm with a gingerbread man, soak up a rainbow relaxation, listen like a super hero and more. Navigating our world can be challenging, but these beloved tools will help you cultivate peace for yourself and your young students. Bari will catch you up on the latest science about how mindfulness supports growth and development for all ages. You’ll feel refreshed, confident and ready to use your new magic wand in (and out) of your classroom.

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Incorporating play-based monthly STEM activities in the classroom will allow students to communicate, collaborate, and cooperate with their peers while increasing their social and language skills. These activities will increase student engagement and promote creativity while teaching problem solving skills. We will share ideas of how to incorporate STEM into all ELL domains.

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION G: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

G03 Writing – The Tools and the Activities

G01 Math Games to Count On! Box Cars Pre K - K Games P•K•1

P•K•1 Donna Whyte

Jane Felling

Engage and inspire your students to write like you never thought possible! Donna is the author of the Writing Teacher’s Coaching Tool Pack and will address the writing process, along with interventions to use at each step. Return to your classroom ready to meet the needs of the many levels of writers you teach. Build your writing toolbox to create independent writers who take chances and are excited to put ideas on paper.

Come play games that incorporate the use of cards, dice and rulers that help your students practice the following concepts: counting, counting on and back from a given number, recognizing odd and even numbers, subitizing, comparing numbers and learning greatest, least and between, recognizing doubles, make 5 and make 10, building simple graphs. Participants will receive gameboards, ideas for differentiating the activities for all students, journal ideas and math talk extensions. Games can be used whole class or small group/centers. Games are also easy to adapt to a home setting if you are still teaching virtually.

G04 Behavior Management P•K•1•A

Shawn Brown This dimension is the most important of all . Without behavior management you spend more time managing behavior than instructing.

We will explore Classroom management techniques that promote productivity.

G02 Sight Word 60 P•K•1

Greg Smedley-Warren Want to spend 5 minutes a day and have 95% mastery of sight words? This session will show you an effective method to teach sight words to students both face to face and virtually!

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION G: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

G07 Dual Language and Remote Learning

G05 A Culture of Error: Promoting Risk-taking and Growth Mindset in the School Community

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Lisa Dallacqua Rita Guzman

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Kendrick Johnson

Dual language is an additive bilingual model that supports language and literacy development of English and a partner language. This session tells the story of our districtwide implementation of dual language and the shifts that were made to accommodate both blended and remote learning.

What is a culture of error and how can it support your efforts to develop your teachers into life-long learners? School leaders will leave this session with strategies that help establish a risk-taking culture within your school community and develop a plan to build and sustain collaboration and risk-taking in classrooms.

G08 Step Up Your Game II: Creating templates for Seesaw!

G06 Learning by Leaps and Bounds P•K•1

Jack Hartmann

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Joan Sukowicz Rita Tameling

Jack will get everybody up dancing, exercising, moving, groovin’ and learning with lots of new songs to strengthen and support a wide variety of curriculum topics. Letter sounds, vowel sounds, syllables, sight words, counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100 and 150. Also, Jack will share some great tips about his YouTube videos that will engage and educate your children whether you’re doing on-line or classroom learning. Don’t miss the fun, movement and learning with Jack.

Are you familiar with Seesaw but want to learn how to create your own templates?

This session is for you! We will share easy ways to use Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Seesaw to create templates or choice boards for any content area and skill. Bring your own device to play and practice during our sandbox time!

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION G: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

G09 Transform the Dramatic Play Center

G10 Trauma Informed Practice and Anxiety in Young Children P•K•1•A

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Jackie Kops

Tori Davidson

Learn how to transform the dramatic play center into different places and let students take the lead in their learning! Change it into an Ice Cream Shop, Pumpkin Patch, Campsite, Auto Shop, or a place related to your learning theme! Learn quick and easy ways to embed literacy, math, STEM, and science into their play for many themes that you can implement tomorrow! Plus, fun ways you can sneak fine motor into their play!.

When your students walk in the door, they are bringing their entire lives with them. Focusing on the whole child can change the atmosphere in your classroom.

In this session, I will discuss trauma informed practices and what those practices look like in an educational setting. We will be covering what it means to be trauma informed, Adverse Childhood Experiences and the ACE’s study, anxiety in children, and the importance of the language we use when addressing the whole child. I will be providing resources and techniques for practical use in the classroom.

Friday, March 5th - SESSION H: 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

H02 The Science Mash

H01 Using Children’s Literature to Discuss Diversity P•K•1

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Katie Mense 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!

Vera “The Tutu Teacher” 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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Friday, March 5th - SESSION H: 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. guaranteed to delight your students.

Get inspired by Mary’s TONS of pictures and walk-away ideas. Understand how to differentiate your centers for all your learners and connect the learning to the Common Core. Plus, take home activities your students will dive into and have a ball with. This session includes digital make and take freebies.

H03 Sparking Students’ Imaginations P•K•1

Danny Brassell Improve your students’ problemsolving and creative thinking abilities. In this innovative session, Danny shares outstanding activities you can use to challenge your students to think outside, inside and all around the box. Best of all, you’ll learn how to incorporate brain teasers, riddles and games into your daily routines to enhance your students’ imaginations.

H06 Make Your Day Engaging, Enjoyable, and Motivating For You AND Your Young Learners!

H04 High Poverty, High Results: Transformational Teaching of AtRisk Populations

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Mary Pat LaRocca Celine Hill

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Come to this session and go back to your classroom with many strategies to engage today’s young learners!

Learn how important it is to develop rapport and connections with your students. Take home songs, poems, and tactics that will positively gain children’s attention. We will also tell you how we have learned how to make “turn and talks” easy and effective with kindergartners and how you can get your students engaged and talking more and you talking less! We will share every trick and all of our favorite resources (combined 60 years of kindergarten experience!) for positive classroom management, mindful practices, and ways to foster intrinsic motivation in your students.

Kendrick Johnson This session explores the discrepancies between personal and institutional mindsets and their effects on academic achievement among students of color, particularly those living in poverty.

This session explores how to shift from damaging mindsets to liberation mindsets in order to effect change in school culture and promote educator effectiveness.

H05 Centers in Kindergarten P•K•1

Mary Amoson Set up and manage amazing learning centers that are student-friendly, teacher-tested, and P - Pre-Kindergarten

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION H: 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

H08 Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Life Skills NOT Lesson Plans

H10 Books + Makerspaces = Learning Fun!

Michelle Escapa

Marge Cox

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From practical, hands-on activities to embracing a holistic SEL framework, this session makes social and emotional learning the foundation for promoting positive student outcomes.

Participants will understand how a comprehensive, equity-based SEL approach aligns to the SEL Framework competencies, the Illinois Social/Emotional Learning Standards, and KIDS Measures.

Learn from Librarian, author and Makerspace expert, Marge Cox. We will pair books and makerspace activities to gain concepts for exciting lessons. Learn how to choose literature for the makerspace possibilities and learn inexpensive in-home makerspace materials that kids may use to create great learning!

H09 How to Solve the Sight Word Problem P • K •1 • A

Suzanne Vollmer Dani Beck In this presentation teachers will learn a new way to approach sight words using music, visuals, and actions. Teachers will be given step by step instructions on how to create the program and how it can be implemented in the classroom.

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION I: 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

I01 Classroom Hacks: Little Ideas That Save You Lots of Time

I03 Science Blasters P•K•1 Kim Adsit

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Enter into an exciting experience that will help you integrate Science into your own classroom! Kim will show you “explosive” ways to get Kindergartners motivated to learn. Hands-on science activities and experiments, interactive literature, tasty test-tubes, and magical messes will capture your children’s imagination! It’s something that’s OUT OF THIS WORLD!

Keri Brown Come discover classroom hacks that include simple ideas and teaching strategies to save you tons of time. The clever, fresh, and inspiring tricks Keri shares are just too cool not to share!

From tech ideas to classroom organization, you’ll be ready to use these ideas in your classroom tomorrow!

I02 Differentiating Math Lessons in the Kindergarten Classroom P•K•1

I04 SEL Support in an EC classroom with Bouncy, The People Trainer

Brandy Hempen

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Need a way to engage all students in your math classroom? Join Dr. Brandy Hempen in this workshop showcasing how differentiating instruction could be the key to maximizing student growth (while still keeping your sanity).

Teach to the math standards in a way that keeps all of your little learners engaged! This workshop will include real classroom activities and a blueprint on exactly how you can make differentiating instruction part of your everyday routine.

Discover how to make the planning process manageable and math class fun, meaningful, and magical!

P - Pre-Kindergarten

K - Kindergarten

Anita Compart Bouncy, The People Trainer, is an animatronic comfort and service dog that helps children learn how to use breathing and positive self-talk to manage feelings. In this session, teachers will see how the use of this wonderful tool provides students with Social emotional learning strategies, as well as, help them build relationships and responsibilities that carry over outside of the classroom.

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION I: 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

I06 Writer’s Workshop Part 1 P•K•1 Deedee Wills

Are you ready to improve your student’s writing skills?

Deedee Wills will share her best tips and secrets for successful primary grade writers’ workshop. During this extended session you will learn how to: • Plan and organize effective classroom writers’ workshop • Explore various modes of writing instruction in your classroom • Build a strong foundation for student writing • Dive deeper into engaging students through writing lessons

I08 Benefits of an Early Childhood Montessori Education

• Demystify the writing and conferring process

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Tori Davidson

I07 Project-Based Learning

This session will give an overview of the Montessori teaching method, the core components, and the benefits of it. We will discuss the science behind it as well as its direct relation with the normal development of the child. We will also discuss the great benefits and the long-lasting educational outcomes of children in these programs. I will also focus on the importance of hands-on learning.

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Crystal Wash Project-based learning in the primary grades is an authentic learning experience that supports students to collaborate to solve a problem in the real-world. Standards are incorporated across content areas. Teachers will learn how to plan an engaging PBL unit that is relevant and meaningful to students. We will discuss how to map out the standards and processes to ensure an engaging process for all students.

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION I: 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. yoga, and mindfulness to support the social, emotional and physical needs of young children. Even if you can’t touch your toes, this session is designed for every-body. Join globally recognized kids yogi and recording artist Bari Koral in a session that makes yoga engaging, fun and magical. Gain actionable wisdom and tools to help you and your kids manage stress and feel good. Explore Candle Breath, Rainbow Relaxation, The Yoga Alphabet along with other beloved activities These ideas are great if you’re teaching virtually or in a classroom setting. No yoga experience required.

I09 Journaling 2.0 P•K•1

Candace Neil Journaling is a great way to see growth in students throughout the school year. Personal guided expression is my new progressive method to daily journaling. From August to May let me show you the way!

I10 Yoga, Toe-Ga and Social Distancing: Fun Activities that Blend Music, Yoga, and Mindfulness P•K•1

Bari Koral Get ready for Toe-Ga and other fun activities that blend music,

Friday, March 5th - SESSION J: 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

J01 Singing and Dancing Toward Kindness!

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J02 Model, Motivate, Write, Repeat!

Carole Stephens

Adam Peterson

Let’s use music and movement to influence the behaviors we want from our students!

From songs of caring to movement activities, let’s put lyrics in their heads that encourage positive interactions while providing needed exposure to rhythm, rhyme, steady beat and gross motor skills. Practice eye contact with a smile.

Circle ‘round with a giggle! Happiness is contagious. Friendship is the groundwork for acceptance - music is the vehicle.

From tried and true techniques to publishing books with your students, this session has it all! Adam uses personal classroom experiences to give you all the help you need to create engaging lessons that will excite your students about writing.

Through easy modeling, engaging motivational activities, and simple, creative books, your students will be ready to write like never before!

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION J: 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

J03 Equip and Encourage

J05 Classroom Managements

Jeff Koziatek

Mary Amoson

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Each day you give everything you have to your students and each day they expect your best… but how? How do you sustain excellence and thrive for an entire school year? How are YOU holding up? Come equip and encourage yourself for success so you can equip your kids!

The same classroom management strategies don’t work for all students or all teachers. In this eye-opening session, identify tried and true teaching tricks for managing your class and creating a positive and fun learning environment. As a special bonus, Mary will walk you through her actual classroom and show you her set up, organization, and strategies to solve problems before they occur leaving you more time to teach.”

J04 Igniting Super Reading Powers with Readers Workshop!

J06 Writers Workshop Part 2

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Kim Jordano

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This workshop gives a quick overview of how to get started and then gives you many teacher tried and children approved activities to keep your young readers engaged throughout the year.

Kimberly will show you Partner reading and sharing activities how to teach text to self-understandings and activities and multiple activities to keep your Kinder’s engaged! Kim will also show you how to teach nonfiction books with young readers and how to organize non-fiction book clubs.

Super Reader Man activities will also be shared in this idea a minute session!

Deedee Wills Are you ready to improve your student’s writing skills?

Deedee Wills will share her best tips and secrets for successful primary grade writers’ workshop. During this extended session you will learn how to: • Plan and organize effective classroom writers’ workshop • Explore various modes of writing instruction in your classroom • Build a strong foundation for student writing • Dive deeper into engaging students through writing lessons • Demystify the writing and conferring process

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Friday, March 5th - SESSION J: 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

J07 Think Like a Superhero! Utilizing “Whole-Mind” Teaching

J09 “Sweet Home Chicago: Integrating Museums Into Your Curriculum” P•1•A

Danielle Fazio

Tammy Haggerty Jones

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“Sweet Home Chicago” will engage students in authentic scientific exploration using inquiry-based discovery. We will travel to premier museums seeing dinosaurs, belugas, hatching chicks, planets, the flag and butterflies. The tour will include cultural, musical and sporting events, Grant Park, The Bean, deep dish pizza, hot dogs and cheesecake.

How does a Superhero think? What is their mindset? In this session you will learn to teach your students to “Think Like a Superhero!” Using research based growth mindset with non-cognitive skills, get a plan to transform your teaching and improve student progress by utilizing my “wholemind” teaching strategy.

J08 Fabulous Forty: Our Top 40 Books for Student Engagement P•K•1

J10 Pint-Sized Savers Financial Literacy for KIDS! P•K•1•A

Nikki Zolotar Grace VanDerKolk

Judith Dymond Sheryl Szot Gallaher

Join us as we discuss our Top 40 favorite books to use in our classrooms, and activities to engage your students before, during, and after the reading.

How do I include social studies financial literacy standards and Inquiry-Based Learning into my already jam-packed day? Include financial literacy across curriculum with ease. Be introduced to popular children’s books (fiction and informational texts), fun interactives, and a bibliography of popular children’s books for your classroom.

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P - Pre-Kindergarten

K - Kindergarten

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A - Administrators

Please call ASCD at 800-933-ASCD (2723), Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. eastern time if you have any questions regarding the conference registration.

Reminders for the 2021 Conference • No need to sign up for session tickets in 2021. You have access to EVERY Session for 60 days after the conference dates.

• REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS March 1, 2021.

• Register as a Team and Save!

Register four people and the fifth registration is FREE! Every fifth person who registers from your school or district may attend the ASCD Pre-K and Kindergarten Conference at no cost.

• Graduate Credit. Participants at the 40th Annual Illinois ASCD Conference for Pre- Kindergarten & Kindergarten can receive graduate credit for their attendance at this event. Educators can receive one hour of graduate credit through the University of St. Francis. Registration will take place by email, with payment due during the registration process. (Note: the University of St. Francis does not accept VISA credit cards for payment). Email Gina Korczak for more information GKorczak@stfrancis.edu

Future Annual Conferences!

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Summary of Payment Options • Team Discount. ASCD offers a special discount for teams of five individuals. When all five register together (submitted with one coversheet and payment), one team member attends FREE. Find the team savings by adding all team member subtotals, and then multiply by 0.80 (or 80%).

For example, if the sum of subtotals in Step 3 is $2,500, the team pays only $2,000 for five attendees.

• Credit Card. ASCD accepts MasterCard, VISA, AMEX, or Discover Card.

Credit card orders not accepted via email. Call 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) or 1-703-578-9600. Please have your credit card number ready. Se habla Español!

• Mail to ASCD Conference Registration, P.O. Box 826887, Philadelphia, PA 19182-6887 USA • Faxes must be accompanied by a credit card or signed copy of the purchase order (P.O.). Payment or signed P.O. must be included with mailed registration in order to be considered for registration.

• Check. Mail to ASCD Conference Registration, P.O. Box 826887, Philadelphia, PA 19182-6887 USA • Wire Transfer. Email registration@ascd.org for transfer procedures.

• ASCD Gift Certificates/PD Vouchers. Mail to ASCD Conference Registration, P.O. Box 826887, Philadelphia, PA 19182-6887 USA

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