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WELCOME WE ARE HAPPY

to welcome you to the 4th Martin Institute Annual Conference. Each year the conference brings together enthusiastic teachers and school leaders from across the country. We invite nationally known keynote speakers and expert practitioners to share ideas that we hope will push you to reflect on your students’ needs, your school, and your teaching practice.

While not every idea or strategy presented will appeal to you, many will and we hope that you will spend the rest of the summer thinking of ways to incorporate new thinking and teaching into your classroom. We aim to support, provoke, and inspire you on behalf of your students and their futures.

This year’s theme is Learning Forward. As educators always striving toward excellence, we must always be learning with a focus on the future so that we can propel our students forward in the right direction, prepared for the challenges and opportunities that await them. We are delighted that you have chosen to spend two days of your summer vacation learning with fellow educators gathered here. We know that the investment of yourselves and your time will be full and fruitful.

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t​ he faculty and staff of Presbyterian Day School (PDS), I am delighted to welcome you to our campus and the 2104 Martin Institute Annual Conference. PDS is p ​ roud​to be associated with the ​M​artin ​I​nstitute and the good work they do in creating opportunities for e​ ducator​s to learn and connect with one another. ​We believe our partnership with the institute and The University of Memphis is one of a kind in the country.

In addition, we appreciate the diverse school perspectives that the Martin Institute incorporates in its programming. ​ ver the years, professional development has been an O important factor in the success of PDS, and we are happy to be a part of offering the same quality professional learning to teachers in our area and beyond. ​We want your time over the next two days to be comfortable and productive. ​If there is anything that we can do to make your​conference experience better, please do not hesitate to ask me​or any member of the PDS staff or team of volunteers.

We are glad you are here and have a great conference.

Sincerely,

Enjoy the next two days.

Jamie Feild Baker, Executive Director Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence

Lee Burns, Headmaster Presbyterian Day School

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

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Ron Berger

Author, Teacher, Chief Academic Officer at Expeditionary Learning, Amherst, MA

Ron Berger is responsible for all aspects of Expeditionary Learning (EL) professional development and instructional program. The goal of Expeditionary Learning is for teachers and students to become leaders of their own learning. Academically rigorous learning expeditions, case studies, projects, fieldwork, and service learning inspire students to think and work as professionals do, contributing high-quality work to authentic audiences beyond the classroom. Learning is active and meaningful; passions are encouraged and nurtured. Berger has over 30 years experience as a teacher, professional development designer, and project leader.

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Donald Hense

Founder and CEO of Friendship Public Charter Schools, Washington, DC

Donald Hense founded Friendship Public Charter Schools in 1997 with the goal of enabling thousands of students in underserved communities to become achievers. The Friendship schools serve more than 8,000 students from kindergarten through twelfth grade on 6 campuses and in 4 turnaround schools. The mission of Friendship Public Charter School is to provide a world-class education that motivates students to achieve high academic standards, enjoy learning, and develop as ethical, literate, well-rounded and self-sufficient citizens who contribute actively to their communities.

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Rafe Esquith

Author and Teacher at Hobart Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA

Rafe Esquith teaches 5th grade at Hobart Elementary School in a embattled neighbor in Los Angeles. He has been called “a genius and a saint” by The New York Times. He has published four books: Real Talk for Real Teachers, Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire, There Are No Shortcuts and Lighting Their Fires. Rafe is one of the most inspiring teachers in America.

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Lee Burns

Headmaster PDS, incoming Headmaster at McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN

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Lee Burns has served as headmaster of Presbyterian Day School (PDS) since 2000. PDS serves 640 boys in Pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. Under his visionary leadership, a once traditional and rigid elementary school has become one of the most innovative schools in the country because of the close attention it pays to what students need to truly be prepared for their futures.

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JUNE 10 • TUESDAY BREAK

FEATURED SPEAKERS

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Moving Towards Excellence Room: Fellowship Hall Speakers: Ron Berger We deeply underestimate the capacity of students to do great things. To make excellence a mission for all children, we need to focus not only on how they perform on assessments, but also on the quality of what they create. When students do work that is beautiful, accurate, and important, it transforms their self-image and elevates their vision.

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When Common Core and the Arts Collide Through Close Reading

Room: Fellowship Hall Speaker: Ron Berger

Zone: A Room: E1132 Speakers: Dr. Robyne Batson, Ms. Karyne Batson

Transforming students’ self-image by focusing on work that is beautiful, accurate and important can lead them toward learning excellence. Listen to Ron expand on his keynote address.

In this session, participants will learn ways to maximize the Common Core curriculum through the use of Thinking Routines and Arts Integration. By engaging in collaborative conversations on the use of artwork, particpants will be equipped to guide students in learning how to examine, explore, inquire, and evaluate their learning, to make connections between reading skills, writing strategies, and to use of visual art. Participants will leave this session with resources and strategies that may be instantly used in the classroom.

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Improv as a Tool for Teaching and Learning

Zone: A Room: Lifetime Fitness Speaker: Scott Field Do you feel like you do the same thing every day? Do your students’ responses barely scratch the surface? Would you like some tools to help them think outside the box, through the box, or look... That box has a turtle in it! Improv is kinesthetic and intensely social. Using it can wake your students up, get them connected to each other and to you, and help them to trust their own ideas and instincts. Best of all, improv is fun. This workshop introduces participants to the rules of improvisational theater and gives participants first-hand experience with simple theater games that can be used to help students get words out of their heads easily, encourage critical thinking skills, and increase creativity.

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Thinking Routines 101: A Recipe for Integrating Routines into the Daily Elementary Curriculum

Zone: A Room: E1130 Speakers: Sherry Creasman. Kim Burns Integrating thinking routines into the elementary curriculum is easier than you think. In this hands-on workshop, learn to recognize that thinking routines naturally weave into their current first through fourth grade classrooms. Participants will discover firsthand that incorporating thinking routines into their curriculum will aid in the development of great habits of the mind for all students. This session will uncover ways to help students to organize and structure their thinking as a variety of routines are shared and practiced. While we will be discussing elementary grade implementation, these thinking routines and approaches are easily used at other grade levels.

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Beyond Grades: Using ePortfolios to Show Student Mastery

Zone: A Room: E1129 Speakers: Megan Wittmann, Melissa Grabske As teaching and learning evolves how can you demonstrate and document what your students can do beyond what a grade reflects? Learn how Parish Episcopal School in Dallas, TX uses ePortfolios to capture and catalogue examples of student work that demonstrates mastery of the skills the school deems important throughout its program. Participants will have the opportunity to explore ways to utilize ePortfolios in their own classroom and school environments. They will also go through the process of choosing and preparing an artifact and reflection tool for potential use in their own ePortfolios.

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Room: Learning Studio

Part 1: Understanding and Reducing Stereotype Threat Speaker: Andrew Watson Sponsor: Translate the Brain This two-part presentation explains the stereotype threat effect, where a student’s desire to disprove a negative stereotype paradoxically promotes its fulfillment. Session A looks at the surprising preconditions that evoke stereotype threat (they’re “in the air,” not in the people), and at the emotional and cognitive responses that reduce students’ success. Session B offers several specific strategies that schools and teachers can use to reduce stereotype threat and boost student performance.

Leading Learners to Level Up

Zone: B Room: E111 Speaker: Jill Gough

How many times are teachers shocked to discover after the learning episodes are complete, that the learners did not, in fact, learn? This session is designed to help teachers find a path for formative assessment that leads learners to “level up”. We will tackle the problem of proficiency by developing and implementing a system of formative assessment that harnesses the power of positivity. Learners will be able to say “I can...” and “Can you help me...” based on the assessment, thus empowering the learner to have control over the path to success.

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Hobart Shakespeareans

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In the film, Hobart Shakespeareans, Teacher Rafe Esquith has a point of view—a very strong one—about educating children of immigrants. Teaching in Los Angeles at one of the nation’s largest inner-city grade schools, Hobart Elementary, Esquith leads his class of fifth graders through an uncompromising curriculum of English, mathematics, geography and literature. He inspires them with cross-country trips to learn history first-hand. And at the end of the semester, every student performs in a full-length Shakespeare play: in this case Hamlet, with advice from actors Ian McKellen and Michael York. Despite language barriers and poverty, these Hobart Shakespeareans move on to attend outstanding colleges, motivated by a teacher honored with a National Medal of Arts.

Part 2: Global Learning through Travel Speaker: Michael Lundquist Sponsor: Student Discoveries Travel is an important part of student experiences and best teaching practices. This talk explains the importance of a quality Global education for today’s students who will be Global citizens. High quality touring and a customized program will lead to better experiential learning that can be tied back to the classroom. Come learn about Student Discoveries and the impact travel can have in the classroom.

Part 3: Transforming Classroom Engagement with Interactive Brain Breaks Speaker: Kelly Hill Sponsor: GoNoodle Is it a challenge to keep your kids’ attention throughout the school day? Of course it is!

Kids have tons of energy, but great things can happen when we channel it for good. GoNoodle, an online suite of physical activity breaks or “brain breaks,” is used by more than 100,000 elementary teachers for just this reason. Designed to improve student behavior, focus and performance, GoNoodle gives teachers an easy, turnkey and effective way to incorporate short bursts of physical activity throughout the day. Studies demonstrate that physical activity is associated with improved academic achievement, academic behaviors and cognitive skills (Institute of Medicine).

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The New Literacy: Teaching Writing for the 21st Century Student

Cross-Curricular STEM Education: A Method for Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

Zone: D Room: D117 Speaker: Holly Chesser

Zone: PK Room: Hussey Commons Speakers: Katherine Ayers, Yuri Quintana, PhD

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Mark Twain penned those words in the 19th century, but the sentiment holds true for all time. Clear, powerful writing isn’t any less important today than in the past.

After all, we haven’t lost the need to understand or to be understood. However, today’s readers do have different expectations as to where they will find writing and what type of writing will capture their attention. These new reader preferences challenge the modern writer to adapt in order to connect. This session will explore the changing relationship between writer and reader, the new venues where they meet, and how the teaching of writing can assist in developing that partnership. Instead of teaching budding writers (of any age) how to communicate for the world of yesterday, let’s teach them how to write lightning bolts for today’s world!

STEM education is the preparation of students in the competencies and skills of four disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. With STEM careers on the rise, the pressure to incorporate more STEM education in schools is rising as well. In this session, participants will examine lesson plans designed to enhance STEM education in all of the academic disciplines as well as design lesson plans to incorporate STEM into their core subject area. Participants will also learn about St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital’s Cure4Kids for Teachers, an exceptional model of cross-curricular STEM learning.

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I Can Do PBL, Too!: Project Based Learning for All School and All Students

Zone: E Room: E1404B Speakers: Julia Porter, Annie Stuckslager, Renee Norris, Crystal Higgenbottom If our desire is for students to become life-long learners, why do we consistently present them with information that is not meaningful or enjoyable? A group of inner-city charter, rural charter, and suburban private school teachers will share their common belief that learning thrives when it is relatable, real, and fun. Through Project-Based Learning (PBL), students are connected with content-based curriculum that is both authentic and meaningful. By infusing these projects with Project Zero Thinking Routines, students are held accountable not only for the product, but also their thinking process. When students are taught in this way, they are much more likely to become lovers of learning that retain their growth. Participants in this session will have a hands-on experience with a mini-PBL unit and leave understanding how to implement it in their own classrooms.

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Teaching on the Edge: Merging the Principles of Harvard’s Project Zero with Design Thinking

Zone: E Room: E1404A Speaker: Alice Parker How does folding the edges of Design Thinking with the principles of Harvard’s Project Zero create classrooms of understanding? How does this process equip today’s learners to become the future problem solvers of tomorrow? In this workshop, we will share hands-on learning experiences that are living parts of our curriculum, not simply add-on lessons.

Participants will have an opportunity to experience first hand a design thinking challenge through the eyes and hands of a student. Participants will also begin creating their own design thinking challenge(s) by collaborating with the group.

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St. George’s: A Distinctive Model Addressing the Achievement Gap

Zone: PK Room: E1109 Speakers: Andrea Ballard. Mr. William Taylor St. George’s Episcopal School in Memphis, TN consists of a three-campus model, which promotes relationships between urban and suburban students and their families. This model is unique in independent education, allowing students from our elementary campuses to develop relationships that endure and thrive when they transfer to middle school, navigate high school, and successfully complete college. At the heart of the vision is the recognition that relationships developed at an early age can bridge racial and economic barriers, eventually contributing to a more harmonious and enriched community. Success in tackling the achievement gap happens when excellent teaching unites with high standards. Learn more about the St. George’s program where students are challenged to think critically, communicate clearly, and care for their community.

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Moving Toward a Student-Centered Model: One School’s Journey

Zone: PK Room: E1106 Speaker: Dr. Megan Salemi A fundamental shift in education research is showing that effective learning environments attend to different levels of learner readiness, engage the brain in meaningful endeavors, provide student choice, capitalize on students’ strengths, and engage the school community in a growth mindset. This session will explore how New Hope Christian Academy in Memphis, TN is moving toward a student-centered school model that includes data-driven differentiated instruction in classrooms, intervention and enrichment support by additional personnel, experiential learning for students, and focused professional development for faculty. Participants will learn one model and have time to discuss and refine ideas related to a student-centered learning at their school.

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Caution! SMART Notebook Software Tips, Tricks, and Hidden Treasures Ahead!

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Collective Impact: Supporting the Success of Every Child from Cradle to Career

Zone: SK Room: E1121 Speaker: Julie Sanford

Zone: 1 Room: D101 Speakers: Jaclyn Suffel, Katy Guin

Wikis, widgets and apps, oh my! Join us and get inspired by these, and many more hidden gems in the SMART Notebook software, that will help you easily create dynamic and fun learning environments that keep students engaged and positively affect test scores. We’ll explore activity examples, incorporating other digital content and pre-made resources, and go deep into tips, tricks, and hidden treasures of the Notebook software that will make your lessons pop!

Participants in this session will enhance their ability to create professional and interactive lessons that will support curriculum and Common Core Standards as well as engage students in fun and meaningful learning experiences.

For decades our community has worked to improve student achievement through a piecemeal set of reforms and siloed systems and programs. These efforts have not led to the desired improvements in outcomes that we want for every child. To ensure every child in our community succeeds, Strive Mid-South is working to support a crosssector cradle to career civic infrastructure. Participants in this session will learn about the shared outcomes used to measure progress towards specific goals, the process of action planning through collaborative action networks, and how data is shared and used for continuous improvement.

Understanding this data-driven approach is useful for any school striving to learn forward and ensure student success.

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How Project Zero Can Transform the School Experience

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Zone: 1 Room: D102 Speakers: Dr. Heather Fisher, Susan Pittman This session will outline the benefits of utilizing Visible Thinking Techniques in the public school environment.

Presenters will share snapshots from K-5 classrooms that demonstrate the transformation of student learning through instructing thinking. We will highlight how Visible Thinking Techniques have facilitated a changing dynamic between students and the teacher in the classroom. We will also discuss of the impact Visible Thinking Techniques have made on the teacher evaluation model. Presenters will provide evidence regarding thinking routines and their benefits as it pertains to upcoming Common Core assessments.

Maximizing Learning States: Strategies to Combine Brain-Based Learning and Thinking Routines

Zone: 1 Room: D100 Speakers: Justin Jamerson, Denise Currey, Temecka Curtis Do your students look bored in class? Do you want to get your students thinking on a deeper level? Does your class need a pick-me-up? This session will provide teachers with practical, developmentally-appropriate, state-changing strategies that will boost engagement in your classroom.

We will also present lesson examples in Reading, Math, and Social Studies that enrich the everyday classroom experience by combining brain-based learning strategies with Thinking Routines.

Book Signing Lunch Room: Exhibitor Hall

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A book-signing for the Ron Berger book, Leaders of Their Own Learning, is during lunch in the Exhibitor Hall, and is sponsored by the Booksellers of Laurelwood.

1:00pm Preparing Global Citizens for all Neighborhoods Room: Fellowship Hall Speaker: Donald Hense All students must be prepared for higher education and the career of their choice by ensuring mastery of the skills, knowledge, and tools needed to succeed in the 21st century global economy. Our greatest need is to overcome cultures of low expectations. Our most pressing imperative is to offer all children the opportunity for excellence and achievement in the global economy. Students must be inspired, challenged, and supported in seizing the opportunities to be competitive on a world stage.

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Preparing Global Citizens from All Neighborhoods

In Defense of Learning

Room: Fellowship Hall Speaker: Donald Hense

Zone: A Room: E1130 Speaker: Kim Carter

In Donald’s session, he will inspire teachers to challenge and support students to ensure mastery of skills and overcome low expectations in order that they become competitive on a world stage.

Shifting responsibility for assessment from one teacher to each student calls for “second order change” – changing not just what is done or how it is done, but rethinking roles and responsibilities and who does what. This session will engage participants in an interactive exploration of one model for student-led assessment. Participants will learn practical structures, tools, and tips for scaffolding and coaching student ownership and evaluation of learning. Follow-up resources and references will be provided.

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The Wonderful World of Writer’s Workshop: Fostering Independent Writers in the Early Years

Zone: A Room: E1129 Speakers: Mary Clayton Wilson, Jennifer Guerra

Writer’s Workshop is a strategy for teaching writing using a workshop method. In this method, students are given opportunities to write in a variety of genres that are driven by student interest. Writer’s Workshop not only teaches students how to write well, but also helps foster a love of writing. By implementing the Writer’s Workshop method into their classrooms, teachers are able to meet the needs of their students through differentiated instruction and can help students build fluency through repeated exposure to the process of writing. Participants will leave this session equipped to bring Writer’s Workshop into their own classrooms.

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Independent Thinking for an Interdependent World: The Teacher as Facilitator in Collaborative inquiry

Zone: A Room: E1132 Speaker: Dr. Irene Carney In this session, participants will interact with documentation of “Investigative Research” - individual and group project work among children ages 3 through 8 years. By assuming the role of the teacher - reviewing, reflecting on, and collaborating about the cases presented - participants will experience an approach to observing, reflecting, planning, assessing, and representing children’s thinking and understanding. By thinking together about the projects presented, participants will identify the “teaching moves” that make way for children’s imagining, thinking, collaborating, persisting, and problem solving to emerge and prevail. This session is appropriate for teachers at all grade levels as these techniques are easily transferrable.

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Neuroeducation and the Redefining of Teaching Excellence

Zone: A Room: Lifetime Fitness Speaker: Glenn Whitman With the growing body of research on how the brain learns, educators are faced with two questions: “What is good research?” and “How can research be used to enhance teaching and learning?” This session will answer these questions by providing teachers and school leaders foundational knowledge in the principles and strategies of neuroeducation. Participants will return to their schools with the ability to make evidence-based decisions about curriculum design and instructional techniques that reflect how much more we know about how the brain works.

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Making Thinking Visible Through a Whole New Game

Zone: B Room: E111 Speakers: Beth Diaz, Stephanie Taylor How do we make students’ thinking visible? Inspired

by John Hunter’s World Peace Game, two second grade teachers at Presbyterian Day School created ”Zoolandia” as a way to engage learners with the core idea of setting up and negotiating conflict between four groups. Students assume roles in designing and operating a zoo to simulate real world situations, deal with biological and environmental crises, and engage in a game that requires learners to think in the discipline of biology. In this session, participants will learn how to adapt the core idea of making thinking visible through game play to their discipline or content area.

They will have an opportunity to design and begin to create their own game around the essential understandings and throughlines they have for their students.

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From Spiders to Restaurants: Following Children’s Interests while Meeting Curriculum Standards

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“What were you thinking!?”

Zone: D Room: D117 Speaker: Allison Warren

Zone: E Room: E1404A Speakers: Philip Cummings, Alice Parker

How often do we really stop and listen to the children we teach? What do they talk about during their free time? What do they gravitate toward in the times between our lessons?

What interests them on the playground? These are the experiences that unite, excite, and will teach them to love learning. Our job as educators is to connect these interests with standards and objectives, facilitate in-depth explorations, and encourage problem solving. In this session, participants will be exposed to real life examples of emergent projects, in both public and private early childhood settings, and will learn ways in which they can encourage problem solving in their classrooms.

Blank stares. Ask your average middle school students what they are thinking, and all you’ll receive are blank stares. As teachers our primary goal must be to move beyond simply teaching content to helping our students develop the critical and creative thinking skills they will need to thrive in the modern world. This session will explore the value of critical and creative thinking as well as examine how to develop students into thinkers by using visible thinking routines and creative thinking techniques across the curriculum and in all disciplines. Participants will leave with a sound understanding of practices that can easily be implemented in exisitng lessons in order to develop critical thinkers. This session is appropriate for teachers and school leaders of all grade levels.

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Hobart Shakespeareans

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In the film, Hobart Shakespeareans, Teacher Rafe Esquith has a point of view—a very strong one—about educating children of immigrants. Teaching in Los Angeles at one of the nation’s largest inner-city grade schools, Hobart Elementary, Esquith leads his class of fifth graders through an uncompromising curriculum of English, mathematics, geography and literature. He inspires them with cross-country trips to learn history first-hand. And at the end of the semester, every student performs in a full-length Shakespeare play: in this case Hamlet, with advice from actors Ian McKellen and Michael York. Despite language barriers and poverty, these Hobart Shakespeareans move on to attend outstanding colleges, motivated by a teacher honored with a National Medal of Arts.

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In this session, participants will be exposed to various active math concepts in number sense and operations, geometry, measurement, algebra, and data analysis.

Participants will engage in learning new ways of exploring math by doing active math that is ageappropriate for preschoolers. The presenters will provide teachers with ideas and means to support children’s developmental levels by means of assessing their students’ range between earlier, middle, and later.

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Data Driven Instruction Using Technology

Zone: E Room: E1404B Speaker: Ron DeChristoforo This session, geared towards middle and upper school science and math teachers, will expose participants to engaging technology-based lessons, animations, and simulations that support math and science Common Core Standards. Participants will learn more about how to determine what students know, or do not know, in real time and engage in discussions on various means of assessment.

Participants will leave this session confident in how to determine the topics and skills that their students have mastered and equipped to personalize their instruction based on various sources of data collection.

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Zone: PK Room: E1109 Speaker: Alicia Norman

What’s Good Around Here: Creating Transformative and Sustainable Change

Zone: PK Room: E1106 Speaker: Lytia Reese Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been described as “the co-evolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them…. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential” (Cooperrider and Whitney, 2005). Research has found that focusing on what is going well in the system is the place we start when wanting to make change. People are more inspired to do something because they are building on something they can do successfully! This session will seek to ask “What’s good around here?” Then, using those answers, create solutions for “What we could do better.” Participants will learn how using this approach can transform classrooms and schools and create sustainable change for organizations.

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Working To The Core of Math One Layer at a Time

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Zone: PK Room: Hussey Commons Speakers: Windy May, Susan Love

Zone: 1 Room: D102 Speaker: Dr. Robert Dillon

Learning thrives when a student feels comfortable to take risks and learn from his or her mistakes. Sometimes there are no right or wrong answers, and even more often, there is more than one way to solve a problem. Encouraging students to simply think about numbers and the role these numbers have in math skills often evolves into a creative, problem solving experience for students. After years of using thinking routines in their math curriculum, Windy May and Susan Love have added many layers to student learning that occurs inside and outside the walls of the classroom. In this interactive session, participants will learn how to encourage students to take ownership of their own learning and to begin thinking like real problem solvers.

Innovative educators are always looking for ways to get kids excited and engaged with their own learning. This session is designed to build capacity in participants through discussion, conversation, and action planning on a number of classroom strategies to maximize engagement. Topics will include: creating permeable classrooms, using social media to engage experts, learning in the community, and connecting students with authentic audiences. In addition, time for robust discussion will be provided to talk about how providing students with choice, voice, authentic audience, and a chance to change the world will amplify all learning spaces.

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Back to The Future: “Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads.”

Zone: SK Room: E1121 Speakers: Chris Florez, Katie Kling Common Core State Standards. PARCC. Blended Learning.

Digital Literacy. Analytics. Project-Based Learning. Coding.

College and Career Readiness...an evolving list of 21st century tools and strategies that inform the work Aspire Schools (Memphis, TN) is doing and working toward. Each day, via academic, economic, and social guideposts, we all strive to prepare our students for a future that is yet to be defined.

Without clear, identifiable roads, how do we use what we’ve learned to help design each student’s individual learning path? Join us for a lively presentation on the intersection of instructional practices, educational technology, and adaptive learning in K-5 classrooms. Please bring a laptop or tablet to participate in hands-on activities.

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Members of the Memphis Area Association of Independent Schools Technology Education Consortium (MAIS-TEC) will man 4 different stations providing information about various technology topics for use in the integration of these tools into your curriculum. Each station will be repeated every 20 minutes so you can pick and choose the tools you’d like to experience or make your way through all the stations.

These tools include Google Drive, Coding, QR Codes, and Researching Apps and Finding Free Apps for the iPad. A laptop or tablet would be helpful, but not necessary.

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Bringing Engineering to the Classroom and Beyond

Zone: 1 Room: D101 Speaker: Dr. Yuri Quintana Well-designed and robust STEM education is increasingly important to the success of our students. This presentation will give an overview of engineering educational resources online and provide resources, strategies, and tips for teachers seeking to help young people understand what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be part of their future. We will share engineering lesson plans for kids, classroom activities, and career profiles. Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) volunteers are bringing innovative programs to schools worldwide through the IEEE Teacher in Service Program (TISP). TISP provides a forum for IEEE volunteers to demonstrate the application of engineering, science and mathematics concepts by sharing their real-world experiences with local secondary school educators. The presentation will help educators learn to design to sustain and grow dynamic engineering learning programs and experiences at their school.

MAIS-TEC Team: Tech Quest

Zone: 1 Room: E1125, E1126, E1127, E1128 Speakers: MAIS-TECH

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Maximizing Engagement Through Connected Learning

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Literacy in the Era Of Common Core: Implications and Strategies

Zone: 1 Room: D100 Speaker: Dr. Richard Potts Literacy, reading, and writing, has always been the foundational skill of our educational lives. However, with the Common Core State Standards, a new emphasis has been placed on the importance, relevancy, and implementation of literacy. These new standards have become a game changer. The new demands in assessment and evaluation that impact TCAP, PARCC, ACT, and the College Board harold concommitent demands in understanding of what the Standards call for, what instructional strategies align with the standards, and how teachers and administrators must adjust to meet the demands. The Common Core Literacy standards are everyone’s concern—no matter the grade, subject area, or school.

JUNE 11 • WEDNESDAY BREAK

FEATURED SPEAKERS

REGISTRATION

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7:30am Registration Room: PDS Lobby

8:30am Real Talk for Real Teachers Room: Fellowship Hall Speaker: Rafe Esquith Rafe Esquith shares words of wisdom and advice for those who struggle day to day in the world’s hardest profession – teaching. New teachers and veteran educators need different kinds of nourishment, whether it’s encouragement to see through the difficult early years, advice on midcareer team building, or novel ideas for how longtime educators can put their expertise to work. All teachers need reminding that their work is important, and that they are not alone.

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Thinking Routines 101: A Recipe for Integrating Routines into the Daily Elementary Curriculum

Room: Fellowship Hall Speaker: Rafe Esquith

Zone: 1 Room: E1130 Speakers: Sherry Creasman, Kim Burns

Come hear inspiring words of wisdom from a veteran teacher, Rafe Esquith, and receive encouragement and advice on why our work as teachers is so very important.

Integrating thinking routines into the elementary curriculum is easier than you think. In this session, Presbyterian Day School teachers will provide a hands-on experience that will allow the participants to recognize that thinking routines naturally weave into their current first through fourth grade classrooms. Participants will discover firsthand that incorporating thinking routines into their curriculum will aid in the development of great habits of the mind for all students. This session will uncover ways to help students to organize and structure their thinking as a variety of routines are shared and practiced. While we will be discussing elementary grade implementation, these thinking routines and approaches are easily used at other grade levels.

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When Common Core and the Arts Collide Through Close Reading

Zone: 1 Room: E1132 Speakers: Dr. Robyne Batson, Ms. Karyne Batson In this session, participants will learn ways to maximize the Common Core curriculum through the use of Thinking Routines and Arts Integration. By engaging in collaborative conversations on the use of artwork, particpants will be equipped to guide students in learning how to examine, explore, inquire, and evaluate their learning, to make connections between reading skills, writing strategies, and to use of visual art. Participants will leave this session with resources and strategies that may be instantly used in the classroom.

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Beyond Grades: Using ePortfolios to Show Student Mastery

Zone: A Room: E1129 Speakers: Megan Wittmann, Melissa Grabske As teaching and learning evolves how can you demonstrate and document what your students can do beyond what a grade reflects? Session leaders will share the journey taken at Parish Episcopal School in Dallas, TX to create school-wide MyPanther ePortfolios (pre-K through 12th grade). Learn how Parish uses ePortfolios to capture and catalogue examples of student work that demonstrates mastery of the skills the school deems important throughout its program. Participants will have the opportunity to explore ways to utilize ePortfolios in their own classroom and school environments. They will also go through the process of choosing and preparing an artifact and reflection tool for potential use in their own ePortfolios.

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Part 1: The Practical Science of Memory and Learning Speaker: Andrew Watson Sponsor: Translate the Brain How do students learn best? Repetition obviously promotes learning—but how much should students repeat? If 5 repetitions are good, aren’t 15 better? Should repetitions happen all at once, or be spread over time? Should teachers focus on one topic, or mix topics together?

How can forgetting promote learning? This talk explains research in the brain sciences, making it both clear and useful for administrators, teachers, and schools.

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Improv as a Tool for Teaching and Learning

Zone: A Room: Lifetime Fitness Speaker: Scott Field Do you feel like you do the same thing every day? Do your students’ responses barely scratch the surface? Would you like some tools to help them think outside the box, through the box, or look... That box has a turtle in it! Improv is kinesthetic and intensely social. Using it can wake your students up, get them connected to each other and to you, and help them to trust their own ideas and instincts. Best of all, improv is fun. Laughter can create the most positive classroom climate imaginable! This workshop introduces participants to the rules of improvisational theater and gives participants first-hand experience with simple theater games that can be used to help students get words out of their heads easily, encourage critical thinking skills, and increase creativity.

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Leading Learners to Level Up

Zone: B Room: E111 Speaker: Jill Gough How many times are teachers shocked to discover after the learning episodes are complete, that the learners did not, in fact, learn? This session is designed to help teachers find a path for formative assessment that leads learners to “level up”. We will tackle the problem of proficiency by developing and implementing a system of formative assessment that harnesses the power of positivity. Learners will be able to say “I can...” and “Can you help me...” based on the assessment, thus empowering the learner to have control over the path to success.

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Speaker: Michael Lundquist Sponsor: Student Discoveries Travel is an important part of student experiences and best teaching practices.

This talk explains the importance of a quality Global education for today’s students who will be Global citizens. High quality touring and a customized program will lead to better experiential learning that can be tied back to the classroom. Come learn about Student Discoveries and the impact travel can have in the classroom.

Part 3: Transforming Classroom Engagement with Interactive Brain Breaks Speaker: Kelly Hill Sponsor: GoNoodle Is it a challenge to keep your kids’ attention throughout the school day? Of course it is!

Kids have tons of energy, but great things can happen when we channel it for good. GoNoodle, an online suite of physical activity breaks or “brain breaks,” is used by more than 100,000 elementary teachers for just this reason. Designed to improve student behavior, focus and performance, GoNoodle gives teachers an easy, turnkey and effective way to incorporate short bursts of physical activity throughout the day. Studies demonstrate that physical activity is associated with improved academic achievement, academic behaviors and cognitive skills (Institute of Medicine).

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Teaching on the Edge: Merging the Principles of Harvard’s Project Zero with Design Thinking

Zone: D Room: D109 Speaker: Walt Henley

Zone: E Room: E1404A Speaker: Alice Parker

Learn how Reading Bear can be used as a free online reading tutor for ages 3-7 and also for ESL (English as a second language). Session will also cover WatchKnowLearn.org 60,000 free educational videos that are organized for teachers and students.

How does folding the edges of Design Thinking with the principles of Harvard’s Project Zero create classrooms of understanding? How does this process equip today’s learners to become the future problem solvers of tomorrow? In this workshop, we will share hands-on learning experiences that are living parts of our curriculum, not simply add-on lessons.

Participants will have an opportunity to experience first hand a design thinking challenge through the eyes and hands of a student. Participants will also begin creating their own design thinking challenge(s) by collaborating with the group.

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The New Literacy: Teaching Writing for the 21st Century Student

Zone: E Room: D117 Speaker: Holly Chesser The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

Mark Twain penned those words in the 19th century, but the sentiment holds true for all time. Clear, powerful writing isn’t any less important today than in the past. After all, we haven’t lost the need to understand or to be understood. However, today’s readers do have different expectations as to where they will find writing and what type of writing will capture their attention. These new reader preferences challenge the modern writer to adapt in order to connect. This session will explore the changing relationship between writer and reader, the new venues where they meet, and how the teaching of writing can assist in developing that partnership. Instead of teaching budding writers (of any age) how to communicate for the world of yesterday, let’s teach them how to write lightning bolts for today’s world!

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I Can Do PBL, Too!: Project Based Learning for All School and All Students

Zone: E Room: E1404B Speakers: Julia Porter, Annie Stuckslager, Renee Norris, Crystal Higgenbottom If our desire is for students to become life-long learners, why do we consistently present them with information that is not meaningful or enjoyable? A group of inner-city charter, rural charter, and suburban private school teachers will share their common belief that learning thrives when it is relatable, real, and fun. Through Project-Based Learning (PBL), students are connected with content-based curriculum that is both authentic and meaningful. By infusing these projects with Project Zero Thinking Routines, students are held accountable not only for the product, but also their thinking process. When students are taught in this way, they are much more likely to become lovers of learning that retain their growth. Participants in this session will have a hands-on experience with a mini-PBL unit and leave understanding how to implement it in their own classrooms.

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Cross-Curricular STEM Education: A Method for Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

Zone: PK Room: Hussey Commons Speakers: Katherine Ayers, Yuri Quintana, PhD

STEM education is the preparation of students in the competencies and skills of four disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. With STEM careers on the rise, the pressure to incorporate more STEM education in schools is rising as well. In this session, participants will examine lesson plans designed to enhance STEM education in all of the academic disciplines as well as design lesson plans to incorporate STEM into their core subject area. Participants will also learn about St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital’s Cure4Kids for Teachers, an exceptional model of crosscurricular STEM learning.

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t. George’s: A Distinctive Model Addressing the S Achievement Gap

Zone: PK Room: E1109 Speakers: Andrea Ballard. Mr. William Taylor

St. George’s Episcopal School in Memphis, TN consists of a three-campus model, which promotes relationships between urban and suburban students and their families. This model is unique in independent education, allowing students from our elementary campuses to develop relationships that endure and thrive when they transfer to middle school, navigate high school, and successfully complete college. At the heart of the vision is the recognition that relationships developed at an early age can bridge racial and economic barriers, eventually contributing to a more harmonious and enriched community.

Success in tackling the achievement gap happens when excellent teaching unites with high standards. Learn more about the St. George’s program where students are challenged to think critically, communicate clearly, and care for their community.

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Moving Toward a Student-Centered Model : One School’s Journey

Zone: 1 Room: D100 Speakers: Justin Jamerson, Denise Currey, Temecka Curtis

A fundamental shift in education research is showing that effective learning environments attend to different levels of learner readiness, engage the brain in meaningful endeavors, provide student choice, capitalize on students’ strengths, and engage the school community in a growth mindset. This session will explore how New Hope Christian Academy in Memphis, TN is moving toward a student-centered school model that includes data-driven differentiated instruction in classrooms, intervention and enrichment support by additional personnel, experiential learning for students, and focused professional development for faculty. Participants will learn one model and have time to discuss and refine ideas related to a student-centered learning at their school.

Do your students look bored in class? Do you want to get your students thinking on a deeper level? Does your class need a pick-me-up? This session will provide teachers with practical, developmentally-appropriate, state-changing strategies that will boost engagement in your classroom.

We will also present lesson examples in Reading, Math, and Social Studies that enrich the everyday classroom experience by combining brain-based learning strategies with Thinking Routines.

Caution! SMART Notebook Software Tips, Tricks, and Hidden Treasures Ahead!

Zone: SK Room: E1121 Speaker: Julie Sanford Wikis,widgets and apps, oh my! Join us and get inspired by these, and many more hidden gems in the SMART Notebook software, that will help you easily create dynamic and fun learning environments that keep students engaged and positively affect test scores. We’ll explore activity examples, incorporating other digital content and pre-made resources, and go deep into tips, tricks, and hidden treasures of the Notebook software that will make your lessons pop!

Participants in this session will enhance their ability to create professional and interactive lessons that will support curriculum and Common Core Standards as well as engage students in fun and meaningful learning experiences.

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How Project Zero Can Transform the School Experience

Zone: 1 Room: D102 Speakers: Dr. Heather Fisher, Susan Pittman This session will outline the benefits of utilizing Visible Thinking Techniques in the public school environment.

Presenters will share snapshots from K-5 classrooms that demonstrate the transformation of student learning through instructing thinking. We will highlight how Visible Thinking Techniques have facilitated a changing dynamic between students and the teacher in the classroom. We will also discuss of the impact Visible Thinking Techniques have made on the teacher evaluation model. Presenters will provide evidence regarding thinking routines and their benefits as it pertains to upcoming Common Core assessments.

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In Defense of Learning

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Neuroeducation and the Redefining of Teaching Excellence

Zone: A Room: E1130 Speaker: Kim Carter

Zone: A Room: Lifetime Fitness Speaker: Glenn Whitman

Shifting responsibility for assessment from one teacher to each student calls for “second order change” – changing not just what is done or how it is done, but rethinking roles and responsibilities and who does what. This session will engage participants in an interactive exploration of one model for student-led assessment. Participants will learn practical structures, tools, and tips for scaffolding and coaching student ownership and evaluation of learning. Follow-up resources and references will be provided.

With the growing body of research on how the brain learns, educators are faced with two questions: “What is good research and how can research be used to enhance teaching and learning?” This session will answer these questions by providing teachers and school leaders foundational knowledge in the principles and strategies of neuroeducation.

Participants will return to their schools with the ability to make evidence-based decisions about curriculum design and instructional techniques that reflect how much more we know about how the brain works.

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The Wonderful World of Writer’s Workshop: Fostering Independent Writers in the Early Years

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Zone: A Room: E1129 Speakers: Mary Clayton Wilson, Jennifer Guerra

Zone: D Room: D109 Speaker: Walt Henley

Writer’s Workshop is a strategy for teaching writing using a workshop method. In this method, students are given opportunities to write in a variety of genres that are driven by student interest. Writer’s Workshop not only teaches students how to write well, but also helps foster a love of writing. By implementing the Writer’s Workshop method into their classrooms, teachers are able to meet the needs of their students through differentiated instruction and can help students build fluency through repeated exposure to the process of writing. Participants will leave this session equipped to bring Writer’s Workshop into their own classrooms.

Learn how Reading Bear can be used as a free online reading tutor for ages 3-7 and also for ESL (English as a second language). Session will also cover WatchKnowLearn.org 60,000 free educational videos that are organized for teachers and students.

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Independent Thinking for an Interdependent World: The Teacher as Facilitator in Collaborative inquiry

Zone: A Room: E1132 Speaker: Dr. Irene Carney

In this session, participants will interact with documentation of “Investigative Research” - individual and group project work among children ages 3 through 8 years. By assuming the role of the teacher - reviewing, reflecting on, and collaborating about the cases presented - participants will experience an approach to observing, reflecting, planning, assessing, and representing children’s thinking and understanding. By thinking together about the projects presented, participants will identify the “teaching moves” that make way for children’s imagining, thinking, collaborating, persisting, and problem solving to emerge and prevail. This session is appropriate for teachers at all grade levels as these techniques are easily transferrable.

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Making Thinking Visible Through a Whole New Game

Zone: B Room: E111 Speakers: Beth Diaz, Stephanie Taylor How do we make students’ thinking visible? Inspired by John Hunter’s World Peace Game, two second grade teachers at Presbyterian Day School created ”Zoolandia” as a way to engage learners with the core idea of setting up and negotiating conflict between four groups. Students assume roles in designing and operating a zoo to simulate real world situations, deal with biological and environmental crises, and engage in a game that requires learners to think in the discipline of biology. Learning thrives in this example of David Perkins’ concept of ”playing the junior version of the whole game” as students solve meaningful challenges. In this session, participants will learn how to adapt the core idea of making thinking visible through game play to their discipline or content area. They will have an opportunity to design and begin to create their own game around the essential understandings and throughlines they have for their students.

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From Spiders to Restaurants: Following Children’s Interests while Meeting Curriculum Standards

Zone: D Room: D117 Speaker: Allison Warren How often do we really stop and listen to the children we teach? What do they talk about during their free time? What do they gravitate toward in the times between our lessons?

What interests them on the playground? These are the experiences that unite, excite, and will teach them to love learning. Our job as educators is to connect these interests with standards and objectives, facilitate in-depth explorations, and encourage problem solving. In this session, participants will be exposed to real life examples of emergent projects, in both public and private early childhood settings, and will learn ways in which they can encourage problem solving in their classrooms.

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What were you thinking!?

Zone: E Room: E1404A Speakers: Philip Cummings, Alice Parker Blank stares. Ask your average middle school students what they are thinking, and all you’ll receive are blank stares. As teachers our primary goal must be to move beyond simply teaching content to helping our students develop the critical and creative thinking skills they will need to thrive in the modern world. This session will explore the value of critical and creative thinking as well as examine how to develop students into thinkers by using visible thinking routines and creative thinking techniques across the curriculum and in all disciplines. Participants will leave with a sound understanding of practices that can easily be implemented in exisitng lessons in order to develop critical thinkers. This session is appropriate for teachers and school leaders of all grade levels.

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Data Driven Instruction Using Technology

What’s Good Around Here: Creating Transformative and Sustainable Change

Zone: E Room: E1404B Speaker: Ron DeChristoforo

Zone: PK Room: E1106 Speaker: Lytia Reese

This session, geared towards middle and upper school science and math teachers, will expose participants to engaging technology-based lessons, animations, and simulations that support math and science Common Core Standards. Participants will learn more about how to determine what students know, or do not know, in real time and engage in discussions on various means of assessment.

Participants will leave this session confident in how to determine the topics and skills that their students have mastered and equipped to personalize their instruction based on various sources of data collection.

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been described as “the co-evolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them…. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential” (Cooperrider and Whitney, 2005). Research has found that focusing on what is going well in the system is the place we start when wanting to make change. People are more inspired to do something because they are building on something they can do successfully! This session will seek to ask “What’s good around here?” Then, using those answers, create solutions for “What we could do better.” Participants will learn how using this approach can transform classrooms and schools and create sustainable change for organizations.

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Preschool Math - Active Learning 123

Zone: PK Room: E1109 Speaker: Alicia Norman In this session, participants will be exposed to various active math concepts in number sense and operations, geometry, measurement, algebra, and data analysis. Participants will engage in learning new ways of exploring math by doing active math that is age-appropriate for preschoolers. We will share and discuss the visual instruction aids provided.

The presenters will provide teachers with ideas and means to support children’s developmental levels by means of assessing their students’ range between earlier, middle, and later.

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Working To The Core of Math One Layer at a Time

Zone: PK Room: Hussey Commons Speakers: Windy May, Susan Love Learning thrives when a student feels comfortable to take risks and learn from his or her mistakes. Sometimes there are no right or wrong answers, and even more often, there is more than one way to solve a problem. Encouraging students to simply think about numbers and the role these numbers have in math skills often evolves into a creative, problem solving experience for students. After years of using thinking routines in their math curriculum, Windy May and Susan Love have added many layers to student learning that occurs inside and outside the walls of the classroom. In this interactive session, participants will learn how to encourage students to take ownership of their own learning and to begin thinking like real problem solvers.

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Back to The Future: “Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads.”

Zone: SK Room: E1121 Speakers: Chris Florez, Katie Kling Common Core State Standards. PARCC. Blended Learning.

Digital Literacy. Analytics. Project-Based Learning. Coding.

College and Career Readiness...an evolving list of 21st century tools and strategies that inform the work Aspire Schools (Memphis, TN) is doing and working toward. Each day, via academic, economic, and social guideposts, we all strive to prepare our students for a future that is yet to be defined.

Without clear, identifiable roads, how do we use what we’ve learned to help design each student’s individual learning path? Join us for a lively presentation on the intersection of instructional practices, educational technology, and adaptive learning in K-5 classrooms. Please bring a laptop or tablet to participate in hands-on activities.

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MAIS-TEC Team: Tech Quest

Zone: SK Rooms: E1125, E1126, E1127, E1128 Speakers: MAIS-TECH Members of the Memphis Area Association of Independent Schools Technology Education Consortium (MAIS-TEC) will man 4 different stations providing information about various technology topics for use in the integration of these tools into your curriculum. Each station will be repeated every 20 minutes so you can pick and choose the tools you’d like to experience or make your way through all the stations.

These tools include Google Drive, Coding, QR Codes, and Researching Apps and Finding Free Apps for the iPad. A laptop or tablet would be helpful, but not necessary.

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Maximizing Engagement Through Connected Learning

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Bringing Engineering to the Classroom and Beyond

Zone: 1 Room: D102 Speaker: Dr. Robert Dillon

Zone: 1 Room: D101 Speaker: Dr. Yuri Quintana

Innovative educators are always looking for ways to get kids excited and engaged with their own learning. This session is designed to build capacity in participants through discussion, conversation, and action planning on a number of classroom strategies to maximize engagement. Topics will include: creating permeable classrooms, using social media to engage experts, learning in the community, and connecting students with authentic audiences. In addition, time for robust discussion will be provided to talk about how providing students with choice, voice, authentic audience, and a chance to change the world will amplify all learning spaces.

Well-designed and robust STEM education is increasingly important to the success of our students. This presentation will give an overview of engineering educational resources online and provide resources, strategies, and tips for teachers seeking to help young people understand what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be part of their future. We will share engineering lesson plans for kids, classroom activities, and career profiles. Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) volunteers are bringing innovative programs to schools worldwide through the IEEE Teacher in Service Program (TISP). TISP provides a forum for IEEE volunteers to demonstrate the application of engineering, science and mathematics concepts by sharing their real-world experiences with local secondary school educators. The presentation will help educators learn to design to sustain and grow dynamic engineering learning programs and experiences at their school.

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Literacy in the Era Of Common Core: Implications and Strategies

Zone: 1 Room: D100 Speaker: Dr. Richard Potts Literacy, reading, and writing, has always been the foundational skill of our educational lives. However, with the Common Core State Standards, a new emphasis has been placed on the importance, relevancy, and implementation of literacy. These new standards have become a game changer. The new demands in assessment and evaluation that impact TCAP, PARCC, ACT, and the College Board harold concommitent demands in understanding of what the Standards call for, what instructional strategies align with the standards, and how teachers and administrators must adjust to meet the demands. The Common Core Literacy standards are everyone’s concern—no matter the grade, subject area, or school.

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Learning Forward is Essential Room: Fellowship Hall Speaker: Lee Burns To truly prepare students for success in a global economy, schools must innovate the learning experiences students have in school. To rethink and redesign, teachers and school leaders must be continuously learning forward to anticipate the knowledge, skills, dispositions students must master for full participation in a world that is continuously changing and becoming more complex.

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I N FA O RT MI A TO I ON N I NG EFN EOR ARL M Registration

Registration opens on June 10 at 7:30 am and is located in the main PDS lobby at the main entrance to the school. To find it from the main parking lot, look for the “Registration” sign under the porte-cochere that says “Presbyterian Day School”. See the map on page 20 for reference.

Schedule for Martin Institute Conference

www.martininstitute.org/conference/index.php/the-conference

Name Badges

Your conference name badge is your personal identification and official pass to all sessions and exhibits. Please wear it at all times during the conference.

Information Desks

If you have questions or concerns, please visit the information desks in the lobbies of the EC building and E building marked on the map on page 20.

Conference Location and Parking

The conference will be held on the campus of the Presbyterian Day School located near the intersection of Poplar and Goodlett behind Second Presbyterian Church.

Follow signs for parking. Overflow parking is available on the south side of the campus across Central Avenue. The school address is: Presbyterian Day School 4025 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38111 For an overview of the campus, consult the map on page 20.

Internet and Social Media

WIFI is available. Use PDS-Guest network Follow us on Twitter: @MImemphis Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/martininstitute

Twitter

The conference hashtag is #MICON14. Please include this in all your corresponding tweets, Facebook updates, blog posts, wiki pages, photos, podcasts, etc.,so that they will be accessible through search/aggregation.

Choosing and Attending Sessions

There are four sessions of workshops offered over the twoday conference. Workshops are 1 ½ hours long. All sessions are a first-come, first-served basis.

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Lunches

Lunches are included in the price of your registration.

Lunch will be served from 12:00noon–1:00pm in the Exhibit Hall. For directions, consult the map on page 20.

You May Want to Bring

• a sweater - the AC works well • water bottle • your device (laptop, iPad, smart phone, etc.)

• personal powerstrip if you have battery issues • a snack if needed before noon

Conference Certificates and CEU Credit

Conference certificates will be available during the last keynote session. CEU credit hours are listed on the certificates. If you need a certificate, please be sure to get one before you leave the conference on June 11.

TASL Credit

If TASL credit is required, please meet with Marilyn Seaton, (901) 842-4600, at the PDS main entrance near the flagpole after the opening keynote on June 10.

Cell Phones

As a professional courtesy, attendees should silence or turn off cell phones, pages, etc., during workshops and presentations.

Media/Press

The 2014 Martin Institute Conference welcomes members of the media. Please check in with Lee Rantzow at lrantzow@pdsmemphis.org or (901) 842-4613.

Special Needs

Any special requirements you may need should be relayed at registration or to one of the Information Booths, marked on the map on page 20.

Conference Hotel Accommodations

If you are staying at the Double Tree Memphis on Sanderlin, a shuttle will run twice each morning (7:15 and 7:40) and at 4:15 and 4:30 in the afternoon each day. In the morning- be in lobby of hotel by 7:10. In the afternoon-main PDS lobby (entrance near the flagpole).

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College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

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OTH ER SPON SORS 4 color process version

SILVE R SP ON SO R Black only version

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL

B R O N ZE SP ON SO R

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2014-2015 YEAR-LONG OPPORTUNITIES Residency Program

The Martin Institute provides a year of development and mentoring for a group of talented individuals beginning their careers in education. Each resident will participate in the following: • 30 hrs of seminar/workshop training • 200 hrs of teacher observation at PDS • 200 hrs of teacher observation at a Memphis area public school • 100 hours of teaching at PDS • 100 hours of teaching at a public school • 20 hrs of providing one-to-one instruction • Mentoring program with a PDS teacher • Discussion of educational books, articles, and videos • Service on teacher committees/task forces • Development of a thesis or independent project • Plan and execution of Martin Institute seminars and conferences • Feedback and job placement assistance

New Teacher Network

September 30, 2014: Mindset, Routines and Procedures October 28, 2014: Teaching Each Child December 2, 2014: Positive Collaboration January 27, 2015: Data Analysis March 31, 2015: Literacy Development May 5, 2015: Taking Care of You

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Learning Seminars

September 26, 2014: Technology October 24, 2014: Making Thinking Visible January 23, 2015: St. Jude-Stem March 27, 2015: Data Analysis

Film Series

November 15, 2014 Febraury 28, 2015

Martin Institute Annual Conference

Wednesday, June 10 and Thursday, June 11, 2015 For more information visit martininstitute.org or contact Laura Dearman at 901-842-4631.

AT A GLANCE JUNE 10 • TUESDAY 7:30a m

Registration

8:30a m

Keynote

10:00a m

Break

10:25a m

Workshops

12:00no o n

Lunch

1:00pm

Keynote

2:00pm

Break

2:30pm

Workshops

PDS Lobby Fellowship Hall N/A Various Exhibitor Hall Fellowship Hall N/A Various

JUNE 11 • WEDNESDAY 7:30a m

Registration

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Keynote

10:00a m

Break

10:30a m

Workshops

12:00no o n

Lunch

1:00pm

Workshops

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Break

3:00pm

Keynote

PDS Lobby Fellowship Hall N/A Various Exhibitor Hall Various N/A Fellowship Hall