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Presentation # 13 Session # 2 Room # CC 214

Title: The Multiple Intelligence Theory as It Relates to Reading Comprehension

Description: In this presentation, the author shares the relationship between Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory and reading comprehension. By selecting reading passages that are connected to students’ multiple intelligence strengths, the author reviews the positive outcome of what individualized reading material can do to increase students’ reading comprehension.

Learning Community: Lakes Area

Presenter/s: Kayla Maas

Grade level/Content: Middle School (5-8)

Certification Topic/s: Reading Preparation

School District/Organization: Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools

Email: kmcclimek@gmail.com

Presentation # 14 Session # 2 Room # SC 206

Title: How Does Self-paced Learning Affect Academic Achievement?

Description: Do you have students who complete their work and become bored waiting to move on? Do you have students who need a little more time and one-on-one instruction in order to master the content? In this presentation, we will discuss the effects of self-paced learning on student academic achievement.

Learning Community: West Central

Presenter/s: Katie Swanson

Grade level/Content: High School

Certification Topic/s: Accommodations, Modifications, and Adaptions of Curriculum, Materials, and Instruction

School District/Organization: Sauk Centre Public Schools

Email: katie.swanson@isd743.org

Presentation # 15 Session # 2 Room # SC 207

Title: Implementing Sound Walls in Elementary Classrooms

Description: Are you teaching beginning readers or need a boost in your phonics instruction? Implementing a sound wall in your classroom may be your next visual aid to support those readers. Aligned with the science of reading, sound walls provide students with visual cues for articulating sounds.

Learning Community: West Central

Presenter/s: Marilin Hanson

Grade level/Content: Lower Elementary

Certification Topic/s: Accommodations, Modifications, and Adaptions of Curriculum, Materials, and Instruction, Reading Preparation

School District/Organization: LItchfield Public Schools

Email: mhanson@isd465.org

Presentation # 16 Session # 2 Room # SC 249

Title: STOP! What You Focus On, You Get More Of

Description: Are you looking for ways to improve the quality of student-teacher interactions, improve the social and emotional behavior of your students, and decrease impulsivity and hyperactivity in the classroom? Come find out if implementing Conscious Discipline within your classroom increases positivity within your classroom family!

Learning Community: West Central

Presenter/s: Jodi Frazee

Grade level/Content: Early Childhood

Certification Topic/s: Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies

School District/Organization: Marshall Public Schools

Email: jodi.frazee@smsu.edu

Presentation # 17 Session # 3 Room # CC 202

Title: The Effects of Number Sense-based Math Instruction

Description: Are you tired of drill and kill math routines? Are your students’ memorizing facts but have no meaning behind them? I implemented number sense-based math instruction to see if my student’s familiarity with numbers and their connections to numbers would increase their overall proficiency in math.

Learning Community: West Central

Presenter: Jennifer Fernelius

Grade Level/Content: Upper Elementary

Certification Topic/s: Accommodations, Modifications, and Adaptions of Curriculum, Materials, and Instruction

School District/Organization: St. Cloud Public Schools

Email: jenrazz1@gmail.com

Presentation # 19 Session # 3 Room # CC 212

Title: Building Teacher Efficacy toward Social-Emotional Learning

Description: As Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has become a significant point of focus within education this action research project looked at the effects of systematic changes to Tier 1 SEL instructional plans and formats within a K-7 building and the impact it had on teacher efficacy in regard to SEL instruction.

Learning Community: EDAL Specialist

Presenter/s: Brian Kokos & Mathias Sturtz

Grade level/Content: Lower Elementary

Certification Topic/s: Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies

School District/Organization: Blue Earth Public Schools

Email: bkokos@beas.blueearth.k12.mn.us or mathias.sturtz@gmail.com or white@menahga.k12.mn.us

Presentation # 18 Session # 3 Room # CC 211

Title: Building Student Resilience in the Classroom

Description: In this study, student resilience levels were gauged at regular intervals within an academic semester. Various resiliency practices and exercises were implemented through an assortment of strategies, such as: relationship building, self-awareness practice, social-emotional learning, and writing exercises to increase student perseverance and mindfulness.

Learning Community: Brainerd

Presenter/s: Sam Olson

Grade level/Content: High School

Certification Topic/s: Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies

School District/Organization: Barnesville Public Schools

Email: samuel4olson@gmail.com

Presentation # 20 Session # 3 Room # CC 213

Title: Emotions Gone Haywire: Teaching Self-regulation through Social Emotional Learning

Description: Students face many challenges and obstacles throughout the day but struggle to respond positively and appropriately. Teaching Social Emotional lessons provide students with the knowledge of how to use different coping strategies. Our goal is to see if teaching SEL lessons will help students self-regulate in the classroom.

Learning Community: Brainerd

Presenter/s: Cortney Kroska & Missy Koel

Grade level/Content: Lower Elementary

Certification Topic/s: Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies

School District/Organization: Pillager Public Schools

Email: ckroska@isd116.org or mkoel@isd116.org