November 5, 2019
Innovative Day Specialists at Willard PK-8 School
● 7:15 - 7:55 am
Sign in
● 8:00 - 9:05 am
Session 1
● 9:10 - 10:15 am
Session 2
● 10:20 - 11:35 am
Session 3
● 11:45 am - 12:35 pm ● 12:45 - 2:00 pm ● 2:10 - 3:15 pm
Lunch
Keynote Speaker Session 4
Tom Murray serves as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools®, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education, located in Washington, D.C. He has testified before the United States Congress and has worked alongside that body, the US Senate, the White House, the US Department of Education and state departments of education, corporations, and school districts throughout the country to implement student-centered learning while helping to lead Future Ready Schools® and Digital Learning Day. His best-selling book, Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today, is co-authored with Eric Sheninger and published by ASCD. His next book, Personal & Authentic, is due out in mid-October. Prior to moving to his role in Washington, D.C., Murray served as an elementary teacher, middle school teacher, middle school principal, elementary principal, and director of technology & cyber education for the Quakertown Community School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He is most passionate about creating cultures of innovation where teachers are empowered to create the types of learning experiences today's modern learners need to thrive.
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Anne Cushing-Reid became the first Director of Engagement, Special Programs and Partnerships for the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music in September 2014. In this role, she brings together the artistic excellence of CCM students, faculty, and staff with a variety of community partners in schools, community centers, and beyond. A passionate advocate for access to arts experiences for all people, she leads CCM’s signature community engagement program, CCM Afterschool, a collaboration with City Gospel Mission’s Whiz Kids Tutoring, and represents CCM on the university-wide college access initiative, UC Scholars Academy. Additionally, she serves as an adjunct faculty member, teaching arts education and community engagement for the Arts Administration graduate program.
Cindy Kerr is an arts integration specialist with a background in visual arts. She began her career as an art and humanities teacher in Des Moines (Iowa) Public Schools with grades K-6. Sparked by her interest in innovative instructional approaches, Cindy received her M.Ed. in arts integrated curriculum and instruction and an Ed.S. in Teacher Leadership, focusing on the needs of the generalist educator in teaching through the arts integrated approach. She worked as the arts integration specialist at a K-5 elementary in Delaware, Ohio for 16 years. Believing that the arts empower people of all ages and abilities, she has taught in art museums, libraries, and cultural arts centers. Currently, Cindy is an art education instructor at Ohio Wesleyan University, and Crayola’s Faculty Development Team Leader. Cindy Kerr has been a board member and presenter for the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education for nearly ten years.
Dr. Douglas W. Ellison is an assistant professor of Physical Education Teacher Education in the School of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Studies. He joined the faculty at Kent State University in 2017. He previously earned National Board Certification while teaching physical education and health for 10 years in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Ellison obtained his BS in business education and physical education from Western Michigan University, MA in physical education from Wingate University, and PhD in Pedagogical Kinesiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2
Art
1 - **All Morning Session 8:00 - 11:45 am** Arts Assessment Strategies for Visual Arts Educators
Presenters: R ich, Nancy & Kerr, Cindy Audience: A rt Learning Objective: Attendees will develop skills in selecting, developing, and reviewing assessments. Sessions will focus on foundations of assessment literacy (validity, reliability, and bias), quality assessment design (blueprints, alignment, rigor, stretch, item design) and an understanding of why these are important to instruction and student learning. The content and duration of workshops may be tailored to fit the experience and needs of participating educators. Take a deep dive into effective assessment work by determining priority visual arts standards and deconstructing those standards. Review the foundations of assessment literacy, types of assessments, and creating rubrics. This will be a participatory session. Bring a copy of some of your personal assessments and learn how to strengthen your skills for assessing your students' work.
2 - Glazing Project
Presenters: Osbourne, Ryan & Rancourt, Pauline Audience: A rt Learning Objective: Attendees will be able to implement a variety of glazing techniques that will enhance glazing projects. A variety of glazing techniques will be presented that can be scaled up or down depending on age/experience level. You will also learn how to glaze directly onto clay to allow for once-fired wares. Each Glazing session will present a different project.
3 - Self Reflective Writing for Social-Emotional Learning in Art
Presenter: M acMillan, Josh Audience: A rt Learning Objective: Attendees will be able to implement strategies impacting how students embrace project assignments. Learn about self-reflective writing prompts to use as multipurpose tools to get to know your students, get them to think critically for specific projects, and help in connecting with literacy in your school. Each teacher in attendance will receive a packet with all of the presentation information, a self-reflective lesson plan, and time to collaborate with others in attendance for additional lesson ideas and thoughts.
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Music
4 - **All Morning Session 8:00 - 11:45 am** Arts Assessment Strategies for Music Educators
Presenters: Cushing-Reid, Anne & Hess, Lauren Audience: M usic Learning Objective: Attendees will develop skills in selecting, developing, and reviewing assessments. Sessions will focus on foundations of assessment literacy (validity, reliability, and bias), quality assessment design (blueprints, alignment, rigor, stretch, item design) and an understanding of why these are important to instruction and student learning. The content and duration of workshops may be tailored to fit the experience and needs of participating educators. Take a deep dive into effective assessment work by determining priority performing arts standards and deconstructing those standards. Review the foundations of assessment literacy, types of assessments, and creating rubrics. This will be a participatory session. Bring a copy of some of your personal assessments and learn how to strengthen your skills for assessing your students' work.
5 - Skill Based Grading in the Arts / Automating Your Lesson Plans
Presenter: R eynolds, Shawn Audience: M usic Learning Objective: Attendees will be able to implement skill-based grading strategies and manage their time by using an automated lesson plan system.
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Health / Physical Education
6 - Addressing Trauma and Social-Emotional Learning from Health/PE Perspective
Presenter: E llison, Dr. Douglas Audience: H ealth / Physical Education Learning Objective: Attendees will gain an understanding of the impact that childhood trauma has on the learning process. Become knowledgeable about trauma, toxic stress, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the warning signs and symptoms and how to minimize potential triggers by engaging in trauma invested practices. This is exceedingly important at a time when mental health issues and social-emotional learning is at the forefront of education discussions. Currently, licensed teachers are not prepared to educate, assist and support students who are dealing with extensive trauma, which significantly influences their ability to learn.
7 - Dance - Bring Dance Into Your Curriculum
Presenter: L avine, Dr. Mary Audience: H ealth / Physical Education Learning Objective: Attendees will discover new ways to incorporate dance in lessons. The session will present many different ways to incorporate dance into your curriculum for all grade bands.
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Art
8 - Glazing Project - This is a different project than session #1
Presenters: Osbourne, Ryan & Rancourt, Pauline Audience: A rt Learning Objective: Attendees will be able to implement a variety of glazing techniques that will enhance glazing projects. A variety of glazing techniques will be presented that can be scaled up or down depending on age/experience level. You will also learn how to glaze directly onto clay to allow for once-fired wares. Each Glazing session will present a different project.
9 - Self Reflective Writing for Social-Emotional Learning in Art - This is a repeat of session #1
Presenter: M acMillan, Josh Audience: A rt Learning Objective: Attendees will be able to implement strategies impacting how students embrace project assignments. Learn about self-reflective writing prompts to use as multipurpose tools to get to know your students, get them to think critically for specific projects, and help in connecting with literacy in your school. Each teacher in attendance will receive a packet with all of the presentation information, a self-reflective lesson plan, and time to collaborate with others in attendance for additional lesson ideas and thoughts.
Music
10 - Using Popular Music in General Music Classrooms
Presenter: A nthony, John Audience: M usic Learning Objective: Attendees will learn about online resources that will help enhance general music classroom activities. In our ever-changing world, our students’ musical interests are constantly evolving. As an educator, it can be difficult to connect their interests into a general music class. This session will explore utilizing popular music in the general classroom through the use of activities and online resources available for teachers. During the session, discussion topics of activities that you use in your own classrooms are encouraged!
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Health / Physical Education
11 - Have you Unleashed Your Potential?
Presenter: E llison, Dr. Douglas Audience: H ealth / Physical Education Learning Objective: Attendees will learn the correlation between personal health and professional performance. Educators are under pressure to perform, take on more responsibility, and to always be “on” for their students. As a result, fatigue and burnout continue to rise in education. Managing your energy, not your time, is the key to sustained high performance. Come learn how to improve personal performance and increase quality of life by tapping into your purpose and your truth to fuel action and avoid the human energy crisis that afflicts educators in today’s schools. This session will provide practical steps for you (or your school) to begin unleashing your energy potential to be the best you can for students.
12 - Orienteering – How to Teach Orienteering in Your Classroom.
Presenter: L avine, Dr. Mary Audience: Health / Physical Education Learning Objective: Attendees will learn how to create engaging lessons about developing orienteering skills. This session will present how to read a compass, teach compass use, navigate a course and design, set up your own course, inside and out.
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Art
13 - Glaze Project - This is a different project than previous sessions
Presenters: O sbourne, Ryan & Rancourt, Pauline Audience: Art Learning Objective: Attendees will be able to implement a variety of glazing techniques that will enhance glazing projects. A variety of glazing techniques will be presented that can be scaled up or down depending on age/experience level. You will also learn how to glaze directly onto clay to allow for once-fired wares. Each Glazing session will present a different project.
14 - Van Gogh Extensive Art Lesson
Presenter: M acMillan, Josh Audience: Art Learning Objective: Attendees will learn about how to incorporate multiple aspects of art to a single project. This session is about a K-12 Hubbard School District project during the 2018-1029 school year. The project included high school intro mosaic artwork from paint samples, upper art students creating hot air balloons with paintings from Vincent, and the set up for an elementary Art and Writing Contest. This is a great project at almost no cost to your budget.
Music
15 - Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in General Music Classrooms
Presenter: Mattern, Sarah Audience: Music Learning Objective: Attendees will gain an understanding of how students react when using a "Culturally Responsive Pedagogy" in general music classrooms.
16 - How to Navigate Through the OMEA Choral Events
Presenter: DePoy, Anjanette Audience: Music Learning Objective: Attendees will learn how best to manage the requirements of OMEA sponsored events. This session will help directors feel more confident about entering their vocal students and choirs in OMEA events. The session will cover the basics, such as S&E songbooks, students' presentations, and tools to simplify our job as we prepare our students. Additionally, Large Group topics such as sight-singing & repertoire will be addressed.
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17 - Quizzes with Edpuzzles
Presenter: S ummers, Michael Audience: Music Learning Objective: Attendees will learn how to use an outside resource to add a new dimension to their lessons. With just one click, you can find video lessons created by other teachers, including formative assessment! Another click and you can adapt that video by embedding your own questions or audio.
Health / Physical Education
18 - TPSR: Who’s Ready to Help Children Affected by Trauma?
Presenter: E llison, Dr. Douglas Audience: Physical Education Learning Objective: Attendees will learn how to become a trauma-informed instructor. The purpose of this session is to provide health and physical education teachers the practical steps for implementing Trauma-Informed Practices (TIPs) within the daily program format of the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model. The TPSR model is specifically designed to help children learn to be responsible for their own and other’s well-being. It provides opportunities to implement best practices that may potentially increase the resilience capacity of students dealing with trauma. Teachers of all experience levels can utilize the practical techniques provided in this session to establish a trauma-informed learning environment.
19 - Teaching Game Intelligence and Personal and Social Responsibility Through Games Teaching Presenter: L avine, Dr. Mary Audience: Health Learning Objective: Attendees will learn how using games teaches transferable skills. Using the teaching of games to foster problem-solving and personal and social responsibility with your students.
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Art
20 - Glaze on Clay
Presenters: O sbourne, Ryan & Rancourt, Pauline Audience: Art Learning Objective: Attendees will learn new glazing techniques. A variety of glazing techniques will be presented that can be scaled up or down depending on age/experience level. You will also learn how to glaze directly onto clay to allow for once-fired wares. Each Glazing session will present a different project.
21 - Van Gogh Extensive Art Lesson - This is a repeat of session #3
Presenter: M acMillan, Josh Audience: Art Learning Objective: Attendees will learn how to incorporate multiple aspects of art to a single project. This session is about a K-12 Hubbard School District project during the 2018-1029 school year. The project included high school intro mosaic artwork from paint samples, upper art students creating hot air balloons with paintings from Vincent, and the set up for an elementary Art and Writing Contest. This is a great project at almost no cost to your budget.
Music
22 - General Music Roundtable
Presenter: M attern, Sarah Audience: Music Learning Objective: Attendees will have an opportunity to share and discuss any topics of their choice.
23 - Tips of the Trade, How to Manage Your Choir
Presenter: D ePoy, Anjanette Audience: Music Learning Objective: Attendees will learn management practices that have led to successful choir programs. This session's goal is to help directors manage their choirs and get them singing successfully. Along with tips from the presenter, such as classroom management, pacing, successful warm-ups, and resources, participants will learn from each other in a round table/share-out forum.
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24 - Assessments with Google Classroom and Goobricks
Presenter: S ummers, Mike Audience: Music Learning Objective: Attendees will learn about an assessment tool that may change how they measure student skill development. Goobric is a Chrome Extension that enables teachers to use rubrics to automatically score or grade student work.
Health / Physical Education
25 - TPSR: Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
Presenter: E llison, Douglas Audience: Physical Education Learning Objective: Attendees will experience how to implement the TPSR model. End the day on your feet—come participate in this interactive physical activity session aimed to provide educators the opportunity to participate in a mini-lesson utilizing the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model. The TPSR model is specifically designed to help children learn to be responsible for their own and other’s well-being. It provides opportunities to implement best practices that may potentially increase the resilience capacity of students dealing with trauma. This session will allow participants that attended session 3: TPSR: Who’s Ready to Help Children Affected by Trauma? the opportunity to experience the TPSR model firsthand (attendance at session 3 is not required to learn how TPSR can serve as a trauma-invested practice during this session).
26 - Creating an Interactive and Engaging Health Classroom
Presenter: L avine, Dr. Mary Audience: Health Learning Objective: Attendees will experience how to establish an interactive health classroom. Several topics will be introduced and sequenced. The topics will range from bullying, Social-Emotional Learning, mental illness, tobacco, etc.
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