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#1 12:00 – 2:45 pm Best Practices for Reaching at Risk Students Speakers: Kenston Griffin & Tonya Allen Participants will learn: Concepts of diversity inclusion and how to earn respect consistently, To evaluate past and present student behaviors to establish alternative methods for taking responsibility in and out of the classroom. Successful code switch to meet the student where he or she may be, while still maintaining a professional code of ethic. #2 12:00 – 2:45 pm Reading + Thinking + Engagement + Comprehension Speaker: Dawn Odum In this high-energy, experiential session you walk away with practical, teacher-friendly strategies to use immediately. Experience Listen–Sketch–Draft to improve students’ skill in main idea and summary. Explore engagement strategies like Timed Pair Share and RallyRobin to enhance metacognitive thinking during reading. Not only do you experience and process these transformative strategies for content, you walk away with management strategies and other practical classroom ideas to create the class of your dreams. #3 3:00 – 5:45 pm Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy: Implementing a School wide Literacy Action Plan for Upper Elementary, Middle or High School. Speaker: Dr. Judith Irvin #4 3:00 – 5:45 pm Fast, Fun, Free – Activities to Encourage and Enrich Reading and Writing Instruction Across the Curriculum Speaker: Mary Dall This “make and take” session employs a variety of “trash to treasure” items used to create enrichment activities to enhance reading and writing skills. Teachers will learn what to save, how to execute a project, and how to apply the flexibility of the art/craft to their specific needs across the curriculum. #5 3-5:45pm The "SECRET" to Cracking the Reading Code- The "Missing-Piece" of the Reading Puzzle! Speaker: Katie Garner This session will "sneak" learners through the brain's "backdoor" for EASY-access to the HARDEST phonemic skills! Discover practical classroom applications of cutting-edge research, as presented at Harvard's 2009 "Learning and the Brain" Consortium. The session will focus on literacy-skill instruction and accelerated learner-skill acquisition comparative to that of the traditional "rote" instruction.
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