SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
7:45 - 8:20 - Coffee & Rolls
10:50 - 11:20 - Mini Session 1
11:30 - 12:00 - Mini Session 2
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Session 1 - 8:30-9:30
Tony Frontier
"An award-winning teacher, engaging presenter, and best-selling author, Tony Frontier works with teachers and school leaders nationally and internationally to help them prioritize efforts to improve student engagement and student learning. With expertise in student engagement, formative assessment, effective instruction, and strategic planning, Frontier emphasizes a systems approach to build capacity to empower teachers to improve each student's schooling experience.
Frontier is coauthor of the ASCD books Five Levers to Improve Learning: How to Prioritize for Powerful Results in Your School (ASCD, 2014) with James Rickabaugh, Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching (ASCD, 2011) with Robert Marzano and David Livingston, and Making Teachers Better, Not Bitter: Balancing Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth with Paul Mielke (ASCD, 2016). Frontier is a frequent contributor to Educational Leadership® magazine and facilitates workshops on school improvement, student engagement, curriculum design, formative assessment, and standards-based instructional practices at international conferences and in schools and districts around the country.
Source: http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/oscb/faculty/Frontier-T.aspx
All MS/HS Staff
Becker Center
8:30 - 11:20
5th Grade
Share Session
Calling all 5th grade teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9609
Brain Research
on Early Learners
Target audience: Administrators, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, Special Education Teachers. Participants will learn about new discoveries regarding the brain development of young children. Participants will also learn about methods to help students maximize their learning potential by calming their brain waves and preparing their brains to focus.
Room 9612
Incorporate Art & Writing
We will do an easy art project and a short writing to go with it. I will give you all the tools that you need to recreate in your classroom. Good for any level of writing/teaching.
Room 9601
Impacting Achievement Tomorrow
This session will review researched routines and processes that you can implement tomorrow. The main topic will be utilizing engagement strategies that shift the work to the students and implements effective opportunities for all students to respond in your lesson process.
Room 9603
Early Childhood & SPED
Share Session
Calling all Early Childhood & SPED specialists!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9611
In this session we will explorer the digital world through multiple simulations! We will explorer the outer reaches of our solar system. Then we will then shrink down to a micro level and explore cell structures to help figure what what makes us tick. We will then create a brainstorming activity and collaborate our findings in one location to develop of a final conclusion.
Library
Interactive Whiteboard
Standards Based Grading
We have to look at our grading practices before we look at reporting out to parents. Is your school consistent and clear on grading?
Auditorium
Elementary PE
Share Session
Calling all PE teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9604
Visible Learning
Visible Learning means an enhanced role for teachers as they become evaluators of their own teaching. According to John Hattie Visible Learning and Teaching occurs when teachers see learning through the eyes of students and help them become their own teachers. Come and learn about the research and what really does work in classrooms!
Room 9622
2nd Grade
Share Session
Calling all 2nd grade teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9612
Social Skills
Share Session
Calling all teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9611
Title
Share Session
Calling all Title teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9609
SLP Therapy
Share Session
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Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9604
In this session we will explorer the digital world through multiple simulations! We will explorer the outer reaches of our solar system. Then we will then shrink down to a micro level and explore cell structures to help figure what what makes us tick. We will then create a brainstorming activity and collaborate our findings in one location to develop of a final conclusion.
Library
Interactive Whiteboard
This session will NOT be available
from 11:30 - 1:30.
Empower
Work Session
Adopters of Empower are encouraged to use this time to work, learn, and perfect the use of Empower in the classroom.
Room 9603
As a veteran teacher, I have learned many lessons and experienced many situations that have changed the way I taught. These 'game changers' have made me a more effective teacher and undoubtedly increased student achievement.
Room 9613
Game Changers
Lunch
Baked Potato Bar and Salad ~ OR ~ Soup, Sandwich, and Salad Bar
Chicken Pot Pie or Chicken Tortilla Soup
Turkey, Ham, Beef Sub/Croissants Sandwiches
Large Potato with the following options:
Shredded Cheese, Broccoli and Cheese, Chili,
Bacon Bits, Butter, Sour Cream
Both Meals include Salad Bar, Large Dessert Bar, and Water
Explore
Tech Tools
Everyone loves a good potluck! Bring your computer and one of your favorite tech tools that you use in the education world to share with everyone! Whether it is a pretty new tool that you’ve just started using or a good 'ol reliable tool that deserves to be brought back into the light because it’s still out there doing awesome things in education - join this potluck and let’s fill up with useful tech tools trusted by our fellow educators in the area!
Room 9603
3rd Grade
Share Session
Room 9609
Calling all 3rd grade teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Sanford Harmony &
Sanford Inspire
Learn about two FREE research-based programs. Sanford Harmony is a social-emotional learning program that builds stronger classroom relationships so teachers can spend less time managing classroom behavior and more time teaching. Everything you need comes in a free kit that has resources ready for you to use immediately!
Sanford Inspire provides a wide variety of short web-based modules and resources for professional development, is aligned with Danielson, and offers differentiated professional development based on teacher’s interests and need. There are coaching guides available to help with next steps and implementation of learning as well!
Room 9612
4th Grade
Share Session
Calling all 4th grade teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9601
NWEA
"Map Reading Fluency"
Until now, assessing oral reading fluency has been a labor intensive, one-on-one process that is very time consuming. In 2017, NWEA introduced the MAP Reading Fluency assessment that uses computer technology and artificial intelligence. Imagine being able to screen oral reading fluency with 20 students in 20 minutes. Then, you are able to have a recording of the oral reading passage and be able to play it back at will. This session will be a comprehensive demonstration of this assessment program.
Room 9604
1st Grade
Share Session
Calling all 1st grade teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Room 9622
In this session we will explorer the digital world through multiple simulations! We will explorer the outer reaches of our solar system. Then we will then shrink down to a micro level and explore cell structures to help figure what what makes us tick. We will then create a brainstorming activity and collaborate our findings in one location to develop of a final conclusion.
Library
Interactive Whiteboard
Lunch
Baked Potato Bar and Salad ~ OR ~ Soup, Sandwich, and Salad Bar
Chicken Pot Pie or Chicken Tortilla Soup
Turkey, Ham, Beef Sub/Croissants Sandwiches
Large Potato with the following options:
Shredded Cheese, Broccoli and Cheese, Chili,
Bacon Bits, Butter, Sour Cream
Both Meals include Salad Bar, Large Dessert Bar, and Water
Mental Health First Aid is a public education program that introduces participants to risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of their impact and overviews appropriate supports. This presentation will give an overview of the Mental Health First Aid program. It will also cover some basic Mental Health Information and resources to help someone in crisis.
Room 9611
K-2
Family Math
Explore a set of take-home activities designed to help families with young children (grades K-2) discover the fun and engaging side of mathematics. Family math is not: flash cards, worksheets, or math homework. Family math is: puzzles, games, and engaging activities. Materials are easy and inexpensive. Play around with math in a family-friendly environment and (hopefully) change perceptions about math.
Room 9603
Only the first 20 people will be able to participate due to limited supplies.
Transforming Ordinary into Extraordinary
We will teach and describe different activities you can do instead of a worksheet.
Room 9609
PE
Heart Monitors
Accurately quantifies moderate to vigorous activity. Allows teachers to assess students objectively.
Allows teacher to set measurable teacher performance goals.
Parents get detailed reports everyday their kid finish class period of their activity during class.
Weight Room
Becker Center
Be
The
Spark
Let's face it: Teacher burnout happens. This session will share tips and strategies to stay focused and energized. There will be an opportunity to share stress relieving strategies with fellow educators and create a plan to avoid burnout. Teach smarter not harder using various aspects of technology including: socrative, quizlet, goformative, google, etc. Bring your laptop/IPad and curriculum materials to get started.
Room 9612
Trauma: Impact on Learning
Part 1
Trauma impacts the brain and can make learning a challenge. This presentation will explore this as well as practical and simple trauma sensitive techniques for any classroom.
Auditorium
NWEA
Data
Part 1
This session is primarily for current NWEA users. Setting growth goals with students after a fall or winter assessment is an important part of the process of administering the MAP Growth Assessment. Students become more engaged and motivated for both their learning and to show their growth through achieving their growth goal. This session will demonstrate a process for setting a goal with students using a “student profile report.”
Room 9604
Setting Growth Goals
with Students for Maximum Growth
Lunch
Baked Potato Bar and Salad ~ OR ~ Soup, Sandwich, and Salad Bar
Chicken Pot Pie or Chicken Tortilla Soup
Turkey, Ham, Beef Sub/Croissants Sandwiches
Large Potato with the following options:
Shredded Cheese, Broccoli and Cheese, Chili,
Bacon Bits, Butter, Sour Cream
Both Meals include Salad Bar, Large Dessert Bar, and Water
Mental Health
First Aid
Part 2
Mental Health First Aid is a public education program that introduces participants to risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of their impact and overviews appropriate supports. This presentation will give an overview of the Mental Health First Aid program. It will also cover some basic Mental Health Information and resources to help someone in crisis.
Room 9611
3-5
Family Math
Explore a set of take-home activities designed to help families with young children (grades 3-5) discover the fun and engaging side of mathematics. Family math is not: flash cards, worksheets, or math homework. Family math is: puzzles, games, and engaging activities. Materials are easy and inexpensive. Play around with math in a family-friendly environment and (hopefully) change perceptions about math.
Room 9603
Only the first 20 people will be able to participate due to limited supplies.
Reading
Share Session
Room 9612
Calling all Reading teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Trauma: Impact on Learning
Part 2
Trauma impacts the brain and can make learning a challenge. This presentation will explore this as well as practical and simple trauma sensitive techniques for any classroom.
Auditorium
NWEA
Data
Part 2
This session is primarily for current NWEA users. Setting growth goals with students after a fall or winter assessment is an important part of the process of administering the MAP Growth Assessment. Students become more engaged and motivated for both their learning and to show their growth through achieving their growth goal. This session will demonstrate a process for setting a goal with students using a “student profile report.”
Room 9604
Setting Growth Goals
with Students for Maximum Growth
Speech and Language Screenings
This is a share session for Speech-Language Pathologists. We will use this time to discuss speech and language screenings (procedures and screening tools), Evaluations, Assessments (informal and formal) and how you group your students to manage your caseload.
Room 9601
Customizing the HS
Classroom
Synopsis
Room 9622
Critter
Crate
The South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks offers many valuable classroom resources and activities free of charge. In this session you will get a chance to view their critter crate! Come learn about South Dakota mammals by viewing hides, tracks, skulls, and scat. Make a plan to share SDGFP classroom resource with your students.
Room 9615
State
Mentoring
Mentoring empowers beginning teachers, but an important element is experienced teachers to serve as mentors. Learn firsthand from our experiences in the mentor program for the last two years. This session includes information on program requirements, benefits, and challenges.
Room 9609
As a veteran teacher, I have learned many lessons and experienced many situations that have changed the way I taught. These 'game changers' have made me a more effective teacher and undoubtedly increased student achievement.
Room 9602
Game Changers
Part 1
Lunch
Baked Potato Bar and Salad ~ OR ~ Soup, Sandwich, and Salad Bar
Chicken Pot Pie or Chicken Tortilla Soup
Turkey, Ham, Beef Sub/Croissants Sandwiches
Large Potato with the following options:
Shredded Cheese, Broccoli and Cheese, Chili,
Bacon Bits, Butter, Sour Cream
Both Meals include Salad Bar, Large Dessert Bar, and Water
Tony Frontier
All Elementary Staff
Becker Center
12:50 - 3:40
"An award-winning teacher, engaging presenter, and best-selling author, Tony Frontier works with teachers and school leaders nationally and internationally to help them prioritize efforts to improve student engagement and student learning. With expertise in student engagement, formative assessment, effective instruction, and strategic planning, Frontier emphasizes a systems approach to build capacity to empower teachers to improve each student's schooling experience.
Frontier is coauthor of the ASCD books Five Levers to Improve Learning: How to Prioritize for Powerful Results in Your School (ASCD, 2014) with James Rickabaugh, Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching (ASCD, 2011) with Robert Marzano and David Livingston, and Making Teachers Better, Not Bitter: Balancing Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth with Paul Mielke (ASCD, 2016). Frontier is a frequent contributor to Educational Leadership® magazine and facilitates workshops on school improvement, student engagement, curriculum design, formative assessment, and standards-based instructional practices at international conferences and in schools and districts around the country.
Source: http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/oscb/faculty/Frontier-T.aspx
Music
Share Session
Room 9603
Calling all Music teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Learner Based Instruction
WC middle school teachers will explain how they transformed 6th grade to support learner based instruction. On topic for discussion: scheduling, standards based grading, voice and choice and using morning meetings to increase student achievement.
Room 9613
Google Classroom
Zip Grading
Grading assessments and reviewing student assessment data can be made easier using two tools. This session will include demonstrations of both assessment tools. If time allows participants to will use the tools.
Room 9609
As a veteran teacher, I have learned many lessons and experienced many situations that have changed the way I taught. These 'game changers' have made me a more effective teacher and undoubtedly increased student achievement.
Room 9602
Game Changers
Part 2
MS SPED
Share Session
Room 9611
Calling all MS SPED teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Spanish
Share Session
Room 9612
Calling all Spanish teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
FACS
Share Session
Room 9613
Calling all FACS teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Live Streaming
for Absent
Students
I will show off my "toys" that I have gathered to make it possible to livestream various events, including my classroom. I have used these "toys" to create presentations for when my students have been absent and for when I am absent and want to teach content.
Room 9612
English
Share Session
Room 9611
Calling all English teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
E-Cigs
E-Cigarette use is the new epidemic among youth in the United States. The purpose of this presentation is to address the epidemic related to youth e-cigarette use in South Dakota. We will discuss the toll of tobacco, what e-cigarettes are, the known dangers, what to look for, and how these products are constantly evolving.
Room 9601
The NWEA
Assessment
Suite
This is session is for educators that currently do no use NWEA programs or those interested in learning about ALL of the NWEA programs. When educators hear of NWEA, they generally think of the MAP Growth Assessment, which has been used for many years by educators world-wide. What many people don’t realize is that NWEA offers a complete set of assessments for many different purposes to help educators build a complete assessment program on one platform. This session will provide an overview of all NWEA assessments including: MAP Growth K-2, MAP Growth 3-12, MAP Skills assessment, MAP Spanish Assessments, and MAP Reading Fluency.
Room 9604
Multiple Assessment Tools for Building a Comprehensive Assessment Program
Empower
Work Session
Adopters of Empower are encouraged to use this time to work, learn, and perfect the use of Empower in the classroom.
Room 9603
Recovery from Addiction
What happens when everything you know turns from pain to the joy of connection. Addiction is a disease of isolation. Connection is the only cure for isolation. Honesty is the core of connection. Let's talk about how to get there.
Room 9602
In this session we will explorer the digital world through multiple simulations! We will explorer the outer reaches of our solar system. Then we will then shrink down to a micro level and explore cell structures to help figure what what makes us tick. We will then create a brainstorming activity and collaborate our findings in one location to develop of a final conclusion.
Library
Interactive Whiteboard
Business &
Computer
Share Session
Room 9617
Calling all business and computer teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Sketch Up
Sketchup (formerly Google Sketchup) is 3D modeling software that’s easy to use and has an extensive database of user-created models available for download. You can use it to sketch (or import) models to assist with all kinds of projects—furniture building, video game creation, 3D printing, interior design, and whatever else you can think of.
Room 9609
Social Studies Share Session
Room 9622
Calling all Social Studies teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Transitioning into College Life
Helpful tips for transitioning to college.
Auditorium
AFNR
Share Session
Room 9607
Calling all Ag teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Instrumental Music
Calling all Band teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Band Room
Writer's Workshop
This session will focus primarily on Personal Experience writing. Through an exploration of their own stories, teachers will write using a variety of different brainstorming techniques and a variety of styles. Teachers may then pull some of these same techniques into their classrooms to use with their students.
Room 9612
Teaching News Literacy in the Classroom
We have more information available at our fingertips today than all previous generations. Who do we trust? How do we know what is real? Isn't it all just "fake news"? Topics include: bias, media's role in democracy, "fake news," fact checking, civil discourse, social media, advertising, and journalism. This session will identify skills, resources, and suggestions for teaching news/media literacy in 7th-12th grade (skills transferable to other grades).
Room 9604
CTE
Departments
Room 9617
Calling all CTE teachers!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!
Visible Learning
Visible Learning means an enhanced role for teachers as they become evaluators of their own teaching. According to John Hattie Visible Learning and Teaching occurs when teachers see learning through the eyes of students and help them become their own teachers. Come and learn about the research and what really does work in classrooms!
Auditorium
In this session we will explorer the digital world through multiple simulations! We will explorer the outer reaches of our solar system. Then we will then shrink down to a micro level and explore cell structures to help figure what what makes us tick. We will then create a brainstorming activity and collaborate our findings in one location to develop of a final conclusion.
Library
Interactive Whiteboard
Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings
Time will be dedicated to exploring the WoLakota Project website and to sharing ideas for incorporating the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings into the classroom.
Room 9622
Counselor
Share Session
Room 9602
Calling all Counselors!
Let's collaborate, share, and learn from one another. What works, what doesn't work, what can we try? You are the ones who know best!