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=**Session 1**=

Speaker: Lisa Sly Course Number: **S101** Strand: 1 and 2 Are you looking for ways to provide a variety of materials for a variety of students? By using the Groups and Groupings features in Moodle, different students in your class can receive different materials based on groups you create. In this session, we’ll explore Moodle’s Group and Groupings features in-depth and see how to apply them to a variety of Moodle tools. **Note: This session is for current Moodle users only.**
 * Using Moodle Groups for Differentiated Instruction**

Speaker: David Jakes Course Number: **S102** Strand: 2 From sitting on a stool telling a story, to using PowerPoint or Keynote, being able to communicate effectively has never been so important. This session provides participants with ten strategies for helping students develop compelling presentation media that will help them convey their ideas and passions. Leave the session with an understanding of how biology, learning theory, and design principles can reshape how your students present their ideas to the world.
 * Standing Room Only! How to Create Unforgettable Presentation Media**

Speaker: Frank Bexes Course Number: **S103** Strand: 1 and 2 This presentation will include problem solving and critical thinking techniques used by students to make difficult automotive repairs. The use of Alldata Online Diagnostic aids and Napa Prolink allow students to: A. Clarify purposes and goals, B. Identify the problem, C. Employ reasoning skills, D. Evaluate options, E. Identify solutions to the problem and their impact, F. Select and implement a solution to the problem.
 * Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Techniques**

Speaker: Scott Nemecek Course Number: **S104** Strand: 1 In order to help maximize learning for all students the foundation must be set each day to enable the teacher and students to work collaboratively to the major goal of learning the content necessary for academic success. This includes several discipline techniques and classroom management plans that are planned in advance and followed through without exception. This process starts during the passing period and continues as they leave the door. These plans will help your students maximize all fifty minutes of each day.
 * Techniques and Strategies to Engage students for the Entire Period**

Speakers: Tara Braverman and Mark Maranto Course Number: **S105** Strand: 1 In this session participants will learn the fundamental aspects of backward design, and apply them to one of their current units of instruction. Presenters will share varied examples of methods designed to identify struggling learners early, and approaches for addressing their needs. This session is intended for teachers in any content area. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops.
 * Chewing the K.U.D.: Engaging Students through Strategic Design and Practice**

Speaker: Christi Shaner Course Number: **S106** Strand: 2 What should a student using a 21st-Century library expect to find? This session will examine the need for authentic learning spaces in a secondary school library. These innovative spaces must provide a quality library experience for all types of learners. Come ready to discuss, share your thoughts and provide insight regarding library redesign. The possibilities are endless!
 * 21st-Century Library Redesign Roundtable**

Speaker: Ann LePage Course Number: **S107** Strand: 2 The GBS Guidance Department utilizes the Naviance Program in the implementation of the guidance curriculum. Each school year all students participate in an assessment in Naviance and over four years complete a profile which will be used in the construction of a post-secondary plan. Participants will have the opportunity to see this powerful program, learn about the activities students are completing each year with their counselors, and see the extensive information available to students and families for college planning in the Naviance Program.
 * Desktop Counseling**

Speaker: Mark Dec Course Number: **S108** Strand: 1 LD, ED, OHI… oh my! IEP at a Glance will dissect a student’s IEP Profile (also referred to as Page 2’s) focusing on defining essential special education language, and the development and use of strategies related to serving students with Individual Education Programs, which ultimately can be used with any student. Specifically, the session will analyze adverse effects, assist in understanding educational strategies, and the importance of implementing student accommodations. In addition, we will examine the use of technology, and the relationship between using educational strategies and RTI. As a result, teachers should leave this session with a better understanding of their student’s deficits, and strategies that will assist all students in succeeding in their classrooms.
 * IEP at a Glance**

Speaker: John Cowlin Course Number: **S109** Strand: 2 This presentation will explore how teachers (and students!) can become critical viewers of films by examining how filmmakers use cinematography, editing, and sound design to persuade and manipulate audiences. You’ll never watch a movie the same way again! (Maybe.) Act now and we’ll also include: How to use your laptop to download/rip video clips and stills from DVDs and Youtube, edit them, and apply them to lessons! Where to find thousands of hours of vintage, public domain film footage, including such educational classics as “Duck and Cover,” “Supervising Women Workers,” and “I Like Bikes.” Ten things to do with a blog! And more.
 * How to Watch Movies**

Speaker: Afrodite Skaouris Course Number: **S110** Strand: 2 Multimedia based projects encourage student engagement in the classroom, enhance instruction of core literacy skills, and allow students the opportunity to become citizens of the world. This session will explore ways in which teachers can use multimedia tools to create projects that will develop their students’ critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration skills, within the context of already-established department curricula. Attendees will view samples of different types of multimedia-based projects, as well as examine the core skills that they address.
 * Using Multimedia Based Projects to Enhance Literacy Instruction**

Speaker: Ken Doody Course Number: **S111** Strand: 1 I intend to demonstrate memory and learning tasks that illustrate how our brain best forms memories and what factors promote forgetting. After each memory experiment or demonstration, small groups will discuss how the memory principle applies to the classroom. Do our teaching practices promote the most efficient learning strategies for students? How can teachers encourage habits in students that utilize what we now know about the brain.
 * Memory, Brain and Learning Strategies**

Speaker: Mark Shinn Course Number S112 Strand: 1 and 2 Join our keynote speaker, Mark Schinn, to explore ideas and ask questions regarding his remarks in the keynote session.
 * Keynote Follow Up: Questions and Answers**