OCEP 16 - Oakland Schools

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The Oakland County 2016
Effective Practices Conference
June 21 - 22, 2016
Clarkston High School
6093 Flemings Lake Road, Clarkston MI
Presenting keynote speakers: Dr. Yong Zhao
Dr. Pasi Sahlberg
Over 100 breakout sessions in the areas of:
Literacy, Mathematics, Student Engagement,
Student Voice, Standards-Based Grading, Science,
Technology, Project-Based Learning, Differentiation
and Cross-Curricular.
The OCEP 16 Planning
Team
Brian Adams
Thanks and special appreciation to:to:
The Oakland County Superintendents Association and the
Learning Achievement Coalition—Oakland (LAC-O) for their
vision and support to make this conference a reality.
Andrea Berry
Delia DeCourcy
Geraldine Devine
Joan Firestone
Karen Gomez
Angela Harrison
Jason Hovanec
Gary Kaul
Jessica Kimmel
Josh Lamay
Laurie McCarty
Heidi McClain
Melinda Moran
Staci Puzio
Rod Rock
Larry Thomas
Chris Turner
Liz Walker
Clarkston Community Schools
Clarkston High School
 IT Department
 Custodial Staff
 All staff and students who contributed in so many ways!
Our Keynote Presenters:
 Dr. Yong Zhao
 Dr. Pasi Sahlberg
Teachers of the Year for introducing our Keynote Presenters:
 Elizabeth Banks, Lamphere Schools
 Cheryl Newcomer, Farmington Schools
Creator of our Logo: Stephen Williams and the OSTC/SW Students from
the Visual Imaging Technology program.
Creator of our T-Shirts: Steven Green and the OSTC/SE Students from
the Visual Imaging Technology program.
To our OVER 100 Breakout Presenters who selflessly took time from
their family and other commitments to create excellent and inspiring
sessions to share with us.
Jessica Walsh
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Michael Yocum
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Oakland County Effective Practices Conference
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Conference At-A-Glance
Day 1: Tuesday, June 21, 2016
7:30 - 8:30am
Registration and Vendor Exhibits
8:30 – 8:45am
Welcome and Introductions
 Gary Kaul, Principal, Clarkston High School
 Dr. Rod Rock, Superintendent, Clarkston Community Schools
 Dr. Wanda Cook-Robinson, Superintendent, Oakland Schools
 Cheryl Newcomer, Farmington Schools—2016 Teacher of the Year
8:45 – 10:00am
Dr. Yong Zhao, Keynote Presenter
10:00 – 10:15am
Transition to Breakouts
10:15 – 11:30am
Session I
11:30 – 12:30pm
Lunch
12:30 – 12:45pm
12:45 – 2:00pm
Session II
12:45 – 3:30pm
Session II-III
2:00 – 2:15pm
2:15 - 3:30pm
Session III
Day 2: Wednesday, June 22, 2016
7:30 - 8:30am
Vendor Exhibits
8:30 – 8:45am
 Dr. Robert Glass, Superintendent, Bloomfield Hills Schools
 Elizabeth Banks, Lamphere Schools—2016 Teacher of the Year
8:45 – 10:00am
Dr. Pasi Sahlberg, Keynote Presenter
10:00 – 10:15am
10:15 – 11:30am
Session IV
11:30 – 12:30pm
Lunch
12:30 – 12:45pm
12:45 – 2:00pm
Session V
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Keynote Session Descriptions
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
8:45—10:00am
Auditorium
Dr. Yong Zhao
Fixing the Past or Inventing the Future: Education Reforms
that Matter
Everyone wants a world-class education, an excellent education that
prepares future generations for success and prosperity. As a result,
educational systems all over the world have engaged in massive reforms,
from redesigning curriculum to enhancing teacher preparation, from improving accountability
systems to importing policies and practices from abroad. But are these reforms likely to result in a
world-class education we all desire or perhaps prevent us from achieving the goal. In the
presentation, Professor Yong Zhao invites participants to explore two education paradigms-employee-oriented vs. entrepreneur-oriented—and reflect on education reforms needed for
providing all children a future-oriented education experience.
Administrators’ Breakout with Yong Zhao
Dr. Yong Zhao will be available for continued conversation and to answer
questions regarding his keynote address.
10:15—11:30am
Auditorium
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
8:45—10:00am
Auditorium
Dr. Pasi Sahlberg
Global Lessons from Successful Education Systems
In this presentation I show how global landscape of education has changed since 2000. Countries
that used to serve as models and inspiration to others are very different today than they were
back then. I then show how all well-performing education systems invest in equity, social capital,
professionalism and intelligent accountability. I conclude that there are several lessons from these
new developments for the U.S. but American policy-makers should not imitate Finland's or
anybody else's education system.
Administrators’ Breakout with Pasi Sahlberg
Dr. Pasi Sahlberg will be available for continued conversation and to answer
questions regarding his keynote address.
10:15—11:30am
Auditorium
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2016 Presenters
Avondale
Clarkston
Lake Orion
South Lyon
Noelle Collis
Matt Klaver
Laura Mahler
Nancy Mahoney
Wendy Osterman
Phyllis Ness
Fawn Phillips
Monica Phillips
Staci Puzio
Amy Quayle
Jamie Rykse
Melissa Rykse
Liz Walker
Students:
Samantha Conlon
Hannah Laing
Melvin Laubstein
Henry Poploskie
Lauren Sielinski
Sara Snider
Missy Butki
Dakotah Cooper
Susan Dandalides
Kelly Day
Kate DiMeo
Emily Dixon
Cami Giberson
Melissa Kempski
Michael Medvinsky
Pam Moreman
Emilie Schiff
Julie Kamen
Carrie Madeja
Laura Weakland
Farmington
Madison Heights
Berkley
Jennifer Flora
Carrie Heaney
Kenna Parker
Birmingham
Kim Blastic
James Lalik
Tamara Nast
Pauline Roberts
Holly Zimmerman
Students:
Jacob Acey
Megan Clifford
Drew Johnson
Laila Hampton
Ainsley Nelson
Ian Weinberg
Vivian Yee
Julie Honkala
Laura Huhta
Jessica Lupone
Jennifer McElya
Gregory Drozdowski
Elizabeth Eslinger
Peggy Najarian
Kristen Nelson
Valada Sargent
Colleen Stamm
Brandon
Ferndale
Bloomfield Hills
Brandie Bevel
Justin Dickerson
Students:
Jarold Franklin
Clarenceville
Brady Gustafson
Cassandra Gustafson
Karen Morrison
Sarai Stetson
Clarkston
Brian Adams
Lori Banaszak
Nancy Brown
Kristine Butcher
Sharon Crain
Lisa Drew
Ryan Eisele
Christa Fons
Kelly Fuller
Jodi Gabbard
Andrew Henwood
Amy Hohlbein
Lane Hurd
Radhika Issac
Jennifer Johnson
Adam Kern
Derek Adams
Elizabeth Gillespie
Lindsay Gonska
Beth Grillo
Katharine Jeffrey
Diana Keefe
Johanna Mracna
Dina Rocheleau
Heather Urbanowicz
Hazel Park
Jennifer Cory
Larry Marks
Holly
Crystal Palace
Jeff Ragland
Aimee Schwartz
Lamphere
Elizabeth Simpson
Andrea Gordon
Susan Spanke
Lapeer
Kristal White
Lisa VanderHagen
Amy Webb
Lisa Whiteside
Novi
Rod Franchi
Hattie Maguire
Marsha Reid
Michael Ziegler
Oak Park
Afreeka Miller
Oakland
Mediation Center
Kenzi Bisbing
Oakland Schools
Jill Jessen-Maneice
Steven Snead
Pontiac
James Loisel
Kathleen Miska
Peggy Barker
Chad Fisher
Stacy Calloway
Sonia Nieske
Sylvia Sturgis
Students:
Bacarday Johnson
Lake Orion
Rochester
Huron Valley
Rebecca Brewer
Andrea Brook
Beth Bruce
Arina Bokas
Erika Lusky
Julie Rains
Kenda Seitz
Troy
Jennifer Anderson
Lindsey Ballard
Erich Beregszaszy
Michelle Dodson
Jodie Duda
Emily Freeman
Kaitlin Hooper
Lea McAllister
Grayson McKinney
Jo O’Brien
Rachel Peterson
Valerie Valentino
Marie Woodman
Students:
Drew Heppner
Julia Heywood
Brooke Lee
Noah Miller
University Preparatory
Jamiecee Baker
Walled Lake
Marci Augenstein
Danielle Bigi
Sandra Brough-Gresh
Patricia Chinn
Mike Fray
Susan Gerber
Ken Gutman
Mark Hess
Lynn Newmyer
Kelly Parks
Phillip Pittman
Peggy Price
Pam Shoemaker
Anne Spencer
Kristin White
Waterford
Mary Craite
Tina Dean
Courtney John
Elizabeth Kutchey
Joann O’Rourke
Christy Patel
Julie Rule
West Bloomfield
Mike Atkinson
Amy Quinn
Jianna Taylor
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Sessions by Focus Area
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7:30—8:30am
Registration and Vendor Exhibits
8:30—8:45am
Blended +:An Unplugged Approach
Presenter(s): Holly Zimmermann
District: Birmingham
Focus Area: Student Engagement
Audience: All Educators
Room: A216
Most students hear “blended” as synonymous with “online.”
This session, however, will be about the ways blended learning
8:45—10:00am
allows us to enrich our classrooms without plugging in. In this
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Yong Zhao
session, participants will consider a value added approach to
blended learning that will restructure their current instrucFixing the Past or Inventing the Future:
tional approaches in order to engage diverse learners,
decentralize teaching, differentiate instruction, remediate
Education Reforms that Matter
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Room: Auditorium struggling learners, forge meaningful relationships, and
extend classroom content into the community. Participants
Everyone wants a world-class education, an excellent
will re-imagine a unit or course with one or more of these
education
that prepares
future
generations for success and purposes in mind and workshop an action plan to implement
 ENIM IRIURE
ACCUMSAN
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prosperity. As a result, educational systems all over the
“Blended+” in their schools.
 MOLIOR VICIS FEUGIAT.
world have engaged in massive reforms, from redesigning
 QUADRUM
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EA. preparation, from
curriculum
to enhancing
teacher
improving
systems to importing policies and Creating a Culture of Health and Wellness
 HAEROaccountability
UT NUTUS ACCUMSAN.
practices
fromTE
abroad.
But are these reforms likely to result Presenter(s): Phillip Pittman, Susan Gerber & Anne Spencer
 GENITUS,
VERO, ERAT.
in a world-class education we all desire or perhaps prevent District: Walled Lake
LETALIS TATION LOQUOR EX.
Focus Area: Other—Health & Wellness
Room: A208
usfrom
achieving the goal. In the presentation, Professor
Audience:
All
Educators
 AUTEM
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Yong
Zhao invites
the participants
paradigms--employee-oriented
vs. entrepreneur-oriented— In this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding
and
reflect
on
education
reforms
needed for providing all
of the policies and practices schools can engage in to establish
 LETALIS TATION LOQUOR EX.
children a future-oriented education experience.
a culture of health and wellness, learn about how the part AUTEM DIGNISSIM EXPUTO ESSE.
nership among the stakeholders of a school community can
support health and wellness initiatives, better understand the
Session I Breakouts
mental, physical, social, and emotional aspects of health and
10:15—11:30am
wellness in a school setting, and recognize the benefits of
emphasizing health and wellness in a school setting.
Administrators’ Session — Dr. Yong Zhao
Room: Auditorium
Dr. Yong Zhao will be available for continued conversation
and to answer questions regarding his keynote address.
Active Engaged Learning in the Science
Classroom
Presenter(s): Rebecca Brewer and Andrea Brook
District: Lake Orion
Focus Area: Student Engagement—Science
Room: A233
Audience: Secondary Educators
Come explore tried-and-true strategies aimed at active,
engaged learning. During this interactive presentation, you
will switch between "student" and "teacher" mode as we
lead you through activities that can be used in a science
classroom. This presentation will cover everything from
easily adaptable classroom games and activities to
awesome apps that showcase student work.
Engaging Students through Choice Reading and
Purposeful Blogging
Presenter(s): Jo O'Brien, Jodie Duda & Valerie Valentino
District: Troy
Focus Area: Student Engagement—Literacy
Room: A232
This session will highlight one process used to increase
independent, choice reading in the secondary ELA classroom
and the positive effects of that initiative. This session will also
showcase how independent reading can become an integral
part of the curriculum and how blogging helps to focus
student voice in that arena. Participants will come away with
a step-by-step approach to implementing independent
reading in their schools as well as concrete suggestions for
shifting class discussion from the traditional teacher-led
approach to one that is centered on student discovery and
cooperative engagement.
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Exceptional Education and Why College is Not
Always the Best Route for Our Students
Participants will leave the session with a list of over 150 picture
book mentor texts read-aloud. Book giveaways included!
Presenter(s): Justin Dickerson and Jarold Franklin
Google Drawings: A Secret Tool for Student
District: Brandon
Room: A234 Learning and Engagement
Presenter(s): Pam Shoemaker
District: Walled Lake
This presentation has been given several times across the
Focus Area: Student Engagement—Technology Room: A200
US. It focuses on Special Education students, coding, comAudience: All Educators
puter programming, corporate sponsors, drone technology
and job placement. We will share how this unique program It is well known that Docs, Sheets, and Slides are part of the
has affected student improvement (grade level, etc) in our Google Productivity Suite. However, most educators do not
district.
know that Google Drawings is also included. This amazing
learning and collaboration tool is useful for students and
teachers of all grade levels and subject areas, and can be used
Focus on Learning
in a wide variety of interactive and engaging ways. Here are
Presenter(s): Wendy Osterman
some examples: Younger students can match vocabulary to
District: Clarkston
Focus Area: Mathematics
Room: A215 pictures, create and display patterns, draw pictures, and use
virtual manipulatives to solve math problems. Older students
can make infographics, design banners, annotate pictures and
When we focus on student learning instead of what we are maps, make digital comic strips, and construct image-based
teaching, we are more likely to take risks, continue to grow research projects. Collaboration is built in and files can be
as educators, and witness higher achievement with our
seamlessly integrated with other Google applications. Students
students. This session will introduce Learning Targets as a
can show what they know!
critical component of lesson planning and focus on the
development of student understanding. Strategies will be
Guided Reading and Intervention Groups Made
shared that have been developed to focus on students and
Easy (Early Level: DRA 4-16)
teachers working together toward mastery of learning
Presenter(s): Kristal White
targets and student understanding. Although stories will
primarily be from middle school math classes, the intention District: Lapeer
Focus Area: Literacy
Room: A203
is to spark ideas for all educators.
Audience: Elementary Educators
Fostering Social-Emotional Learning through
Read-Aloud
Teaching guided reading and reading intervention groups can
be overwhelming, especially at the early level (DRA 4-16).
Participants of this session will get a breakdown of the essenPresenter(s): Laura Weakland
tial components to include in their instruction, in an easy to
District: South Lyon
Room: A205 follow lesson format. You will get an overview of how to
integrate sight words, fluency, comprehension, word work, and
guided writing. These strategies are based on Jan Richardson’s
Join us as we explore how to foster social-emotional learn- research and guided reading lesson template. Topics of
ing by teaching kids to “take care of themselves, each
progress monitoring and management techniques will also be
other, and our world” through read-aloud. Teachers have
covered.
the potential to make a huge impact on the lives of their
students. One of the best ways to help students learn
character traits such as empathy, compassion, kindness,
persistence, and more is through modeling and exposure.
Picture books, in addition to the way we talk and act
ourselves, are a great way to expose students to these traits.
Learn about the four quadrants of emotional intelligence
and how to support them through read-aloud. Explore
current children’s literature with strong themes to support
social-emotional learning.
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Infused Play
Presenter(s): Brandie Bevel
District: Brandon
Audience: K-2 Educators
Presenter(s): Julie Rule and Tina Dean
District: Waterford
Room: A212 Focus Area: Literacy
Do you find yourself feeling that your students don’t have
enough time to play? I transformed my schedule to allow
for different types of research-based play. The data I’m
collecting show more students are engaged, fewer are
involved in behavior incidents, student focus has increased,
and the amount of play in class is more age appropriate.
Come and see how you can implement these changes into
your
classroom and
still have time to provide rigorous
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curricular instruction. It seems that when children have
sufficient play, they are more attentive and engaged during
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lessons.
Work
hard,
play hard
is our motto.

Questioning for Thinking
MOLIOR VICIS FEUGIAT.
Literature
Circles:
 QUADRUM
QUIDEMStudent
NISL EA. Choice and
Collaboration
Make
a Difference
 HAERO UT NUTUS
ACCUMSAN.
Room: A201
The Adolescent Accelerated Reading Initiative framework
opens doors for students (grades 3-12) of varying abilities to
think deeply about expository text and make their thinking
visible. Through questioning with scaffolds and questioning
the author, students engage in the process of thinking for
understanding to internalize critical thinking strategies.
Renovating Reader's Workshop Using the
SAM-R Model
Presenter(s): Kara Helgemo and Kelly Parks
Room: A220
Audience: Elementary, Middle School Educators
Transform your reader’s workshop to better reflect the
technological world in which we live! Literacy as we know it is
changing as we become a more technically savvy world. As
Room: A206
teachers, we can use technology in a wide variety of ways in
order to further student learning and achievement. Our

MOLIOR
VICIS
FEUGIAT.
Learn how to use literature circles to motivate and engage presentation will begin with an overview of the SAM-R
developmental
readers.
Strategies
and activities used in a
model, developed by Dr. Reuben Puntedura, to reflect on
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LOQUOR
EX.
secondary
remedial
ELA
classroom
will
be
presented.
Visible
how technology is currently being used and how it can be
 AUTEM DIGNISSIM EXPUTO ESSE.
thinking routines and the Gradual Release of Responsibility extended even further. We will then demonstrate a wide
Instructional Model are essential components for raising
variety of tech tools that participants can use in their reader’s
student achievement and also will be a focus of this session. workshop. These tools include, but are not limited to,
Edmodo, MobyMax, Storia, Padlet, Powtoons, and Snapshot
by Edmodo.
Number Talks for Grades K-2
Presenter(s): Lea McAllister
Structure, Communication, Reflection:
District: Troy
Room: A209 Intentionally Engaging Members of the School
Presenter(s): Jeff Ragland and Crystal Palace
 GENITUS, TE VERO, ERAT.
District: Holly
 LETALIS
TATION LOQUOR EX.
Focus
Area: Literacy
Audience:
Secondary
 AUTEM
DIGNISSIMEducators
EXPUTO ESSE.
This session will introduce K-2 teachers to the purpose,
structure and focus of Number Talks. After engaging in a
number talk through classroom video, participants will
have an opportunity to reflect on their current practices
and target essential understanding about numbers and
operations called for in the state standards.
Community to Shape a Culture of Thinking
Presenter(s): Gary Kaul and Liz Walker
District: Clarkston
Room: A211
Focus Area: Other-Staff Engagement: Administrators
Two secondary administrators will share the story of how they
work to build a Culture of Thinking within their school and
discuss how it impacted the way they interact with staff,
students and parents. Hear an honest assessment of the
challenges and successes experienced along their on-going
journey as they work together to facilitate a cultural shift.
Participants will hear how to transform staff meetings and
school improvement initiatives by using routines, protocols
and other examples which serve to create an atmosphere
that helps to foster a positive cultural shift.
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The Relationship between Risk-Taking and
Reading
Presenter(s): Jamiecee Baker and Jill Jessen-Maneice
District: University Preparatory Academy/Oakland Schools
Room: A213
Using the Identify and Interpret (I2) Strategy to
Analyze Graphs and Figures
Presenter(s): Peggy Najarian
District: Farmington
Room: A210
Students often become overwhelmed by the information
The deep work of reading requires all readers to take risks, found in graphs, figures, and data tables. Participants will
but especially struggling readers. How can general and spe- learn how to use the I2 Strategy to break down this type of
cial educators create an environment where students eninformation into smaller, digestible pieces. After practicing this
gage courageously? Join us to explore the relationship betechnique, the session will conclude with a discussion of
tween taking risks and deepening students’ critical thinking, classroom implementation ideas.
deep understanding of text, and engagement with peers.
Take away strategies for educators of all content areas include: employing the languages of learning, building collab- Using Whiteboards with Facilitation Style
Presenter(s): Matt Klaver and Fawn Phillips
orative communities, and establishing cultures where stuDistrict: Clarkston
dents celebrate failure as a pathway to growth.
Focus Area: Other—Science
Room: A228
Using Student Discussions to Develop
Mathematical Understandings
Presenter(s): Carrie Heaney
District: Berkley
Room: A217
During this session, teachers will have a chance to think
about how to orchestrate student discussions that will help
students develop understanding around the mathematical
concept that is being addressed in a lesson. This session will
focus on 3 areas that will support discussions that lead to
mathematical understanding.
These three areas are:
1. What questions do I ask? We will look at ways to
develop the questions that promote good student
discussions.
2. How do we listen to what our students are saying?
We will look at ways to synthesize what students are
saying and provide feedback and follow up questions
that address misconceptions and deepen understandings.
Participants will learn how to incorporate the use of whiteboards in your classroom to facilitate student discussion and
visualize student thinking.
Word Study in Action
Presenter(s): Jennifer Anderson
District: Troy
Room: A207
Effective and efficient readers and writers understand how
words work. When they come across unfamiliar words, they
use strategies for learning how those words work. With the
appropriate instruction, all readers and writers--including
those who struggle--can learn and use these strategies. And, it
is manageable for you to include systematic, and explicit daily
instruction in word study to meet the needs of all of your
students, regardless of levels. Leave with practical ways of
integrating word study including spelling, phonics, word
patterns, structure of language, vocabulary, and strategies for
learning new words, into your ELA block. Don't leave word
study and your readers/writers behind!
3. How do I share the really good discussions that are
happening worth different groups? We will look at ways
to share these discussions with the whole class in a way
that reinforces everybody's understandings.
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Session II Breakouts
12:45—2:00pm
A Beginner's Guide to SeeSaw, The Learning
Journal
Presenter(s): Emily Freeman
District: Troy
Focus Area: Student Voice
Chalk Talks/Socratic Seminars: Hearing Students'
Voices
Presenter(s): Nancy Brown
District: Clarkston
Room: A220
Participants will learn about these two inquiry-based
Room: A216 pedagogical methods in order to understand how they might
benefit their own classrooms. Then they will engage in an
actual chalk talk after completing a short reading. This will be
Have you seen the app that is changing tech integration in followed by discussion.
classrooms across the country? Many of us have had our
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doubts
about allSOLUTIONS
the new technology coming into our
Cross Curricular Writing: Connecting Writers
schools. We've rightly been concerned about privacy, ease,
and relevance. New apps that promise educational miracles Across Disciplines and Sharing the Load
 constantly
ENIM IRIURE
ACCUMSAN
EPULAE.
are
being
introduced,
but they are usually just a Presenter(s): Hattie Maguire and Rod Franchi
District: Novi
 MOLIOR
VICIS
FEUGIAT.
collection
of bells
and
whistles that don't make for meanFocus Area: Literacy
Room: A209
ingful
student learning.
 QUADRUM
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NISL EA. is not that app! SeeSaw fills
Audience:
Secondary
Educators
actual classroom needs, gives students a voice, connects
 HAERO UT NUTUS ACCUMSAN.
parents and classrooms, and does it all easily, while
Traditionally, ELA teachers have been the ones dragging
 GENITUS,
TE VERO,privacy.
ERAT. Sound too good to be true?
maintaining
children's
home stacks and stacks of essays on the weekends, but with
Come
play with
us forLOQUOR
hour and
 LETALIS
TATION
EX. see if you aren't convinced! the shift to the Common Core State Standards, more and
Bring
your smart
phoneEXPUTO
or tablet
and get ready to be
more teachers in the content areas have begun tackling
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wowed!
significant writing assignments with their students. This session
will share strategies for teachers to work cross curricularly in
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Building Positive Interactions and Relationships different ways to support student writers. We will share two
specific instances of cross-curricular writing: one in which ELA
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intheAUTEM
Classroom
and Social Studies teachers partnered on the same assignPresenter(s): Erika Lusky and Julie Rains
ment and one in which Physics and ELA teachers partnered to
District: Rochester
Room: A228 work on editing and revising. In both instances, students
benefited from consistent writing instruction and expectations
in different disciplines. Teachers benefitted from the opporWhat might a positive group culture look and sound like?
tunity to work collaboratively and to "share the load" of both
How might we create this environment in our schools? How writing instruction and assessment.
can we leverage positive interactions and relationships to
encourage agency and deepen thinking? Join us for a
Designing Graphic Organizers: How Students
discussion exploring current practices and future possibilities.
Can Use Deep Thinking to Organize Information
Building Positive Pathways
Presenter(s): Laura Huhta
District: Bloomfield Hills
Room: A233
Presenter(s): Diana Keefe and Heather Urbanowicz
District: Ferndale
Focus Area: Other—School Culture
Room: A234
Students are encouraged to use graphic organizers in many
Audience: K-2, Elementary Educators
different contexts and content areas. But how many of them
Build positive pathways by creating connections within your have the skills to design their own? In this session, participants
classroom and school family. Walk away with ideas you can will learn to take graphic organizers from “cute” to powerful.
use that will build problem solvers, encourage selfregulation and create a environment that fosters social and
emotional development for all students.
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Dialogue Session on Dr. Yong Zhao’s
Presentations
in assessment, instruction, and cultural enrichment that
engage and support culturally diverse students. After
completing this session, educators will be equipped with a
comprehensive set of best practices to meet the academic,
social, and emotional needs of all students.
Join the dialogue session to continue the conversation
around the ideas presented by Dr. Yong Zhao. Throughlines
of the conversation include: What are the most important
skills and dispositions for our students to acquire?; Why are
these the most important skills and dispositions for our
students to acquire?;How can we best inspire/nurture these
skills and dispositions in our students and in ourselves?; and,
What are my next steps in inspiring/nurturing these skills
and dispositions in my students and myself?
Game Based Learning: Can You Breakout with
Breakout EDU
Presenter(s): Christa Fons, Brian Adams & Nancy Mahoney
District: Clarkston
Room: Auditorium
Easy Ways to Modify Traditional Science Labs
to Incorporate Student Design, Visible Thinking,
and Productive Discussions
Presenter(s): Dakotah Cooper and Michael Medvinsky
Room: A227
In this session participants will engage in a Breakout EDU
game and discuss ways that we can create learning opportunities for students that are both engaging and fun. After
participants experience a Breakout EDU game we will discuss
possibilities, share ideas, resources, and how to become a part
of this growing community.
Presenter(s): Erich Beregszaszy and Michelle Dodson
Graphic Organizers in Mathematics: Helping
District: Troy
Room: A222 ALL Learners Make Connections
Presenter(s): Missy Butki
There has been a recent push in science education towards Focus Area: Mathematics
Room: A206
providing students more opportunities to explore science
and engineering practices through inquiry based labs in
Help improve content development, content classification and
order to experience the nature of science. The goal of this
relationship comparisons through the use of graphic organizpresentation is to show science instructors a variety of easy
ers in mathematics. Visual/graphic organizers assist students in
techniques to transform existing student labs into a more
dynamic and enriching experience for all learners. Through accessing prior knowledge and connecting it to new ideas.
Research indicates students who use graphic organizers to
a variety of examples we have created, we will show the
arrange their ideas improve their comprehension and
ease of incorporating labs that focus on lab design,
communication skills. You will discover the benefits to both
discussions, and student voice into the high school science
teachers and students and experience several examples to use
curriculum.
in the secondary classroom.
Engaging At-Risk Students/Diverse Learners
with Culturally Responsive Instruction
Integrating Academic Vocabulary into All
Content Areas: Strategies for Individual
Classroom & Schoolwide Implementation
Presenter(s): Stacy Calloway and Sylvia Sturgis
District: Pontiac
Room: A231 Presenter(s): Jianna Taylor
District: West Bloomfield
Room: A213
The purpose of this session is to provide an in-depth look at Audience: Middle School Educators
the challenges at-risk students experience in and out of the
classroom, which hampers their personal and academic
In this session, participants will learn about one middle school's
success, and often leads to failing grades and increased
journey from knowing students struggled with academic
dropout rates. Teachers will learn how to create culturally
vocabulary to making intentional vocabulary instruction an
responsive classroom practices that aim to overcome the
embedded, schoolwide practice. In addition to learning about
barriers and biases that impact culturally, linguistically
how Orchard Lake Middle School made academic vocabulary
diverse at-risk students. Throughout this presentation,
a school wide focus, participants will leave the session with
attendees will be inspired to transform their students’ lives
numerous strategies and ideas for teaching academic vocaband to employ a series of research-based guiding principles ulary in all content areas.
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Intentional Teaching = Accelerative Learning
Presenter(s): Lynn Newmyer
Room: A207
Intentional teaching and the formative assessment process
assists students in accelerating their own learning. How
teachers deliberately plan for expert scaffolding of literacy
tasks and including students in the process makes the
difference. But what does this look like and sound like with
concrete examples? Participants will be actively involved in
a guided watching and discussion of video clips from a
literacy
group. Time
to set goals and determine next steps
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SOLUTIONS
for implementation will be provided. Join your colleagues in
discussing how to link the theory to the practice.

ENIM IRIURE ACCUMSAN EPULAE.
 MOLIOR
VICIS FEUGIAT.
Math
Exchanges
and Math Workshop
Presenter(s):
Aimee
Schwartz
 QUADRUM
QUIDEM
NISL EA.
District:
Holly
 GENITUS,
TE VERO,Educators
ERAT.
Audience:
Elementary


Room: A215
Catch the buzz around Math Exchanges by Kassia
 AUTEMThis
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Wedekind.
session EXPUTO
will focusESSE.
on how student talk in a
workshop
format
change your math instruction.
 MOLIOR
VICIScan
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Modeling
and Probability
with
 AUTEM Statistics
DIGNISSIM EXPUTO
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Monopoly
Presenter(s): James Loisel
District: Huron Valley
Room: A217
In this lesson, students discover how the x and y intercepts of
linear, quadratic, and polynomial functions relate by examining the graph of the function (desmos) and the equation
itself. Students make connections to turning points as well as
intercepts on the x-axis, how the steepness of a line is related
to the width of a parabola or other curve. Students uncover
the concepts of end behavior and how it relates to the
degree and leading coefficient of a function. Prior
knowledge of linear functions builds new knowledge of
higher-order functions.
Parental Engagement, Academics, and
Achievement with English Learner Families:
Every Day Practice in Daily Learning
Presenter(s): Peggy Barker and Sonia Nieske
District: Pontiac
Room: A232
English Learners (ELs) are increasing in our schools, yet many
schools struggle with engaging parents/guardians in the
learning process. There are many factors to consider, but the
rewards and success of our ELs are intricately tied into culture
and family. This workshop explains some common sense
approaches that one district is taking with its students and
their families that can be used to bring your EL families to the
table and enrich English Learner's education to the highest
potential.
Redesign Your Computer Lab to Be a
Collaborative Learning Space
Presenter(s): Lori Banaszak and Sharon Crain
District: Clarkston
Room: A224
See how Clarkston Community Schools redesigned their
passive elementary computer labs and changed them into a
creative and energetic learning space. From bulky desktops to
sleek Chromebooks, it has created an environment of more
engagement and flexibility. You will be inspired to redesign
your own space for more collaborative learning.
SAMR and Google Apps in the Classroom
Presenter(s): Colleen Stamm
Focus Area: Other—Technology
Room: A219
Do you have access to technology but want to try something
new? Are you ready to redesign tasks to increase engagement
and learning? If you answered yes to either of these questions,
then this session is for you. Participants will explore the SAMR
model of integrating technology within the GAFE (Google
Apps for Education) platform. Brainstorming and creation
time will be allotted so participants will walk out with a task
that can be used in the fall.
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Student Voice and Engagement in Character
Education
Presenter(s): James Lalik, Kim Blastic, Drew Johnson & Laila
Hampton
Room: A226
Pierce Elementary was named a National School of
Character in 2011. Although we have a solid Character
Education program, we felt there is always room for
improvement. Fine tuning the program with an increased
student voice and direct student engagement ultimately
increased participation and schoolwide buy in. This
presentation will share our journey to reach our goal to let
students promote good character and learn from each
other. Learn about the successes and challenges we faced
straight from a group of Pierce Students, a Pierce Teacher
Leader in Character Education and Pierce's Principal.
Success Time: Utilizing a Schoolwide
Approach to Help All Students Succeed
Session II-III Breakouts
12:45—3:30pm
These sessions overlap sessions II & III and are
scheduled for 2 hours 30 minutes.
Change Your Culture through Formative
Assessment and Collaborative Inquiry
Presenter(s): Patricia Chinn, Danielle Bigi & Peggy Price
Focus Area: Other—Formative Assessment
Room: A218
Participants will explore how one school has deepened their
learning culture through implementation of formative
assessment through collaborative inquiry.
Design Thinking in Education
Presenter(s): Laura Mahler, Phyllis Ness & Sara Snider
District: Clarkston
Focus Area: Other—Cross Curricular
Room: B303
Presenter(s): Amy Webb and Lisa VanderHagen
Please join us for a design thinking experience. You will
District: Madison
Room: A214 participate in a design protocol created by the Henry Ford
Learning Institute. You will tackle a problem or challenge
that directly impacts you as an educator. You will emerge
This presentation focuses on implementing an instructional from this session with a new understanding of design
learning cycle to ensure that all students have an opporthinking and the way it can positively impact you as an
tunity to receive extra reinforcement of specific learning
educator.
targets. Teachers will share strategies they have used to
group students to differentiate instruction using a "re-teach
Differentiation - A Way of Thinking About
and enrich" model. By using a team approach during the
Teaching and Learning
school day, teachers focus on meeting the needs of at-risk
Presenter(s): Kristen D. Nelson and Elizabeth Eslinger
students. Strategies for success will be presented, data
shared, and there will be an opportunity for discussion.
Focus Area: Other—Differentiation
Room: A211
Audience:
Elementary
Educators
Text Talk
Presenter(s): Kenna Parker and Jennifer Flora
District: Berkley
Room: A204
Join us for a fun, interactive and hands-on approach to
enhancing teaching and learning through differentiated
instruction! Participants will be able to identify the major
“WHY” and “HOW” components of differentiated instruction
and receive a tool box of strategies and examples to support
Explore how to make vocabulary instruction in your
a variety of learning styles. This session is designed to meet the
classroom more explicit and meaningful across all areas of
needs of ALL educators. Information and examples provided
the curriculum. A classroom teacher and speech and
will benefit a wide-range of learners; from most restrictive
language pathologist talk about their collaboration and
how to support student learning and make students lifelong classroom environments to least restrictive classroom
environments.
vocabulary learners.
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Effective Literacy Practices for English Learners
Presenter(s): Andrea Gordon and Karen Morrison
District(s): Clarenceville and Lamphere
Room: A201
This workshop will include research-based principles and
classroom strategies to effectively teach reading and writing
to ELs, which are appropriate to their particular proficiency
level. The similarities and differences in teaching native
speakers of English and ELs will be examined and discussed.
This workshop is for all teachers of ELs who teach reading,
ESL, AARI, and ELA, K-12.
Engaging Adolescents: Creating a Culture of
Thinking
in the Secondary Classroom
 ENIM IRIURE ACCUMSAN EPULAE.
Presenter(s): Amy Hohlbein and Amy Quayle
 MOLIOR
VICIS FEUGIAT.
District:
Clarkston
 QUADRUM
QUIDEM
NISL EA.
Focus
Area: Student
Engagement
Audience:
Secondary
 HAERO
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ACCUMSAN.
Room: A205
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willTE
provide
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see
to make
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classroom and how to implement various thinking routines
and protocols. The presenters will demonstrate how they
 accomplished
have
integration of the Cultures of Thinking
philosophy
in TATION
their classrooms.
Attendees will learn how
 LETALIS
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collaborative
learning
promotes
student achievement,
connects curriculum to each individual learner, increases
student engagement, and provides opportunities to
promote student understanding using various cultural forces.
Improving Writing in Laboratory Investigations
Using a Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Explanation Tool
Presenter(s): Peggy Najarian
Service Learning - Engage, Educate, Inspire!
Presenter(s): Radhika Issac and Kelly Fuller
District: Clarkston
Room: A212
Service Learning meets curriculum goals while empowering
students to impact their community through the power of
service. Educators participating in this workshop will leave
with an overview of a service learning theory, practice,
project design and implementation, as well as receive
purposeful resources than can be used immediately in the
classroom. During the session, we will get hands-on experience
as we develop and engage in a service learning project!
Participants will leave this session engaged, educated, and
inspired!
Room: A210
Interested in helping students improve the connections
between the data collected in a laboratory investigation
and the scientific principles you are investigating?
Participants will generate and analyze data and then use a
claim, evidence, reasoning explanation tool to connect the
data to the scientific principle being studied.
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Classroom Management to Build Thinkers,
Learners, and Community
Session III Breakouts
2:15—3:30pm
Assessment, Wow!!: How Quality Assessment
Practices Can Engage Learners
Presenter(s): Emily Dixon and Steven Snead
District(s): Lake Orion and Oakland Schools
Room: A227
In an educational system moving away from consequences
Room: A233 and rewards in order to build deeper thinkers, how does a
teacher motivate and inspire students to be self-regulating
and empathetic in a classroom community? In this session
Can assessment be fun? YES! Can assessment be of real
participants will learn about current best practices and have
value to daily teaching & learning? YES! Can assessment
a dialog about ways we help students grow into the best
practices
engageSOLUTIONS
and motivate students? YES! Get ready for versions of themselves they can.
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lots of hands-on, practical classroom instructional strategies
that will help us dive into the work of improving assessment
Coding, What We Are Doing and What We
 ENIMinIRIURE
ACCUMSAN
EPULAE.In this session, we’ll
practices
classrooms
and schools.
explore
student
and
teacher dispositions that can help build Want to Do
 MOLIOR
VICIS
FEUGIAT.
Presenter(s): Sarai Stetson
a foundation for quality assessment practices across all
 QUADRUM QUIDEM NISL EA.
District: Clarenceville
grade levels. Participants in this session will also learn
 HAERO
UT NUTUS
ACCUMSAN.
Room: A232
effective
assessment
and
feedback strategies that help
students
moveTE
forward
in the learning process.
 GENITUS,
VERO, ERAT.

Authentic
Grading Practices Through Learning
Progressions
Presenter(s): Andrew Henwood
District:
Clarkston
 AUTEM
DIGNISSIM
EXPUTO ESSE.
Focus
Area: Student
Engagement
Room: A216
Teachers have historically represented student progress and
learning with some kind of an abstract unit of measurement - levels, points, letters of the alphabet, emoticons.
Each of these practices takes an authentic moment in time
- learning - and represents it with something else. This
"refocusing" has led students to believe that the purpose of
their schooling is the attainment of the unit of measurement—points, grades, emoticons - instead of the attainment
of more sophisticated levels of understanding. This presentation will present an alternative pathway to communicating
student progress: authentic Learning Progressions. These
Learning Progressions will be modeled as the means of
communicating, and measuring, student progress in the
classroom. The process of creating a learning progression
from Common Core Standard to specific product
expectation will be modeled and participants will have the
opportunity to create their own authentic Learning
Progression to be used in their classrooms.
Calling all coding teachers, coding club facilitators, and
coders. Come share what you are doing with other teachers
interested in either starting coding with their students, or
growing their program. Bring samples of student work if you
have it!
Coding...It's Elementary!
Presenter(s): Lori Banaszak, Lisa Drew, Sharon Crain,
Samantha Conlon, Henry Poploskie & Lauren Sielinski
District: Clarkston
Room: A224
Every student in every elementary school should have the
opportunity to learn computer science. Learn how Clarkston
Community Schools created elementary coding clubs during
the school day. Participants will learn about coding programs
and curriculum to use, showcase student projects and how to
get started in your own building. Get inspired to start your
own elementary coding clubs and have students become
designers and/or creators of their own digital content.
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Continuous Improvement in Mathematical
Problem Solving Proficiency
measurable gains. The process was messy and involved
as much discovery as it did planning. This session will help
guide other general education and special education teachers
Presenter(s): Phillip Pittman, Anne Spencer & Susan Gerber to rethink their approach to struggling students, particularly
(but not only) in co-taught classrooms.
Room: A208
This presentation will highlight how one school monitored
their student achievement results and adjusted their school
improvement plan to dramatically increase students’
mathematical problem solving proficiency while reducing
the achievement gap. The presenters will explore the
influence of the formative assessment process, including
learning targets, success criteria, questioning strategies, and
actionable feedback, in positively impacting student
achievement while showing how shared leadership has
contributed to a culture of innovation and continuous
improvement.
Emotional Intelligence: Reflecting on Connecting
Presenter(s): Dina Rocheleau
District: Ferndale
Room: A234
Over the past two decades, our country's leaders have done a
great job building a massive accountability system around
schools. What they've failed to do during that time is build an
engagement system within them. It's time we make sure the
missing link in schools is front and center. What students
(at any age) need at their core is caring, understanding,
acceptance, and emotional intelligence. It's time to make sure
that we are teaching, modeling, and practicing Emotional
Creating a (Digital) Culture of Thinking
Intelligence and teaching Social-Emotional Development.
Presenter(s): Grayson McKinney, Lindsey Ballard, Drew
Most of us went through school in a traditional approach to
Heppner, Julia Heywood, Brooke Lee & Noah Miller
discipline, but it's time to move to a relationship/community
District: Troy
model. Aristotle's quote, "Educating the mind without
Room: A219 educating the heart, is no education at all." Isn't it time we
focus on the impact emotional intelligence has on students,
staff, and families? Join us as we look at the differences of
Creating a "culture of thinking", as defined by Ron
traditional vs. community model, the critical importance of
Ritchhart, has been a focus of our building for the past
several years. Understanding the 8 cultural forces helps not emotional intelligence, and how we can embed them into our
daily learning environments. This isn't an add-on or another
only to master our curricular goals, but also in developing
students who are powerful thinkers and learners. Combin- thing to do - this is the right thing to do!
ing these essential practices with the technological tools
available at our fingertips has been a challenge and an
Engaging Students and Generating Feedback
adventure. Find out how we made use of iPads, SeeSaw,
by Using Formative Assessments
OneNote, and other technologies to empower our students Presenter(s): Cassandra Gustafson and Brady Gustafson
to find their voice and make their thinking visible.
District: Clarenceville
Creating Gains by Losing Control
Room: A213
Presenter(s): Michael Ziegler and Marsha Reid
The model provided shows how to use standards-based
District: Novi
Room: A206 formative assessments in a one-teacher classroom all within
one period of instruction in order to gain an insight into
student learning and adapt lessons as needed. Participants
The struggles of low-performing students can be frustrating will be engaged in some simple math assessments and the
for all parties involved, but most of all for the students
presenters will model how to quickly assess student
themselves. Sometimes even a co-taught course isn't
understanding and generate student feedback to guide
enough to help them improve. In this presentation, we hope instruction. Participants will receive multiple samples of
to help you discover the breakthrough that helped us to
formative assessments for all levels of secondary mathematics
reach some of our lowest-level reading and writing
as well as tips and tricks for implementation.
populations: Letting go of control. The more open we
became to loosening the lock-step nature of curriculum,
assessments, instruction, and even student-teacher interactions, the more we found our students showing rapid,
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Engaging Students in Problem Solving Using
Tinkering
Integrating Project-Based Learning with
Meta-cognitive Techniques for Enhanced
Learning of Complex Topics
Presenter(s): Jennifer McElya
Presenter(s): Noelle Collis with students
Room: A230 District: Avondale
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Educators
Focus Area: Other—Project-Based Learning
Room: A215
Audience:
All
Educators
This session will look at how to increase student engagement through the use of tinkering to solve problems. Can
This presentation will demonstrate how Project-Based
we turn our tinkers into thinkers? You will have the
Learning can be combined with meta-cognitive techniques
opportunity to tinker to solve a problem and share your
such as Harkness discussions and Socratic seminars to help
experience with the group. We will discuss the implications students "come to meaning" regarding complex learning
that tinkering could have in the classroom as well as what
topics such as Biological Evolution. This unconference will give
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types
of thinkingSOLUTIONS
opportunities we are providing for our
educators time to collaborate and brainstorm novel ways to
students.
implement Project-Based Learning and meta-cognitive
techniques in their classrooms. Student exemplars will be
Everything Has A Story: What Can Our
available for viewing.

Students Gain by Making Connections to the
World Around Them and Others to Better
Understand Themselves?
 GENITUS,Erika
TE VERO, ERAT.
Presenter(s):
Lusky and Arina Bokas
 LETALIS
TATION LOQUOR EX.
District:
Rochester
Focus
Area: Student
Engagement
 AUTEM
DIGNISSIM
EXPUTO ESSE.

Keith Elementary Student Voice—Where Kids
Have a Say
Presenter(s): Kelly Parks and Kara Helgemo
Room: A228 Focus Area: Student Voice
Room: A220
How do you know your students' perceptions about their
learning? Are you asking the tough questions that help guide
your instruction? The term "Student Voice" has become an
increasingly important concept in education as it relates to
students giving their input on what happens within the school
and classroom environments. According to research conductIncreasing Organization and the Precision of
ed by John Hattie and Helen Timperley (2007), effective
Language in Math Workshops
feedback is one of the most powerful influences on student
Presenter(s): Desiree Harrison
learning and achievement. While we are aware of our
impact as teachers in regards to feedback to students, have
Room: A207 we thought of the impact that feedback from our students
can give to us to help us grow? Through careful questioning
This session will offer participants the opportunity to explore and listening to our students, we can learn a lot about the
various methods for increasing math vocabulary in a math impact we have as well as areas in which we need to address.
At Keith Elementary, student voice focus groups give us the
workshop setting. Session attendees will receive materials
for starting this process in their own classrooms. This session is perspectives and experiences of the most important people in
our school - the students. Our goal is to share our experience
limited to 20 participants.
and inspire other teachers and administrators to create
student groups in their schools as well.
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join usLOQUOR
as we become
documentarians,
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historians, and publishers while fostering 21st century skills;
communication, collaboration, creativity, empathy, and
citizenship, to name a few.
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Let's Take the Formal Out of Formative
Assessment
Number Talks for Grades 3-5
Presenter(s): Lea McAllister
District: Troy
Presenter(s): Sandra Brough-Gresh
Room: A209
Audience:
3-5
Educators
Room: A217
In this session grades 3-5 teachers will be introduced to the
purpose, structure and focus of Number Talks. After engaging
My teacher toolbox is filled with red and green pens,
highlighters, sticky notes, laminated bull's eyes, old posters, in a Number Talk, teachers will have the opportunity to
markers, towels, VCR boxes, colored index cards, a deck of reflect on their current practices and target essential
understanding about numbers and operations called for in
playing cards, "memory-like" cards, red and green duct
the state standards.
tape and whiteboards. Come and see how to use quick,
inexpensive, and effective ways for "casual" formative
Shared Poetry in the K-2 Classroom
assessment...which also provides VISIBLE ways for students
to better self assess their own learning. Learning targets or
Presenter(s): Mary Craite
take-aways: Formative assessment strategies; Strategies for District: Waterford
students to self assess; and Classroom and time manageFocus Area: Literacy
Room: A204
ment.
Are you looking for an exciting way to build your students
fluency while teaching word work and improving NWEA
Presenter(s): Amy Quinn and Mike Atkinson
scores? Please join me in a shared poetry session that will get
District: West Bloomfield
you and your students excited about reading and word
Room: A231 study! You will leave with sample poems and word work
ideas that you can use the next day!
Makerspace-a hands-on creative way to engage students
The Feedback Loop: Amplifying Student Writing
to invent, tinker, explore, engineer and take ownership of
their thinking and learning. In this session, you will see how through Digital Response
a K-2 school turned a simple hallway into an incredible
Presenter(s): Kathleen Miska
space where authentic learning takes place each day.
District: Huron Valley
Examples from the makerspace, aligned with Common
Room: A222
Core standards in ELA, Mathematics and NGSS, will be
shared.
It's happened to us all: we spend hours giving feedback on
student writing, only to have that be the end of the conversaMathematics Instruction AMPlified
tion. How do we help students see feedback and revision as
Presenter(s): Afreeka Miller
vital parts of effective written communication? The answer:
District: Oak Park
Room: A214 give them more authentic feedback. Various technologies,
from a simple voice recorder to Google add-ons like
autoCrat, Goobric, Highlight Tool and Screencastify, facilitate
Data-driven instruction is a SUPER expression used
this authentic conversation between student and teacher,
throughout education. Figuring out what data to use, then and motivate students to engage more deeply in the revision
when and how to use data can become cumbersome and
process. Participants will refocus on what "effective" feedback
overwhelming at times. The purpose of this session will be to on student writing looks and sounds like, explore the
(1) Clarify “the what” (2) “the when” and (3) “the how”
technologies available to improve this feedback, and consider
around data throughout an instructional learning cycle in a the logistics of their use.
mathematics classroom.
Makerspace
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Using Oral Reading to Diagnosis Struggling
Readers
Presenter(s): Susan Dandalides

ENIM IRIURE ACCUMSAN EPULAE.
Room: A203
Efficient readers make use of our language systems—
grammar, meaning and phonics—as they read. Struggling
readers may not use these language systems as effectively. By
listening to students read, we can discover which language
systems are not being used efficiently. This type of reading
diagnosis is known as miscue analysis. The presentation will
provide attendees with relevant research, hands-on practice
with miscue analysis, and evaluation of a miscue analysis
leading to a diagnosis and plan of action.
Thoughtful
Leaders
Connecting with the World
 MOLIOR VICIS
FEUGIAT.
Presenter(s):
Brian Adams, Jodi Gabbard & Lane Hurd
District: Clarkston
 HAERO
UT NUTUSEngagement
ACCUMSAN.
Focus
Area: Student
Room: A226
Audience:
Elementary
 GENITUS,
TE VERO, Educators
ERAT.
 LETALIS
TATION
LOQUOR
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this session,
the
story ofEX.learning from Clarkston
Elementary
be shared.
Staff
members will talk about
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DIGNISSIM
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how
we
have
implemented
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Leader
in Me Process
through our Culture of Thinking. Participants will observe/
discuss:
1. Examples of connecting the physical environment
AUTEM that
DIGNISSIM
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toa culture
valuesEXPUTO
thinking
and leading; 2. Examples
of connecting Thinking Routines with the 7 Habits; and 3.
Examples of engaging students and parents.
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Desmos - Going Beyond Just Graphing
7:30—8:30am
Vendor Exhibits
Presenter(s): Jamie Rykse
District: Clarkston
8:30—8:45am
Room: A200
Desmos is an excellent online graphing calculator option for
students but it has so much more potential as a tool in the
8:45—10:00am
classroom. Participants will get hands-on experience using
some of the basic graphing functions in Desmos. We will then
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Pasi Sahlberg
look at ways Desmos can be used in the classroom to help
further students' understanding of various concepts.
Global Lessons from Successful Education
Systems
Room: Auditorium Participants will be able to walk away with at least one idea
on how they could use Desmos to either replace or strengthen
a lesson.
In this presentation I show how the global landscape of
education has changed since 2000. Countries that used to
 ENIM
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ACCUMSAN
EPULAE.
serve
as models
inspiration
to others are very different Developing a Systems Focus on Effective
today
than
they
were
back
then.
I then show how all
Instruction
well-performing
education
systems
invest in equity, social
Presenter(s): Mark Hess and Ken Gutman
capital, professionalism and intelligent accountability. I

HAERO
UT
NUTUS
ACCUMSAN.
conclude that there are several lessons from these new
Focus Area: Other—Instruction
Room: A203
 GENITUS, TE
ERAT.
developments
forVERO,
the U.S.
but American policy-makers
should
not imitate
Finland's
 LETALIS
TATION
LOQUORor
EX.anybody else's education
system.
Engage in dialogue and idea exchange about effective
instruction as a systems driver. The entire organization must
be focused on effective instruction in order for systems success.
Session
IV Breakouts
Walled Lake personnel will discuss strategies used to leverage
10:15—11:30am
a systems-wide focus on instruction.
Administrators’ Session — Dr. Pasi Sahlberg
Room: Auditorium
Differentiation Take-Aways in the Secondary
Classroom
Dr. Pasi Sahlberg will be available for continued conversa- Presenter(s): Johanna Mracna and Elizabeth Gillespie
tion and to answer questions regarding his keynote address. District: Ferndale
Room: A208
Audience:
Secondary
Educators
Close Reading as a Means to Improve Essay
Writing and Raise the Intellectual Capacity of
the Family
This presentation will focus on take-away tools for incorporating differentiation into the secondary classroom. The
resources provided will be easily customizable in any
Presenter(s): Joann O'Rourke and Christy Patel
content area and will focus on student engagement and
District: Waterford
Room: A234 interest. The presenters will provide "tried and true"
techniques and resources that have worked successfully in
their classrooms.
This session would be excellent for any administrator,
teacher, or staff developer looking to focus on close reading
as a means to improve essay writing and raise the intellectual capacity of the family. Teachers, students and families
will completely engage in close reading debate articles,
taking a stand and defending their position though live
debates.
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Digital Student Portfolios: Student Growth in
Metacognition
Presenter(s): Kaitlin Hooper
District: Troy
First Five, Last Five: Making the Most of Your
Time in the Secondary Classroom
Presenter(s): Katharine Jeffrey and Beth Grillo
District: Ferndale
Room: A211 Focus Area: Student Engagement
Students learn more when they are invited to look at their
work, reflect upon it, and continually improve. This session
will focus on 9th and 10th grade high school students and
their journey through writing, revision, goal setting, and
final reflections. Though our focus will be on writing, all
disciplines will benefit from the process of how to put
together student portfolios and how to showcase them.
There will be an overview of what student portfolios look
like, how to create them, what the year looks like with
student portfolios, what the outcomes look like, both good
and developing, student responses, and time for an interactive activity and practice.
ELA in a Blender: Establishing a Blended
Learning Environment in ELA Classrooms
Presenter(s): Kelly Day
Room: A204
The first five and last five minutes of any class period can be
filled with dead space, which means that one-sixth of your
time with your students every day has the potential to be
wasted! This equates to approximately an hour per week, or
30 hours per year! Learn how to use these precious minutes so
that you’re optimizing all of your instructional time and
maintaining high student engagement, whether it’s by
making a connection in the beginning of class to doing a
formative assessment activity at the end to gauge your
lesson’s effectiveness.
Formative Assessment Alive!
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Kutchey and Courtney John
District: Waterford
Room: A205
Have you ever sat with a student to discuss how they learn?
Room: A212 Have you ever listened to a student to discover how they
know if they understand something? Have you ever planned
Flip? Blend? Online days? Face-to-face days? What does all out formative assessment alongside your students? In this
this mean? For the past three years, students at Lake Orion session we will look at how students can become engaged in
their own assessment models by utilizing their own voice
High School have had the opportunity to take several
courses in a "blended learning" environment. This session will through the creation. In addition we will look at some
walk you through one teacher's experience blending a high interactive assessment tools that can be engaging to students
and easily incorporated into daily instruction.
school English class. Although the teacher's experience is
limited to the ELA environment, the strategies, highlights,
It's The Relationship - Duh! - Restorative
and even pitfalls are applicable across content areas.
Facilitating an Effective Mathematics Pilot
Practices
Presenter(s): Gregory Drozdowski and Valada Sargent
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Simpson and Susan Spanke
District: Lamphere
Room: A206
Room: A213 Audience: Secondary Educators
Restorative Practices (RP) are intentional actions that seek to
Selecting an appropriate mathematics instructional
improve and maintain relationships. Schools that offer
resource can be an overwhelming task. Learn how to
restorative responses (as opposed to punitive) have more
objectively evaluate instructional resources, provide
peaceful and positive school climates and greater student
inexpensive professional development for pilot teachers,
success. This presentation will focus on the use of restorative
and investigate several strategies for collecting and
practices to establish “community” within a school or
evaluating pilot data.
classroom where members recognize their connections and
responsibility for each other. Attendees will learn about the
RP philosophy and how various tools for relationship and
community building are being used within the Farmington
School district.
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Making Mathematics Thinking Visible:
Strategies for Cultivating the Standards for
Mathematical Practice Using Cultures of
Thinking
Presenter(s): Melissa Rykse
District: Clarkston
Project Cope Raising Hope
Presenter(s): Tamara Nast, Pauline Roberts, Jacob Acey,
Megan Clifford, Ainsley Nelson, Ian Weinberg & Vivian Yee
Room: A233
Room: A201 Giving students voice and choice takes learning to another
level. Come and listen to our students explain how they
transformed a service learning project into a global mission to
Are you looking for a way to keep the Standards for
eradicate poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Come journey with
Mathematical Practice in the spotlight in your classroom?
us as we trace our steps, share our stories, and reach far
Do you want to engage in Cultures of Thinking, but aren’t beyond accountability. The process these students will share
sure
how it looksSOLUTIONS
in a mathematics class? In this session
will inspire greatness in all of us!
IT SUPPORT
participants will engage in thinking routines designed to
highlight and develop student engagement with
Promoting Math Discourse
mathematical
concepts.
We EPULAE.
will discuss how to quickly
 ENIM IRIURE
ACCUMSAN
Presenter(s): Carrie Madeja and Julie Kamen
adjust
lessons VICIS
to incorporate
thinking routines, as well as
 MOLIOR
FEUGIAT.
District: South Lyon
how to redesign instruction so student thinking is the
Room: A214
 QUADRUM
QUIDEM NISL EA.
centerpiece
of the
lesson and the classroom. Teachers in
Audience:
Elementary
Educators
 HAERO
NUTUS
other
subjectUT
areas
areACCUMSAN.
also encouraged to attend since the
strategies
discussed
canERAT.
be applied in other subjects.
A session centered on how open-ended questioning,
 GENITUS,
TE VERO,
substantive conversation, and thinking routines can deepen
students' understanding of mathematical concepts.
Meaningful
Tech
Integration
Participants will engage in thinking routines, evaluate the
importance of open-ended questioning, and learn how to

MOLIOR
VICIS
FEUGIAT.
Focus
Area: Student
Engagement
Room: A207 create a culture where substantive conversation is valued and
 LETALIS
TATION LOQUOR
EX.
used to enhance learning.
Audience:
AllDIGNISSIM
Educators
 AUTEM
EXPUTO ESSE.
All educators are on a journey of learning how to
incorporate technology in meaningful ways for students. In
this session we will share projects that incorporate
technology as a tool for learning, rather than as a learning
outcome. Participants will share and discuss how technology
can be used as a tool to create learning experiences that
would otherwise be out of the grasp of our students, while
always keeping learning as the focus.
Response to Intervention: Moving from
Compliance to Purpose
Presenter(s): Marci Augenstein, Mike Fray & Kristin White
Focus Area: Other—Response to Intervention
Room: A215
Audience: High School Educators
Discussion will focus on the development and implementation
of a comprehensive High School RTI program. Data from
Opening Your Doors and Crossing Boundaries: years one and two will be shared and used to help guide
discussion of next steps. Particular focus will be placed on the
Experience and Cross Curriculum
Presenter(s): Ryan Eisele, Hannah Laing & Melvin Laubstein implementation of high leverage interventions, the tracking
of student learning progress, and the importance of
District: Clarkston
Room: A209 collaborating throughout this process.
Inspired by a visit to High Tech High the curriculum and
student experience in my class and outside has changed
dramatically. From cross-curriculum activities and projects,
to Theory of Knowledge, to crossing cultural boundaries, we
will explore possibilities in your building and district and
spend time putting together an action plan to enact in your
building.
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Shared Reading
Presenter(s): Kate DiMeo and Beth Bruce
Room: A210
Shared Reading is an essential component in a balanced
literacy classroom. In recent years, it's been one that has
often been lost. Let's give it new energy! Shared Reading is
a powerful tool that impacts student success in word study,
fluency, writing and even grammar. Used in either small
groups or with a large group, it takes just 5-10 minutes a
day to see results. Use materials you already have, change
the way you’re using them and make a difference for your
readers!
Using Project-Based Learning and Guided
Inquiry to Develop a Student-Centered Science
Classroom!
Presenter(s): Julie Honkala and Jessica Lupone
Room: A232
Explore strategies for making a more student-centered
science classroom through scaffolding instruction and
project-based/inquiry learning. This session will provide strategies for designing a classroom experience that allows students
to explore content through collaborative groups using guided
inquiry.
Standards-Based Grading Hybrid
Presenter(s): Chad Fisher and Bacarday Johnson
District: Pontiac
Room: A216
Are you frustrated with students being unprepared to move
on to the next unit, but feel pressured to get through all of
the curriculum? This session will create an opportunity to
discuss how to move away from reliance on traditional
grading and merge it with a standards-based method. Ways to adjust your grading to accommodate some
students repeating assignments will be presented, as well as
how to differentiate your instruction with small groups
working on different material simultaneously. You will also
be given time to begin developing a working model for
your own classroom. A perspective will also be given from a
student who experienced this new method and how he
responded to the change.
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Collaborating through Twitter and Building
Your Professional Learning Network
Session V Breakouts
12:45—2:00pm
A Journey to Have Grades That Show What
Students Know
Presenter(s): Johanna Mracna and Elizabeth Gillespie
District: Ferndale
Focus Area: Other—Grading Practices
Room: A208
Standards-Based Grading (SBG) accurately reflects
students’ content knowledge and allows teachers to
effectively communicate to other stakeholders what a
student knows or what they are able to do. The session will
include
the principles behind Standards-Based Grading, the
pedagogy of re-dos within the Standards-Based Grading
 MOLIOR
VICIS
FEUGIAT. of valuable feedback and how
Model
and the
importance
QUADRUM
QUIDEM
NISL EA.to students. This session will
togive
this valuable
feedback
give
tools
to put the theories of SBG and
 educators
HAERO UT the
NUTUS
ACCUMSAN.
Mastery Learning into practice. The session will include
 GENITUS, TE VERO, ERAT.
discussion on how to take the first steps to begin the
 LETALIS
TATION
LOQUORclassroom
EX.
transition
from
a traditional
to a classroom with
grades
that more
accurately
 AUTEM
DIGNISSIM
EXPUTOreflect
ESSE. students' learning.
Finally,
the session
will conclude with a demonstration of
 MOLIOR
VICIS FEUGIAT.
how SBG can work with traditional grading programs/
software.

AUTEM DIGNISSIM EXPUTO ESSE.
Classroom Environments: Learning Space Ideas
Presenter(s): Lindsay Gonska
District: Ferndale
Room: A215
This session is intended for elementary teachers but most
ideas can be used across grade levels. This session will
include student engagement using personal stopwatches, as
well as variations in seating, tables and desks, lighting, and
even the scent of the classroom. All are welcome to explore,
discuss, and discover new ways to create a welcoming space
to set the tone of each school year.
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Kutchey and Courtney John
District: Waterford
Focus Area: Other—Professional Learning
Room: A205
As educators we have a love/hate relationship with social
media, however, it can truly be an amazing tool when
looking to have collaborative discussions with colleagues from
across the globe. Join us in this interactive session where you
will learn how to use, interact with and collaborate utilizing
Twitter to develop your own Professional Learning Network.
Dialogue Session on Dr. Pasi Sahlberg’s
Presentations
Presenter(s): Adam Kern, Jennifer Johnson, Kathy Christopher
& Staci Puzio
District: Clarkston
Room: Auditorium
Join the dialogue session to continue the conversation around
the ideas presented by Dr. Pasi Sahlberg. Throughlines of the
conversation include: What are the most important skills and
dispositions for our students to acquire?; Why are these the
most important skills and dispositions for our students to acquire?;How can we best inspire/nurture these skills and dispositions in our students and in ourselves?; and, What are my
next steps in inspiring/nurturing these skills and dispositions in
my students and myself?
Flip It! - Creative and Engaging Ways to
Integrate Professional Learning in your
Organization
Presenter(s): Mark Hess
Focus Area: Other—Professional Learning
Room: A203
Professional Development is no longer bound by four walls
and a clock. Collaboration can be both synchronous and
asynchronous. By leveraging free, existing technologies in
education, district leaders, working in partnership with
classroom teachers, can develop a model professional learning
program that benefits all within the organization. Learn to
use a hybrid model of professional development.
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Fostering and Highlighting Student Growth:
Manageable Shifts towards NGSS
A Journey toward Standards-Based Grading in Implementation!
Presenter(s): Marie Woodman
Mathematics
District: Troy
Focus Area: Other-Science
Room: A209
Audience:
Elementary
Educators
Room: A201
This session is focused on the manageable shifts teachers can
take in Science! We will be looking at easily implementing
Do you want to shift to standards-based grading but are
not sure how to start on your own? The presenters will share the new Michigan Science Standards, NGSS (Next Generation
Science Standards), and 3-Dimensional Learning. We will
practical strategies for shifting your practice toward an
emphasis on feedback and student growth through stand- have a shared investigation where teachers become the
students and we will learn how to make teaching science fun
ards- based grading. Participants will gain a sense of how
to get started with standards-based grading in mathemat- and doable for teachers of all levels and experience in science!
ics classes, especially in a school or district that has not
currently adopted standards-based grading policies. We will Mindsets and Math
also discuss the many benefits of this shift to students,
Presenter(s): Emilie Schiff
teachers, and parents. Teachers in other subject areas are
also encouraged to attend, since the strategies discussed can Focus Area: Mathematics
Room: A210
be applied in other subjects.
Audience: Elementary, 6th Grade Educators
Presenter(s): Melissa Rykse and Jamie Rykse
District: Clarkston
As educators, we read a lot of research, scour Pinterest, as
well as beg, borrow and steal from our colleagues in order to
Presenter(s): Lisa Whiteside
do what is best for our students. We try everything under the
District: Madison
sun to help our students be hard-working, successful, confiFocus Area: Student Engagement
Room: A200 dent mathematicians, and people. The Mindset research that
Carol Dweck (Ph.D. at Stanford University) has undertaken
can help with our goals for our students. Together, we are
Google CS First is a free program that increases student
going to discover; Why brains and talent don’t bring success,
access and exposure to computer science (CS) education
and how they can impede your success. Why praising brains
through after-school, in-school, and summer programs.
and talent doesn’t foster self-esteem and accomplishment,
Students learn by watching videos on the computer and
but can actually hurt them. How teaching a simple idea
learn to code using an online tool called SCRATCH. All
about the brain raises grades and productivity. What all
materials are free and provided by Google. All students
great CEOs, parents, teachers, athletes know about praise
need to bring to a club is enthusiasm and the program is
and feedback. Growth Mindset is a simple idea discovered by
designed to increase confidence, instill courage, grow
world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol
perseverance, and provide a sense of belonging and
Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success—a
demonstrate the impact that CS has in careers and
simple idea that makes all the difference. At the end of the
communities.
session, participants will be able to: explain the growth
mindset and how it can change the way students learn math
(and other content areas); identify language associated with
praise and fixed mindsets and how to change your scripts;
brainstorm ways in which we can culture a growth mindset in
our classrooms; discuss research on math mindsets with your
students and how it can impact them in their learning of
math content.
Google CS
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Self-Regulation Skills for Elementary Students
Presenter(s): Jennifer Cory and Larry Marks
District: Hazel Park
The Restorative Justice Pyramid: A Way to
Think About Our Work and Life
Presenter(s): Valada Sargent and Kenzi Bisbing
Room: A218 District: Farmington and Oakland Mediation Center
Room: A206
Audience:
All
Educators
Participants will walk away with tools they can use to teach
students how to regulate their emotions and manage their Belinda Hopkins utilizes the Restorative Practices/Justice
stress resulting in increased student engagement. Presenters Pyramid to articulate three levels of practice: Value Base/
will demonstrate techniques to maximize social and
Ethos, Skills, and Processes. In this unconference for
academic outcomes for children. These techniques include
Restorative Practices/Justice Practitioners, participants will
breath work, physical yoga, and cognitive restructuring.
explore this framework and how it reflects the different
Presenters have trained teachers and occupational and
aspects of their Restorative Practices work in schools.
physical
therapists
in the use of this wellness curriculum.
IT SUPPORT
SOLUTIONS
Supporting ESL Students with Common Core
Mathematics Curriculum
 MOLIOR Kendra
VICIS FEUGIAT.
Presenter(s):
Seitz
 QUADRUM
QUIDEM NISL EA.
District:
Rochester
Focus
Area: Mathematics
 HAERO
UT NUTUS ACCUMSAN.
Audience: 3-5 Educators

Using Microsoft Excel to Tell a Powerful Data
Story
Presenter(s): Beth Grillo
District: Ferndale
Room: A211 Audience: All Educators
Room: A230
GENITUS, TE VERO, ERAT.
Microsoft Excel: Powerful, robust...and sometimes terrifying.
Administrators, teacher leaders, counselors, and anyone who
uses or wants to learn how to more effectively use data will
leave with the knowledge of how to parse through those
confusing achievement "data dumps" in order to make sense
of the information hiding within. This session will teach you
how to manipulate spreadsheets using Excel by introducing
Technology Buddies Across the Grades
you to some basic yet useful functions, including averaging,
Presenter(s): Cami Giberson, Melissa Kempski & Pam
COUNTIF, IF...THEN, Find and Replace, filtering, charting and
Moreman
graphing. We will also talk about how to present data to
staff so that it makes the impact that you want to make in
Room: A213 order to move your school in the right direction.
The
this session
is to
 purpose
LETALIS of
TATION
LOQUOR
EX.provide grade 3-5 teachers
with differentiated math supports for ESL students. The
supports supplement the MAISA Common Core math
 MOLIOR
VICIS
curriculum,
but
canFEUGIAT.
be used with any Common Core
curriculum.
Tech Buddies…Not your same old Reading Buddy.
Expanding the digital knowledge of first and fifth grade
students while exploring the digital world. Classroom
teachers and the Technology Specialist led students through
an exploration of website and app reviews, coding and
more. Students collaborated with their buddy to become
more diverse and accomplished in their digital knowledge.
Teachers explored and implemented MinecraftEdu to
develop cross curricular and cross grade level activities that
address Common Core Standards.
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Visible Thinking: A Focus on Artful Thinking &
VT Routines
Writing Community: Giving and Getting
Powerful Peer Feedback
This Visible Thinking professional development will focus on
student engagement and literacy strategies for “making
student thinking visible” - a research-based approach to
using thinking routines and questioning methods in the
classroom to better understand and “see” student thought
processes around what they are learning. This session will
focus specifically on the Artful Thinking program of VT
routines, which places emphasis on teaching students to
think by looking at artwork. Visible and Artful Thinking are
not only powerful tools for guiding students through their
own thinking, but also for the personal development of the
teacher as s/he considers the thinking that shapes practice.
Attendees of the session will walk away with several
immediate routines to use in classrooms, schools, and even
professional development sessions.
Authentic learning and literacy is ignited in a community of
writers who can effectively collaborate to move writing to the
next level. This session will show how peer feedback empowers both writers and reviewers. By participating in and
reflecting upon focused peer review interactions, students can
offer productive feedback, accept constructive criticism and
improve revision. Session participants will learn about a
variety of tools (i.e collaborative writer’s groups, revision
rotations, electronic resources) that will help their community
of writers give and get meaningful feedback.
Presenter(s): Derek Adams and Katharine Jeffrey
District: Ferndale
Focus Area: Student Engagement—Literacy Room: A204
Presenter(s): Monica Phillips and Kristine Butcher
District: Clarkston
Room: A207
Audience: Upper Elementary and Secondary Educators
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