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All Ro 33rd Annual
Kindergarten Teachers
of Texas
33rd Annual State Conference
November 11-12, 2016
The Sheraton Hotel, Arlington, Texas
Greg Smedley-Warren
Dan St. Romain
Stephen Fite
Register Online
www.ktot.org
Schedule
Friday, November 11, 2016
3:30 – 7:30 pm
Registration
Exhibits
4:00 – 7:00 pm
Music, Movement, and Other
Active Methods of Teaching the Alphabet and Numbers
- Heidi Butkus
Heidi Butkus
Systems Failure: Moving Beyond the “One Size Fits All” Approach to
Classroom Management
- Dan St. Romain Saturday, November 12, 2016
7:00 – 10:00 am
Registration
7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Exhibits
Early Bird Door Prizes!
7:55 am
8:00 - 9:30 am
General Session/Business
Meeting/Keynote
Happy Classrooms!
Greg Smedley-Warren
9:30 - 10:00 am
Exhibits/Silent Auction
10:00 – 11:00 am
Feature Sessions
11:15 – 12:10 pm
Group A Lunch
The Ripple Effect Dan St. Romain
Group B Feature Sessions
12:30 – 1:20 pm
Group B Lunch
The Ripple Effect Dan St. Romain
Group A Breakout Sessions
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Exhibits/Silent Auction
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
4:15 – 5:00 pm
General Session/Keynote
Music Fun for Everyone!
Stephen Fite
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Dan St. Romain
Music, Movement, and Other
Active Methods of Teaching
the Alphabet and Numbers
Heidi Butkus
Let’s teach the alphabet and numbers the
fun way- through music, movement, and
manipulatives! Participants will be taught
some fun motions to go along with alphabet
and number songs, and will be encouraged to
sing and dance along! More activities and ideas
for teaching will also be taught. Your kids will
have so much fun, they won’t know they are
learning!
Systems Failure: Moving Beyond
the “One-Size Fits-All” Approach
to Classroom Management
Dan St. Romain
In this interactive pre-conference session,
participants will learn strategies for
individualizing their behavior management
systems in a practical way, differentiating
support based on the social emotional needs
of individual children. Documentation, parent
communication and progress monitoring will
also be covered.
The Sheraton Hotel
1500 Convention Center Dr.
Arlington, TX 76011
(817) 261-8200
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1603292319&key=34755385
www.ktot.org
Feature Sessions
How to Teach Writer’s Workshop
to Young Learners
Crystal Radke, Lorena ISD
Blogger
Learn simple steps to take your students from plain
paper to publishing!
Comprehension in Kindergarten - How
to Get Them Talking and Writing When
We Read Aloud
Tonya LeClair, Language Arts Specialist,
Lamar CISD
The Magic of Music & Movement
Stephen Fite, Children’s Musician
This hands-on, participatory workshop will bring a
new perspective on using music with children. Make
the connection between music and movement and
the active nature of the child.
Kick Off Your Day RIGHT
With Morning Meeting
Greg Smedley-Warren, Kindergarten
Teacher, Nashville Metro Schools
Systematically teach kindergarteners to participate
in accountable talk and produce written responses to
literature, deepen their comprehension and give them
the experiences and language to make thinking visible. Learn how to plan for instruction, about literature
that can be used as mentor texts to teach appropriate
strategies, and modes of response appropriate to the
development of kindergarteners. Find out value of starting each day with a morning
meeting in your classroom. See how 10-20 minutes
each morning can change the dynamics of your classroom and make your classroom more like a family.
You’ll learn the components of morning meeting as
well as ideas for greetings, activities and morning messages to use in your classroom!
Fine Motor Skills . . . Write Out
of the Box!
Julie Armstrong, Math Coach Richardson
ISD – Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks
Marianne Gibbs, EdD OTR,
Gibbs Consulting
Meaningful activities and rationale for WHATS, HOWS,
and WHYS of fine motor development for children
3 – 6 years old and how it relates to future efficient
handwriting. This is a practice-changing session!
Hacking the Brain’s Affective Learning
Domain for Easy Access to the Reading
and Writing CODE
Katie Garner, Author/Speaker
Increase early learner momentum in reading and
writing far BEYOND just simple decoding by slipping the “hardest-to-learn” letter sound and phonics
patterns right through the brain’s backdoor! Explore
the power of affective learning domain and take away
game-changing teaching tools that will leave you
armed and ready for Monday morning!
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Oh, The Math That They’ll Know!
Card and dice games that help your students achieve
success in basic counting, number sense, subitizing,
and beginning operations. Ideas for work stations,
journals, and math talk extensions, assessment and
student samples.
I Can Make Good Choices
Dan St. Romain, Ed. Consultant
“You’re not my friend!” “That’s not fair!” Each year it
seems like we are dealing with more behavior problems in the primary classroom. Come to this fun session and get some quick and easy ideas for teaching
behavior and social skills using visuals, literature and
simple chants and activities.
Sing and Spell the Sight Words
Heidi Butkus, Author/Blogger/Teacher
Come learn some fun and easy sing-a-long songs and
movements that will help your students memorize
the spellings of the many basic sight words commonly
taught to beginning readers. Then you’ll get lots of
great new ideas to help your students practice these
words! Come ready to sing and dance along!
Breakout Sessions
Saddle Up! Math and Literacy Stations
in English and Spanish
Lauren Morris, Nancy Corona – ESL
and Bilingual Kindergarten, GrapevineColleyville ISD
Come and learn about easy and engaging work
stations with accountability that are focused on the
TEKS.
Creating Effective Communicators and
Leaders at an Early Age
Sharon Cunningham, Garland ISD
When teaching an early age group we can feel like
we are always the Simon in Simon Says. Come join
me in helping young learners begin their journey to
becoming valuable citizens of society!
QR and AR in the Bilingual/ESL Early
Childhood Classroom
Nancy Alvarez, McKinney ISD
Bring your early literacy stations to life by infusing
QR (Quick Response) and AR (Augmented Reality).
Reinforce foundational early literacy skills: letter
identification, letter sounds, sight words, and
phonological awareness. Bring your smart device
ready with a QR Reader!
KaPOW! Worlds and Words at My
Fingertips: Visual-Kinesthetic Concept
Vocabulary
Judith Youngers, Dinah Zike Academy
Put visual-kinesthetic vocabulary and language
power into children’s hands literally in this interactive,
evidence-based session. With guided demonstration,
build simple transformative tools supporting
youngsters manipulating words and images, word
building and linkage to concept development.
Sensory Bins: Thinking Outside
the Sandbox
Angie Landry, Heather Williams,
Birdville ISD
Let us take you outside the sandbox to link sensory
play to your curriculum while meeting the sensory
needs of diverse learners.
If You Read to Them, They Will Learn!
Beverly Combs, Librarian, Garland ISD
Learn about the latest publications for young learners
to support your curriculum and make the most of your
reading time.
KBilingue: Resources for your
bilingual/dual language classes
Juliana Suarez, McKinney ISD
Endless translating is not the only option. Please join
KinderBilingue to discover Spanish quality resources
especially designed for your bilingual classroom
Technology, Research and Writing,
Oh, My! Using Technology to Create
Student Books
Meg Whitaker, McKinney ISD
Struggling to get your kids excited about writing
and reading? We found a way to incorporate learned
classroom skills and research into weekly Project
Based Learning Opportunities. Come create with us
using technology!
The Sheraton Hotel
1500 Convention Center Dr.
Arlington, TX 76011
(817) 261-8200
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/
res?id=1603292319&key=34755385
KToT Rate: $125.00 Free Parking
Register Online
www.ktot.org