PRE-CONFERENCES:

Larry Thompson: Defiant, Manipulative & Attention-Seeking Students: How to Unlock Their Potential & Survive the Process

Mike Paget: Positive Behavioral Supports for Students Who Are Wired Differently

Brad Chapin: Self-Regulation: Evidence-Based Strategies to Teach Self-Management

Tracie Berry-McGhee: Girl Drama: Best Practices to Help Educators Reduce Relational Aggression

Erin Glenn: Brain-Based Teaching Strategies for Student Engagement

Steph Jensen: Lost Boys: Closing the Academic Gender Gap

Dave Schmittou: It’s Like Riding A Bike: How To Make Learning Last a Lifetime

Shaun Woodly: How to Spark Engagement & Motivation in Urban and Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Brian Dinkins: Developing the Emotionally-Inclusive Classroom Using SEL

Dave Schmittou: Making Assessment Work for Educators Who Hate Data but Love Kids

Eli Shapiro: Digital Citizenship: Understanding the Benefits, Risks & Impact of Technology on Students

Terra Tarango: Classrooms that Matter: Making Project-Based Learning a Reality

PJ Caposey: Manage Your Time or Time Will Manage You

Kerry Leo: Balancing Science with Literacy: Incorporating Structured Literacy into Core Instruction

Hotep Benzo: Why Your SEL isn’t Working (and What to do About it)

Adele Bovard: Restorative Practices in Schools, Plan of Action

Mike Paget: Defying the Defiance: The Path to Happiness with ODD Students

BREAKOUT SESSIONS:

Steph Jensen: Navigating Needs – Connecting SEL and Academics

Harrison & Jones: The Three-legged Stool: Equity, Accessibility, and Accountability in Urban Schools

Brian Dinkins: Inside Out: Supporting Child and Secondary Trauma with Emotional Intelligence

Tracie Berry-McGhee: I Define Me: Educational Equity for Girls

Ron Large: Empathetic Leadership

Brown & Cole: School Turnaround 101

Pond & Gorman: Dynamic Teaching Yields Dynamic Results – Using Differentiated and Tiered Instruction to Help Your Students Thrive

Moore & Kirshner: Using the Well-being Wheel to Guide School Wellness Work

Adele Bovard: Restorative Practice – The Power of the Circle

Blake Clark: Supporting Students through Skill- Based Assessments and Interventions

LaQuanta Nelson: Leading Like a B.O.S.S.: Transforming School Culture and Increasing Academic Effort

Doreen McSain: The Elephant In The Room: Let’s Talk About It

Parker, Colbert, Ned & Godfrey: Transforming Addicts into Graduates

Katie Anderson: Talking Isn’t Teaching – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lecture

Martin Blank: Listen to the Heart: Measuring & Managing Educator & Student Stress with Biofeedback Technology; School Wellbeing Solution handout

Dave Schmittou: Bold Humility: How to Encourage Risk-Taking & Innovation with Students and Staff

Brad Chapin: Refill Your Cup: An Interactive Mindfulness and Movement Session to Boost Your Self-Care

Katie Trowbridge: Preparing Students to be Future Thinkers: Infusing Curriculum with Creative Thinking

Moore &  Barajas: Helping Adults and Youth Use Restorative Language in Trauma-Informed Schools

Matthew Zakreski: Failure is Fun…damental

Kerry Leo: The Science of Specialized Instruction: Using a Data Mindset to Create Diagnostic and Prescriptive Intervention Plans

PJ Caposey: Why Your Intervention Program Needs an Intervention

Christopher Turner: Parent University: Empowering the Strongest Stakeholder

Ron Large: Belonging Matters

Cochrane & Meltzer: Elevating the Mission of School: Preparing a Generation of Solutionaries

Nathan Maynard: Discipline Reimagined

Hotep Benzo: Treating Behavior as as Symptom…NOT the Problem

Dardi Hendershott: Supporting the Wounded Educator: A Trauma-Informed Journey Toward Personal & Professional Wellness

Clark McKown: Demystifying SEL Assessment: Why, What, and How

Ana DeJesus: Supporting Students’ Social and Emotional Learning Through Advisories and Model SEL Classrooms

David Schexnaydre: Culture Possible: How to Deliberately Cultivate a Positive School Environment That Supports Students

Matthew Zakreski: Improv-ing Social Skills: Using Improv Games to Develop Social Skills in Students

Joe Hendershott: Reaching the Wounded Student

Douglas Knepp: Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes

Ronnie Harvey: Strategically Shifting the Climate and Culture of Your School While Simultaneously Empowering Your Community

Meredith McNerney: Cultivating Calmer Schools: Create a Clear Roadmap for Responding to Difficult Staff and Student Situations

Erin Glenn: Brain-Based Teaching Strategies for Student Engagement

Shree Walker: Resilience: The Power of One

“Dr. Joy” Powell: Help me Please: I am Going Through…Just Like You

Erik Francis: Knowing Is Half the Battle! Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge

Katie Anderson: Less Us, More Them – Participation by Design

Mike Paget: 13 Practical Strategies for Helping Students Challenged by Anxiety Conditions

Rhodes & Wilson: Promoting Positive Discipline Approaches

Jennifer Kolmar: Opening New Pathways – Strategies and Techniques to Help All Students Graduate

Daniell & Neely: Leveraging Low-Inference Feedback for School Improvement