One factor that continually surfaces as the single most influential component of an effective school is the individual teachers within that school. Ensure effective teaching in every classroom. This workshop provides tools and resources for immediate use by educators—and those who support them.

Specific attention will be paid to engagement strategies and a comprehensive framework of effective teaching that schools and districts can put into place immediately or use to generate their own models. This model is articulated in 10 design questions teachers ask themselves as they plan a unit of instruction.

We now know that effective teachers are made, not born, and that even small increments in teacher effectiveness can have a positive effect on student achievement. This interactive, engaging workshop will provide tools and strategies to enhance teachers’ pedagogical skills.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn a common language of instruction
• Learn important routines, including how to be clear about learning goals connected to proficiency scales
• Experience instructional strategies connected to delivering new content, and practice them to deepen understanding
• Discover the importance of applying knowledge by generating and testing hypotheses
• Learn important teacher behaviors for engagement and for building student-teacher relationships
• Ensure high expectations for all students

This interactive presentation focuses on supporting students in the inclusive classroom.  Topics include how to effectively support students academically, behaviorally, and socially.  We will explore topics of increasing independence, fading support, and peer interdependence.  A must for any special education teacher, general education teacher, paraprofessional, related service provider, student or parent who wants to improve classroom support.  This presentation will be filled with useful ideas that you can take and use tomorrow to make your classrooms more inclusive.

The future is not some place we are going to, but rather what we are creating with our everyday actions. If we focus only on the practices that have been successful in the past, our education system will never be transformed to prepare students for their future. Educators must come to be the agents of change, which requires us not only to have a future-focused vision and agenda, but also to behave our way into the future. Ray McNulty will describe how some educators and schools are doing this through “next practice” thinking. He will also share the importance of using both quantitative and qualitative data to close the “participation gap” and provide strategies to ensure that students are future ready today!

Trust is critical in leading learning communities. This interactive and reflective session builds on current research and focuses on: the barriers of distrust; building personal and interpersonal capacity within and among the administrative team and the staff; practical strategies and activities, with increasing levels of risk, from distrust to early trust to mature trust and the nature of professional learning in a trusting culture. Participants will leave with a plan to improve relationships, teamwork and increase student achievement.

What do students need to learn to be successful in the 21st Century?
What are the essential skills that will best prepare students for a lifetime of learning? 
For multiple careers in a flat, tech-savvy, competitive and global job market?
For an active family, civic and community life?
And how are they to learn all this?

Together we'll explore the answers to these questions and find out how schools are shifting their practices and use of technology to engage all students in learning projects and activities that best prepare them for future success.

A personally engaging, and media-rich session that puts in practice the 21st century learning principles presented.

This interactive presentation focuses on supporting students in the inclusive classroom.  Topics include how to effectively support students academically, behaviorally, and socially.  We will explore topics of increasing independence, fading support, and peer interdependence.  A must for any special education teacher, general education teacher, paraprofessional, related service provider, student or parent who wants to improve classroom support.  This presentation will be filled with useful ideas that you can take and use tomorrow to make your classrooms more inclusive.

The future is not some place we are going to, but rather what we are creating with our everyday actions. If we focus only on the practices that have been successful in the past, our education system will never be transformed to prepare students for their future. Educators must come to be the agents of change, which requires us not only to have a future-focused vision and agenda, but also to behave our way into the future. Ray McNulty will describe how some educators and schools are doing this through “next practice” thinking. He will also share the importance of using both quantitative and qualitative data to close the “participation gap” and provide strategies to ensure that students are future ready today!

Trust is critical in leading learning communities. This interactive and reflective session builds on current research and focuses on: the barriers of distrust; building personal and interpersonal capacity within and among the administrative team and the staff; practical strategies and activities, with increasing levels of risk, from distrust to early trust to mature trust and the nature of professional learning in a trusting culture. Participants will leave with a plan to improve relationships, teamwork and increase student achievement.

What do students need to learn to be successful in the 21st Century?
What are the essential skills that will best prepare students for a lifetime of learning? 
For multiple careers in a flat, tech-savvy, competitive and global job market?
For an active family, civic and community life?
And how are they to learn all this?

Together we'll explore the answers to these questions and find out how schools are shifting their practices and use of technology to engage all students in learning projects and activities that best prepare them for future success.

A personally engaging, and media-rich session that puts in practice the 21st century learning principles presented.