Discovery Magnet Conference Jan 4 2016

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Discover Magnet Conference

January 4, 2016
Northeast Magnet High school
5550 N. Lycee Bel Aire, KS 67226
Schedule
Breakout Session 9:00 9:55
Keynote 11:00 11:55
11:55 12:55 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
WPS Scream the Theme Award 1:00 1:30
Please adjust arrival and departure time according to
adjusted negotiated agreement for January 4 in-service.
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Strand Key
First Impressions when Screaming Your Theme First
Impressions
Amazing Teaching Enhanced with Technology Teaching
Technology
Making Magnet Instruction Meaningful Meaningful Instruction
Building and Sustaining Strong Magnet Programs Sustaining
Discover Magnet: A Journey from Exploration to

Excellence
STRANDS
First Impressions when Screaming Your Theme You never get a
second chance to make a first impression, so make it a lasting one. Does your
magnet school scream the theme from the curb to the classroom? Can students,
families and the community articulate your schools theme and explain why others
should attend? In this strand participants will walk away with ideas on how to
scream the schools theme, develop ambassadors and create a blue ribbon award
winning magnet school that screams the theme from the curb to classroom
integration.
Amazing Teaching Enhanced with Technology - In todays world

individuals cant operate without technology so why should our teachers and
students? How can technology tools in your building be used to enhance
instruction and student learning? In this strand educators will explore how to
integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum as the pen and paper of our
time.
Making Magnet Instruction Meaningful - Looking for ideas of how to

integrate your magnet program theme seamlessly with College and Career
Readiness Standards? This strand is for you. Learn strategies that move
instruction to powerful project based learning. Take your students from knowledge
level learning to application. This strand will feature interactive strategies that
teachers can implement in the classroom
Keynote 11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. - Auditorium

Keynote: Toni Robinson
Toni Robinson is passionate about helping professionals embrace change, achieve results
and step into new possibilities, by combining her experiences as an educator and a
preforming artist. Toni inspires audiences to make bold, balanced and meaningful changes
in their professional practice. She skillfully designs and delivers dynamic, interactive
learning experiences that incorporate technology, movement and participant expertise. Toni
was the co-host for Sunburst Visual Medias critically acclaimed Excellence in Teaching
series and worked as the host of the Professional Development Channel at Educational Management Group.
My Schedule:
Title
Room
P3: Purpose | Passion | Possibility Unlocking

Student Potential in the Classroom
Auditorium
9:00 9:55
Breakout Session
10:00 10:55
Breakout Session
11:00 11:55
Keynote
Lunch 11:55 12:55

1:00 1:30
Awards
1:35 2:40
WPS Scream the Theme Award
Auditorium
Breakout Session
2:50 4:00
Breakout Session
Vendors Please stop by and visit with our vendors.
Breakout Session 1 9:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m.

Title: Greenscreen Fun! Integrating Media into Your Classroom
Presenter: Anne Beck, Tonya Gaunt Room: C205
Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology, First Impressions
What to Bring: iPads would be ideal
Session Description: How can you engage students in imagination and creativity using iPads? Greenscreen
technology! In this session, we will demonstrate simple ways that you can transport your students into new
environments using apps including Doink Greenscreen and Touchcast and import it into other apps as well.
Participants will walk away with information on greenscreen apps, ideas for curricular integration, and hands on
experience using greenscreens.
Title: Building Meaningful Partnerships: Keys to Supportive Relationships
Presenter: Doreen Marvin Room: C102
Audience: All Strands: Sustaining Magnet
What to Bring: Laptop or iPad
Session Description: Magnet Schools survive and thrive with partnerships. Being focused on mutually beneficial
goal oriented partnerships assure that each partner's role is clear and effective in supporting the growth of the
school. It also assures that partnerships are not overwhelming the school and staff. This interactive, working
session will share practical tools for identifying, building, and sustaining mutually beneficial partnerships.
Title: Shedding Light on the Dark Apps: Social Media and T(w)eens
Presenter: Ginger Lewman Room: B - Gym E004
Audience: 3rd - 12th Strands: Teaching Technology, First Impressions
What to Bring: Laptop, iPad, or Smart Phone
Session Description: Join Ginger for a highly active and engaging session that will highlight both the positive and
cautionary realities of using social media for learning. First, we'll look at everyday apps, such as Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. Then we'll spend some time exploring "dark apps," or those apps that allow our
kids to connect with others anonymously. We'll peek into that world and quickly learn how we can shed light into
those dark corners for better learning.
Title: Five Under-appreciated Google Tools That Improve Literacy
Presenter: Glenn Wiebe Room: C202
Audience: 6th - 12th Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
What to Bring: For full benefits, attendees will need a Google account, laptop,
Session Description: Google is more than Search, Drive, and Docs. There are many different Google tools that
can support reading, writing, and communicating. Join our conversation as we share ideas for incorporating five
Google tools that you may not know but which have huge potential for learning.
Follow us on twitter @WPSMagnet
#TellMeSomethingMagnet
Title: Tech Tips For Teacher Sanity!

Presenter: Jay Gross Room: C211
Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology
What to Bring: Laptop, iPad, or Smart Phone
Session Description: So much technology out there! Impossible to keep up with at times! Let me help guide you
through tech I have used in my classes and gotten student, parent, and administrator feedback on. We will cover
such things as SideKick, using Youtube video for critics and evals, book creators, and apps to spice up any
presentations. I will cover them and give you some time to play and explore!
Title: Essential Elements of an Engaging Lesson
Presenter: Harvey Almarode Room: C207
Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
What to Bring: (Optional ) Laptop, iPad or Smart Phone
Session Description: This session discusses essential elements for creating engaging lessons for your students
using an interactive display or interactive devices. The elements incorporate techniques from research on Brain
Based Learning, Instructional Strategies, Student Engagement, and Graphics Design. Come join this lively
engaging session as SMARTBoard trainer, Harvey Almarode, discusses the essential elements by demonstrating
various lessons that he designs and utilizes in his classes and trainings. All the lessons demonstrated will be
available for the everyone to use immediately in their classroom and/or modify and utilize components in their own
lessons.
Title: Teaching for Understanding
Presenter: Hilde McGeehan Room: C206
Audience: All Strands: Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: In this interactive workshop session participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their
own planning, teaching and learning. What is the difference between Knowing and Understanding? How can we
balance the three Learning Goals in our daily instruction? (Acquisition of Information, Making Meaning of the
learning, and being able to Transfer the learning to real life situations) Understanding by Design is a way of
thinking purposefully about curricular planning. Understanding by Design transforms standards/school and
department goals into focused learning targets, understandings and transfer tasks.
Title: Arts Integration: Its Not Just Pretty Bulletin Boards!
Presenter: Jordana Benone Room: C104
Audience: K - 5th Strands: Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Do you want your elementary classroom to hum with collaboration? To buzz with academic
conversations? Do you want your classroom to be the place students look forward to because they get to be
creative, to feel empowered, and to solve problems on their own? Then this session is for you. Learn how powerful
and rewarding it can be to integrate the arts into any and all areas of your curriculum. This session reveals practical
arts-based strategies that will help you integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual
arts into lessons across the content areas. This session includes model lessons and specific grade-range
suggestions for K5 students. Planning guides and templates are also provided to support the implementation of
the strategies. Come join us and learn how real arts integration is far more than just pretty bulletin boards!
Title: iMadeIT
Presenter: Katie Ann Wilson Room: C204
Session Description: One of the goals of a Makerspace is to connect concrete projects to the more abstract
worlds of STEM. Bringing Do-IT-Yourself projects into the classroom opens the door to problem solving,
engineering, creativity, and real world situations. Not all of us can be MacGyver but we all can learn to dream,
design, create, and repeat. Together we can create space for our kids to say I Made It!
Title: Making Student Thinking and Learning Visible
Presenter: Ken Shelton Room: C208
Session Description: As we begin working in more digitally rich environments, students have the opportunity to
create, and in some cases are creating, phenomenal artifacts of learning. But where are these artifacts going?
Where should they go? Who's seeing them and are they being used to add to the learning space knowledge base
when appropriate? In this digitally rich age, schools everywhere are beginning to see the value of having student
work housed in one location to help students to reflect and grow as learners. In this session, we will discuss the
importance of student-created digital portfolios. From why they are important - to how we can use the power of
technology to help students showcase and OWN their learning. Digital Portfolios allow students to reflect on their
learning and take their learning with them (expand on this work or show it as part of a learning resume) Digital
Portfolios are student centered and give students a voice, and pride in their work - motivation through work not a
grade.
Title: Creating Meaningful Learning
Presenter: Kevin Honeycutt Room: Auditorium
Audience: All Strands: Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology
What to Bring: Laptop, cell Smart Phone or iPad
Session Description: Sitting in a desk having teaching done to you for eight hours a day can cause some learners
to lose their passion for school permanently. Let's explore the idea of making learning meaningful and irresistible
using a bit of drama and today's amazing technologies.
Title: Using Children's Literature to Guide Science Inquiry
Presenter: Kim Stilwell Room: C109
Audience: K - 2nd Strands: Meaningful Instruction
What to Bring: IPad
Session Description: Need ideas to connect literacy and science? Never before has it been so easy to interest
students in reading and science. Picture-Perfect Science Lessons combine the appeal of childrens picture books
with standards-based science content. Leave with ideas on how to begin the integration as well as website links to
resources and instructional vignettes that can be used in the classroom tomorrow.
Title:
STEM
Sally
Gym
Creel
E023
Building a
Mindset
Presenter:
Room: A Audience: 6th
- 8th Strands: Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology

What to Bring: Laptop, iPad or Smart Phone
Session Description: STEM learning provides an incredible opportunity for students to develop problem solving
skills while giving a context for the application of content. Join us as we model sample STEM lessons to illustrate
how it looks in the classroom. Get ready to "think like a middle schooler" while developing your STEM state of
mind.
Title: Technology and the 5E's
Presenter: Lakenna Booker Room: D102
Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology, Instruction Meaningful
What to Bring: Laptop and Edmodo Account
Session Description: Today's students demand and expect their teachers to provide them with instruction through
technology. Up-to-the minute stats, data, and more keep students informed with the most current information.
Telecommunicating, blogging, social media, and live video feeds provide communication mechanisms for students
to stay connected in this global learning environment. Application software (e.g.word processer, slideshow, and
desktop publishing) and interactive online games, lessons and learning options offer instructional support to teach
students just about anything they have a mind to know. In this session, teachers will collaborate to learn about
particular ways they can take advantage of some of the amazing technology resources this digital age has to offer
and integrate them within the 5E model for instruction!
Title: Savory Slides
Presenter: Lisa Johnson Room: Library
Audience: 6th - 12th Strands: Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology
What to Bring: A Device with Presentation Software (e.g. Google Slides, PPT, Keynote, etc...)
Session Description: No more death by PowerPoint, Keynote, or Prezi... How can we teach students to be both
effective communicators and digital architects of their own content? This session will blend best practices and
research- based strategies and tips for organizing content, designing and constructing slides (including theme,
template, and layout), effectively and purposefully using images, color, and data, and delivering memorable
presentations. Students werent born with a PPT clicker in their fist... BUT what your students dont know can be
taught. This fast- paced session will culminate with a toolkit of support resources for educators including an
infographic, curated research and examples, student handouts, and a list of tools that can support your students
with both design and appropriate use of creative commons images. Sprinkle in a few student examples with this
fully catered platter of tools and resources and you will find that Savory Slides feeds your hunger for both
compelling content and inspiration for appropriate student authorship.
If you would like electronic access to presenter notes and handouts

the day of the conference materials will be posted in Edmodo.
Title: Get Rid of your Classroom Walls
Presenter: Rodney Turner Room: E110
What to Bring: Laptop
Session Description: The world is a large place and students need to explore it and the others who inhabit it. This
session will help you find the tools you need to reach out of your classroom, take virtual field trips, and talk to other
teachers and students exchanging viewpoints of your respective location. Through the introduction of Skype in the
classroom, classroom wikis, and essential digital structures, you and your students can and will see the world with a
different and knowledgeable lense.
Title: Exploring the United States Without Leaving the Classroom II
Presenter: Stephanie Hime Room: E013
Audience: K - 8th Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Most of our students will never leave our small community or state, they will probably never
have the opportunity to travel the world. So we use Skype in the Classroom and Twitter to create these global
experiences. A few of the activities we do are: Mystery Skype, Author Skype, Facetime Reading Buddies, Expert
Skypes etc. This session will share new avenues to connct with other classrooms around the world.
Title: Back to the Future w/ Online Assessment Tools
Presenter: Tana Ruder Room: C111
Session Description: Go back to the future and get kids out of the paper and pencils reviews and into online
reviews, assessments, or quizzes to quickly access understanding. This component allows teachers to direct
discussion, analyze questions which can help drive instruction. Learn some great ways to engage students while
reviewing or assessing curriculum.
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Breakout Session 2- 10:00 a.m. to 10:55 a.m.

Title: Say No to STEMWashing
Presenter: Sally Creel Room: A - Gym E023
What to Bring: iPad or Smart Phone
Session Description: "STEM" isn't just building something. Come and learn how to avoid STEMwashing in your
classroom. Then lets collaborate to complete a STEM challenge correlated to NGSS standards. After this STEM
session, the only thing youll be washing is your hands!
Title: No Secret Geniuses
Audience: All Strands: First Impressions
What to Bring: Laptops, iPads or Smart Phone.
Session Description: Often we do magnificent things as we prepare young learners. While we excel at
communicating with students, we struggle to get word out to community and parents about the things we do. We
can no longer afford to be secret geniuses! We will explore ways to share using common sense, today's tools and a
little bit of creativity!
Title: Copyright Confusion and Fair Use in a Digital World
Presenter: Ginger Lewman Room: B - Gym
What to Bring: Laptops, iPads or Smart Phone
Session Description: Increasingly, students and educators are turning to digital research and tools in our everyday
work as we create magnificent projects with music, photos, and information quickly found online. But are we sure
its legal? Is it ethical? Many educators are new to this digital world, so how do we best guide students through the
fair and responsible use of digital media without squashing the excitement of creativity? After all, fair use laws arent
what they were even a few years ago. This session will actively walk educators through the decision-making
process outlined by the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. We'll use actual classroom
scenarios and ample Q&A practice time. Participants will also learn helpful ideas regarding how to teach students
and colleagues about this vital topic.
Title: Keeping it Fresh: Sustaining a Highly Successful Magnet School
Session Description: In order to keep a magnet school successful, attention must be focused on the points of
recruitment, retention, and results. Magnet schools need to keep their eye on sustainability through continuous
improvement, design thinking, partnerships, alternative funding, innovation, and keeping a sense of humor. This
interactive, practical working session will share planning tools, applications, and tips for working collaboratively in
schools to assure success.
http://magnet.usd259.org/
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Title: Integrating the Arts Across the Secondary Curriculum

Audience: 6th - 12th Strands: Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Creative thinkers. Effective communicators. Problem-solvers. This has become the gold
standard in education and the hallmark of effective teaching in a magnet school. But what can middle and high
school teachers do in their classrooms to explicitly teach the skills and encourage the behaviors that are needed to
become this kind of higher-order thinker? And what can you do to meet all the diverse needs you have in your
classroom? This session is your answer! In addition to teaching creative and critical thinking, the arts reach
students of every ability level, ethnicity, and linguistic background. In this fun, hands-on session you will explore
how to integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts into your curriculum in a way
that connects core learning in the content areas with opportunities to practice creative skills and higher-order
thinking in a variety of capacities. This session includes model lessons and specific grade-range suggestions for 612 students. Planning guides and templates are also provided to support the implementation of the strategies. Join
us to experience how arts integration is not fluff and can make a difference with your students!
Title: Withstanding and Succeeding During Budget Cuts
Presenter: Dwight Jones Room: C105
Session Description: As retired superintendent of Clark County Schools supporting strong magnet programs
during budget cuts, Dwight Jones will share key principles in building and sustaining strong magnet
programs. This session will address tools and strategies to help sustain a Magnet program during challenging
budget cuts.
Title: Web-Mixer
Presenter: Toni Osterbuhr Room: C108
Audience: K - 8th Strands: Teaching Technology
Session Description: This session will showcase a Mix of awesome math & science websites to enhance
planning, instruction and student engagement! The mix includes PD opportunities, activities, simulators and games!
Title: A Picture Perfect Approach to Connecting Reading Strategies and Science
Audience: K - 2nd Strands: Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Need ideas on leading students to think like scientist? Personal experiences will be shared
on utilizing Picture-Perfect Science Lessons that combine the appeal of childrens picture books with standardsbased science content. Leave with ideas and resources on addressing misconceptions as you engage students in
reading and science.
Title: You CAN #sketchnote
Presenter: Tana Ruder Room: C111
Session Description: In this hands-on session, explore the wisdom from #SketchNote gurus, discuss how this can
be implemented, learn the basics, & practice the first steps. Markers & paper will be provided as an alternative to
using an app if desired. Learn this Total Participation Techniques to implement immediately!
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Title: Five Under-Appreciated Google Tools That Improve Literacy

Audience: 3rd - 5th Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
What to Bring: For full benefits, attendees will need a Google account, laptop,
Session Description: Google is more than just Search, Drive, and Docs. There are many different Google tools
that can support reading, writing, and communicating. Join our conversation as we share ideas for incorporating five
Google tools that you may not know but which have huge potential for learning.
Title: Bringing Learning to Life with Augmented Reality
What to Bring: iPad - Apps (Supreme Tutoring Augmented Reality, Blippar, Quiver, Chromville, & Elements 4D)
Session Description: Bring cultures, historical objects, historical places, the world, and even the universe to your
classroom with the use of augmented reality. Engage your students beyond the textbook and transcend learning to
a whole new dimension. Learn how to use augmented reality in education either with pre-made triggers or learn to
create your own. Augmented reality can bring models of actual objects, transform your classroom into a different
environment, or provide your students animated lessons and videos. Augmented reality brings learning to life and
opens the door to endless possibilities.
Title: What Great Educators Do Differently
Presenter: Anne Beck Room: C205
Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology, First Impressions
What to Bring: Any device that will connect to the Internet
Session Description: Connect Your Classroom Through Twitter, Voxer, and More! In this presentation, attendees
will see how being a connected educator can benefit their own careers as well as open a whole new world of
opportunities for their students. Through Twitter, Facebook, Periscope and other social media sites, educators can
connect for on demand PD as well as a way to showcase all of the amazing things happening in their classroom to
parents, the district, and the community!
Title: Teaching for Understanding
Session Description: In this interactive workshop session participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their
own planning, teaching and learning. What is the difference between Knowing and Understanding? How can we
balance the three Learning Goals in our daily instruction? (Acquisition of Information, Making Meaning of the
learning, and being able to Transfer the learning to real life situations) Understanding by Design is a way of
thinking purposefully about curricular planning. Understanding by Design transforms standards/school and
department goals into focused learning targets, understandings and transfer tasks.
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Title: Who's Telling Your School's Story?

Presenter: Josh Ehret Room: C209
Audience: Strands: First Impressions
Session Description: Like it or not your school has a reputation in our city and beyond! Therefore, we will walk
thru simple steps and strategies to expose your parents and other key stakeholders to the amazing experiences
happening at your school. How to use social media and your website will be the main focus to create a sense of
pride and community about your magnet school theme
Title: Brain Friendly Learning and SMARTBoard Integration
Session Description: Harvey Almarode, SMARTBoard lesson developer and trainer, discusses and integrates the
research of John Medina (Brain Rules) and Robert Marzano (Instructional Strategies that Work) through engaging
and interactive SMARTBoard Lessons. Tips and Techniques are presented on how to design these interactive and
engaging lessons. Come join this lively engaging session and see examples of these SMARTBoard lessons. All
the lessons demonstrated will be available for everyone to use immediately in their classroom and/or modify and
utilize components in their own lessons.
Title: Visual Storytelling and Visual Literacy- A Spotlight on Creative Expression
Audience: All Strands: First Impressions, Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology
Session Description: This session primarily focuses on the areas of digital age literacy from a variety of
perspectives. First, the session addresses the need for students to develop appropriate digital age fluency as well
as represent their knowledge in a creative and innovative manner. For teachers, this session provides strategies for
developing a myriad of digital age learning environments in which the focus can be anything from project-based to
utilizing these methodologies for assessment. The curricular foundations addressed in this session primarily focus
on elements of narrative writing, visual thinking strategies, observational literacy, applying techniques for a well
sequenced story of events, and making strategic use of media.
Title: Tech Toys for Teachers! Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology
Session Description: Drink from the 'fountains' of technology and taste state of the art latest trends in educational
technology. Explore Twitter and learn who to follow, Blogs, websites, and conferences so you can keep up on the
latest and greatest educational ideas/apps/programs out there! The end goal? To help you work smarter, not harder,
and give you more time.
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Title: Differentiating Instruction in a 5E Classroom

Session Description: The concept of differentiation might be second nature to some teachers. Yet others might
lack sufficient experience with differentiation to understand it and implement it fully. Most teachers teachers fall
somewhere in between. Differentiation is important because not all students bring the same knowledge and skills to
the classroom. Nor do all students have the same learning style or readiness level to adequately learn the science
concepts their teachers need to teach them. In this session, participants will learn about the structure and
components of the 5E model and how to meet the needs of all learning styles and levels via differentiation. There
will be opportunity for participants to experience and brainstorm specific tasks and activities to help differentiate
within each phase of the 5E model for instruction: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate.
Title: Teaching Tomorrow's Skills with Today's Technology
Presenter: Toni Robinson Room: D103
Session Description: During this fast-paced, interactive session participants will explore the strategic and
purposeful use of digital resources in the classroom. Educators will walk away with new tools and techniques to
prepare today's students with the skills they need for their world tomorrow.
Title: "Techify" Communication Between School & Home
Audience: All Strands: First Impressions, Teaching Technology
Session Description: Using technology to bridge the gap between school and home is necessary as we move
forward into the 21st century. Technology is a convenient form of communication that fosters a relationship as the
school partners with parents to create the best environment for students in a timely manner. In this session we will
explore several ways that educators are able to use social media and Web 2.0 tools to effectively communicate with
parents as the team works toward a common goal.
Title: Get Rid of your Classroom Walls
Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology, MeaningFul Instruction
Session Description: The world is a large place and students need to explore it and the others who inhabit it. This
session will help you find the tools you need to reach out of your classroom, take virtual field trips, and talk to other
teachers and students exchanging viewpoints of your respective location. Through the introduction of Skype in the
classroom, classroom wikis, and essential digital structures, you and your students can and will see the world with a
different and knowledgeable lense.
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Title: Beyond the Page

Audience: K - 5th Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningul Instruction
What to Bring: IPads with Tools Added
Session Description: As students have more and more access to technology and we strive to meet the needs of a
diverse population in the realms of instruction and communication, the idea of pairing digital assignments with
written ones is born. Rather than just writing a research paper, now students aggregate compelling research and
create an infographic that serves as a companion for their written piece. Rather than writing a persuasive essay
alone, students pair their work with an original commercial. Videos and trailers paired with essays, selfies and
personal narratives, and even collaborative curations serve as a springboard for research. These powerful
instructional pairings provide students with multiple avenues to effectively communicate their ideas and knowledge.
Breakout Session 3 - 1:35 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.

Title: Building a STEM Mindset
Presenter: Sally Creel Room: A - Gym
Audience: 6th - 8th Strands: Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology
Session Description: STEM learning provides an incredible opportunity for students to develop problem solving
skills while giving a context for the application of content. Join us as we model sample STEM lessons to illustrate
how it looks in the classroom. Get ready to "think like a middle schooler" while developing your STEM state of
mind.
Title: Creating Meaningful Learning
Audience: All Strands: Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology
Session Description: Sitting in a desk having teaching done to you for eight hours a day can cause some learners
to lose their passion for school permanently. Let's explore the idea of making learning meaningful and irresistible
using a bit of drama and today's amazing technologies.
Title: Shedding Light on the Dark Apps: Social Media and T(w)eens
Audience: 3rd - 12th Strands: Teaching Technology
Session Description: Join Ginger for a highly active and engaging session that will highlight both the positive and
cautionary realities of using social media for learning. First, we'll look at everyday apps, such as Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. Then we'll spend some time exploring "dark apps," or those apps that allow our
kids to connect with others anonymously. We'll peek into that world and quickly learn how we can shed light into
those dark corners for better learning.
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Title: Building Meaningful Partnerships: Keys to Supportive Relationships

Session Description: Magnet Schools survive and thrive with partnerships. Being focused on mutually beneficial
goal oriented partnerships assure that each partner's role is clear and effective in supporting the growth of the
school. It also assures that partnerships are not overwhelming the school and staff. This interactive, working
session will share practical tools for identifying, building, and sustaining mutually beneficial partnerships.
Title: Withstanding and Succeeding During Budget Cuts
Presenter: Dwight Jones Room: C105
Session Description: As retired superintendent of Clark County Schools supporting strong magnet programs
during budget cuts, Dwight Jones will share key principles in building and sustaining strong magnet
programs. This session will address tools and strategies to help sustain a Magnet program during challenging
budget cuts.
Title: Arts Integration: Its Not Just Pretty Bulletin Boards!
Session Description: Do you want your elementary classroom to hum with collaboration? To buzz with academic
conversations? Do you want your classroom to be the place students look forward to because they get to be
creative, to feel empowered, and to solve problems on their own? Then this session is for you. Learn how powerful
and rewarding it can be to integrate the arts into any and all areas of your curriculum. This session reveals practical
arts-based strategies that will help you integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual
arts into lessons across the content areas. This session includes model lessons and specific grade-range
suggestions for K5 students. Planning guides and templates are also provided to support the implementation of
the strategies. Come join us and learn how real arts integration is far more than just pretty bulletin boards!
Title: Bring your Classroom to Life with Nearpod!
Presenter: Kristin Ford Room: C108
Session Description: During this session we will explore the online tool called Nearpod. Nearpod is an interactive
presentation and assessment tool that can be used in the classroom as well as during PD. The tool is easy to use
and will help raise Audience engagement and participation. A teacher can create presentations that can contain
Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. Nearpod is multiplatform and works on any
device!
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Title: Using Children's Literature to Guide Science Inquiry

Audience: 3rd - 5th Strands: Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Need ideas to connect literacy and science? Never before has it been so easy to interest
students in reading and science. Picture-Perfect Science Lessons combine the appeal of childrens picture books
with standards-based science content. Leave with ideas on how to begin the integration as well as website links to
resources and instructional vignettes that can be used in the classroom tomorrow.
Title: Finding Grants for your Theme and Magnet Program
Presenter: Alison Robbins Room: C111
What to Bring: Laptop that runs Excel 2010 or newer.
Session Description: Millions of dollars await you to build and sustain strong magnet programs. Have you
wondered where to start looking for grants to support your magnet program? Then this session is for you.
Title: Thinking Historically: Strategies for Integrating Social Studies
Session Description: We know that thinking historically is good for kids but what does it look like in practice? Let's
talk about students using evidence, solving problems, and communicating solutions as part of the learning process.
Title: iMadeIT
Session Description: One of the goals of a Makerspace is to connect concrete projects to the more abstract
worlds of STEM. Bringing Do-IT-Yourself projects into the classroom opens the door to problem solving,
engineering, creativity, and real world situations. Not all of us can be MacGyver but we all can learn to dream,
design, create, and repeat. Together we can create space for our kids to say I Made It!
Title: Technology and Books....Bring them ALL into your classroom!
Presenter: Tonya Gaunt Room: C205
Audience: K - 2nd Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Come and enjoy learning ways to incorporate technology and books in the early childhood
classroom. Students love both books and technology, so enjoy learning fun technology activities used with your
students' favorite books. See what apps are being used, what tools are being tried, and what projects are being
created with technology. Early childhood educators will take away a list of fun creative apps, great books as well as
engaging activities to use with the books, apps and devices. The attendees will learn to use technology activities
that foster students individual creativity. The attendees will learn about various creative apps to use in the early
childhood classroom. Through the use of technology, attendees will learn creative ways to illustrate and
communicate original authentic ideas.
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Title: Essential Questions

Session Description: If the content represents the answers, then what were the questions that led to that content
knowledge in the first place? How do we uncover the key ideas within a Standard or a topic, not just skim (cover)
the surface? How can a classroom culture best support student engagement and inquiry? A good essential
question serves as a doorway for engaging student inquiry, helps teachers to uncover the big ideas of the
curriculum, and lead students to deeper understanding. In this interactive workshop session, participants will have
the opportunity to create Essential Questions.
Title: Brain Friendly Learning and SMARTBoard Integration
Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instuctions
Session Description: Harvey Almarode, SMARTBoard lesson developer and trainer, discusses and integrates the
research of John Medina (Brain Rules) and Robert Marzano (Instructional Strategies that Work) through engaging
and interactive SMARTBoard Lessons. Tips and Techniques are presented on how to design these interactive and
engaging lessons. Come join this lively engaging session and see examples of these SMARTBoard lessons. All
the lessons demonstrated will be available for everyone to use immediately in their classroom and/or modify and
utilize components in their own lessons.
Title: Visual Storytelling and Visual Literacy- A Spotlight on Creative Expression
Audience: All Strands: First Impressions, Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology
Session Description: This session primarily focuses on the areas of digital age literacy from a variety of
perspectives. First, the session addresses the need for students to develop appropriate digital age fluency as well
as represent their knowledge in a creative and innovative manner. For teachers, this session provides strategies for
developing a myriad of digital age learning environments in which the focus can be anything from project-based to
utilizing these methodologies for assessment. The curricular foundations addressed in this session primarily focus
on elements of narrative writing, visual thinking strategies, observational literacy, applying techniques for a well
sequenced story of events, and making strategic use of media.
Title: Video Killed the Radio StarPower of Videos with Laptops
Presenter: Josh Ehret Room: C209
Audience: Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: VHS and Laser Discs maybe gone, but we as educators and our students are constantly
consuming videos. Come learn how to provide opportunities for students to create videos that show and share their
learning with laptops. Ignite students interest and curiosity by exploring the different types of videos that students
can produce in a K-12 setting. You will be introduced to video resources, video topics and ideas, organizational tips
and strategies for successful video projects, and experience with publishing videos online.
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Title: Tech Tips For Teacher Sanity!

Session Description: So much technology out there! Impossible to keep up with at times! Let me help guide you
through tech I have used in my classes and gotten student, parent, and administrator feedback on. We will cover
such things as SideKick, using Youtube video for critics and evals, book creators, and apps to spice up any
presentations. I will cover them and give you some time to play and explore!
Title: Technology and the 5E's
Session Description: Today's students demand and expect their teachers to provide them with instruction through
technology. Up-to-the minute stats, data, and more keep students informed with the most current information.
Telecommunicating, blogging, social media, and live video feeds provide communication mechanisms for students
to stay connected in this global learning environment. Application software (e.g.word processer, slideshow, and
desktop publishing) and interactive online games, lessons and learning options offer instructional support to teach
students just about anything they have a mind to know. In this session, teachers will collaborate to learn about
particular ways they can take advantage of some of the amazing technology resources this digital age has to offer
and integrate them within the 5E model for instruction!
Title: Teaching Tomorrow's Skills with Today's Technology
Presenter: Toni Robinson Room: D103
Session Description: During this fast-paced, interactive session participants will explore the strategic and
purposeful use of digital resources in the classroom. Educators will walk away with new tools and techniques to
prepare today's students with the skills they need for their world tomorrow.
Title: "Techify" Communication Between School & Home
Audience: All Strands: First Impressions, Teaching Technology
Session Description: Using technology to bridge the gap between school and home is necessary as we move
forward into the 21st century. Technology is a convenient form of communication that fosters a relationship as the
school partners with parents to create the best environment for students in a timely manner. In this session we will
explore several ways that educators are able to use social media and Web 2.0 tools to effectively communicate with
parents as the team works toward a common goal.
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Title: "Ok Google" and Other Things You Didn't Know Chrome Could Do
What to Bring: Laptop with chrome installed
Session Description: Youve used Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox, but everyone keeps telling you to use
Chrome. This session will help make Chrome your home on the web. How can you leverage Chromes apps,
extensions, and the settings to expand the productivity of your experience in the web browser? In this session, we
will look at some common problems of workflow and productivity and how the solutions lie in the way you set up
your Chrome experience through apps, extensions, shortcuts, and settings. For each step of the learning, we will
talk about how this doesnt just relate to teachers, but how we can leverage these Chrome tools to better help
students in their learning.
Title: Beyond the Page
Audience: K - 5th Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
What to Bring: IPads with Tools Added
Session Description: As students have more and more access to technology and we strive to meet the needs of a
diverse population in the realms of instruction and communication, the idea of pairing digital assignments with
written ones is born. Rather than just writing a research paper, now students aggregate compelling research and
create an infographic that serves as a companion for their written piece. Rather than writing a persuasive essay
alone, students pair their work with an original commercial. Videos and trailers paired with essays, selfies and
personal narratives, and even collaborative curations serve as a springboard for research. These powerful
instructional pairings provide students with multiple avenues to effectively communicate their ideas and knowledge.
Breakout Session 4 - 2:50 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Title: Say No to STEMWashing
Presenter: Sally Creel Room: A - Gym E023
Audience: K - 5th Strands: Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology
Session Description: "STEM" isn't just building something. Come and learn how to avoid STEMwashing in your
classroom. Then lets collaborate to complete a STEM challenge correlated to NGSS standards. After this STEM
session, the only thing youll be washing is your hands!
Title: No Secret Geniuses
Audience: All Strands: First Impressions
Session Description: Often we do magnificent things as we prepare young learners. While we excel at
communicating with students, we struggle to get word out to community and parents about the things we do. We
can no longer afford to be secret geniuses! We will explore ways to share using common sense, today's tools and a
little bit of creativity!
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Title: Copyright Confusion and Fair Use in a Digital World

Session Description: Increasingly, students and educators are turning to digital research and tools in our everyday
work as we create magnificent projects with music, photos, and information quickly found online. But are we sure
its legal? Is it ethical? Many educators are new to this digital world, so how do we best guide students through the
fair and responsible use of digital media without squashing the excitement of creativity? After all, fair use laws arent
what they were even a few years ago. This session will actively walk educators through the decision-making
process outlined by the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. We'll use actual classroom
scenarios and ample Q&A practice time. Participants will also learn helpful ideas regarding how to teach students
and colleagues about this vital topic.
Title: Keeping it Fresh: Sustaining a Highly Successful Magnet School
Session Description: In order to keep a magnet school successful, attention must be focused on the points of
recruitment, retention, and results. Magnet schools need to keep their eye on sustainability through continuous
improvement, design thinking, partnerships, alternative funding, innovation, and keeping a sense of humor. This
interactive, practical working session will share planning tools, applications, and tips for working collaboratively in
schools to assure success.
Title: Integrating the Arts Across the Secondary Curriculum
Session Description: Creative thinkers. Effective communicators. Problem-solvers. This has become the gold
standard in education and the hallmark of effective teaching in a magnet school. But what can middle and high
school teachers do in their classrooms to explicitly teach the skills and encourage the behaviors that are needed to
become this kind of higher-order thinker? And what can you do to meet all the diverse needs you have in your
classroom? This session is your answer! In addition to teaching creative and critical thinking, the arts reach
students of every ability level, ethnicity, and linguistic background. In this fun, hands-on session you will explore
how to integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts into your curriculum in a way
that connects core learning in the content areas with opportunities to practice creative skills and higher-order
thinking in a variety of capacities. This session includes model lessons and specific grade-range suggestions for 612 students. Planning guides and templates are also provided to support the implementation of the strategies. Join
us to experience how arts integration is not fluff and can make a difference with your students!
Title: A Picture Perfect Approach to Connecting Reading Strategies and Science in the Elementary Classroom
Audience: 3rd - 5th Strands: Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Need ideas on leading students to think like scientist? Personal experiences will be shared
on utilizing Picture-Perfect Science Lessons that combine the appeal of childrens picture books with standardsbased science content. Leave with ideas and resources on addressing misconceptions as you engage students in
reading and science.
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Title: Budgeting for Grants

Presenter: Alison Robbins Room: C111
What to Bring: Laptop that runs Excel 2010 or newer.
Session Description: Thought processes, and steps to be taken for the creation of a budget from the ideas for
implementing your magnet grant. Discussion on what is realistic, and how to best plan for use of funds.
Title: Thinking Historically: Strategies for Integrating Social Studies
Audience: 3rd - 5th Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: We know that thinking historically is good for kids but what does it look like in practice? Let's
talk about students using evidence, solving problems, and communicating solutions as part of the learning process.
Title: Bringing Learning to Life with Augmented Reality
What to Bring: iPad - Apps (Supreme Tutoring Augmented Reality, Blippar, Quiver, Chromville, & Elements 4D)
Session Description: Bring cultures, historical objects, historical places, the world, and even the universe to your
classroom with the use of augmented reality. Engage your students beyond the textbook and transcend learning to
a whole new dimension. Learn how to use augmented reality in education either with pre-made triggers or learn to
create your own. Augmented reality can bring models of actual objects, transform your classroom into a different
environment, or provide your students animated lessons and videos. Augmented reality brings learning to life and
opens the door to endless possibilities.
Title: Tiny Techies Transforming Technology with Creativity
Presenter: Tonya Gaunt Room: C205
Audience: K 2nd Strands: Teaching Technology, Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: Get a glimpse of how we use use technology to develop thoughtful learning experiences for
young students. Kids love it when they get engaged in hands-on activities and we are using technology to create
these projects. Take a look at how our classes are using The Learning Journal: SeeSaw as a tool to share what
they have created and recorded to their peers, teachers, and families. See what apps are being used, what tools
are being tried, and what projects are being created with technology. Early childhood educators will take away a list
of fun creative apps, great books as well as engaging activities to use with books, apps and devices.
Title: Essential Questions
Session Description: If the content represents the answers, then what were the questions that led to that content
knowledge in the first place? How do we uncover the key ideas within a Standard or a topic, not just skim (cover)
the surface? How can a classroom culture best support student engagement and inquiry? A good essential
question serves as a doorway for engaging student inquiry, helps teachers to uncover the big ideas of the
curriculum, and lead students to deeper understanding. In this interactive workshop session, participants will have
the opportunity to create Essential Question
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Title: Essential Elements of an Engaging Lesson

Audience: All Strands: Teaching Technology. Meaningful Instruction
Session Description: This session discusses essential elements for creating engaging lessons for your students
using an interactive display or interactive devices. The elements incorporate techniques from research on Brain
Based Learning, Instructional Strategies, Student Engagement, and Graphics Design. Come join this lively
engaging session as SMARTBoard trainer, Harvey Almarode, discusses the essential elements by demonstrating
various lessons that he designs and utilizes in his classes and trainings. All the lessons demonstrated will be
available for the everyone to use immediately in their classroom and/or modify and utilize components in their own
lessons.
Title: Making Student Thinking and Learning Visible
Session Description: As we begin working in more digitally rich environments, students have the opportunity to
create, and in some cases are creating, phenomenal artifacts of learning. But where are these artifacts going?
Where should they go? Who's seeing them and are they being used to add to the learning space knowledge base
when appropriate? In this digitally rich age, schools everywhere are beginning to see the value of having student
work housed in one location to help students to reflect and grow as learners. In this session, we will discuss the
importance of student-created digital portfolios. From why they are important - to how we can use the power of
technology to help students showcase and OWN their learning. Digital Portfolios allow students to reflect on their
learning and take their learning with them (expand on this work or show it as part of a learning resume) Digital
Portfolios are student centered and give students a voice, and pride in their work - motivation through work not a
grade.
Title: Learning Spaces - Exploring Technologies Role
Presenter: Alan Landever Room: C209
Session Description: An Interactive authentic learning experience. We will focus on research and shared
experiences related to the design and use of learning spaces and technologies role to facilitate learning in those
spaces.
Title: Tech Toys for Teachers!
Session Description: Drink from the 'fountains' of technology and taste state of the art latest trends in educational
technology. Explore Twitter and learn who to follow, Blogs, websites, and conferences so you can keep up on the
latest and greatest educational ideas/apps/programs out there! The end goal? To help you work smarter, not harder,
and give you more time.
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Title: Differentiating Instruction in a 5E Classroom

Session Description: The concept of differentiation might be second nature to some teachers. Yet others might
lack sufficient experience with differentiation to understand it and implement it fully. Most teachers teachers fall
somewhere in between. Differentiation is important because not all students bring the same knowledge and skills to
the classroom. Nor do all students have the same learning style or readiness level to adequately learn the science
concepts their teachers need to teach them. In this session, participants will learn about the structure and
components of the 5E model and how to meet the needs of all learning styles and levels via differentiation. There
will be opportunity for participants to experience and brainstorm specific tasks and activities to help differentiate
within each phase of the 5E model for instruction: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate.
Title: "Ok Google" and Other Things You Didn't Know Chrome Could Do
What to Bring: Laptop with chrome installed
Session Description: Youve used Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox, but everyone keeps telling you to use
Chrome. This session will help make Chrome your home on the web. How can you leverage Chromes apps,
extensions, and the settings to expand the productivity of your experience in the web browser? In this session, we
will look at some common problems of workflow and productivity and how the solutions lie in the way you set up
your Chrome experience through apps, extensions, shortcuts, and settings. For each step of the learning, we will
talk about how this doesnt just relate to teachers, but how we can leverage these Chrome tools to better help
students in their learning.
Title: Savory Slides
What to Bring: A Device with Presentation Software (e.g. Google Slides, PPT, Keynote, etc...)
Session Description: No more death by PowerPoint, Keynote, or Prezi... How can we teach students to be both
effective communicators and digital architects of their own content? This session will blend best practices and
research- based strategies and tips for organizing content, designing and constructing slides (including theme,
template, and layout), effectively and purposefully using images, color, and data, and delivering memorable
presentations. Students werent born with a PPT clicker in their fist... BUT what your students dont know can be
taught. This fast- paced session will culminate with a toolkit of support resources for educators including an
infographic, curated research and examples, student handouts, and a list of tools that can support your students
with both design and appropriate use of creative commons images. Sprinkle in a few student examples with this
fully catered platter of tools and resources and you will find that Savory Slides feeds your hunger for both
compelling content and inspiration for appropriate student authorship.
We would like to thank the Principal and ALL the

staff at
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Northeast Magnet for the use of their building!
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Session at a Glance
Session 1: 9:00 - 9:55
Audienc
e
C205
Presenter
Anne Beck, Tonya
Gaunt
Greenscreen Fun! Integrating Media into Your Classroom
All
C102
Doreen Marvin
Building Meaningful Partnerships: Keys to Supportive Relationships
All
B - Gym
Ginger Lewman
Shedding Light on the Dark Apps: Social Media and T(w)eens
3rd - 12th
C202
Glenn Wiebe
Five Under-appreciated Google Tools That Improve Literacy
6th - 12th
C207
Harvey Almarode
Essential Elements of an Engaging Lesson
All
C206
Hilde McGeehan
Teaching for Understanding
All
C211
Jay Gross
Tech Tips For Teacher Sanity!
All
C104
Jordana Benone
Arts Integration: Its Not Just Pretty Bulletin Boards!
K - 5th
C204
Katie Ann Wilson
iMadeIT
All
C208
Ken Shelton
Making Student Thinking and Learning Visible
All
Auditorium
Kevin Honeycutt
Creating Meaningful Learning
All
C109
Kim Stilwell
Using Children's Literature to Guide Science Inquiry
K - 2nd
D102
Lakenna Booker
Technology and the 5E's
All
Library
Lisa Johnson
Savory Slides
6th - 12th
E110
Rodney Turner
Get Rid of your Classroom Walls
All
A - Gym
Sally Creel
Building a STEM Mindset
6th - 8th
E013
Stephanie Hime
Exploring the United States Without Leaving the Classroom II
K - 8th
C111
Tana Ruder
Back to the Future w/ Online Assessment Tools
All
Room
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Room
Presenter
Session 2: 10:00 - 10:55
Audienc
e
C205
Anne Beck
What Great Educators Do Differently
All
C102
Doreen Marvin
Keeping it Fresh: Sustaining a Highly Successful Magnet School
All
C105
Dwight Jones
Withstanding and Succeeding During Budget Cuts
All
B - Gym
Ginger Lewman
Copyright Confusion and Fair Use in a Digital World
All
C202
Glenn Wiebe
Five Under-Appreciated Google Tools That Improve Literacy
3rd - 5th
C207
Harvey Almarode
Brain Friendly Learning and SMARTBoard Integration
All
C206
Hilde McGeehan
Teaching for Understanding
All
C211
Jay Gross
Tech Toys for Teachers
All
C104
Jordana Benone
Integrating the Arts Across the Secondary Curriculum
6th - 12th
C209
Josh Ehret
Who's Telling Your School's Story?
All
C204
Katie Ann Wilson
All
C208
Ken Shelton
Bringing Learning to Life with Augmented Reality

Visual Storytelling and Visual Literacy- A Spotlight on Creative
Expression
Auditorium
Kevin Honeycutt
All
C109
Kim Stilwell
No Secret Geniuses
A Picture Perfect Approach to Connecting Reading Strategies and
Science
D102
Lakenna Booker
Differentiating Instruction in a 5E Classroom
All
Library
Lisa Johnson
Beyond the Page
K - 5th
E110
Rodney Turner
Get Rid of your Classroom Walls
All
A - Gym
Sally Creel
Say No to STEMWashing
K - 5th
E013
Stephanie Hime
"Techify" Communication Between School & Home
All
C111
Tana Ruder
You CAN #sketchnote
All
C108
Toni Osterbuhr
Web-Mixer
K - 8th
D103
Toni Robinson
Teaching Tomorrow's Skills with Today's Technology
All
All
K - 2nd
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Room
Presenter
Session 3:
Audience
C111
Alison Robbins
Finding Grants for your Theme and Magnet Program
All
C102
Doreen Marvin
Building Meaningful Partnerships: Keys to Supportive Relationships
All
C105
Dwight Jones
Withstanding and Succeeding During Budget Cuts
All
B - Gym
Ginger Lewman
Shedding Light on the Dark Apps: Social Media and T(w)eens
3rd - 12th
C202
Glenn Wiebe
Thinking Historically: Strategies for Integrating Social Studies
6th - 12th
C207
Harvey Almarode
Brain Friendly Learning and SMARTBoard Integration
All
C206
Hilde McGeehan
Essential Questions
All
C211
Jay Gross
Tech Tips For Teacher Sanity!
All
C104
Jordana Benone
Arts Integration: Its Not Just Pretty Bulletin Boards!
K - 5th
C209
Josh Ehret
Video Killed the Radio StarPower of Videos with Laptops
All
C204
Katie Ann Wilson
All
C208
Ken Shelton
iMadeIT
Visual Storytelling and Visual Literacy- A Spotlight on Creative
Expression
Auditorium
Kevin Honeycutt
Creating Meaningful Learning
All
C109
Kim Stilwell
Using Children's Literature to Guide Science Inquiry
3rd - 5th
C108
Kristin Ford
Bring your Classroom to Life with Nearpod!
3rd - 12th
D102
Lakenna Booker
Technology and the 5E's
All
Library
Lisa Johnson
Beyond the Page
K - 5th
E110
Rodney Turner
"Ok Google" and Other Things You Didn't Know Chrome Could Do
3rd - 12th
A - Gym
Sally Creel
Building a STEM Mindset
6th - 8th
E013
Stephanie Hime
"Techify" Communication Between School & Home
All
D103
Toni Robinson
Teaching Tomorrow's Skills with Today's Technology
All
C205
Tonya Gaunt
Technology and Books Bring them ALL into your classroom
K - 2nd
All
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Room
Presenter
Session 4:
Audienc
e
C209
Alan Landever
Learning Spaces - Exploring Technologies Role
All
C111
Alison Robbins
Budgeting for Grants
All
C102
Doreen Marvin
Keeping it Fresh: Sustaining a Highly Successful Magnet School
All
B - Gym
Ginger Lewman
Copyright Confusion and Fair Use in a Digital World
All
C202
Glenn Wiebe
Thinking Historically: Strategies for Integrating Social Studies
3rd - 5th
C207
Harvey Almarode
Essential Elements of an Engaging Lesson
All
C206
Hilde McGeehan
Essential Questions
All
C211
Jay Gross
Tech Toys for Teachers
All
C104
Jordana Benone
Integrating the Arts Across the Secondary Curriculum
6th - 12th
C204
Katie Ann Wilson
Bringing Learning to Life with Augmented Reality
All
C208
Ken Shelton
Making Student Thinking and Learning Visible
All
Auditorium
Kevin Honeycutt
All
C109
Kim Stilwell
No Secret Geniuses
A Picture Perfect Approach to Connecting Reading Strategies and
Science
D102
Lakenna Booker
Differentiating Instruction in a 5E Classroom
All
Library
Lisa Johnson
Savory Slides
6th - 12th
E110
Rodney Turner
"Ok Google" and Other Things You Didn't Know Chrome Could Do
3rd - 12th
A - Gym
Sally Creel
Tonya Gaunt, Anne
Beck
Say No to STEMWashing
K - 5th
Tiny Techies Transforming Technology with Creativity
K 2nd
C205
3rd - 5th
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Thank You to
Wichita Public Schools
Departments
District Staf
Magnet Schools Assistant Programs Grant Schools
Magnet Schools Assistant Programs Grant Staf
Northeast Magnet Principals and Staf
Magnet Department
Kimberly Burkhalter, Director Equity/Diversity & Magnet Programs
Tifany Barnes, Budget Analyst
Phyllis Cottner, Project Curriculum Lead
Brenda Hauf, Instructional Technology Lead Facilitator
Emily Lenz, Recruiter
Nikkie Zdrojewski, Magnet Programs Education Liaison
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Discover Magnet Conference

Discover Magnet: A Journey from Exploration to

Amazing Teaching Enhanced with Technology - In todays world

Making Magnet Instruction Meaningful - Looking for ideas of how to

Keynote 11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. - Auditorium

P3: Purpose | Passion | Possibility Unlocking

Lunch 11:55 12:55

WPS Scream the Theme Award

Vendors Please stop by and visit with our vendors.

Breakout Session 1 9:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m.

Follow us on twitter @WPSMagnet

Title: Tech Tips For Teacher Sanity!

- 8th Strands: Meaningful Instruction, Teaching Technology

If you would like electronic access to presenter notes and handouts

Breakout Session 2- 10:00 a.m. to 10:55 a.m.

Title: Integrating the Arts Across the Secondary Curriculum

Title: Five Under-Appreciated Google Tools That Improve Literacy

Follow us on twitter @WPSMagnet

Title: Who's Telling Your School's Story?

Title: Differentiating Instruction in a 5E Classroom

Follow us on twitter @WPSMagnet

Title: Beyond the Page

Breakout Session 3 - 1:35 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.

Title: Building Meaningful Partnerships: Keys to Supportive Relationships

Title: Using Children's Literature to Guide Science Inquiry

Title: Essential Questions

Title: Tech Tips For Teacher Sanity!

Breakout Session 4 - 2:50 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Title: Copyright Confusion and Fair Use in a Digital World

Title: Budgeting for Grants

Title: Essential Elements of an Engaging Lesson

Title: Differentiating Instruction in a 5E Classroom

We would like to thank the Principal and ALL the

Northeast Magnet for the use of their building!

Greenscreen Fun! Integrating Media into Your Classroom

Building Meaningful Partnerships: Keys to Supportive Relationships

Shedding Light on the Dark Apps: Social Media and T(w)eens

Five Under-appreciated Google Tools That Improve Literacy

Essential Elements of an Engaging Lesson

Teaching for Understanding

Tech Tips For Teacher Sanity!

Arts Integration: Its Not Just Pretty Bulletin Boards!

Katie Ann Wilson

Making Student Thinking and Learning Visible

Creating Meaningful Learning

Using Children's Literature to Guide Science Inquiry

Technology and the 5E's

Get Rid of your Classroom Walls

Building a STEM Mindset

Exploring the United States Without Leaving the Classroom II

Back to the Future w/ Online Assessment Tools

Session 2: 10:00 - 10:55

What Great Educators Do Differently

Keeping it Fresh: Sustaining a Highly Successful Magnet School

Withstanding and Succeeding During Budget Cuts

Copyright Confusion and Fair Use in a Digital World

Five Under-Appreciated Google Tools That Improve Literacy

Brain Friendly Learning and SMARTBoard Integration

Teaching for Understanding

Tech Toys for Teachers

Integrating the Arts Across the Secondary Curriculum

Who's Telling Your School's Story?

Katie Ann Wilson