Monday, December 9, 2013

K 1 Listen to Your Heart Donna Whyte

SCHEDULE

Keynote 8:15 AM

Morning

One of the highest goals we can achieve in early education is to instill the joy of learning in our students. In this uplifting morning keynote, Donna takes a special look at the importance of the developmental needs of your learners, and encourages all teachers to remember the importance of creating an environment where children want to learn. Dont miss this opportunity to learn how to better motivate your students and develop in them a love for learning that comes straight from the heart.
75-Minute Sessions 9:0010:15 am 75-Minute Sessions 10:45 amNoon

What Your Peers Are Saying...

I thought the presenters did an excellent job presenting new ideas and they were very motivational.
Sharon Reece
Neelyville R-IV

A 1 Close Reading: Going on a Treasure Hunt Donna Whyte Gain a new appreciation for the value of close reading and how to use it to achieve higher-level thinking required by the Common Core. The focus in this session is on re-reading to discover an authors purpose, text structure, and the words. Youll leave with a treasure box of strategies and ideas you can immediately add to your curriculum. A 2 Practical, EasytoImplement Anchor Activities Cheryl Dick Keep your students actively engaged in meaningful, high-level thinking activities while you spend time with individuals or small groups. Cheryl introduces anchor activities that will not only challenge your students, but also provide a foundation for future learning situations. Youll take home research-based, practical activities that provide reinforcement and practice in specific content areas. A 3 A Road Map to Guided Math Success Sherri Strating Accommodate all your students with flexible math groups while meeting your standards. This session is all about guided math and how to use it in whole-group instruction, differentiated small groups, and interactive math work stations. See how easy it is to build, reinforce, and remediate math skills as your students work in math-learning communities. Learn how to go beyond computation to rich, mathematical communication. A 4 Tackling New Vocabulary: Tools for Your Struggling Readers Heidi Shaver Gain a new sense of optimism as your struggling readers make sense of new vocabulary! Discover a wealth of fun, engaging, and meaningful strategies that build comprehension and bigger vocabularies. With these activities, you can easily meet the needs of all learning styles in your classroom.

A 5 Learning How to Research, Learning How to Learn Donna Whyte Teach your students how to do research to address the Common Core writing component and set them on a course of 21st Century learning. Get fresh, new ideas for incorporating writing with reading, science, and social studies. In this collaborative session, youll create a research packet template and share Internet resources as you learn how to teach your children how to learn. A 6 The SMART Board for Power Users: More Advanced Strategies Cheryl Dick Go beyond the basics of the interactive whiteboard. Learn how to use it to make your instruction spring to life! Cheryl opens up a whole new world of ideas for creating and organizing lessons. Learn how easy it is to catch and hold your students attention, use the amazing SMART Notebook software as a powerful assessment tool, and more. A 7 Engaging Journal Activities for Boosting Writing Skills Sherri Strating Enhance your students writing skills with exciting journaling techniques like buddy-peer journals, response journals, content journals, and more. Discover eyes-on, minds-on, hands-on journaling activities. Plus, receive your own scoring guide for journal assessments. Please bring markers, a glue stick, and scissors. A 8 Assessment: Doable, Simple, Practical Heidi Shaver Make assessment an integral part of your instruction! Its doable, simple, and practical! Get informal and progress-monitoring assessment techniques you can easily implement on your own. Learn how using journals and hands-on activities can help you accurately evaluate growth, pinpoint needs, and determine strengths.

I felt like I got a lot of good information that I could use immediately or share with my colleagues.
Sarah Hays
Sweet Springs R-7

Overall it was a very good conference. I left with many new ideas to use with my struggling students.
Faith Dinkins
South Iron

Very beneficial. Received a lot of technology based information, which is greatly needed for todays teaching strategies.
Mary Blanks
Eminence Elementary

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Sessions offer hands-on projects and activities you can bring back to your classroom. S.T.E.M.: Sessions contain information and strategies for Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Math. Sessions offer strategies that will support your RTI (Response to Intervention) efforts.

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2013 Conference for Missouri

First & Second Grade Teachers

Monday, December 9, 2013

PLUSExhibits, SDE Book Table & More!
75-Minute Sessions 1:152:30 pm 75-Minute Sessions 2:504:05 pm

Enjoy Lunch on Your Own

Afternoon

Conference & Overnight Location

St. Louis Union Station Hotel
1820 Market Street St. Louis, MO 63103 (314) 6215262
Call by November 16, 2013.
Tell the hotel staff you are attending the SDE Conference for Missouri First & Second Grade Teachers. Theyll offer their special overnight rate just for you.

B 1 Classroom Collaboration: Communicate, Cooperate, Create Teamwork Donna Whyte Discover how to collaborate and communicate in your classroom using strategies that reinforce the speaking and listening standards. Learn management strategies and ideas for encouraging and teaching your students to work together. With the valuable insight youll gain, you can startthe very next dayto build relationships, encourage teamwork, and create a cooperative learning environment. B 2 Design Your Own Math Centers Cheryl Dick Design your own differentiated math centers! In this session, Cheryl shows you how to transfer your knowledge of small group literacy instruction to a format that will help you differentiate math. Youll take home management strategies you can apply to your own centers right away. B 3 Informational Text Throughout the Content Areas Sherri Strating Take an unforgettable guided tour of informational text for bringing science and social studies to life for your students. Explore the wonder of motivating nonfiction texts and Common Core literacy informational strategies. Learn how to use them to build your students comprehension, research, and academic vocabulary skills. Please bring markers, scissors, glue stick, and stapler. B 4 HandsOn Strategies for Developing Critical Thinking Skills Heidi Shaver Collect fun ways to develop higher-level thinking skills among your young learners. Heidi introduces sorting activities designed to move your students from the concrete to the abstract. Youll leave with hands-on strategies for helping your students identify patterns, make connections, determine main idea, and make generalizations.

B 5 Centers in a Snap Donna Whyte Make learning independent, hands-on, and lots of FUN for your students! Explore ideas for creating literacy centers that address multiple learning levels and needs. Youll discover how centers can help you find time for small-group instruction. And, youll return to your classroom with center ideas that you can implement immediately. B 6 Taking Your Students Deeper with Engaging ProjectBased Learning Cheryl Dick Make learning real for your students while building higher-order thinking skills and encouraging leadership and responsibility.This session is packed with ideas for making flexible, self-directed projects. Learn how to get your students involved in online projects, Web Quests, and inquiry-based learning. Take home fun resources that cover all the content areas. B 7 Powerful Comprehension & Fluency Strategies that Build Understanding Sherri Strating Discover simple, yet powerful, strategies for helping ALL your students gain a deeper understanding of text. Sherri reveals how a good reader becomes fluent and processes information. Learn how to use think-alouds and modeling to enhance comprehension. Plus, youll explore how to help your students use comprehension strategies in their everyday reading. B 8 Guided Reading: Raising Reading Achievement Heidi Shaver Build the skills of your beginning readers! Learn how to get students proficient in reading by meeting them where they are and strategically moving them forward. Discover how to add essential components to your guided reading lesson. Lastly, gain a practical lesson planning format for designing guided reading lessons that encourage literacy development and move students to proficiency with the ELA standards.

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Morning
K 2 Bringing Joy Back into the Classroom Danny Brassell, Ph.D.
Teachers are kidpeople. We teach because we care about kids. And joyful learning can flourish in our classroomsif we give it a chance. Join Danny as he reminds us of our importance in the everyday development of children. Youll remember how you have many reasons to laugh, sing, dance, playand bring the joy back into your classroom.
75-Minute Sessions 9:0010:15 am 75-Minute Sessions 10:45 amNoon

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Simple Steps to SMART Success
By Laureen Reynolds (Gr. 1-3) 198 pp. #550262 $28.95

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Common Core Curriculum Maps
(Gr. K5) 464 pp. #810822 $29.95

C 1 Got Tech Resources? Give Them a Big Hug Danny Brassell, Ph.D. Technology can instantly make your instruction richer and more meaningful. Itll save you time, too. In this session, youll get comfortable with technology and learn how to embrace it. Danny introduces effective, FREE, Web-based tools along with his favorite web sites for teachersplus numerous ways you can make friends with technology. C 2 Motivating Struggling Students to Write with Strong Opinions Kim Geddie In the real world, your students will need to know how to write with strong opinions and make judgments. Join Kim and learn how to improve their ability to move from simple to complex support of claims using clear reasoning and relevant evidence. Learn strategies aligned with the Common Core that will help your students confidently make literary judgments based on criteria and use and support well developed criteria to write with strong opinions. C 3 The 8 Mathematical Practices: A Toolkit for Beginning Math Thinkers Sherri Strating Transform your students into mathematical thinkers! Get acquainted with strategies and activities that will help them make sense of and use multiple models, reason abstractly using concrete models, and make arguments to support their thinking. Learn how to connect real life to math problem solving with model drawing number bonds, and more. Watch how your little ones begin to model and use math tools and language as the look for structures and use repeated reasoning. Please bring scissors, markers, and a glue stick. C 4 ELA Center Activities: A Spoonful of Fun Helps the Standards Go Down! Heidi Shaver Jump-start your students vocabulary, spelling, and language skills while addressing the Core standards with these easy-to-implement center activities! Learn how to scaffold learning by moving from model-based activities in the whole group to support-based activities in the small group. Then, bring it all together in literacy centers.

C 5 Dare to Differentiate: 50 Terrific Teacher Tricks Danny Brassell, Ph.D. Reinvigorate your passion for teaching! Danny reveals 50 terrific tricks successful teachers have used to stimulate students interest in learning. Youll leave this session with new songs, games, and activities you can immediately put to use in your classroom! C 6 Teaching Your Students to Ask HigherLevel Questions Kim Geddie Teach and encourage your students to ask questions that support higher-level thinking. Identify good questioning techniques that avoid yes-no answers and encourage students to provide better responses. Take away interactive games that stimulate critical thinking. C 7 Games That Reach to Teach from AZ Sherri Strating Create problem solvers and creative thinkers with highly interactive games! Sherri demonstrates how to use games to reach ALL learning styles and intelligences, in whole group, small groups, and centers. Youll take away hands-on, interactive games that connect to the standards, and that ensure success for all. Please bring markers, scissors, and a glue stick. C 8 Meaningful Phonics Without Worksheets Heidi Shaver Take the important first step toward making phonics instruction more fun, even for your struggling students. Heidi reveals meaningful strategies for teaching phonics without worksheets. The songs, charts, patterns, and games you collect will help your strugglers truly develop control over the relationship between sounds and letters.

75+ Reading Strategies: Boost Achievement & Build a Life-Long Love of Reading
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2013 Conference for Missouri

First & Second Grade Teachers

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

PLUSExhibits, SDE Book Table & More!
75-Minute Sessions 1:152:30 pm 75-Minute Sessions 2:504:05 pm

Enjoy Lunch on Your Own

Afternoon

Get the Credit You Deserve

You may be eligible for professional development credit through your state.

D 1 75 Reading Strategies in 75 Minutes Danny Brassell, Ph.D. Discover 75 ways to get your students to read! Danny demonstrates engaging activities for improving reading proficiency. Youll learn how to transform your classroom into a literacy center. And, youll discover the secrets to engendering a lifelong passion for reading. D 2 Intervention Strategies That Work Kim Geddie Do you have students who you are worried are at-risk of early learning failure? Join Kim to find out which essential skills your students need. Learn step-by-step how to boost learning and enhance your students performance. Youll leave with interventions that will provide just the right instructional match for each student. D 3 Sensational Science Sherri Strating Discover great ways to involve your students in delightful and amazing hands-on science activities and learning centers that encourage science inquiry. Sherri demonstrates how to integrate literature into your instruction. Get ready to have a super time exploring the wonderful, wacky side of science! Please bring markers, a glue stick, and scissors. D 4 SDE EdCamp: Teach, Learn, Collaborate Heidi Shaver Welcome to SDEs EdCampan un-conference like no other! In this informal gathering of first & second grade educators, the focus is on conversations led by you or your peers about hot topics in educationsuch as center ideas, management and organization, Writers Workshop, and Common Core State Standards. Together you choose the topic and then the sharing begins! Expect meaningful dialogue facilitated by Heidi and new insight into the issues that matter the most to you.

D 5 Songs & Games to Rev Up Morning Meetings Danny Brassell, Ph.D. Invigorate your young learners with songs, games, and activities! Discover terrific activities designed to motivate your students and keep them excited about learning all day long. Plus, investigate different ways to incorporate music and motion into your daily routine to inspire your classroom. D 6 How to Raise Rigor to Prepare Your Students for Lifelong Success Kim Geddie Take advantage of Kims ready-to-use ideas to raise the level of rigor in your classroom. Youll be preparing your students for a lifetime of success! Learn instructional and assessment strategies and how to apply them to make learning more relevant. Lastly, collect tips for combining high expectations with challenging experiences to prepare children for the real world. D 7 Creating Successful Writers: Strong Nonfiction Strategies Across the Content Areas Sherri Strating Take advantage of effective before, during, and after techniques for high-quality writing. Accelerate your students skills through writing experiences that stress the writing process and support the Common Core. Take away mini-lessons that enhance your Writers Workshop through encouraging strong writing and editing skills. Plus, receive the scoring guides that Sherri includes with every strategy she presents. D 8 Teaching Your Students to Infer, Understand & Connect to the ELA Standards Heidi Shaver Find just the right activities for helping students make meaningful inferences, draw conclusions, and really understand what they read. From graphic organizers to visual cues to assessment tools, youll tap into an assortment of great ideas including easy ways to make meaningful connections to the ELA standards.
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