Breakout Sessions
 

July 30, 2012
 
8:30-9:45 a.m.
 
Session Title​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​

 PBL Splash​

Learn a basic overview of Project Based Learning. Participants will learn why PBL is essential in the 21st Century, learn the difference between a true "inquiry-based project' and a "dessert project", and learn about the 8 Essential Elements of PBL.​

Sara Hallermann

Buck Institute for Education​

From "Old School" to "Bold School"; Making the Jump from Traditional to Modern Learning

The main premise upon which schools were founded, that content and knowledge and teachers are scarce, has literally been turned on its head by the Web. Today, we carry the sum of human knowledge and access to millions of potential teachers in the phones in our pockets. And in a host of other ways, the idea of a "traditional" school is fading in it's relevance to the new ways we and our students can learn. Given that reality, what changes? How do we rethink our roles as schools, classrooms and educators at a moment when our students have a growing number of options to cobble together an "education?" Learn the paths that a number of "bold schools" are taking to fundamentally redefine their value as places of learning, not of content and teachers. We'll discuss the challenges of remaining an "old" school, define the main characteristics of "bold" schools, look at schools that are already bridging the gap, and suggest ways to begin relevant, "bold" conversations around real change in our own schools and communities.​

 

Will Richardson​

No Parent Left Behind
No Parent Left Behind, originally intended to be a handbook for parents, has also gained popularity as a resource for teachers, as it discusses the reasons students struggle in school and offers practical suggestions teachers can use with their students and their families.  Riegel has also used No Parent Left Behind as a springboard for discussion with districts about revising their intervention policies and practices.
Lisa Riegel
 
Educational Partnership Institute​
 
8:30-11:15 a.m.
 
Session Title​
Session Overview​​​
Presenter​​

The Math and Science of Carpentry
In this age of high tech, our workshop is a high touch innovative way to engage young people. While building a personal project the participants will discover how to weave math and science into the craft of carpentry. In addition they will begin to overcome the fear of math and open their minds to the many career options available to them that compliments their inner gifts. (Session repeated at 12:15pm-3:00pm)
T. Wayne Gatewood
 
Veronica Dawson
 
Kathy Starks
 
10:00-11:15 a.m.
 
Session Title​​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​

Resources and Tools to Implement PBL​

This session is designed to provide instructional leaders with a toolkit of ideas and best practices that will enable them to create a teaching and learning environment that allows PBL to flourish in their school.​
Sara Hallermann
 
Buck Institute for Education​

Personal Learning Networks: The Future of Learning​

Learning is social, we’ve all known that. Now, with the Web, it’s globally social. To flourish as learners in a connected world, we need a network, one that we can trust, one that we can turn to when we need answers or inspiration or direction. While we’ve always crafted these “Personal Learning Networks” in our face to face spaces, the literacies of doing so online are a bit more nuanced and complex. This session looks at what PLNs are, how they can influence our learning lives and future success, how to begin to construct them using various Web tools, and what the implications are for our students, our schools and our professional practice. We’ll also look at how diversity, balance and safety enter into the learning equation online.​

 Will RIchardson​

Ohio's New Generation of Assessments​
 
Receive an update on Ohio’s new generation of online assessments which will include information on Ohio’s governing membership in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC), details on the timeline and development procedures, update on performance-based assessments, formative and summative components and development of technology-enhanced questions.  Time for questions will be provided.
Paula Mahaley

Ohio Department of Education

Connecting with Social Media​

It's time for schools to embrace social media as a way to connect with other educators, parents, students and the community. Learn from a high school why Twitter, blogs, and Facebook ought to be a part of your communication plan. I will share six key reasons why I use Twitter as well as share how my school has embraced social media as a way to engage our stakeholders.
Dwight Carter


Gahanna Lincoln Schools

world.hope.song:
International Videoconferencing
and Songwriting​
An interactive session detailing an international videoconferencing and songwriting project that took place at Montrose Elementary in Bexley City Schools with schools in Venezuela, Tanzania, Ecuador, and Singapore (world.hope.songs). Sample lesson plans integrating music and language arts, utilizing a variety of technology provided as well as professional recordings from the project. This project was recognized as a model project by the Columbus Council on World Affairs.
Bill Manchester
 
Nonon Mathews
 
Bexley City Schools​
 

Rigor, Relevance and Relationships through PIE (Partners in Education)
Welding internships, pilot license, first responder GIS maps, UN Advisory members are just a few of the many authentic educational experiences that students at Ridgemont High School have realized. The most amazing fact is that all these opportunities are student initiated, designed, monitored AND aligned to the Common Core and/or Revised Academic Standards. This session will share how students at a small rural school utilize community connections as Partners in Education to accomplish big things.
Apryl Ealy
 
Stephanie Joliff
 
Jessica Kroetz
 
Ridgemont Local Schools

Creating Deep Rigorous Learning with INFOhio Resources​

The INFOhio Learning Commons provides an array of resources to help educators understand how learning has changed, adapt teaching methods and discover new ways to create deep, rigorous learning with the INFOhio resources.  With the Learning Commons, INFOhio has taken a graphical approach to incorporating inquiry learning skills, national standards, research-based instructional strategies and a variety of electronic resources to create an inquiry road map.  Join this session to learn how INFOhio supports information literacy skills through quality 21st century resources and promotes success in school, college, and the workforce.​

Gayle Geitgey INFOhio

Betsy Apolito Montgomery County ESC

​

 
12:15-1:30 p.m.
 
Session Title​​​
Session Overview​
Presenter​​

Redefining College and Career Readiness​

College and career readiness for all students is an idea whose time has come.  Across the nation, increasing numbers of high schools  are working to prepare more students to pursue learning beyond high school – whether or not they go to college.  This marks a dramatic shift from the old view that college and vocational preparation were two separate tracks and that formal learning had an endpoint.  Now it’s clear that whether entering college or a vocational position, all students need to be prepared with new skills and knowledge that adequately prepare them for the challenges they will face in today’s complex and competitive academic and workplace environments.​

 David Conley​

 Leading/Coaching PBL in Your Schools​

This workshop is a continuation of the Resources and Tools to Implement PBL Workshop. In this session, instructional leaders will explore the use of key protocols that can be used to launch and sustain PBL in their school.​
Sara Hallermann
 
Buck Institute for Education​
​

From Information Literacy to Information Leadership​

Assessing the relevance and reliability of information is a crucial skill for all educators to master and model. But that type of information literacy is only the beginning. With the explosion of information coming online, each of us needs to use social Web technologies to employ successful strategies for finding, managing and communicating information relevant to our own practice and to our constituents. This workshop will cover the tools that information literate learners are using and the strategies to use them well.​

 Will Richardson​

20 Ways Technology can Add Value to Learning (Embedded in a PBL Approach)​
 
During this session, we will take a look at how technology can add value to learning. We have identified 20 specific ways that technology adds value to learning. Combining these 20 values to a PBL approach will allow educators the tools and knowledge to prepare meaningful and authentic experiences for learners.​
Andrew Moore
Cathryn Chellis
 
New Albany-Plain Local Schools
Inquiry Across the Content Areas
Come discover how a Professional Learning Community (PLC) inspired a group of intermediate teachers. Using student work and instructional ideas we will share our journey toward inquiry based instruction as we strive to empower our students to utilize 21st Century Skills across the content areas.
Claudette Mullins
Lisa Davis
Anita Dignan
Cheri Moore
Lisa Radcliff
Britanie Risner
Leslie Salamony
 
Hilliard City Schools

Implementing the New Standards for the 21st Century Leader​

This presentation will focus on how to implement new standards for the 21st Century Learner. We will present our work thus far implementing new standards and the groundwork necessary for teachers to be comfortable with transition and shifts necessary to continue learning in a community dedicated to student growth and achievement. ​

Neal Bluel

Upper Arlington City Schools​

LeaderSpark: Igniting the Power of Youth Leadership with 21st Century Skills​

Many school districts have "leadership development" as part of their mission statements; fewer districts have intentional programs or skill development curriculum to build these 21st Century skills.  LeaderSpark, a non-profit 501 (C)(3) organization in Columbus, has a 24 year track record working with schools and community-based organizations to offer an interactive facilitated training to develop group leadership skills in youth, 8th-12th grades.  We will discuss and demonstrate how LeaderSpark works with diverse populations of youth to build sustainable leadership skills, using a practical, engaging and group-oriented curriculum.  Groveport Madison School District is offering the LeaderSpark program this school year and will report on its experience and student outcomes.​

Karen Dawson

LeaderSpark​

Transform Your Blended Classes with Resources for the Common Core​

Discover INFOhio resources to help you add the rigor demanded by the Common Core to your blended classes. Discover tools you can use to easily differentiate assignments with relevant up-to-date content. Explore resources that will engage your students while adding the inquiry demanded by the Common Core. Learn how to enrich your online experience with INFOhio videos, posters, RSS feeds of current articles, widgets, and articles differentiated by reading levels. Discover GO! INFOhio: Ask, Act, Achieve, a new research tool for students and teachers, INFOhio’s one-stop site to help students and teachers manage the research process step-by-step.​

​Jennifer Schwelik

Melissa Higgs-Horwell

INFOhio

 
12:15-3:00 p.m.
 
Session Title​​​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​​
The Math and Science of Carpentry
In this age of high tech, our workshop is a high touch innovative way to engage young people. While building a personal project the participants will discover how to weave math and science into the craft of carpentry. In addition they will begin to overcome the fear of math and open their minds to the many career options available to them that compliments their inner gifts.
T. Wayne Gatewood
 
Veronica Dawson
 
Kathy Starks
​

 Intro to iPads​

This session is for those brand new to iPads and have very little familiarity with their operation. We will look at the ins and outs of the operation system (iOS 5) including settings, syncing and backing up; as well as included applications on the iPad. We will also look at the physical hardware features, capabilities and use of the iPad for educational and personal use. Each participant needs to bring an iPad that has already been activated. We will not have time to their iPads "out of the box."​

​David Banyots

Mark Pohlman

Hilliard City Schools

 
1:45-3:00 p.m.
 
Session Title​​​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​​

Steps on the Road to Readiness​

Learn a variety of practical methods by which high school faculty can adapt their programs of instruction in the direction of enhanced college/career readiness and thereby meet the needs of all their students.  This includes helping students develop the cognitive strategies and content knowledge they will need to succeed – and impact of key behaviors necessary for academic success – such as time management and study habits.​

David Conley​

Monitoring Implementation of PBL​

This workshop is linked to the Resources and Tools to Implement PBL and Leading/Coaching PBL in Your School Workshops. In this session, instructional leaders will explore strategies to monitor and measure the success of PBL implementation. Participants will explore a sample PBL School Success Rubric.​

Sara Hallermann

Buck Institute for Education​

Connective Writing​

The ability to easily publish to the Internet has opened up all sorts of new possibilities for teachers to help students enhance their writing skills and become more effective communicators. In the age of the Read/Write Web, every reader can truly be a writer as well. Weblogs and wikis provide wide and diverse audiences from around the world for feedback and response. But they also require a more “connective writing” approach, one that can synthesize many disparate ideas from different sources, all connected together through hypertext. This is a think out of the box workshop intended to help you start exploring new ways to make your own writing and your classroom writing more meaningful and more effective.​

Will Richardson​

Bringing Heroes to Life in Your Classroom
How can you make heroes come alive in your classroom? We'll show you how to combine the new reading/language arts and social studies standards with inquiry methods to do so. See interactive tools, such as new biographies, timelines, iPad apps, and more, put to use. Appropriate for all grade levels.
Liz Deskins
Christina Dorr
 
Hilliard City Schools
Thinking Like an Artist: Promoting Risk, Ambiguity, and Curiosity in Learning
"Thinking like an artist" is a framework that closely follows the studio practice of contemporary artists and focuses on the generation of ideas, trans-disciplinary research, and experimental execution. By allowing time for idea development and play, by framing open-ended outcomes, and by building assessment that explores risk, persistence, and even failure, this model promotes a new type of relevance for arts education, as well as a framework for promoting 21st century learning.​
Jessimi Jones
Rachel Trinkley
 
Columbus Museum of Art
Teaching for Global Competency
This session will be a video keynote address by Fernando Reimers, Ph.D., Director of Global Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at the Columbus Council on World Affairs. Dr. Reimers will discuss the three interdependent dimensions for global competency and the benefits for students in preparing for global economic competitiveness, active citizenship in becoming aware of global issues, and taking action to find solutions.
George Tombaugh
 
ESC of Central Ohio​
Encourage Blended Learning Practices by Providing Them to Teachers!
See how one district is addressing the issue, "When are we going to have time for THAT?" By creatively using online communities to support district goals, teachers expand their professional knowledge, earn CEUs, and learn about online possibilities for their own classes. What started as a teacher-centered project, has impacted blended-learning opportunities for Bellbrook-Sugarcreek students.
Betsy Chadd
Kenny Moore
 
Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Schools
Partnerships for
Powerful Learning -
a 'Bring Your Own
Laptop' Pilot
Bring Your Own Laptop programs are gaining popularity as districts are challenged to find ways to increase access to technology to support and enhance learning. Launched in January 2011, we have now expanded the program from seventh to eighth grade and will bring the program to our two high schools for the 2012-2013 school year. Join us as we share what we've learned along the way; everything from infrastructure needs to professional development to understanding what happens to the learning ecosystem when a variety of digital technologies are readily available to students and teachers.
Cary Harrod
 
Christine McCormick
 
Forest Hills Schools​
 
 
 
 

July 31, 2012

 

8:30-9:45 a.m.
 
Session Title​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​

Assessment Literacy: An Antidote to Professional Suicide?​

 American educators are being subjected to ever-increasing scrutiny these days, and these evaluations seem to center on students’ performances on achievement tests. Tests that, only a few years ago, were low-stakes tests or no-stakes tests have now become bona fide high-stakes tests. Because these significant assessments play a powerful role in determining what goes on inside our classrooms, can today’s educators really afford to remain only minimally knowledgeable about educational testing? ​

 James Popham​

Creating Learning Edges​

 Educating ALL children to high levels of learning ALL the time is a possibility that is well documented in the research literature. However, realizing this possibility has proven an elusive goal for most educators. This is the case in part because education fails to realize the genuine benefits of technology. Participants in this session will learn how dramatic improvements in teaching and learning are enabled when technology mediates a bottom up, commonsense approach for the field of education to improve itself at every level of the educational system.​

 Mark Weston​

ePortfolio with Google Sites
 
ePortfolios allow students to reflect on the process of learning, develop higher order thinking skills, and document their learning over time. Google apps are the perfect too for ePortfolios. We'll explore ePortfolios in Google Sites and the integration of other Google Applications. Come prepared with ideas on integrating ePortfolios into your curriculum and transform your assessment process!
​Jessica Burley
 
ITSCO
 
 
8:30-11:15 a.m.
 
Session Title​
Session Overview​​​
Presenter​​
Intro to eCampus
This course will introduce teachers to Hilliard's online content delivery system, Hilliard eCampus. This is a basic level course that will show teachers real examples of the activities available with eCampus. (Session repeated on 8/1/12)​
Steve Starner
Jay Smith
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
 
10:00-11:15 a.m.
 
Session Title​​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​

Supporting Struggling Students​

 When students reach failure, it is almost too late to provide support. Effective support is proactive — to work, supports must be in place BEFORE students begin to learn. If we want students to be successful, we cannot afford to leave to chance what happens to them when they struggle.  Teachers will learn:

  • How to set students up for success
  • How to provide effective interventions that help students work their way out of struggle before it becomes destructive.
  • How to set up a series of “red flags” that warn them students are headed for trouble
  • How to develop a proactive, progressive intervention plan they can use to support students before, during, and after the lesson.​

 Robyn Jackson​

Performance Testing: Too Tough for Teachers to Tackle?​

Typically, teachers employ performance testing only to measure students’ mastery of higher-level cognitive skills such as being able to write a persuasive essay or design a controlled-variation science experiment. But should performance tests also be employed to measure less lofty goals? In this session the nature of performance testing will be considered along with methods of making them manageable in a busy teacher’s classroom. The significance of teachers’ sanity will be stressed.

​

James Popham​

The Perils and Pitfalls of Teaching Without Technology: and What We Can Do About It​

Integrating technology into classroom is often more trouble than it is worth. Further, research-based practices almost always make more sense on paper than they do in student-filled classrooms. In this session we will learn why this is the case by delving into three common instructional strategies—direct-teaching, cooperative learning, and problem-based learning. We will then show how each strategy might produce more powerful learning for more students in a cognitive-load-lightening way by repositioning the role of technology in the teaching process. ​

 

 Mark Weston​

​Teaching Writing in the 21st Century
Learn how Lancaster High School English teachers are using class sets of iPads to teach writing content knowledge and increase collaboration and communication among high school students. We’ve had success using different tools and websites to motivate students, increase student engagement, and improve their writing abilities in the classroom. This presentation is relevant to teachers of any content area in which students are encouraged to write and will provide strategies from English teachers of all levels, from special education to AP.
Ashlin E. Henderson
 
Kelli Marvin
 
Mall Gillispie
 
Lancaster City Schools
 

​Transcultural Competence

Our graduates need to compete in world markets and manage cross-cultural teams.  Ideas will be presented regarding international knowledge and skills, including dimensions of transcultural competence and effective interaction.  A brainstorming discussion will follow on additional skills and how to integrate them into educational standards.  ​

 

Wendi Howell

OSU CETE

​INFOhio

INFOhio has incredible resources for the 21st Century classroom teacher! We'll work through the 4 Cs by exploring great research tools for your students, including INFOhio's core collection of videos, encyclopedias, and the Research Project Calculator, making it easy to plan strong project based learning. The 21st Century Learning Commons will allow you to gain a greater knowledge of 21st Century skills, collaborate with peers across the state and communicate a broader vision for you classroom.

 
​Jessica Burley
 
ITSCO
 
​Implementing Google Applications in the Collaborative Classroom
We teach in a collaborative setting at Clark Hall, the recently constructed addition to the Gahanna Lincoln High School Campus.  The focus at Clark Hall is developing the skills of the 21st century learner through the use of technology.  Our collaborative classroom relies heavily on the use of Google’s wide range of applications to support our English 11 curriculum.  We will demonstrate the many and varied uses of these applications that can benefit students of all levels and enhance their learning.
​Ryan Kitsmiller
 
Kristi Dorn-Wachtel
 
Gahanna Jefferson Schools
 

Spreadsheet Efficiency Tips and Tricks
Most of us have Microsoft Excel (or similar software) and while we may use it quite often, we could be making much better use of our time. Whether using spreadsheets for grades, testing data, classroom management, databases, mail merges or anything else, in this hands-on session we will look at a myriad of tips and tricks to save you time, increase efficiency, and get more out of these amazing programs. We will be in a PC lab running Windows 7 and Office 2007.
 
David Banyots
 
Hilliard City Schools

 The SMART Classroom!​​

 

This session will focus on successful classroom strategies for integrating the SMART Board into the classroom. Examples of activities using the SMART Board and SMART software will be shared to demonstrate the ways the SMART board can be integrated into your classroom.​
Lauren Davis
 
Hilliard City Schools
​
 
12:15-1:30 p.m.
 
Session Title​​​
Session Overview​
Presenter​​
The Common Core
for the Arts Educator--
This One Includes Us​
 
This is a presentation that has been given to college students at universities in Indiana and Ohio to show music teachers how to incorporate the writing requirements of the CSCC into a music class. It can be slightly modified to be an "arts" focus, instead of just music.​
Mark Scholl
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
Gahanna Lincoln High School's Clark Hall -
Year One
GLHS built a state-of-the-art learning environment to meet the needs of today's learner. Come learn about the successes, challenges, obstacles, questions and next steps we face one year later. Topics include adapting to a new environment, accessing the building, professional development, scheduling, maintaining a unified high school, and communicating with stakeholders.
 
Dwight Carter
 
Gahanna Lincoln Schools

Digital Writing: New Opportunities for Our Students​

With new tools of technology, our students have opportunities to communicate in new ways. This session will explore digital writing workshop in elementary classrooms, online tools for writing, and mentor texts that support digital writing.​
Franki Sibberson
 
Dublin City Schools
​
 
12:15-3:00 p.m.
 
Session Title​​​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​​
Going Paperless:
Using Google Docs
in the Classroom
This session will cover the basics of using Google Docs in the classroom for students to submit work. Participants will learn the basics such as how to share files, collaborate on documents, and add comments. Teachers will also be instructed on how to set up classes and grade assignments as well as other fun features that utilize the technology in meaningful ways.
 
David Rickert
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
​
iWant to Integrate
My iPad into My iClassroom​
This session will focus on successful classroom strategies for integrating the iPad into the classroom. WARNING: This is NOT for the novice iPad user! Those attending this session should be familiar with the basics of operating an iPad. Various apps will be shared that will demonstrate how your students can use the iPad to generate projects and quickly collaborate with other students, create digital media, take class notes, upload and share files via "the cloud" and help them to organize their thoughts, ideas and schedules. We only have a few iPads to share. Please, if you have an iPad of your own, bring it to our session!
Lauren Davis
Mark Pohlman
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
1:45-3:00 p.m.
 
Session Title​​​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​​

Motivating Reluctant Learners​

If you are having trouble helping students “buy-in” to school and be motivated to learn, then you need to learn how to help them invest in their learning by demonstrating the value of what you are teaching on their terms.  Teachers learn:

  • the reasons students resist investing in our classrooms?
  • specific strategies to help students see the value of learning in their own terms
  • specific strategies for helping students invest in their learning and in our classrooms.​

 

Robyn Jackson​

Assessing Students' Affect: More Significant than Measuring Students' Achievement?​

A case will be made for substantially increasing the measurement of students’ affect in our schools. Having argued that expanded assessment of students’ affect (attitudes, interests, and values) is imperative, the basics of measuring students’ affect will be described. Attendees will learn how to construct their own affective inventories.​

 

James Popham​

Who's the Boss? Reforming Education    from the Bottom-Up​

 Why doesn’t what happens in classrooms drive what happens at all other levels of educational system? What might happen if it did? How might technology enable this possibility? Attend this session to get answers to these and other related questions. And to learn why building meaningful connections across classrooms is the only way to for genuine educational reform to occur at widespread scale.​

 

Mark Weston​

Walt Whitman and
the Civil War: Creating Content Area Learning Opportunities with Poetry
This session will engage teachers with literacy connections to social studies, using Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry as the main component. Participants will gain background information on Walt Whitman during the Civil War and participant in an activity comparing Whitman's poems to other primary sources; such as photographs, broadsides, and letters. They will then analyze a primary source to construct "Found poetry" based on their analysis. The session will culminate with a whole group discussion on practical ways to translate the activity into the classroom.
 
Laura Baird
Tutti Jackson
 
Creative Learning Factory
 Elementary & Middle
Grades Preparation
for Common Core Math 
Representatives from Canal Winchester Local and Upper Arlington City Schools will share preparations for Common Core Math and the challenges already faced, particularly at the elementary and middle levels. Session participants will be urged to contribute their preparation experiences.   ​
Philip Binkley
Neal Bluel
 
ESC of Central Ohio
 
Living and Working in a
Multi-Generational World
Are you a Baby Boomer or a Gen Xer?  What makes each of us so different and how are we like?  And most importantly, how can we capitalize on those differences in our school or district rather than allowing them to disrupt our productivity?
  • Top demographic trends that may have a major impact on your workplace
  • How to communicate openly and honestly with each other to maximize the potential each generation brings
  • Steps you can take to overcome barriers to communication
Lorie Simpson
Mindy Fulks
 
​
Get Inspired!
Stories from the Field
This presentation will address sites that are doing great things with technology. Learn what they are doing, how and why they got started. What's stopping you from doing these things in your school? We'll address your perceived barriers and trouble shoot them with these experienced educators. Come learn about the best resources available and to plug into additional supports.
 
Sarah Luchs
 
Ohio Department of Education / Governor's Office
 
Google Docs
Building the collaboration classroom you have always dreamed of? This session will review the many ways teachers can create and manage collaboration among their students using Google Docs.
Jay Smith
 
Hilliard City Schools
​
 
 
 
 
 

 

August 1, 2012

 

8:30-9:45 a.m.
 
Session Title​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​

Mind, Brain and Virtual Reality

Arguably, the concept that is referred to today as “virtual reality” is as old as humanity itself.  Humans seem particularly predisposed to psychological travel between physical and virtual reality and have invented many ingenious ways and technologies to do so.  The latest advance is immersive VR technology, which allows face-to-face interaction in three dimensional settings via digital avatars.  Jim Blascovich will focus on social influence within virtual environments, describe illustrative experiments, and speak to educational issues and applications.​

 

 Jim Blascovich​

The Way Ahead in Grading (Part I)​

What are the "givens" and what are the "musts" to make grading effective in standards-based schools?  The "givens" are those things about which there should be no discussion; the "musts" are those things about which there should be no discussion on the principle but there may be discussion about its fidelity to implementation.​

 

 Ken O'Connor​

Chrome for the Classroom
​Google has solidified itself as an icon of the web. Chrome is one of Google's newest cloud tools that will enhance the way you and your class interact with the web. Come and learn how Chrome will revolutionize the way you browse the web.
 
​Shane Spicer
 
ITSCO
 
8:30-11:15 a.m.
 
Session Title​
Session Overview​​​
Presenter​​
Community Engagement + Parental Involvement = School Success
 
​Approximately half of student achievement can be attributed to home and community factors.  School and community/parent partnerships are essential to success, and these partnerships need to be meaningfully connected.  Learn more about why these relationships are key for school success, and how successful schools approach community engagement.  Topics include how to establish positive community relationships through communications, trust building, and asset building.  
 
Lisa Riegel
 
Educational Partnership Institute
 

ScreenCasting
ScreenCasting allows teachers and students to create tutorials that can teach others how to do something. This hands-on  session will focus on the basics of screencasting and the positive effects of adopting a collaborative "kids teaching kids" model via student-created screencasts. We will review how to create screencasts using Jing and Smart Recorder for Windows, QuickTime for MAC and apps for the iPad. How to distribute those tutorials will also be covered. Participants should have the Smart Notebook or Jing installed on their laptop.
Jay Smith
Karen Downard
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
10:00-11:15 a.m.
 
Session Title​​​
Session Overview​​
Presenter​

Q&A with Jim Blascovich​

Join Jim with your questions about immersive technology.​

Jim Blascovich​

The Way Ahead in Grading (Part II)​
​

What are the "givens" and what are the "musts" to make grading effective in standards-based schools?  The "givens" are those things about which there should be no discussion; the "musts" are those things about which there should be no discussion on the principle but there may be discussion about its fidelity to implementation.​

 Ken O'Connor​

​Ohio Performance Assessment Pilot Project
 
Join us to learn about the evolution of Ohio's nationally recognized science performance assessment pilots.  Attendees will receive an overview of the project and have the opportunity to talk with several teachers who participated in the assessments.  In addition to piloting the assessments, these teachers and their students have piloted an online assessment environment.
Tracy Cindric
Lauren Monowar-Jones
 
Ohio Department of Education
 

​Supports for Those who "Support" New Teachers (Resident Educators)

​The Resident Educator program is designed as a time for new teachers to practice, refine and gain a deeper understanding of the art and science of teaching under the guidance of a certified mentor and the support of a professional learning community.  As this program has evolved, the importance of quality “support” for these new teachers has drastically changed.

Learn about programming piloted in the past year to create quality support structures for mentor teachers, lead mentor teachers, curriculum directors, principals and HR Directors that include the following:  Mentor Teacher Network and a Mentor Teacher Pool.   Learn how these supports help answer “How can I be a better educator tomorrow, than I am today?”

 

Linda Williams

Georgine Collette

ESC of Central Ohio

Building a Personal Learning Network Using Pinterest

​Do you Pinterest? Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website that you can use for many purposes, even to build your own Personal Learning Network! Pinterest can help you to find ideas for classroom activities, connect with other educators, and find inspiration. Learn how to create your own pinboards to follow blogs, gather project ideas, and more.

 

​Kathy Parker-Jones

Hilliard City Schools

​Free Digital Resources to Support Struggling Readers

 Planning for access is an essential component for all teachers who are universally designing curriculum. This session will provide participants with free on-line resources and digital materials to assist struggling readers in accessing various curriculum content areas. When content is provided in a digital format it can be adapted to a wide range of student needs. This session will explain how these materials can be adapted and used with students. An extensive resource listing of free websites and tools will also be provided to participants.

 
Jan Rogers
Shawna Benson
 
OCALI
 
Google-ize the Common Core
The Common Core is officially here, but how does it impact your technology integration strategies? During this session we will examine some of the big picture ideas behind the Common Core Standards. Finally, we will look at a number of the Google apps and how they can assist in enhancing rigor and student engagement.
 
Shane Spicer
 
ITSCO
 

Students Teaching Students
See how third grade students have used technology such as laptops, video recorders, iPads, clickers and projectors to create lessons to help their peers with topics they are struggling with. The lessons include a pretest, information and quick assessment for classmates to sit through and review before the classroom assessment. All lessons are student created and directed, allowing students to use creativity, their strengths, and collaboration to teach others.  
Lauren Seitz
 
Gahnna-Jefferson Public Schools
 
12:15-1:30 p.m.
 
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Session Overview​
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USDOE Update on Digital Education​

 US Department of Education, Director of Technology, Karen Cator will share the landscape of national trends impacting change in digital education.​

 

 Karen Cator​

15 Fixes for Broken Grades​

Communicating about student achievement requires accurate, consistent and meaningful grades.
 Educators interested in examining and improving grading practices should ask the following questions:

  • Am I confident that students in my classroom receive consistent, accurate and meaningful grades that support learning? 
  • Am I confident that the grades I assign students accurately reflect my school or district’s published performance standards and desired learning outcomes?

In many schools, the answers to these questions often range from "not very" to "not at all." When that’s the case, grades are "broken" and teachers and schools need a "repair kit" to fix them. A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades, gives teachers and administrators 15 ways to make the necessary repairs.​

 

 Ken O'Connor​

​Building 21st Century Skills Through Online Global Primary Sources
 
​Participants will explore innovative ways to use primary sources in the K-12 classroom to promote information literacy, critical thinking, media literacy, and global understanding skills. Activities will model inquiry-based teaching strategies that draw upon a variety of traditional and non-traditional primary sources from countries such as China, Afghanistan, and Mali. Educators will consider multiple ways to incorporate the investigation of primary sources into their existing curriculum as a way to foster deeper understandings of our interconnected world. The session will also highlight online resources for locating global primary sources as well as existing online lesson activities from Primary Source World, an online learning initiative from Primary Source. Vendor presentation.
(Session repeated at 1:45pm)
 
Jennifer Hanson
 
Primary Source
 
Beginning Video Editing
Would you like to integrate student video projects into your course? This session will explore the following video editing software: Photostage, Photostory, and MovieMaker. You will learn how to import videos and photos, perform basic editing techniques including adding music and narration, as well as how to export video for use in your classroom.
 
Karen Downard
 
Hillard City Schools
 
12:15-3:00 p.m.
 
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History Day: Bringing Inquiry-Based Learning into the Social Studies Classroom
National History Day in Ohio (NHD-OH) is a research project-based program for grades 4-5 and 6-12.  Students conduct research based around an annual theme and then create historical papers, documentaries, exhibits, websites, or performances. NHD-OH encourages students to ask historical questions and teaches them how to research and analyze sources in order to find the answers. In this session, teachers will learn about the program and how it can work for students and teachers in the classroom. The session will include activities on using primary sources to answer questions and on assessing student work. Teachers who attend the session will receive free materials from NHD-OH. 
 
Mary Bezbatchenko
 
Ohio Historical Society

​Intro to eCampus

​This course will introduce teachers to Hilliard's online content delivery system, Hilliard eCampus. This is a basic level course that will show teachers real examples of the activities available with eCampus. (Session repeat from 7/31/12)

Jay Smith

Karen Downard 
 
Hilliard City Schools
​It's Easy Being Green! Using Green Screen Technology to Enhance iMovie Productions
 
Participants will learn how to use iMovie on Macintosh computers to create movies using green screen technology. Integration ideas will be shared.
Bill Wheeler
 
Hilliard City Schools

SMARTen Up Your Classroom!

​This session will focus on successful classroom strategies for integrating the SMART Board in your classroom. You become more familiar with the SMART software and how to use it in lesson design and instruction. The session will help you become more familiar with the software, what it will and can do, and how it can best be used with students across the curriculum. During this time you will have the opportunity to begin to develop a content area lesson/unit using the SMART Board and SMART software.
​Lauren Davis
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
1:45-3:00 p.m.
 
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Linking Levels of Policy - Federal, State and District​

 This presentation will address policies at the federal, state and district levels that impact access and equality to digital and blended learning. You will learn how Ohio's Digital Learning Task Force report relates to the National Education Technology Plan. You will also learn what's not in the report that you can and should be doing to personalize education and produce cost savings. Your leadership is important and you have more control than you think!

​

Karen Cator​

Building Contextual Playgrounds: Designing Immersive Learning Experiences for Twenty-First Century Learners
 
 
Twenty-First Century learning must be wrapped in the context of real-world problem solving and real world applications. In this session learn a process that we designed to create immersive and engaging scenarios for problem-based research and problem-based learning.
 
Marc Alter
Vince DeTillio
 
Grandview Heights Schools
​
​The Orchestra: A Model for Inquiry-Based Learning in Schools
Each day, student-musicians in schools across the country experience and model successful IBL. It is through this continually interactive and engaging learning environment that we work through the '11 Criteria for Successful Inquiry' (borrowed from Jeffrey Willhelm, author of "You Gotta Be the Book" and "Hyperlearning").
 
 
Kevin Dengel
 
Gahanna Lincoln Public Schools

​Principals Matter – Effective Engagement in the Ohio Resident Educator (RE) Program

​Learn how the principal’s role in the  Ohio RE (new teacher) program is critical for the growth and retention of our beginning teachers. Grounded in current research of transformative leadership practice, ponder and reflect with fellow leaders how the climate/culture of your building fosters conditions that support and maximize growth of new teachers and their mentors. Learn strategies principals can utilize for creating a culture of conditions that help REs and mentors thrive. 

 

​Georgine Collette

Linda Williams

ESC of Central Ohio

​Reaching the Unreachable Student

This will be an informational session for educators, mentors, coaches. We will be discussing a series of innovative strategies and techniques to motivate and encourage success in at-risk students who have been a challenge to educate because of their behavior or lack of drive.

 

​Effie James, Jr.

Mansfield City Schools

Building 21st Century Skills Through Online Global Primary Sources

 

​Participants will explore innovative ways to use primary sources in the K-12 classroom to promote information literacy, critical thinking, media literacy, and global understanding skills. Activities will model inquiry-based teaching strategies that draw upon a variety of traditional and non-traditional primary sources from countries such as China, Afghanistan, and Mali. Educators will consider multiple ways to incorporate the investigation of primary sources into their existing curriculum as a way to foster deeper understandings of our interconnected world. The session will also highlight online resources for locating global primary sources as well as existing online lesson activities from Primary Source World, an online learning initiative from Primary Source. Vendor presentation.

 
​Jennifer Hanson
 
Primary Source
 

 

August 2, 2012

 

8:30-9:45 a.m.
 
Session Title​​
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Transforming Low-Performing Programs​

The key research-based strategies that used to transform a high poverty school with a below 50% graduation rate that posted reading and writing scores at 20% and 8% of students meeting state standards is the focus of this session.  The school used research-based strategies to help move the school to a 90% graduation rate and the students improved to 77% in reading and 82% in writing. Granger High School has been nationally recognized four times and is featured in the book recently released by Solution-Tree, Breaking the Poverty Barrier: Changing Student Lives. Come learn strategies that will help transform your school.​

 

Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza​

Literacy Across the Hall: An Understanding of the Common Core's Literacy Standards
​ODE's Professional Development and Stakeholder Outreach team will offer a two-part presentation focusing on the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12. The first session will explore the basic components of literacy and begin to help participants develop a fundamental understanding of the literacy standards as they are presented in the document. Please bring an electronic device to access the Web. Content specific breakout sessions will follow throughout the day. (Session repeated on August 3)
​Ann Carlson (Mathematics)
 
Dwight Groce (Social Studies)
 
Shantelle Hill (ELA)
 
Cathy Holmes (Science)
 
Ohio Department of Education

​Making Inclusion Work

​Veteran Special Education teacher will review the successes and failures experienced while working in the secondary inclusion setting over the past 30 years. Emphasis will be on the keys to success and working within the confines of a busy teaching schedule. Teachers who are not in a "team teaching" model will find the information most valuable. Questions or situations encountered while teaching in the inclusion setting for discussion are welcomed!

 

​Jeff "Hutch" Hubschman

Hilliard City Schools

​Quick and Easy Podcasts with Pixie and Keynote

​Participants will use Pixie and Keynote software on Macintosh computers. They will learn to create slide shows and videos that can be easily exported as podcasts. Integration ideas will be shared.

 

​Bill Wheeler

Hilliard City Schools

What is 21st Century Education?

​Are we teaching our students to be successful learners in the 21st century? Todays' students have not only grown up with technology but were born with it. It is intertwined throughout their lives. They believe in projects which have a purpose, multitasking, collaboration and communicating through various devices and formats. In this session, participants will be introduced to what 21st Century education looks like, how technology supports active, engaging learning and share activities which support 21st Center Learning skills.

 

​David Hayward

ITSCO

 
8:30-11:15 a.m.
 
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​Creating and Collaborating with  Google Docs
​Google has all these cool capabilities, but how can I use them with my students? Come learn how to work with Google Apps for Education and how you can use them to help build a more collaborative classroom. Spend some time learning, exploring and creating various types of Google Docs that you will have at your fingertips to use as soon as you leave this session. Participants must have either an active Google or Gmail account prior to coming to this session. Hilliard teachers will be utilizing their HCSD Google Apps for Education account.
 
 
​Mark Pohlman
Karen Downard
 
Hillard City Schools

 No Teacher Left Behind - 21st Century PowerPoint
Are your PowerPoints not so "powerful"? This class is designed to help teachers enhance their presentations with media (i.e., integrating video, sound, music, etc.) to ensure "no teacher is left behind" in the 21st century! Both Mac and PC formats will be demonstrated and teachers will have time to work on their own project.
 
 
Eric Gingerich
Jennifer Feeney
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
10:00-11:15 a.m.
 
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Innovations in Parent Engagement​
Research has shown that 75% of a student’s life is spent away from school. This session will focus on the latest research-based strategies that produce the best return on your time to engage parents in the education of their children. The session will be facilitated by the co-author of the book Strengthening the Connection between School and Home which will be released by Solution-Tree this October. The facilitator has also accomplished 100% attendance at student-led conferences over five consecutive years. Come learn how to get your parents to be partners in the education of their children.​
 
​

Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza​

District Strategies to Prepare Globally Competent Graduates​

 Building global competence into all pK–12 schools throughout a district is a complex process that requires the engagement of the education, government, and business sectors, in addition to nonprofit, community, and parent organizations. The Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning’s District Planning Rubric, can assist in the planning and assessment of district-level strategies. This session will look at the planning rubric and give examples of how districts around the country are weaving global competence into their programs and curriculum.​

 

Heather Singmaster

Asia Society​

​Intervention Strategies for Students with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorders
 This presentation will provide an overview of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorders through simulation and lecture, and provide participants with lists of intervention strategies organized according to the symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity, disorganization, and memory deficits. Topics will include the bio-chemical nature of ADHD, diagnosis and treatment procedures, and a brief review of Russell Barkley's theoretical model describing the role and function of behavior inhibition relative to the development of executive functions.
 
 
Tom Diebold

ESC of Central Ohio
​Literacy Across the Hall: Implementing the Common Core's Literacy Standards within the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
 
 

ODE's content specialist for mathematics will highlight the integration of the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12 into the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Examples will be provided to illustrate how the Common Core Literacy Standards can be implemented into the curriculum in appropriate, real world applications. (Session repeated on August 3)
​Ann Carlson

Ohio Department of Education
 
Reynoldsburg STEMLab - Our K-12 STEM Pipeline
Reynoldsburg City Schools, in partnership with EDWorks, has created a K-12 STEM program which offers all students and families the opportunity for STEM education at all levels.  Join Reynoldsburg leaders and our EDWorks partners as they share best practice strategies, achievement results and lessons learned.
 
 
 
Marcy Raymond
Robin Kanaan
 
Reynoldsburg City Schools
 

Creating Digital Readers and Writers: How to harness the power of technology to empower today's students
Technology is a powerful tool that can drive student's learning and build connections outside the classroom walls. This session will share how to strengthen learning through the use of select Web 2.0 and traditional tools. We will illustrate how technology empowers students to make decisions that best facilitate and convey their learning (use of features, type of technology, design, thinking like an author). This session will highlight some of the technology that students used over the past year, such as VoiceThread, Animoto, Zimmer Twins, Pixie, videoconferencing.
 
 
Kathy Parker-Jones
 
Julie Johnson
 
Hilliard City Schools 

​Moving Up the Social Ladder

​Social Media is more than updating your status. Using a variety of sites and tools, social media provides educators an assortment of resources to build and support a vast professional network. Sites like Google+, Diigo, Blogger, and Twitter allow educators to grow learning networks, engage community members and support students. Participants will gather tools for getting started, as well as explore the current role social media plays in schools and its impact on the future of education.

 

David Hayward

ITSCO

​Socrative: An Immediate Feedback Tool for Today's Learners

​Socrates loved to question his students and you will too when you learn about Socrative.com!  This technology tool will engage your students and provide immediate feedback through technology they probably already have in their pockets.  This session will allow you to try the tool for yourself and we will share ideas on how to use the tool.  Socrative.com is FREE. Access to your own mobile technology is encouraged for this session, but not mandatory.

 

​Thea Patrick

Groveport-Madison Schools

​Technology and Today's Learner

​Characteristics of success for online learners and the integration of online learning into the high school curriculum.

Ryan McClure

Hilliard City Schools

 
12:15-1:30 p.m.
 
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Teaching in the Education Frontier: Exploring Online Teaching & Learning​

Join iNACOL and SREB 2011 National Online Teacher of the Year Kristin Kipp as she explores the possibilities of teaching and learning using digital tools.  Kipp will share a vision for how to reach digital natives using technology in online and blended learning classrooms.

​

Kristin Kipp​

 How to Help Teen Moms Graduate & Succeed​

This session will address the challenges teen moms face when trying to graduate while being pregnant or parenting. The main focus will be on the solutions and strategies that are used to help teen moms graduate with the necessary skill sets to access the power of education. The current principal of Florence Crittenton High School, a Denver Public School, will facilitate the session.  Florence Crittenton is designed to meet the needs of teen moms and their children within the same school site, and will be featured this fall on the Discovery Health channel with six episodes profiling teen moms and the school.​

 

Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza​

​Helping with Computation: An Introduction to TouchMath
 
​TouchMath is a systematic approach for helping students who struggle with fact retrieval and basic computation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division algorithms. The techniques and materials can be easily incorporated into general education settings as a Tier 1 and 2 intervention. Materials and techniques are also available which address money and time.
 
 
Tom Diebold
 
ESC of Central Ohio
Literacy Across the Hall: Implementing the Common Core's Literacy Standards within the Revised Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Social Studies
 
ODE's content specialist for social studies will highlight the integration of the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12 into the Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Social Studies. Examples will be provided to illustrate how the Common Core Literacy Standards can be implemented into the curriculum in appropriate, real world applications. (Session repeated on August 3)
Dwight Groce
 
Ohio Department of Education

​Leadership in Increasing and Supporting AP Participation and Success for Underserved Populations

​This session will provide school counselors, curriculum coordinators and other interested attendees with the skills and knowledge necessary for promoting equitable participation and performance of underrepresented student groups in the Advanced Placement (AP) Program.  Through easy to use tools, school counselors will learn to examine participants’ capacity to examine AP data, and apply problem-solving strategies to generate best practice interventions.

​Linda Knicely

Joel Gulko

Jill Oakley-Jeppe
 

Ohio College Access Network

​GAFE  4 FACS - Google Apps for Education

​Are you looking for no cost ways that allows students, teachers and staff to share ideas more quickly and get things done more effectively when they have access to the same powerful communication and sharing tools? Google Apps for Education is the solution for you! Join these educators and learn how their district is using docs, presentations, forms, surveys, and spreadsheets.

​Beth Glenn

Mark Pohlman

Hilliard City Schools

​iPods in the Elementary Classroom

​This session will discuss how to integrate iPods into everyday learning in the elementary classroom.

​Julie Caserta

Hilliard City Schools

 
12:15-3:00 p.m.
 
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Session Overview​​
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​Are you as SMART as the Board?
Do you have a SMART Board, but you're not quite sure how to use it in the classroom? This is the class for you! You will learn how to use the tools and use them to create lessons that will help you use your SMART Board to integrate your curriculum into your classroom. You will also learn how to explore the SMART exchange to find lessons that have already been created so that you don't have to recreate the wheel!
 
 
Karen Downard
 
Hilliard City Schools

Using eCampus 2.0: The Next Generation of eCampus

Come and learn about the newest updates to eCampus! We will spend the first half of this class looking at and learning about the improvements to eCampus 2.0 and the second half integrating those improvements into your classes so that you are ready to go when your students arrive in the Fall.

Meribeth Gillies
Jennifer Feeney
 
Hilliard City Schools

 

1:45-3:00 p.m.
 
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Using Digital Tools Effectively in Online, Blended and Face-to-Face Classrooms​

 

 Join iNACOL Online Teacher of the Year to explore free online tools that can be used to enrich online, blended, and face to face classrooms.  Emphasis will be on practical strategies and real-world examples.​

Kristin Kipp​

Open Discussion with Principals​

This session will be devoted to an informal, open-ended discussion with Ricardo Leblanc-Esparza, author, and current principal of a school for teen mothers.  He has had extensive experience, grades 3-12,  in schools of poverty and led a highly successful transformation of a previously low-performing high school.  Participants may engage Ricardo in dialogue about his varied experiences and/or pick each other’s brains on challenges they are currently facing.     ​

 

Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza​

 How Nations Teach Global Skills​

Just as businesses are now collaborating and competing around the world, so too are education systems. The nations who prepare their youth for the global knowledge economy will fare the best in the 21st century. This session will examine what high-performing countries in Asia define as 21st century skills and will look at how they are changing teacher preparation programs, standards, and curriculum to ensure their students graduate with those skills. We will also look at lessons for the United States which can be applied to the state and local level.​

 

Heather Singmaster

Asia Society​

Literacy Across the Hall: Implementing the Common Core's Literacy Standards within the Revised Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Science
 
 
ODE's content specialist for science will highlight the integration of the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12 into the Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Science. Examples will be provided to illustrate how the Common Core Literacy Standards can be implemented into the curriculum in appropriate, real world applications. (Session repeated on August 3)
Cathy Holmes
 
Ohio Department of Education
Solving Word Problems: An Introduction to Singapore Math
​Singapore Math is a systematic approach for helping students solve "word problems", using a "model building" approach that requires students to draw rectangular boxes to represent part-whole relationships and math values (both "known" or "unknown" values) in the math problems. This technique of model building is a visual way of picturing a situation. By drawing such boxes/blocks, student can visualize the math problems more clearly and are able to make tacit knowledge explicit.
 
 
Tom Diebold
 
ESC of Central Ohio
The Central Ohio College and Career Success Network -- Access Collaborative Initiative
Many districts are doing everything they can to ensure their students complete high school. The College and Career Success Network supports districts in their work of promoting successful post-secondary transition and completion by deepening their understanding of data, curriculum alignment, and access programming.
 
Learn about a pilot program of six Ohio districts with high populations of underserved and first generation students. In this work we have developed a series of our Lunch and Learn sessions designed to engage the districts in collaborative learning opportunities with higher education partners, leaders of successful Ohio access programs, and each other. The goal of the pilot is to develop a network of partnering districts with a single goal of increasing the number of students who attend and successfully complete college in Central Ohio.
 
 
​Tracy Harrison
Rich Seils
 
ESC of Central Ohio
Blogging in the Classroom
Student writing and thinking are no longer confined to a piece of paper. Come discover the reasons to consider blogging in your classroom. Examples of student blogs and possible mentor blogs will be shared. Next steps in getting started will be presented.
Cathy Mere
 
Hilliard City Schools
 
 
Videoconferencing: Extending Beyond Four Walls
What is a videoconference? Did you know you and your students can visit the National WWII Museum in New Orleans or learn about the Salmon Life Cycle from the California State Parks Program...right from your classroom? Come and learn all about the benefits of using videoconferencing in your classroom. We'll talk about how to reserve one of our district-owned videoconferencing units, resources for locating videoconference providers and integration ideas you can take and put to immediate use in your own classroom.
 
 
​Mark Pohlman
Lauren Davis
 
Hilliard City Schools

 

 
 

 

August 3, 2012

 

8:30-9:45 a.m.
 
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Session Overview​​
Presenter​

Connecting with Your Kids: Living It, Loving It, Laughing About It​

 Looking to put a spark back into your teaching?  Are you curious about what really makes your students tick?  Learn innovative ideas and strategies in the areas of connecting with your students, being an adult advocate for kids, and managing your classroom environment.​

 Jack Berckemeyer​

Required Learning: The Practice of Teaching with New Literacies​

 As teachers, we ignite our classrooms with our questions and our model as "lead learner" in the classroom. This becomes even more amplified when we bring together the literacies of our print past and the digital skills and practices made possible given the ever-expanding tool-set of digital media. Explores what it means to teach, to learn, and to unlearn in a new literacies classroom, exploring the realities (and sometimes messiness) of learning alongside our students while staying anchored in the "core" of our disciplines.​

 Sara Kajder​

Injecting Some Caffeine into Your PBL Projects​

 Review essential design elements of PBL Projects and reflect on your current Projects’ effectiveness. Amp up your projects for better student engagement and learning through authentic audience and products, driving questions that rock, and project calendars that foster inquiry.​

Andrew Miller

Buck Institute for Education​

Literacy Across the Hall: An Understanding of the Common Core's Literacy Standards
​ODE's Professional Development and Stakeholder Outreach team will offer a two-part presentation focusing on the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12. The first session will explore the basic components of literacy and begin to help participants develop a fundamental understanding of the literacy standards as they are presented in the document. Please bring an electronic device to access the Web. Content specific breakout sessions will follow throughout the day. (Session repeat from August 2)
​Cathy Holmes
 
Ohio Department of Education
 
8:30-11:15 a.m.
 
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Presenter​​
​Science Inquiry in the Classroom
​How can one effectively structure inquiry learning in a science classroom? How could this better prepare students to be life-long learners? Participants will be provided a framework and engage in science inquiry activities modeled on Ohio State University’s School-Year-Based Inquiry Learning (SYBIL) program. Developed with a focus on the Ohio CORE and 21st century skills, this approach has proven successful at fostering both student and teacher growth in content and reasoning skills. Practically presented, participants will come away with new ways to think about teaching science content.
​Alan Hans
 
Hilliard City Schools

​Google Apps for Education in the Elementary Classroom: Creating a Connected Learning Environment

​Google Apps for Education offers a web-based suite of tools that allow teachers, administrators, and students to collaborate in real time, build shared knowledge, communicate ideas and organize information. Join me in this hands-on, minds-on session that focuses on how to utilize Google Apps for Education to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Leave with ideas on how you can use Google Apps to build a connected learning environment both within your classroom and beyond.

​Cathy Parker-Jones

Hilliard City Schools

​iPods, iTunes, Elmos Oh My: Integrate Technology into a Primary Classroom

This presentation will provide an overview of how iPods, Elmo, and iTunes can be utilized to enhance and differentiate instruction in the classroom. Presenter will demonstrate and share how she used technology to enhance curriculum and allow students to demonstrate their understanding through meaningful inquiry based activities.

​Tabatha Stover

Hilliard City Schools

 
10:00-11:15 a.m.
 
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Session Overview​​
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 Innovations in Classroom Management​

 Are you looking for ideas to help deal with classroom disruptions?  Are you tired of constant interruptions?  This session will provide some practical ideas that you can use to help with classroom behavioral issues. Find out how your room structure can make a difference, discover ways to deal with power play issues and explore strategies that relate to attention and humor.  ​

Jack Berckemeyer​​

Putting Reading to Work: Stories from a "Plugged In" Reading Workshop​

 Authentic and meaningful workshop practices are rooted in the literacy lives of our students.   We will use this session to explore what it means to open our workshop structures to include new ways of thinking about connecting readers, cultivating libraries, annotating and sharing texts, etc.  The emphasis here is on modeling a process of learning that we undergo as teachers and readers who recognize a range of readers, reading practices, texts, and possibilities.​

Sara Kajder​

Designing and Using Rubrics in the PBL Classroom​

Improve the rubrics in your PBL classroom through instruction in design and analysis of examples. More importantly, learn best practices for practical classroom application for student learning in both content areas and 21st Century Skills. ​

Andrew Miller

Buck Institute for Education​

​Literacy Across the Hall: Implementing the Common Core's Literacy Standards within the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
 ​​ODE's content specialist for mathematics will highlight the integration of the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12 into the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Examples will be provided to illustrate how the Common Core Literacy Standards can be implemented into the curriculum in appropriate, real world applications. (Session repeat from August 2)
Ann Carlson
 
Ohio Department of Education

​Resident Educator Mentor Learning Modules

​The Ohio Resident Educator program provides Resident Educators and their mentors opportunities to engage in ongoing high-quality professional development. This session introduces and provides an overview of three new learning modules that will be offered for additional mentor training. Learn how mentors can extend and deepen their own knowledge so that they may continue to provide support for new teachers on their journey to excellence.

​Brinda Price

Judith Monseur

Ohio Department of Education

​BYOD: Tools You Can Use With Your Student's Devices

​Do many of your students have their own mobile devices already in their pocket? There are a variety of different tools that you can use in the classroom that can take advantage of the iPod and phones that students already have in their possession. Join us for a discussion on how to put those tools into practice and discuss techniques for managing those devices in the classroom.

​Rich Boettner

Hilliard City Schools

​Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching Literacy

​This session will provide attendees with a quick look at many free web tools and applications for literacy learning. Examples of classroom utilization will be provided. The tools/applications will be for teacher and student learning, sharing, and creating.

​Scott Sibberson

Dublin City Schools

 
12:15-1:30 p.m.
 
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Session Overview​
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 Understanding Adolescents​

Being able to figure out the inner workings of adolescents is key to being a great middle school teacher.  Come discover helpful teacher tips on how to relate to young adolescents.  Share and apply teaching ideas that meet the needs of middle school students.  This session will also provide practical ideas to help with classroom management and behavioral issues from structuring your room to methods for getting the class to simmer down.  Connect with your students and discover new ways to relate to them that will surely improve learning. ​

Jack Berckemeyer​

 Using Remix to Engage Student Readers and Writers​

 Teaching with new literacies invites and perhaps even requires us to bring together the “known” (i.e., content in our curriculum that eagerly teach each year) and “new” modes and media through which students can communicate what they know.  In this session, we’ll look at remixing as a new literacy practice that challenges us to bring together multiple source texts to create and communicate in compelling and important new ways.  We’ll explore classroom strategies and lessons for scaffolding the composing, copyright practices which keep us mindful of what we use (and how), web-based tools that help us bring together visual, audio and moving texts, examples of published student work, and methods for evaluating and assessing multimodal texts.​

Sara Kajder​

​Literacy Across the Hall: Implementing the Common Core's Literacy Standards within the Revised Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Social Studies
​ODE's content specialist for social studies will highlight the integration of the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12 into the Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Social Studies. Examples will be provided to illustrate how the Common Core Literacy Standards can be implemented into the curriculum in appropriate, real world applications. (Session repeat from August 2)
Dwight Groce
 
Ohio Department of Education

​Use Your iPad as a Whiteboard

​Interested in using your iPad as a whiteboard during classroom instruction?

Come and explore the latest iPad Apps that allow you to do that.

​Drew Barton

Hilliard City Shools

 
12:15-3:00 p.m.
 
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Technology Isn't Enough​

Project Based Learning can be used to effectively create engagement in the technology rich classroom, but only through careful planning, not relying on technology as the engagement tool. Learn the potentials and the pitfalls for effective fusion of educational technology and Project Based Learning.​
Andrew Miller
 
Buck Institute for Education

​Mastery Learning

Mastery learning allows educators the opportunity to provide students with unique learning experiences in a self-paced and learner-focused environment. By emphasizing learning rather than passing, students are held accountable for their educational growth and work to demonstrate deep conceptual understandings while simultaneously building 21st century skills which transcend the classroom.

Jake Grantier

Hilliard City Schools

​Using the Model Method to Instruct Science Classes

In this session, teachers will be exposed to the Modeling Method of teaching in an introductory unit that could be used in a Physics, Chemistry or Physical Science classroom. There sill be a brief introduction to the method, which includes inquiry investigation, concept construction, Socratic questioning and student constructed definitions. A true "modeler" will tell you that they can't explain it to you until after you experience the method as a student. After a brief introduction to the characteristics  and techniques used in modeling the participants will be asked to enter "student mode". They are asked to perform the lab experiment and report their results as they envision a student would in their classes. The teachers will then participate in Socratic questioning about their results as a student in a modeling classroom would participate.

​Patricia Reuther

Hilliard City Schools

​Accessing Resources to Help Planning Using Common Core and Ohio Content Standards

​Learn how to access a variety of free technological resources available to Ohio educators. Explore websites that provide peer-reviewed, best practice lessons for teaching the Common Core and Ohio Academic Content Standards for Mathematics, Science, English Language Arts and Social Studies. Develop your own virtual filing cabinet full of lesson plans, units and assessment tools. Come ready to learn, collaborate and plan for your grade level, and bring your team too!

​Michelle Swartzbaugh

Hilliard City Schools

 
1:45-3:00 p.m.
 
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Innovations in Effective Teaming​

Being on a team can be filled with great joys, struggles, and frustrations. It can also be a trying time for those involved in the meeting. This practical session focuses on the real life issues surrounding teaming. Learn informative examples to help with effective use of team time and how teams can work together to deal with kids, curriculum, and professional development. You might even laugh at Jack’s descriptions of the characteristics of a team member.​

Jack Berckemeyer​​

A Few New Things: Noticing, Unpacking and Sharing "New" Tools and Practices​

The landscape of web 2.0 tools is constantly growing, presenting us with great opportunities – if we know where to look, when, and who to rely on as we learn how to teach (and to learn) in new and creative ways. This hands-on workshop is meant to provide us with a space to examine new tools, but to also think about how best to navigate all of the continual “newness.” We’ll work together across content areas and grade levels to explore a set of newly emerging tools (and sources), continually asking the hard questions that emerge whenever we re-think and open our pedagogy.​

Sara Kajder​

​Literacy Across the Hall: Implementing the Common Core's Literacy Standards within the Revised Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Science

ODE's content specialist for science will highlight the integration of the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects in grades 6-12 into the Academic Content Standards and Model Curriculum for Science. Examples will be provided to illustrate how the Common Core Literacy Standards can be implemented into the curriculum in appropriate, real world applications. (Session repeat from August 2)

​Cathy Holmes

Shantelle Hill

Ann Carlson

Dwight Groce

Ohio Department of Education

​Ohio as America: Tools for Inquiry-Based Learning

​Introducing Ohio as America, an exciting new online resource with teaching tools that brings Ohio and American history to life like never before! Created for 4th and 8th grade history teachers by the Ohio Historical Society, Ohio as America  is an online portal to teaching resources and reference materials that provide a greatly enhanced, multi-dimensional look at pivotal events in American history and Ohio's role and impact to the development of the United States. OHIO AS AMERICA is aligned with the Revised Ohio Academic Content Standards and is designed to richly enhance existing social studies programs and the ELA Common Core.

​Mark Butler

Ohio Historical Society

​Looking Ahead: Year 2 of the Ohio Resident Educator Program

Year 2 of the Ohio Resident Educator program continues and strengthens the professional collaborative culture of new and veteran teachers. This session describes the expectations for Year 2 of the Ohio Resident Educator program, including strategies for professional development planning and using differentiated mentoring models to support that instructional needs of new teachers.

​Judith Monseur

Brinda Price

Ohio Department of Education

​System Alignment: Results through Strategic Performance Plans and Transformative Leadership

Successful organizations, both private and public sector, are those which demonstrate clear alignment from the governing board to all sectors of the system. Strategic Performance Planning is a focused process which enables a school system to increase the level of awareness and trust of its stakeholders. This is accomplished by using both state mandated and optional evaluation models, along with data dashboards and achievement reports, to monitor progress on the work plan through key performance indicators.

Increasing accountability standards and a new report card demand improved communication with stakeholders regarding student progress, finances and efficient use of all resources. A Leadership Team can transform the culture of the entire system by effectively implementing the tools which will be described in this session.

​Ted Knapke

ESC of Central Ohio

​Engaging Parents with Google+

Google Plus is the social networking platform from Google like Facebook. In this session we will explore fun ways to get your parents community up and running with this robust social networking tool. Learn ways to promote the community from the start and keep it going with the powerful add-ons from Google Plus like video chat and document sharing.

​Bill Mooney

ITSCO

Flipping The Classroom With Google

​Many educators are experimenting with "flipping" their classroom. Learn how educators are inverting the traditional teaching methods by delivering instruction online, outside of class, and moving "homework" into class using the many apps Google offers. You don't need fancy equipment to flip your class just some Google know how. In this session we will look at tools that you can use to generate great learning outcomes and positive experiences for you students and strategies to go Gaga for Google with the flipped classroom concept.

​Rachel Lacy

ITSCO