teachers' conference 2012

KAREN CARMEN
Target Audience: Grades 5-12
Title: How To Stage a Successful Poetry Slam
For anyone who’s ever “worried about the future of literature in a media-mad, electronic rock ‘n’ roll era!” Come explore how to captivate audiences of all ages and cultures with the competitive art of performance poetry and become equipped with tips and tools to make your own slam happen!

TOM COLE
Target Audience: ES/MS teachers and counselors
Title: Understanding Learning Differences in International Schools
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing and this is particularly true with learning disabilities. We will cover some of the most common language related learning disabilities, describe how they are diagnosed and discuss strategies that may be used in the classroom. A major component of this workshop will help the attendees to experience the challenges the students with these disorders face on a daily basis.

CATH CORBO / LORETO KEARY
Target Audience: ES, homeroom and language teachers
Title: Oral Language Strategies to Support English Language Development.
It is essential in an international classroom that teachers support English language development by planning for the use of oral language strategies that are inclusive of second language learners. This workshop will provide practical examples of oral language activities for elementary homeroom and language teachers to integrate across the curriculum through a fun and active approach.
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SHAUNA COVELL
Target Audience: Elementary classroom teachers and literacy specialists
Title: The Daily 5: For Teachers by Teachers
Ever wonder how to “fit it all in?” The Daily 5 might be the answer for you. In this presentation, you will learn about an organizational method for the reading/language arts block called the Daily 5. You will see firsthand what it is and the benefits of using it in your classroom. You will also watch video clips that demonstrate how to launch the Daily 5 and kids in action! There will be large and small group components, and an independent block for you to brainstorm how it might work in your classroom and time to ask specific questions. I look forward to sharing my passion for the Daily 5 with interested and curious elementary school educators.
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ELAINE EASTWOOD / AMINA LACOUR
Target Audience: PreK – K – 1st grade
Title: Making the Most of Data with Young Learners
Does the thought of data make you cringe? Find out how to integrate the collection and use of data with young learners in meaningful ways. Learn to develop data centers, data foolders and documentation boards and make theem a part of the student learning process. Leearners become self-directed and motivated when data is visible and accessible. Participants will reflect, share and come away with practical, ongoing ways off using data effectively to improve student leearning.

TARA ETHRIDGE
Target Audience: K-12 Librarians
Title: Making the Most out of Your Destiny Catalog
Embedding Youtube videos, adding student digital book reviews, social networking about books--all these are possible (and so fun!) using your current Destiny library catalog. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to utilize your Destiny Catalog to its fullest potential, creating a central place for students to gather virtually to share their love of books and to share their digital work.

ANNE FERRARA / STEPHANIE PASSAMONTE
Target Audience: MS/HS Counselors
Title: Intentional Interactions: Delivering Systematic, Comprehensive Guidance Seminars to all Students
This workshop will take a look how to reach all students through creating, delivering and assessing a comprehensive guidance seminar program. Attendees will walk away with tips to strengthen and/or create their own comprehensive guidance classes. Questions to be answered: How did we find the time? How did we advocate for such a significant shift in the daily schedule? What are the strengths and challenges of our current curriculum?
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PAT KOZYRA / RACHEL PERKS
Target Audience: All Grade Levels
Title: Just Who Are the Gifted?
Participants will learn common characteristics of Gifted Children and will be given checklists and methods to help identify a gifted student in the classroom. (Two in every one hundred.) A bonus feature of this dynamic workshop is the multitude of fantastic ideas and strategies that can be used to help meet the needs of the Gifted Child. Remember: ‘If you don’t kiss all the frogs, you won’t know who the prince or princess will be!’
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GRIFFIN LOYNES / CINDER MERRITT
Target Audience: MS/HS Teachers
Title: Text Type Literacy: Mini-lessons for Language and Literature Vertical Integration
With the new IB A1 Language and Literature course, there is vital need to vertically integrate skills of the course into earlier English classes. This workshop will present mini-lesssons for different text type literacy activities, focuing on cinema, graphic strips, and political propaganda. The activities are geared towards inclusion in existing pre-IB English units, allowing students early exposure to the new curricular skills. The workshop aims to provide practical material for the classroom.
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SCOTT MILLER
Target Audience: Grades 3-12 teachers
Title: Enhancing Vocabulary Instruction
Lookinq for new to introduce, practice, review or assess vocabulary? If so, this session is designed for you. Participants will experience a plethora of vocabulary strategies which can be used in their classroom as soon as desired. Discover some ways to help students learn and apply their knowledge or vocabulary.
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JOHN RINKER
Target Audience: Grades 4-10 but easily with ideas and provocative aspects it could be for all grades, including teachers and students.
Title: The Google Earth Tour Challenge : A Game-based Project
The Google Earth Tour Challenge provides a game-based project for integrating Google Earth into a variety of curricular areas. The game-based design motivates students to complete successive levels of the game while ensuring a rich content base for the product. In the end, students create an authentic and durable learning tool.
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DAVID RYNNE
Target Audience: Appropriate for ES/MS/Sec teachers, all subject areas and specializations
Title: Let There Be Life! Integrating Claymation into Classroom Practice.
Students need direct support to become thoroughly media literate in today’s media intensive world. Integrating Stop Motion Animation into student learning tasks enables many cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities as well as developing time management awareness, responsibility and problem solving strategies. This hands-on workshop will: Discuss media literacy, View examples of animations, Create and publish a simple animation, Discuss curricular uses of this technique, classroom management strategies and some of the resources available. (Bring a laptop if possible.)

SARAH SUTTER
Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators
Title: Building your Professional Learning Network
How do you move forward when you don’t know what you don’t know? Create a learning network that uses online communities and resources to bring a steady stream of information to your online “door”. Participate with teachers in webinars, or join communities of educators sharing ideas and resources. How do you find them? How do you join in? Come find out how to get started and tap into the growing global online community of educators and create your own custom tailored professional learning network.
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ROY TOMLINSON
Target Audience: HS Math Teachers
Title: Linear Regression and Modeling using Excel and the Graphing Calculator
Teachers will come out of the workshop with an understanding of the use of excel to plot linear regression and best fitting lines using real world data. Using these models, we’ll apply formulas to plot residuals and determine best fitting models. Re-expression of data using the spreadsheet will also be discussed.
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MICHELLE VOGEL / MONNA MCDIARMID
Target Audience: MS/HS Counselors and Teachers (Grades 6-12)
Title: What is Beautiful? Talking with Teenagers about Body Image
During the 2010-2011 school year, counselors and teachers at NIST identified body image as a serious issue for our middle and high school students. We threw ourselves into the creation of an educational program that had, at its foundation, our own experiences with body image and disordered eating. We hoped that students would respect and benefit from our honesty and vulnerability. This programming led to a campaign called “What is beautiful?” and resulted in a short film and photo exhibit.
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EVAN WEINBERG
Target Audience: MS/HS mathematics teachers
Title: Using Geogebra to Promote Active Mathematics Learning and Skill Development
Students must do mathematical tasks and get correct feedback to learn to think mathematically. Geogebra, an open source and community supported software program, offers many tools for students see multiple representations of functions, model the world around them, and get feedback on the math work they do by hand. This workshop will focus on applying Geogebra both as an exploratory tool and to help students develop their skills for when the computer is not available.

NANCY WOODWARD
Target Audience: Librarians, Grades 6-12
Title: Let’s Talk Books - Back to Basics for MS and HS Librarians
Literacy and connecting students with good books is still a core a value for school librarians. Ideas about good books, selection resources, and how to promote books will be shared. Come prepared to share some of your ideas.

GREG ZOLKOWSKI
Target Audience: K-2 Teachers and Special Needs Support Staff
Title: Early Literacy Intervention: Are Gains Sustained? What Works?
A 5 year longitudinal study, conducted by the presenter addresses the question “can gains in “reading” made by students while in intervention be maintained in years after they have stopped receiving support?” The presentation will highlight the RTI model/ intervention principles used at our school, the assessment and data gathering process, and instructional features that could be applied by specialists or classroom teachers.
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ADELA ALGUNO
Target Audience: Elementary class teachers as well as MHS subject teachers
Title: Human Movement in the General Classroom
The workshop aims to share opportunity for the attendees to explore on the different human movement activities as a potential teaching tool in the general classroom in Math, Social Studies, Science and English. The program will include power point presentations, workshop activity and group work to encourage interaction of participants during the workshop. Pictures, videos and interviews from students and teachers of actual classes integrating movement activities from Early Education to High School from Cebu International School will also be shown during the workshop. The workshop will bring the participants a meaningful experience of performing some movement activities themselves modeled from the presenter and as well as in their own small groups during the group work activity.
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GRACE CHENG / JENNY SOHN
Target Audience: HS Counselors (academic/personal/college), English Teachers- Grades 9-12, School Administrators.
Title: Who are you? College Essays in 500 Words or Less (Counseling/English Strand)
US admissions officers use essays to gain a sense of who an applicant is behind grades, scores, extracurricular titles and awards. “Be interesting,” implores one admissions dean. “You want the reader to put an essay down after reading, and say ‘This is someone I would like to see here.’” This presentation will feature tips and strategies designed to help counselors and English teachers work with college-bound students in writing effective and reflective application essays.
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DAVID COLLETT / BRANDON HOOVER
Target Audience: K-12
Title: Dynamism: Dispositional Learning through IT
Five years from now, the IT content schools teach will be obsolete. The 21st Century world is technologically infused and constantly evolving. How can we ensure students are part of this evolution? Why do technology tools and software often define the curriculum? If we want students to be creative, innovative, investigative and progressive learners, we need to shift our focus to dispositional learning. Tomorrow is more than what you know; it’s who you are.

KEEGAN COMBS
Target Audience: Grade 4-12 English and Content-Area Teachers
Title: The Most Important 5 Minutes: Frontloading Strategies
Do you want your students to be interested and engaged? To read and learn with a purpose? Do they struggle with background knowledge? This workshop will present strategies to introduce content in interactive, meaningful ways. In 5 minutes of planning and 5 minutes of class time, you can help students make connections, build background, generate interest in a topic, and read with a purpose. This workshop is interactive and collaborative.
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TANY DERKASH / CLARE MICHELSEN
Target Audience: PYP/MYP/DP and administrators
Title: Inclusion at Nanjing International School – What Does it Include?
What does it mean to include students with special needs? We will describe the process of building an inclusion program in an international school in China with 600+ students, highlight the strengths of the program and show how 1:1 learning, pull-out and in-class models of support are implemented. Approaches to developing individualized programs and shared testimonies will highlight the benefits and challenges for all students and teachers in an inclusive classroom.
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JESUS GAMEZ
Target Audience: Grade Levels 9-12
Title: Using Movies in a Language Class
The workshop will takes the concept that learning a new language means getting involved with a new culture demonstrates how the culture is represented by cinema and then gives participants ideas on how learning a new language opens the horizons to deeper understandings of cultures.
In this workshop I will cover the following:
- How to make a movie effective in a language class
- Different approaches when showing a movie
- Choosing genres

TIMOTHY GARTZ
Target Audience: HS Counselors/Administrators
Title: A Counselor’s Mission: securing a bright future for our international students
In this workshop, best practice methods of an international school counselor will be presented in their 2 primary roles that help secure a bright future for any international student. 1). Focus on University Guidance and Resources developed at AIS for students to become university ready; 2). Focus on our holistic guidance program that works collaboratively in helping students develop their talents and moral character that is so essential to a successful future. By attending this presentation administrators and counselors will be exposed to powerful tools, resources and pathways to help students across the EARCOS region prepare to be successful contributors on the world stage.

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LYNETTE GRYPP / FORREST BRINKER / SHIRLEY TAYLOR
Target Audience: MS/HS Mathematics Teachers
Title: Construction Site Geometry: Engaging Students in Meaningful Geometry Applications
The Construction Site Geometry project provides middle and high school geometry teachers with a creative year-end synthesis of learning integrating trigonometry, similarity, area, and volume. Teachers who attend this workshop will leave with a project lesson plan with specific requirements and grading rubrics, as well as an understanding of how the project can be put into motion in their own classroom.
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JULIE HEINSMAN
Target Audience: All Grades - Counselors
Title: Grief: The International Student’s Ever Present Companion
As international students, our children are confronted with a large amount of loss. Grief is the normal process of reacting to loss. This workshop will discuss how grief affects the lives of international students as we look at foundational facts of Third Culture Kid grief, symptoms, warning signs, and ways to help.
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LINC JACKSON / BEN SHERIDAN
Target Audience: Ages 3 - 7
Title: Integrating Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Early Years
Specifically aimed early years, focus is on strategies for making the very most of technology tools available in most schools to enhance the literacy goals of young students. In addition to some traditional technology successes, specific strategies will include using hardware such as Interactive White Boards, iPods, iPads, webcams, and laptops, and Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, Wikis, Web pages, and the cool interactive web sites.

CARRIE LEVNO
Target Audience: K-12 students/teachers/parents
Title: Equality versus Fairness
Workshop participants will engage in fun and interactive activities to differentiate between and identify examples of what is fair and equal, in relation to students with learning difficulties. This will service to explain why providing students with learning difficulties’ accommodations is fair. School community policies or programs that promote fairness will also be identified and explained so participants will walk away with simple, yet practical ways to promote fairness for their students.

KATHERINE MCDERMOTT
Target Audience: Hiqh School Mathematics. MYP. Math Teachers
Title: Oriqami: A multi-faceted tool for the math classroom
Origami is both an ancient art form and the basis of a new discipline that combines origami and mathematics to solve a variety of engineering problems. Unit Origami, which is a type of construction origami, is a great tool for introducing origami to students of all ages. This presentation will introduce the field of origami engineering, the basics of folding origami “units,” and some of the math that can be taught with it.
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GENEVIEVE MURPHY
Target Audience: K-12
Title: Know My World:  Making Global Connections Through Digital Literacy
Know My World will host an interactive digital literacy workshop where participants will create on-site project ideas that they can continue to foster after completion. During the workshop they will acquire cross cultural resources and digital media skills that will enable them to implement literacy through global connections. The culmination of this workshop will leave participants with an established exchange connection, lesson plan ideas, and resources to utilize in their classroom.

DARCY REEDE-CARON
Target Audience: Librarians, Elementary Teachers, Reading Teachers, English/Language Arts Teachers
Title: Assessing Information Literacy Skills for Targeted Instruction
Providing instruction in information literacy is a necessity in today’s libraries and classrooms, but most schools lack a defined IL curriculum or time to teach it. Using the online assessment TRAILS (Tools for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) with students provides valuable feedback for planning targeted instruction. Participants will learn to use assessment reports to create a variety of learning opportunities that prepare students to select, evaluate, and use information appropriately and effectively.

JOHANNA SCHOOLEY
Target Audience: Elementary School
Title: The Research Toolkit: Teaching Students to Understand and Use It
This session describes “tools” that should be an integral part of your school’s “Research Toolkit” and some “tricks” that will help you to teach your school community the benefit of using age appropriate books, periodicals, and databases as places to look for information answers other than beginning with Google.

DOUGLAS THOMPSON
Target Audience: Grades 3-10 Math Teachers and Administrators for all levels
Title: Driving Differentiation Differently
Use students’ data to drive instruction in your classroom. Challenge each student at their own level while simultaneously promoting the development of the class as a whole. Through this prescriptive approach, students develop an awareness of their learning and take pride in their growth.

STEPHANIE WALLIS
Target Audience: Grades 4-12
Title: Teen Advisory Groups and Mother-Daughter Book Clubs
In this workshop Stephanie will give an exmaple of how she have organized the Teen Advisory Group (TAG) in her library, and delegates could exchange ideas for how it could work in other schools. She will also present how NIST run their Mother-Daughter Book Clubs.
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ALEXIS WIGGINS
Target Audience: MS/HS teachers, all disciplines; administrators; elementary teachers more than welcome to attend, as info can be subsequently adapted to elementary level.
Title: Harkness Method: The Best Class You Never Taught
In this workshop, learn about a unique type of class discussion called Harkness Method that will revolutionize your class. Students learn complete self-sufficiency by facilitating, debriefing, and self-assessing their contributions to high-level, inquiry-based discussions, whether the subject is English or Geometry.

BARBARA BOYER / TIM BOYER
Target Audience: Grade 2 to HS
Title: Book Trailers: Using Cool Tech Tools to Liven Up Literature
Ever waiting in the theatre for your movie to start and you get jazzed about the new movies coming out? Move that excitement to books. Join us to see some fun book trailers and learn how to do and use them with your students. Popcorn provided! DOWNLOAD HANDOUTS

JUNKO CANCEMI
Target Audience: Pre-K to Elementary
Title: The Reggio Approach and the ‘Hundred Languages of Children’
Part 1: The concept of the ‘hundred languages’ within the context of international schools: (1)The Reggio Approach; (2)The ‘symbolic’ and ‘poetic’ languages; (3) The meaning of ‘aesthetic dimensions’ in learning and education. Part 2: Hands-on Session: Group 1: Interweaving the languages of mathematics and architecture; Group 2: Interweaving science and art through observational drawing; Group 3: Interweaving the language of music and verbal narration to express a story. Part 3: Sharing ideas

RACHEL CAROLINE BROOKER / JACOB IVAN GRAY
Target Audience: MS/HS Counselors, Administrators, and teachers
Title: Advisory Programs: Is it possible at your school?
Creating advisory programs can be overwhelming.  Come learn how Shekou International School created and implemented a full-fledged MS/HS advisory program focusing on guidance, service, reflective learning, and school unity.  Groups will brainstorm how to overcome potential challenges and begin to formulate a plan for a successful advisory program in your school.

BRENDA DARLING
Target Audience: MS/HS Mathematics and Science
Title: Why Do Students Resist Graphing?
Whether our students are weak, strong or average in mathematical ability they share one thing in common: they groan when they must pull out graph paper and use it to solve a problem. What is the deal with graphing? Why do students dislike it so much? Why do they fail to consider graphing as a problem-solving approach, even when it provides a simpler or easier path to a solution? This presentation will uncover the reasons why students struggle with graphing in the math (and by extension science) classroom and the surprisingly simple strategies teachers can employ to strengthen students’ graphing skills.
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MICHAEL FOX
Target Audience: Grade 6-12, English/LA, Humanities and Social Studies Teachers
Title: Managing The Marking Mountain: Leveraging Technology To Better Assess Writing
Assessing student writing is one of the biggest challenges and time management issues teachers face. Assigning essays means marking essays and marking essays means late nights writing volumes of comments on student work with unclear impact on performance. This workshop is designed to offer some tools and techniques to both increase the impact of comments on improving student performance as well as streamlining and reducing the marking burden on teachers.
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PAUL HENDERSON
Target Audience: Dept., Prog., Team Leaders
Title: Team Self-Appraisal as Team Supervision
Dept., Prog., and Team Leaders will learn how to set team standards, will learn self-appraisal models, will learn how to supervise themselves. Participants will consider how much team work matters how team work can make a difference. DOWNLOAD HANDOUTS

RACHEL HUNTER
Target Audience: Gr. 1-6, Mainstream teachers, ESL, and Special Needs
Title: “Repeated Readings: intervention for mainstream, special needs, and ESL”
Providing quality fluency instruction and intervention for a classroom of diverse readers is a challenge for many teachers. This workshop will focus on repeated readings as fluency program suitable for a variety of educational settings. Incorporating key reading components, peer assisted learning strategies, and progress monitoring allows for teachers to meet the needs of students with and without disabilities. Participants will walk away with strategies for adapting a repeated readings program to fit the needs of their students.

SUSAN ISLASCOX / RITU JAVA
Target Audience: MS/HS teachers, particularly teachers in Learning Support/Special Needs
Title: Maximizing Student Potential Through Technology
If your job involves supporting middle/high school students who struggle with reading, writing, organizing, or paying attention, this workshop is for you! We offer technology tools and strategies to help your students maximize their potential. You will carry back a bag of techniques that we have hand-picked, researched, and tested out as viable options to suit a wide spectrum of learning issues. Most of these technologies are readily available and affordable.
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KEVIN JOHNSON
Target Audience: Grade 2 to Grade 12: any teacher including ESL, Math, Science and Modern Language.
Title: Books into Board Games
Books into Board Games provides a proven technique to transfer any text content into a board game, enjoyable to students and supportive of EFL instruction. Research supports the use of educational game formats that by providing a fun vehicle for the delivery of content contribute to student emotional engagement, enhance the classroom community, nurture risk-taking, and motivate students. The chance element allows any student to win the game regardless of their level of language proficiency.
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ANN KREMBS
Target Audience: Librarians K-12
Title: iPadding Along in the Library
Many school libraries are deciding which e-reader to adopt for their patrons. iPads, with capicities beyond serving as an e-reader, are a viable choice. This workshop session will focus on three areas of iPad usage in a school library: management and circulation, purchasing of apps and ebooks, and integration of apps. iPads are an excellent resource that kids love to create, learn, and read from. For more information about this workshop, please visit http://ipaddingalonginthelibrary.wikispaces.com/.

MARK LOMBARDO
Target Audience: Grades 6 and 10
Title: Doing it all: Integrating inquiry and technology on school expeditions
In this workshop, a project in which students research and produce documentaries about places they visit on school expeditions will be presented. Teachers will walk away with strategies for stimulating student inquiry, structuring and producing investigative short films using iMovie as well as scaffolding techniques for supporting students with developing language skills and learning needs.
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DAVID LYON / DARCY WOOD
Target Audience: Potentially, could be any grade level or any subject area. Better for grades 3-12
Title: Using Animation In Any Classroom: Breathing Life Into Learning
This workshop will look at the reasons to use animation in the classroom, the possible ways to incorporate animation into a project or subject area, and the various free resources that are available for teachers and students.

ALICIA MESSING / SONYA YONG
Target Audience: Grades 2 - 6
Title: Step-by Step Model Math
In this workshop you will learn how to create models that represent math problems using a step-by-step method that is easy to teach and learn. Model math, a component of Singapore Math, teaches students another strategy that creates a clear, visual representation of the problem. It can be used to supplement any program you are currently using in your classroom or school and will readily become your new bag-of-tricks for math story problem instruction! DOWNLOAD HANDOUT

SHARON MOORE
Target Audience: Elementary
Title: Using Multiple Resources to Make Differentiation Manageable in Literacy
This workshop will present ways in which to use a variety of literacy resources to develop strong readers and writers. It will specifically address how to support readers and writers at all levels of competency and English language. Included will be examples of how to differentiate using a single text or set of texts and how to teach similar concepts with students using different texts.
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MELANIE SHAFAAT
Target Audience: All
Title: Transitioning Through the Grades: Stepping Stones to Success
This presentation explores transition planning for students receiving learning support services. It provides all stakeholders with practical information and planning strategies beginning when they enter school and move through the grades and culminating with planning for life after graduation. This is an on- going process that requires collaboration, and the cooperation of classroom teachers, administrators, the student and the family to strengthen all students’ educational achievement and holistic development.

PASCALE THOMAS / TORIE LIENBACH
Target Audience: MS/HS counselors, teachers and administrators
Title: WEB & LINK CREW: Creative, Fun and Energetic transition programs
(WEB (MS) and LINK (HS) are transition programs offered at RIS connecting incoming 6th and 9th graders with student leaders in 8th, 11th & 12th grades. The goal is to decrease bullying, build school community, promote inclusion, and aid in the transition to middle and high school. RIS is the first school outside of North America to implement both programs. This workshop will review how to get trained as a Coordinator and introduce creative, fun and engaging activities.

PATRICK WESTHOFF
Target Audience: MS/HS Teachers
Title: A Truly Immersion Classroom at Any Level: the How and Why
Immersion is a highly effective means of teaching a foreign language. Creating an immersion environment in the classroom can be quite challenging, especially at the beginner level. I will demonstrate how to implement an immersion class from day one in a beginning level course and how to maintain it from the beginner to intermediate to advanced classes.

DOUG WILLIAMSON
Target Audience: K-12
Title: Changing Families: What Teachers Should Know about Children and Divorce
Divorce and/or separation can be traumatic for kids and complicated by living overseas - -where will I live? Is it my fault? Is my family the only one? Combining video, lecture, and activity, this presentation will present an overview of divorce’s impact on children and offer strategies for teachers.
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TIM ZITUR
Target Audience: MS/HS
Title: The Flipped Classroom: Tools and Strategies to Get You Started
In this workshop, participants will learn how to create their own video lesson; learn about the flipped classroom (turning lectures into video homework and homework into classwork); some examples of in-class polling and on-line homework; and come away with tools to start with a flipped class. The examples will be math based, but a teacher can adapt for most subject areas.