Conference at a Glance
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Wednesday | Thursday a.m. | Thursday p.m. | Friday
- Welcome/Overview
- College Fair and Educational Materials Showcase
- Student Sessions
- Parent Session: College Readiness How to Help Your Child Prepare for College
- WEASSP Reception
- Enhancing Learning Through Family-School-Community Partnership
- Helping Hands
- Making the Dream a Reality: Action Steps for States to Prepare All Students for College and Career
- Literacy Centers in the K-5 Classroom
- Student Workshop – How to Stay Motivated During Difficult Times
- Lead to Succeed
- Working With Families in Poverty
- Integrating Literacy Strategies and Science
- Interventions and Closing the Achievement Gap
- Principal Workshop
- How to Fall in Love With Your Job When You Feel Like Hating It: How to Speak So Others Listen, Follow & Take Responsibility
- Using Feedback to Feed Forward
- Using Instructional Strategies to Motivate Students
- What’s In Your Desk
- Their New World: Students’ Technologies Today and Tomorrow
- KUSD’s Language Assistance Program (Bilingual/ELD) Panel Discussion-What one district did to turn around it’s bilingual program!
- Gang Awareness Part I
- Building a Successful Family-School Partnership Program With the Help of a VISTA
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Counselor’s Tool Kit
- Principals Workshop
- The Solar System in Your Classroom & Worlds in Comparison
- Achieve Equality in Your Classroom by Developing Effective Descriptive Feedback With Assessments
- Based on Standards
- The Power of Influence
- Best Practices in Writing
- Gang Awareness: Part II plus a panel
- Classroom Instruction That Works: Research Based Strategies That Improve Student Learning
- Stinky the Bulldog: Teaching Children About Bullying, Diversity, & Acceptance
- I Am Title I
- POSE: Hands on Science
- Modification and Accommodations
- Marzano’s Vocabulary for Math
- Making Goals Attainable, Practical and Possible
- The Other American Tour: Promoting Social Justice to High School Students in the State of Wisconsin
- DPI Updates
- Principal Workshop
 Conference Booklet |
5:45pm – 8:15pm
Breakfast ~ 7:30am – 9:15am
Keynote Speaker: Cheryl Brown
AM Sessions ~ 9:30am – 11:45
Scholarship Luncheon ~ 12:00pm – 1:20pm
Keynote Speaker: Andres Lara “The Cuban Guy”: How to Move Forward When You Feel Like Quitting”
PM Sessions ~ 1:45pm – 3:55pm
WEASSP General Assembly Meeting ~ 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Banquet ~ 6:30pm – 8:00pm
No Keynote Speaker – Entertainment (Music Provided) Reception/Social ~ 8:15pm – 12:00am
Breakfast ~ 7:35am – 8:50am
Keynote: Mychal Wynn
AM Sessions ~ 9:45am – 12:00pm
Lunch/Closing ~ 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Pearson Digital Sponsored Keynote: Chuck Obeso-Bradley