Concurrent Session Schedule

AdvancED Illinois 2015 Fall Conference Concurrent Sessions September 24, 2015 I Hotel & Conference Center Champaign, IL

2015 Fall ConferenceRefer to the “Concurrent Sessions” tab on conference website for more information Concurrent Session Schedule – Thursday, September 24, 2015 Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Session 4: Session 5: 10:05 – 11:00 11:05 – 12:00 1:00 – 1:55 2:00—2:55 3:00—3:55Technology Using Model Math Curriculum Tasks to Model Math Curriculum Resources: Visibility Matters! Contributing to a Building Collaborative Relationships Auditing Curriculum and Instruction:Quad Reach and Teach ALL Learners An Overview Positive Climate with Your Union Maximizing Learning Opportunities forLoyalty (Anita Reid—ISBE, Lewistown High (Anita Reid—ISBE, Lewistown High (Jake Emerson, Jaime Finkelstein, (Lisa Harrod, Jake Emerson, & All School ) School) Lisa M. Harrod, & Cathy Creek — Nathan Short—Manteno Community (Jaime Finkelstein & Lisa Harrod— Manteno Community School District School District No. 5) Manteno Community School District No. 5) No. 5) Congratulations, you’ve been Engage the Staff to Engage the We've Gotta Reach Em' to Teach Em': We've Gotta Reach Em' to Teach Em': Flexible Teaming for Immediate accredited! Operationalizing Students Outrageous Strategies to Move Outrageous Strategies to Move Results AdvancED Improvement Priorities (Hilary Wagenblast — Students from Boredom to Stardom! Students from Boredom to Stardom! Femi Skanes—Chicago Public Schools (Rhoda Rosen & Susan Corwith— Highland High School) Part 1 Part 2 Center for Talent Development, (Elizabeth Johnson & Kathy Walsh— (Elizabeth Johnson & Kathy Walsh— Northwestern University) Eastern Michigan University) Eastern Michigan University) Changing Lives: How Leyden Uses Coaching Conversations New Digital Literacy Advancing Critical Thinking in Building Student Engagement: Hope, Certifications to Create Career Paths (Paula Di Domenico—Leyden High (Shannon O’Connor & Tony Pecucci— Leadership, Philosophy, and Practice Resilience, Competence and (Tony Pecucci—Leyden High School School District 212) Leyden High School District #212) (Leodis Scott —LearnLong Institute for Confidence District 212) Education and Learning Research) (Angel Knoverek—Chaddock School)Lincoln eleot™ - A Tool to Improve Student Authentic Learner Engagement for The AdvancED External Review: AdvancED ASSIST™: Toolkit for Roadmap to Continuous Improvement: Engagement Continuous Improvement Success Gateway to Accreditation The New IEQ (Donna James—AdvancED) (Donna James—AdvancED) (Donna James—AdvancED) (Donna James—AdvancED) (Donna James—AdvancED)Alma Mater Leadership Redefined Continued Cultivating Change: Embedding The Push-Pull Philosophy: Promoting Principal Development: Practical Today’s Instructional Leader (Dave Weber—Dave Weber, Inc.) Social Emotional Learning Strategies High Expectations for Academic Approaches to Learning about (Dawn Green—Palos Heights School to Reengage the Disengaged Success of All Students Leading District 128) (Donna Kaufman, Shawna Waller, (Nancy Spaniak, Ryan Pitcock, Matt (Mary Ann Soley — Rachel Simmons, & Greg Jahiel— Holdren, & Nick Anello—Homewood- Truman Middle College) READY School) Flossmoor High School District 233)

AdvancED ASSIST™: Toolkit for Continuous ImprovementDonna JamesAdvancEDEveryone in your institution should be involved in the accreditation and continuous improvement process, but only a select few get hands-on experience in ASSIST. If you are on thisspecial team for your school or system, this session teaches you the ins and outs of ASSIST. You will experience, step by step, accessing each component of ASSIST, as well as receiveinstructions and website resources to help you use this dynamic continuous improvement tool.Advancing Critical Thinking in Leadership, Philosophy, and PracticeLeodis ScottLearnLong Institute for Education and Learning ResearchThis session is designed to introduce participants to traditions and perspectives of critical thinking. Since critical thinking is a lifelong learning process, this session will focus on howeducation professionals may begin applying critical thinking strategies, individually and collectively, for improving learning performance and practice – and ultimately for the benefit of thestudents you serve!Auditing Curriculum and Instruction: Maximizing Learning Opportunities for AllJaime Finkelstein & Lisa M. HarrodManteno Community School District No. 5This session will focus on engaging in data-driven conversations to create a climate of success for all learners. Discussion will focus on auditing programs such as RtI and TalentDevelopment to ensure you are maximizing resources. Time will be allotted for participants to ask questions.Authentic Learner Engagement for SuccessDonna JamesAdvancEDAre your learners authentically engaged? How do you know? What does learner engagement look like? Join the conversations during this session as participants look at students engaged intheir learning environments. Learn more about how students should be engaged in classrooms of today to meet the demands of tomorrow.Building Collaborative Relationships with Your UnionLisa M. Harrod, Jake Emerson, & Nathan ShortManteno Community School District No. 5This session will focus on strategies for improving the relationships between Board of Education members and the union members from their organizations. The facilitators will walkparticipants through a two year journey to rebuild relationships based on trust, support, and collaboration. This journey led to a successful negotiations process.

Building Student Engagement: Hope, Resilience, Competence and ConfidenceAngel KnoverekChaddock SchoolEducators diligently strive to promote student growth with the goal for students to become productive members of society. The student’s internal mechanisms are essential in this growthprocess. This session will help educators understand the interconnectedness of hope and resiliency and how these attributes can impact student competence and confidence. Participants willgain useful tools to build student engagement within the academic environment.Changing Lives: How Leyden Uses Certifications to Create Career PathsTony PecucciLeyden High School District 212The Leyden Technical Support Initiative (TSI) is a student run tech support class where students support the 1:1 initiative in the district, supporting all 3,600 Chromebooks that are in thestudent's hands. TSI also allows students to pursue various certifications, including CompTIA A+, CompTIA Net +, and CompTIA Security +. One of the many goals of the Program is toprovide an opportunity for EVERY student to have a career path upon graduation. Come learn how we implement soft skill training, digital portfolios and corporate partnerships to allow allour students a chance to succeed.Coaching ConversationsPaula Di DomenicoLeyden High School District 212An effective and focused conversation between a teacher and an instructional coach or administrator can be powerful professional development. In this session, learn how to use \"Questionswith Objectives\" to facilitate productive coaching conversations. Participants will have a chance to practice using and writing questions to guide productive and focused conversations. Othereffective coaching strategies will also be shared. Instructional coaches and administrators will leave with tools designed to foster effective coaching conversations.Congratulations, you’ve been accredited! Operationalizing AdvancED Improvement PrioritiesRhoda Rosen & Susan CorwithCenter for Talent Development, Northwestern UniversitySecuring accreditation is one step in the cycle of continuous improvement. Accomplishing this goal helps establish a routine of consistent self-reflection, review of AdvancED ImprovementPriorities, and the implementation of External Review Team Member feedback. Join administrators from an organization that has been accredited since 1994, and examine the steps they aretaking to put their current AdvancED Improvement Priorities into action. Using the goal to “align the professional development needs and outcomes of program staff to the formal employeeevaluation process” as a case study, we will discuss the method by which we are implementing this priority, and how other schools and organizations might implement a similar process.Administrators are encouraged to bring their Improvement Priorities to brainstorm possible directions for implementation.

Cultivating Change: Embedding Social Emotional Learning Strategies to Reengage the DisengagedDonna Kaufman, Shawna Waller, Rachel Simmons, & Greg JahielREADY Program, ROE 9As educators we have the responsibility to help make social and emotional learning an integral part of the educational setting. Sustained and well-integrated social and emotional learningprograms can engage students and improve achievement. Programs that support social-emotional learning that are interwoven in the school culture at the READY Program to help studentsachieve social-emotional competencies include: Health and Wellness initiatives, Mindfulness in the Classroom (quiet time), Creating Islands of Competencies (motivational interviewingand student success plans). This session will address the dynamics of those initiatives that can be easily applied in any school setting.eleot™ - A Tool to Improve Student EngagementDonna JamesAdvancEDExperience the power of a learner-centric observation tool that measures and quantifies active student engagement by taking a look at classroom expectations, feedback and learning sup-port. The Effective Learning Environments Observation ToolTM (eleotTM ) empowers schools and school systems to:  Evaluate classroom environments by focusing on students  Reveal strengths and weaknesses using measurable data  Identify trends by comparing observations across subjects, grade levels and other categories  Ensure quality and reliability in an intuitive and easy-to-use tool  Implement a powerful tool for professional development, peer learning and ongoing improvement.The eleot is standard protocol for External Review Teams making classroom observations and, now, this exciting new tool is available for purchase by institutions that want the same oppor-tunity for their own classroom observations.Engage the Staff to Engage the StudentsKaren GauenHighland High SchoolEducators are being bombarded with change – from the Danielson Framework to the new Illinois State Learning Standards. Rather than being overwhelmed by the changing educational land-scape, Highland High School (HHS) focused on the common factor that provided a foundation for the changes: engaging students in Higher-order, Deeper thinking (HO/DT). The InstructionalPractices Inventory (IPI) is a teacher-led, administrator-supported process that provides a common sense approach for an entire school to move toward increasing HO/DT student learning ex-periences. Trained teacher-coders walk through the school, coding student-learning experiences. The anonymous codes are aggregated into pie charts that create a school-wide profile of theday’s learning experiences. The entire faculty studies the data and discusses ways to improve the school’s profile. Join this session to hear how HHS has transformed using IPI longitudinaldata and received national attention through National Association Secondary School Principal’s journal, Principal Leadership, in the November 2014 edition.

Flexible Teaming for Immediate ResultsFemi SkanesChicago Public SchoolsMost schools utilize teams that meet on a regular schedule throughout the school year. Are these teams equipped to respond to new trends, student issues, or parental concerns that arise? Thissession will provide educators with tools to convene specialized problem solving teams. Participants will be introduced to a three-point team implementation model which includes: 1) Identi-fy the end goal; 2) convene, learn, brainstorm strategies, and plan; and 3) implement and disband. This session is designed to offer educators with practical tools that can be immediately usedto convene problem solving teams within their buildings.Leadership RedefinedDave WeberDave Weber & Associates, Inc.Seguing from the opening keynote, Dave continues to refine the definition of today’s leader. Rather than industry specific or job title focused, the 12X's relies on a series of proven and time-tested principles that can be universally applied to and in all kinds of settings. Using principles from his latest book Leadership Redefined: The 12 X 's of Success for TODAY 's Leader, Davewill challenge your current definition of what a leader is and help you discover who truly can be a leader.Model Math Curriculum Resources: An OverviewAnita ReidISBE, Lewistown High SchoolThis session will provide a look at the Model Math Curriculum (MMC) Development process. The session facilitator will dive into a few tasks from across grade levels to illustrate theMMC's ability to connect with students. Attend this session and learn how using these resources have impacted daily instructional practices, assessments, and student achievement. Participantswill leave with tasks in hand, as well as knowledge of how to access LiveBinder – the comprehensive electronic storage system used to house all of MMC resources. This is a great session forthose who aren't familiar with MMC or those who are just beginning to explore its potential!New Digital LiteracyShannon O'Connor & Tony PecucciLeyden High School District 212Because today’s workplace relies on technology, it is critical that employees have command of digital literacy skills. Digital literacy is more than simply knowing how to use Internet tools.Instead, it is less about the tools and more about the thinking. A person who is digitally literate demonstrates the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information forboth personal and professional use. Attend this session to hear how Leyden District 212 has developed a cloud-based digital literacy curriculum that challenges students to use their skills tobe successful in the digital world in which they live and will be expected to work.

Principal Development: Practical Approaches to Learning about LeadingMary Ann SoleyTruman Middle CollegeDiscover how to optimize the levels of participation and engagement through school-wide transformation, internal assessment, and reflection. This session will provide practical leadership ap-proaches that will help construct a student-centered culture, establish consistency over sympathy, and identify empathy over enabling behaviors. Attendees will also walk away with usefultools to address symptoms that detract the organization from appearing and performing at its best.Roadmap to Continuous Improvement: The New IEQDonna JamesAdvancEDYour External Review is complete and you’ve been given your Index of Education Quality (IEQ) score. But what, exactly, does that mean, and where you go from here? This session explainsthe IEQ—why we use it, how it is derived, and its usefulness pinpointing institutional strengths and challenges. You will also learn about the next step after receiving your score—the Accredi-tation Progress Report (APR). Your IEQ, coupled with the APR, outline the steps to complete your Improvement Priorities and create the roadmap for continuous improvement planning.The AdvancED External Review: Gateway to AccreditationDonna JamesAdvancEDThe AdvancED External Review is an important component of your institution’s ongoing continuous improvement efforts, offering valuable feedback on your Internal Review processes andresults. The External Review is not only a milestone in continuous improvement efforts, but also acts as a steppingstone on the path to higher performance. In this session, you will review Ex-ternal Review requirements and learn how the process aligns with your Internal Review to provide a powerful continuous improvement model.The Push-Pull Philosophy: Promoting High Expectations for Academic Success of All StudentsNancy Spaniak, Ryan Pitcock, Matt Holdren, Nick AnelloHomewood-Flossmoor High School District 233The mission statement of Chicago south suburban Homewood-Flossmoor (H-F) High School begins, “The quality of each student’s life improves through the educational experience at Home-wood-Flossmoor High School.” In order to realize its mission, this highly diverse school of nearly 3,000 students has adopted the “Push-Pull Philosophy,” which encompasses “pushing” allstudents to take the most rigorous courses at which they can be successful, then “pulling” them through with a variety of academic and behavioral supports. Participants will learn about H-F’sschool improvement process and its resulting array of policies, programs, and practices that have led to a 93 percent college-going rate, as well as national recognitions including Newsweek/The Daily Beast (one of “America’s Best High Schools”), Washington Post (one of “America’s Most Challenging High Schools”), College Board, and International Baccalaureate.

Today's Instructional LeaderDawn GreenPalos Heights School District 128Every job title of a district superintendent and school principal includes instructional leader. What does this look like with the continual changes in education today? This session will providesome simple and specific examples for how a district and building leader serve as instructional leaders. Attendees will be able to look at their own role as the instructional leader and developan action plan for how they can increase their capacity in this crucial role. Attendees will see how the instructional leader has made programmatic adjustments in order to affect student learn-ing. These adjustments can be adapted and used by any school or school district without expending a great deal of financial resources. Join us as we provide a practical framework for howyou can build your instructional leader capacity.Using Model Math Curriculum Tasks to Reach and Teach ALL LearnersAnita ReidISBE, Lewistown High SchoolThis session will detail how the facilitator implemented the ISBE Model Math Curriculum Resources to transition learners with disabilities to the rigor of the new Illinois Learning Standards.Your session leader will share how those resources provided a structure for differentiated presentation and assessment which ultimately led to higher student achievement. Attendees will leavewith the confidence to tackle this task after hearing proven strategies and seeing student examples, including knowing how to access these resources online.Visibility Matters! Contributing to a Positive ClimateJake Emerson, Jaime Finkelstein, Lisa M. Harrod & Cathy CreekManteno Community School District No. 5This session will focus on providing participants with strategies aimed at improving visibility and interactions with staff members to achieve a positive climate and culture based on relation-ship building and trust. Information will be shared on conducting climate surveys for data-driven decision making.We've Gotta Reach Em' to Teach Em': Outrageous Strategies to Move Students from Boredom to Stardom!Elizabeth Johnson & Kathy WalshEastern Michigan UniversityInstagram, American Idol, Hip Hop, Facebook and other social media are provocative stimuli that infiltrate our students’ hearts and minds! How do we compete with all of these mountingstimuli and prepare them for total College and Career Readiness AND eliminate the achievement gap across every demographic subset? How can we create an exemplary, highly rigorous, andengaging learning environment for EVERY student who will max out on achievement and growth scores? As teachers, how can we own and drive teacher evaluation and exceed highly effec-tive rating across every domain? This WILD and HIGHLY ENGAGING workshop models a tool box approach that will powerfully showcase highly effective engagement strategies for thepurpose of data-driven decision making. Join us for this two-part session for hand-clappin’, knee-slappin’ and belly-laughin’ that totally emerges you into learner-centered adventures that areon the precipice of what’s to come in education!!!

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