Difficult Children with Challenging Parents

Workshops

Nicole Adams

Difficult Children with Challenging Parents

This workshop will give providers concrete strategies in reaching out to families that may be a little more difficult to engage. Strategies to support children with challenging behaviors and the best ways to communicate their need for support will be discussed. Participants will leave with 10 positive, evidence based, and culturally competent methods to support difficult children and challenging parents at home and school.

Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is a real concern and threat to the educational, emotional and social development of young people. The widespread availability of the internet and technological savvy of young people often leaves them as victims in a world that parents and educators find difficult to reach. This workshop will explore the dangerous and fickle world of the cyberbully. Participants will leave with suggestions on how to minimize the negative impact of cyberbullying in their places of learning, concrete strategies to provide to parents to support their children, and ways to support students that have fallen victim

Robert Bimonte

Teaching with the Brain in Mind (Double Session)

Each day, brain research reveals new discoveries about how people learn. These insights have important implications for the way we teach and engage our students. Using an interactive approach, this workshop will provide a basic understanding of how the brain works along with strategies you can implement immediately to enhance the teaching and learning process.

Janice Buckner

Supervising Instruction in Today’s Schools

Assisting teachers to improve their instructional skills is perhaps the most important responsibility of a supervisor. This workshop will offer several different formats for observing and critiquing instruction, and will

Dr. Jeanie Burnett

Beatrix Potter: Cautions and promises

Participants will be invited to engage in lively dialogue as they try to relate messages in Potter's little cautionary tales, portrayed withscenarios byher well known characters (Peter Rabbit's unfair mischief; Johnny Town-Mouse - no place like home; Timmy Tiptoes - plan ahead) and connect her still pertinent advice with reality encountered, or noticed, in today's schools. Examples of children's work such as memory maps and mentor writing, plus children's conservation projects to help ensure the earth's future will also be shared. Mystery buffs will be shown book club ideas related to the cottage tales of Beatrix Potter, written by bestseller author, Susan Witting Albert.

Michelle Clauberg

Developmentally Appropriate Art Experiences

A hands on workshop that will help teachers to create a child centered, process oriented, art program for their early childhood classroom.

Gayle Denny

The Many Hats Of An Administrator - How Do We Get It All Done?

Struggling with how to fit all of your varied tasks into a day and have any time left for visioning? Coaching staff? Your family and yourself? Come and learn and share tips for sorting out the urgent from the important, when to delegate, and how to manage your time.

Dealing with Difficult People

Beth Diodato

The Play's the Thing: Building Fluency through Poetry and Drama

Participants will actively experience how read alouds and poetry for two or more voices becomes an engaging vehicle for building fluency across the curriculum.

Kim Fanter

The Great Body Shop Health Curriculum

Learn about this fun, interactive, always current, research-based comprehensive health curriculum that meets all your accreditation requirements. Teachers students and parents love The Great Body Shop!

Randy Gast

Marketing With No Money

If you have a limited budget for marketing and public relations this is the session for you. Learn some creative ways to get your name out to the public without “breaking the bank”

Dave Hahn

Lutheran Schools: Tips for Surviving and Thriving in These Crazy Times

This presentation is designed for administrators of Lutheran schools who are responsible for the bottom line. Skills to be discussed will include marketing, fundraising, staffing, compensation, benefits, budgeting, and alternative sources of income. Sharing of best practices by in the trenches administrators will be an important component of the session.

Amy Katz

Math through Concepts=Sweet Success

Traditional math assessment doesn’t work! Learn to teach by concept, not chapter. Student learning, accountability and mastery will all increase! Real world application will be discussed.

Art Kuman

Making History More Exciting

Projects and ideas that help make Middle School History more fun and more exciting.

Robin Linke

Saving…Spending…Sharing…SWEET!

Need a K—8 classroom education curriculum to teach Christian stewardship and financial education? Start today t teach kids how to manage their time, talent, and treasure for a lifetime.

Marlene Lund

Is There Hope for Schools in Our Cities?

There is no doubt that urban faith-based schools are in crisis, but there is hope! This workshop will look at successful models for change and things that we might do to stem the tide.

Dr. Patricia Lutz

Strategies for Middle School Math

Judy Olver

Experiences Around the World

Give your students an international experience without leaving your classroom. This unit is a wonderful way to make the relationship between home and school meaningful.

Dr. Mary Ann O’Neill

Using Multicultural books in Literature Circles

Dr. Darlene Schoenly

Teaching Comprehension Strategies through an Instructional framework of best practices

Welda Simousek

Powerful, Stand-up and Stand-out Assessments

Learn hands-on, instantly usable assessment techniques to teach your teachers in training how to find out what their students already know. These “Real Time Assessments” are the key to differentiation. This session will be very interactive, so come ready to participate and learn how to get your students doing hands on differentiation.

Robin Stephenson

Securing Your ECECenter

The Layered Approach to ECE Security shares how the FBI, the nation’s police departments, AmberVision, and early education specialists suggest securing your ECE center against intrusions and workplace violence.

Thrivent Financial

You’re Never Too Young or Old to Plan for Retirement

Kathy Unverfehrt

Praying by Design

“Prayer by Design” is a prayer form consisting of color and design. It develops intimacy in communicating with God while pursuing an active prayer life.

Sheldon Warfield

Integrating technology into your classroom

Donna Yates

Out of the Box Storytelling

This workshop is an age appropriate, hands on, interactive, fun and memorable way of teaching children the stories of faith.

Angelica Young

Middle School Management

This workshop will address the uniqueness of adolescence and challenges teachers face today in the classroom. It will equip teachers with ideas to manage adolescence.

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