Presenter: Paul Cahill, State Title I Director

Thursday 10:00 presentations:

1. Title I meeting:

Thursday: 10:00 session Room: 158

Presenter: Paul Cahill, State Title I Director

He will present current issues relative to the ESEA Legislation and reauthorization. Title I requirements for Parent Involvement, Schools in Need of Assistance, School wide Programs, Supplemental Educational Services, private schools and within district targeting of funds, and other topics will be shared. New information about AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) will be discussed. Local administrators, local Title I coordinators, and Title I instructors will have an opportunity to receive information and ask questions about Title I programming.

2. Summarizing Expository Text Using Technology to Increase Comprehension in the Content Areas

ROOM: 167-171 Thursday, 10:00

Presenters: Dr. Janet Kehe and Dr. Gina Kuker

This session uses various technologies to write summaries to improve the comprehension skills of students. Using examples in various textbooks, participants will examine the organizational patterns of text structure, including description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and sequence. Current use of Before-During-After Reading strategies will help teachers apply the appropriate reading strategies to assist students in understanding content areas as teachers integrate the Common Core

3. Nature Books Are A Natural

Thursday- 10:00 Room: 175-179

David Schwartz: Keynote speaker

Literature, science and math can come together in nature books such as those that David has written, found in two series ("Look Once, Look Again" and "Life Cycles"). While projecting magnificent photographs and presenting fascinating facts about animals and plants, David shows how any nature book can be a wonderful medium for integrating many areas of the curriculum

4. Daily Five presentation

Thursday 10:00 Room: 179

Presenters: The Hubbard-RadcliffeSchool District

Are you trying to figure out how to implement the Daily 5/CAFÉ menu into your school using the collaboration of all staff? The Hubbard-Radcliffe teachers will share how they are implementing this program in their K-5 building with
Title and Special Education staff to support all students within the classroom setting. From mini-lessons to schedules and conferring to small groups they will share how this differentiated program could work for you. When thinking about elements of effective instruction and using all the resources in your building you will leave with ideas to collaborate with all staff to improve student learning and quality of instruction.

Audience: E

5. Plugged-in to Independent Reading: How to Start Strong – How to Stay Strong

(Thursday) Room: 299 Time: 10:00

Presenter: Anne Cobb, School Consultant

I have students who love to read, who hate to read, who struggle to read and who have made a conscious choice not to read. How do I engage them in Independent Reading? What supports do they need? Should I use precious class time for students’ Independent Reading? How do I hold their interest across the school year? Reading volume directly correlates to reading achievement. How do I increase reading volume with these diverse learners?

6. Text Mapping in the Content Area

Thursday, Room: 154 Time: 10:00

Presenter: Sharon Williamson, Deb Price, Laurie Wyatt,

Kelli Egan-Mennen

Text mapping is a pre-reading technique that asks students to highlight the important text features in a content area textbook. During this presentation, the participants will learn how to highlight the text so their students can see the relationship between text organization, text structure, and comprehension of the material. This connection will ultimately increase the comprehension of the material for all students in the classroom.

7. Wonderful Words

Room: 275 Thursday: 10:00

Presenter’s Name: Kate Lerseth

This session will show several strategies to help enhance vocabulary building in the classroom. Shades of meaning, discussion tools, as well as many more will be shared. Participants will receive many resources to help aid in vocabulary development in the classroom, computer lab, and at home.

Audience PS, E, TI

8. Using Manipulatives to Teach Comprehension

Room: 160 Thursday: 10:00

Presenter:Diane Merkel, Med.

Manipulatives have been used to teach phonological awareness, phonics, and other components of reading. The presenter will model techniques and show videos of students using manipulatives to make connections, categorize their connections, and make inferences. Participants will leave with handouts of strategies to use in the classroom.

9. Budget Hearing meeting in the lounge area.

Thursday at 1:15

1. Department of Educaiton: Iowa Common Core Presentation

Thursday Room: 160 1:15

Presenter:

This session will focus on the implications for curriculum, instruction, and assessment of the adoption by Iowa of the Common Core State Standards to become the Iowa Core. The issue of text complexity will be discussed along with other considerations which schools will need to address.

Audience: ALL

2. Curricular Connections through New Non Fiction

Thursday Room 299

Presenter: Tracy Briseno, Ames Public Library

“Science! Social Studies! History! Non-fiction can be fun for both you and your students. Join Tracy as she shares her passion for non-fiction. She’ll share books to support a variety of curricular needs and spark enthusiasm in learning.”

Audience: ALL

3. Fluency: How We Went Wrong and Helpful Interventions

Thursday 1:15 Room: 275

Presenters: Jerry Johns

This session will explore four main areas where we went wrong with fluency. A deep construct of fluency will be developed and a number of helpful interventions will be offered.

4. Read Naturally’s Reading Assessments: The Foundation of an RTI Model

Room: 167-171 Thursday: 1:15

Presenter: Carol Ann Kane

Participants will learn how research-based assessments can be used effectively and efficiently to support teachers, administrators, and specialist in making assessment-driven decisions to place students in curricula and intervention programs. A case study format will be used to learn how Read Naturally’s benchmark, diagnostic and curriculum based progress monitoring assessments can be used to administer the RTI model with struggling readers.

5. The Secret to School Readiness: Early Literacy strategies that promote school readiness and self-regulation

Thursday: 1:15 Room: 150-154

Presenters: Melissa Sambu, Jennifer Slipka, Kristin Allen, Debbie Gibson, Jessica Parsons

Early literacy strategies that promote school readiness and self regulation

Self-regulation enables children to engage in mindful, intentional, and thoughtful behaviors. Research by Dr. Elena Bodrova indicates that many children start school not ready to learn, not because they do not know their letters or numbers, but because they lack the ability to regulate their social, emotional, and cognitive behaviors. In this session you will leave with several developmentally appropriate strategies to help build self regulation through literacy rich activities as well as a free book for the first 20 attendee

6. Using the Digital Language Experience Approach with English Language Learners

Room: 175-179 Thursday 1:15

Presenters: David Salyer, Ph.D. and Sara Brauer

The digital language experience approach (D-LEA) is an evidence-based approach to literacy instruction that is beneficial for English Language Learners and that integrates technology. In this approach, students dictate a text based on a common experience using PowerPoint software and digital photos. The dictated text is then used for reading, building vocabulary, and other literacy instruction. Participants will learn how to implement the D-LEA to meet the language and literacy needs of their ELL students.

7. CAFE

Thursday: Room: 197 1:15

Presenter: Allison Behne

This session will focus what the CAFE (Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, & Expand vocabulary) literacy system is and how to use this system to differentiate literacy instruction, organize information onstudentperformance,and involve students in meaningful literacy activities. As a writer for The Daily Cafe website (www.thedailycafe.com), I have the opportunity to write about the positive effects of the CAFE system in elementary literacy classrooms. I will share my experiences with CAFE and provide helpful tips and suggestions to make CAFE work for you.

Audience: All

8.  Integrated Curriculum-reading and writing Across content areas

Thursday, 1:15 Room 158

Presenter: Heidi Meyer

Do you feel like the school day is spent bouncing from subject to subject without continuity? An integrated curriculum approach combines subject areas to give a more connected learning experience for students. Learn how you can combine reading, writing, social studies, science, and technology to increase student motivation, learning, and reading comprehension.

Audience: G, E, MS, A

Friday at 10:00

1. Department of Education: Iowa Common Core Presentation

Friday Room: 160 10:00

Presenter: Rauscher, W. Christine [ED]

This session will focus on the implications for curriculum, instruction, and assessment of the adoption by Iowa of the Common Core State Standards to become the Iowa Core. The issue of text complexity will be discussed along with other considerations which schools will need to address.

Audience: ALL

2. Shiver Me Timbers: Using Literature to Teach Math

Friday: Room: 150-154 10:00

Presenter: Deb Mortensen

After teaching a number of years, this presenter has collected many books that teach math concepts. At this session, you will see how she has incorporated literature to teach math concepts in early childhood. A handout will be provided that includes a math lesson plan, problem solving ideas and a bibliography of books utilized. Be prepared to participate or you will have to “walk the plank”!

3. One Minute Reader: A Motivating System to Improve Reading at Home

Friday: 10:00 Room: 167-171

Presenter: Carol Ann Kane

This presentation describes the principles of One Minute Reader, developed by Read Naturally, and to be used as an at home reading program to reinforce and improve a child’s reading skills, by modeling, repeated reading and progress monitoring. Schools use it as a checkout program for students’ at home reading during the school year or it can be used by parents to motivate their child to practice reading at home during the school year or during the summer.

4. The FUN-Damentals of Early Literacy

Friday: Room: 158 10:00

Presenter: Lori Vicker

In todays highly structure learning environments, some of the joy of being a child can get lost. In this session, Lori will demonstrate a multitude of engaging, creative and motivating activities including oral language/storytelling, writing responses to literature, easy to do magic, and poetry that’s fun.

5. Classroom Cartooning for the Artistically Challenged Teacher

Friday: Room: 175-179 10:00

Presenter: Mike Artell: Keynote speaker

Cartoons can be powerful literacy tools. They're kid-friendly and provide lots of opportunities for creativity, sequential thinking,fact/fiction, point of view and character development. In this session, author/illustrator/TV cartoonist Mike Artell shares techniques for using cartoons to develop the thinking, writing, and drawing skills of even the most reluctant learners. No artistic talent required, but bring a pencil
and your sense of humor.

Audience: All

6. From Memories to Marsupials: Moving Writing from Narrative to non-Fiction

Friday: Room: 275 10:00

Presenter’s Name : Marcy N. Roan

Brain research suggests the brain is a meaning-making, pattern-seeking organ. The implication for learning is to support the brain’s need to make meaning from new situations. To effectively connect the new with the known in our efforts to teach writing, we have to explicitly create the pathway. From Memories to Marsupials gives you practical classroom strategies to get your students to “write what they know” in order to “write what they want to find out”!

7. Formative, Summative, Authentic and High-Stakes: We’re Talking Assessment/Plugged Into Reading

(Friday) Room: 299 Time: 10:00

Presenter: Anne Cobb

I need to track my students’ progress across the year’s instruction. How can I assess today to inform my instruction for tomorrow? What tools can I use? From anecdotal records and checklists to post-assessments and rubrics, let’s talk multiple points of assessing student achievement for RTI and beyond.

8. Read-Tweet-Connect

Friday: Room: 197 10:00

Presenter: Karla Duff

Blog, Twitter, Skype: These are words that are becoming more and more common in classrooms as technology advances. This session will share the "how to" and "why" of social networking between authors, books and the classroom. See how these and other on-line opportunities are used to enhance curriculum and enrich both the students and the teachers' learning. Leave connected-no experience needed!

Audience ALL

Friday 1:15

1. Differentiated Fluency Interventions for Six Reader Types

Friday 1:15 Room: 275

Presenter: Jerry Johns

After proposing a definition of fluency that should characterize quality instruction in classrooms, resource rooms, and RTI programs, six reader types are presented. Several of these types are explored. Nine differentiated fluency interventions are provided for one of the reader types.

2. Reluctant Readers in Classroom Literacy Activities

Friday: Room: 160 1:15

Presenter: Janalyn Meehan Rogus

Teachers use classroom research to answer questions about effective practice with reluctant readers. This open discussion session will focus on what the teachers tried, how they proceeded in their classrooms,

the results for the readers, and on the teacher’s insights into their own teaching

3. Writing with Reptiles

Friday Room: 197

Presenter: David Nieves

Presenting to our Creative Writing/Poetry winners.

4. Making Reading Heavenly

Friday: Room: 150-154 1:15

Presenter: Cathy Angel

Making Reading Heavenly will focus on teaching beginning and struggling readers. Spelling strategies will be modeled. Games and activities will be demonstrated to help engage reluctant readers. “Sound moves” will provide kinesthetic help for ADHD children. This program will also be an awesome resource for ELL students!

5. Writing Structure: Success for Struggling Readers

Friday, Room: 167-171 1:15

Presenters’ Name: Frances A. Steward, RDG?LA Professor and Diana L. Goff, Assistant Professor and Field Experience Placement Supervisor at WIU and Juanita Moller, Fullbright Scholar and graduate student at WIU, from Nimimbia, Africa

Participants will actively explore children’s topical literature with interactive responding to reading and process writing connections. Motivational activities (teacher-designed) will be conducted with handout models (writing), content information, fine arts, and appropriate websites. Concepts and procedures will be provided in programs and on visual transparencies for audience members. Come and enjoy!

6. Demystifying Multisyllable Words

Friday Room: 175 1:15

Presenter’s Name: Diane Merkel, MEd.

Many students in grades 3 and above mispronounce longer words. Decoding multisyllabic words is an essential skill impacting reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. In this interactive session, participants will practice a four‐step technique to recognize patterns, identify sounds, and apply syllable division rules. The Technique is designed for a whole‐class instruction in grades 3‐high school, taking only five minutes a day and can be used for intervention groups, as well.