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About Pre-Conference Institutes | One-Day Institutes | Two-Day Institutes | Three-Day Institutes
Our one-day Pre-Conference Institutes will be held on Friday, March 15, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. They will run 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Discounted combination registration rates are available for two one-day Pre-Conference Institutes and also with Empower19.
Additional institutes will be added as they become available.
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Presenter: Jessica Sprick
In this institute, participants will learn practical prevention and intervention strategies that can make a dramatic difference in attendance for all students in your school. Learn about variables you can manipulate to improve student attendance at schoolwide and classwide levels through universal prevention and through targeted and intensive function-based intervention with individuals who require Tier 2 or Tier 3 support.
Materials Fee: TBD
Registration Code: PD19PC010
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Presenters: Debbie Zacarian, Lourdes Alvarez-Ortiz, and Judie Haynes
Half of all students in the United States have experienced or are experiencing one or more types of serious childhood trauma (National Survey of Children's Health). When we learn that our students have experienced significant adversity, we often perceive them as having deficits that need remedying. Instead of looking at what is "broken" in the lives of these students, the presenters will emphasize science-based teaching and leadership practices that focus on seeing, acknowledging, and capitalizing on the many assets these students and their families bring with them.
Registration Code: PD19PC011
Presenters: Bena Kallick, Allison Zmuda, and Yvette Jackson
Equity-driven pedagogy is based on the fearless expectation that all students are capable of high intellectual performances when provided with high operational practices that motivate self-directed learning and self-actualization. Personalized learning is a lens to make this pedagogy a reality. It is a process that is infused into the culture of a school based on knowing our students well through hearing and responding to their voice, cocreating their learning paths, providing opportunities to deepen their learning through rich experiences, and providing opportunities for them to discover who they are and who they aspire to be.
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Registration Code: PD19PC012
Presenters: Eric Sheninger amd Tom Murray
The current speed of technological breakthroughs has led to the coming age of workplace automation, dramatically altering the world of work our students will enter. With all that is known about how students learn and the predictions regarding the world that our students will face tomorrow, a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning is education malpractice. Built on the foundation of leadership and school culture, a redesigned learning experience fundamentally shifts the teaching and learning paradigm to one that's personal. The presenters will dissect this approach to unlocking tomorrow's schools so that today's modern learners leave ready to create new industries, find new cures, and solve world problems.
Registration Code: PD19PC015
Presenter: Tony Frontier
New standards and assessments have raised important questions about the validity of assessments to accurately measure achievement and reliably clarify students' learning needs. The presenter will share tools and collaborative protocols for assessment and rubrics design that ensure that classroom-based assessments are valid and inform reliable, responsive instructional practices to support and improve student learning.
Registration Code: PD19PC016
Presenters: TBD
In this institute, participants will use cultural and linguistic pedagogy to develop vital knowledge about these populations in order to unlock that potential and build a climate of prolific, schoolwide respect and motivated engagement. This unique and authentic learning opportunity allows education professionals to engage in deeply influential activities and gain the practical tools needed to strengthen social and emotional capacity that nurtures enduring achievement for all students.
Materials Fee: N/A
Registration Code: PD19PC020