A Two-Day Institute for All Educators
Sept. 27-28, 2019
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Keynote: LaVonna Roth, M.A.T. AND M.S. ED.
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Engage Me, Please! Using Brain-Powered Strategies
One surefire way to get our students to take ownership of their learning is to include them in the process! How? By providing opportunities to engage our students through strategies that capture how the brain learns and permits our students to have an opportunity to be directly involved in the thinking and learning! Using your
standards as the target of WHAT is to be learned, this session is a quick peek into
the WHY and the HOW!
Keynote: Kati Pearson, Ed.S.
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Developing Relationships of Resiliency
Students bring with them into the classroom the challenges from their daily lives. By better understanding the challenges our students face we can build systems to support student need and develop relationships that foster resiliency. Education is the great equalizer and what we do as educators changes lives! You truly make the difference!
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Jaime Castellano, Ed. D.
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Trauma Informed Florida Schools: Serving Students with Adverse Childhood Experiences
Participants who attend this session will be provided with a toolbox that includes the causes and effects of adverse childhood experiences in students; along with strategies and resources for creating social and emotional strength and resilience. Creating trauma informed practices are necessary for a student’s healthy development and for building perseverance and resiliency. As a result, teaching and learning experiences focus not only on academics and cognitive ability; but also on the social and emotional development of students as well. A win-win whole child scenario.
Serving Florida’s Hispanic/Latino Students: Opening Doors to Hope, Promise, and Possibility
Hispanic and Latino students represent the largest ethnic group educated in the state of Florida. For Hispanic/Latino students, an education may be their best and only path for a brighter future. Florida and the rest of our nation is filled with millions of Hispanic/Latino students who have escaped a life of poverty through hard work, a commitment to improvement, and a willingness to persevere. For the majority of them, education was the game changer. In this session, teachers, principals, and other instructional and educational leaders will receive practical and relevant strategies for moving Hispanic/Latino students forward academically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally.
In an education era that calls for student-led classrooms and 21st Century skill development, educators need to create space for children to explore their own voice through classroom management strategies that support expression and exploration of thought. This presentation will review the 21st Century Skill framework and offer strategies that promote development of these skills through classroom practices that buzz with student voice.
Making Room for the Student Voice
Pamela Dwyer, M. S. Ed.
Sallie Payne Rose, M. Ed. and Kimberlee Oakes, M. Ed.
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE Executive Function (EF) WORLD
From the studios of Florida ASCD comes a surprising tale about supporting students’ growing up and finding the confidence to develop skills in decision-making, self- regulation, and processing emotions. What began as a search for ways to strengthen students’ executive functioning skills has become an epic adventure spanning a lifetime of strategies to assist students in flexibility, leveled emotionality, impulse control, planning, organizing, and problem solving. Welcome to one of the most astonishing journeys of a lifetime, How to Train Your Dragon: The EF World.