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Special Education Pre-Conference

First General Session - Dr. Catherine Collier 

Breakout Sessions: Round I

• Seven Steps for Separating Difference & Disability
• Investing in Paraeducator Instructional Capacity
• Life Beyond Mailbox Money
• Assessing and Managing Threats in Schools
• Getting a Great Start:  Leadership for New Special Education Directors/Coordinators (no materials)
• Therapeutic Classrooms:  Integration of Collaborative Problem Solving and Trauma Informed Strategies (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
• Re-Thinking Challenging Behavior in the Classroom: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach 

Breakout Sessions: Round II

• Seven Steps for Separating Difference & Disability
• Instruction at the Top of the Triangle
• Collaborative Teaching: A Partnership of General Education and Special Education (2)(3)
• Best Practices in Transition Services for Improved Post-School Outcomes (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)
• Chronic Absenteeism in Oregon: What We Know and Why It Matters
• Therapeutic Classrooms:  Integration of Collaborative Problem Solving and Trauma Informed Strategies (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
• Re-Thinking Challenging Behavior in the Classroom: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach 

Breakout Sessions: Round III

• Seven Steps for Separating Difference & Disability
• ESEA Waiver:  Using Student Growth Percentiles in Educator Evaluations
• Expanding Opportunities for Early Learning  in K-12 Settings
• Assessing and Managing Threats in Schools
• Chronic Absenteeism in Oregon: What We Know and Why It Matters
• From Compliance to Instruction: Year 0
• Using the Math Standards of Practices and Cognitive Information to Assist Special Education Students in Accessing Core Curricula and CCSS 

Second General Session - Andrea Hungerford

Main Conference

First General Session - Dr. Jamie Vollmer 

Breakout Sessions:  Round I

• Smarter Balanced Assessments: What We’ve Learned So Far
• Knowing What You Stand for As An Administrator: Finding the Right “Fit” to be Successful
• Turning Negative Heat Into Positive Energy (2)
• Can Unions and Management Really Work Together to Make a Difference for Kids?
• Top Five Device Agnostic Tools for Your BYOD Classroom
• Enhancing Teaching and Learning with iPad Across the Curriculum
• ORSkills: Free & Turnkey Supports to Improve Confidence in Local Assessment
• Are You Really Doing What You Say You Are Doing?:  Investigating Implementation to Gain Return on Investments (no materials)
• Long-Term Outcomes for English Language Learners in Oregon
• Putting It All Together: Literacy, Equity, and Assessment
• High Leverage Leadership to Support SBAC and the CCSS
• Turf Change:  An Instructional Coaching Approach
• Building Community Through Daily Morning Meetings (2)
• Dynamic Education Career Ladder and Leadership Training: Innovative, High-Quality, Job-Embedded
• English Learners 101: The Who, What, and Why of English Learner Requirements
• Improve Your School Rating:  Guess What?  It’s Not About the Test Scores
• What Would You Do?  Seven Important Lessons that the BEC Demo Sites Learned About Proficiency Implementation
• Online Learning: World Class Opportunities for Oregon’s Rural School Students
• Implementing Digital Learning
• The Why, How and What of Implementing a Digital Conversion (no materials)
• Flipping Your Professional Development: Flipped-Classroom Strategies to Maximize Outcomes With Your Team (2)(3)
• Growth Mindset and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Critical Links Between the Early Years and Early Grades (2)
• Formative Assessment Practices Based On Learning Progressions 

Second General Session - Dr. John Draper 

Breakout Sessions: Round II

• Monkey Business and More: How One School District Provides Training and Support for Mid-Managers and Administrative Assistants
• Dealing with Employees with Medical, Attendance and Performance Problems - Handout 2
• David Douglas School District P3 Innovation
• Leadership Required: Creating a Culture of “Showing Up”!
• ESEA Waiver:  Using Student Growth Percentiles in Educator Evaluations
• Leadership and Learning with iPad
• The Purpose-Driven Assessment Program: How to regain control of your assessment program, reduce over-testing, and drive student learning (2)
• Early Literacy: Supporting All Children’s Progress Toward Literacy Proficiency
• The First Years of Principalship:  Real Talk & Tips for Culturally Responsive Leaders (no materials)
• Begin with the End in Mind: Launch a Successful Employee Wellness Program
• Health Sciences Pathways:  A Regional Perspective
• An Asset-Based Approach to Engaging Community: My Language Is Not A Barrier (2)
• Yes, It’s Possible: You Can Promote Equity Without Turning People Off
• Dynamic Education Career Ladder and Leadership Training: Innovative, High-Quality, Job-Embedded
• Researcher–Practitioner Partnering for Improving Programs for English Learners
• Oregon’s Model Charter School Application (2)
• Learning Management Systems: The (Free) Digital Classrooms Every Classroom Needs
• Starting Up an Online Program in Your District
• Healthy Students & Healthy Staff = Healthy Outcomes!
• Grit to Gold
• Creating a Positive Culture in the Elementary Using High School Mentors (no materials)
• Planning Little Learner Workshops (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)

Breakout Sessions: Round III

• Measuring and Documenting School Success (2)
• Learning Culture: A MUST for Improving Schools
• Supporting Inclusive Practices in an Era of Reduced Resources, New High Stakes Testing, and Intensive Teacher Evaluation Practices
• Schools as Learning Communities Using Embedded Formative Assessment (no materials)
• Targeting Interventions and Enrichments to Individual Students: Are We Successful?
• Education in China:  The Most Efficient System in the World
• One School’s Journey: Our First Year as a Professional Development School (2)(3)(4)
• Twitter Basics (and Beyond) for Administrators
• Getting Real with Equity in Oregon Education: OEIB’s Educator Equity Advisory Group
• Social Media and Your School (no materials)
• CTE and STEM Resources for Starting or Restarting a Health Sciences Program of Study
• Assessment and Reporting Under the New ELP Standards
• NGSS Look-Fors in a Secondary Science Classroom (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)
• Beyond Discipline:  What Secondary-Level Building Administrators Need to Know About Harnessing the Power of Special Education to Improve Instruction and Achievement for All Students (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)
• Lane County Consortium Brings Studying Skillful Teaching to Lane County School Districts
• Storyteller in Chief: The Role of the Principal in Creating Positive School Culture
• Increasing Paraeducator Effectiveness 

Third General Session - Dr. Robyn Duran 

Breakout Sessions: Round IV

• One School’s Journey in Creating a Culture of Character (no materials)
• Creating a Career and College Ready Culture with the PSAT (2)(3)
• ABC’s of Mindful Leadership (2)(3)
• Increasing the Impact of Your One-to-One iPad Initiative with Professional Development
• Educational Transformation:  Life after the SIG
• Navigating and Overcoming the Constant Changes in Education
• Where Are the Jobs?: Bridging the Information “Gap” Between Education and Employment
• Using Google Tools in the Teacher/Principal Feedback Loop
  
• Dynamic Education Career Ladder and Leadership Training: Innovative, High-Quality, Job-Embedded
• Lessons Learned in Flipping Online Classrooms to Apply in Your School (2)
• Tools of the Online Learning Trade: Synchronous Meetings, Video Creation, Screen Capture and Learning Management Systems
• How to Keep Your Students In Class and On Task
• Personal Sustainability for Leaders (2)(3)
• Building Effective Partnerships with Community-Based Non-Profits to Improve Equity in Third Grade Reading
• Contracting for Performance: Accountability for Low-Performing Charter Schools
• Crisis Communications: When Violence Strikes at Home 

Breakout Sessions: Round V

• Update of Current Legislative Session
• Working Toward Closing the Achievement Gap: An Analysis of Woodburn School District’s 2014 Graduation Rates
• A Comprehensive Model for the Referral, Evaluation, and Eligibility Determination of Talented and Gifted Student K-12
• Easy Strategies to Help Secondary Teachers Embrace Literacy Strategies
• Curriculum and Assessment on iPad
• The Courage to Lead:  Creating a Culture of Care
• Building Then Sustaining a Long-Term Culture of Purpose
• Enhancing the Health and Productivity of Teachers, Staff and School Environments with Evidence-Based Wellness
• Better Together for Student Success
• Designing Oregon’s Model Charter School Application
• Early Warning Systems in Action (2)
• Middle School Advisory:  A Foundation for Student and Staff Success 

Fourth General Session - Nancy Golden (2)(3), Rob Saxton, Salam Noor