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CLARE AND TAMMY
Sessions 1, 2, 3 –It’s All About the Books (Classroom Libraries)
Location: Room 114
Audience: K-6
Books are a teacher’s tools to instruct, motivate, and help students develop a reading identity. How we organize texts and give students access to texts in our classroom libraries and school book rooms influences student growth, dispositions and reading habits. What are some innovative ways can we organize texts to engage and scaffold every student in every classroom?Join us to explore some new ideas to organize texts with both instructional needs and student identity in mind.
RUTH AYRES
Sessions 1, 2, 3 –Enticing Hard to Reach Writers
Location: Room G08
Audience: K-12
In her moving, personal book, Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers,Ruth weaves together her experiences as a mother, teacher, and writer. She explores the power of stories to heal children from troubled backgrounds and offers up strategies for helping students discover and write about their own stories of strength and survival. She shares her own struggles and triumphs and hard-earned lessons from raising a family of four adopted children. Her experience is invaluable to any teacher who has met children living in poverty, unstable households, or in fear of abuse.
KIM STROBEL
Sessions 1, 2, 3 –The Science of Happiness
Location: Room 222
Audience: K-12E
Educational guru Robert Marzano says, “The single most influential component of an effective school is the individual teachers within the school.” As an accomplished keynote speaker and Happiness Coach, I wholeheartedly believe this. We know which classrooms students are excited to step into each day—and which ones they’re not. The Science of Happiness can help transform your classroom into one where students love to learn and are able to thrive. Here’s what you’ll learn: Two characteristics students are looking for in a teacher; The Happiness Research; Training the brain to be positive; Relationships with students and with co-workers; Creating more joy in your profession; Taking our power back.