Monday F Concurrent Sessions 3:25 p.m.‐4:35 p.m.

F101
What Quality World Language Teaching Looks Like
Research suggests that teachers are the most powerful school‐based factor in student learning. In this session, you’ll receive an observation protocol to guide observations of World Language teachers and apply the protocol to video lessons. You’ll also receive guidelines that will assist in interviewing and selecting teachers who can help your students demonstrate the ability to develop knowledge and skills they need.

Presenter(s) Myraim Met and Alyssa Villarreal
Domain 6.0: Accountability & Systemwide Performance

F102
Better Practice Visits (BPV)
Better Practice Visits are used to increase student achievement both immediately and over the long term. These visits are a combination of instructional walkthroughs and teacher conferences. This is accomplished by conducting visits in a manner where student achievement is the focus. This allows both the teacher and administrator to be comfortable and open about what is best for students. We have used these visits as part of our improvement plan and have seen growth in “On Grade Level” of 15% school‐wide in the first year. BPV also provides excellent opportunities for embedded professional development.

Presenter(s): Brandon Payne
Domain 2.0: Culture/Climate

F103
Co‐Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom: What Role do I Play?
This session will empower the Administrator to work with teachers to educate diverse learners while supporting their social and emotional growth in the differentiated classroom. This presentation also includes methods for successfully adapting curriculum and instruction and best practice methods to address instruction in a co‐teaching classroom. Additionally, the participants will gain in‐depth knowledge of collaboration and implementation strategies for the various co‐teaching models.

Presenter(s): Tarol Wells and Kendale White
Domain 8.0: Research & Standards‐Based Curriculum/Instruction

F104
The JustCare Family Network System of Care: The Importance of School Participation in Mental Health Promotion
This presentation will introduce the JustCare Family Network (JCFN) System of Care to school principals. The workshop will highlight the principles and practices of systems of care to effectively deliver mental health services to emotionally distressed students. The presentation will highlight the importance of coordinated health efforts as best practices for creating safer schools and promoting academic achievement. The relationship between mental illness, emotional distress and academic performance will be discussed. Principals will be asked to give feedback
on how to make the system user friendly for school personnel.

Presenter(s): Leon Caldwell
Domain 1.0: Mission & Orientation

F105
Writing Goes 3‐D – No Special Glasses Required: Using Data Driven Decision Techniques to Improve Writing in the Classroom
Participants will review different techniques of using diagnostic assessment data to inform writing instruction by making it an integral, essential and highly effective part of daily life for principals and teachers alike. School leaders will learn how to collaborate in a team environment to share knowledge about students and across classrooms for systemic writing improvement.

Presenter(s): Fonda Booker and Patti Funk
Domain 8.0: Research & Standards‐Based Curriculum/Instruction

F106
The Grant Proposal as Resume: How to Land the Grant You Want (Using What You Already Know)
Seeking grant opportunities, writing grant applications and managing grant projects – do those tasks seem daunting? You already have many of the skills you need to land the grant you want. We’ll use the resume as our metaphor as we identify good practices in defining your school’s needs, researching funding sources, establishing parameters to protect your school once your proposal is funded, lining up references and structuring a proposal so that the funder just can’t help but say yes.

Presenter(s): Blake Burr
Domain 6.0: Accountability & Systemwide Performance

F107
Innovative Strategies for Improving ACT Scores: Utilizing a Rigorous Curriculum to Promote Academic Achievement
The use of data to drive a rigorous curriculum results in increased student achievement and higher ACT test scores. Participants will gain insight to various strategies and techniques that produce results that that are a true reflection of a student's potential and ability.

Presenter(s): Keyundah Coleman and Tangela Taylor
Domain 6.0: Accountability & Systemwide Performance

F108
Developing Common Assessments
This session will focus on how to drive instructional practice toward student mastery through the use of common assessments. Topics include: how to develop skill in leading teachers in the development and use of assessments, how to design and implement common assessments and tracking student mastery of content through common assessments.

Presenter(s): Precious Boyle, Lisa Henry and Antonio Ryan
Domain 6.0: Accountability & Systemwide Performance

F109
Effectively Using Common Assessment and Common Planning Time to Drive Student Achievement
Common Assessment and Common Planning Time have been touted by researchers as the most promising practice to drive schools toward dramatic student gains. Researchers such as Mike Schmoker, Rick Stiggins, Rick Dufour and Bob Eaker have all spent years researching and perfecting the systems and process that lead to quality common assessments and common planning times. Drs. Whitelaw and Ross have both led schools that used quality common planning and common assessments to garner the cohesiveness of their staff to share and support high
quality instruction and ideas.

Presenter(s): Terry Ross and Angela Whitelaw
Domain 6.0: Accountability & Systemwide Performance
Domain 8.0: Research & Standards‐Based Curriculum/Instruction

F110
Operation G.L.A.M. (Giving Leadership a Makeover)
This session will showcase a five‐star review of best practices to inspire faculty and staff to share in the leader’s vision though data disaggregation. It will also heat up a sauna of strategies to motivate the unmotivated individual through scenarios and technology that focus on accountability, competency, creativity and empathy. A roundrobin discussion and creative door prizes will conclude the session.

Presenter(s): Sharon Griffin and Cammesha Sims
Domain 9.0: Transformational Leadership
Domain 8.0: Research & Standards‐Based Curriculum/Instruction

F111
Nurturing Creativity: An Integration Model for Deeper Learning
Presenters will share strategies for implementing concept‐based integrated arts models designed to engage learners in critical thinking. Demonstrations of how conceptual understanding can be achieved in all subject areas through behaviors normally associated with the arts, such as improvisation, abstract problem solving and selfexpression are included. Additional strategies to facilitate self‐efficacy for creative thinking will be shared. Handson activities will engage attendees in the construction of an implementation sample.

Presenter(s): Dru Davis and Jim Holcomb
Domain 8.0: Research & Standards‐Based Curriculum/Instruction