ECET2WKY
Elevating & Celebrating Educators of Western KY - Dec. 1/2
REMEMBER TO TWEET USING #ECET2KY - FOLLOW THE HASHTAG TO STAY IN THE KNOW!
Top Ten ECET2WKY Reminders
- YOU WILL NEED EITHER A LAPTOP OR A TABLET FOR ECET2WKY #donotforget
- There will be wifi at both venues #connectededucators
- All participants will receive their choice of a professional text AND a gift card (given at the end of the day) #noexcpetions
- We will have t-shirts and door prizes at the end of the day as well as your PD certificate (drawn at the end of the day) #stayuntiltheend
- Our social event will have some great tunes #educatorchoice
- We will have breakfast, lunch and PM snacks for Saturday as well as appetizers Friday night #bringyourappetite
Holiday Inn - 2910 Ft. Campbell Road, Hopkinsville, KY 42240
6:00-6:30 - Registration
6:30-6:45 - Welcome to ECET2WKY - Priscilla Keller
6:45 - 7:00 - Creating your ECET2WKY networking puzzle piece
7:00 - 7:15 - Cultivating a Calling Keynote - Natalie McCutchen
7:15-7:30 - Break
7:30-8:3) - WKY Bingo Activity - Kaysin Higgins and Robyn Darnell
8:30-10:30 - Social Event
- Hors-d'oeuvres
- Cash bar
Christian County MS - 215 Glass Ave, Hopkinsville, KY 42240
8:00-9:00 - Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:20 - Welcome to ECET2WKY - Rhea Isenberg
9:20-9:40 - Cultivating a Calling Keynote - Crystal Culp
9:40-9:50 BREAK
9:50-10:50 - Breakout Sessions One
10:55-11:45 Colleague Circle One - David Grossman and Noraa Ransey
11:45 - 12:45 - Lunch
- Student Performance - Amara Stroud
Cultivating a Calling Keynote - Missy Jenkins Smith
12:45- 12:55 - BREAK
12:55-1:55 - Breakout Sessions Two
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions Three
3:00-3:10 - BREAK
3:10-3:40 - Colleague Circle Two - David Grossman and Noraa Ransey
3:40-4:00 - Wrap Up/Door Prizes/Group Pic/Thanks
Natalie teaches at Franklin Simpson Middle School, where she has worked as the District Math Representative for Common Core Standard Rollout and has served as her department’s team leader. She is currently a member of the Site Based Decision-Making Council and is the KEA building representative. Natalie has worked as a Math Design Collaborative Teacher Leader and is pursuing National Board Certification. Natalie is also a teacher with Activating Interest in Minority Students (AIMS) and a Sunday School teacher. She loves teaching and loves her husband and three children. Natalie holds a Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades Education and an MA in Instructional Leader-Principal from Western Kentucky University.
Crystal Culp - McCracken County
A U.S. Air Force veteran, Crystal Culp has 21 years of teaching experience, all in alternative education, the last 16 have been at McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention. In 2004, she was the first teacher nationwide to earn National Board certification while teaching in a juvenile detention facility, and renewed that certification in 2014. She works to ensure that other National Board candidates receive the support they need for successful certification, currently serving Western Kentucky in a cohort model for candidate support services. In 2012, Crystal was named the Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children’s Teacher of the Year. In 2016, she was named KEA Teacher of the Year. She is currently serving on the Kentucky Department of Education Commissioner’s Teacher Advisory Committee.
Missy Jenkins Smith - Callaway County; author, I Choose to be HappyOn December 1, 1997 a 14-year-old freshman boy who had been bullied for years walked into the Heath High School lobby in West Paducah, Kentucky, and randomly fired a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol. Three students were killed. Five were injured. One of the critically injured students was 15-year-old sophomore Missy Jenkins, who was left paralyzed from the chest down. But just hours after the shooting, Missy did the unthinkable: she forgave the shooter, accepted her disability and reclaimed her life.
During the next 17 years, Missy would graduate from college, become a counselor for troubled students, marry her college sweetheart, give birth to two children, speak publicly about her life to tens of thousands of youth and adults, write an award-winning memoir and confront the shooter face to face in prison.
- Room 703 - The Connection Between Social Skills and Literacy for Students with Autism- Kelly Teague, Amy Driskill - Students with autism often struggle with social interaction. We will explore various literacy strategies that can also help boost social skills for our high functioning students with autism in the general education setting.
- Room 704 - Text Set Use and Design - Ginger Estes, Erin McCormick (SESSION WILL REPEAT) - Learn how to use Text Sets while increasing text complexity in any content area. Find out where the developed sets are at and how to develop your own.
- Room 705 - The Student-Centered Media Center - Katie Newton - In this session, participants will learn how to leverage student feedback to create a media center that is more engaging and efficient, focusing on student feedback, accountability, programming, and utilizing social media.
- Room 706 - Number Sense: Helping Teachers Make Sense of It All! - Carla Cook, Amanda Bishop - We’ve all had parents say, "I don't know how to help my child with this new math!" Sometimes we don’t know how to help our students, so how can we tell parents what to do? You’ll leave this training with a better understanding of what a productive core mathematics class looks like. We’ll explore activities on developing number sense, and provide resources that can be used to improve student achievement in math. You’ll learn to help parents and students as they become more confident in math while promoting family time as well!
- Room 707 - Jumping into the Science TCT Process - David Grossman, Olga Payne - Have questions about implementing the TCT process in your science classroom? We have answers. We'll share tips for success as well as allow you to examine some student work.
- Room 708 - Building Bridges with Learning and LOVE! - Melinda Hendley, Noraa Ransey, Kaysin Higgins, Robyn Darnell, Jenni Wyatt, Lynsey Smith (K-5) - Learn how this high-performing school closes the gap academically and socially through a culture of love. The students at North Calloway Elementary grow by building community, using flexible grouping, and creating a zealous faculty and staff.
- Room 709 - Function-Based Classroom Management - Steven Bauer, Jodi Bauer - This training will incorporate basic Applied Behavior Analysis and psychology principles with strategies you can use to better support students. As a result, you will be able to decrease time spent dealing with challenging behavior. This will allow you spend more time doing what you love to do - teach!
- Room 710 - Integrating Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom - Amy Kellen, Nathan Isenberg - Session will model the use of Stanford History Education Group's "Reading Like A Historian" and other tools to better equip social studies teachers at all grade levels to engage students in better literacy/historical thinking skills tasks.
- Cafeteria - Get Your GoNoodle Working! - Heather Dooley - GoNoodle’s movement videos and games help to keep us moving inside the classroom. It makes it easy to be active, the kid way – silly, energetic, playful, and fun! Research shows even short bursts of movement deliver big benefits for brain health and academic performance, relative to sitting quietly - Dr. Laura Chaddock-Heyman, a research scientist specializing in movement and the adolescent brain. In this session, we will give you resources to help your active learners use their energy to grow, learn, discover, and develop their academic skills.
- Room 703 - Admin Panel - Participants - Michelle Ruckdeschel (Daviess), Randy McCarty (Caldwell), Terry Sullivan (Fulton) and Brian Lile (Muhlenberg) - Kelly Melton, moderator - How can teachers and administrators collectively improve our communication to elevate student success? A panel of administrators, facilitated by Hope Street Group teacher fellow Kelly Melton, will discuss Western Kentucky teacher perception data to determine the highs and lows of teacher/administrator support and communication, offering tried and true solutions along the way.
- Room 704 - Text Set Use and Design - Ginger Estes, Erin McCormick (REPEAT SESSION) - Learn how to use Text Sets while increasing text complexity in any content area. Find out where the developed sets are at and how to develop your own.
- Room 705 - #RidersALLIN - can you handle it? - Allison Gregory and Dana Dowdy - Stop! Collaborate and listen! Riders are back sharing their #allin mission! Culture grabs a hold of you tightly using social media daily and nightly! Will it ever stop? Heck No - so come join the fun!
- Room 707 - Introduction to Love and Logic Strategies for Educators - Krystal Goins - This session will be an introduction to The 9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom. These strategies are designed to equip teachers with low stress, simple, practical strategies to help them get through the workday with more energy and less frustration. The strategies are centered around positive techniques for maintaining calm and effective classrooms.
- Room 708 - 7 Ways to use Google Forms Tomorrow - Chasity Gregory - Explore the many uses of Google Forms for your classroom! From book checkout, bathroom passes, RTI/behavior/SpEd tracking, to graded assessments (with summaries) upon submission. Google Forms is your answer to all of your classroom needs. Walk away with many forms ready to go, specific to you. Appropriate for all grade levels. For the most interactive experience bring your own device!
- Room 709 - Tackling Teaching: Do You Feel Prepared? - Stephanie Helton Beason - Are you in your first three years of teaching? Are you finding out there is a lot about our profession that you were never taught in a university setting? In this session, we will discuss what you wish you knew prior to entering the classroom. Our discussions will help inform state universities about ways in which teacher prep programs can be improved. We will also explore how you can develop your teacher leadership abilities to impact both your students and our profession.
- Room 710 - Supporting All Learners in Accessing Grade-Level Math Content by Examining Student Work (K-5) - Jana Bryant, Derisa Hindle (SESSION WILL REPEAT) - Examine student work samples and explore strategies to address students' "unfinished" learning within grade level contexts. We will examine the developmental math progressions in the areas of addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and fractions. Participants will apply strategies to strengthen their math practice in order to meet the needs of all students and leave with sample student work to enhance math PLC conversations. Recommendations will be given for addressing gaps in student understanding to prevent common pitfalls schools fall encounter.
- Room 703 - Makerspaces: Low-Tech, High-Tech & Just-released Innovation Site - Rhea Isenberg - While 3D printers and robots are great (I show these too), you can have a Makerspace without that expensive technology and be just as hands-on. I will also discuss a new innovation website I learned about at the AASL conference in Phoenix, AZ called The Innovation Destination.
- Room 704 - Becoming Culturally Relevant - Aven Cook- Participants will engage with introductory material that addresses inherent biases and how to combat them in our classrooms. In this session, educators will be brought into a discourse that will elaborate on how we as educators can increase our awareness and responsiveness to other cultures, how we can create classrooms that are safe spaces for all students, and how we can grow our own knowledge and enact culturally competent pedagogies throughout our districts.
- Room 705 - Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Gifted Learners - Stephanie Helton Beason - How are gifted students different than bright students? What do Kentucky's regulations say about how we should identify gifted and talented learners? How do we meet students' unique needs in an educational climate that focuses on the struggling learner? All these topics and more will be explored.
- Room 706 - Get them Talking, Thinking and Doing: Engagement Strategies for Literacy - Holly Bloodworth - This session will include ideas to get elementary students engaged in a balanced literacy classroom.
- Room 707 - Kentucky's Accountability System - Cassie Reding - Take a glance at Kentucky’s new accountability system, scheduled to be implemented in the 2018-19 school year. The system, developed with the input of over 6,000 people to date, has students at its center. Key goals include: promoting higher levels of student learning and achievement, reducing achievement gaps and ensure equity, establishing opportunity and access for all students to receive a quality education, building a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement and communicating a clear and honest understanding of strengths and opportunities for improvement in schools and districts.
- Room 708 - #KYGoDigital - Elaine Abanatha - The mission of #KYGoDigital is to inspire Kentucky educators to CREATE innovative leading and learning experiences, CONNECT them through social media, live digital events, and regional events, so they can SHARE together ways they are innovating allowing for more digital learning experiences for Kentucky students. Learn how this PLN CREATES, CONNECTS, and SHARES - with several favorite tech goodies!
- Room 710 - Supporting All Learners in Accessing Grade-Level Math Content by Examining Student Work - Jana Bryant, Derisa Hindle (REPEAT SESSION) - Examine student work samples and explore strategies to address students' "unfinished" learning within grade level contexts. We will examine the developmental math progressions in the areas of addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and fractions. Participants will apply strategies to strengthen their math practice in order to meet the needs of all students and leave with sample student work to enhance math PLC conversations. Recommendations will be given for addressing gaps in student understanding to prevent common pitfalls schools fall encounter.
ECET2KY
Email: meme.ratliff@jefferson.kyschools.us
Website: https://www.facebook.com/ecet2ky/
Location: Kentucky, United States
Phone: 502-724-8464
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecet2ky/
Twitter: @ecet2ky