Registration Now Open: SAW 2017
Join us on July 27th at the Historic Hotel Bethlehem
For full Summer Administrative Workshop details, please visit www.ciu20.org/saw
Check out the schedule of sessions below
OPENING KEYNOTE: CIU 20 Welcomes Bea McGarvey
In her keynote and breakout session, Ms. McGarvey will discuss her work with transforming mass customized learning into personalized learning. Meeting the individual learning needs of every learner is moving away from a dream into a reality . . . a reality that is hiding in plain sight. Inevitable: Mass Customizing Learning (MCL) describes a detailed vision of how schools can change from the present outdated Industrial Age assembly line structure to a mass customized learning structure with the capacity to meet the individual learning needs of every learner . . . that's every learner, not some, not most, but every learner. Yes, leaders can operate a MCL system and still remain in control! The transformational change of MCL becomes clear, logical, and believable. Mass Customizing Learning is necessary and . . . well . . . Inevitable.
Bea McGarvey has consulted with educators throughout the United States and Canada in the areas of teaching and learning, leadership and organizational development. Bea received her B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from the University of Southern Maine and is proud to be a partner in Total Leaders Associates, a senior associate at Marzano Research Lab, and a faculty trainer for International ASCD. She is co-author of Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning, The Future is Now: Shifts and Trends That are Redefining Organizations, Careers, and Life and Total Leaders: A Leadership Curriculum used by the Pennsylvania Leadership Development Consortium.
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Transforming Mass Customized Learning into Personalized Learning
Presented by: Bea McGarvey, Author and Educational Consultant
Dig deeper with Bea McGarvey with an action plan of how schools can make the “inevitable” shift to personalized learning. She will share her experiences and offer action items to spurring the movement in culture that will transform school culture and benefit students.
Develop a Protocol for Engaging “Difficult” Families
Presented by: Steve Simms, Co-Director, Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center
Educators working with children showing persistent mental health concerns sometimes are locked in impasses with caregivers. This workshop will help school-based teams develop a protocol for navigating these standoffs. The protocol begins with LEAP: Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner. This empirically supported technique helps build common ground when people are at odds. By sidestepping repeated exchanges of blame and defensiveness, LEAP inspires caregivers to open the door for collaborative partnerships. Case examples and role plays will illustrate this approach.
Leading in the Digital Age
Presented by: Lyn Hilt, CPA, Hilt Consultants, LLC
School administrators are charged with leading their schools in a time of rapid change and ever-evolving digital technologies. It is imperative for school leaders to embrace innovative shifts in teaching and learning by incorporating emerging technologies and social media to enhance professional practice, strengthen communications, boost collaborative efforts, and improve student learning outcomes in their schools. This workshop will allow participants to explore ways to address the ISTE Administrator Standards: Visionary Leadership, Digital Age Learning Culture, Excellence in Professional Practice, Systemic Improvement, and Digital Citizenship, as they serve as models and leaders of innovation in their organizations. Participants will examine leadership methods, strategies and tools for ensuring effective technology integration and communications strategies in schools and the school community. The use of current digital technologies available to support today’s principal in the areas of collaboration, creation, and professional growth will also be examined. Participants will gain an understanding of how to develop innovative professional learning opportunities for teachers, use technology to support data use/assessment, school initiatives, and help cultivate a school environment that honors personal learning experiences for all.
Act 71: Beyond Requirements to Real Impact – Keeping Your School Community Healthy When Facing a Student Suicide
Presented by: Heather Piperato, Principal, JT Lambert Intermediate School East Stroudsburg SD
Crisis Management is a normal part of our administrative life and virtually every district now has concrete plans in place for handling tragedies of all kinds. While every tragedy disrupts our community, the social and emotional impact of suicide can have some unique characteristics that require a more in-depth look at both our prevention and reaction activities. This workshop is designed for district teams to collaboratively create an action plan for a culturally appropriate response that will mobilize local resources and ensure that all members of the community feel supported. Participants will leave with a comprehensive framework they can begin to personalize at this session.
Digital Citizenship: The Foundation to Building Tech-Rich Classrooms
Presented by: Jennifer Ehehalt, Education Program Manager for Common Sense Education
As technology becomes more pervasive in our schools, educators and parents need support with issues related to digital citizenship including: Internet safety, relationships, cyberbullying, information literacy, self image, digital reputation, and creative credit. This interactive session will provide educators with immersive K-12 digital citizenship learning resources from Common Sense Education, best practices for implementation, how to become recognized as a Common Sense Educator, School or District and opportunities to extend your professional learning network around these issues.
PSERS Return to Service Guidance
Presented by: Troy W. Peechatka, Retirement Administrator, Public School Employees' Retirement System
The presentation provides an overview of the exceptions in the Retirement Code, which permit an annuitant to return to employment for a public school employer including a shortage of personnel and an increase in the workload, and the processes employers should follow when submitting requests to PSERS.
AFTERNOON PANEL SESSIONS
Bethlehem Area SD: Blended & Hybrid Learning
Panel discussion led by District Administrators and Staff
Bethlehem Area School District will provide a panel discussion about what has been working with the BASD blended/hybrid learning implementation from 2015 to present. The panel will consist of primarily of teachers as well as the perspectives of building and district level administration.
East Stroudsburg Area SD: A Panel Discussion on Suicide Prevention
Panel discussion led by District Administrators and Staff
Organizing a panel on the topic of suicide for either prevention or postvention purposes can help your community understand the preventability of suicide. However, allowing community members to interact with the panel can be apprehensive to organizers, as it is difficult to predict the questions that will be raised and the agendas of those asking the questions. This panel will model how to prepare for and conduct a panel on the topic of suicide in a way that educates the public while respecting their concerns and fears and making sure proceedings are comfortable for all involved.
Northampton Area SD: STEAM Initiative
Panel discussion led by District Administrators and Staff
Northampton Area School District will discuss their STEAM initiative, including the middle school STEAM seminars in grades 6, 7, and 8; the HS Imagineering Workshop where students investigate why and how things work and make something of their own; the elementary Makers Space areas; and Northampton School District summer enrichment programs for students in grades 2 through 8 called Camp Invention and Invention Project.
Us and Them: Conflict or Collaboration?
Panel discussion led by Steve Simms, Co-Director, Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center and CIU 20 Behavioral Health
Steve Simms will moderate the best strategy for side stepping stalemates is building alliances with others (Us) to take on a shared adversary (Them, It). The common adversary draws people together. Cohesiveness, however, is always fragile. This panel will hold an open discussion to help participants to (a) discover the key ingredients for creating “Us” and (b) anticipate the inevitable resumption of “Them”.
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