SESSION 10

SATURDAY | 2 APRIL 2016 ROOM

11:30-12:45 JOSEPH LAWRENCE VASILE Arts – Visual

Level 1- HS 1166 Target Audience: All Peace Flags in the Wind - Peace Flags in the Wind is an international traveling art installation that uses that universal language of the arts, as a catalyst to bring peace, happiness, and oneness into the world. Workshops attendees will experience the exhibit hands on and create a peace flag on fabric. Participants will view award-winning videos and documentaries that show the grassroots journey of the art installation. From an art class in Miami to the 10,000 people who joined the exhibit, to a plethora of installations at respected museums across the globe. Mr. Vasile is also producing a bilingual book, illustrated and written by his students at Yangon International School, that will be given to orphans.

JUNIATA WIBLE Music

Level 1 - MS/HS Choir Room 1115 Target Audience: MS/HS Addressing Community and Global Issues through Show Choir Productions - How can school productions be a vehicle for student character development and community service? Learn how your music department can raise awareness and promote action to address community needs and global issues. Using examples from previous shows, the workshop will give you a template for planning a production that can educate and inspire your school community to honestly present issues such as human trafficking, poverty, and family relationships.

12:45-13:45 LUNCH

Level 1 Canteen & Plaza Level MS Courtyard

SESSION 10

SATURDAY | 2 APRIL 2016

13:45-15:15 PETER BOONSHAFT Music – Strings Level 1 - HS Band Room 1128 Inspired Teaching: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue! - Using time-tested wisdom, advances in modern technology, borrowed insights on how students learn, and the message held in a simple blue box, we can inspire students to learn and flourish. This session will be useful for conductors and teachers of any level and type of ensemble.

ALEC COUROS Technology Level 2 - MS Media Center Computer Lab Designing for Online & Blended Courses (Part II) - While learning managements systems like Moodle and Blackboard are still popular choices for facilitating online and augmented courses, these systems are being challenged by ‘small-tools’ loosely-joined’ approaches to instructional design. This workshop will outline various pedagogical approaches used to construct learning environments based on freely available or low-cost tools. Participants will learn the ins and outs of some of the most common and powerful tools while coming to understand the pedagogical frameworks afforded by distributed learning environment design. Both closed and open models of learning will be explored throughout the workshop.

CHRISTINA DY Arts – Visual Level 1 - HS 1166 Charcoal Work Subtractive Drawing Workshop (Repeat) - After introducing her own work and demonstrating techniques, Christina will encourage participants to form a circle around the subject (draped sheets). Each person will work on a white piece of paper to complete a ‘negative’ drawing using charcoal and eraser.

JENNY FRANCO-MARSH / AMANDA ABEL Counseling Level 1 - MS Faculty Lounge Sandplay Therapy: A Therapeutic Intervention for Students Who Don’t Want to Talk and for Counselors, Short on Time - Are you looking for a more efficient and creative way to understand and support your students? Come and learn Sandplay Therapy techniques! After 25 combined years of practicing therapy, Amanda and Jenny brought Sandplay to their school’s counseling department, and it has infused a new energy into their program. This technique crosses cultures, bringing healing and solutions to a wide range of difficulties encountered by children of all ages. Be prepared to observe Sandplay in action and engage in thoughtful discussions of the technique with colleagues in our field!

KIRA GALBRAITH Counseling Level 1 - HS Faculty Lounge 1093 Challenging Negative Thought Patterns - This presentation will provide insight into common negative thought processes and patterns that individuals fall back on when faced with anxiety, stress, and depression. Strategies and tools will be provided on how to challenge and replace them with healthier perceptions, thoughts, and behaviors.

SATURDAY | 2 APRIL 2016 ROOM

13:45-15:15 DOUG GOODKIN Music Level 1- ES Music Room 1164 Jazz for All Ages - How can we make the complexities of jazz accessible to young children? Drawing from his groundbreaking book Now’s the Time and over four decades of experience teaching jazz through the pedagogy of Orff Schulwerk, Doug will help us demystify this great art form. Using children’s games, movement, speech, body percussion, and simple jazz arrangements for Orff ensemble, we will play our way to understanding what makes jazz, jazz and how to improvise in various styles. Those who play band instruments should bring them to add to the ensemble.

MARK HILL Arts – Drama Level 1 - Fine Arts Theater Collaboratively Creating Performance Using Gesture - Clear and interesting gestures are key to all strong character work. Learn three types of gesture and how to sequence theme into a fun, heightened performance based on a theme. Adjust using tempo, spatial relationships, and objects and you’ll have your students amazed at how quick and easy it is to make amazing theatre.

KEVIN HONEYCUTT Arts – Visual Level 1 - Little Theater Hooking Learners with Digital Tools - In this session Kevin shares free tools as well as stories about schools and classrooms that have used them to engage learners and learning. Kevin inspires educators to use exciting tools to reach even the reluctant learner.

MIKE KUCZALA Physical Education Level 2 - HS Gym Brain Principles and Brain Breaks (Repeat) - There are 6 key brain principles that support using movement in all learning situations. Discover how concepts based around novelty, emotion, meaning, social interaction, concrete experience and more dictate that educators get their students up and moving! Furthermore, the question of “Why does movement enhance the learning process?” will be answered. This session will also provide plenty of movement as participants will experience many different brain breaks that are immediately usable in the classroom!

BREEN O’REILLY Arts – Film Level 4 - HS Film Lab 4005 You Have to See these Documentaries! - How can we use documentaries to enhance learning beyond the film class? Do documentaries tell the truth? What can a visually literate student discern from viewing a documentary? This presentation will examine the ways documentaries aim to convince the audience. We will view clips from a wide variety of documentary films and will include several practical activities that can be used in the high school and middle school classroom.

JOEL PRESTI / CASSANDRA BASILE AP Level 1 - MS 1034 Intercultural Competencies: How College Board Initiatives Align with International Schools’ Academic Goals - From integrating service learning into AP courses to the development of the interdisciplinary AP Capstone program, the College Board continues to adapt and evolve its curricular programs through key partnerships and innovation. This session will explore AP developments and newly formed partnerships with organizations as diverse as WE.org, The Atlantic, the American Councils, and the National Constitution Center to further our shared goals of educating and empowering critical-thinking, globally minded student scholars. This session will spark discussion and debate and provide practical takeaways for experienced AP teachers, new AP teachers, and also those teaching curricula outside the AP.

NOEL ROBERTS Counseling Level 1 - MS 1036 How Inquiry-Based Learning Promotes Student Self-Authorship, “Investigating the Provocative Moment” - The objective of this workshop is to help participants assist students in an inquiry-based learning environment, to develop their internal voice and meet the challenges of adult life. The workshop outlines how students move through different phases toward self-authorship. It defines the “Crossroads” and its relationship to the “Provocative Moment”, and discusses ways participants can identify, embrace, and utilize the “Provocative Moment” to help students self-author. Finally, the workshop offers “Three Core Principles” for educational practice that help create student self-authorship.

TED AND CAROLYN TEMERTZOGLOU Physical Education Level 2 - MS Gym Activating Physically Literate Communities - See how communities across Canada are changing how physical education is implemented. Infused with physical literacy strategies, assessment and evaluation practices and core health issues, the Healthy Active Living: Keep Fit, Stay Healthy, Have Fun and Kinesiology: An Introduction to Exercise Science resources help secondary students succeed.

15:30-18:00 Closing Reception For All Delegates Celebrating all of our Exhibitors

Just a reminder that evening events are intended for adults only. Thank you for your cooperation. Level 1 - ES Plaza

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