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Table of Contents Special Event Information

Conference at a Glance

Sessions at a Glance

Recertification Form

Sponsors

Executive Directors’ Club Members

Monday Sessions

Monday Exhibitor Showcase

Tuesday Sessions

Tuesday Exhibitor Showcase

Wednesday Sessions

Presenter Directory

Exhibitor Directory

Adult Education Sessions

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Welcome to the 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute Letter from i3 Committee Chairperson â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Margaret Spivey On behalf of the SCASA team and the Innovative Ideas Institute Planning committee, welcome to the 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute. As you network with colleagues and plan your schedules, we hope that you find the activities and conference sessions both helpful and inspiring as you prepare for the 2014-2015 school year. Sessions have been planned and speakers have been selected with you and your leadership responsibilities in mind. In every observation, every innovative lesson plan, and every collaborative discussion in the field of education, students are the center of every decision made. With student centered approaches and ideas, we can never go wrong as educators. As we officially shift to a new foundation of standards that guide our steps in the best instructional delivery, let us forever remember that what does not change is meeting the diverse needs of ALL students. As administrators we empower those we lead with knowledge and support needed to push forward with greatness. Meeting those needs will continue to be at the forefront of our administrative practices within our buildings. With these concepts in place we create an instructional environment that truly provides an atmosphere for success and high student achievement. Please find within this Summer 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute, a multitude of great ideas to help you to stay connected with best practices. Stay connected with shifts and new trends in education. But above all stay connected with colleagues providing a collaborative discussion of all things education. GET CONNECTED and enjoy the conference!

2014 Innovative Ideas Institute Committee Connie Dennis, Clarendon School District 3 Rosa Dingle, St. Paul Elementary School Aimee Fulmer, Westview Elementary School Kathy Gainey, Lamar High School Marie Gibbons, Clarendon School District 2 Lee Green, Chester County Career Center Gwendolyn Harris, Scott's Branch Middle/High School Robert Jackson, Irmo Middle School William James, SC Public Charter School District Belinda Johnson, Star Center for Learning Sonia Leverette, Anderson School District 5 Melissa Lloyd, Lugoff Elementary School Tim Newman, Orangeburg County School District 4 Margaret Peach, McCracken Middle School Cindy Pridgen, Woodland Heights Elementary School Rhonda Rhodes, Wren Elementary School Jean Smith, Abbeville County School District Margaret Spivey, Greenville County Schools George Ward, Laurens School District 55

Letter from SCASA Executive Director â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Molly Spearman Great leaders are constantly looking for successful ideas, improved strategies, meaningful ways to reflect and grow, stronger friendships, and ways to serve. That is what you will find this week at the Innovative Ideas Institute. We have put together a program with keynote speakers who will motivate and teach, presenters who will share cutting-edge ideas that have been successful, and business friends who have the latest programs to help you achieve higher expectations with your students. We know that you will be a stronger school leader because of your experience this week. This has been a record year for our association. Thank you for supporting us with the strongest membership and participation that we have had in our history. You have verified that we are better and stronger when we work together. As your staff, we are constantly looking for ideas and ways to improve service to our SCASA members. Please talk with us about any changes or improvements you feel that we should implement to make our association better equipped to serve the school leaders of South Carolina. Have a great conference and thanks again for being with us!

Special Event Information Badges Please wear your i3 conference badge at all times. This serves as your admission to all conference events, including general sessions and breakout sessions. Beach Walk/Run Join us Tuesday morning for the annual Beach Walk/Run, sponsored by Pearson. The Walk/Run will start on the beach near the Embassy pool deck. Finishers get a commemorative conference t-shirt and will be entered in a drawing to win $100! Exhibitors Visit the exhibitors in the Exhibit Hall located in Kensington DG, Cambridge, Balmoral and Westminster Hallways of the Embassy Suites! The Exhibit Hall will be open Monday and Tuesday from 9:45 am-2:30 pm. Be sure to take advantage of the Focus on Exhibits from 10:00 am-11:00 am each day! Exhibitor Showcase Take advantage of the Exhibitor Showcase during lunch on Monday and Tuesday from 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm. This is your opportunity for an in-depth look at products from participating exhibitors. See your conference program for session offerings. General Sessions All general sessions will be held in the Palisades Ballroom located at The Hilton Resort, just a short walk from the Embassy Suites. Transportation will also be available.

i3 on Facebook and Twitter Know what’s happening throughout the day by liking i3 on Facebook and by following i3 on Twitter #SCASAi3. i3 Mobile App Download the i3 Mobile App on your Apple or Droid devices! The app includes breakout session information, presenter handouts, exhibitor information and more! Search for SCASA. Recertification Renewal Data In this program booklet, you will find a recertification credit form where you can list the sessions you have attended. If you would like a session(s) to be considered for recertification credit, you are responsible for completing the form and submitting the agenda and form to your personnel office. The agenda is for verification that you attended sessions at the conference. (NOTE: Your personnel office alone is authorized to determine if the session(s) may be used for renewal credits. SCASA does NOT make these decisions.) QR Codes QR Codes will also be used to scan other participants’ name badges for their contact information. QR Codes will also be used for a scavenger hunt in the exhibit hall. You may use the QR reader inside the mobile app or download one of the following QR Code scanners. iPhone/iPad: QR Reader for iPhone, Scan for iPhone, QR Code Scanner Free and RedLaser Droid: QR Droid, QR Reader for Android and RedLaser

SCASA Bookstore Be sure to visit the SCASA Bookstore! The bookstore will offer books from keynote speakers and other hot titles. It will be open daily in Kensington E. Keynote speakers will do book signings in the Palisades Ballroom at The Hilton Resort, so be sure to purchase your books before the general session. The bookstore is provided by Scholastic Book Fairs. Charging Station Charge all of your electronic devices at the charging station sponsored by Stay Mobile. The charging station can be found in the Exhibit Hall (Kensington DE) beside booth 33. Cyber Café The Cyber Café is located in the Windsor Foyer by the registration room. 4

Conference at a Glance Registration Hours Kensington F

Bookstore Hours

Sunday Mon-Tues

3:00 pm-7:30 pm 7:30 am-4:00 pm

Sunday, June 15 4:00 pm-5:00 pm 5:00 pm-5:30 pm 5:30 pm-6:00 pm 5:15 pm-6:15 pm 7:30 pm-8:30 pm Monday, June 16 8:30 am-10:00 am 10:00 am-11:00 am 10:30 am-12:30 pm 11:00 am-12:15 pm 12:30 pm-1:00 pm 1:15 pm-2:30 pm 2:45 pm-4:00 pm 4:15 pm-5:15 pm

Tuesday, June 17 6:00 am 8:30 am-10:00 am 10:00 am-11:00 am 10:30 am-12:30 pm 11:00 am-12:15 pm 12:30 pm-1:00 pm 1:15 pm-2:30 pm 2:45pm-4:00 pm 4:15 pm-5:15pm Wednesday, June 18 8:30 am-9:45 am 10:15 am-11:45 am 12:00 pm-5:00 pm

Kensington F 3:00 pm-7:30 pm 7:30 am-4:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Hours Mon-Tues

9:45 am-2:45pm

SCASA Board/Leadership Meeting Volunteer Meeting 1st Time Attendee Reception CTEA Division Meeting Technology Roundtable Meeting Special Ed Directors’ Roundtable Meeting Sundaes on Sunday

Somerset Windsor B Hampton Winchester Pembroke Kensington A Palmettos Pavilion

General Session Focus on Exhibits Deep Dive Sessions Education Sessions Exhibitor Showcase Education Sessions Education Sessions Instructional Leaders’ Division Meeting Elementary Division Meeting Middle Level Division Meeting Education Specialists’ Division Meeting Student Services Directors’ Meeting

Palisades Ballroom, Hilton Exhibit Hall, Embassy

Beach Walk/Run General Session Focus on Exhibits Deep Dive Sessions Education Sessions Exhibitor Showcase Education Sessions Education Sessions Personnel Division Meeting Elementary/Middle Meeting

Embassy Pool Deck Palisades Ballroom, Hilton Exhibit Hall, Embassy

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Education Sessions General Session Post Conference: Leading for Innovation

Palisades Ballroom, Hilton Paliasades GHI, Hilton

Somerset Kensington A Kensington B Hampton Winchester

Sessions at a Glance Common Core Forget the Standards — It's all about Indicators of Rigor! How to make sense of College & Career Readiness Standards

Monday, June 16

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance — "How do your ensure your students have 'em?"

Monday, June 16

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Making the Shift: increasing Rigor

Monday, June 16

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Puzzled About what to Do with CCSS

Monday, June 16

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Evidence vs. Opinion – Can you be the judge?

Monday, June 16

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Career & Technology Education: Uncommon to the Core

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

The Exciting New Frontier of Learning Progressions

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

District Level Planning for RTI and Common Core Integration

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Assessing the Core

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Making Differentiated Instruction a Reality

Tuesday, June 17

1:15-2:30 p.m.

C4: From Concept and Design to Implementation

Tuesday, June 17

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Building Systems to Support Implementation of the Common Core Tuesday, June 17 at the District/School and Classroom Levels: The Richland Two Experience

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Navigating the Common Core through Instructional Leadership

Wednesday, June 18

8:30-9:45 a.m.

District & School Planning for Student Learning Objectives

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-11:30 a.m.

How will you implement SLOs in SY 15-16

Tuesday, June 17

1:15-2:30 p.m.

The Administrator and Instructional Technology

Monday, June 16

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Digital Age Learning: From Vision to Reality!

Monday, June 16

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Evernote: Digital Portfolios

Monday, June 16

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Flipping for Digital Staff Development

Monday, June 16

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Standards and Assessment with iPad!

Monday, June 16

1:15- 2:30 p.m.

Leading a Digital Conversion

Monday, June 16

1:15- 2:30 p.m.

Front-loading Content in Courses Through Technology

Monday, June 16

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Exploring the Use of iPad for Literacy!

Monday, June 16

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Partners in Learning

Monday, June 16

1:15- 2:30 p.m.

How DO They Do That? Secret Tech Weapons for School Administrators

Tuesday, June 17

10:15- 12:15 p.m.

Transition to a Digital Classroom!

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Using Google Forms for Teacher Observations

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

PowerSchool and the Administrator

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Deploying and Managing iPads in Education!

Tuesday, June 17

1:15- 2:30 p.m.

Education in the 21st Century: A Digital Life 101

Tuesday, June 17

1:15- 2:30 p.m.

Educator Evaluation

Technology

Be on the Reading Edge by Motivating Readers Through Technology Tuesday, June 17

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Preparing Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Students for Tomorrow!

Tuesday, June 17

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Get Nerdy, Get Organized and Get Ahead!

Tuesday, June 17

2:45-4:00 p.m.

iParent--Parent/Teacher Communication

Wednesday, June 18

8:30- 9:45 a.m.

Is Your iPad Truly Mobile?

Wednesday, June 18

8:30-9:45 a.m.

Mock Student Discipline Hearing

Monday, June 16

10:15-12:15 p.m.

School Law Updates

Tuesday, June 17

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Mock Student Discipline Hearing

Tuesday, June 17

10:15-12:15 p.m.

Supporting New Teachers

Monday, June 16

11:00-12:15 p.m.

MODEL - A Total Package

Monday, June 16

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Pay for Public School Administrators

Monday, June 16

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Growing Our Own: Developing Effective Leaders for 21st Century Schools

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Formative Feedback for the Principal

Tuesday, June 17

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Leadership Training that Pays Off

Tuesday, June 17

2:45-4:00 p.m.

One in 88?! Autisum

Monday, June 16

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Ok, I Admit It, Suspension Doesn't Change Behavior

Monday, June 16

2:45-4:00 p.m.

District level planning for RTI and Common Core integration

Tuesday, June 17

11:00-12:15 p.m.

Special Needs Can Succeed

Tuesday, June 17

1:15-2:30 p.m.

The Sticky Spiderweb of Special Education Laws

Tuesday, June 17

2:45- 4:00 p.m.

School Law

Personnel

Special Education

South Carolina Association of School Administrators 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute June 15-18, 2014 Recertification Form Date

Monday, June 16

General Session Keynote Stephen M.R. Covey

Tuesday, June 17

Kevin Carroll

Wednesday, June 18

Dan Heath

Session 1 Education Sessions

Session 2 Education Sessions

Session 3 Education Sessions

I certify that I attended the sessions listed. Signature: _____________________________________ Please note: Your personnel office alone is authorized to determine if the session(s) may be used for renewal credits. SCASA does NOT make these decisions.)

Conference Sponsors SCASA and the 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute planning committee wishes to extend a special thank you to the sponsors of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conference. When visiting the exhibit areas, please make an effort to thank these sponsors for their support of SCASA and public education.

ACT, Inc. Apple Education C2 Collaborative Classworks Curriculum Associates Data Recognition Corporation Herff Jones Horace Mann ID Shop JAMF Software Lifetouch National Studios Lightspeed Technologies NWEA Pearson Renaissance Learning Rhodes Graduation Services SC ETV Scholastic Book Fairs Staymobile Virco, Inc

Executive Directorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Club Members Platinum Level

Gold Level

Silver Level

Bronze Level

Monday

Monday, June 16 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Focus on Exhibits

Keynote Speaker 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Hilton Palisades Ballroom

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Deep Dive Sessions 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Breakout Sessions

Stephen M.R. Covey

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Snap Learning Spot 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Snap Learning Spot 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch on Own 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Exhibitor Showcase 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions 1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Snap Learning Spot 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Snap Learning spot 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Snap Learning Spot

The 13 Behaviors of a High Trust Leader Stephen M. R. Covey is the author of The SPEED of Trust, a groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue. Instead, the book demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver—a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. Covey advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy. Covey is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. He personally led the strategy that propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. A Harvard MBA, Stephen M. R. Covey joined the Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer, became National Sales Manager, and finally President & CEO.

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Snap Learning Spot

Deep Dive Sessions Room: Palladium A (Brighton Building) The Winning Combo to Improve and Accelerate Student Performance: Assessment Tasks Matching CCSS Rigor and Selective Student Engagement Strategies Beth Reynolds & Sandy Addis, National Dropout Prevention Center Classroom assessment has the greatest impact on student learning and achievement of any educational innovation ever documented. Leaders need to have first-hand knowledge of its power and how best to recognize it, support it, and model it with teachers. Preparing students for success in a highly competitive, global, and information rich world first requires educators to use classroom assessment as a springboard for rethinking and redesigning the work students will be asked to do as well as for engaging them actively in the process. In this interactive session, Dr. Beth P. Reynolds will engage all levels of leadership in examining customized unit planning templates, strategies, video clips, and stories from five year olds to Grade 12 students and across subject areas to illustrate the power of creating assessment tasks and accompanying checklists that both align to CCSS and open the door for involving students in ways that research has shown to result in huge gains in learning and achievement. They will also talk about ways to provide teachers with appropriate feedback to improve, whether from the school or the district level.

Room: Palladium B (Brighton Building) Mock Student Discipline Hearing with Full Discussion of All Legal Issues that Arise Kathy Mahoney, Vernie Williams & Dwayne Mazyck, Childs & Halligan, P.A. After presenting an actual mock student discipline hearing (with live attorneys, witnesses, and testimony), the presenters will discuss all the critical student issues administrators need to know, including student misuse of social media, searches of students consistent with NJ v. TLO, and admissibility of evidence at student discipline proceedings.

Monday

Monday, June 16 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Education Sessions

Snap Learning Spot 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Room: Hampton The Richest School in Town

Otis Reed & Judy Holmes, Manning Primary School Manning Primary School has implemented a school-wide focus on positive character traits, good citizenship and leadership skills through a study of Marty from The Richest Man in Town by V.J. Smith. School and community relations have strengthened as a result of the enthusiasm from this initiative. Diverse community stakeholders have committed to and are serving as “Marty Mentors.” Manning Primary School is Making Attitudes and Relationships Top priority Year round with a school-wide book study, community involvement, positive mentors for students and rewards for Marty-like behavior. Students demonstrating improved behavior and increased achievement are rewarded with “Marty Parties”, use “Marty Money” and earn “Marty Medallions.” Former i3 speaker, V.J. Smith and Marty have given Manning Primary School and its surrounding community a blueprint for leading a rewarding and productive life. Come learn how to replicate this successful character education and community mentoring program.

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Room: Hampton iLead: Student Leadership & the Power of Positive Energy Steven Puckett, Indian Land Elementary School Imagine a framework that would allow you to transform your school to a culture of leadership for all stakeholders. The iLead Framework gives you and your school an opportunity to take existing or start up programs and streamline them for maximum effectiveness. Elements such as; parent volunteer opportunities, character education, community involvement, service learning, mentoring, leadership development, academic enrichment, project based learning, and collaboration with other schools being some examples. The iLead framework is a “different” approach to establishing leadership and sustaining success in the school setting. 12

Monday

Apple Digital Learning Camp

Education Sessions 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Room: Eton Improving Behavioral Outcomes in Charleston County Schools

Room: Windsor C Digital Age Learning: From Vision to Reality

Panel Discussion with South Carolina Leaders, Apple Inc. The panel discussion will focus the vision, implementation strategies, professional development practices, community engagement strategies and more required for successful digital learning and teaching initiatives. Learn from your peers on how those factors that school leaders should consider as they transform their schools into innovative hubs of teaching and learning. From financing to professional development, we will learn best practices from school based leaders that have been successful with implementing iPad initiatives.

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: Windsor C Standards and Assessment with iPad Apple Inc. The movement toward standards-driven content is occurring across the United States, emphasizing that technology be deeply integrated into the educational experience across all subject areas. New assessment systems require schools to be prepared for deployment in 2014. Join us at this event to learn how Apple can support you through these critical transitions. Learn how iPad and a wide range of instructional content such as apps, books, podcasts, and learning resources can support national and state standards.

2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Room: Windsor C Exploring the Use of iPad for Literacy! Apple, Inc. Join us for an opportunity to explore some of the amazing apps demonstrated in Kristi Meeuwse's featured session. Kristi is an Apple Distinguished Educator and is the author of the iteachwithipads.net blog. We will explore the apps mentioned in her session that led to transformation in the classroom. Kristi will share her list of favorite digital resources for elementary students, and will discuss how these apps and resources have facilitated personalized learning!

Patricia Daughtry, Charleston County Schools & Blake DuBose, Pearson Behavior and discipline have become increasingly more important in today’s schools, and with research pointing to a direct link between behavior improvements and academic advances, districts across the country are focusing on behavior and discipline initiatives. Charleston County Schools has recently begun the implementation of a new system that combines online universal screening for behavior with the BESS, professional development, incident data processing, behavior planning, progress monitoring, and a virtual real-time behavior coaching utility to realize their goals for students. By combining decades of research with current behavior data and universal behavior screening, Charleston is excited to make great strides with PBIS and MTSS. This presentation will focus on the background of Charleston County’s needs and decision-making process, as well as their experience and results so far. We will also take a look at how the system used in Charleston County has helped similar districts to reduce Suspensions and Expulsions, reduce Disproportionality, and increase positive behavioral and academic outcomes for all students.

Room: Oxford The Center for Educational Partnerships: Working Together to Transform Learning, Schools and Communities Lemuel Watson, University of South Carolina, Jerry Mitchell, Center for Educational Partnerships; Hannah Baker, SC Writing Improvement Network; and Tom Hudson, SC School Improvement Council The new Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) at the USC College of Education was created to encourage and facilitate broad-based, innovative collaborations that bring together existing resources from all sectors of the community for the purpose of ensuring that all of South 13

Room: Winchester Make Personalized Learning a Reality by Creating a Blended Environment Terry Pruitt & Christina Horowitz, Spartanburg District 7 Learn about Spartanburg School District 7’s blended learning initiative, Seven Ignites, as well as how personalized learning has become part of the culture from K5 – grade 12. Lessons learned on the road to a district-wide digital conversion will be shared, as well as what is essential in making blended learning successful across all schools and grade-levels. Also learn why Classworks has been a key component of moving the district toward personalized learning. District 7’s implementation of Classworks is a model for other districts planning to personalize learning and using technology to advance student academic performance.

Participate in the QR Code Scavenger Hunt in the Exhibit Hall and Win an iPad Air!

Monday

Carolina’s children have access to a high quality 21st century education. Through its five member programs and initiatives, CEP provides services directly to teachers, schools, districts and families in the areas of professional development, family and community engagement, and research and policy analysis. In addition, CEP is developing new virtual spaces in which schools, families and communities can connect with post-secondary institutions, businesses, non-profits, government agencies and other stakeholder groups in order to find the expertise, resources and assistance they need to improve their schools. CEP is also working to provide mechanisms through which researchers and education experts can partner with schools and districts to speed dissemination of proven practices, conduct field trials of promising models, and develop and test innovative research-based models. The Dean of USC’s College of Education Dr. Lemuel Watson and Directors of CEP member programs and initiatives will engage in a panel discussion and dialogue with attendees about ways that CEP can meet the needs of school and district administrators.

Room: Pembroke The Administrator and Instructional Technology Keith Brown, Doug Henderson, & Marc Frechette, Georgetown County Schools This session will describe the importance of administrative involvement with technology, as well as the different ways that Administrators can get involved in the integration of Instructional Technology at their schools. We will offer live online tools for to engage the Administrators during the session. The session will further discuss practical ideas, guidelines, web tools and resources that foster growth using Differentiated Instruction and implementing strategies for the Common Core standards. The presenters will represent Elementary, Middle and High School topics.

Room: Kensington A Forget the Standards — It's All About Indicators of Rigor! How To Make Sense of College & Career Readiness Standards — ACT, Common Core, Cambridge… Worldwide! Penny Reinart, Center for College & Career Readiness This session provides educators with essential, immediate strategies to make sense of and master College & Career Readiness Standards using the key indicators of Rigor.

Room: Kensington B Flipping for Digital Staff Development Donna Hooks & Heather Daminov, Burgess Elementary School Are you tired of the same old staff development? Do you want to get your staff engaged and model the latest technology using 21st century tools? The administrative team from Palmetto's Finest Burgess Elementary School has transformed traditional staff development by "flipping" staff meetings and going digital and paperless. They will share how you, too, can become proficient with interactive technology to extend teacher learning and make efficient use of time.

Monday Room: Kensington C Evernote: Digital Portfolios Jessica Donaldson & Bill Gaskins, Berkeley County Schools Evernote is a digital tool that can be used to create portfolios that document or showcase student work. In this session, participants will see portfolio examples of student work and have hands-on time to create practice portfolios. Whether you have an iPad, an Android smartphone, or Windows laptop, Evernote is the perfect tool to document student growth.

Room: Somerset The Impact of Early Literacy on Black Male Matriculation through College Graduation Raashad Fitzpatrick, Gaffney High School This session will provide a blueprint of the successful path from birth to college graduation for black males. Specific strategies on early literacy development, reading acceleration, building a college going mindset with black males, building college going cultures in middle and high schools, student motivation, student accountability and responsibility, overcoming poverty, and mentoring. This session will give educators the knowledge to equip all students with the tools necessary to attend and graduate from college. The common core goals of college and career readiness will be evident throughout this presentation.

Room: Windsor B One in 88?! What Am I Supposed to Do with All of These Kids with Autism? Cassie Cagle, Beth Taylor & Hollis Walsh, Aiken County Schools Has the rapid increase in students with autism caused concern for your department, your school, or your district? Are you trying to figure out how to not only include, but also bolster these awesome individuals in your district? After 11 years of creating, tweaking, and innovating, one school district has found some answers. Growing from a small idea with 20 children and 5 staff members into a large program with 250 children and 45 staff members, Aiken Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Autism Program is experiencing success. Students are served through a 2 Tier system with emphasis on intensive therapy at a young age and social/behavioral support groups as they mature. Most students with autism are served in inclusive settings, regardless of their communication skills. Formerly non-verbal students are finding success in many ways. These success stories include, but are not limited to, holding the highest test scores in their class, qualifying for gifted and talented programs, singing solos in school programs, and making life-long friends. Some students who continue to be unable to talk are finding ways to make great grades and scores on tests. Join us as we share the program structure, research-based strategies, and staff training that make up the Aiken County Autism Program.

Room: Windsor A Supporting New Teachers: A Model for Growth Rebecca Partlow, Janet Morris & Gail Sumwalt, York District Three The Rock Hill Schools have developed an induction program that has proven successful in developing first-year teachers. Through support from mentors, administrators, and district specialists, first-year teachers develop their skills and have their growth assessed through a growth rubric. This session will highlight the success of the program and provide participants with suggestions and samples for implementing a similar model.

Charge Your Mobile Device at the Charging Station in the Exhibit Hall! Sponsored by Staymobile

Monday

Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building) Designing the Effective School Division Assessment System Brenda Wilson, NWEA This workshop is designed to assist teams of school superintendents, key administrators and teacher leaders to develop and/or improve their school district’s assessment programs so that they are: driven to improve learning; streamlined and efficient; smart about accountability; and strong in providing data to educators that will help them improve instruction. Participants will participate in an introduction to the following activities: inventory of their current assessments; review and clarify the purposes that will drive their assessment program; discuss common definitions of summative, formative, and interim assessments; identify the audiences (board, administration, teachers, parents, students) for data from their assessments and clarify the data that is most useful to each audience; examine some of the key metrics that they use to evaluate schools and/or guide improvement, and explore ways to improve those metrics; consider strategies for setting goals that will guide improvement. It is suggested that schools/districts bring teams to this workshop. Team members may include: school superintendents, key administrators and teacher leaders.

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Room: Lands End (Brighton Building) Overview from TransformSC Schools and Action Team on Project-Based Learning

TransformSC’s Project-Based Learning Action Team 37 schools across South Carolina are participating in TransformSC - a collaborative effort of business leaders, educators, parents and students to incubate and accelerate educational change. One transformational practice being implemented in TransformSC Schools is Project-Based Learning. TransformSC’s Action Team will give an overview of their activities and schools will share their experiences with Project-Based Learning.

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Monday, June 16 Exhibitor Showcase 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Room: Eton Fast-track Student Achievement with Intervention and Assessment Solutions TE21

TE21 offers solutions for schools and school districts in preparing students for state testing and Common Core. Products include: CASE benchmark assessments for kindergarten through HS, including new ACT prep tests; SCORE21 formative assessment builder; Academy of READING and MATH remediation/intervention software; Path Driver for Reading and Math, a universal screener and RTI tool; Fuel Education Personalized Learning Platform for online learning; and more. Learn how districts/schools are using these tools to diagnose, intervene and transform instruction. Hear from teachers and administrators who use TE21’s award-winning products to improve their schools.

Room: Oxford Adaptive Learning -- the Key to At Risk Readers' Success! Erika Lawrence, Dorchester District Two for Imagine Learning Adaptive, individualized instruction gives at-risk readers what they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. In order to provide such impactful instruction, Dorchester School District II has implemented technology-based intervention programs and techniques to differentiate instruction. By continually assessing student’s progress, engaging students in learning, and tailoring instruction to each student’s needs, Dorchester School District II is seeing gains with their at-risk readers.

Room: Winchester Assess, Teach, Learn Renaissance Learning Renaissance Learning has assessments built for insight and tools that empower teachers. Our reading and math tools tap into a student’s natural interests, so they don’t think of learning as work. As a result, they practice more, learn more, and achieve more.

Room: Pembroke NWEA/MAP Informed Learning Paths from Achieve3000 Achieve3000 This session will showcase how Achieve3000® has joined forces with Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) to develop a powerful new integration that will allow educators to create MAP® Informed Learning Paths. This product combines the differentiated instruction of Achieve3000 with the skills and concepts measured by Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) Interim Assessments and required for College and Career Readiness. As an Achieve3000 user, you will have access to MAP Informed Learning Paths using MAP Assessment data and Achieve3000 data to create a personalized and differentiated learning path for each student. Achieve3000’s differentiated online literacy solutions for grades 2-12 reach all students oneon-one at their individual reading levels, accelerating reading gains, boosting mastery of Common Core standards and performance on high-stakes tests, and preparing them for college and career. Please join us to hear more about Achieve 3000 and the exciting new Map Informed Learning Paths.

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Pearson Pearson offers an Instructional Improvement System (IIS) that features a fully web-based platform that taps into the power of data-driven K12 education for millions of American students. This IIS manages the daily tasks of formative and summative assessment, performance data analysis, instructional planning and lesson plans, curriculum management, intervention and remediation efforts, RTI, professional development, and educator evaluation. It accomplishes all of these functions in a fully automated, collaborative manner that provides a single destination for all teachers and administrators. This IIS solution is called Schoolnet. Schoolnet has a single sign on with PowerSchool and automatic synchronization. Several states are currently using Schoolnet for their IIS. Please join us for a unique IIS presentation.

Room: Kensington B “Next Generation” Skills in the Classroom Learning.com One of the most important things you can do to prepare students for “Next Generation” Assessments are to integrate technology into core instruction. This will help students be comfortable with online assessments and give them the confidence they need to perform at their best. EasyTech's interactive lessons help students develop mouse, keyboarding, word processing, and other technology skills while they study core subjects. Designed with the busy classroom teacher in mind, EasyTech can be easily included in daily routines. Our 21st Century Skills Assessment provides deep insight into students' grasp of 21st century skills. Get a clear understanding of your students' creativity, innovation, critical thinking, decision making, and digital citizenship skills. WayFind uses performance-based and multiple-choice questions to measure teachers' 21st century instructional skills. Join us to see how students and teachers can practice “Next Generation” Skills every day in the classroom.

Room: Kensington C Found Common Core Materials Already? Now What? Kurzweil & IntelliTools There are many great materials on the market that are aligned to Common Core. Now that you’ve found them, how do your students succeed while working with them? Kurzweil 3000-firefly is a powerful literacy tool that provides support into the very same curriculum and materials you’re already working with. When it comes to Common Core, if your students are struggling with Text Complexity, Informational Text, Academic Vocabulary, Close Reading, Text-Dependent Questions, or writing, then Kurzweil 3000-firefly can provide great benefit.

Room: Hampton Performance Management System and Student Growth Model All in One American Reading Company American Reading Company's SchoolPace/eIRLA captures achievement data that targets reading growth for every student, every classroom, every school, every day while making data actionable between interim assessments. An online formative assessment tool built on the Common Core, this system measures student achievement in real time to drive instruction. Using embedded assessment, teachers identify the skills that each student has mastered and which ones he/she needs to do next.

Room: Somerset Harnessing the Power of Research to Inform Data-Driven Hiring and Increase Student Achievement TeacherMatch The presentation summarizes ongoing research that determines which skills, abilities, knowledge, attitudes, dispositions, and experiences are most essential to teacher effectiveness. Our study has analyzed the relationships that exist between the survey responses of thousands of teachers and those same teachers’ ability to increse student achievement.

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Room: Kensington A SchoolNet

Monday Room: Windsor A Donors Choose – Our Partnership to Help Educators Find Funding for Classroom Projects Horace Mann A brief introduction to Horace Mann’s multiyear partnership with Donors Choose, a nonprofit organization that lets you share your classroom needs with a thriving community eager to help. Supporters have brought teachers' ideas to life in more than half of all U.S. public schools.

Room: Windsor B Literature, Assessments and Data That Drives Them

Room: Lands End (Brighton Building) Measuring the Impact of Technology on Learning: Just the Facts BrightBytes Billions of dollars are spent each year on educational technology. How can you ensure your investments impact learning? Explore the research in this interactive session.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Leadership and Learning An overview of each of the 3 title pieces. We’ll look at our Literature series and how it engages and enables all children to learn at their own pace for on, above and below level students. We’ll then pivot to formative assessments, authentic performance tasks, text dependent questions, close reading and text complexity to show learning. Finally we’ll look at systems to gather data and adjust instruction.

Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building) Community to Student Achievement Results

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Harriett Jaworowski, York District 3 Rock Hill Schools is transforming classrooms by providing all students with challenging work that authentically engages them in the learning process and prepares them for successful futures and is dedicated to bridging the digital divide and it shows. A new study found that usage of Discovery Education’s digital science textbook is associated with higher science achievement scores in elementary school students. Specifically, the data suggests that the Discovery Education's Science Techbook™ increases student science achievement and bolsters the effectiveness of teaching when educators integrate it into classroom instruction. To download the full research study results, visit www.discoveryeducation.com/rockhill.

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Monday, June 16 Education Sessions

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Instant Ideas Theme: Professional Development & Leadership

1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Room: Hampton Redefining Alternative Programs Josie Kate Haupfear & Tanya Wilson, Clinton High School What comes to mind when you hear the term "alternative program?" Come and learn how our district is thinking outside the box to create a non-traditional alternative program for students. In this session, participants will hear about how we identify and invite learners to participate in our alternative program, which focuses on helping middle school students transition into the high school environment.

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Room: Hampton 10 Lessons for the 21st Century Learning in the Freshman Academy

Room: Kensington B This format of learning has been spreading across the country and world! Each talk is exactly five minutes long and covers a variety of topics. Presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 24 slides, 20 seconds per slide for a total of 8 minutes. The following topics will be shared.

Mission Possible: Teamwork and Resilience Make the Impossible Possible Gloria Talley, Mary Gaskins & Howard Bissell, Lexington District One

Whatever It Takes! Amy Cothran, Jennifer Bufford & John Economou, Palmetto Elementary School

Inquire, Ignite, Inspire...Innovate! Donna Teuber, Richland District Two

Flip and Become a Blogger

Seth Young & Paige Dillard, Wren High School Freshman Academy; Robby Roach, Jeff Boozer & Nathan Croston, Palmetto High School

Beth Shelton-Brooks, Pomaria-Garmany Elementary School & Kim Shelton-Hamilton, Boundary Street Elementary School

Learn how a Freshman Academy is taking the next steps to stay relevant in the 21st century. See how teachers and students are utilizing data to guide instruction during the 9th grade year and making the Freshman year more than just a transition from middle school to high school.

A Different Model of Collaborative Instructional Planning Mary Martin, Winthrop University

Teacher Toolbox for Teacher Candidates

Marian Crum-Mack & Sean Bishton, Rice Creek Elementary School

Faculty Meetings that Promote Student & Adult Learning: What, Why, and How Kimberly Mack, Carol Hill & Lisa Grice, South Florence High School

Monday

Education Sessions 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: Winchester Partners in Learning!

Room: Eton The Leader in Me – 3 Principal’s Perspectives

Looking for ways to improve your technology skills or those of your staff? Interested in partnering with other schools across the world? Looking for ways to gain recognition and bring powerful resources and tools to your campus to transform the learning environment through teaching and learning? Then we have just what you need! Come learn about Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Program and an excellent opportunity to be an attendee at the Partner’s In Learning Global Forum. In this session you will learn about free resources, valuable international networking, and opportunities to become recognized as an Innovative School!

Lori Dibble, Summerville Elementary School; Cammy Groome, Newington Elementary School; and Kathy Sobolewski, Rollings Middle School of the Arts Come here from three principals, each at different stages in the LIM process and how their paradigm shifted in school management and student leadership. They represent the elementary and middle school levels and are willing to answer any questions you might have. Whether you’re already in LIM school or are in the process, the insight these ladies will provide will be useful to anyone joining. Learn what to expect, pitfalls to avoid, and practices to sustain the leadership model in your school.

Room: Oxford Caught in the ACT 2.0 Sean Alford & Elena Furnari, Dorchester District 2; Trish Beason, Stephanie Mathis & Beth Pace, Spartanburg District 1 Is school-wide or district-wide ACT, WorkKeys, and/or QualityCore testing something new for your school or district? Do you need a plan to prepare for all of the changes in assessment in SC? Come learn from our experiences in Dorchester District Two and Spartanburg District One where we created an opportunity for large numbers of our students to take the ACT and WorkKeys. Students participated in a district-wide administration of these tests as a part of our district’s ongoing College and Career Readiness initiatives. We also used the QualityCore program to enhance and evaluate non-EOC core academic courses. The ACT assessments support the goals of our initiatives by providing an objective and nationally recognized indication of student readiness for postsecondary education and career success. Learn how using ACT results will help your students move toward their college and career goals while providing your teachers, counselors, and administrators with actionable data!

Wendell Sumter, Great Falls Elementary School

Room: Pembroke Work Based Learning on the Loose in Richland 2

Pepper Busbee, Blythewood High School & Mary Harmon, Ridge View High School RSD2 WBL coordinators will share creative and innovative ways of using WBL opportunities in and out of the classroom in preparing students for 21st century jobs. Will also present ideas for bringing the real world of work to students and their classrooms.

Room: Kensington A Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance — "How Do You Ensure Your Students Have 'Em?" Penny Reinart, Center for College & Career Readiness The one most significant factor in student success, no matter a students' IQ, socioeconomic background, or grade point average, is GRIT! But, how do you measure and nurture grit with every student on your campus? Discover ground breaking tools and strategies that quantify your work in the area of the non-cognitive skills that have the greatest impact on mastery of standards.

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Carole Ingram, Jerry Henderson, Angela McCord & Brooks Thomas, Beaufort Middle School See how Beaufort Middle is working with its teachers to grow towards the Common Core through increasing rigor in the classroom. We will tell you how we have used technology, performance tasks and many other strategies to target thinking, problem solving, questioning, and assessment practices to increase rigor and student achievement. Learn how we planned and implemented differentiated professional development on multiple tiers and how it was applied in our classrooms,

Room: Somerset Profile of the South Carolina Graduate Betty Bagley & Peggy Torrey, TransformSC What is TransformSC? What is the Profile of the Graduate? What do they have to do with each other? This session will introduce you to both.

Room: Windsor A MODEL- A Total Package Angela Cooper, Cecil McClary & Connie Lastinger, Lexington District Two Lexington District Two is building a culture of excellence using design-based learning practices. This "Total Package" links Selection, Employee Growth-Development-Evaluation, and Retention. We will demonstrate an innovative, appealing, participant centered, engaging, and interactive concept design. Utilizing Virtual Learning Environment protocol we will share how we have implemented this program in our district. This process has enabled us to more effectively recruit, provide engaging professional development, and retain the best employees. As an attendee, you will leave this session with information that you can use in your district.

Room: Windsor B The Transition from Assistant Principal to Principal Sandy Lindsay, University of South Carolina Maybe you have just been given the head Principal role or hope to take on that responsibility as your next career move. How should you prepare? What will be the biggest differences in responsibility and how can you prepare to perform them. In this session learn some professional tools, gain some insights and share with others who have a similar challenge ahead.

Room: Palladium A (Brighton Building) Classroom Mosaic 2.0: Using Walkthrough Observation Data to Foster Continuous Growth Robert Jackson, Irmo Middle School Are walkthrough observations a common practice in your district/building? Do you provide teachers with instant feedback? How do you use data and analyze these observations? Using todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interactive technologies (such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and/or laptop computers), learn how an administrator in Lexington District Five and a pair of students created and implemented a systematic and efficient walkthrough observation protocol which tracks observer and classroom performance data while simultaneously allowing school leaders and teachers to create a dialogue which fosters an environment of continuous growth. Completing observations any other way would not be efficient or effective for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s multitasking school leaders. If you are searching for a better way to get into classrooms while providing effective, reflective, and timely feedback for teachers, you are only a few steps away. Come join this session. You will not be disappointed.

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Room: Kensington C Making the Shift: Increasing Rigor

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Room: Palladium B (Brighton Building) Leading a Digital Conversion Tanya Campbell, York District Three Are you are 1:1 school or considering becoming a 1:1 school? Do you have plan? Are you ready for the cultural shift? These questions and many more need to be considered and planned for as you lead your school community through a digital conversion. This session will discuss implementation, professional development, and curriculum integration of the iPads in the classroom setting as well as provide practical tips and advice.

Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building) Puzzled About What to Do with the Common Core State Standards? Jacqueline Jamison & Sharon Quinn, Orangeburg District Five Common Core Curriculum Guides, Revised Report Cards, Common Core Institutes, Instructional Framework, Teacher University, Mastery Logs...These are a few of the "pieces" Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five has put in place as we transitioned to the Common Core State Standards. Participants will learn OCSD5 implemented each of these strategies during this session. Handouts and a toolkit of resources will be shared with all participants.

Room: Lands End (Brighton Building) RAMP-ing Up Your School Counseling Program Rob Rhodes, Greenville County Schools; Marci Newman, Ashley Ridge High School; & Jennifer Adams, Rocky Creek Elementary School Comprehensive, developmental school counseling programs are collaborative efforts benefiting students, parents, teachers, administrators and the overall community. During this session, we will share specific data-driven best practices, including RAMP, which maximize the effectiveness of a school counseling program. We will share strategies in the use of technology, communication, building a college-going culture. and partnering with parents and community. We will also examine the principal-counselor relationship and the role of a school counselor as an integral partner in student achievement.

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Snap Learning Spot 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Room: Hampton What Message are you Sending?

Jason Warren, Beck Academy & Eric Williams, Riverside Middle School What message are you sending? Every time a parent receives an email, walks your halls, or reads a letter that was sent home they are forming opinions based on the professional quality of your communication skills. When you communicate with business partners that understand the importance of branding and communicating with marketing in mind, are they impressed with your school, or are you sending a message that you don't care as much about your school as they do about their business? You can improve the impressions given to your community stakeholders by viewing your communication through the lens of a marketing firm and establishing as much control over the messages your are sending (intentional and unintentional) as possible. Presenters will use a school Smartphone App, high quality brochures, electronic photos of logos, school wide displays, digital branding, social media screenshots etc... to demonstrate a high quality approach to school branding and communication to any school's community.

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Room: Hampton Data Disaggregation in a Snap Lavoy Carter, Kershaw County Schools Turn the hundreds of columns and thousands of rows that is your assessment raw data into meaningful information in LESS THAN ONE MINUTE! You can do this with software you already have in your district. Come learn tips and shortcuts that will help you make sense of your data. Whether you are a district administrator who wants to identify performance trends or a school principal who wants to make data-driven decisions to guide instruction, this session will help you get there.

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Monday, June 16 Education Sessions

Education Sessions 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Room: Eton Overview from TransformSC Schools and Action Team on Blended Learning TransformSC’s Blended Learning Action Team 37 schools across South Carolina are participating in TransformSC - a collaborative effort of business leaders, educators, parents and students to incubate and accelerate educational change. One transformational practice being implemented in TransformSC Schools is Blended Learning. TransformSC’s Blended Learning Action Team will give an overview of their activities and schools will share their experiences with Blended Learning.

Room: Oxford Moving On & Moving Up: A Comprehensive Guide to Middle School Transition Dan Reyes, Catawba Trail Elementary School; Benita Esteen, Summit Parkway Middle School; & Joe Eberlin, Longleaf Middle School The transition from elementary to middle school is challenging for all students and families as they are challenged with a number of personal, social, academic, environmental and other changes. In an effort to minimize the challenges and maximize student achievement, we have begun to create a comprehensive transition plan for students. Join us as we share how we have worked vertically between the elementary and middle schools and participate in a discussion and take away ideas you can use in your schools.

Room: Winchester Creating a Culture of Learning: Setting Instructional Expectations for Student Achievement Lori Gwinn, Brad Blackston & Amber King, Liberty High School Participants in this session will learn how one high school is transforming to a culture of learning by setting instructional expectations based on effective learning research. Additionally, the

Monday session will address how to engage the learner in middle school and high school classrooms and what the administrative observer should look for in these classrooms as signs of student learning. Finally, participants will work together to think about structures that exist in schools across the state, share their experiences in classrooms where learning is the culture, and develop a plan for implementing a culture of learning at their high schools and middle schools this fall.

objective for the Alfred Rush Academy is for each student to improve their areas of academic weakness, learn to positively redirect their negative behaviors and to make better informed decisions. As the result of strategic changes, students are opting to stay at the former “Alternative School” instead of returning to their home school. Presenters will provide meaningful and measurable learning experiences for students in "Making the RIGHT Choices!”

Room: Pembroke Adaptive Learning-The Key to At Risk Readers' Success

Room: Kensington C Challenges and Opportunities: Why Poverty Matters and What Schools Must Do

Erika Lawrence, Flowertown Elementary School Adaptive, individualized instruction gives at-risk readers what they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. In order to provide such impactful instruction, Dorchester School District II has implemented technology-based intervention programs and techniques to differentiate instruction. By continually assessing student’s progress, engaging students in learning, and tailoring instruction to each student’s needs, Dorchester School District II is seeing gains with their at-risk readers.

Room: Kensington A Evidence vs Opinion — Can You Be the Judge? Penny Reinart, Center for College & Career Readiness What is the evidence of a classroom using argument based writing and not opinion based writing? What does that classroom look like? How does that classroom help build the foundation for successful critical thinkers and prepare our students for the new state writing tests and ACT writing prompts?

Room: Kensington B Breaking with Tradition: Offering Options for At-Risk Learners

Tammy Pawloski, Francis Marion University While life with limited resources often provides a shaky foundation for school success, the latest research from neuroscience indicates that intentional moves can help all students better realize their potential for success. Learn new ways to motivate reluctant learners and how executive functioning skills lead to higher achievement. You will leave this fast-paced session with specific and purposeful brain-based strategies and renewed hope.

Room: Somerset Front-loading Content in Courses through Technology Joanna Stegall, Anderson University

This presentation reports findings where course content was front-loaded in order to efficiently teach and reinforce course standards. Student activities included creating, watching, and critiquing videotaped sessions,synthesizing course content from online resources, and developing podcasts and screencasts. Also, learning centers were incorporated through student iPads, laptops with Camtasia software and Interactive White Boards in such a way that students interacted with new content in meaningful ways.

Neal Vincent, Florence District One; Gerard Edwards, Alfred Rush Academy; Kimberly Mack & Mrs. Carol Hill, South Florence High School This interactive session will build capacity in participants to think about how to better serve their at-risk students in systemic ways. The 25

Phillip Young & Lemuel Watson, University of South Carolina Methods and procedures paramount to developing an equitable, a defensible and a tailored pay system for educational administrators will be illustrated with actual field data. Special attention will be given to auditing indices for assessing past pay practices, to the selection of criteria for evaluating position worth, and to the selection of a relevant labor market. To be taken away from this session is all the information needed both to develop and to implement an effective/efficient pay system for an public school district.

Room: Windsor B OK, I Admit It, Suspension Doesn't Change Behavior - So Now What? Cassie Cagle & Beth Taylor, Aiken County Schools What do you get when you cross inappropriate behavior with a day of suspension? You get inappropriate behavior tomorrow. How can your school or district make better decisions regarding behavior change and discipline? As a result of an audit, administratorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requests, and extensive research, we recognized the need to do something differently. Aiken County Schools spent the last year developing a behavior team designed to enact change in discipline and behavior procedures district-wide to support both special education and general education. One year into the plan, find out what when well, what we would do differently, and how we are moving forward.

Room: Palladium A (Brighton Building) Making Your School a School to Watch! David McDonald, Northwest Middle School & Linda Allen, SC Middle School Association Schools to Watch is a movement across the country to strengthen middle level education and accelerate reform in middle schools. Learn more about strategies to earn this national designation for your school and how to use the framework for improvement to create a stronger middle grades

program. Participants will learn about STW, hear about successes across the state, and hear about innovative ideas that will transform middle schools in SC.

Room: Palladium B (Brighton Building) Smart Start - The Path to School Readiness

Floyd Creech, Florence District One; Debbie Hyler, FSD1 School Foundation; Porter Stewart, FSD1 School Board In a community wide collaborate planning project over 2 years, Florence School District One School Board, Early Childhood and Parenting Departments and the FSD1 School Foundation brought about a comprehensive Birth to 5 year old program to get children ready for Kindergarten entry. Representatives of each of these groups will share their journey and give tips for energizing the community to adopt a city wide campaign for getting children ready for Kindergarten. This collaborative project has resulted in additional funding of over 3 million dollars to sustain the readiness project into the future with renewable dollars. Leave this presentation with a vision for the future.

Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building) The Exciting New Frontier of Learning Progressions Gene Kerns, Renaissance Learning They go by different names and come in many shapes and sizes, but there is no debating the fact that learning progressions figure prominently in both the Common Core State Standards and the two major assessments seeking to evaluate studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; progress toward them. Learn more about how these tools can reframe our thinking and take us to a new level allowing educators to come to know standards like never before. All attendees will receive access to a dynamic online progression tool.

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Room: Windsor A Pay for Public Chool Administrators: Change that Jingles

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Tuesday, June 17 6:00 a.m. Beach Walk/Run

Keynote Speaker 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Hilton Palisades Ballroom

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Focus on Exhibits 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Deep Dive Sessions

Kevin Carroll

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Breakout Sessions 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Snap Learning Spot 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Snap Learning Spot 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch on Own 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Exhibitor Showcase 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions 1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Snap Learning Spot 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Snap Learning spot 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Snap Learning Spot 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Snap Learning Spot

Play@Work: Unleashing Growth through Creativity and Innovation Kevin Carroll is the founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC and the author of three highly successful books, Rules of the Red Rubber Ball, What's Your Red Rubber Ball?! and The Red Rubber Ball at Work, published by ESPN, Disney Press and McGraw-Hill. As an author, speaker and agent for social change (a.k.a. the Katalyst), it is Carroll's "job" to inspire businesses, organizations and individuals—from CEOs and employees of Fortune 500 companies to schoolchildren—to embrace their spirit of play and creativity to maximize their human potential and sustain more meaningful business and personal growth. After serving in the Air Force for ten years and earning his college degree, Carroll became an athletic trainer at the high school and collegiate levels in Philadelphia. His expertise in sport performance recognized by the 76ers organization and led to his job as the head athletic trainer for the Philadelphia 76ers in 1995. While at the 76ers, Nike tapped Carroll to bring his unique experiences to the sneaker giant in 1997. Although no job "officially" existed at the time, Carroll was directed to create a position at the company that would add value to the overall mission of the brand. Carroll accepted the challenge and stayed for seven years as "Katalyst" (the 'K' is for Kevin)—a creative change agent. At Nike he was instrumental in helping the company develop a deeper understanding of athletic product performance, team dynamics and interpersonal communication. Carroll left Nike in 2004 to create his own company, Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC, committed to elevating the power of sport and play around the world. 27

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Room: Palladium A (Brighton Building) How DO They Do That? Secret Tech Weapons for School Administrators

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Beth Ziesenis, Your Nerdy Best Friend What if you could whip up a graphic to brand your next school function in a matter of minutes? Or schedule a committee meeting without having to send three dozen emails to find a time everyone could meet? Or, create a dazzling multimedia video for your school -- from your smart phone? And what if you could pull all this off without spending a dime? Join Your Nerdy Best Friend, aka Author Beth Ziesenis, to discover how to use free and bargain technology tools you never knew existed to create professional quality graphics, establish efficient business processes and wow your teachers and students. This high-energy, HANDS-ON session will give you dozens tools that will leave people asking, “How DO they do that?”

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Tuesday, June 17 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Room: Hampton District & School Planning for Student Learning Objectives Sheila Quinn, York District Two & Betsy Carpentier, Esq. Assuming the US Department of Education and State Board agree, the SCDE plans to require district training on SLOs in SY 14-15, with implementation SLOs in SY 15-16 for all teachers of non-tested grades and subjects. How can schools and districts plan to meet these requirements? What steps should superintendents and principals take in what sequence? When should training and practice occur for mentors, induction teachers, teachers undergoing SAFE-T, veteran teachers, and evaluators? How can SLOs fit into PLCs, data teams, grade-level teams, and existing structures? What assessments will be used for pre- and post-tests? Who will determine each student's appropriate growth goal? What is the overall process? Explore these and other questions in a 30 minute overview.

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Room: Hampton If You Want Your Teachers to Flip - Let Them Start With a Somersault Max Monroe, Pickens High School If you are wanting your teachers to flip their instruction whether partially or totally - this session will show tools for them to do simple things to accomplish this goal. You can share these methods with your teachers and they can work their way into the process little by little. Models of flipped classrooms will be shown as an example of exemplary work. These powerful tools will easy the transition and take them from a somersault to an Olympic gymnastic one step at a time.

Tuesday

Apple Digital Learning Camp 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Education Sessions 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Room: Windsor C Transition to a Digital Classroom

Room: Eton Overview from TransformSC Schools and Action Team on Asessments

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TransformSC’s Assessment Action Team

Technology makes this a magical time to be a student— and a powerful time to be an educator. Come experience how you can transform teaching and learning with exciting new content and content creation tools. This session introduces you to some of the thousands of education apps for iPad. You’ll experience interactive iBooks Textbooks and learn how educators are creating amazing Multi-Touch books on a Mac with iBooks Author!

37 schools across South Carolina are participating in TransformSC - a collaborative effort of business leaders, educators, parents and students to incubate and accelerate educational change. One transformational practice being implemented in TransformSC Schools is Formative Assessments. TransformSC’s Action Team will give an overview of their activities and schools will share their experiences with Formative Assessments.

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: Oxford Making Middle COLLEGE Work!

Room: Windsor C Deploying and Managing iPads in Education Apple, Inc. iOS 7 provides powerful new ways to configure and deploy devices across institutions with features to help schools purchase, distribute and manage apps with ease. It also makes those tasks you do every day even easier, faster, and more enjoyable. And while many of the apps look different, the way you do things feels perfectly familiar. This session will review the new features and highlight ones beneficial in an education setting. Apple Engineers will discuss the best practices for deploying and managing iPad devices in the educational enterprise in a manner that ensures success.

2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Claire Freeman & Sherri Scoggins, Berkeley County Middle College High School Established in 2010, Berkeley County Middle College High School is the first and only school of its kind in the South Carolina Lowcountry. We will share our experiences in meeting our purpose of giving students an opportunity to achieve high school and college academic success in nontraditional learning environment. Working in collaboration with Trident Technical College, the Middle College encourages and eases transitions into a college environment. Students explore and pursue academic and career aspirations while developing strong relationships in a climate that encourages respect and resiliency in every student.

Room: Windsor C Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow Apple Inc. Helping every student succeed can be a challenge. Today’s classroom must employ innovative tools to help build valuable skills while meeting rigorous academic standards. Certify their skills. Apple offers comprehensive certification programs for creative and IT professionals in business, education and other fields, allowing them to distinguish themselves to colleagues, employers, and prospective clients as skilled users of the chosen software application. This session will examine the tools and programs available for student certification. 29

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Lee Green, Chester County Career Center & Chris Dinkins, Fairfield Career and Technology Center This session will examine the relationship between Common Core Standards and Career and Technology Education. The integration of CTE programs and academic courses will also be discussed. By attending this session, participants will learn current and innovative ways to implement the Common Core Standards using techniques from the CTE perspective.

Room: Pembroke Growing Learners: Connecting StandardsBased Grading and Reporting

Mona Fleming, Mount Lebanon Elementary School & Charlotte McDavid, Anderson District Four Journey with us through the process of implementing standards-based reporting at the elementary school level. We will share any practical ideas, research-based best practices, and address critical questions to help connect the dots between grading and reporting: How do we work with teachers to build understanding about grading for learning and rubrics? What are some do's and don'ts for strong communication with families about changes in reporting and recognition of academic success? How can you use PowerSchool to format standards-based report cards, allowing parents to view progress in ParentPortal?

Room: Kensington A Using Google Forms Observations

teacher upon completion of the form. Check out the video here: http://bit.ly/10JyPdw. Check out the demo form at http://bit.ly/YclUjK and the database it creates at http://bit.ly/Yx5eG7.

Room: Kensington B Idea Exchange – SC Principals and Assistant Principals of the Year Ask questions and get ideas from the SC Principals & Assistant Principals of the Year! Sit at a table with an award winning principal or assistant principal and ask your most burning questions, talk about what keeps you up at night, and get great ideas from the featured guests and other participants. This is a networking opportunity you don’t want to miss!

Room: Kensington C PowerSchool and the Administrator Deborah Wimberly, Marion County Schools & Paula Yohe, Dillon District Four Do you know the last time your teachers updated their gradebook? There's a report for that. Would you like grade distribution of the last reporting period? There's a report for that. Do you want to look at a teacher's gradebook to be sure it is set up to calculate grades correctly? There's a report and a portal for that too. See how much information you can gather from PowerSchool that will give you the data to lead your school.

Room: Somerset Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About Nancy Baumann, Scholastic Book Fairs

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Rob Herron, Spring Valley High School Google Forms is a powerful tool that can help you plan events, send a survey, do teacher evaluations, or collect any information in an easy, streamlined way. The Form is connected to a spreadsheet which can be shared with any number of people. This presentation will demonstrate how to create a Google Form to use for teacher observations with an embedded script that will automatically email the evaluation to the

Book clubs provide a venue for students, teachers, families, and caregivers to discuss literature in a safe and nurturing environment. Book clubs provide "teachable moments" for honing discussion skills, improving vocabulary, and developing comprehension and fluency. Attendees will learn to promote book clubs using book talks and book trailers, select appropriate titles, manage discussions, and evaluate sessions. Videos of book club participants and an online book club blog will be shown. Book club informational cards and hand-outs to enable replication of book clubs will be available.

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Room: Winchester Career and Technology Uncommon to the Core

Tuesday Room: Windsor A Growing Our Own: Developing Effective Leaders for 21st Century Schools

Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building) Assessing the Core

Patricia Fox, Phillip Davie, Michelle Meekins, & Ken Peake, Greenville County Schools

Shawn Clark & David Mathis, Saluda County Schools; Marcie Enlow, Saluda Elementary School & Abbey Duggins, Saluda High School

Greenville County Schools has created an Assistant Principal Institute for the purpose of providing rigorous professional growth and leadership development for our Assistant Principals and Administrative Assistants and to ensure high quality leadership for our district in years to come. The focus includes instructional leadership, operational management, finance, communication, and student achievement. The program format includes speakers, small group interactive activities, and opportunities to hear from principals on a variety of salient topics. Though this is only the third year of implementation of the program, a number of the API graduates have already gone on to successful principalships in Greenville’s schools.

Participants will learn how to structure a districtwide, comprehensive approach to creating assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The following topics will be explored and discussed by members of the administrative team at Saluda County Schools: scheduling professional development, providing feedback on assessments aligned to the CCSS, observing instruction aligned to assessments, using tools and protocols to revise and refine assessments, practicing inter rater reliability when scoring assessments, and creating quality performance assessments. Participants will walk away with ideas for building a professional development plan that will help prepare their students for successful attainment of the CCSS.

Room: Windsor B District Level Planning for RTI and Common Core Integration Robin Wisniewki, McREL International Is RTI seen as an initiative in your district integral to both general and special education? Is Common Core implementation simultaneous with a multi-tier system that launches all students toward college and career readiness? If you answered “no” to either of these questions but prefer a resounding "yes," then this session is for you. District-level leaders will benefit from viewing RTI as a multi-tier system of support guided by school leadership teams with standards-based assessment and instruction through the tiers. This session will focus on the implementation essentials of both RTI and the Common Core and how these blend into what is needed for a multi-tiered system of support. Participants will plan for the structures and processes that build capacity for a strong system that include standards and grade-level progressions, universal screeners and within a balanced assessment system, and common language for data-driven decision making.

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Room: Eton “Get Connected” with Edgenuity’s Online and Blended Learning Solutions at Edgenuity.com Edgenuity You know when it clicks… It’s that magical moment when eyes light up, connections are made, and real learning happens! For sixteen years, our Edgenuity programs have connected more than one million students with academic success and achievement – helping them get back on track with credit recovery, graduating on time using our core curriculum, and discovering a passion for learning through interactive instruction and highly engaging course work. Join us as we share how school districts across South Carolina use Edgenuity to connect the differentiated needs of students with data-driven instruction that meets the rigorous demands of the Common Core and SC State Standards!

Room: Oxford Blended Learning: Preparing Students and Teachers for Success Apex Learning Learn how to increase instructional rigor and meet the needs of ALL Students, use technology to differentiate instruction and personalize learning for each student, and identify implementation models and plans for best practices with technology. The majority of districts in South Carolina have partnered with Apex Learning to improve student achievement, increase graduation rates, and reduce dropout rates.

Room: Winchester Data-Driven Decision In View of the Whole Child Tipping Points Technologies In order for teachers to be effective, they really need to know not only where each student is academically, but wouldn’t it also be great to be able to identify their social/emotional-learning readiness, thus giving them a 360-degree profile of each child! This is a tall order when faced with the new Common Core Standards, not to mention the vast number of skills they need to visually understand each child so as to inform their teaching and approach for varying needs of students within one classroom. Before now there really hasn’t been a resource in educators hands that could help schools and districts do this with all demographics of students in one data hub for classroom decision-making until now!

Room: Pembroke Increasing School Safety through Consistent Design: Unifying the look of your ID Cards, Parking Passes, and Lanyards ID Shop, Inc. Join ID Shop, Inc., for an informative look at how anyone can easily increase their school's security by making simple visual changes to everyday security items. Free product samples will be available, and you’ll have a chance to take home a pair of Costa Del Mar designer sunglasses. This informal session will include hands-on explanations of design changes that you can implement immediately at little or no cost. Open discussion is encouraged, and all attendees will take home examples to follow as guidelines for increasing security on campus.

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Tuesday, June 17 Exhibitor Showcase 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Tuesday Room: Kensington A Cogmed - Working Memory Intervention Pearson The session will focus on the relationship between a key executive function, working memory, to learning and student achievement. Sometimes called “working attention,” by age five, working memory is more predictive of future academic achievement than IQ. In school populations, 80% of students in the lowest 20% of achievement in math or reading have low working memory. A computer-based intervention for increasing working memory, Cogmed, will be demonstrated. Highly effective, 80% of students completing Cogmed training show an increase of 30% or more in working memory, positively impacting attention, behavior, and the capacity to learn.

Room: Kensington B ACT News and Updates for South Carolina: How ACT will Help You Measure Your Students’ College and Career Readiness in 2014-2015 ACT Come get a fast and informative overview and update of all major ACT College and Career Readiness assessments that might be used on a statewide basis in South Carolina during the 201415 school year including: the ACT, ACT Aspire, Career Ready 101, Explore, KeyTrain, Plan, and WorkKeys! This session will also give you an opportunity to meet your ACT Account Manager for your school or district. It’s a great opportunity to put names with faces and learn more about how ACT can help you and your students.

Room: Kensington C Literature, Assessments and Data That Drives Them Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Leadership and Learning

learning. Finally we’ll look at systems to gather data and adjust instruction.

Room: Hampton Personalizing Learning with iPads eSpark Learning As iPads enter the classroom, they bring with them an unprecedented number of educational resources. While the vast options available can often be overwhelming for educators, building the foundation for a solid iPad learning model can lead districts to increased student engagement and achievement. Join this session to learn how eSpark Learning is helping administrators augment traditional classroom instruction with a personalized, engaging learning experience on the iPad while granting educators and parents direct visibility into student progress and sentiment through a comprehensive online dashboard.

Room: Somerset Optimize Student Achievement with Edmentum Digital Learning Solutions Edmentum Are you an educator striving to expand opportunities for students with digital learning? Join us to see Edmentum’s (formerly Study Island and Plato Learning) rigorous, relevant, K-12 adaptive digital learning solutions that will challenge learners with an innovative 21st Century approach, engaging them with interactive, media-rich content aligned to state and Common Core standards. Our proven product offerings are as diverse as your learners’ needs, giving you effective digital learning options for every learner. Designed by educators, for educators, our solutions provide the flexibility you need to easily fit into your district’s or school’s existing curriculum and programs. Come see what is new from Edmentum!

An overview of each of the 3 title pieces. We’ll look at our Literature series and how it engages and enables all children to learn at their own pace for on, above and below level students. We’ll then pivot to formative assessments, authentic performance tasks, text dependent questions, close reading and text complexity to show

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Room: Windsor A Preparing for Digital Learning Success Classworks Need help creating a 21st century, digital learning environment that ensures your students are college and career ready? Join us to learn how you can support teachers with reliable, standardaligned instruction for the classroom, including rigorous reading instruction designed for the Common Core.

Room: Windsor B Equal Access to Intelligible Speech and Meeting the Educational Challenges in the 21st Century Classroom Lightspeed Technologies Do you think it is possible to increase engagement, reduce discipline problems, enhance a student's attention span, and at the same time increase your energy levels at the end of the day? The answer is YES, and the magic of it all, is that there are different sound solutions to meet YOUR different teaching styles. With the emergence of small group instruction and 21st century skill development, our all-new Flexcat is an essential tool. Now teachers can be two, three, even six places at once in the classroom. Come to our session and see how teachers can monitor independent groups, redirect off-task behavior, and encourage student collaboration.

Room: Palladium C, Brighton Building The Hidden Truth – Low 3rd Grade Scores Reflect K-2 Instruction!

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Letterland K-2 instruction depends on the materials the instructors have at their disposal. The low scores dictate a change is required. Research outlines what components must be present, taught and assessed in a comprehensive K-2 program. Letterland provides a child-friendly approach with a multi-sensory phonics system. This K-2 approach and system gets measurable results while building the foundational literacy skills necessary for 3rd grade and beyond. Join us, and you will see why a Superintendent recently said, “This is not your Grandmother’s Phonics”.

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Tuesday, June 17 Education Sessions

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Snap Learning Spot

Instant Ideas

1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Theme: Middle/High School

Room: Hampton Inspirational Literature Aimee Fulmer, Westview Elementary School Using Children's literature to inspire a faculty, staff, and community. Each year a new child's book is chosen and an entire year's theme is built around it. Themes include "change" and the challenges related to it and courage and the courage to be kind to all people. Books include "The Three Questions" and "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore."

Room: Kensington B

This format of learning has been spreading across the country and world! Each talk is exactly five minutes long and covers a variety of topics. Presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 24 slides, 20 seconds per slide for a total of 8 minutes. The following topics will be shared.

Early Colleges Provide Opportunity to "At Promise Students" Chad Cox, Gerri Henderson & Priscilla Drake, Whale Branch Early College High School

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

An Interdisciplinary Approach - The Secret to Common Core Standards

Room: Hampton Early Learning = Later Success!

Debra Miller & Valisha Singleton, Indian Land Middle School

Susan Stevens, Greenview Child Development Center & Abbigail Wilson, Golden Strip Child Development Center Preparation for student success with the New South Carolina State Standards begins well before kindergarten enrollment! Learn how authentic assessment, exploratory learning, learning apps and inquiry based instruction in Early Childhood Education provides the springboard for later academic achievement. Learn about the Early Childhood Learning Standards and how teachers differentiate to ensure student progress. Find out what Greenville County School District is doing to identify and support at-risk learners to provide the support they need now to be accomplished students later!

Promoting Effective Post-Secondary Transition Through Advisement, Career Education Goal Setting, STEM Education Focus, and Community Partnerships Shea Martin & T. Cliff Roberts, Seneca High School

School Within a School: The Blended Learning Concept Tabitha Talley & Eric Childers, Union County Schools; Mickey Connolly, Sims Middle School

Moving the Middle Using Formative Assessments David Laws Jr., Pamela Rhodes, Monisha Thomas & Allison Hepfner, Mayewood Middle School

School Tranformation through Arts Intergration

Craig Washington, Jeffery Gaines, Maureen Moore & Debbie Donnelly, Southside Middle School

Strategic Intervention to Promote College & Career Readiness Among At-Risk Students Daniel Boudah, East Carolina University; Tonya Locke, Lester McCall, Mandy Rienert & Jan Bratcher, Anderson District 2 35

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Featured Speakers

Education Sessions 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: Eton Managing the Emotional Brain in Angry Students

Beth Ziesenis

Kathy Whitmire, Orchard Park Elementary School

Room: Palladium A (Brighton Building) Get Nerdy, Get Organized and Get Ahead! Today we have the technology at our fingertips to be more productive than ever before -- if we could only figure out how to use it. This session helps you release your inner nerd to find the technology tools that will help you organize yourself, your teams and your life -- without costing a fortune. In this session, you'll discover both apps and online tools to help you... * Organize and share files * Access what you need when you need it * Strengthen internal and external communications * Save time and money with free and bargain technology * Bonus! Leave the session with a Quick Reference Guide with 100+ favorite tech tools!

Deborah Wiles Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building) Everything is a Remix -- Writing the Documentary Novel: Using Short Texts and Primary Sources to Weave Personal Narrative, Fiction, Non-fiction, and Biography Together Sponsored by Scholastic Book Fairs Deborah Wiles is the author of picture books and novels for young readers including Each Little Bird That Sings, a National Book Award Finalist, and Countdown, book one of “The Sixties Trilogy: Three Novels of the 1960s for Young Readers.” Book two, Revolution, will be released in April 2014. Not only does Deborah Wiles paint vivid pictures about conditions in the South in all of her books, she documents historical facts that teachers can share with their students as they look for meaningful ways to incorporate nonfiction and historical fiction texts into their daily instruction. Deborah teaches and writes from Atlanta, Georgia.

Teaching students how to manage their emotional brain and regulate their feelings of anger is important in correcting reactive behavior. Using a model of the brain and an emotional thermometer students are taught why they feel the way they do, what happens in their brain when they get angry, and what tools and strategies will help them manage their emotional brain.

Room: Oxford Making Differentiated Instruction a Reality Gary Miller, Curriculum Associates Differentiated instruction is becoming common place term in today’s schools, but how do you make it a reality? The key lies in easy-to-use assessment data that doesn’t make teachers’ eyes glaze over and gives them more time for instruction. But once you have the data, then what? This session explores how adaptive assessment can enable Common Core success, predict performance on the new standards, and work seamlessly with a blended learning approach to drive student gains.

Room: Winchester Strategies for Involving the Board and Community in Your Graduation Rate Improvement Initiative Sandy Addis, National Dropout Prevention Center & Tom Wilson, Anderson District Five The presentation will address strategies for planning for and securing Board and community support for dropout prevention initiatives in local school systems. Presenters will provide both research-based best practices and real-schoolsystem examples of strategies to muster the necessary Board and community support for school efforts to improve graduation rates.

Tuesday Room: Pembroke Financial Success & Retirement System Overview

Room: Somerset C4: From Concept Implementation

Tim Smith, Horace Mann

Lori Marrero, Emily Eberlin, Morgan Motes & Allana Weigle, Muller Road Middle School

We know educators are so busy preparing students for their futures that they sometimes don't think about their own. This session will focus on the ins and outs of your state retirement system as well as the different aspects of financial success, including budgeting, managing credit, protecting assets and savings. Other topics include: how does my retirement system operate; am I familiar with the retirement options and benefits; how will my present assets affect my retirement options; will my pension be enough to get me through retirement; how will my pension check compare with my paycheck; what are my lump sum rollover options; and what are the best options for me and my family? Tap into our expertise and learn more how we can partner together to build customized programs that benefit your school district and employees.

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Follow our journey as we share how we went from concept and design to implementation in our first school within a school Project Based Learning communities. As a 1 to 1 computing school, we'll talk about the merging of technology and PBL as a way to provide students with the very best 21st Century Skills, all while using CCSS.

Room: Windsor A Formative Feedback for the Principal

Kaseena Jackson, Langford Elementary School & Twanisha Gardner, Richland District Two

The presentation will give an update of the major State and Federal Cases that have occurred since the 2013 Innovative Ideas Institute.

As administrators, we strive to give our teachers relevant and helpful formative assessment. We also expect our teachers to give detailed and purposeful feedback to their students. There are procedures for student and teacher formative assessment. However, a system for formative feedback to administrators rarely exists. We will discuss how we addressed that issue at Langford Elementary, and how we used the data to personalize our approach to the faculty and its needs. Then, you will have a chance to design your own administrative formative assessment with the help of some of your colleagues.

Room: Kensington C Recreating the 3 R's: Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships

Room: Windsor B Special Needs Can Succeed: The What, Why and How

Room: Kensington A School Law Updates June 2013 to June 2014 Mark Mitchell & Mary Martin, Winthrop University

Glenn Huggins & Patsy Pye, Dorchester District Two Recreating the 3 R's: Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships will focus on implementing the use of Response to Intervention (RtI), providing focused Professional Development and the indepth use of PLC's.

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Kimberly Mack, Felix Jordan, Lisa Grice, Assistant Principal & Linda Alford, South Florence High School The ESEA Waiver metrics highlights IEP student achievement data and exposes the challenge that many schools face in raising achievement levels of Special Needs students. Students with special needs can earn high school diplomas. With increasing numbers of self-contained students entering high school well below grade level, South Florence High School has created focused learning paths and transitional supports to help Special Needs students earn traditional diplomas. By developing a team approach with targeted transitional goals, South Florence is opening the 37

Room: Palladium B (Brighton Building) Education in the 21st Century: A Digital Life 101 Jada Kidd, Spartanburg Freshman Academy Spartanburg Freshman Academy in Spartanburg, SC is meeting the challenge of using technology to engage student learning. They are a 1 to 1 MacBook school. They are creating a culture of technology engagement for students, teachers and administrators. From the classroom to the home, all stakeholders are using forms of digital media to create, communicate, connect, and learn. Digital Media will never replace the handson learning, but it brings relevance and it strengthens the learning environment for everyone. It can be used to create, demonstrate concepts, showcase real people practicing and reveal real time data. It can also be used to connect students and staff with collaborative environments around the world. You may not be able to take students to the Pyramids in Egypt on a field trip, but you will be able to connect them in a virtual environment. This session will introduce you to several forms of digital media to impact student learning, provide professional development to your staff, and to improve your organization and management skills as an administrator/curriculum specialist. Ideas will be discussed to help you improve communication and connections with stakeholders and help educators grow professionally. This could also be a collaborative sessions. Bring great ideas to share.

Room: Lands End (Brighton Building) How Will You Implement SLOs in SY 15-16? Betsy Carpentier, Esq. & Sheila Quinn, York District 2 SC educator evaluation is changing. All evaluations of teachers and principals must include student growth as a significant factor. Student learning Objectives (SLOs) are one method for measuring student growth being used nationally in both tested and nontested grades and subjects. How will your schools select assessments, determine appropriate growth goals for all students, train teachers and administrators, ensure rigor and comparability, provide quality feedback, track implementation, and manage the workload? Planning steps and resources will be shared.

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doors of possibility for self-contained learners to graduate. This interactive workshop will explore the support systems necessary to foster success and build the foundation for students with special needs to achieve at higher levels.

Tuesday

Tuesday, June 17 Education Sessions

2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Snap Learning Spot

Featured Speaker

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Beth Ziesenis

Room: Hampton The "Ten"Commandments of the First Year Principal"

Room: Palladium A (Brighton Building) Get Nerdy, Get Organized and Get Ahead! (Repeat)

Wanda Frederick, Lewisville Elementary School & Cedrick Tidwell, Chester Middle School The interviews have ended. You received the exciting call stating that you are the new principal! The contract has been signed; you have the master keys to the building and a floor plan of the school. The pulsation of your heart is half enthusiasm, half apprehensiveness. Surviving the first year principalship is a challenge. The first year as the new kid on the block is like driving down an unfamiliar highway. You will be surprised by the realities of the principalship and the obstacles that confront you. This interactive session will provide scenarios and pitfalls to avoid and how to respond to challenges as a novice principal.

Today we have the technology at our fingertips to be more productive than ever before -- if we could only figure out how to use it. This session helps you release your inner nerd to find the technology tools that will help you organize yourself, your teams and your life -- without costing a fortune. In this session, you'll discover both apps and online tools to help you... * Organize and share files * Access what you need when you need it * Strengthen internal and external communications * Save time and money with free and bargain technology * Bonus! Leave the session with a Quick Reference Guide with 100+ favorite tech tools!

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Room: Hampton KEEP CALM AND LEAD ON: The First Year Assistant Principal Experience Tia Stewart & Denise Barth, Catawba Trail Elementary School Are you ready to grow as a leader? This engaging session will motivate you to keep calm and lead on! Participants will learn how to build relationships, cultivate culture and embrace leadership roles. This session will be presented by a first year Assistant Principal and veteran Principal with a passion for leading and learning!

Room: Eton Overview from TransformSC Schools and Action Team on Competency-Based Progression TransformSC’s Competency-Based Progression Action Team 37 schools across South Carolina are participating in TransformSC - a collaborative effort of business leaders, educators, parents and students to incubate and accelerate educational change. One transformational practice being implemented in TransformSC Schools is Competency-Based Progression. TransformSC’s Action Team will give an overview of their activities and schools will share their experiences with Competency-Based Progression.

Room: Oxford Flipping Professional Development Lisa Carter, Kershaw County Schools Provide effective professional development using the Flipped Classroom concept and Edmodo. Employees across Kershaw County School District view videos each month and effective school based professional development is conducted. This allows for the PD time to be utilized more effectively and focus on implementation.

Room: Winchester Be on the Reading Edge by Motivating Readers Through Technology Robert Furman, South Park Elementary Center As we move more into the 21st Century, our students need more motivation to read. Ereaders are gathering more momentum, and we need to be prepared to meet our students where they are with their technology skills. We need to give them tools that will boost their reading skills to match their technology skills. Join Dr. Rob Furman as he shares some of the groundbreaking ways to engage the 21st Century learner!

Room: Pembroke Extra! Extra! How to Effectively Share Your Good News with Media Partners Erica Taylor, Charleston County Schools This session will cover the role of a district's media relations professional and how their strategic impact promotes good news and upcoming events. As, CCSD's media relations spokesperson, I will cover "newsworthiness" as viewed in the media, and will share tips and tricks for writing media advisories, attaching usable photos, and fostering positive relationships with media partners, to include social media.

Room: Kensington A Tweet Up Meet fellow Twitter users you have connected with throughout the conference. This is a great networking opportunity for current Twitter users to meet one another and convert former Twitter engagements into face-to-face conversations.

Room: Kensington B Idea Exchange - Superintendents & District Level Staff Ask questions and get ideas from veteran superintendents, assistant superintendents and personnel directors! Ask your most burning questions, talk about what keeps you up at night, and get great ideas from featured guests and other participants. This is a networking opportunity you don’t want to miss!

Room: Kensington C Building Systems to Support Implementation of the Common Core at the District/School and Classroom Levels: The Richland Two Experience Nancy Gregory, Sue Mellette, & Judy Carr, Richland District Two Learn about Richland Two’s journey in implementing the Common Core State Standards via a strategic approach involving implementation teams where systems are being created to take the standards to routine use in every classroom. Participants will review examples 40

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Education Sessions 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday (e.g., School/System Snapshot Tool, Publishers’ Criteria Checklists), reflect on their own progress (e.g. Implementation Configuration Map) and leave with next steps to implement in their own settings.

Room: Somerset Immersion Best Practices Sandra Griffin & Cecilia Cameron, Blythe Academy Blythe Academy, SC's first foreign language immersion school, will present lessons learned and best practices from 18 years as an immersion school. Highlights will include scheduling, recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and mentoring teachers,textbooks/materials, and instructional best practices.

Room: Windsor A Leadership Training That Pays Off Patricia Fox & Joe Urban, Greenville County Schools Greenville County Schools has established a Leadership Training Program that includes training for Principals, Managers of Departments, and Supervisors in all hourly work groups (Custodial, Food and Nutrition Services, Maintenance and Transportation.) The Program includes modules on a variety of topics including Communications, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Conflict Resolution, and Situational Leadership. The program has expanded over the last five years and now includes all managerial employees. The program has been effective in improving timeliness of dealing with performance issues, and the quality of performance documentation. As a result, we have seen a reduction in unemployment costs and have more consistency in dealing with performance issues.

impacts a school’s interactions with special education students. We will also discuss common mistakes schools make and some practical advice on how to avoid these costly missteps. Regular education and special education administrators alike will benefit from this session focusing on special education legal issues.

Room: Palladium B (Brighton Building) Meeting the Needs of Struggling Students Through a More Diversified and Relevant Summer School Experience Marceline Catlett & Harry Thomas, Fredricksburg City Schools Are you dissatisfied with the daily grind of your summer school program? The administration and staff of Fredericksburg City Public Schools partnered with educational consultants to develop a new summer program geared to rouse students and teachers from the doldrums of traditional summer school. In response to the national and state focus on “preparing our youth for college and career readiness after high school,” Fredericksburg City Schools developed an exciting new summer program geared to prepare students for the more rigorous English and mathematics assessments. This session will walk participants through the process of developing the timeline for implementation, communication with parents, the economics of developing and running the program, and the logistics of daily operations. Time will be reserved for a question and answer session. The program is geared toward grades 2-8.

Room: Windsor B The Sticky Spiderweb of Special Education Laws Meredith Seibert, Esq. & Lindsay Anne Thompson, Esq., Duff, White & Turner, LLC Have you ever wondered why your District’s Special Education Director makes you jump through all those hoops? Join us for a lively interactive session where we will highlight relevant sections of the IDEA and how that law 41

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Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building) Faculty Meetings That Promote Student and Adult Learning: What, Why, and How Carol Hill, Kim Mack & Lisa Grice, South Florence High School During this time of curriculum transition to common core, it is all the more essential that faculty meetings produce meaningful change in teaching and learning. How might we spend our time in meetings with adults that actually results in meaningful learning for adults and students? Using research-based strategies from Garmston, Wellman, and others, this interactive workshop helps participants build on their own ability to develop and facilitate meetings that promote adult and student learning. For the past eight (8) years South Florence High School has developed collaborative practices that have improved student behavior, test scores, promotion and graduation rates. These same practices are currently being used to implement common core at the school level as well.

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Wednesday, June 18 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Breakout Sessions 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Snap Learning Spot 9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Snap Learning Spot 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. General Session 12:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Post Conference Workshop: Leading for Innovation (pre-registered participants only)

Wednesday, June 18 Education Sessions

Snap Learning Spot 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Room: Hampton Soaring for Greatness: Strategies to Increase your Graduation Rate Tracie Swilley, Fairfield Central High School The Graduation Rate has become the topic of discussion for high schools in this age of accountability. When students enter high school, they have 4 years to graduate or they will be considered a dropout. This session is designed to provide administrators with strategies that they can use to increase their graduation rate. In this session you will also learn about developing a Graduation Team to specifically focus on the graduation rate. It truly takes a team effort to increase the graduation rate and we want to share with you how our team gets the job done.

8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Room: Hampton Teacher Cadet - A "Grow Your Own" Program That Works! Jane Turner, CERRA About 4,000 SC teachers left their classrooms last year to pursue other opportunities; teachers who return to their home towns or nearby communities to work are less likely to leave the classroom and their district. This session will provide information about the nationally recognized and highly successful Teacher Cadet Program, a college-credit class that encourages high achieving students to consider a career in education, at little or no cost to districts.

Instant Ideas Theme: School Management Room: Kensington B This format of learning has been spreading across the country and world! Each talk is exactly five minutes long and covers a variety of topics. Presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 24 slides, 20 seconds per slide for a total of 8 minutes. The following topics will be shared.

Implementing School Wide Reader and Writer Workshop Meredith Rose & Lou Jacobs, Jesse Boyd Elementary Schools

The Art and Science of the Home Visit Tillmon Ancrum, Jasper County Alternative Program

Using Garner's Multiple Intelligences to Teach Common Core Jacquetta Chatman, MOBB Educational Consulting Group, LLC

Cultivating Student Leaders

Donna Hooks, Felisa McDavid & Angie Smith, Burgess Elementary School

Balancing the Common Core State Standards Famon Whitfield & Shannon Berry Gordon Elementary School

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8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Education Sessions 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Room: Eton iParent--Parent/Teacher Communication in the Digital World Pasquail Bates, Lakisha Cook & Janelle Butler, Westwood High School The world of paper newsletters and report cards is gone! So, how do we reach parents in the digital age? Our session will focus on utilizing web based tools to reach parents almost immediately through blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Google Hang Outs, and text messaging. We will also present options that are available for parents who are not tech savvy.

Room: Oxford STEM for All: One Middle School's Experience with a Whole-School STEM Program Mel Goodwin & James Whitehair, Laing Middle School of Science and Technology This presentation will explore the experience of Laing Middle School with the creation and implementation of a whole-school STEM initiative. Content of this presentation is intended to help others who are interested in implementing similar programs, as well as those who may wish to expand existing STEM initiatives. This content will be provided in an interactive dialogue format that allows exploration of concepts of particular interest to participants. Topics will include Meanings of STEM; Reasons to Implement STEM Programs; Options for STEM Programs; Costs and Funding; Getting Started; and Growing a STEM Program. Hands-on activities will be included as appropriate to participants’ interests.

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Room: Winchester Multi-Tiered System of Supports Shawn Hagerty, Sumter County Schools Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)is based on the premise of a comprehensive and unified systemic framework. The foundation of MTSS breaks down the systemic fragmentation of communication at the classroom, building, and district level therefore, allowing more effective outcomes for students and staff. MTSS is based on a tiered framework but goes beyond the traditionally packaged RTI framework. A comprehensive and unified approach through a tiered framework allows student barriers to be addressed from a systemic organization of a learning environment.

Room: Pembroke Plan the Work, Work the Plan - The SC-SIC Local Council Evaluation Initiative Tom Hudson & Karen Utter, SC School Improvement Council School Improvement Councils sometimes need additional help in identifying needs, establishing goals, implementing effective activities, and measuring the impact of the important work they do for their schools. This session will provide an overview of the SC School Improvement Council’s (SC-SIC) new Local Council Evaluation Initiative and share specific case studies and results of the work of participating SICs. This pilot program, working with five SICs across the state during 2013-14, is designed to help build the capacity of SIC members to plan their activities strategically, implement them with quality, and document and evaluate their results in partnership with school leaders. Based on the Getting to Outcomes method, and through the use of site-based training, supportive materials and continuous technical assistance, SC-SIC works with these local Councils to actively collaborate with stakeholder groups, involve a diverse cross-section of the school community and achieve valuable realworld results.

Room: Kensington A Overview from TransformSC Schools & Action Team on Culture and Climate for Change TransformSC’s Culture and Climate for Change Action Team 37 schools across South Carolina are participating in TransformSC - a collaborative effort of business leaders, educators, parents and students to incubate and accelerate educational change. But in order to transform education, there must first be a willingness of educators, parents and students to change the status quo. TransformSC’s Action Team will give an overview of their activities and schools will share their experiences with creating a culture and climate for change.

Room: Kensington C Navigating the Common Core through Instructional Leadership Darryl Imperati & Tammy Greer McClain, Woodmont High School As educational leaders, we are tasked with the responsibility of student and teacher outcomes. In this session,attendees will receive walk-through forms and lesson plan ideas with a common core focus; strategies will be given to promote rigor school-wide, and tips on leading administrative, department, and PLC meetings with a curriculum focus will be shared. Learn how the implementation of CCSS strategies have resulted in an increase in students attending college, increased EOC results, and a Palmetto Silver award for closing the achievement gap.

Room: Kensington D Being Innovative with Using Teaching Assistants

Tammy Moye-Johnson, Center for Educator Quality & Selina Latimore, John P. Thomas Elementary School

Research shows that students in a class with a teaching assistant present do not on average outperform those students in a class where only a teacher is present. However, teaching assistants can have an effective impact on student achievement if schools and districts think carefully

Room: Kensington E Causes and Consequences of Principal Turnover Gayle Sawyer & Mary Martin, Winthrop University Do we really know what happens in a school when the principal leaves? What happens when more than one leaves in a short time frame? Recent research indicates that, in spite of current tendencies to improve low-performing schools by replacing their principals and doing so with greater frequency, rapid principal turnover leads to a number of negative consequences which include a drop in student achievement and greater difficulty in recruiting high quality, effective teachers. Let's investigate the causes and effects as well as share SC experiences and generate suggestions for principals transferring to schools with high rates of principal turnover.

Room: Somerset Inquiry By Design

Josh Patterson & Gina Skinner, Oakland Elementary School Albert Einstein once said, "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." In the fast paced, standards driven, get it covered classroom of yesteryear, adequate time was not allowed for inquiry and the recursive cycle between evidence and explanations. From breadth to depth, the Common Core State Standards encourage students to build knowledge through research and exploration of real-world problems and challenges. In this collaborative, inquiry-filled workshop, school leaders will explore effective ways to help teachers incorporate open-ended, student-led questioning in order to effectively and creatively unleash deeper, more meaningful learning. Since the inquiry-based model is not simply a technique or instructional practice used to teach a subject, it requires teachers to be engaged learners and researchers with the belief that their classrooms are rich places for wonder and exploration. Examples will be provided for

how administrators can begin and guide teachers through the inquiry process while capturing students' thinking through written, experimental, and problem/project based learning activities.

Room: Windsor A 2014 Palmetto’s Finest Winners Best Practices Join the 2014 Palmetto’s Finest Winners as they share best practices that led them to become a Palmetto’s Finest school.

Room: Windsor B School Security: Leading From the Front Patrick Sergott, The Protection Institute Making the vision of a safer campus a reality is only achievable through courageous leadership. This interactive workshop will focus on creating safer schools through the development of a realistic implementation plan.

Room: Windsor C Standards and Assessment with iPad (REPEAT) Apple Inc. The movement toward standards-driven content is occurring across the United States, emphasizing that technology be deeply integrated into the educational experience across all subject areas. New assessment systems require schools to be prepared for deployment in 2014. Join us at this event to learn how Apple can support you through these critical transitions. Learn how iPad and a wide range of instructional content such as apps, books, podcasts, and learning resources can support national and state standards.

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about the strategies they use to ensure that their teaching assistants are deployed and supported effectively. In this session, participants will learn strategies to innovatively use teaching assistants so that student outcome is impacted positively.

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Keynote Speaker 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Hilton Palisades Ballroom

Dan Heath

Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs who are fighting for social good. He is the co-author of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. The Heath brothers previously co-wrote the critically acclaimed book Made to Stick, which was named the Best Business Book of the Year, spent 24 months on the BusinessWeek bestseller list, and has been translated into 29 languages, the last of which was Slovak. The latest Heath brothers’ book is Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life and Work. Released March 2013. Heath is a columnist for Fast Company magazine, and he has taught and consulted with organizations such as Microsoft, Philips, Vanguard, Macy’s, USAID, and the American Heart Association. Previously, Dan worked as a researcher and case writer for Harvard Business School, co-authoring 10 case studies on entrepreneurial ventures, and later served as a Consultant to the Policy Programs of the Aspen Institute. In 1997, Dan cofounded an innovative publishing company called Thinkwell, which continues to produce a radically reinvented line of college textbooks.

Presenter Directory *Directory lists lead presenters only

Marci Catlett mcatlett@cityschools.com

Sandy Addis haddis@clemson.edu

Jacquetta Chatman jchatman@mothersofblackboys.org

Sean Alford salford@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Shawn Clark sclark@saludaschools.org

Tillmon Ancrum tancrum@jcsd.net

Angela Cooper ACooper@lex2.org

Kathy Mahoney kmahoney@childs-halligan.net

Amy Cothran cothrana@anderson1.k12.sc.us

Pasquail Bates pbates@richland2.org

Chad Cox chad.cox@beaufort.k12.sc.us

Eric Beltran ebeltran@k12insight.com

Floyd Creech fcreech@fsd1.org

Dan Boudah BOUDAHD@ecu.edu

Marian Crum-Mack mamack@richland2.org

Earl Brewington ewb2@idshop.com

Tricia Daughtry patricia_daughtry@charleston.k12.sc.us

Keith Brown Kebrown@gcsd.k12.sc.us

Lori Dibble ldibble@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Pepper Busbee pbusbee@richland2.org

Rhonda Dickerson Rhonda.Dickerson@renlearn.com

Cassie Cagle ccagle@aiken.k12.sc.us

Mike DiNicola Mike.DiNicola@act.org

Tanya Campbell tcampbel@rhmail.org

Jessica Donaldson donalds@bcsdschools.net

Adair Caperton caperton@apple.com

Erika Duffey Erika_Duffey@discovery.com

Betsy Carpentier eacarpentier@gmail.com

Shane Dukes shane.dukes@achieve3000.com

Lavoy Carter lavoy.carter@kcsdschools.net

Raashad Fitzpatrick raashad.fitzpatrick@cherokee1.org

Lisa Carter lisa.carter@kcsdschools.net

Mona Fleming mfleming@anderson4.org

Nancy Ford nancyford1@bellsouth.net

Carol Hill cchill@fsd1.org

Patricia Fox pfox@greenville.k12.sc.us

Donna Hooks dhooks@horrycountyschools.net

Wanda Frederick wfrederick@chester.k12.sc.us

Tom Hudson hudsontf@mailbox.sc.edu

Claire Freeman freemacl@bcsdschools.net

Glenn Huggins ghuggins@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Aimee Fulmer fulmera@bcsdschools.net

Darryl Imperati dimperat@greenville.k12.sc.us

Otis Fulton otis.fulton@cogmed.com

Carole Ingram carole.ingram@beaufort.k12.sc.us

Robert Furman smayberry@scholasticbookfairs.com

Robert Jackson rsjackso@lexrich5.org

Lynn Gibbs lpgibbs@greenville.k12.sc.us

Kaseena Jackson kjackson@richland2.org

Mel Goodwin mgoodwi8@bellsouth.net

Nick James nick.james@hmhco.com

Lee Green lgreen@chester.k12.sc.us

Jacqueline Jamison jacqueline.jamison@ocsd5.net

Nancy Gregory ngregory@richland2.org

Kate Kemker kkemker@apple.com

Sandra Griffin segriffi@greenville.k12.sc.us

Gene Kerns Gene.kerns@renaissance.com

Sarah Guckert sarah@esparklearning.com

Jada Kidd jkidd@spart7.org

Lori Gwinn lorigwinn@pickens.k12.sc.us

Matt Kirby matt.kirby@apexlearning.com

Shawn Hagerty shawn.hagerty@sumterschools.net

Mark Kuhn mark.kuhn@lightspeed-tek.com

Josie Kate Haupfear jfhaupfear@laurens56.k12.sc.us

Erika Lawrence erilawrence@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Rob Herron rherron@richland2.org

David Laws Jr. david.laws@sumterschools.net

Anne Lee ALee@ScholasticBookfairs.com

Rebecca Partlow bpartlow@rhmail.org

Sandy Lindsay SLINDSAY@mailbox.sc.edu

Josh Patterson josh.patterson@spartanburg2.k12.sc.us

Kimberly Mack kmack@fsd1.org

Tammy Pawloski tpawloski@fmarion.edu

Kathy Mahoney kmahoney@childs-halligan.net

Kelly Pew kellypew@pickens.k12.sc.us

Gabrielle Manuel gmanuel@teachermatch.org

Chris Phillips clphilli@greenville.k12.sc.us

Lori Marrero lmarrero@richland2.org

Bill Pratt bill.pratt@clover.k12.sc.us

Shea Martin sbmartin@oconee.k12.sc.us

Terry Pruitt TOPruitt@spart7.org

Mary Martin martinmb@winthrop.edu

Steven Puckett Steven.Puckett@lcsdmail.net

David McDonald dmcdonald@greenville.k12.sc.us

Sheila Quinn Sheila.Quinn@clover.k12.sc.us

Gary Miller gmiller@cainc.com

Otis Reed oreed@csd2.org

Debra Miller debra.miller@lcsdmail.net

Penny Reinart penny.reinart@c2ready.org

Mark Mitchell mitchellm@winthrop.edu

Dan Reyes dreyes@richland2.org

Max Monroe maxmonroe@pickens.k12.sc.us

Beth Reynolds breyno2@clemson.edu

Tammy Moye-Johnson tmoye@richlandone.org

Rob Rhodes rrhodes@greenville.k12.sc.us

Grey Mull gmull@apple.com

Barbara Roberts broberts@learning.com

Kristen Norris kristen.norris@americanreading.com

Meredith Rose meredithrose4@gmail.com

Joy Panko Joy.Panko@Edmentum.com

Cat Rutledge catrut@bellsouth.net

Gayle Sawyer sawyerg@winthrop.edu

Lindsay Anne Thompson lthompson@dwtlawfirm.com

Patrick Sergott patricks@theprotectioninstitute.com

Jane Turner turnerj@winthrop.edu

Beth Shelton-Brooks bethbrooks@newberry.k12.sc.us

Neal Vincent nvincent@fsd1.org

Sarah Skinner sarah@brightbytes.net

Jason Warren jwarren@greenville.k12.sc.us

Tim Smith tim.smith@horacemann.com

Craig Washington cwashington@fsd1.org

Alice Smith Alice.Smith@edgenuity.com

Lemuel Watson watsonlw@mailbox.sc.edu

Patrick Sobak psobak@classworks.com

Steven Watson steve.watson@pearson.com

Joanna Stegall jstegall@andersonuniversity.edu

Wendy Wells mprince@tippingpointstechnologies.com

Dr. Susan Stevens slsteven@greenville.k12.sc.us

Famon Whitfield whitfieldIIIf@dillon.k12.sc.us

Tia Stewart tstewart@richland2.org

Kathy Whitmire kwhitmire@oconee.k12.sc.us

Wendell Sumter wsumter@chester.k12.sc.us

Deborah Wiles debwiles@fred.net

Tracie Swilley tswilley@fairfield.k12.sc.us

Brenda Wilson brenda.wilson@nwea.org

Matt Swilling matt.swilling@cambiumtech.com

Deborah Wimberly dwimberly@marion.k12.sc.us

Tabitha Talley ttalley@union.k12.sc.us

Robin Wisniewski robin.wisniewski@gmail.com

Gloria Talley gtalley@lexington1.net

Seth Young youngs@anderson1.k12.sc.us

Erica Taylor erica_taylor@charleston.k12.sc.us

Phillip Young ipyoung@mailbox.sc.edu

Donna Teuber dteuber@richland2.org

Beth Ziesenis beth@yournerdybestfriend.com

Exhibitor Directory

See page 56 for Exhibit Hall Diagram.

C2 Collaborative 97 Fran Abee (770) 630-5640 Fran.Abee@commoncoreinstitute.org

Achieve 3000, Inc. Shane Dukes (800) 838-8771 Shane.dukes@achieve3000.com

ACT, Inc. Michael DiNicola (404) 231-1952 mike.dinicola@act.org

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American Reading Company Kristen Norris (843) 425-2926 kristen.norris@americanreading.com

Camp Leopold/ SC Waterfowl Association Ed Paul (803) 452-6001 epaul@scwa.org

Apex Learning Matt Kirby (206) 462-3759 Matt.kirby@apexlearning.com

Carnegie Learning Mark Prince (888) 851-7094 mprince@carnegielearning.com

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Background Investigation Bureau Beth Osborne (704) 439-3900 ext. 174 bosborne@syntracorp.com

Classworks Patrick Sobak (989) 277-5236 psobak@classworks.com

Benty Tyler Smith (803) 216-5401 tsmith@bentydev.com

BridgeTek solutions, LLC Kelley Turpin (864) 214-0221 kturpin@bridgeteksolutions.com

Camcor, Inc. Bryan Pigford (800) 868-2462 ext. 3 bpigford@camcor.com

Columbia Management/ 16 Future Scholar 529 College Savings Plan Ryan White (888) 244-5674 ryan.white@columbiamanagement.com 9

Crown Global Consulting Paul Berggren (402) 817-0123 paul@crownglobalconsulting.com

Bridgeway Solutions Kathy Hooper (828) 438-1676 kathyh@bridgewayid.com

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Curriculum Associates Pam Daniels (800) 225-0248 pdaniels@cainc.com

BrightBytes Sarah Skinner (877) 433-4036 sarah@brightbytes.com

Damand Promotions Dan McLaughlin (858) 663-5129 danmc10@aol.com Discovery Education Rob Warren (980) 213-8719 rob_warren@discovery.com

Durham School Services 5 Tim Hemans 800-950-0485, themans@durhamschoolservices.com

Hart, Inc. Paul Holdredge (800) 654-8012 pbh@hart-inc.com

Edgenuity Alice Smith (803) 269-1982 asmith@edgenuity.com

Hazelden Foundation Toni Brezina (800) 328-9000 tbrezinat@hazelden.org

Edmentum Libby Preble (704) 904-0402 libby.preble@edmentum.com

Horace Mann Tim Smith (864) 979-5624 tim.smith@horacemann.com

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Education Motivation, LLC Robert Little solut2000@aol.com

Encore Technology Group Leo Gallant (888) 983-6267 lgallant@encoretg.com

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/ 49 Riverside/Leadership & Learning Center Nick James (443) 481-7926 nick.james@hmhco.com 75, 76

EPS Literacey and Intervention Michael Bates (800) 225-5750 Michael.bates@schoolspecialty.com

ID Shop, Inc. Ken Cobb (800) 228-6522 kenc@idshop.com

eSpark Learning Sarah Guckert (312) 894-3100 sarah@esparklearning.com

Ident A Kid Bryan Greenway (843) 206-9088 greenway@identakid.com

FACES, Inc. Rick Palyok (803) 782-3902 rpalyok@facesinc.org

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Imagine Learning Ty West (980) 333-7202 Ty.west@imaginelearning.com

First Student, Inc Paul Sheppard (864) 360-2279 Paul.sheppard2@firstgroup.com

iStation Corey Byrd (919) 606-9062 cbyrd@istation.com

Fuel Education Tammy Graham (803) 319-4031 tgraham@getfueled.com

JAMF Software Mike Bennett (612) 677-7084 mike.bennett@jamfsoftware.com Kelly Tours, Inc. David Chason (843) 564-1642 david@kellytours.com

Kurzweil/IntelliTools Matt Swilling (678) 575-4374 matt.swilling@cambiumtech.com

Mural Mural on the Wall 22 Stacy Ridgeway (800) 604-5619 info@officialmuralmuralonthewall.com

Learning.com Barbara Roberts (803) 724-7900 broberts@learning.com

National Beta Club Amy Warren (800) 845-8281 awarren@betaclub@.org

Letterland Cat Rutledge (704) 996-9010 catrut@bellsouth.net

Northwest Evaluation Association Sue Madagan sue.madagan@nwea.org (843) 689-2268

LightSPEED Technologies Mark Kuhn (803) 786-6995 mark.kuhn@lightspeed-tek.com

Odysseyware Jason Reavis (877) 795-8904 jreavis@odysseyware.com

McGraw Hill Education ALEKS Mathematics Forrest Smith (404) 805-1765 fsmith@aleks.com

Palmetto Project Cokeitha J. Gaddist (843) 577-4122 cgaddist@palmettoproject.org

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McKenzie Taylor Co. Mike Conder (304) 224-9393 mike@mctaylorco.com

Pearson Steve Watson/Tyler Garrett (843) 810-4738/(803) 606-5933 steve.watson@pearson.com/ tyler.garrett@pearson.com

Measurement Incorporated Kendra Timberlake (919) 683-2413 ktimberlake@measinc.com

PlanetHS Steve Adams (888) 668-7452 Steveadams@planeths.com

Mentoring Minds Theresa Sherman info@mentoringminds.com

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Premier/School Specialty Deanna Marie Lock (843) 708-9515 Deanna.lock@schoolspecialty.com

Microsoft Corporation Bob Dudenhoefer (813) 842-2122 bobdude@microsoft.com

Presentation Systems South Randy Hobart (704) 662-3711 rhobart@carolinaposterprinters.com

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Moving to Success Dan Young (864) 680-8471 dan@movingtosuccess.com

QuaverMusic.com Buz Watson (866) 917-3633 buz@quavermusic.com

Really Good Stuff Lisa Brandstatter/Lynn Yeager (800) 366-1920 writeus@reallygoodstuff.com

Southern Management ABM William Fairchild (888) 711-2772 William.fairchild@abm.com

Renaissance Learning, Inc. Rhonda Dickerson (715) 424-3636 rhonda.dickerson@renlearn.com

Southern Wesleyan University Jim Shelton (877) 644-5557 jshelton@swu.edu

Scholastic, Inc. 67 Kelly Brown/Odell Taylor (704) 607-4938/(770) 342-8564 krbrown@scholastic.com/otaylor@scholastic.com

Staymobile Chuck Morrison (704) 807-3430 chuck@staymobile.com

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School Check In Barry Peterson (813) 962-7264 info@schoolcheckin.com

TE21, Inc. Nancy Ford (866) 982-8321 nancyford@te21.com

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School Improvement Network 39 Allison Mateus (801) 758-9738 allison.mateus@schoolimprovement.com

TeacherMatch LLC Derrek Lyons (888) 312-7231 dlyonds@teachermatch.org

Scientific Learning 95 Greg Thompson/Darren Drye (480) 699-8152/(704)219-9624 gthompson@scilearn.com/ddrye@scilearn.com

Teachscape Kristine Hammond (877) 988-3224 Kristine.hammond@teachscape.com

Sharp Business Systems Randy Bidwell (864) 675-2109 randy.bidwell@sharpusa.com

TeachTown Amanda Phillips (803) 518-9364 aphillips@teachtown.com

SiteTech Systems Patrick Rhodes (843) 808-9716 prhodes@sitetechsystems.com

Tests for Higher Standards Stuart Flanagan (804) 725-7997 ssflan@vims.edu

South Carolina Alliance of Black School Educators Marlene Williams (803) 603-7027 mswilliams@fsd1.org

The Quest Zone Theresa Tobin (803) 648-1740 ttobin@sshouse.com

South Carolina ETV & ETV TeacherLine Southeast Donna Thompson (800) 277-3245 dthompson@scetv.org

Thinking Maps Donna Coon (603) 315-7929 dcoon@thinkingmaps.com

Tipping Points Technologies 84 Lola Tornabene (434) 390-8776 ltornabene@tippingpointstechnologies.com

Virco, Inc. Nathan Reed (800) 448-4726 ext. 1535 nathanreed@virco.com

Townsend Press George Henry (888) 752-6410 george.henry@townsendpress.com

Waterford Research Institute Thomas Chapman (803) 417-9291 thomaschapman@waterford.org

Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School Scott Gaines (803) 896-6566 gainess@wlgos.sc.gov

WIN Learning David Mickelsen (256) 566-5545 dmickelsen@winlearning.com

Zillion Info, Inc. Ella Li info@zillioninfo.com

Triumph Learning70 Representing Coach/Options/Buckle Down Jeff Alman (919) 523-0040 jalman25@earthlink.net University of Phoenix Online Latrice Stewart (704) 501-3043 latrice.stewart@phoenix.edu

VINCI Education Warren Miller (650) 704-8587 Warren.miller@vincieducation.com

Voyager Sopris Learning Jeffrey Vincent (704) 281-1006 Jeffrey.vincent@voyagersopris.com

The ACT Continuum of K–Career solutions is designed to ensure college and career readiness for all. From the ACT® college readiness assessment to our new ACT Aspire™ student readiness system for grades 3 to 10 launched in spring 2014, ACT is dedicated to helping all students reach their full potential.

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AE Schedule

2014 Adult Education Summer Conference at a Glance Sunday, June 15 3:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Registration

Kensington F, Embassy Suites

Monday, June 16 8:30 am – 10:00 am 10:00 am – 11:00 am 11:00 am – 12:15 pm 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

General Session Visit Exhibits Breakout Sessions Lunch on Your Own and Visit Exhibits Breakout Sessions Breakout Sessions SCAACE Awards & Silent Auction

Palisades Ballroom Palisades South

Tuesday, June 17 8:30 am – 10:00 am 10:00 am – 11:00 am 11:00 am – 1:00 pm 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

General Session Focus on Exhibits Vendor Showcase & Lunch Breakout Sessions Breakout Sessions

Palisades Ballroom Palisades South Palisades ABC

Wednesday, June 18 8:30 am – 9:45 am 10:15 am – 11:45 am

Adult Ed Directors’ Breakfast General Session

Atlantic View II Palisades Ballroom

Palmetto Dunes, Hilton

AE Monday

Adult Education Sessions Hilton Palisades

Room: Palisades G Algebra Tiles in the Classroom Christa Brumfield, Pickens Adult Education

Monday, June 16 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Room: Palisades D Using Twitter for Adult Ed PD Brett Taylor, RAETAC 5/Rock Hill Adult Education Twitter, a tool to keep up with #adulted . As innovation and educational tech tools accelerate, how can a busy teacher or administrator keep up and evaluate the usefulness of various new technologies, hardware, software and connection platforms, as well as news and trends from across the world that impact adult education? I do not have any hard and fast answers but will share my experiences and challenges. Included will be my testimonial (and how-tos) related to Twitter. A couple of excellent experts (Nell Ekersly, Barry Burkett, Shelly Terrell) and their weekly updates info will also be shared and possibly brought in as remote guests.

Room: Palisades E Making it Work Karen Joyner, Richland One Adult Education This session breaks down the math and science standards that are covered on the GED® 2014 test using powerpoints, examples, and a writing task.

Room: Palisades F Get Your Head in the Cloud Mary Gaston, Pickens Adult Education Learn how to use the "Cloud" to enhance your adult education program. Participants will be shown how to use SkyDrive/OneDrive (or Google Drive) to simplify tasks such as managing student attendance, employee payroll, or housing program documents. All participants will be given access to templates they can customize for their own program. Bring your own device for a hands-on experience.

Learn how to use algebra tiles in the classroom for hands-on math instruction. Participants will be led through activities that demonstrate how to use tiles to teach integers, like terms, and simplifying binomials and trinomials. Resources that can be used for classroom instruction will also be shared.

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch on Your Own/Visit Exhibits 1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Deep Dive Session Room: Palisades D Adult Education Learning System for TABE and 2014 GED Kammie McDougald, Kershaw County Adult Education and Weyland Burns, Kershaw County Adult Education Sharpen your adult education teaching skills through an interactive lesson building process. Learn to connect the dots between new GED® standards and what students need in classroom for content and assessment on a daily basis. The process of precision linkage of lesson plan objectives to College and Career Ready standards and to TABE standards will be thoroughly examined. Build lessons as you go. Bring lap top or iPad for valuable resources. Leave with helpful lessons to prepare students for new GED® and more precise lessons for TABE and with confidence in this adult education alignment process of new GED® standards to daily teaching plans. Session facilitators are 24/7 adult education practitioners: one adult education teacher of young adults and one adult education director of a local program.

Room: Palisades E Overview of Science 2014 Educational Resources Eric Childers, Union County Learning Center During this session we will examine the science practice resources developed by Adult Education teachers throughout the state. A few of the demonstrations will be performed. There will also be time in the session for programs to share other ideas that they have developed to meet the standards for the science GED section.

Room: Palisades F PLC: Professional Learning Communities Christy Henderson, Lexington 2 & 4 Adult Education Transform your adult education program into a community of continuous improvement by shifting your focus. Five key elements will be explored: every student will learn, collaboration, emphasis on learning instead of teaching, assessment for learning and “failure is not an option” mind set.

Room: Palisades G What Do I Teach? How to Optimize Your WorkKeys® Resources Jennifer Spears, Spartanburg County Adult Education This seminar will be for WorkKeys® teachers and Program Directors who need ideas on how to teach a fast-paced WorkKeys® class with maximum increases in WorkKeys® and TABE scores. Daily routines, Career Ready 101/Keytrain, and favorite resources will be discussed.

2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Room: Palisades E Want to Know More about the WorkKeys® Talent Assessment? Kathy Woodson, RAETAC Region 1 One of the criteria for counties to become a Certified Work Ready Community is to have 25% of test takers take the WorkKeys® soft skills assessment called Talent. This session will take a look at the personality characteristics measured by the Talent Assessment. Participants will examine the reports generated by this

test and discuss ways that students or those looking for employment could use this information in their job searches. Although you cannot prepare for personality assessments, the Career Ready 101 software does offer some preparation material for the measured areas of Work Discipline, Teamwork, Customer Service and Managerial Potential. Participants will have the opportunity to explore some of the resources available in the Career Ready 101 software.

Room: Palisades F Free Websites to Take Your AE Classroom to New Heights Erin Miller, RAETAC Region 3 Come and explore my LiveBinder of free GED®, ABE and ESL websites. In this session you will get the opportunity to explore tons of free educational sites and discuss, as a group, ideas on how to integrate them into your AE classrooms. Participants will learn to use a website critique form that allows both the teacher and students to take a critical look at websites and evaluate them for usability and classroom application. Bring your own device for a more hands-on experience.

Room: Palisades G The New Funding Formula and Its Impact on the Budget David Stout and Mike King, SC Department of Education This session will cover implementation of the 2014-15 South Carolina Adult Education budget, including the new Federal and State funding formulas. Because the Federal funding formula is now performance-based, adult educators will need a good understanding of how it is calculated and the impact these performancebased formulas will have in the coming years. Join Dr. Stout in this informative session to understand more about the budgeting process and how to make it work for your program.

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. SCAACE Awards & Silent Auction Location: Dunes Ballroom, Hilton

AE Monday

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

AE Tuesday

Tuesday, June 16 Vendor Showcase & Lunch Room: Palisades ABC 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

Redefining the 2014 Adult Education Classroom Wendy Tyler, McGraw-Hill Education (Contemporary Group) This presentation will focus on the new Common Core State Standards and College and Career Readiness Skills and how they have evolved into the new 2014 Adult Education Classroom.

11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

GED 2014 Test Preparation Solutions from Edmentum Mike Widra, Edmentum As you begin to prepare for the new GED® assessment, it is important to make sure you continue to support all of the areas that learners need to succeed. Edmentum's new suite of GED® test solutions can help you and your students make the transition. We offer GED® test solutions that provide instruction, practice, formative assessment, and real-time reporting. Our software helps educators pinpoint academic strengths and weaknesses, differentiate their instruction, and target individual student needs through rigorous standards-based content. Edmentum is the premier provider of online education products designed to enhance student retention, progression, and success, and an approved partner of the GED testing service.

12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m. Lunch

Pick up your box lunch in Palisades South and return to the room for the remainder of the presentations.

12:20 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.

ETS High School Equivalency Testing (HiSET) Program Deborah Shine, Educational Testing Service Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the University of Iowa (ITP) have collaborated and developed a high school equivalency testing (HiSET) program that launched January 2014 at the request of more than 30 states. The assessment is an alternative to the GED. This session will provide information about the ETS HiSET Program.

12:40 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Be TASC Test Ready

Chriss Cazayoux, CTB/McGraw-Hill This session explores CTB/McGraw-Hill's New TASC Test, High School Equivalency Assessment. You will discover the role TASC Test plays in ensuring Adult Education and College and Career Readiness outcomes are achieved.

11:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

HMH Steck-Vaughn 2014 GED Test Preparation Program Marc Callahan, Geni McKee and Deanna Crosson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Steck-Vaughn has created a brand new test preparation program to prepare students for the 2014 GED test. Participants will find out what changes have been made in the program to address the changes in the new test. We will look at both the new books and the new online editions of the program. 61

Room: Palisades G Financial Monitoring Process

Room: Palisades E Creating Digital Stories

Mike King and Dr. David Stout will introduce the new position of Lead Financial Monitor at the State Department of Education and explain the changes and revisions that lead to the creation of this position. Mike will cover the desk top monitoring process and the impact that financial monitoring will have on the Local Program Review (LPR) process.

LaVerne Stewart, Beaufort County Adult Education An innovative approach to teaching writing skills to all ages!! Using Windows Live Movie Maker and Storybird.com teachers can creatively teach the elements of writing a story or essay in chronological order. This workshop will give teachers the tools needed to use these two programs in their classrooms to instruct students in creating digital photo books, novel trailers, etc. BYOD - Teachers will need a laptop.

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Room: Palisades D FastTrack Roadmap to GED速 2014 Susan Gibson, Christa Brumfield and Mary Gaston, Pickens Adult Education Presenters will share one example of a "Roadmap" for Fast-Track students to earn a GED. The roadmap serves as guide for both students and instructors, highlighting milestones that must be achieved in order to be "ready" for the high school equivalency exam. Resources used to help students achieve success will be shared.

Room: Palisades F Roundtable Discussion about the 2014 GED Math Test Beth Martin, Cherokee County Adult Education This discussion will focus on topics assessed on the GED速 Mathematical Reasoning Exam, and the books, materials, websites, and manipulatives used to teach these assessed targets. Participants are encouraged to bring information, samples, books, etc. to share in order to provide others with useful and insightful information.

Mike King and David Stout, SC Department of Education

2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Room: Palisades D Social Studies on the New 2014 GED速

Stacie Sprouse, Cherokee County Adult Education This session will provide resources that will help students to pass the new social studies part of the GED速. Participants will engage in hands-on, exciting activities to explore the new test, and will learn ways to improve student performance.

Room: Palisades F Rehab Your Vocab: Vocabulary Across the Curriculum

Paula Aull, Betty Gilbert, and Janet Russ, Lexington Two & Four Adult Education Vocabulary is "crucial for getting meaning from text" (Kruidenier 2002). How is vocabulary implemented in your subject area? Learn strategies to incorporate vocabulary words into your lessons for Reasoning through Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematical Reasoning. This session will provide "quick fixes" for creatively teaching vocabulary to your students. Quick fixes include strategies, resources, sample lessons and much more.

Room: Palisades G Knowing Your Community and Utilizing the Resources Elyse Miller and Wendy Griffin, Spartanburg County Adult Education Come learn about various statewide community resources that can help Adult Ed students break through obstacles, gain employment, and/or further their education.

AE Tuesday

Deep Dive Session 1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

AE Presenters

Presenter Directory *Directory lists lead presenters only

Jennifer Spears jsspears@spart7.org

Paula Aull paull@lex2.org

Stacie Sprouse stacie.sprouse@cherokee1.org

Christa Brumfield christabrumfield@pickens.k12.sc.us

LaVerne Stewart laverne.stewart@beaufort.k12.sc.us

Chriss Cazayoux chriss.Cazayoux@ctb.com

David Stout dstout@ed.sc.gov

Eric Childers echilders@union.k12.sc.us

Brett Taylor btaylor@rhmail.org

Deanna Crosson deanna.crosson@hmhco.com

Wendy Tyler wendy.tyler@mheducation.com

Mary Gaston marygaston@pickens.k12.sc.us

Mike Widra mike.widra@edmentum.com

Susan Gibson susangibson@pickens.k12.sc.us

Kathy Woodson kwoodson@greenville.k12.sc.us

Christy Henderson christyh@lex2.org Karen Joyner kjoyner@richlandone.org Mike King MRKing@ed.sc.gov Beth Martin beth.martin@cherokee1.org Kammie McDougald katherine.mcdougald@kcsdschools.net Erin Miller emiller@dorchester2.k12.sc.us Elyse Miller emmiller@spart7.org Deborah Shine dshine@ets.org

AE Exhibitors

Adult Education Exhibitor Directory Edmentum Mike Widra (800) 447-5286 Mike.widra@edmentum.com F.E. Braswell Company, Inc. Bobby Watkins (919) 971-8936 brwkhw@mindspring.com ETS HiSET Deborah Shine (855) 694-4738 dshine@ets.org Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Deanna Crosson (800) 225-5425 Deanna.crosson@hmhco.com McGraw-Hill Education (Contemporary Group) Wendy Tyler (706) 333-5351 Wendy.tyler@mheducation.com New Readers Press Karen Welch (404) 580-1563 Kwelch1799@gmail.com

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