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Descriptions
Session Descriptions
Location: Griffith Ballroom
Affinity groups are small groups of participants formed to discuss topics of personal interest. Some groups, listed here, have been suggested in advance, but others will form spontaneously as a result of work done at the conference. If you have an interest in leading an affinity group, please contact Mona Tipton (monatipton@ku.edu) with a title and short description. You also will have the opportunity to suggest an affinity group on a sign-up sheet at the conference registration table.
Close Encounters with a SIM Author: The Question Exploration Routine
Presenter: Jan Bulgren
Location: Gathering Room 3
This year’s conference offers several ways for you to meet with SIM authors one on one and in small groups. Jan Bulgren, the author of the Question Exploration Routine, will answer questions and discuss professional development issues and ideas related to the routine. This session, targeted for those who have been using the Question Exploration Routine.
Close Encounters with a SIM Author: The Word Mapping Strategy
Presenter: Monica Harris
Location: Gathering Room 3
This year’s conference offers several ways for you to meet with SIM authors one on one and in small groups. Monica Harris, the author of the Word Mapping Strategy, will answer questions and discuss professional development issues and ideas related to the strategy. This session is targeted for those who have been using the Word Mapping Strategy.
Presenter: Don Deshler
Location: Griffith Ballroom
Closing by Don Deshler/Give aways
Presenters: Ken Geisick, Barbara Millikan
Location: Media Room
Do you ever leave a workshop feeling great about teachers’ plans to implement SIM® in their classrooms but unsure how the administrators will support implementation? Administrators play a vital role in monitoring and supporting implementation of SIM but often don’t have time to attend an entire professional development session. If you have two hours with an administrator when you’re working in a school or district, what can you do to help the administrator monitor and support the implementation of SIM?
This session offers concrete ideas about how professional developers can work with administrators to help them support and monitor implementation effectively. Ken Geisick and Barb Millikan are administrators with years of experience in school and district implementation of SIM. This is a great session for administrators who are new to SIM and for professional developers who are working to support SIM implementation in several schools or districts.
Presenter: Patty Graner
Location: Hancock Ballroom
This 30-minute orientation session is for all first-time conference participants or anyone who believes they might benefit from a preview of what to expect during this week in Lawrence. We’ll answer your questions and help you determine how best to spend your time at the 2011 International SIM Conference.
Conference Welcome and Presentation of the Jan Roth Spirit Award
Presenters: Patty Graner, Jan Roth
Location: Hancock Ballroom
Presenter: Sherri Wagner
Location: Gathering Room 1
The premiere of GIST 2.0 is just beyond the asteroid belt. The session will
provide participants with a test version of GIST 2.0(PC), plus give insight
on how the GIST Reader version can be used to increase the exposure of
Content Enhancement and other devices. In addition, participants will get a
first look at the brand new gistplan.com website with an upgraded store,
account system and completely redesigned resources center. Plus,
participants will experience the new GIST certification Module and the new
GIST Professional Developers section of the GIST Store.
Enlightening Rounds and Book Reports
Session Host: Gail Cheever
Book Report Presenters: Susan D'Aniello, Leighton Helwig, Rebecca Shankland
Enlightening Round Presenters: Nate Bunnyfield, Gail Cheever, Kathleen Gabriel, Jean Piazza
Location: Griffith Ballroom
Enlightening Rounds:
- Stratereaders….Everything You Wanted to Know About our Virtual Book Club but were Afraid to Ask
Presenter: Jean Piazza
Yes, StrateReaders is 5 years old and still going strong! So, what have we covered? What have we learned? What are the implications? What is next? These and other questions will be addressed and discussed during our interactive session. Bring your ideas, your thoughts, your voice. StrateReaders, where great minds come together! - Light Their Fires? Four Ways to Increase Secondary Students’ Motivation
Presenter: Kathleen Gabriel
Many students come to junior and senior high motivated, but when academics
become strenuous, their enthusiasm waivers. To prevent them from giving
up (and dropping out), students need to be connected, but they also need academic skills. The SIM learning strategies can help the students gain the skills and strategies for mastering content, but all too often, students? give up before the SIM strategies are learned. This presentation will present four proven practices for increasing students’ efforts, and perseverance. - Building the Needle
Presenter: Nate Bunnyfield
Lessons from Stratepedia on using analytics (number crunching,
modeling and visualization) with professional development. - Cultivating Complete Sentence Investigators: Embedding COPS/CSI’
Presenter: Gail Cheever
How I merged the essences of Sentence Writing & Error Monitoring to create an embedded strategy for a K-8 school. Handouts include CSI/COPS cue cards, K-8 Instructional Protocol, Written Expression Critical Concepts, & Checklist of Written Expression Competencies.
Book Reports
- Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita Archer and Charles Hughes
Presenter: Leighton Helwig - Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning by Mike Schmoker
Presenter: Rebecca Shankland - The Self-Organizing School: Next Generation Comprehensive School Reforms by Alan Bain
Presenter: Susan D’Aniello
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Presenters: Patty Graner, Don Deshler
Location: Hancock Ballroom
Keynote Address: Why We Must Teach Writing and How To Do It Effectively
Presenter: Steve Graham with introduction by Don Deshler
Location: Hancock Ballroom
This presentation first will examine why writing is critical to youngsters’ school, social, and occupational success. It then will explore evidence-based practices that are effective at Tier 1 (regular classroom instruction) and beyond.
Presenter: Gwen Berry
Location: Hancock Ballroom
The Listening and Note-Taking Strategy is designed to help students identify important information during a lecture, write that information quickly in a format that will be easy to use, and study the information so they can earn the best grades possible on their tests. This session will unveil the new Listening and Note-Taking Strategy manual and highlight design features, such as “Metacognitive Moments.”
Literacy Leadership Team: One of the Keys to Successful Blast-Off!
Presenter: Sue Woodruff
Location: Gathering Room 1
School leaders are looking for help in redesigning their approach to literacy in secondary schools. When they look to us, SIM Professional Developers, it is critical that we prepare a school for success. Before an Apollo space mission, much work was done in planning, preparing, educating, and training everyone involved. What SIM Professional Developers and CLC Team Members have learned over the past 10 years is that this very preparation is critical not only to the continuing schoolwide effort, but more importantly to the continuity of literacy work in a school. This session will provide a forum to have dialogue about the roles and responsibilities of a SIM Professional Developer when working with a school and the roles and responsibilities of the team itself. Participants will have time to take a look at a variety of activities used with Literacy Leadership Teams and now available to the network.
This informal gathering will provide time to mingle with SIM authors, ask questions, share stories, make connections, and get to know each other better.
Location: Griffith Ballroom
Conducting Professional Development Online
Presenter: Amber Nutt
See an example of how Stratepedia conducts online professional development using Adobe Connect and other tools.
The Argumentation and Evaluation Intervention: Research Findings from Grant from the National Science Foundation
Presenters: Janis Bulgren, Jim Ellis
This poster will present findings from a design study and quasi-experimental study to help students acquire the ability to identify and analyze scientific and socio-scientific claims and to analyze the evidence and reasoning presented in support of the claim. The poster will present findings from teacher use of the intervention, student performance, and feedback from both teachers and students. Preliminary information will be provided on a second grant from the National Science Foundation to extend the findings from the Argumentation and Evaluation Intervention study. This second grant is in its first year and brings together researchers from the original grant to others at the CRL and the School of Education to develop a game that will help students evaluate a claim relative to evidence presented and the author’s use of reasoning.
SIM Beyond the Classroom
Presenter: Diane Larson
Corporate office and science labs at the Mayo Clinic? True examples of Adult Learning. Come to this poster session and let me tell you more with examples.
Fundamentals in Understanding Text Patterns: A Literacy Intervention Grounded in Language Principles
Presenter: Frances Ihle
truggling adolescent learners have language needs that are frequently not addressed by content area teachers. This intervention teaches students how academic writers use passive voice, noun phrases, and connectives to convey information to their readers. As a Tier II program, the intervention attempts to provide a bridge between intensive strategy instruction and authentic practice interacting with content area text. A validation study took place in which data were collected from three experimental classrooms and three comparison classrooms for a total of 49 students. Pretest and posttest results indicated that the students who learned the intervention outperformed the students who received instruction as usual. Come see more information about this intervention and preview the latest draft of the manual that will eventually join the SIM family.
Telling Our Stories
Presenters: Julie Tollefson and David Gnojek
Sometimes, the most compelling way to share our love of SIM is to tell a story. Come by this poster to learn how you can contribute to a bank of stories building on 2008’s 30×30: Thirty Stories of Success, Hope, and Innovation and the recent project profile collection featured on the Center’s website. We’ll share tips for gathering your own stories and sharing them with others to put human faces on the data that support the Strategic Instruction Model.
We Have Lift off: The Successful Implementation of the Inference Strategy in a High School Setting
Sue Meyer, Private Consultant/Independent Trainer
This poster will describe the successful implementation of the Inference Strategy with 450 nith grade students in general education English classes at Dundee Crown High School in Carpentersville, Ill. The presenter will explain implementation glitches and will share creative options for mastery of all levels of controlled practice.
Session Canceled – STRUCTURE Your Reading for Academic Disciplines
Presenter: Barbara Ehren
Location:
STRUCTURE Your Reading (SYR) is a “strateroutine” that helps students engage in strategic reading by activating metacognitive processes before, during, and after reading. The current version of SYR is being expanded to address the disciplinary literacy requirements we now realize are an essential part of content acquisition. For the past two years, the SIM Network has been exploring disciplinary literacy and the specific demands that the literacies of science, history, math, and literature place on adolescents learning subject matter. The new disciplinary literacy component of SYR provides a structured approach to address these demands. The beta version of this new component will be presented in this session.
SIM and Common Core Standards: Timeline >Leads Us to >Our Lifeline for a State
Presenter: Latricia Bronger
Location: Griffith Ballroon
This session shares steps for implementing the common core standards from the state, regional and district levels. Our plan considers instruction at the classroom level. Middle School classroom teachers are using FRAME and Concept Mastery Routines to plan and support important details of the Common Core Standards. Examples from middle and high level classrooms will be shared.
First came…standards.
Then came…a model framework.
And now an assessment plan… will drive our next steps.
Presenters: Barb Duchardt, Joyce Rademacher
Location: Gathering Room 3
Mission Control announces this session is for teacher educators who would like to share and collaborate on how they implement SIM in higher education courses. The Lunar Crew in Higher Education will discuss SIM in the following areas: course syllabi, course requirements, course instructional materials, course implementation ideas and activities, clinical and field-based experiences, and using SIM to meet state and national accreditation requirements. We value your participation in this creative professional learning community (oxygen tanks not required).
Presenter: Patty Graner
Location: Gathering Room 2
Each of us have created overviews (SIM, CE, LS, CLC…) for a variety of purposes and audiences. Bring an overview that you would like to share or one that you would like to overhaul, or create one with colleagues during this work session.
Presenter: Sue Vernon
Location: Gathering Room 2
This presentation will focus on an overview of the Speaking with Power series of interactive multimedia (IM) programs for teaching at-risk students in sixth through ninth grades oral communication strategies to help them meet standards in English/language arts. Sue will describe and demonstrate the IM format and the programs that have been developed and field tested, and participants will discuss the results of the research. The programs provide instruction for clearly and concisely presenting content in narrative, informative, and persuasive speeches. The self-paced instruction in communication strategies can be used to enhance expressive language, to provide additional practice to ensure that students achieve mastery in oral communication skills at a developmentally appropriate time, or as a remediation tool.
Strand: Designing Professional Learning to have an Unmistakable Impact
Presenter: Jim Knight
Location: Hancock Ballroom
This strand will explore how schools and districts can focus their professional learning on easy-to-understand professional learning targets; how workshops, professional learning communities and other forms of professional learning can support implementation of school improvement targets; what principals, coaches, and central office staff need to do to accelerate professional learning; and what teaching practices have the greatest impact in the classroom. The content of the institute draws from ideas described in Jim Knight’s Unmistakable Impact.
Strand: Helping Schools Move to a Better Place through a Process of Thoughtful Engagement
Presenters: Don Deshler, Susan D'Aniello , Ken Geisick, Jean Piazza, Vicki Ricketts, Sue Woodruff
Location: Griffith Ballroom
Improving how an individual struggling learner performs is a challenge. However, changing the instructional practices and culture of an entire school so the performance of many students improves can be daunting. Several professional developers have been taking on – and succeeding at this challenge! While there is much that we still find to be baffling, lessons being learned and important insights are emerging. This session will provide an opportunity to hear from those who’ve had first hand experiences in working with schools to make improvements. A case study involving actual examples will be used to share key findings and engage all participants in problem solving discussions.
Strand: Helping Schools Move to a Better Place through a Process of Thoughtful Engagement
Presenters: Don Deshler, Ann Hoffman, Donald Latham, Pam Leitzell, Jerri Neduchal
Location: Griffith Ballroom
Improving how an individual struggling learner performs is a challenge. However, changing the instructional practices and culture of an entire school so the performance of many students improves can be daunting. Several professional developers have been taking on – and succeeding at this challenge! While there is much that we still find to be baffling, lessons being learned and important insights are emerging. This session will provide an opportunity to hear from those who’ve had first hand experiences in working with schools to make improvements. A case study involving actual examples will be used to share key findings and engage all participants in problem solving discussions.
Presenters: Jan Bulgren, Keith Lenz
Location: Gathering Room 1
New initiatives from the Common Core Standards to incorporate literacy and reasoning across the curriculum have emerged and been adopted by states. In addition, our shift in SIM Content Enhancement professional development has directed professional development toward integrated Content Enhancement Routines. These trends present new challenges in how we roll out Content Enhancement in schools. This session includes integrated sets of Content Enhancements using GIST to show how we can embed reading, writing, and reasoning strategies into the delivery of courses units, and lessons. Special emphasis will be on the use of the Question Exploration Routine to link the planning routines to the teaching routines by focusing on critical questions.
Strand: Learning Strategies and Writing
Presenters: Jean Schumaker, Bev Colombo, Mary Black
Location: Gathering Room 2
This strand will be covering the latest research being conducted across the nation on writing strategy instruction. The session will cover several research projects. topics related to these projects will include scope and sequences of instruction, pacing guides, lesson plans, coordination with a RTI model, new products and instructional products currently being tested. Participant feedback and ideas will be sought.
Strand: Strengthen Your SIM Core
Presenter: Patty Graner
Location: Gathering Room 3
Just as the Mercury Seven accepted the danger of space flight, SIM professional developers have accepted the responsibility of offering a comprehensive, sustained, and intensive approached to improving educators’ effectiveness in raising student achievement. Some would argue, as challenging as any launch into space. This session will provide professional developers, especially novice professional developers, with opportunities to explore the array of tools and information available to them to carry out their mission.
Strategic Math Series: Addition with Regrouping and Subtraction with Regrouping
Presenter: Bradley Kaffar
Location: Gathering Room 2
If you are someone who has been waiting for strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems that require regrouping, your wait is finally over! This session will cover two new instructional programs for solving multi-digit math problems that require regrouping. Participants will learn about the new math strategy taught in both programs, the instructional sequence, the materials that are provided in the new instructor’s manuals, and the research. Since the instructional methods follow the same concrete-representational-abstract sequence found in the other programs in the Strategic Math Series, participants familiar with those programs will have a leg up in terms of understanding these new programs.
Presenter: Sheri Fiskum
Location: Gathering Room 2
The EDIT Strategy, which includes content from the Error Monitoring Strategy and the InSPECT Strategy, is designed to help students detect and correct spelling and mechanical errors in their writing produced using a word-processing program. In addition to error correction, the strategy includes editing for meaning and adding additional content elaboration.
The Genius Model: Disciplinary-Specific Writing Strategies for the Common Core Standards Initiative
strong>Presenters: Ed Ellis, Rachel White
Location: Media Room
This session will focus on research and practical writing applications of the Genius Disciplinary-Specific Literacy Model. Designed around the Common Core Standards Initiative literacy standards, Genius focuses on use of technology to target students’ knowledge of and ability to communicate about “essential understandings” of subjects.
The New Stratepedia: Coaching, Data, and Collaboration in the Cloud
Presenters: Aaron Sumner, Amber Nutt
Location: Meeting Room 1
Stratepedia is back after a hiatus from last year’s conference. Join us for a show and tell about what we’ve been up to and what we’ve got up our sleeves for the coming year. We’ll talk about our work with technology for distance coaching, how we can help you conduct online professional development through webinars, and a first look at the all-new Stratepedia. We’d also like to have a discussion with you to help guide our development into 2012.
The Virginia Project: A Six Year Journey to Implement the CLC.
Presenters
KUCRL: Diane Gillam, Kendall Hunt
Patrick Henry High School: Jeff Crook, Ian Shenk, Cathy Guillena, Frances Warnick
Liberty Middle School Presenters: Donald Latham, Julie Dauksys
James River High School Presenters: Jamie Talbott, Dana McCaleb
Central Academy Middle School Presenters:Tim McClung, Joni Poff, John Busher
Location: Hancock Ballroom
Explore the ‘right stuff’ (lessons learned and future considerations) from the six year journey toward implementing the CLC with the four schools receiving the 2010 SIM Impact Award. The results that will be shared are a result of heroic, collective effort by each Literacy Leadership Team in partnership within their school community to focus on one priority – improving literacy outcomes for every student. All five levels of the CLC are fully in play at each school, and the results are impressive.
Using Content Enhancement to Support Writing and Reading
Presenter: Jan Bulgren
Location: Griffith Ballroom
Emphasis in this session will be upon the many uses of Content Enhancement devices, including as writing supports. Results of recent research will illustrate how students can use a Question Exploration Guide to write five-paragraph essays according to 6-Trait Writing analysis guidelines. Research will also indicate the challenges students have in responding to questions requiring written responses. In addition, participants will consider uses of the Concept Diagram, the Concept Comparison Table, and the Concept Anchoring Table in writing responses. Previous research on the value of Content Enhancement Routines to support note-taking will also be presented.
