All-Day Workshops - $70

Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (with a one hour lunch break)

CW1001
Building Families—Keeping Our Most At-Risk Kids in School
Jimmy Garcia Arispe
Why are our kids dropping out at alarming rates? Most schools are missing the "3 Bricks" necessary to get kids to stay in school, stay away from gangs, and graduate: accountability, expectations, and relationships. Attendees will examine the impact that Building Families has on the most at-risk schools and kids.

CW1002
Poverty and the Brain: How to Build Enriched Environments to Accelerate Learning for Impoverished Students
Frank Kros
This presentation offers a comprehensive approach to serving students from impoverished backrounds. Modern neuroscience has revealed numerous learning differences in the brains of students of poverty. These differences will be shared along with research demonstrating what instructional environments and approaches are successful with these unique minds. The instructional approaches will be organized into 10 characteristics, and participants will be guided through a process of applying them in schools and classrooms.

CW1003
Formative Assessment: How You Know What Your Students Know
Denny Chandler, Sara Bryant
Explore the importance of formative assessment as instructional practice, how to implement strategies, and how to gather and use information about student learning at a point when it is still possible to take action. Participants will experience modeling of and engagement in formative assessment strategies such as feedback, setting criteria, questioning, and observation. Research and materials on formative assessment will be provided.

CW1004
Villages of Hope: Responding to Diverse Student Populations
Cynthia Johnson
Are you looking for ways to respond and teach diverse students who enter your school each day? This super-charged session will focus on leading the learning of disenfranchised and marginalized youth, proven strategies to close the achievement gap, the role of effective educators, dispelling myths about poor and minority students, and discussing issues surrounding equity. Participants will leave with strategies and a process to respond to all learners who make up the school community.