Let’s Be Active, Right from the Start!

Dr. Don Morgan will open the session by outlining the importance of providing physical activity and movement experiences for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Dr. Debbie Morgan will then present an exciting array of activities that develop fundamental movement skills and enhance physical fitness levels of very young children. (Come Participate!)

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Ready, Set, Go! Strategies for Pre-K Readiness, Literacy, and Math

Focusing on a child’s need to play, this interactive session provides engaging strategies for children with diverse learning styles. The session uses familiar classroom materials to foster crucial skills in readiness, literacy, and math. Learn activities to develop pencil grip, letter/number recognition, name-writing, vocabulary, phonological awareness, counting, shapes, and patterns.

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ReadyK—Preparing Kindergarten Students to Explore the World of Knowledge

ReadyK is an innovative program developed by special area teachers at Moore Elementary to advance brain stimulation and brain development by integrating cross-curricular areas of art, guidance, library, music and physical education. Experiences and activities of readyK prepare brains and bodies of young children for success in the classroom.

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ECEC 4MAT Training

This seminar will assist teachers of young children to understand and use the 4MAT Natural Cycle, honor diverse learning preferences, design instruction that is developmentally appropriate, and to integrate curriculum for a learning experience that promotes growth in all educational and developmental domains.

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Real Science in the Preschool Classroom

During this workshop, participants will learn the six components of the preschool scientific method. They will be introduced to how to use interaction strategies to support children’s science learning and to identify and support the parts of the preschool scientific method as they occur in each area of the classroom. Participants will also learn to plan small-group times with science learning in mind.

THAT’S LIFE!

THAT’S LIFE! is a money-management/classroom- management curriculum which teaches partnering with God through tithing and giving of offerings, personal financial responsibility, money must be earned, behavior and attitude affect our ability to earn money, auditing of financial records, and checkbook handling.

Literacy Intervention: A Multisensory Curriculum for Your Classroom

This seminar focuses on identifying and defining the significant characteristics of dyslexia in each stage of language development. Discover how a multisensory curriculum can treat dyslexia and learn about resources to guide parents who have questions about this ever-increasing challenge.

Reading Like Writers; Writing for Readers

This is your invitation to see how primary grade students use reading purposefully as they stand on the shoulders of published authors. See the process and the product of a shared reading/writing experience. Ideas will be given for creating shared reading and writing products based on Pathways themes.

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Kindergarten Stepping Stones Language Arts

The Language Arts curriculum in Kindergarten Stepping Stones is based on routines that include the following components and activities: Phonemic Awareness, Sound-Letter Awareness, Reading Workshop, Signing-In, Writing Workshop, Fine Motor Skills, Listening/Speaking. See how these routines work together to help children enjoy literature and become lifelong readers and writers.

“Let’s Get Physical!” – with Math on the Floor

This highly interactive session will introduce teachers to the many creative ways of using a large 100-square floor grid to demonstrate many mathematical concepts in all strands. Teachers will see how common core standards can be easily addressed through this kinesthetic approach to learning. Come with a camera prepared to play!

Using Technology to Enhance Your Language Arts Classroom

Want to engage your students and get them excited about learning their spelling and vocabulary words? Learn how Vocabulary SpellingCity can be a fun and flexible resource for students. We feature over 25 learning activities, many of them for free, that will engage your students in the classroom and at home.

How to Implement Kindergarten Stepping Stones

Lead teachers and kindergarten Steering Committe members who taught using Kindergarten stepping Stones thematic unites this past schoolyear will share their experiences and give advice on how to implement this new curriculum

READY…SET…GO MATH!

Receive an overview of the new elementary mathematics materials for the students in grades K-6. Each group will have an opportunity to look at the new “Go Math” materials, learn about the program’s organization and resources, view technology demonstrations, and interact with several activities designed to meet the needs of your classroom.

Number Talks: Students Building Mental Math and Computation through Discourse

Number Talks are powerful 10 to 15 minute classroom conversations around purposeful, contextual computation problems solved mentally. Designed to elicit specific strategies that focus on number relationships, number sense, and operational sense, students share and defend their solutions and strategies, collectively reasoning about numbers while building conceptual ideas and connections.

Get the Big Picture about Big Ideas Math

Come for the snapshot tour of the Big Ideas Math Common Core Program fro you 6-8 grade students. Big Ideas Learning will describe all the Big Ideas materials and how they will create enthusiasm, excitement and deeper understanding of mathematics for students. The album includes activities, Laure’s Notes, cutting-edge technology and more.

BirdSleuth: Investigating Evidence

Need help with student inquiry? Cornell Lab of Ornithology created this free online BirdSleuth module to help! The module includes lesson plans, journal pages, and online resources that will help your students ask scientific questions, craft and test hypotheses, collect and organize data, draw meaningful conclusions, and publish their work.

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I Read It, But I Don’t Get It!

Do you have students that can read, but have no idea what they are reading? This presentation will give you all the important points for providing effective whole-class strategy instruction in reading for balanced literacy as well as in the content areas.

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Creating Your Own Television Program

One way to expand our unique Seventh-day Adventist message is through the use of television. Join us as you learn how even elementary students can begin developing the skills used by this media as they create their own weekly television program that will be aired locally.

We’ve Got The Beat: How Rhythm Improves Critical Thinking

In this workshop, poet-songwriter-educator Mike Mennard shows how metered poetry, jump-rope rhymes, and rhythmic activities have a measurable affect on thinking. By encouraging metered poetry, jump-rope rhymes, rhythm exercises, and music, a teacher may discover increased attention skills and thinking skills. Teachers will leave with activities ready for the classroom.

C.P.R. (Christ’s Power Resurrects!)

We are living during a time of spiritual slumber. Young people are being deceived by the enemy’s arsenal of distractions. Educators are on the front life of a battlefield and are in desperate need of C.P.R. training. See how you can make a difference in the lives of our students for God’s honor and glory.

The Bully-Free Classroom

Kick off your school year with this six week jump start bully-free program. Your students will learn strategies for handling a bully, how to be a supportive by-stander, and all this in the Christian frame work of the BYKOTA theme (you have to come to learn what BYKOTA means!).

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Tips for Getting Started with iPods in the Elementary Classroom

In this beginners session a second grade teacher will share how she implemented one-to-one iPods in her classroom. You will learn how to configure iOS devices. There will be lots of tips for daily lessons. You will receive suggested App lists and class management websites. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

Making PE Heart-Healthy and Fun for Everyone!

This presentation will look at a variety of topics such as: getting all the kids active; basic and inexpensive equipment to add to your PE inventory; many game ideas for a variety of ages that the kids will love to play (and not even realize they are getting in shape!).

Writing Workshop Mini-Lessons—the Easy Way to Teach Writing!

This interactive presentation will give a preview of the Writing Toolkit, a collection of ready-to-use mini-lessons to help teachers provide instruction in Writing Workshop. This tool is part of the Pathways Language Arts curriculum. Whether or not you use Pathways, this presentation will give you a practical resource for writing class.

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Creating an Edible Schoolyard

An interactive workshop for teachers and administrators which will allow participants to conceptualize their schoolyard garden. Gardens may be in containers, large natural habitats, or conventional garden beds—they all serve the same basic purpose as a living laboratory for student experimentation and observation.

Using Questions to Motivate: The Inquiry Method

The Inquiry Method, mostly used in science, starts with a question. This method uses a student’s curiosity to learn by actively exploring. This session explains and demonstrates this method used in the new By Design science program, along with applications to other subjects: language arts, Bible, social studies.

By Design: A Journey to Excellence through Science for Grades 1-8

This engaging, rigorous, and developmentally appropriate curriculum nutures a child’s natural curiousity as they explore the wonderment of God’s creation through the lens of the Bible. The program focuses on the users’ experience so that all elements invite, engage, instruct, and motivate students and teachers to continue learning and buildling their science knowledge.

Sparking Elementary Science Using Discrepant Events

Some students have a natural love of scientific investigation and inquiry, while others need a little inspiration. The short experiments shared in this presentation motivate students to want to know more about how and why things work when at first they don’t seem to make sense.

Teaching With Love and Logic

Take the stress out of dealing with difficult students by offering choices and giving students opportunities to solve their own problems. Learn how to handle difficult parent-teacher conferences and ways to get kids motivated!

A Context for Content: The Value of Integrating Literature and History

Hear an overview of integrating content areas in the classroom, with an emphasis on approaches to integrating literature and history. We’ll go over why, and more importantly how, content area integration can meet the diverse learning needs of today’s students

Languages—Tools for Faith Sharing

This presentation will elucidate how Scriptural knowledge serves as a means of broadening, deepening, and enhancing language and cultural understanding. It will be demonstrated how languages are a means to taking the gospel to the world, whether in a denominational or non-denominational educational institution.

The Bible, Anthropology, and the Ancient Caveman

God created man in His image, yet there are bones that show evidence of manlike beasts. There is a plausible explanation for caveman! There is a connection between the Antediluvian scientists and the scientists of today. This presentation shows that evolution is a hoax and that Christ is coming soon!

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A Fresh Look at the Book of Revelation

Controversial, confusing, scary, important, entrenched, divisive—what comes to mind when you think of the book of Revelation? Adventist scholars have developed a fresh approach to studying the book of Revelation. Find out what it is and how it works. You’ll be absolutely overwhelmed with how magnificent Jesus is.

Alternative High School PE Options: Mountain Biking and Olympic Games

Discuss the value of teaching mountain biking as a lifetime activity. Topics cover fundraising and equipment considerations, unit design and ideas, trail design and maintenance, and safety concerns. The second half will cover a cross-curricular Winter Olympics unit and open discussion on developing a similar Summer Olympics unit.

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Three Reasons Why Your Mathematics Students Should Do WebWork

Would you like to assign more effective homework? WeBWorK delivers individualized assignments with instantaneous feedback. Spending too much time grading? WeBWorK scores assignments automatically. Are commercial homework systems just too expensive? Come learn why hundreds of schools are using this free, easy-to-use, online homework system and how yours can too.

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Working with Wikipedia

Use a high-stakes writing task and our “favorite” Internet source to increase student engagement in your classroom. Writing Wikipedia articles connects students with a real audience and demands attention to rhetorical principles. Learn how to guide students through this task and take away new ways to integrate writing and technology in your classroom.

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Releasing the Power of the Armed Small School Principal

Experience a platform from which a small school principal can be successful in a rural, urban, small or large school setting. Balance a sound spiritual atmosphere with the caliber of dynamic academic and community programs that support solid and growing enrollment while making the principalship indispensable!

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Preventing “Death by Powerpoint:” Help Student Presentations Come Fully Alive

We’ll start by investigating the Top Ten Design Crimes students commit (often by copying what the grown-ups do!) when making ugly PowerPoint “slide-u-ments.” Then, we’ll explore the Top Ten Design Tips for Powerful Presentations and discuss all aspects of preparation (especially practice, practice, and more practice!)

Evangelism Curriculum for Academy Students

Sunnydale Academy has added a school of evangelism to its curriculum. Now is the time to train an army of youth. Come hear some of the practical ways students have been involved in evangelism and outreach.

Teen Dating Violence: A Reality Check

Teen dating violence is on the rise. This pattern of controlling and abusive behavior is affecting about 33% of high school students. How can a teen determine if they are in an unhealthy relationship? Come and learn how to assess and help reduce the violence.

SHOPTALK: Secondary Social Studies

SHOPTALK: Secondary Fine Arts

SHOPTALK: Academy Business Mgrs

Safety Issues in K-12 Science Classrooms

This presentation presents key safety issues for science teachers in K-12 classrooms and how to solve them. Sources for safety information will also be presented.

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Let’s Go with Glogs!

Looking to raise your student’s critical thinking and creativity levels? Glogs may be your answer! In this session learn how students and teachers can create and use these multimedia posters for all subject areas and grade levels. Creating a Glog is easy and free!

Intramurals: Get Every Student Playing!

See how to get more students involved and participating in recreation through a variety of fun Intramural sports and activities.

Creative Activities for Bible Teaching

Have you ever defaulted to stories and worksheets, or lecture and written homework? This session offers K-12 Bible teachers easy-to-implement ideas to broaden their approaches for engaging students in effective learning and connecting personally with God.

Creating Interactive Student Notebooks

Do your students hate taking notes? Are their notebooks messy, unintelligible pages of poorly understood ideas? Change all of that with Interactive Student Notebooks, a strategy that incorporates principles of differentiation, learning styles, multiple intelligences, and brain-based activities to enhance the understanding and application of learning for all students.

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Lead Management in Schools

This presentation will contrast lead management and boss management. Lead management leads to non-coercive, collaborative problem solving in mutually satisfying relationships. Time will be provided for Q and A.

Heart-Brain Connections and Resilience in the Classroom

This session reports on recent research in the area of social and emotional intelligence. Specifically, heart-brain connections and neurochemical transfer among people are considered. Implications include: teacher expectations and student success, effects of bullying and other high-stress events, test apprehension, and resilience in the classroom.

To the Seafloor in a Cardboard Box! Teaching through Simulations

Simulations are powerful teaching devices that can activate all learning domains and integrate content areas through very active learning. As a model, I will share a simulation my academy science students and I developed—building deep submergence vehicles to study hydrothermal vents and marine archaeology. Get handouts and make models!

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Using Questions to Close the Biblical Integration Gap

Resolved to intentionally integrate a biblical perspective in your teaching, but not sure how? Wondering how to more effectively use questions to help students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches? Leave this workshop with a lesson you draft and a raft of practical tools available through CIRCLE.adventist.org

Bullying In School, The Myths and the Facts

Take the first step in reducing the threat of bullying on campus by learning what is myth and what is fact. The public believes many things about bullying, some from experience and more from the media. Come learn how 35 years of research data from Dan Olweus and others can dispel the myths which enable bullying to remain a problem for schools.

Shop Talk for Working with Special Needs or Struggling Students

Join us if you would like help in making accommodations or modifications to your program in order to help your special needs or struggling students become more successful in the classroom. If you are a special educator or work with students with learning problems, please join us for the discussion.

Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing

The Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP) assesses phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. A deficit in one or more of these areas is viewed as one of the most common causes of learning disabilities in general and of reading disabilities in particular. Come learn more about this important test!

Building a Learning Community

Public school education in America has changed significantly since 1984, but the wheels in Adventist education turn very slowly. This presentation will focus on what one charter school is doing to build a “Learning Community.” There will be time to brainstorm ideas that may help Adventist K-12 schools do the same.

Google Tools for Teaching and Learning

You’re probably already using Google as a search tool. But did you know it offers far more than that for your classroom? In this session we’ll explore iGoogle, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Blogger, and other cool Google tools—we’ll also discuss setting up and managing student logins and accounts.

iPad Apps for STEM

Hundreds of iPad apps exist for STEM curriculum (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). A variety of apps will be explored such as reference apps, apps that include experiments, and apps that promote productivity as well as apps to intrigue the younger student to become engaged in STEM courses.

Organizing Your Online Course to Provide Structure and Routine

Structure is critical for student success and completion in online courses. This session examines ways to create a familiar structure and course routine by using a consistent template for each module.

iBeam Me Up!

“Communicators” in your students’ pockets? In this session you will learn how to use videoconferencing to enable your students to collaborate on projects with other students. Let’s bring Adventist classrooms around the world together to learn! Take away sample lessons and links to collaboration sites. BYOD

Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction and Promote Teacher Collaboration

Technology is changing the way people learn and is a powerful tool for accessing and sharing innovative instructional ideas. This session introduces a web-based system that offers a simple 4-step model for lesson design, along with tools for collaborating and sharing high impact instruction with SDA teachers throughout the country.

Extending Spatial Thinking with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Spatial thinking underpins activities that range across the fabric of our lives; whether using MapQuest to find routes for driving or in science where statisticians use the visualization powers of data. This presentation discusses how teachers can integrate GIS into the curriculum as a foundation for spatial thinking.

Obtaining and Using a Student Response System

Want to get instant feedback from your students after a lesson, quiz, test, or review? This presentation will demonstrate how to use the student response system to achieve this and how to quickly and easily create a quiz or review using the test generator. Grant information will also be provided.

iPads—An Educator’s Most Powerful Tool

iPads are here to stay and soon nearly every classroom in the nation will have them. Find out how you can be leading the pack and bringing your students along with you using this amazing device. We will demonstrate how revolutionary this can be to the learning environment.

What we need to know about Heritage Health Foods

Learn about Heritage Health Foods. See some of their products and how their products are available to the colleges and academies for purchase.

RenWeb’s Online Enrollment

Save parents the frustration of completing the same paper enrollment forms year after year, and your staff from re-keying demographic data into RenWeb. Online Enrollment is a powerful new tool that provides end-to-end enrollment and reenrollment processes for new and returning students.

RenWeb’s Mobile Applications For School and Home

Enhance access and use of RenWeb by school personnel, while improving families’ experience in monitoring their child’s progress and information. RenWeb’s mobile applications allow users to perform critical tasks like entering grades and attendance, creating alert messages, and enabling parents access to a host of services including grade progress and attendance data.

InformationNow Classroom Attendance, Rosters, and Reports

This hands-on style session, designed for the classroom teacher, will guide InformationNOW users through the process of taking attendance, viewing and managing rosters and seating charts, and running reports from within the classroom menu.

InformationNow Classroom Lesson Plan, Grade Book Setup and Entry

InformationNOW teachers will be led through a hands-on style session that will cover initial grade book setup, daily activity and lesson plan entry, and using the grade book as tool to communicate with parents.

Using student data to make labels, create class lists, and Emergency contact lists

This session will teach participants to use the student list features. This will enable them to create mailing labels, book labels, Birthday lists, emergency contact lists etc….. Following the short presentation there will be time for participants to receive individual help.

Early Childhood Education Risk Management

There are countless challenges, regulations, parental and legal expectations and risk exposures found in opening and operating a childcare center, but nothing can outweigh the rewards. Come join us as we look at ways to reduce risk exposures and enhance safety in early childhood eduction facilities.

Effective Communicators (How to Foster Positive Relationships in the Workplace)

This presentation will examine various personality, life experience, and psychological factors that can contribute to breakdowns in effective communication. The ability to work with others is key to success in any organization. The educational setting is no exception. This presentation will be interactive and discussion-based.

An Adventist Approach to Cognitive Science

Cognitive science, the study of the mind, brain, and thinking, is the basis for evidence-based teaching practices. However, popularization of cognitive science can sometimes introduce ideas that hamper student learning and undermine Adventist educational philosophy. This talk will provide Adventist educators with principles for using cognitive science and brain-based learning.

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Get Wild About Fitness and Health: Integrating Content with Fun!

Discover standards-based comprehensive lessons to teach and reinforce learning while being fun, through demonstrated activities from our Fab 5 Physical Activity Program. See how easy it can be to “teach” fitness and health while actively having fun through intentional movement, intrinsically motivating children to pursue an active lifestyle.

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Healthy, Happy Teachers

Teachers have demanding, multi-faceted jobs, but they can still be healthy, happy people. Apply these simple, practical methods for a more balanced life.

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Youth “doing” Ministry Formula: YM2

Distinguish your school from all other Christian schools in your city. This workshop guides you through the process for turning student’s interests into ministries that can benefit your school’s enrollment and the community. Once established, the YM2 guide will help each student direct and maintain their own ministry interest with minimal supervision.

What Students Tell Us About Cyberbullying

Students know more about school cyber bullying and violence than adults want to admit. Learn what students say about crime at school; learn how to deter bullying and potentially thwart a criminal act. This presentation will provide information to protect your students and campuses; it will protect students by prevention.

Adventist Schools: Communities of Faith (Part 1)

Adventist schools are viewed as “communities of faith” in which every aspect contributes to the ultimate goal of Christian education – comprehensive restoration. This thoroughly biblical, Christ-centered model offers an integrated framework for Christian educators to evaluate their work, both individually and corporately, and to address recognized needs systematically.

Music Spa

Come, relax, take a break and enjoy the therapeutic effects of music improvisation. This is a hands-on event where all abilities are welcome, even if you’ve never played an instrument before in your life! Personal instruments welcome.

Budget Stretchers: How to Get Anything Free For Children

Discover the only three things you need in order to break through the red tape of getting free items for children. When budgets are strained or changed, when sponsors are no longer available, when you can no longer afford to dig into your own pockets—you need some budget-stretchers! Here they are…come and get them.

Together Growing Fruitful Disciples: Teaching for Discipleship

Why is being a disciple important for you, as well as your students? What does it mean to be a disciple? Learn how you can disciple others as well as be discipled, and what teaching for discipleship can look like in your classroom.

Teachers Who Bully Students: What Research Says, What can Be Done

An engaging look at what is known about teachers who mistreat students. Learn why some teachers bully students and what effect that has on students and families. Glean some helpful tips on damage control and consider some promising long-term solutions.

Practical Principles for Practicing Principals

Have you fallen into a yearly administrative rut? Are you a fairly new principal seeking fresh ideas? This is a top 10 list of practical advice/useful tips for principals. It is based on one principal’s perspective after 20 years of teaching and seven years of administration.

Who Owns the Learning?

Perhaps the most powerful idea in technology and learning is the opportunity for students to manage and lead more of their own learning. Powerful new tools, such as screen casting and global learning communities can lead to higher student work ethic. Educators are more important than ever!

RED BOOK—Guidelines and Policies for School Health and Safety

Do you have questions regarding student health, school safety, volunteers, field trips, employee health, background checks, student records, and more? The answers can be found in the RED BOOK, where guidelines, policies and forms for all these areas have been compiled by SECC Office of Education to help you.

Building Your Fundraising Team—Avoiding the Solo Performance

Because one of the most important fundraising tenets is “the right person asking the right prospect,” it’s vital to develop a functional and professional team of volunteers, board members, colleagues, and others who participate in the fundraising process. This session will provide suggestions and materials for building a successful fundraising team.

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Contractual Minefields for School Administrators

School administrators enter into a variety of contracts without the benefit of counsel on what they are signing or what rights they are giving up or committing to. Explore what administrators should know about contracts and the legal repercussions for them, their school and their conference.

Work/Life Balance for the Principal

Is the day never too long for you to get your work done as the school principal? Do you consistently work a 12-14 hr work day? Do you struggle to maintain balance between your personal and professional life? Research and proven strategies will be provided for learning to achieve balance in your life.

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Online Lead Explosion—How to More Than Triple New Family Leads (Part 1)

Look at every major Internet strategy to generate prospective parent leads: calls to action, content, audience, search engine optimization, landing pages, pay per click, and various social media and Internet PR tools, including Twitter, Facebook, and others. Every aspect of the session is focused on one goal: finding new prospective parent families.