Do you want to be a teacher?

Do you want to be a better teacher?

Join us for a day of

enhancing teaching skills!

Keynote Speaker: Rives Collins

AND MUCH MORE PLUS EARN 6 CPDUs!

* Shuttle Service leaving Jones H.S. at 7:30 a.m. and Homewood Metra Station at 8:15 a.m.

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

9:00 A.M. – 9:30 WELCOME and CONFERENCE OPENING ADDRESS

Dr. Creg E. Williams, District 215 Superintendent

Dominic Belmonte, CEO & President, Golden Apple

Workshop Block 1 9:45 – 10:45 AM

Innovation and Creativity

• CSI – Constructing Inquiry-Based Science, Elizabeth Copper
• Tell Me A Story, Pam Kelly

Pedagogy

• Leading Effective Classroom Discussions, John Paulett
• The Basics of Differentiated Instruction, Jill Kryskinski and Scott Kryskinski

The Arts

• Creative Digital Arts Projects – STEAM into STEM, Tricia Fuglestad
• Teaching with Passion in the Arts, Melinda Wilson

Technology

• Gearing Up with Google, Gregory Regalado
• Getting to Know Your iPad, Charlene Chausis

10:45– 11:00 AM VISIT EXPO BETWEEN WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Workshop Block 2 11:00 – 12:00 PM

Innovation and Creativity

• Sounds of Learning, Carla Stone
• Making $ Club: Middle School Financial Literacy, Gerard Kovach & Rogelio Botello
• Teach the Most Popular Class with Highly Engaging Math, Donnell White

Pedagogy

• Backward Planning, Jill Krysinski, Shelia Hillier, and Nora Hayes
• Leadership Strength of Communication, Robert Taylor

The Arts

• Arts in the Foreign Language Classroom, Linda Egnatz
• Switching on Kids’ Brains with Song-Experience Games, Brooke Tippett Thompson

Technology

• Get Google to Work Harder: A Primer in Using Scripts, Jungsun Moon
• 60 in 60, Carol Broos

Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois Overview

Golden Apple Scholars Question and Answer Session

12:00 – 12:30 PM LUNCH, NETWORK and VISIT EXPO

12:45– 1:30 PM STORYTELLING KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Rives Collins, Associate Professor Department of Theatre Northwestern University

Block 3 1:45 – 2:45 PM

Innovation and Creativity

• Globalizing Your Classroom, Sharon Takahashi

Pedagogy

• Collaborative Reading with Subtext on iPad, Charlene Chausis
• Inclusion of Special Needs Students, Gloria Moyer
• RTII Simplified, Jill Krysinski, Tino Villaflor, and Megan Springer

The Arts

• Audience Participation in Story Telling, Rives Collins

Technology

• Book Clubs 2.0, Eliza Ramirez
• Gearing Up with Google, Gregory Regalado

3:00 – 3:30 PM Closing Session

Raffle Prizes

Closing Remarks

Evaluation & CPDUs Registration Area