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= Session Six Tuesday Morning =

98. Learning to Love Behavior and the IEP
Learn about the IEP (individual education plan) and common EC (exceptional children) acronyms. Learn strategies to deal with the hardest of students. Leave with usable materials and realistic methods to implement in any classroom. Focus will be on behavior and classroom management, the IEP and basic EC terms.

99. How to Teach Academic Vocabulary when You’re Not a Reading Teacher
Every teacher knows what it is like to have students memorize words for the vocabulary test and then not know what the same words mean two weeks later. Come to this session and learn what the research tells us is the best way to teach academic vocabulary to your students so they will retain what they know in long term memory. You can help your students be successful readers and learners in your content!

( Formerly Presentation 42, Session 3 )
Learn how to bring the three big ideas of a PLC to life in a middle school. Leave with a powerful understanding of what it takes to transform any middle school into a high-performing PLC. Gain practical strategies you can use immediately.

101. Why Try? Effective Multi-Sensory Tools to Keep Kids in School
This presentation provides research-based methods to teach emotional intelligence and life skills. This session emphasizes a strength-based approach to helping youth overcome challenges using “multiple intelligence” methods with an emphasis on meeting their individual needs. Why Try offers solutions and is an approach to foster success in youth to overcome, survive and thrive.

102. Interactive Science Notebooks
Engagement? Differentiation? Formative assessment? Multiple intelligences? 21st century skills? Any of these sound familiar? Stressed about how to incorporate them into your science curriculum? Come to this session and learn how the interactive notebook can address all these topics and more (Adaptable to any subject).

103. Activities for a “Cool” Social Studies Classroom
How many times do you hear students say “Do we HAVE to do that?” Activities in this session will have them saying just the opposite. This session will provide insight into activities that can be applied to any classroom from Grade 6 to 8. Samples of activities will be on display during the session. Teachers will walk away with a collection of ideas to go back and use in their classrooms.

104. Middle Management Mastery
The most unchallenged assumption in American schools is that children arrive knowing how to behave. Disruptive environments threaten children's academic and social success. Loss of instructional time is not “goal friendly.” Theories will provide an understanding of low-level behavior, and techniques will demonstrate how these behaviors can be eliminated.

105. Take Back Your Teaching Time
Teachers lose an average of 5-9 hours a week dealing with minor misbehavior. Imagine how much more instruction could be accomplished with those hours available. Learn how to manage your classroom in a way that eliminates gimmicks, reduces teacher stress, and works for students. It can be done!

106. Understanding Formative and Summative Assessments
This session will focus on the difference between formative assessments (for learning) and summative assessments (of learning). Examples of each and resources available to design formative and summative assessments will be provided.

Location: Carolina
==107. Taking Time to Listen to The Voices in Our Heads: Using Character to Connect Reading and Writing to Students’ Lives== This presentation will focus on the idea of accessing the characters in students’ lives to help them connect to what they are reading, while authentically writing their stories.

108. Empower Students with Power Strategies: Research-based Approaches for Nonfiction
How can we support student achievement in reading and writing nonfiction text? Research shows that when asked to read textbooks, students focus primarily on linear text. They ignore the text features and supports which would support their comprehension of the text. This is only one of eight research-based power strategies that students need to comprehend and generate complex texts. These nonfiction literacy strategies will increase students’ critical thinking and achievement with nonfiction literature across content areas. Empower students beyond success on the test to the winner's circle.

109. ‘Tween a Rock and Hard Place: Teaching the Pre/Adolescent Brain in Your Class
Youth culture will forever be a part of the curriculum. This interactive session will focus on how teachers integrate brain-compatible, culturally -relevant strategies that reinforce what research has shown to be effective practices for this population of learners. Attendees will do the strategies, see the research, and dialogue on the application of it all with their peers.

110. The Ratio Box: A Cure for the Proportionally-Challenged Student (Apologies: Canceled)
This presentation has been replaced. Please see description below.

=110. Building Math Talk Communities within your classroom using CMP2= The NCTM Standards emphasize the need for students to discuss their mathematical thinking as a way to increase understanding. The course will help you establish a "Math Talk" environment using CMP2. We will share strategies for organizing student work, reviewing homework, class discussions as well as group discussions and formative assessments.

111. Global Connections in the Middle!
This session will focus on a specific elective course called Global Connections and ways to infuse global perspectives in the middle school that will motivate and ignite student learning as we do our part to “graduate globally competitive students” from North Carolina’s public schools.

112. Butterflies in the Classroom
Bring excitement into your classroom with The Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui). The small insect is easily raised and cultured year-round. Session includes guidance on care of the butterfly in every life stage. It also meets National Science Standards for characteristics, life cycles, and reproduction. Free living sample and activities.

113. Algebra Readiness and TI MathForward - It Really Works!
The TI MathForward™ program – responds to a pressing need for middle school algebra readiness and high school algebra success while increasing teacher capacity for further gains. The TI MathForward program enables schools to turn around student achievement in mathematics and creates a basis for sustained progress over the long term. Learn how your school can accomplish amazing results and hear how other North Carolina classrooms have achieved these outcomes.

114. Science, Content Reading, and the Common Core
How can we improve our students reading comprehension? The Common Core State Standards include Reading Standards for Literacy in Science/Technical Subjects. These standards describe best practices for content area reading that can be implemented today. Participants will participate in strategies aligning with the standards that can be implemented when they return to their classes.

Location: Pebble Beach
== 115. Engaging Students and Colleagues in Breakaway Literacies: Introducing NCMSA’s First eMonograph == The Web has fostered breakaway literacies that spark creativity engagement, providing opportunities for teachers and students to collaborate in new ways. This session engages participants in exploring opportunities for digital teamwork with students and colleagues, learning experiences that can transform traditional notions of reading, writing and reasoning – in and out of classrooms.

116. Make Reading & History Come To Life
Put students in the driver's seat with interactive history texts. They read and make choices of real people, explore historical events with multiple perspectives, learn what decisions were faced at critical times. Topics include Pearl Harbor, Ancient Egypt, Middle Ages, Civil War, Underground Railroad, & World War II. Bibliography & handout provided.