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= Session Eight Tuesday Mid-Morning =

136. Concept Attainment: How to Spark Students’ Interest
Concept attainment is an activating strategy that truly engages all students and opens their minds to learning. This session models how to utilize and implement this strategy within any curriculum. If you continually struggle with finding new ways to inspire and engage your students, this is the session for you.

137. Connecting Disengaged Teens to Reading
Participants will review and discuss the work of Dr. Alfred Tatum. Participants will learn strategies that support and encourage students to become successful and engaged readers through the use of texts that are both meaningful and significant in the student’s lives. Participants also receive a free book in the session.

138. Engaging Reluctant and Struggling Readers in the Middle Grades
Middle school is when students become engaged readers or slip behind. Shared Inquiry empowers all students to become better readers and thinkers–starting with their questions and ideas and using collaboration to build defensible interpretations of what they've read. Participate in a Shared Inquiry discussion and find out how.

139. Building Success through Building Academic Vocabulary
Learn how our school implemented Marzano’s research on Building Academic Vocabulary to give consistent focus to our grade level instruction and vertically align content areas. This session will cover direct vocabulary instruction techniques, vocabulary games and activities, as well as our school-wide implementation plan.

140. Engaging Minds without Losing Yours
Have you ever avoided games, movement, or group work for fear that your classroom would become complete pandemonium? This session provides research-based strategies for intensely engaging students in activities that will keep them focused on the content. You will leave with ideas that can be immediately used in your classroom.

141. Reliving Social Studies through the Arts
Join us to discover how to make middle school social studies exciting & relevant by incorporating song, dance, and art. We will provide strategies for interdisciplinary lessons that increase mastery of material through movement, music, art, technology, and writing. Students won’t know they are learning!

142. The More Ways You Teach...The More Students You'll Reach
In this session you will learn why differentiated instruction is so important and also how easy it can be to implement in any classroom with any students. Come ready to play and explore with any or all content areas.

143. Higher Level Thinking During the First Week of School…Are You Kidding Me?
In this session, educators will learn how to utilize the first week of school procedures to engage students in higher level thinking skills and data analysis.

144. The Effect of Local and State Budgets on Middle School Athletic Programs in NC
This session will examine the effect of local and state budgets on middle school athletic programs in North Carolina public schools over the course of the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. Data was gathered via surveys administered to middle school athletic directors in the late spring 2010.

145. The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Shows Education Is Ethics!
This exciting, practical method enables students to learn AND brings out their deepest, finest ethical sense. The presenter demonstrates how, through the opposites, the human heart, punctuation, the US Constitution, and an algebraic equation are related and can be used to know and be fair to the world and people.

146. Vivacious Vocabulary: Taking Content Vocabulary From Drab to Fab!
This session will provide ideas, strategies, and examples to spice up teaching content vocabulary for any style of learner. These strategies are effective for all subjects and grade levels. Participants will leave with templates for all strategies shown.

147. Increase StudentMath Achievement through Differentiation and Review
We will present strategies that engage students in all levels of thinking and higher level questioning. Differentiated instruction in the math classroom will be highlighted as well. Two major topics will be an EOG review station plan and using cartoons to encourage reading and writing in the math content area.

148. Let's Get Digital!
To engage the digital student, we need to move beyond our classroom walls to the world at large: the virtual world. In this world, students use the internet as a tool for learning and responding. Textbooks are accessed online. Manipulatives, virtual classrooms, the newspaper and educational games are ready for use with the click of a mouse. Assignments are submitted to the teacher through online drop boxes. By sharing our experiences with our team’s laptop initiative, participants will learn how to initiate one of their own.

149. It’s Time to Cut the Cord!
Transitioning scared, pre-pubescent, unorganized 5th graders and their over-bearing parents can be overwhelming! We will present strategies on organization, basic skills development, community building, social development, parent communication and involvement. Participants will gain the knowledge to cultivate the growth of the dependent elementary student to the independent middle school student.

150. Creating a Harmonious Classroom
Struggling to create an environment where everyone's satisfied? Come be reminded of your students’ developmental traits and needs while reflecting on your classroom practices. This session will focus on helping teachers find a happy medium between their students and themselves. Helpful strategies will be shared by presenter and participants. Come prepared to share ideas.

151. Guided Behavior System - How to Avoid the Power Struggle
Feel drained at the end the day? Power struggles with your students left you frustrated and exhausted? You’re not alone. Help is here! In this session, you’ll learn how to guide your students to make better behavior choices. Don’t give up! These simple tricks are already helping thousands of teachers.

152. Strategies for Scientific Success
Come join us for a session that will focus on getting the most out of your students in the science classroom. Strategies to be discussed include: Interactive Notebooks, Project-Based Learning, and Collaborative Projects through the Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways Network. Please be prepared to share this session's information far and wide when you leave!

153. Use Tech Tools to Connect Assessment & Instruction in 21st Century Classes
Are you using student data to enhance instruction? 21st Century assessments are focused on both the learning process and the assessment outcome. Come see how to use classroom student data collected during the lesson to give performance feedback, make midcourse corrections and to plan for differentiated instruction.

154. Cultivating Character and Citizenship Through T.R.I.B.E.S.
Inspire your adolescents to extend their learning and foster character development. ArtSpace Charter School utilizes a comprehensive program that links advisory (T.R.I.B.E.S.) and service learning with the school mission vision, and foundational pillars. We will focus on collaborative, deliberate program development, planning, and implementation. Suitable for teachers and administrators.