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= Session Three Monday Afternoon =

41. Administrators: Be an Instructional Leader NOT a Disciplinarian!
Does your SMART-SAFE school begin in the classroom or are you the school's disciplinary lint-trap? Immediately reduce referrals by 80%. Empower your teachers! Increase student achievement! Learn Time to Teach strategies and actually provide the “tools” your teachers can use tomorrow and forever to respectfully take back their classrooms.

( Formerly Presentation 100, Session 6 )
Creating a high performing middle grade school requires effective visionary leadership with an understanding of collaboration, organization, articulation and cooperation. This session examines effective leadership and looks at a model for success.

43. Classroom Instruction that Works: Strategies for Building Achievement in the Middle
With the push for teacher accountability and achievement, administrators and teachers are compelled to investigate all aspects of instructional design and delivery. This session spotlights the research-based strategies that have a high probability of increasing student achievement. Leave with realistic plans for creating school cultures that focus on positively impacting teaching and learning.

44. iLearn+ iTeach + iCollaborate = iSucceed
North Lincoln Middle School has found the equation for student success! In this session participants will learn how we are using iPods to improve student learning, interactive whiteboards and software as teaching tools and an online web platform for collaboration and more!

45. Character Ed: Help Your Students “Get their Head in the Game” so they can “Rock the Test”
Learn how to make character education an integral part of your students’ educational experience by linking your character education program to your instructional goals for the year. Watch your students’ growth in character match their academic growth and see the impact it has on discipline issues in your school.

46. CMLA Carouse l
Pre-service teachers from across North Carolina will meet to share with other CMLA members, middle level faculty, and other interested conference participants, best practices, action research, impact on student learning projects, young adolescent advocacy initiatives/ideas and other artifacts focused on meeting the needs of young adolescent learners, coming from their fresh perspectives as students fully immersed in current research and innovation about middle level education. You are welcome to attend and engage in dialogue about these interesting projects.

47. Physical Education: A Celebration in Reading and Writing for Boys
How can we better motivate and excite our emerging and proficient male readers to read and write more? Connect their reading to one of their favorite classes: physical education! This workshop will offer a wealth of practical examples about how teachers can customize their instruction with interesting fiction and nonfiction reading materials connected to: sports, games, fitness, famous athletes, sports history, extreme sports, sports adventures, and more.

48. Foldables: A Tool For Success
Join this session to in"crease" student comprehension, organization, and skill reinforcement using a kinesthetic approach. Foldables are a tremendous strategy applicable in any subject area. Participants will view a variety of completed foldables and have an opportunity to make foldables. You’ll love them. They're cheap and require little prep!

49. Vertical Teaming That Works
Too often educational jargon is thrown into the air-not into action. Don’t be intimidated by the thought of vertical teaming. Come see how to make vertical teaming work in your MATH classroom while integrating other content areas too! These authentic learning opportunities for 21st Century learners will increase student success!

50. Helping Struggling Students Master Mathematics
Join Valencia as she shows teachers new ways and practical strategies to help learners become more successful in mathematics. Various techniques will be presented to assist teachers how to teach state standards. Creative ways of assessments will be demonstrated to incorporate a win-win situation for both student and teacher.

51. Cross-Curricular, Non-Fiction Comprehension Skills Makes Scores Soar!
By the time they finish 3rd/4th grade, students must be reading to learn, not just learning to read. Intentional/active preview, interaction, and response to text in the content areas powerfully supports internalized “ownership” of information- resulting in better test scores, especially on extended response assessments. Learn about these strategies in this interactive workshop.

52. Revise, Revamp, Rewrite
Learn concrete strategies for revision based on the Six Traits of Writing to immediately improve writing.

53. The Administrator’s Guide to Building Successful Relationships with Teachers
Participants will be infused with the 11 steps necessary to initiate, create and nurture one of the most important relationships in any school— administrator/teacher. Participants will investigate methods that will perpetuate success while acquiring an understanding of what characteristics an extraordinary administrator should demonstrate. Templates and tools provided!

54. Engaging 7th graders throughout the science curriculum
Engage your 7th grade students in inquiry and hands-on based activities throughout the science curriculum. Join us for an interactive session on activities to use with your students. Handouts and/or CDs will be provided.

55. Social Studies, 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 History/Social Studies. 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.

56. Justice James Iredell Middle School Mock Trial Tournament
Mock Trial will increase your student’s skill in: critical thinking, problem-solving, language arts and more. Students may be a defender of the “innocent” or the prosecutor of the “guilty?” Although television and movie courtroom scenes distort real courtroom procedures, the drama of the courtroom will be felt by your students.

57. Survival Skills for Middle School Teachers
As a classroom teacher, team leader, college professor and supervisor of student teachers, it became apparent that multiple factors must be managed to enable student and teacher successes in the classroom daily. After reflecting on these, and having input from pre-service and in-service teachers, it seemed that these factors when managed well promoted success for all each day. These are not mind-boggling, but really work when managed.

58. Shattering Gates with Self-Efficacy (Student Confidence)
The moment a student takes ownership of his/her ability to learn is when the gate of success is forever unhinged. Thus, the greatest barrier of learning is the learner’s lack of self-efficacy. Participants of this session will discover strategies that promote student achievement via self-engagement and formative assessment.

59. A Notion at Risk
In 1983 a Nation at Risk began the latest process of reform in American Public Education. It ushered in an era of innovation and change of an archaic/ anachronistic system. One element of this reform was the implementation of the Middle School movement in 1989 (Turning Points). This presentation will trace the journey from euphoric rush to No Child Left Behind’s impact. The presentation will draw conclusions as to the future of the middle school movement and teacher responsibility / accountability. Do we return to the old days of a K-8; the anonymity of the 7-9 environments or...