CARLA ABRAMS Counseling PS Function Room II

A Look At Narrative Therapy Ideas Narrative therapy is a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling which centres people as the experts in their own lives. Our lives are multi-storied - commonly when people see a counselor it is because a particular “problem” story has become dominant. The narrative practitioner views problems as separate from people as it assumes people have skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will help them shift their relationship with the problem story. Narrative counseling offers a way to change stories by moving from “problem” stories to alternative and preferred stories of action and identity. In this workshop you will explore and practice ideas that shape the narrative ways of working.

PAUL ANDERSEN Science PS Function Room IX

Play and Learn Paul Andersen turned his science class into a videogame four years ago. Students played the game with avatars, accrued points through challenges, and tracked their current levels on a classroom leaderboard. In this workshop Paul will explain what worked, what didn’t, and how his classroom evolved over time.

JESSICA BALLI AND PATRICK CALLAHAN Math PS Function Room VI

Writing and Mathematics: It Can be Done! Mathematics is more than solving equations, calculating averages, and converting fractions to decimals. It is a subject that can encourage argumentation, model the real world, and allow students to communicate their thinking and reasoning. When we balance our approach to mathematics with procedural fluency, conceptual understanding, and applications, we make room for writing in mathematics. In this session we will share strategies for students to write mathematical arguments, revise their writing to encourage a growth mind-set, and provide feedback to each other to promote a culture of learning from their peers, not just the teacher.

WAKA BROWN Social Studies MS Meeting Room I

Divided Memories: Comparing History Textbooks The Divided Memories project was begun at Stanford University in 2007 to compare prevalent history textbooks from five Pacific Rim societies: China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. In this session, we will explore Stanford’s Divided Memories project and demonstrate its associated curricular materials and classroom activities.

LYNNE COLEMAN General Education PS Ballroom I

Assessment: Putting Learning Into Action that is Useful Making and doing in the real world involves learning, experimenting and trying out new learning to see what works best. It is iterative and generative. It can be be academically rigorous. Formative assessment works similarly - at least it should. And it can if the summative assessment allows for several right ways to meet a real-world challenge. Participants will construct a summative assessment with formative assessments that lead to the summative assessment.

CRAIG GABLER Science PS Function Room I

Understanding the 3 Dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards Participants will gain an overview of the structure of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and how to leverage these standards for improved student engagement and conceptual understanding. Participants will in and analyze a science learning activity to identify the 3 Dimensions of NGSS and how these apply to best practices in science instruction.

TIM GERRISH OBE Counseling MS Meeting Room V

Child Safeguarding - What You Need To Know Identify the different types of child abuse and the effects these have on children’s lives. - Recognise signs and symptoms. - What makes a safer school - Identify the key steps that you can take to protect children in your school - Consider some of the online vulnerabilities children might face when using modern technology.

JOSEPH GREENAWALT Computer Science MS - First Floor - Orchid Room

Impact of Computing This interactive session will provide an overview of the content and assessments of the AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) course and assessments. The AP Computer Science Principles course is designed to be equivalent to a first-semester introductory college computing course. In this course, students will develop computational thinking vital for success across all disciplines, such as using computational tools to analyze and study data and working with large data sets to analyze, visualize, and draw conclusions from trends. In the session, participants will experience a variety of activities to illustrate the course contents and address essential questions of computer science. Participants will examine sample performance tasks and discuss how the performance tasks accomplish the course goals and how they are assessed and how they promote student understanding of the impact of computing.

JULIE HARRIS-STERN All Disciplines, Secondary with Humanities Lesson Demonstrations MS - First Floor - Rose Garden Room

Inquiry-Based Humanities Lesson Demonstration for High School Come and experience what an inquiry-based humanities classroom feels like - one that fosters deep, conceptual understanding and builds the type of thinking and big ideas that allow students to transfer their learning to new, complex situations.

SUE HARVEY AP Calculus MS Meeting Room X

Rich Projects: Exploiting a Problem for Increasing Levels of Mathematical Sophistication Some problems in mathematics provide rich opportunities for students to make connections, apply learning, and build new understandings that stick. In this session, participants will explore a set of problems that can be scaffolded throughout the high school curriculum, from beginning Algebra through Calculus, and tackled with increasing levels of sophistication. The end result at each stage culminates in the creation of a project used for assessment, appropriate to the stage of mathematical development of the learner. Themes of recent efforts in transforming our approaches to teaching and learning - project-based learning, backwards design, standards-based assessment, student engagement, to name a few - will be interwoven as we explore these problem scenarios.

STEFANIE LAMB Social Studies MS Meeting Room IV

Teaching About China’s Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) was a decade of enormous change and upheaval with a lasting impact on the country, its citizens, and the world. This presentation engages participants in hands-on activities to teach about the social, cultural, educational, political, and economic changes in China during this era.

STEVEN MONEY Service Learning PS First Floor - Hibiscus Room

The Transformational Power of Experiential Learning In this workshop we will review the “who, what, where, why, and how” of powerful learning and changes that occur in experiential learning, and we will share stories that exemplify this.

KAITLYN PETTINGA Counseling PS Function Room IV

Working with Adolescents: Developing Grit and Resilience through Purpose Driven Action Projects In this workshop, participants will briefly explore current research on adolescent brain development and discuss its implications for students. Participants will look at and discuss how their own schools are meeting the social emotional needs of adolescents through their current programs and curriculum. They will learn about and view multiple examples of project based learning aimed at developing grit and resilience in students through purpose driven action. Participants will also work together to brainstorm their own purpose driven action projects on grade, content, section, or school wide levels. Project ideas will be shared and opportunities for collaboration discussed. Resources for beginning and sustaining projects as well as the notes on adolescence brain research will be provided.

KIM PHUC PHAN THI Service Learning PS Ballroom II & III

Behind the Kim Foundation International Image Kim explains the meaning behind this illustration, which merges Nick Ut’s famous 1972 image with a photograph taken in 1975 by Anne Bayin, of Kim with her infant son Thomas.

MARY RYAN Math PS Function Room VII

Tools and Strategies for Differentiating Mathematics Instruction Wondering how to best meet the needs of all math students? This workshop will introduce educators to strategies for differentiating mathematics instruction. Participants will learn how to meet student needs through high-end engaging tasks and implementing differentiation strategies such as flexible grouping, questioning, and compacting.

LOGAN SMALLEY TED Education MS Meeting Room III

How to Use TED-Ed In Your Classroom and School TED-Ed’s youth and education initiative, TED-Ed, is currently being used to spark and celebrate the ideas of over 100 million teachers and students around the world. In this workshop, attendees will learn how they can incorporate TED-Ed’s award-winning website, content, and programs into their classrooms and schools.

LEANN STANHOPE Action Research PS Function Room VIII

An Action Research Project on the Effect of Agile Furniture on Student Engagement This presentation will outline the journey and the findings of an EARCOS Action Research project beginning in August to create a prototype High School classroom that addresses the needs of the 21st century learner in a small physical space. The research began as an endeavor to answer the question, “Does the flexibility of learner spaces in the classroom through the use of agile furniture increase student engagement?” The project has been a journey to enhance student learning by rethinking the requirements of learning spaces to accommodate more collaboration, encourage more creativity, to integrate technology in a more intuitive way and to really explore environments that engage students to think and learn in more optimal ways.

JAMES TANTON Math PS Function Room X

How to Think Brilliantly and Creatively in Mathematics How do we model and practice uncluttered thinking and joyous doing in the classroom? How do we encourage deep understanding over rote practice and memorization, and develop the art of successful innovation? Let’s see how upper school mathematical content really is a vehicle for ingenuity and joy.

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