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Monday, June 16
 

10:30am PDT

IT Just Got Personal: Personalized Professional Development
Are you seeing results of your professional development efforts in classrooms? Are teachers using the tools and strategies presented in your instructional technology PD offerings? Make IT personal! Grow your own technology leaders through innovative professional development from academies to conferences to PD, in your jammies. Northwest ISD will share engaging personalized professional development including an online technology integration academy cohort, summer conference, Twitter chats, instructional technology leadership academy, and lesson crashing.
Speakers
avatar for Karla Burkholder

Karla Burkholder

Director of Instructional Technology, Northwest ISD
Boomer Sooner!

Monday June 16, 2014 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Frisco 5 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75041
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

1:30pm PDT

Striving for Excellence – Teacher Leadership
jiThe fundamental belief that everyone has the capacity to lead is vital in developing a culture of excellence. The distribution of leadership within a school is essential to ensure successful and sustainable reform.  The belief that all staff members, given a vision, support, and training, have the capacity to lead is central to the presentation.  Jimmy will share his expertise on fostering a climate of excellence, including strategies for selecting, developing, and growing teachers.
Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Casas

Jimmy Casas

Senior Fellow, JC Speaking
Jimmy Casas Has served twenty-two years as a school leader, including fourteen years as Principal at Bettendorf High School. Under his leadership, Bettendorf was named one of the Best High Schools in the country three times by Newsweek and US News & World Report. Jimmy was named... Read More →

Monday June 16, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Frisco 7 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75036
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

1:30pm PDT

The Power of Podcasts
Think of all of the ways that you get your information: books, newspapers, magazines, videos, etc. How much of this requires you to be visually active? Nearly all. Podcasting allows you to be physically engaged elsewhere, while still being able to be mentally stimulated. Podcasts allow you to be current and up-to-date on the latest trends, pedagogies, and technology. It's basically a mobile informational resource warehouse.
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Lisa Rogers

Forney ISD
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Wendy Smith

Forney ISD

Monday June 16, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Frisco 4 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75042
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

3:10pm PDT

Integration of Technology in the Classroom
This superintendent meets with his faculty twice monthly and each meeting presents an app, a teaching strategy, or Skype with on author/presenter to make his faculty meetings fun, informative, and one that teachers actually like to attend.
Speakers
avatar for Hal Roberts

Hal Roberts

Superintendent, London ISD
I have been in education for 38 years, with 30 of those in some form of administration. I have been an athletic director, elementary principal, high school principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent. Each one of those was the best job in the world.

Monday June 16, 2014 3:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
Frisco 7 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75036
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

3:10pm PDT

Multiple Pathways: Building Instructional Capacity
Teachers benefit from a range of focused support, and a personalized and differentiated approach to professional development. Austin ISD’s Office of Educator Quality provides ongoing support throughout the teacher’s career, increasing the capacity of effective teachers to impact student achievement. From pre-service to experienced teachers, AISD establishes a foundation of support through various modalities. This session generates an individualized action plan identifying support systems and continuing growth opportunities for next steps.
Speakers
avatar for Angela Darby

Angela Darby

Professional Learning Specialist, Austin ISD
Austin ISD
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Josie Hughes

Austin ISD
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Cherry Thompson

Austin ISD

Monday June 16, 2014 3:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
Frisco 2 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75038
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

3:10pm PDT

We PREVENT 'Innovation' FATIGUE!
Educators from the University of Texas at Tyler Innovation Academy will share with attendees how they are facilitating the concept of innovative thinking and learning through PBL and a flipped classroom model through 21st Century based technology. The presenters will share how educators and students developed together a culture that connects both to the context needed for learning and understanding the connections between all disciplines. They will offer food for thought that will encourage a focus on the “soft skills” of education in order to help develop young thinkers that can reason, problem-solve and develop sound arguments that will lead to protecting the distinction intended for the term “innovation.”
Speakers
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Tim Crouch

UT Tyler Ingenuity
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Shane Kapela

UT Tyler Ingenuity
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Becky Rutledge

UT Tyler Ingenuity

Monday June 16, 2014 3:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
Frisco 3 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75034
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation
 
Tuesday, June 17
 

10:30am PDT

Brain-Friendly Teaching for 21st Century Learning
We can teach with traditional methods, or teach the way brains learn best. 21st century neuroscience has shown that teaching with traditional methods often is like swimming against the tide. Come experience the six fundamental principles of brain friendly teaching, which enable students to learn more, increase motivation and comprehension, make teaching more effortless and enjoyable. Master “brain-friendly” teaching and watch those dendrites branch!
Speakers
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Angela Pinkerton

Kagan Publishing and Professional Development

Tuesday June 17, 2014 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Frisco 7 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75036
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation

1:30pm PDT

Designing Backpacks... A Project-Based Unit
Engage your students by taking them through an innovative project-based unit. This inquiry approach gives students the opportunity to apply their learning in a real-world situation. The session will focus on the integrated process from start to finish: being presented with a challenge, developing a product, identifying problems within the process, investigating solutions and alternatives, creating an advertisement to persuade the intended audience, and sharing their learning with other students. You will get the tools to start this project tomorrow.
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Regina Erwin

Leander ISD
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Sandy Handrick

Instructional Coach
Leander ISD

Tuesday June 17, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Frisco 4 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75042
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation

1:30pm PDT

Humanizing Education
This session addresses practical approaches for how to integrate curriculum, assessment, and instruction into relevant 21st century practices. A strong connection between school and society is an outcome of this hands-on, real-world, and socially-driven approach. Educators interested in utilizing student-voice, technology, and industry-driven needs to acquire a 21st century understanding for learning through a humanizing pedagogical lens should attend. Learning experiences in this session will include a variety of innovative approaches to a K-12 education that are transformative for both teachers and administrators.
Speakers
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Lindsay Law

Waukee Community Schools

Tuesday June 17, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Frisco 5 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75041
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation

1:30pm PDT

Wrapping the Technology Around The Curric - Chrome
A discussion about using Chromebooks from a district that has become multi-platform. Birdville ISD requires campus technology requests to align with the curriculum and with instructional goals before a technology purchase is ever made. A great success for us, and a surprise to us, is the popularity of the Chromebook. See how Birdville ISD has strategically placed Chromebooks to accelerate Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention; to recapture high school credits and preventing dropouts; to remediate failures for EOC tests; and, to facilitate the flipped classroom model.
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Randy Sumrall

Birdville ISD

Tuesday June 17, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Frisco 7 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75036
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

3:10pm PDT

Balancing Technology in Your Classroom
In order to keep students engaged and ready to work in the classroom a balance needs to be found. You will learn multiple ways to run activities in your classroom with technology or without to ensure students do not find the lessons mundane. We will show you ways to tailor activities for any campus technology whether you practice BYOD (bring your own device) or have limited technology available.
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Johnnie Marley

Flour Bluff ISD
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Nikki Redman

Flour Bluff ISD

Tuesday June 17, 2014 3:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
Frisco 3 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75034
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation

3:10pm PDT

Combatting Tech Fatigue
Do your colleagues and staff often lament that a tech initiative is just “one more thing?” Strategic use of instructional coaching and innovative professional learning structures can help educators to adopt to the new without the fear and stress of change. Hear how sustained support through the development of teacher experts, adaptions of familiar PD activities, and subtle shifts in message delivery have helped to stem the tide of technology fatigue.
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Amy Fox

Lewisville ISD
Lewisville ISD
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Sean Hood

Lewisville ISD

Tuesday June 17, 2014 3:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
Frisco 2 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75038
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership
 
Wednesday, June 18
 

8:30am PDT

Flipping over Socratic Seminars Using TED Talks
We have all heard the buzz about the flipped classroom. This session will focus on how to use this strategy to enhance text-based dialogue using TED talks and Socratic seminar. Examples of how to engage students with the text, craft thought-provoking questions, and design pre/post seminar tasks will be shared along with classroom management ideas to help it all run smoothly.
Speakers
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Michelle Swain

Director, Round Rock ISD
Michelle Swain serves Round Rock ISD as the Director of Gifted and Advanced Academic Services, overseeing GT identification and programming, college credit bearing coursework, and college readiness assessments. She has served on the NAGC Board and TAGT Board, including as TAGT 2011... Read More →

Wednesday June 18, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
Frisco 4 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75042
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation

8:30am PDT

Use Social Media to Increase Professional Networks
Learn the basics of using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter for the purpose of increasing your professional network and knowledge base. Strategies to start you on your way to expanding your network, and building your knowledge base will be presented.
Speakers
avatar for Stanley T. Crawford

Stanley T. Crawford

Director of Career and Technical Education and Early College High School, Lancaster ISD
Currently, Dr. Stanley T. Crawford is the Director of Career and Technical Education and Early College High School for Lancaster Independent School District. In addition, Dr. Crawford served as the Director of Education for a charter school. Dr. Crawford served as a principal in... Read More →

Wednesday June 18, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
Frisco 2 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75038
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

10:10am PDT

'Are You Flippin' Serious?'
After viewing a flipped lesson, participants will learn how to use personal technology and specific programs to create their own flipped lesson. Specifically, the learner will implement applications such as Blendspace, Google Docs, QuickTime, Prezi, and Popboardz. Participants will use their own technology to create a flipped lesson on a content area or standard of choice.
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Jessica Decena

Lewisville ISD
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Mary Willett

Lewisville ISD

Wednesday June 18, 2014 10:10am - 11:40am PDT
Frisco 3 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75034
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation

10:10am PDT

Curate, Collaborate, Connect with a PLN
Collaboration and Curation is essential to life-long learning and leading. Using popular 21st Century tools will allow you to jump on board and get connected with the world. Google Apps for Education makes the transition from the individual, team or school functioning as a silo, to a community of world learners, easy. This session will cover several popular tools to help you get started. Attendees will will be given some simple steps to begin a daily time to focus on a Personal Learning Network of like minded leaders.
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Mary Jones

Spring ISD
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Karla Koop

Instructional Tech Specialist, Spring ISD
Spring ISD

Wednesday June 18, 2014 10:10am - 11:40am PDT
Frisco 5 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75041
  Innovative Highlights, Integration Leadership

10:10am PDT

Where Does the Tech Go?
You know the ideas, you've heard the strategies, and you can't wait to use some exciting new technology in your classroom. But how does it work in your curriculum and preparation for the STAAR? This session will help teachers and administrators mesh their scope and sequence and with the appropriate innovative instructional strategy. Attendees will leave the session able to unwrap a TEK and apply the appropriate innovative instructional strategy.
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Travis Whisenant

Principal at Bridgeport Middle School

Wednesday June 18, 2014 10:10am - 11:40am PDT
Frisco 4 Embassy Suites Hotel, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive Frisco, Texas 75042
  Innovative Highlights, Classroom Innovation
 
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