SECTIONALS: SESSION A
Monday, November 23, 2009 10:30 a.m.
A-01
THE EXCELLENT LUTHERAN SCHOOL MATERIAL – An Overview
This presentation will focus on what the Excellent Lutheran School Materials ("A school that empowers students to become master learners") are and how they can be used to help Lutheran Schools become the "school of choice" in their neighborhood. There are 10 components. Participants will discover the desired outcome of each of the components and the alignment to reach the outcome. The ten components include "Academic Excellence", "Administrative Performance", "Culture", "Finance", "Governance", "Instruction", "Master Teacher", "Mission", "Spiritual Development", and "Technology".
William D. Cochran is the Interim Executive Director of LCMS District and Congregational Services and the Director of School Ministry. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Bill attended St. John's Academy and Junior College in Winfield, Kansas. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree upon graduation from Concordia Teacher's College, Seward, Nebraska, in 1968. He received a Master's Degree and Administrative Certificate from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois.
Bill has previously taught at schools in Michigan and Illinois, been a principal in Illinois and Missouri, and the Superintendent of Lutheran Schools in the Eastern District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
He was the elected teacher representative to the LCMS Board for Youth Services for 11 years. He was the program manager for "Whole Language, Whole Child," and "The Family Ministry of Lutheran Schools." He was one of the authors of "SLAM" and two of the "Administrative Handbooks." He was Project Manager for School Leadership and Development (SLeD).
Bill is married to Joan (Maack) formerly of Collinsville. They have three children, Dawn Walker, Christine Bacon, David, and five grandchildren.
A-02
DIFFERENT CHILDREN, DIFFERENT WAYS TO LEARN
God has certainly created all children different. No two children look alike, talk alike, play alike, or learn alike. Even early childhood educators need to take individual differences into account with planning a classroom environment and learning atmosphere. This session will explore the differentiated instruction philosophy – a way of thinking and structuring a classroom that puts children first and lets a child’s success be measured by his or her own individual growth. Specific ideas, activities, learning centers, and assessments will be shared.
Drew D. Gerdes has been an early childhood educator at Redeemer/Springfield Lutheran School in Springfield, Missouri, for the past 10 years. He is a graduate of Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota, and also holds a MSEd. from Missouri State University. Drew is a member of the LEA ECEnet Leadership Team as well as an early childhood consultant for the Missouri District. Drew has also been actively involved in planning the Missouri District Early Childhood Conference held each spring.
A-03
TRANSFORMED! A SERVANT MINISTRY MODEL FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS
Including table discussions, this interactive presentation will focus on a servant ministry model that empowers teachers toward transformational leadership. We will discuss how the head, heart, and hands work to play the vital role for a servant leader, see what the Scriptures have to say about it, and discuss ways to acknowledge those who have modeled for us through the formative years.
Rob Cooksey is the Executive Director at Christ Community Lutheran School with campuses in Kirkwood, Crestwood, and Webster Groves, Missouri. Christ Community has a student population of 500.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education in 1984, Master of Arts degree in Elementary School Administration in 1990, and Master of Arts degree in Secondary School Administration in 1996, all from Concordia University-Nebraska.
Rob is also a facilitator of Becoming A Love and Logic Parent and Becoming A Love and Logic Teacher programs. He co-founded Love and Logic University in 2005 and presents to educators and school communities across the United States.
Among his passions are contemporary Christian music, coaching, teaching at the middle grades level, and Servant Ministry.
A-04
GOOGLE GOODS FOR YOUR LIFE AND FOR YOUR CLASSROOM
This fast paced presentation will demonstrate various Google Applications and how they apply to your life and classroom. Modeling examples and highlighting ease of use will be the featured event for several free educational Google tools available to you and your students! Are you ready to jump in and "get" Google's applications? Oh yes, audience participation is welcomed and appreciated!
Cindy Lane is an Educator, Instructional Technology Specialist, and a Network Sherpa. She is an adjunct professor teaching online classes for SBU, Mizzou, and eLearning for Missouri educators. She assists teachers in her roles as a Discovery Education certified trainer, Master Trainer for Intel Teach to the Future, and an eMINTS Instructional Trainer. She has presented at state, national, and international conferences for the past seven years. She is extremely innovative and resourceful and specializes in finding unique and creative ways to use traditional technology in the classroom.
Cindy is Missouri's first Google Certified Teacher and has facilitated a Google Teacher Academy in Chicago, Illinois. She is the founder of the GCT/CUE Dinner Club Webinar Series, a monthly presentation that is able to be viewed by the 300+ Google Certified Teachers around the world.
Her passion "is to lead teachers on their quest to understand technology and to seamlessly integrate it into their daily lessons thus making their lives and the lives of their students easier and more fulfilling."
A-05
LEARNING DISABILITIES SIMULATION
This is an interactive sectional which simulates the fear, anxiety, and tension that is experienced by students who struggle in the classroom. This is a full-participation sectional that is designed in a way that leaves everyone feeling as if they have a learning disability and/or ADD/ADHD. It will create a strong sense of empathy and a greater understanding of your students. (Because of a limit of 50 individuals per sectional, this sectional will be lead by two presenters at the same time for a total of 100 participants).
Pamela Ritterling has been an educational consultant for St. Louis Learning Disabilities Association for about one year. She came to LDA with fifteen years teaching experience in both regular and special education as well as five years experience as a church-based preschool director. She has received training in responsive classroom techniques and has served as a facilitator in her former school district.
Sheryl Silvey is the President of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Learning Disabilities Association. In addition, Sheryl also serves as the Educational Consultant at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School in St. Louis. Her responsibilities include interviewing, coaching, training, and supervision of teachers, administration of a tutorial program for students with learning disabilities, serving on the admissions committee, and administrative guidance. She has a master’s degree in learning disabilities and remedial reading and an undergraduate degree in behavior disorders and elementary education.
A-06
DIFFERENTIATION IN THE CLASSROOM
Rick Wormeli (2007), middle school teacher and speaker, states that it is a teacher's job to do whatever it takes to help students learn. With changing curriculum and technology, a teacher’s job is also changing. Teachers are no longer the dispensers of knowledge who taught us and our parents. A teacher’s job is to teach students how to learn. By utilizing differentiation in the classroom, teachers can do just that. Come learn what differentiation is and how to begin using it in your classroom. You may find you are already differentiating some of your instruction. We will discuss flexible grouping, literature circles, multiple intelligences, and much more. Most of the information will be geared for grades 5+, but it can be easily adapted for the younger grades.
Liz (Schepers) Slavens is in her 5th year teaching at St. John Lutheran School, Ellisville. She teaches 7-8th grade Language Arts and 8th grade homeroom. She received her Bachelor’s from Concordia, Seward in 2002 and her Master’s Degree from Maryville, University in May of 2009. Liz lives in Ellisville with her husband Doug, step-daughter Taylor, and new baby.
SECTIONALS: SESSION B
Monday, November 23, 2009 12:45 p.m.
B-01
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND THE MASTER TEACHER
Academic Excellence is characteristic of schools that provide evidence of sustained high levels of learning and performance for all students on the knowledge and skills needed for success. Students in today’s Lutheran schools must demonstrate the integration of academic and personal skills into complex performances similar to real life tasks. Only with the prerequisite skills, motivation, and a sense of efficacy will students be prepared to meet the demands of life.
Master Teacher Lutheran school excellence does not occur without exceptional classroom instruction. Exceptional classroom instruction requires teachers who are dedicated to the instructional process and are equally dedicated to personal professional development. Developing master teachers requires an understanding of a teacher’s relationship to the students and the instructional process as well as an understanding of the development of an individual as he or she grows professionally. It also requires an understanding of the Call to teach and the joy Lutheran educators have as they proclaim the Gospel message.
William D. Cochran is the Interim Executive Director of LCMS District and Congregational Services and the Director of School Ministry. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Bill attended St. John's Academy and Junior College in Winfield, Kansas. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree upon graduation from Concordia Teacher's College, Seward, Nebraska, in 1968. He received a Master's Degree and Administrative Certificate from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois.
Bill has previously taught at schools in Michigan and Illinois, been a principal in Illinois and Missouri, and the Superintendent of Lutheran Schools in the Eastern District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
He was the elected teacher representative to the LCMS Board for Youth Services for 11 years. He was the program manager for "Whole Language, Whole Child," and "The Family Ministry of Lutheran Schools." He was one of the authors of "SLAM" and two of the "Administrative Handbooks." He was Project Manager for School Leadership and Development (SLeD).
Bill is married to Joan (Maack) formerly of Collinsville. They have three children, Dawn Walker, Christine Bacon, David, and five grandchildren.
B-02
DIFFERENT CHILDREN, DIFFERENT WAYS TO LEARN
God has certainly created all children different. No two children look alike, talk alike, play alike, or learn alike. Even early childhood educators need to take individual differences into account with planning a classroom environment and learning atmosphere. This session will explore the differentiated instruction philosophy – a way of thinking and structuring a classroom that puts children first and lets a child’s success be measured by his or her own individual growth. Specific ideas, activities, learning centers, and assessments will be shared.
Drew D. Gerdes has been an early childhood educator at Redeemer/Springfield Lutheran School in Springfield, Missouri, for the past 10 years. He is a graduate of Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota, and also holds a MSEd. from Missouri State University. Drew is a member of the LEA ECEnet Leadership Team as well as an early childhood consultant for the Missouri District. Drew has also been actively involved in planning the Missouri District Early Childhood Conference held each spring.
B-03
TRANSFORMED! A SERVANT MINISTRY MODEL FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS
Including table discussions, this interactive presentation will focus on a servant ministry model that empowers teachers toward transformational leadership. We will discuss how the head, heart, and hands work to play the vital role for a servant leader, see what the Scriptures have to say about it, and discuss ways to acknowledge those who have modeled for us through the formative years.
Rob Cooksey is the Executive Director at Christ Community Lutheran School with campuses in Kirkwood, Crestwood, and Webster Groves, Missouri. Christ Community has a student population of 500.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education in 1984, Master of Arts degree in Elementary School Administration in 1990, and Master of Arts degree in Secondary School Administration in 1996, all from Concordia University-Nebraska.
Rob is also a facilitator of Becoming A Love and Logic Parent and Becoming A Love and Logic Teacher programs. He co-founded Love and Logic University in 2005 and presents to educators and school communities across the United States.
Among his passions are contemporary Christian music, coaching, teaching at the middle grades level, and Servant Ministry.
B-04
GOOGLE GOODS FOR YOUR LIFE AND FOR YOUR CLASSROOM
This fast paced presentation will demonstrate various Google Applications and how they apply to your life and classroom. Modeling examples and highlighting ease of use will be the featured event for several free educational Google tools available to you and your students! Are you ready to jump in and "get" Google's applications? Oh yes, audience participation is welcomed and appreciated!
Cindy Lane is an Educator, Instructional Technology Specialist, and a Network Sherpa. She is an adjunct professor teaching online classes for SBU, Mizzou, and eLearning for Missouri educators. She assists teachers in her roles as a Discovery Education certified trainer, Master Trainer for Intel Teach to the Future, and an eMINTS Instructional Trainer. She has presented at state, national, and international conferences for the past seven years. She is extremely innovative and resourceful and specializes in finding unique and creative ways to use traditional technology in the classroom.
Cindy is Missouri's first Google Certified Teacher and has facilitated a Google Teacher Academy in Chicago, Illinois. She is the founder of the GCT/CUE Dinner Club Webinar Series, a monthly presentation that is able to be viewed by the 300+ Google Certified Teachers around the world.
Her passion "is to lead teachers on their quest to understand technology and to seamlessly integrate it into their daily lessons thus making their lives and the lives of their students easier and more fulfilling."
B-05
LEARNING DISABILITIES SIMULATION
This is an interactive sectional which simulates the fear, anxiety, and tension that is experienced by students who struggle in the classroom. This is a full-participation sectional that is designed in a way that leaves everyone feeling as if they have a learning disability and/or ADD/ADHD. It will create a strong sense of empathy and a greater understanding of your students. (Because of a limit of 50 individuals per sectional, this sectional will be lead by two presenters at the same time for a total of 100 participants).
Pamela Ritterling has been an educational consultant for St. Louis Learning Disabilities Association for about one year. She came to LDA with fifteen years teaching experience in both regular and special education as well as five years experience as a church-based preschool director. She has received training in responsive classroom techniques and has served as a facilitator in her former school district.
Sheryl Silvey is the President of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Learning Disabilities Association. In addition, Sheryl also serves as the Educational Consultant at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School in St. Louis. Her responsibilities include interviewing, coaching, training, and supervision of teachers, administration of a tutorial program for students with learning disabilities, serving on the admissions committee, and administrative guidance. She has a master’s degree in learning disabilities and remedial reading and an undergraduate degree in behavior disorders and elementary education.
B-06
DIFFERENTIATION IN THE CLASSROOM
Rick Wormeli (2007), middle school teacher and speaker, states that it is a teacher's job to do whatever it takes to help students learn. With changing curriculum and technology, a teacher’s job is also changing. Teachers are no longer the dispensers of knowledge who taught us and our parents. A teacher’s job is to teach students how to learn. By utilizing differentiation in the classroom, teachers can do just that. Come learn what differentiation is and how to begin using it in your classroom. You may find you are already differentiating some of your instruction. We will discuss flexible grouping, literature circles, multiple intelligences, and much more. Most of the information will be geared for grades 5+, but it can be easily adapted for the younger grades.
Liz (Schepers) Slavens is in her 5th year teaching at St. John Lutheran School, Ellisville. She teaches 7-8th grade Language Arts and 8th grade homeroom. She received her Bachelor’s from Concordia, Seward in 2002 and her Master’s Degree from Maryville, University in May of 2009. Liz lives in Ellisville with her husband Doug, step-daughter Taylor, and new baby.
FULL GROUP PRESENTATION
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:00 a.m.
A WEB OF CONNECTIONS: WHY THE READ/WRITE WEB CHANGES EVERYTHING
The Web has brought a world of information to our fingertips and, in the process, has transformed much of the way we work and live. But now that we have the ability to contribute our own ideas and experiences to the sum of human knowledge that we are building online, the impact of the Web is even more powerful. This shift in how we use the Web is already challenging political, business and media leaders to rethink the ways in which they operate. But what about education? Our model of schooling hasn’t changed significantly in over 100 years, and it continues to be resistant to change in any meaningful ways. Yet in this new world of global connections, of powerful personal learning opportunities online, of shifting notions of information and knowledge, we must begin to re-envision the basic foundations of teaching and learning. If we don’t, if we sit back and watch the world change without us, we risk our relevance and our ability to prepare our students for the world in which they will live and work. This will be a Virtual Presentation.
Will Richardson is known internationally for his work with educators and students to understand and implement instructional technologies and, more specifically, the tools of the Read/Write Web into their schools, classrooms and communities. A former public school educator for 22 years, Will’s own Weblog (Weblogg-ed.com) is a leading resource for the creation and implementation of Web 2.0 technologies on the K-12 level, and his is a leading voice for re-envisioning learning and teaching in the context of the fundamental changes these new technologies are bringing to all aspects of life.
His critically acclaimed, best-selling book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (2nd Edition, July 2008, Corwin Press) has sold over 50,000 copies and is already being used by tens of thousands of teachers to reinvent their practice, and his keynotes, presentations and workshops to audiences in China, Australia, Europe and throughout North America communicate a fresh and inspiring vision of what schools can and must become. Through the Powerful Learning Practice Network which he co-founded with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, he works with schools and teachers around the world to re-envision their learning cultures and communities.
He is also a national advisory board member for the George Lucas Education Foundation, a columnist for District Administration Magazine, and has published dozens of articles in various professional and mass market journals and magazines.
Will lives along the Delaware River in beautiful Western New Jersey with his wife Wendy and his children Tess and Tucker, all of whom are bloggers. |
