8th Annual Project MORE Conference Agenda
“Project MORE: Sharing the Success of Reading Excellence 2013”
Bowen-Thompson Student Union, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403
Monday, May 20, 2013
8:00-8:50 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50-9:50 Opening Session: Grand Ballroom, Room 202A
 Welcome: Dr. Jan Osborn, Putnam County Superintendent of Schools & Project
MORE Co Founder
 Keynote Speakers: Senator Randy Gardner, Ohio District 2
 Dr. Mary Ellen Mazey, BGSU President
 Dr. Stacey Rychener, Grants Administrator, BGSU/Center for Assessment &
Evaluation Services; Ms. Beth Hench, Putnam County ESC Curriculum
Coordinator: “Third Grade Reading Guarantee & Project MORE~ Putting
the Pieces Together”
 Success Story: Mary Rykowski, Principal, Worthington/Evening Street
Elementary
 Bob Holl, Co-Founder, Reading A-Z & Reading Tutors
 Paul , Mentor, Southern Local
10:00-10:50 Breakout Sessions:
Room 201 (Sky Bank Room)
1. “Project MORE: Meeting the Requirements of the Third Grade Reading
Guarantee (TGRG)”, Repeat Session
Dr. Jan Osborn, Co-Founder, Project MORE & Superintendent, Putnam
County Schools; Ms. Beth Hench, Curriculum Coordinator, Putnam County
Educational Service Center; & Dr. Stacey Rychener, Independent Evaluator,
BGSU/Center for Assessment & Evaluation Services. Find out how your school
can use Project MORE to meet the reading improvement and remediation
services requirements using this cost effective program.
Room 202B
2. “Tweaking Project MORE for Students in Grades 6-8”,
Brad Barboza, Principal; Jessica Anderson, Academic Intervention Teacher;
Gahanna Jefferson/Middle School East. East has 520 students in grades 6 - 8
and is a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. We are in our third year of implementation
of Project MORE at the middle school where we serve 5 students in 8th Grade;
16 students in 7th Grade; and 12 students in 6th grade. Tips on how to work
with older-age students, solutions for mentor recruitment, and how to share data
with students.
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Room 206 (Theater)
3. “Data- Telling it All”
Success Story:
Dr. David Hampton, Associate Professor, BGSU/School of Intervention
Services. David’s focus will be “The best practice in self-preservation in this
new world”. The key is to show a school how to compile and use its data, which
includes creating data sets for RtI, TGRG, etc.
Room 207 (Mylander Room)
4. “Project MORE 101: An Overview”
Success Story:
Amy Honigford, Title I & Project MORE Coordinator, Allen East Local, Allen
East Elementary. For those new to Project MORE, this session will discuss:
the purpose of Project MORE, the research to support Project MORE, EARS,
and how to begin, etc.
11:00-11:50 Breakout Sessions:
Room 201 (Sky Bank Room)
1. “Training Tools to Help Mentors, Mentor Trainings, etc.”
Tracey Dammeyer, Dean of Students at Celina City/Celina East Elementary;
Laura Brandt, Intervention teacher & Project MORE Coordinator at Celina
East Elementary. Project MORE has been at Celina East for two years
now. Laura has created videos to use with Mentor Trainings. She will also
explain how she has organized her program.
Room 202B
2. ““Project MORE Organization Tips”
Tina Green, Project MORE Coordinator & Patty Staker, Title I Teacher,
Wheelersburg Local, Wheelersburg Elementary. Join us for some practical ideas
on organizing, scheduling, and implementing Project MORE in your elementary
school. Veteran teachers Tina Green, Project MORE Coordinator, and Patty
Staker, Title I, present this session. Tina Green, veteran teacher of 20+ years, is
completing her second year as coordinator at Wheelersburg Elementary School,
which has provided 1:1 reading mentoring for 12 years. This year there are 70
students in their Project MORE program. Wheelersburg Local School District
has an enrollment of 1590 students of which 577 are elementary children
(Preschool-3rd Grade). Wheelersburg is located in the southeastern region
of Ohio.
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Room 206 (Theater)
3. “How to Make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Your Students with
Disabilities”:
Dave Harmon, Principal (5 yrs w/Project MORE), Vickie Hoffman, Assistant
Principal (3 yrs w/Project MORE, Sandra Ridge Project MORE Coordinator (5
yrs w/Project MORE), North Union Local Schools. North Union Elementary
staff will share their perspective on how relationships equal growth; they will
focus primarily on the relationship between the mentor and the student, but will
hit on other relationships that also make the program work. Presenters will
share stories, provide guidance, and give examples of how flexibility and
support are critical for success with Project MORE. Finally, North Union
Elementary staff will talk about how they've changed the culture in their
building and that in order for Project MORE to reach its greatest, most impact
level; it has to become part of the culture of your building; it has to be part of
who you are.
Room 207 (Mylander Room)
4. “High School Course for Mentors Including Credit”
Success Story:
Ginger Hunt, Project MORE Coordinator & Title 1 Teacher; Carrie Bolander,
Title 1 Teacher; Michelle Dunberger, Intervention Specialist Grades 8-10;
Leona Group, LLC; Eagle Academy. TEAM EAGLE has Implemented Project
MORE with middle/high school mentors since 2010 (three years). Eagle
Academy has created a high school course offered to students; and currently has
30 high school mentors working with 30 mentees five days a week 1:15-2:00.
There is a course syllabus of requirements that are aligned to the high school
Common Core and Ohio Revised Standards.
11:50-1:15 Luncheon Program: Grand Ballroom, Room 202A
 Success Story: Kathy Moore, Friend of Project MORE, Worthington
 Dr. Sue Zake, Director, ODE/Office for Exceptional Children
 Roll Out of RSVP Across Ohio: Mr. Marc Molea, Division Chief, Ohio
Department of Aging/Strategic Partnerships, Dr. Bonnie Kantor-Burman,
Director, Ohio Department of Aging, Tina Dunphy, Director, Ohio State Program
(invited, not confirmed); Dr. Erwin Tan, Federal Program Senior Corps Director
(invited, not confirmed)
 5 Year Project MORE School Awards: Amy Freeman, Director, Project MORE:
 10 Year Project MORE School Awards:
Bluffton Exempted Village School District/Bluffton Elementary
Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center/Independence Education Center
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1:20-2:10 Breakout Sessions:
Room 201 (Sky Bank Room)
1.
“Things We Learned During Our First Project MORE Year”
Success Story:
Pam Berrier, Project MORE Coordinator, Andy Sprang, Superintendent, Amy
Foster, Fostoria City Schools, Fostoria Intermediate Elementary. Pam a veteran
classroom teacher will describe how she began Fostoria’s PM program, (trained
in August of 2012) and now has 86 students and over 100 Mentors involved.
Room 202B
2. “Making Project MORE Work for Students with Low Incidence Disabilities
Alicia Hall, Director of Children Services; Chrystal Day, Preschool Service
Coordinator; & Matt Campbell, Superintendent; Carroll County DD, Carroll
Hills. How one school uses different approaches to help their students learn to
read. This is the second year that Project MORE has been a part of Carroll Hills.
Room 206 Theater
3. “What’s Happening at www.Reading-tutors.com?”
Bob Holl, Co-Founder and VP/Publisher of Learning A–Z. His passion is
creating and delivering high-quality educational resources that help teachers
help kids learn. Bob will tell common core shifts like reading complexity,
informational text, vocabulary, text dependent questioning, and writing. Bob
will also discuss students using Reading-tutors on iPads (addressed in a
General Session), and the new Game Packs & Graphic Organizers. Session
Repeat
Room 207 (Mylander Room)
4. “Achievement Gains for Both Mentors and Mentees”
Mary Alice Sigler, Assistant Principal, Southern Local Jr./Sr. High School,
Cassandra Nicholas, Project MORE Program Coordinator, Southern Local
Schools. A look at how a rural eastern Ohio district used Project MORE in
conjunction with Renaissance Learning to provided interventions in reading,
and collect data to drive instruction using older age students as mentors.
Southern Local will demonstrate strong reading gains for their elementary
mentees and also for their older age student mentors (including students with
disabilities and at-risk for reading failure) using standardized assessments.
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2:15-3:05 Breakout Sessions:
Room 201 (Sky Bank Room)
1. “Project MORE: Meeting the Requirements of the Third Grade Reading
Guarantee”
Dr. Jan Osborn, Co-Founder, Project MORE & Superintendent, Putnam County
Schools; Ms. Beth Hench, Curriculum Coordinator, Putnam County Educational
Service Center; & Dr. Stacey Rychener, Independent Evaluator, BGSU/Center for
Assessment & Evaluation Services. Find out how your school can use Project MORE
to meet the reading improvement and remediation requirements using this cost
effective program. Repeat Session
Room 206 (Theater)
3. “What’s Happening at www.Reading-tutors.com?”,
Bob Holl, Co-Founder and VP/Publisher of Learning A–Z. His passion is creating
and delivering high-quality educational resources that help teachers help kids learn.
Bob will tell common core shifts like reading complexity, informational text,
vocabulary, text dependent questioning, and writing. Bob will also discuss students
using Reading-tutors on iPads (addressed in a General Session), and the new Game
Packs & Graphic Organizers. Session Repeat Session
Room 207 (Mylander Room)
4. “A District-Wide Approach K-12”
Dr. Gretta Kumpf, Assistant Superintendent, Tipp City Exempted Village Schools,
and staff. How Project MORE is being implemented throughout the school district.
3:10-3:25 Grand Ballroom, Room 202A
“Finding Mentors for Your Schools”
Ohio Department of Aging’s RSVP staff Ohio Department of Aging is committed
to providing senior (55+) mentors for Project MORE schools in Retired Senior
Volunteer Program (RSVP) regions across Ohio for the 2013/14 school year. RSVP
staff will meet with interested schools from their respective regions.
3:25-3:30 Wrap Up Closing: Grand Ballroom, Room 202A
 Margaret Burley, Executive Director, Ohio Coalition for the Education of
Children with Disabilities
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