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Welcome from AASSA
On behalf of AASSA, I would like to welcome you to the 2012
AASSA Educators’ Conference, to Academia Cotopaxi and to
our host city of Quito. It is our hope the conference will be
professionally rewarding and your visit to Ecuador a
memorable one.
This conference has been designed around the theme “Navigate
the Now, Design the Future.” As educators, we are traversing
a period of rapid and unprecedented change--grappling to
appropriately prepare ourselves and our students for a future
that we can only imagine while we navigate the turbulent
waters of the present moment. This conference has been
designed to offer approaches to successfully survive the “now”
while simultaneously transforming ourselves and the education
we offer.
We are extremely fortunate to have with us well-known and well-versed consultants as keynote
speakers and institute leaders. We are also appreciative of the many workshops being offered by our
teacher and exhibitor presenters.
I would like to recognize and thank Dr. William Johnston for hosting and helping to shape this
conference, Tina Fossgreen for serving as the key site organizer, and the core planning team from
Academia Cotopaxi, Alliance Academy, the American School of Quito, and Colegio Alberto
Einstein for their invaluable contributions throughout. A major thanks to our associate members and
conference sponsors featured in the program, to the AASSA Board of Directors for their support, and
to Dr. Bill Scotti and the U.S. Office of Overseas Schools for their generous support of this event.
Lastly, I would like to recognize the AASSA staff (Esther Nicolau, and Alex Segura) for their hard
work and positive spirit.
Enjoy the conference and thank you for being here!
Paul M. Poore
AASSA Executive Director
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Headmasters’ Welcome
On behalf of the Board and staff here at Cotopaxi, it is a great
pleasure to welcome you all to the 2012 AASSA Educator’s
Conference. This event is the result of a collaborative effort
between Academia Cotopaxi, Colegio Alberto Einstein, Alliance
Academy International and Colegio Americano de Quito,
working closely with the AASSA office in Miami. It is truly our
pleasure to be hosting the conference here on our campus.
“Navigate the Now, Design the Future” is such an appropriate
theme for this years’ conference, more so in light of our school’s
tagline: “Inspiring young minds to lead tomorrow’s world.” We
are all well along with having hardware and supporting
infrastructure in place… the trick is moving beyond our
perceptions as digital immigrants and into the world of your
students, all of whom are digital natives. The focus is no longer
on machines, it is on the ability to use the tools seamlessly as we build student abilities to seek
pertinent information and to critically evaluate the quality of that information as they create new
knowledge. My personal feeling is that we, as educators, are working to navigate the now to enable
our students to grow and, over time, to design their – and our – futures. What an exciting time to
have the privilege of working with young people!
Having already mentioned the collaborative effort, it is important to note that this conference is a
great example of professional collaboration in more ways than one. The planning was the start, but
the entire event comes together through the efforts of so many people, both up front with the
professional presentations being made by our invited presenters and the incredible range of material
being contributed by teachers from across the region, and behind the scenes work by technology
personnel, maintenance and support staff, and by our students. Everyone has pulled together to make
this conference happen, and I hope that all of us here this week will take the opportunity to thank
those around us as we see them.
I also hope that you will take advantage of your time here to visit a number of the sights in Quito.
The second highest capital city in the world at just over 2900 meters, this World Heritage Site is
loaded with history and culture, not to mention the spectacular scenery of this volcanic corridor in
the Andes Mountains. Speaking of the altitude, be sure to drink plenty of water, walk slowly, and to
be wary of the strong sun!
Again, welcome to Quito and to Academia Cotopaxi – have a wonderful experience while you are
here!
William F. Johnston, Ed.D.
Director
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Table of Contents
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Sponsor Acknowledgments
Featured Consultants’ Bios
Pre-Conference Schedule:
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5 – 10
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Wednesday, March 14h
Thursday, March 15st
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Main Conference Schedule:
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Thursday, March 15th, Evening Schedule
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Friday, March 16th:
8:30 am
10:30 am
10:30 am
12:00 pm
1:05 pm
2:10 pm
2:10 pm
3:15 pm
4:45 pm
Plenary Session
Featured Consultants’ Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Featured Consultants’ Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Plenary Session
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17 - 18
19 - 20
22 - 23
23 - 24
24 - 25
26 - 27
28 - 29
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Saturday, March 17th:
8:30 am
10:30 am
10:30 am
11:40 am
12:50 pm
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
3:30 pm
Plenary Session
Featured Consultants’ Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Featured Consultants’ Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
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34 - 36
37 - 38
38 - 39
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41 - 42
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Sponsor Acknowledgements
AASSA is grateful for the contributions our sponsors have so generously provided:
COFFEE BREAKS
Dymo-Mimio
Frank Crystal & Co.
George Mason University
CONFERENCE BAGS
Endicott College
CONFERENCE BAG ITEMS & GIFTS FOR PRESENTERS
Café Velez
CISCO & Cibercall
Colegio Americano
Confiteca
Continental Tire Andina
Diners Club
Empresa Metropolitana de Turismo
Familia Sancela
Galeria Ecuador
Pacificard
Studium
Tiosa/Pan Braun
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
CISCO & Cibercall
Continental Tire Andina
Diners Club
Familia Sancela
Pacificard
Studium
KEYNOTES
International Schools Services
K12
Lehigh University
The College Board
PRESENTERS
Lehigh University (Cirleen Deblaere and Arnie Spokane)
Seton Hall University (Dr. Charles Mitchel and Christopher Tienken)
RECEPTION
GBG/TIECARE International
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Featured Consultants and Keynote Speakers
Tim Burns
Tim is an educator and author whose background includes over thirty years of experience as high
school teacher, counselor, First Offender Program facilitator, adolescent and family drug-treatment
program director, university instructor, and professional development specialist. While serving as
program director at St. Vincent Hospital Family Recovery Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he
taught for four years as a member of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies Institute faculty at the
University of New Mexico. In addition he has, since 1986, taught graduate and undergraduate courses for the Division of
Extended Studies, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado. Over the years, Tim has provided keynote addresses,
professional development workshops, and given presentations in over three thousand schools, agencies, organizations,
and at conferences throughout the United States and in nearly two dozen countries throughout the world.
Cirleen DeBlaere
Cirleen is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania. Her research interests include the examination of the experiences of individuals with
multiple marginalized identities in the United States. Most recently, Dr. DeBlaere’s research has
focused on the links of multiple and simultaneous forms of discrimination to the mental health of
racial/ethnic minority women and sexual minority persons. With regard to her clinical work, Dr.
DeBlaere is interested in multiculturally competent individual, couples, and group therapy with diverse individuals. She
is particularly interested in issues of identity development, women’s issues, and grief/loss.
Paul DeMinico
Dr. Paul DeMinico, Vice President for executive searches and governance training with International
Schools Services (ISS), received his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. He has served as a school
head for 24 years at international, independent schools in Asia at International School Bangkok and
Europe at The American School of The Hague, the Netherlands as well as school superintendent at
public schools in the U.S. Paul has also served as a teacher, school principal and a deputy head for
business and curriculum during his 40 year career in education. He is a senior, visiting lecturer of education at
Assumption University in Bangkok and has authored numerous articles on various topics in education. As a graduate of
Harvard Business School’s Global Leadership Program, Paul has a particular interest in advancing the concept of
“global-mindedness” among students from early childhood to Ph.D. candidates. He has successfully facilitated head of
school searches for boards of education and, as a certified board trainer, has engaged school sponsors and boards in
trainings on various topics on school governance.
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Tracey has taught Kindergarten through University and is curently the Director of IDEA (Instituto de
Enseñanza y Aprendizaje or The Teaching and Learning Institute) of the University of San Francisco
in Quito, Ecuador where she is a full Professor of Education and Neuropsychology. Tracey is also
Director the new online education program for the University. Tracey has conducted conferences,
workshops and research in 21 countries around the world, has more than 23 years of teaching
experience and is now primarily focused on educational research. Tracey’s main areas of interests in 2011 have to do
with the continual expansion of the Mind, Brain, and Education field, learning in the digital age and multilingualism. She
is the author of five internationally published books on multilingualism and educational neuroscience. Tracey is a native
of California and earned her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor’s of Science degrees from Boston University, her Master’s of
Education from Harvard University and her doctorate (Ph.D) in Mind, Brain, and Education Science from Capella
University.
Brooke Fezler
Brooke has been an international school counselor since 2005 in Indonesia and Argentina; before
moving abroad, she worked in the San Francisco bay area, first in marketing for companies
including eBay, Saturn, and AT&T, and then as a public school counselor. She received her Masters
degree in counseling from St. Mary's College. Her thesis, titled "The need for school counselor
evaluations in an era of educational accountability" provided a springboard for exploring ways for
counselors to be active participants in building their profession.
Brooke has coordinated school-wide movements towards the implementation of comprehensive school counseling
programs. She has been a co-lead on the initiative for designing an international school counseling model, which is
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created in partnership with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) but designed by hundreds of
international school counselors and designed for the unique needs of international school students. This project is
supported by the U.S. State Department's Office of Overseas Schools and the Association of American Schools in South
America. The model is available to international school counselors through www.aassa.com .
Brooke is co-leading the creation of the International School Counselors Association.
Jesus Hernandez
Jesus has taught physics at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts and at Queens Metro High
School in New York during the last eleven years. He started an AP physics program at Lawrence in
2000, and his students have taken both AP Physics B and C examinations. He is a member of the AP
Physics C Test Development Committee and has been an AP Physics consultant since 2004. He has
been an AP Reader for Physics for seven years. He has been trained to facilitate Pre-AP Science and
the Creating a Learner Centered Classroom workshops. He also has coached new AP Consultants and AP Physics
teachers. Mr. Hernandez was an advisory board member of Physics for the 21 st Century program produced by the Science
Media Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He was a Finalist for the Presidential Award for
Excellence in Math and Science teaching in 2005 and was selected to receive the 2011 MIT Inspirational Award.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Heidi, Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute and President of Curriculum
Designers, Inc., is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of curriculum and instruction
having consulted nationally and internationally on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum
mapping, dynamic instruction, and 21st century strategic planning. She is the author of six books,
most recently, The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates and Tools for Effective Professional
Development, co-authored with Ann Johnson; and, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for A Changing World, which
was selected as the worldwide member book by ASCD.
Dr. Jacobs has worked with a range of organizations. In January, 2010, Dr. Jacobs addressed the United Nations Council
on Teaching about the UN. She has taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College in NYC from 1981 to the present.
Dr. Jacobs has worked with the College Board, NBC Sunday Today Show, PBS Teacherline, the Discovery Channel,
Children’s Television Workshop, CBS National Sunrise Semester, ASCD, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, New
York City Ballet Education Department at Lincoln Center, Peace Corps, the National School Conference Institute, the
Disney Company, Prentice-Hall Publishing, the Near East School Association, East Asian Council of Overseas Schools,
The Tri-Association of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the International Baccalaureate, the European
Council of International Schools, and state education departments. She has been interviewed and featured in the New
York Times, Educational Leadership, and Child Magazine, NASSP’s High School and National Public Radio’s “Talk of
the Nation” Broadcast. Dr. Jacobs has published curriculum materials with Prentice Hall, Milton-Bradley, the Electric
Company, and Bowmar Publishing. ASCD has two video series focusing on Dr. Jacobs’ curriculum models. She is
featured on the world’s largest online professional development network, PD 360.
Her doctoral work was completed at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1981 where she studied under a national
Graduate Leadership Fellowship from the United States Office of Education. Her master’s degree is from UMASS at
Amherst and her undergraduate studies were at the University of Utah in her hometown of Salt Lake City. The
fundamental backbone of her experience comes from her years as a teacher of high school, junior high school, and
elementary children in Utah, Massachusetts, and New York. She is married with two children and lives in Westchester
County, New York.
Mike Johnston
Mike is the middle school principal at the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore.
He has co-created an educational movement known as EduCare. EduCare helps lead schools
towards better environmental, global issues and service learning education. Mr. Johnston has
presented in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia at conferences on the topic of Global Issues
and Environmental education. He has empowered students and teachers in the places he has worked
such as Canada, Scotland, Mexico, Russia, Qatar and Singapore to know they really can make a difference in the world.
He has lead workshops for teachers and administrators around the world on sustainability, global curriculum K-12 and
how service learning should not just be what you do, but who you are as a school. Mr. Johnston has coordinated week
without walls trips, sustainable community service projects and countless environmental actions and programs. He
brought the global issues network to both Moscow and Doha, including coordinating two NESA region network
conferences in 2009 and 2010 and looks forward to hosting the global issues network in Singapore at UWC in 2012. He
has dedicated much of his time to not only ensuring students are properly prepared for the world’s most pressing issues
but that they have the skills and desire to take action to make a difference.
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Matt Judd
Matt is currently a Middle School, sixth grade instructor at Colegio Internacional Puerto La Cruz, in
Barcelona, Venezuela, and teaches Math and Humanities collaboratively with an ESL instructor. Matt
previously taught fourth and fifth grade and special education in South Washington County Schools,
Minnesota. Matt and his wife Stacey have worked with MAP testing both in the States and in
Venezuela and had the good fortune of sharing their practice at various conferences in South
America.
Ian Jukes
Ian has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker.
He is the Director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership
and program development in the areas of assessment and evaluation, strategic alignment, curriculum
design and publication, professional development, planning, change management, hardware and
software acquisition, information services, customized research, media services, and on-line training
as well as conference keynotes and workshop presentations.
Over the course of the past 10 years, Ian has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 9,000
presentations. He typically speaks to between 300,000 and 400,000 people a year. In August 2002 Consulting Magazine
Online named him one of the top ten educational speakers in America.
Ian has written twelve books, 9 educational series and had more than 100 articles published in various journals. Ian is
also the publisher and co-editor of the Committed Sardine Blog which is electronically distributed to more than 90,000
people in over 60 countries. He is also the creator and co-developer of TechWorks, the internationally successful K-8
technology framework, and was the catalyst of the NetSavvy and InfoSavvy information literacy series. He has been a
Contributing Editor for several journals and magazines, and is the author of the books "Teaching the Digital Generation:
No More Cookie Cutter High Schools" with Ted McCain and Frank S. Kelly, "Windows on the Future" with Ted McCain,
and "Net.Savvy: Building Information Literacy for the Classroom". His most recent publications include "Understanding
the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape", "The Digital Diet: Today's Digital Tools
in Small Bytes", and "Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow". He is also working on the upcoming books
"Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age", and "Getting it Right: Aligning Technology for
21st Century Learning".
Ian is an educator first and foremost. His focus has consistently been on the compelling need to restructure our
educational institutions so that they become relevant to the current and future needs of children. His rambunctious,
irreverent and highly-charged presentations and articles emphasize many of the practical issues related to ensuring that
change is meaningful. As a registered educational evangelist, his self-avowed mission in life is to ensure that children are
properly prepared for the future rather than society's past. As a result, his material tends to focus on many of the
pragmatic issues that provide the essential context for educational restructuring.
Vicki Hannah Lein
Vicki is an award-winning teacher, counselor, international motivational speaker, and educational
consultant. Her experience as a high school English teacher, elementary school counselor,
Distinguished Oregon Educator, and trainer of teachers worldwide has helped create a clear vision
about how to bring rigor, relevance, and responsibility to all educational content.
She is a positive catalyst who knows how to enliven any curriculum or character program, making it
fun and effective. Her approach is based on solid brain research and is given texture and meaning by the thousands of
ideas she has collected from teachers she has worked with over the last thirty years.
Margaret Maclean
An educator with over 30 years experience in seven countries, Margaret currently provides
professional development support to teachers and school leaders internationally. Margaret has taught
at all grade levels from Pre K to grade 6 and served for over 15 years as a school administrator. In
1996 Margaret was named Vermont Principal of the Year.
Margaret is a member of the School Reform Initiative. Begun in the mid 1990’s at the Annenberg
Institute at Brown University the program is focused on developing collaborative school cultures, encouraging reflective
practice, and rethinking leadership—all in support of increased student achievement. The Critical Friends Group model is
the basis of the work.
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Margaret’s work takes her to school districts throughout the US to provide initial training seminars and follow up school
coaching. Margaret has experience as an educator internationally and has previously presented at NESA, EARCOS,
AISA, AASSA and ECIS conferences.
Margaret has also worked directly with a number of international schools to develop school wide systems for effective
professional collaboration; these include Shanghai American School, the American School in Japan, Seoul Foreign
School, American International School of Mozambique, FMV Ayazaga Isik Lisesi, Istanbul, the International School of
Tanganyika, St Paul’s British School in Sao Paulo and the International School of Helsingbor in Sweden.
Paula Mitchell
Paula serves as Director of Higher Education for the Council of International Schools, a not-for-profit
association of schools and post-secondary institutions working collaboratively for the continuous
improvement of international education. Paula began her career in higher education admission and
advising 30 years ago as an admission officer at the University of Rhode Island. Since that time, she
has served in admission and enrollment positions at multiple campuses of the State University of
New York, as chief admission officer at a private women's college, and most recently at Ithaca College where she held
the position of Director of Admission for more than 16 years.
Paula has served on and chaired the boards of various educational organizations including The College Board New York
State Advisory Committee, the European Council of International Schools Committee of the Americas, the New York
State Association of College Admission Counseling and The College Digest. She has presented at various professional
conferences throughout the United States and abroad on topics that have included the university selection process, the
value of the college recommendation, and the relevance of institutional research to the management of university of
admission. She has also conducted financial aid training for US Embassy and Fulbright Office based educational
advisors.
In her role as Director, and through the variety of services her office provides, Paula works to promote the value of
international education and support secondary and tertiary institutions by facilitating cooperative relationships and
effective information exchange between the constituencies. Paula believes firmly in the mutual advantage and strength
of inter-association relationships and is committed to creating those in linkages to the ultimate benefit of international
students worldwide.
Nicky Mohan
Nicky has more than 20 years experience in the education sector both as a classroom teacher and as
Associate Principal. Nicky also has extensive experience in the business sector as Learning &
Development Manager and she was Team Leader at the National Centre of Literacy & Numeracy at
the University of Waikato (NZ) responsible for the design and delivery of professional development
courses and resource materials. She is presently Director of Curriculum for the 21 st Century Fluency
Group. Working with a team of writers Nicky’s focus is to ensure that lesson plans/units embed the 21st Century Fluency
skills and are relevant to both the teacher and the student, emphasizing real-world implementation.
Roxy Peck
Roxy has been a professor of statistics at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) since
1979, serving for six years as Chair of the Statistics Department, thirteen years as Associate Dean of
the College of Science and Mathematics, and currently Professor Emerita of Statistics. Nationally
known in the area of statistics education, she was made a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association (ASA) in 1998 and in 2003 she received the American Statistical Association's
Founders Award in recognition of her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education. In addition to coauthoring the textbooks Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis and Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of
Data, she is also editor of Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, a collection of expository papers that showcase
applications of statistical methods. She is past chair of the joint American Statistical Association/National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for Grades K-12 and of the ASA Section
on Statistics Education. She has also served from 1999 to 2003 as the Chief Reader for the Advanced Placement
Statistics Exam.
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Mariana Portela
Engineer Mariana Portela has more than 10 years of experience in the Educational area. Actually she
works as Education Senior Advisor in Cisco for Latin America and resides in Argentina. For several
years she has been a professor in Belgrano's University (Argentina), where she taught different
subjects and faced the challenge of the use of technology in the learning and teaching process.
Most recently, Mariana was key speaker at “I Foro de Innovacion y Tecnologia Educativa de las Americas 2010”
(Panama) and “Seminario Internacional de La Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Peru: Innovando en las
Organizaciones” (Peru-2011). Mariana has a MBA and has worked in Human Resources Management.
Stacy Schneider
Stacy is currently an ESL instructor at Colegio Internacional Puerto La Cruz, in Barcelona,
Venezuela, working collaboratively with teachers in classrooms from grades two through five. Prior
to coming to South America, Stacy taught in South Washington County Schools, located in Cottage
Grove, Minnesota as a grade two, three, and a grade three gifted/talented classroom teacher. Stacy’s
history of working with NWEA MAP has been extensive as she was a part of the first grade level to
pilot the assessment nine years ago as was involved in CIPLC implementing the assessment four years ago.
Stephen Sibley
Steve has served the international education community for the past thirty-two years as a teacher
and/or administrator at five different schools on three continents. His most recent international
experience found him as the head of two schools in Venezuela over a fourteen year span. During
this time he was extensively involved with AdvancED SACSCASI accreditation in the region and
now holds the position of Regional Director for Latin America with AdvancED. Mr. Sibley holds a
bachelors degree in education from Springfield College and a Masters degree in educational leadership from Boston
University. He also earned a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in
the area of critical thinking.
Arnold Spokane
Arnie is Professor of Counseling Psychology at Lehigh University. A licensed psychologist and
Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Arnie’s most recent writing focuses
on public health and cross-cultural aspects of community design and restoration following natural
and man-made disasters, war, and conflict. Arnie teaches graduate courses on community design,
disaster mental health and counseling interventions. He was Co-PI on a 5.5 million dollar NIH
longitudinal Investigation of Hispanic Elders Behavioral Health, served two tours with Department of Health and Human
Services following Hurricane Katrina, and continues ongoing work with the American Red Cross in local and national
disasters. Arnie has a forthcoming article on the Role of Counseling Psychologists following disasters.
Christopher Tienken
Christopher is an Assistant Professor of Education Administration at Seton Hall University. He has
public school administration experience as a PK-12 assistant superintendent, middle school
principal, and elementary school assistant principal.
Dr. Tienken began his career in education as an elementary school teacher. He completed his studies
at Kutztown University (B.S.), Rutgers University (M.A.), and Seton Hall University (Ed.D.). His
research interests include the effect and influence of professional development on teacher practice and student
achievement; the construct validity of high-stakes standardized tests as decision-making tools about student achievement
and school effectiveness; and curricular interventions used in schools to improve achievement. His research about the
effects of professional development on student achievement has been recognized by the Institute of Education Sciences,
and the National Staff Development Council awarded him the Best Research Award in 2008.
Dr. Tienken has authored book chapters and articles on his research interests and presents papers regularly at state,
national, and international venues. He has ongoing research collaborations with colleagues at the University of Rome,
Italy and the University of Catania, Sicily, where he has also been invited as a lecturer as part of a European Union
Master’s Degree Program. Dr. Tienken was named a Visiting Scholar at the Universita` degli Studi Roma Tre, in Rome,
Italy for the 2009-2010 academic year as part of their Master’s Degree Program: Master Pedagogia per la Persona,
L’Organizzazione, La Societa`. He is the editor of the American Association of School Administrators Journal of
Scholarship and Practice and the Kappa Delta Pi Record.
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Naomi Woolsey
Naomi is Director of Project AERO, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Overseas
Schools. She brings a wealth of experience to this position, having worked as a teacher and
administrator for many years, both in the United States and abroad. She began her career as a high
school English teacher and later worked as a school principal at both the middle school and
elementary levels. She enjoyed her time abroad working in several locations as school principal,
including the American Community School in Athens, the International School of Bangkok and the
International School of Luxembourg. She also served as head of the primary division at Washington International School
in the United States. She earned her doctorate in educational administration from Teachers College, Columbia
University, and has a strong background in curriculum and instruction. Her work with AERO gives her the opportunity
to assist schools as they become standards-based in order to improve student learning. Working with school teams, she
provides support and direction for the process of adopting standards and using them to guide curriculum improvement
and development.
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Wednesday Pre-Conference Schedule
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Thursday Pre-Conference Schedule
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Main Conference Schedule
Thursday March 15th
Swissotel Quito
12 de Octubre 1820 and Cordero, Quito
4:00 – 6:15 pm
Main Conference Registration at the Swissotel
5:15 pm
Buses from Cotopaxi Academy to the Swissotel
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Opening Plenary in Salon St. Moritz, Swissotel
Welcome and Introductions
Keynote Sponsored by International Schools Services
Introduced by Dr. Paul Deminico
Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow
Dr. Ian Jukes
Today’s world is constantly on the move, and the rate at which it’s changing is so profound that you
can’t trust your eyes to show you reality, because you're really seeing history. This presentation
challenges your assumptions about the world we live in and the future we’re heading for by carefully
examining the significance of several global exponential trends. Living on the Future Edge asks us to
consider how these trends affect and will continue to affect our personal and professional lives, our
children, our learning institutions, the nature of teaching and learning, and even our definition of
intelligence. This presentation, based on the new book, Living on the Future Edge: Windows on
Tomorrow from the 21st Century Fluency Project, is a compelling glimpse into the bold, dynamic
future that awaits us all.
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Children of Haiti Project
Frank Anderson
childrenofhaitiproject.org
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8:30 – 9:30 pm
Reception
Thanks to GBG/TIECARE International for their sponsorship of the reception
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Friday´s Main Presentations Schedule
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Friday´s Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops Schedule
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Friday Morning Plenary Session
8:30 – 10:15 am
Tented Tennis Court
Keynote Sponsored by K12
Represented by Michael Spencer
Curriculum 21: Future Schools Now
By Dr. Heidi Hayes-Jacobs
How can we transition international schools into 21st-century settings for the contemporary student?
Rather than working on reform, we need NEW forms for teaching and learning. What year is your
school preparing your learners for? 1990 or 2025? Is the role of the principal obsolete? Is graduation
as we know it necessary? In a provocative and highly practical presentation, Heidi Hayes Jacobs will
lay out her new model for taking the steps to transforming your school into a contemporary learning
environment. She will focus on new kinds of leadership to match the needs of a new kind of learner,
which, in turn, leads to a new kind of teacher. Re-booting instruction will be highlighted in her
keynote to reflect: digital literacy, media literacy, and global literacy. Heidi will share examples of
exceptional schools from around the world that have altered their schedules, grouping patterns, and
physical/virtual space to create new programs and approaches for learning. Participants will leave
with next steps to begin making the transition from the old-style model of schooling from the 1890s
to the 21st century model. Heidi’s book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World,
is published by ASCD.
Participants should bring laptops!
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Crafts Fair
No time to shop while at the conference? No worries, you can buy local products and crafts typical
to Ecuador right here on campus. Academic Cotopaxi presents a craft fair on Friday and Saturday
from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm in front of the auditorium. Local grown products include: honey, teas,
coffee and chocolate. Unique, fine quality products include: glass and wooden items, Ecuadorian
fabric and embroidered clothes/table clothes, wool and alpaca products, ceramics, candles, sweaters,
jewelry and T-shirts/souvenirs. Our senior class has put together a bilingual cookbook that will also
be available for purchase and Junior Achievement has refillable water bottles that can be used during
the conference. Come see the beautiful items Ecuador has to offer. Major credit cards accepted.
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Friday Morning Sessions (10:30 am – 12:45 pm)
Featured Consultants
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Curriculum 21: Upgrading Content, Skills, and Assessments for Your Learners
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Heidi Hayes-Jacobs
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: Auditorium
Internationally recognized expert Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs will focus in this breakout session on how to upgrade teaching
and learning with contemporary replacements, digital tools and applications. She will take a step-by-step approach and
consider three basic questions:
What do we cut?
What do we keep?
What do we create?
The focus will be on strategic replacement of dated content, skills and assessments in existing curriculum and will be
geared to K-12 educators in a full range of school settings. Heidi will share resources for integrating web 2.0
applications, digital literacy, and updating to new assessment forms. Participants will examine methods for revitalizing
content through interdisciplinary themes and problems ranging from sustainability to media literacy to globalizing the
curriculum. Dr. Jacobs believes that we have a new kind of learner requiring a new kind of learning environment. This
will be a cutting edge workshop showing how we can harness technology to create a more engaging and personal
experience for our 21st century learners. PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING LAPTOPS!
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Professional Learning Communities ~ What Difference Can They Make?
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Margaret Maclean
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: B-23
Learning communities led by skilled facilitative leaders engage in the following:
Build trust by engaging in significant work together
Provide a safe environment for taking risks
Make practice public by collaboratively examining student and adult work
Give usable feedback
Engage in reflective discourse
Accomplish professional growth and initiate change together
In this session we will explore the power of Learning Communities by engaging as a learning community and
participating in a series of structured interactive activities.
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Greening Your School and Community
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Mike Johnston
Time: 10:30 am -12:45 pm
Room: C-22
What does it mean to educate for a sustainable future? How can you help students engage in personal and community
change towards a greener future? Participants will learn and share what it means to green your school, community and
internationally. Participants will walk away with a plan for next steps in their school to increase sustainability.
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Literacy is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age
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Ian Jukes
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-32
Literacy is Not Enough covers a fundamental shift in the basic paradigm of teaching that is required to prepare digital
students for 21st century life. It looks at current teacher practices, and explains how we can teach effectively in an age
when new technologies cascade onto the new digital landscape at an astonishing rate, and identifies the principles and
processes that transcend these new technologies. You’ll learn how students can develop essential 21st century
fluency skills (Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Collaboration Fluency, and
Global Digital Citizenry) to operate in the new living, working and learning environments of the 21st century, and how
these skills can be taught in a structured manner at every grade level and in every subject area, and be the responsibility
of every teacher throughout the entire school experience while at the same time continuing to address learning standards
and improve test scores to meet both curricular goals, while at the same time developing strategies that will prepare
students to meet the new realities of the 21st Century. This session is based on our new books Literacy is Not Enough:
21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age, and Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the
New Digital Landscape from the 21st Century Fluency Project.
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Three Brains Are Better than One: Integrating Brain, Body, and Heart Intelligences for Engaged Learning!
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Tim Burns
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-20
Looking for a workshop experience that pulls together recent and relevant findings about the learning brain, while
integrating intriguing discoveries about the so-called "second brain” (the gut or body-brain) and the “intelligence of the
heart?” If so, this is the institute for you. This informative, interactive workshop blends research and practical application
within a framework of brain-based childhood development, showing why and--most importantly to educators--how to put
these important findings into practice. Such an integrated approach to teaching and learning results in threat-free,
enjoyable, engaged learning.
Topics include a framework for childhood and adolescent development, the role of downtime and sleep on brain function
and learning, the science of ultradian rhythms and brainwaves leading to peak performance learning states, putting
neurogenesis (creation of new neurons) to work in learning, loving and life, the role of movement in childhood brain
development, tapping the intelligence of the heart, de-stressing the brain, and much more. The workshop blends dozens
of ideas with tools you can use immediately in any learning setting.
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Applied Improvisation in the Classroom
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Vicki Lein
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: B-22
Much more organizational effort goes into planning, which is instantly out of date, than into building our ability to
respond and adapt to change. Applied Improvisation is about preparing for the unexpected. When we are willing to face
the truth that most of life is unexpected, then taking some time to learn how to improvise can make the difference
between a successful life and the life of frustration and alienation.
In this workshop we will engage our bodies, minds, and spirit in activities that inspire creativity and teamwork. The
games we will play will help us learn how to balance our individual ingenuity with the needs of a group. Our brains will
be fed, our immune systems boosted, and our mood lightened. It’s science!
All the activities in this workshop are based on brain research and are adaptable to all ages and all groups. You don’t
need any experience with improvisation to come and play. If you are willing to step out of your comfort zone, you will be
delighted at how much humor and laughter you find.
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Teaching Multilingual Children: Ten Key Factors That Influence Successful Language Learning PART I
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Tracey Tokuhama Espinosa
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-36
In this interactive workshop we will look at ten key factors that influence successful bilingualism and multilingualism
and define the role of home, school and community in this process. We will begin by dispelling many myths around this
topic and then see how this changes our in-class practice as well as general school policies. The workshop facilitator is
the mother of three successful multilingual children (English, Spanish, German and French) who have maneuvered the
international school system. She works with dozens of schools around the world and her work has contributed to
Holland’s reform in foreign language instruction in the early ages.
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Common Mental Health Issues in International Schools
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Cirleen Deblaere
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-30
This presentation will focus on presenting concerns typical of students in international settings. The presentation will
integrate the most recent theoretical and empirical literature in this area. Discussion of the psychological issues and their
characteristics will be discussed. The goal of this presentation is that participants will gain knowledge about common
mental health issues experienced by students in international settings and communities.
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Uncovering the Blind Spots Through a Curriculum and Instruction Audit
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Christopher Tienken
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-31
Quality curriculum development and implementation/teaching are the two variables under the control of the school that
have the largest influence on student achievement (Tramaglini, 2010; Tanner & Tanner, 2007; Wang, et al, 1993). This
workshop will introduce school administrators and their teacher leadership teams to key components and processes of the
curriculum and instruction audit process. Seton Hall University’s Institute for International Schools, in partnership with
leadership from The American School of Brasilia, will present the process through the lens of a school that took the leap
toward organizational improvement. Participants will leave with practical ideas they can use to begin to audit their
learning systems at the school or district level.
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Friday Morning Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops (10:30 am)
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Where are we at? Where are we going? How do we close the gap?
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Donna Frose & Peter Parker
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: C-29
We have all heard the terms: formative and summative assessment. How do we define them and how do we currently
implement them in our classrooms to promote student learning? How do we close the gap between our expectations and
student performance on assessments? Participants will come away with a look at the philosophy of formative and
summative assessment as well as ideas of what they can do in their own classrooms to improve student learning.
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Oral Language and Sensory Integration: Essentials for the Classroom
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Andrea Houser
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Room: C-11
Modern children have less and less of an opportunity to develop and work on these areas, which are essential for global
learning, In the workshop I will address these needs, as well as practical tools and strategies to develop oral language
and sensory integration in the classroom.
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Recursos de Internet en la Clase
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Freddy Torres
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Room: LS Lab
Este taller explora la tecnología educativa como una forma de integrar el uso de las tecnologías actuales en el proceso de
enseñanza-aprendizaje. El contenido del taller refleja las nuevas tendencias y la evolución de los conceptos más
importantes relacionados con la informática de instrucción, así como su impacto en la educación, especialmente en el
aula. Este taller es apropiado para los maestros, los padres, el liderazgo de la escuela y otros de la comunidad educativa
interesados en el establecimiento y fortalecimiento de un ambiente rico en tecnología de aprendizaje.
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Caracteristicas 6+1 de la Escritura
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Elsa Maria Crespo
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 pm
Room: B-29
Las características 6+1, un modelo de la enseñanza de la escritura. Este taller presentará al profesor de español
con una variedad de estrategias para enseñar los elementos que caracterizan a la buena escritura y para planificar su
instrucción lo que permitirá formar escritores creativos.
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On Writing Effective Letters of Recommendation for College-Bound Students
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Nick Edwards
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Room: C-28
Are you interested in learning what makes an effective teacher letter of recommendation for college-bound students?
Then come join this workshop and discover how colleges and universities use your letters of recommendation, what they
like to see in them and what they don’t like to see, and how you can write an effective letter of recommendation.
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Positive Classroom Discipline
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Tanya Duran Ballen & Luann Irigoyen
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 pm
Room: C-5
Most effective behavior management programs must deal with pairs of behaviors. You must strengthen the behavior you
want while weakening the competing behaviors that you do not want. A discipline program should not only eliminate
problem behavior, but it should also systematically build the positive behaviors that you want to replace the problems.
Positive Discipline in the Classroom hands over the majority of the problem solving to the students. Using specific tools,
students learn to take charge of their own problems and learn respectful ways to resolve conflicts.
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Instruction with Wikis & Beyond
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Konna Parker
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: LMC
Presenter will introduce wikis from the website pbworks.com and show the benefits of their use in and out of the
classroom. A variety of samples will be shown and participants will create their own wikis. Participants will leave with
a solid understanding of wikis and how to utilize them.
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Chapel Cares: How Explicit Teaching of Social/Emotional Skills Changed Our School
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Cristina Cavalcanti & Erin Thomas
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Room: B-28
This workshop will introduce participants to the innovative, multi-age models being used at Chapel School, to explicitly
teach and assess students social and emotional skills essential to thriving in diverse communities, in both the elementary
and middle school setting.
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Effective and Engaging 21st Century Tech Tools for Science
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Allana Rumble
Time: 10:30 – 11:30 am
Room: B-27
Navigate through 21st century technology to highlight selected tools supportive of engaged learning in science including:
Moodle (dynamic, community-based platform), Prezi (creatively communicate ideas), Jeopardy Labs and Quizlet
(collaborative, interactive revision), and simulations, to equip students with the skills of collaboration, communication
and creativity their futures require.
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Powerful Literacy Teaching
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Emily Cave
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: B-20
Can we teach to support all students in reaching their highest literacy potential? This interactive workshop focuses on
how teachers can work together to ensure that every student, including ELL and struggling students will meet the
continuously rising standards of literacy today.
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Setting Up Class Websites That Enhance Learning
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Paola Bonfanti & Amanda Navajas
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: C-6
This presentation will demonstrate how a class website can help students enhance learning significantly. Participants will
have the opportunity to see two different class websites designed for Elementary and Middle School, and a step-by-step
tutorial to help them understand the process of creating and designing a classroom website.
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Expanding Horizons: Blended and Online Learning for the International School
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Michael Spencer, K12
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 pm
Room: C-8
This workshop will engage school leaders in a discussion regarding the benefits of online learning and the best practices
to integrate a high-quality online program in your school, using examples from international schools around the world
and the innovative San Francisco Flex Academy, a blended model public school operated by K12.
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Using the New AERO Social Studies Framework to Impact Student Learning
 Naomi Woolsey, U.S. Department of State, Office of Overseas Schools
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: C-12
AERO's new Social Studies Framework contains standards, grade level benchmarks, and learning progressions which
chart the development of skills, content, and understanding across the grades. This session will provide an overview of
the Framework, and provide guidance on using it to enrich current programs.
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Friday Midday Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops (12:00 pm)
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FAFSA, US Taxes and Living Overseas: requirements and Benefits
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Robert Deuel, Global Tax Service
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: C-29
Briefing will cover three components: FAFSA, considerations in preparation to obtain maximum benefit for the student;
tax compliance for US taxpayers, to insure tax return submission is correct, and presents the financial information in the
best light to maximize scholarship awards; and compliance with US Treasury reporting requirements.
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Digital Media: Literacy in the 21st Century
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Chandler Patton
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: B-29
To teach digital literacy, educators must expand conceptions of what it means to be fully literate in new times. This
presentation will review current literature on digital literacy, demonstrate supported digital media practices, and exhibit
concrete examples of the work students produce when using digital media.
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Folding a Circle
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Luis Hernandez & William Fossgreen
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: C-28
Actively engage students in an array of two dimensional and three dimensional geometric topics through paper folding.
The activity spans basic vocabulary and definitions to higher level thinking.
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Blended Learning and Moodle: Using the Resource in Your Own School
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Derrel Fincher, AASSA World Virtual School Coordinator
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: LMC
Moodle is a very powerful tool for blended learning but we can always learn more about it. Here, we will be driven by
the interests of the teachers who come. This is a chance to ask about and learn about features or integration with other
programs, or share your expertise with others.
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Mix it up: Blended Learning and the Digital Generation
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Shawntel Allen & Terry Thomas
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: B-28
Participants will: understand that reflective learning and knowledge building can be maximized in a blended learning
environment; learn how to integrate digital learning tools in their classrooms to improve student learning; and join the
ongoing conversation about technology and learning.
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Storytelling for the 21st Century Learner
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Jeff Shirk
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: B-27
In this workshop, teachers will learn how to use storytelling in their units to promote Literacy and 21st Skills. The
workshop focuses on the benefits of storytelling, how to make storyboards, digital tools, collaboration, and presentation
skills.
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The Daily 5 and The CAFE in the Elementary Literacy Classroom
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Brad Handrich & Hannah Allan-Yeager
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Room: B-20
Come learn about how The Daily 5 and The CAFE have helped us meet the individual literacy needs of our students.
This is a structured system to foster student independence, organize assessment data and instruction, and differentiate
instruction for all students. This system works in English and Spanish classrooms.
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Class Plan and Curriculum Design: A Different Approach
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Elisa Neves
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Room: C-6
Teaching 21st century learners is a complex task. Teachers must recognize students’ strengths/difficulties and
differentiate curriculum (Marzano, 2006) and instruction. They also need to demonstrate creative thinking and problem
solving approaches in curriculum design (McTighe & Wiggins, 2004) and assessment (McMillan, 2007) in order to
facilitate students’ development.
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From Data to Differentiation
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Dick Moody, NWEA
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Room: C-8
From data to differentiation to discerning learner: this session will first address why the data we use to inform learning
experiences matters, how to use high quality data to differentiate learning experiences, and finally how to empower each
and every learner to be the hero of his or her own life. NWEA's high quality data will be referenced throughout this
presentation.
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Co-teaching the College Essay: A Collaborative Model for Your English Teacher and College Counselor
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Alex Brostoff & Joseph Tavares
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: C-12
This presentation is based on a four-part lesson that combines the professional expertise of the college counselor and 12th
grade English teacher. What is often a stressful process for college-bound seniors is alleviated by the dual support of two
educators who each bring a unique lens to this process of self-reflection and exploration towards the future.
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Friday Midday Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops (1:05 pm)
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Book Talk Café
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Tammie Ramsey & Topher Turner
Time: 1:05 – 2:05 pm
Room: C-11
Book Talk Café navigates students through a variety of novel genres, while fostering high-level thinking and a passion
for reading. Through guided questioning, persuasive speaking and a student created product, this naturally differentiated,
cooperative atmosphere teaches students to talk about the books they read, designing readers of the future.
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Website Creation for a Busy Teacher
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Greg Lemoine
Time: 1:05 – 2:05 pm
Room: LS Lab
Classroom website? Don’t have time? Don’t know how? You will leave this workshop with a free, published, and easyto-maintain website. We will explore a few other online options so you can choose which one is right for you.
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How to Implement a Mentor Program for New Teachers
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Leah Yepez & Estela Proaño
Time: 1:05 – 2:05 pm
Room: B-29
With new teachers every year, the need for a mentoring program is evident. Teachers come with all different qualities
and experiences and for some the adjustment to a new school, new profession, and new culture can be overwhelming.
This workshop will present an individualized approach that would help new teachers become familiar with school
policies and comfortable in adapting to the school culture.
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Using Discrepant Events in the Science Classroom to Encourage Critical Thinking
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Dennis LaBarge
Time: 1:05 – 2:05 pm
Room: C-28
Critical thinking skills are important to student success, but are often lacking, in the secondary science classroom. This
workshop will discuss the use of Discrepant Events to introduce new science concepts, challenging students to reconsider
deeply rooted misconceptions on science and to actively explore and explain unexpected phenomena.
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Wiki STEPPs to Conflict Resolution
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Karen Provost & Mary Wolfram
Time: 1:05 – 2:05 pm
Room: LMC
Giving middle school students the tools to resolve conflicts. Why use wiki??? Embed video clips for teaching purposes,
Pre-assessment, On-going assessment, identify qualities of a good friend, recognize problems and develop solutions, peer
interaction and exchange of ideas, IT’S FUN!
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El texto poético una estrategia para incentivar la capacidad crítica y creativa
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Ketty Bernal & Maria del Socorro Ramos
Time: 1:05 – 2:35 pm
Room: B-28
Develar una metáfora implica una operación mental que permite descubrir qué quiere comparar el poeta, también
ahondar en posibles razones de dicha construcción. La poesía acrecienta el sentido del lenguaje de dos maneras,
utilizando tanto el pensamiento racional como el analógico, es decir que está íntimamente ligada con el pensamiento y no
es exclusiva de la sensibilidad.
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Gifted Education: Addressing the Other Half of the Special Needs Spectrum
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Jacob Johanssen
Time: 1:05 – 2:05 pm
Room: B-27
Mathematics is the most accelerated subject yet many schools are not addressing the issue directly. This workshop aims
to assist teachers differentiating for the gifted students in their classroom by providing a few concrete tools that allow
teachers to help challenge those who quickly comprehend and are thirsty for more.
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The Emphasis on Inquiry-based Learning in the New College Board Advanced Placement Science Curricula
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Jesus Hernandez, College Board
Time: 1:05 – 2:05 pm
Room: C-12
The need for more science literate citizens in the U.S. has prompted recognition by the National Science Foundation and
the Department of Education to fund efforts by the College Board to change all the Advanced Placement sciences
curricula. Already Biology teachers are starting to be trained in the new requirements for the AP Biology test. A strong
emphasis in Inquiry-based lab activities is the new norm. Similar changes are expected for the Chemistry, Physics, and
Environmental Science curricula in the coming years. An overview of the expected changes in the science courses will be
presented as well as the justification for the splitting of the AP Physics B curriculum into two years.
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Friday Midday Sessions (2:10 pm)
Featured Consultants
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Using Curriculum Mapping to Develop Benchmark Assessments Aligned to Standards
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Heidi Hayes-Jacobs
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: Auditorium
The most current work in curriculum mapping is the strategic alignment of benchmark assessments "vertically K-12" to
monitor student growth and learning. In particular, mapping has gone into deeper work with alignment to new
standards. Heidi will share work from her newest book, a LiveBook and LivePlanner, with PD360 called, Mapping to
the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum. Whether the Common Core
Standards or your unique mission statement and standards, it is critical to align thoughtfully. New levels of collaboration
and sharing in mapping are used globally by independent, public, parochial, and international schools based on Dr.
Jacobs's model for curriculum mapping.
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All Problems Welcome!
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Margaret Maclean
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: B-23
Bring your problems big or small to this session! We will be working together collaboratively using a consultancy
protocol to solve a dilemma presented by one or more participants in the group. You will leave with questions to
consider, perspective on the issue and concrete suggestions to help you decide on next steps. Plus experience with a
problem solving protocol you can use in your school when issues arise.
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The Global Issues Network
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Mike Johnston
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: C-22
Target Learners: All who participated in the 2011 GIN in Peru and others interested in getting involved. The Global
Issues Network has as its mission: to help students realize they can make a difference by empowering them to work
internationally with their peers to develop solutions for global issues. This workshop provides the organizational tools
and planning framework to promote sustainable projects and partnerships. What is the Global Issues Network and how
can your school get involved? Open your school to a vast resource of collaborating schools that will network within the
AASSA region and worldwide. Learn how to weave environmental, global issues and service learning into all facets of
your school.
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Understanding the Digital Generation: New Perspectives
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Ian Jukes
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: C-32
This workshop provides a comprehensive profile of 10 core learning attributes of digital learners, and looks at the
modern workplace and examines the new entry skills students will need to be successful in the digitally infused working
environment. We examine how the world of work changed, and how it’s likely to change in the future. What are the new
thinking skills workers will require, and how must we shift instruction to ensure we are equipping our students with these
skills? The New Perspectives workshop provides a pragmatic look at how we can teach effectively in an age when new
technologies cascade onto the new digital landscape at an astonishing rate, and also identifies the principles and
processes that transcend these new technologies. This session is based on the books Understanding the Digital
Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape from the 21st Century Fluency Project.
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Energizing Strategies for Engaged Learning: Using Movement, Rhythm, and Creative Play to Facilitate
Classroom Learning
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Tim Burns
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: C-20
All new learning results as a consequence of a sequence of events taking place in the brain, beginning with the arousal of
what are referred to as the “attentional networks.” In other words, a well-integrated neural system for bringing about
focused attention is a key to learning. In this workshop we explore the three attentional systems and how they can be
engaged more fully. This is where movement, rhythm, and creative play enter in for all students, all grade levels:
together, these three dynamic processes organize the brain throughout childhood and the teen years, and ready the brain
for new learning. In addition, we look at movements that can help re-organize and engage the brain of children who,
these days, tend to move and play less often, which can lead to problems in focus, concentration, and learning. This
engaging, enjoyable and informative workshop covers theory and research and--most importantly to educators--practical
things that can be used the next day in the classroom.
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Freeing the Writer Within
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Vicki Lein
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: B-22
This workshop will focus on accessing and sustaining our own personal creativity through writing. A little theory and a
lot of application will result in activities useful in your personal lives as well as with your students and staff. These
activities will help you touch the writer within you and will help you motivate your most discouraged students. Bring
something to write in, a willingness to move your body and be playful, a cheerful demeanor, and an open mind. You will
leave renewed, refreshed, and ready to take on the challenges of being an educator in the 21st-century.
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Teaching Multilingual Children: Ten Key Factors That Influence Successful Language Learning PART II
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Tracey Tokuhama Espinosa
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: C-36
In this interactive workshop we will quickly review the ten key factors mentioned in Part I and then look at tools that can
be used in international school settings to help ensure the highest quality language programs possible. These tools range
from entering parent interviews (shared expectations) to specific classroom activities. The second part of this session will
focus on specific examples that participants bring to the discussion (come with questions!).
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Multiculturally Competent Counseling Approaches in International Schools
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Cirleen Deblaere
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: C-30
This presentation will focus on multiculturally competent counseling approaches relevant to students in international
settings. A general model of helping as well as considerations for cross-cultural counseling (e.g., awareness of
communication styles and values) will be discussed. In addition, specific approaches for addressing typical mental health
concerns (e.g., anxiety) of students in international settings will be presented. The goal of this presentation is that
participants gain knowledge about the role of the counselor in facilitating client change and specific cultural
competencies needed in assessment and treatment of mental health concerns with this diverse population.
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Lessons for the 21st Century
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Nicky Mohan
Time: 2:10 – 4:15 pm
Room: C-31
"Lessons For the 21st Century" is about creating problem based learning units using the 21st Fluency model. The
workshop is designed to help educators infuse 21st Century learning skills within the classroom and connect traditional
student learning to real time, real world experiences that cultivate the higher-level thinking skills outlined by the
Curriculum Standards. Designed to engage lateral thinking, foster creativity, and expedite a shift to a 21st century
classroom, the workshop will aim to develop a holistic educator who can formulate instruction and assessment methods
that continue to support traditional content while at the same time ensuring that students develop the 21st Century skills
needed to be successful in the new global economy.
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Friday Afternoon Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops (2:10 pm)
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Brain Warm-Ups for Learning
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Marcella Bahniuk & Ana Maria Cruz
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
Room: C-29
When working with small children, many teachers use songs and games to help them get ready to focus and learn. But
when children get older, the idea of ‘getting ready’ stops. Children need to be prepared for learning. In this workshop we
will share activities and exercises that help children, of all ages, get their bodies and brains ready to learn.
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Real Help for Children of Dysfunctional Homes
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Debbie Anderson
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
Room: C-11
This workshop will cover how to provide real help for students who come from dysfunctional homes. This presentation
will provide a knowledge and understanding in how to identify these students, as well as help you to recognize, apply,
and improve personal preparation in how to support these types of students who enter your classroom.
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Classroom Blogs: Make them a Dynamic Part of your Teaching Repertoire!

Margot Solberg
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
Room: LS Lab
Educators will learn how to embellish this social networking tool with a variety of fun and creative widgets, as well as be
introduced to other 21st Century teaching resources which are immediately applicable to the classroom environment.
Participants should have already created a Google account (go to www.google.com) and initiate a blog account (at
www.blogger.com) before attending the workshop.
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Tribus Una Nueva Experiencia de Aprendizaje
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Teresa Acosta & Karla Jaramillo
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:40 pm
Room: B-29
Iniciaremos nuestra presentación con una breve introducción personal. La Historia de Tribus será mencionada
concisamente. Revisaremos el Camino de Tribus. Se introducirán los Acuerdos de Tribus y cómo enseñarlos dentro del
aula. Realizaremos varias actividades del proceso para que los asistentes experimenten las mismas, reflexionen sobre lo
realizado y obtengan ideas de cómo adaptar las acciones dentro del aula. Terminaremos con un círculo de la comunidad
que incluirá un pensamiento que recuerde al público que Tribus vale la pena.
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English Please: Encouraging and Supporting English in the Classroom
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Michael McAdam
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
Room: C-28
This interactive workshop will highlight issues in encouraging and supporting students in their use of English at school.
We will discuss various perspectives on this issue, both from the point of view of educators as well as that of students.
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Education 3.0: A New Model for Teaching and Learning
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Mariana Portelo, CISCO
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:40 pm
Room: LMC
In the 21st century, the traditional models of teaching are increasingly questioned. The use of the technology in the
classroom has changed from being a trend to an exigency, and every day the students bring to the place of study the
dynamics of his daily life: social networks, mobile devices, interaction, and customization. How can we find an answer to
this new context? Education 3.0 helps responding to this challenge.
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Lights, Camera, Animation!
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Molly Koppel & Melanie Dueck
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
Room: B-27
Learning involves both personal “meaning-making” and social collaboration. Stop motion animation is a form of film
making with sculpted figures or objects moved in small increments while taking photos. Participants will learn how to
implement a co-curricular unit on stop motion animation with simple movie making software.
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Charting Your MAP
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Dick Moody & María Vasquez, NWEA
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:40 pm
Room: B-20
NWEA's MAP system provides 150+ different destinations (reports). Now that you've taken the first leg of your journey,
join us to understand what other paths you might take to progress toward your school's goals. We'll give you a tour
brochure and guide you in charting a course for the next leg of your journey. You're in the driver's seat and we will help
you have a great trip!
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Online Admissions: Sustainably Using the Net to Gather Schools of Keepers
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Luis Costales, Rediker Software, Inc.
Time: 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
Room: C-8
Before radar and GPS, navigating by charts and distant lights risked shipwreck. Educators today must jettison paper
forms and haphazard contact, embrace technology and set a course toward stronger, “greener” schools. Streamline
admissions with online inquiries, applications and recommendations. Automate enrollment, scuttle duplicate data entry,
save money and conserve resources.
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School Governance: What Teachers & Principals Should Know and Understand
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Paul DeMinico, ISS
Time: 2:10 – 4:10 pm
Room: C-12
Teachers and principals are immersed in the world of curriculum, instruction, assessment, data, differentiated instruction,
and much more. In addition, there has historically been a perceived lack of transparency at the school governance and
school head level. However understanding the governing structure of the school and the delineation between the roles of
the board of directors and those of the school head is a topic that has gone unnoticed among many teachers and, to a
lesser degree, principals. This workshop is designed to give teachers and principals a look at what occurs in a governance
training workshop between governing boards and school heads. A clearer understanding of the roles, the issues, the
obstacles and the relationships of the board and head could prove to be not only interesting but also helpful in
understanding the workings and complexities of an international school. With an increased understanding of school
governance, teachers and principals may perform their responsibilities more effectively as a result.
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Friday Afternoon Sessions
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops (3:15 pm)
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Supplementary Style: A ‘Student Choice’ Application

Ari McKenna
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: C-29
In this workshop we will check out a supplementary application for ‘student choice’ alongside standard vocabulary
instruction. It is a straightforward approach meant for LA or Humanities classes which is not overly time consuming and
can be done interstitially. The aim is to provide space for students to look into understanding their own ‘style’ of
communication, and to have them outfit it with words that they feel are flush with their, unique manner of expression,
and, in doing so, developing a stronger, more meaningful connection with language.
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Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies

Cathy Vorbeck
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: C-11
The presentation will address what research tells us about struggling readers and what has been proven successful for
teaching reading effectively, particularly in regards to direct reading instruction. Teachers who attend will walk away
with lots of strategies, practical ideas, many resourceful websites, and handouts to use in their classrooms.
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Ethical Hacking: Applying the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM)
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Francisco Bolaños
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: LS Lab
This is going to be a practical workshop in which all the ethical hacking stages will be shown. The stages are: Tracking,
Exploration, Enumeration and Exploitation. The Open Source-Security Testing Methodology Manual OSSTMM will be
applied in order to document and log everything in a professional way. This methodology will allow the IT department to
monitor and organize all traffic and security issues that take place in the network in the selected device.
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Navigating Statistics and Data Analysis in the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum

Roxy Peck, College Board
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: C-28
The changing role of statistics and data analysis in the secondary mathematics curriculum has led to increased coverage
of statistical concepts. The role of activities in developing conceptual understanding will be discussed and classroom
activities designed to engage students in learning from data will presented.
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Eportfolios: Assessment for Learning
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Bonnie Cahusac
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: B-28
Imagine engaged, reflective learners, involved in constructing their own understandings of the world in their own unique
ways. This presentation will include current research in K12 classrooms, explain and display eportfolios in my middle
school science class, and end with a discussion of the possibilities and future evolution of eportfolios.
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Using Thinking Strategies Across the Curriculum
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Jacqueline de Segonzac & Rafael Gonzalez
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: B-27
This presentation will reveal various ways in which secondary teachers of all subject matters can incorporate the thinking
strategies identified in Ellin Keene's Mosaic of Thought to improve students' critical thinking and reading comprehension
skills. We hope to not only help you become aware of the strategies you use while reading, but to also provide you with
various lesson plan ideas and artifacts from math, science, social studies, and language arts classes that utilize the
strategies.
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Climate, Culture and Curriculum - A Holistic Approach to International School Planning and Design
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Liz Lee & Mark McCarthy, Perkins Eastman
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: C-6
How does pressure to support 21st century educational practices blended with a commitment to honor host country
culture result in a one-of-a-kind environment for learning? How can responsiveness to context create opportunities for
sustainability? We will address these questions as well as the facility implications of supporting bilingual and westernbased curricula.
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Four Learning Styles. Four Online Tools: Designing Online Activities for Digital Natives
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Ivonne Chirino-Klevans, Walden University
Time: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room: C-8
Technology has opened the door to new education paradigms, transforming how students learn. Educators are still
responsible for identifying which online learning tools best meet the needs of different learners. In this workshop, explore
four different, free web-based tools you can use to design online activities for different learning styles.
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Friday Afternoon Plenary Session
Tented Tennis Court
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm
Keynote sponsored by the College Board
Represented by Julie Linn
Navigate the Now, Design the Future…
By: Mike Johnston
School missions often speak to creating global citizens and a commitment to sustainability and
environment. Whose responsibility is it to ensure schools are living their mission? Does it matter?
Service and sustainability should not just be what we do; it needs to be who we are. “Be the change
you wish to see in the world.”
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Saturday´s Main Presentations Schedule
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Saturday´s Teacher and Exhibitor Workshop Schedule
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Saturday Morning Plenary Session
Tented Tennis Court
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Keynote sponsored by Lehigh University
Represented by Cirleen DeBlaer & Arnold Spokane
The Scientifically Substantiated Art of Teaching:
Mind, Brain, and Education Science
By: Tracey Tokuhama Espinosa
This keynote introduces the new academic discipline of Mind Brain, and Education (MBE) science.
MBE science is the new and improved brain-based learning known as the scientifically substantiated
art of teaching. It is the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology, and it is a paradigm
shift in formal education. Masters of Education programs around the world are slowly adapting this
new model, starting at Harvard in 2001. Popular press information about “brain-based learning,” has
been applied indiscreetly and inconsistently to classroom teaching practices for many years. This
keynote seeks to separate the wheat from the chaff (how do we know what is good information and
what is just commercial?), and to convince (recruit? invite?) the audience to wear the MBE hat and
embrace its shared goals of improving teaching by applying our improved understanding of how the
brain learns.
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Saturday Morning Sessions (10:30 am – 12:45 pm)
Featured Consultants
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Curriculum 21: Upgrading Content, Skills, and Assessments for Your Learners
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Heidi Hayes-Jacobs
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-36
Internationally recognized expert Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs will focus in this breakout session on how to upgrade teaching
and learning with contemporary replacements, digital tools and applications. She will take a step-by-step approach and
consider three basic questions:
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What do we cut?
What do we keep?
What do we create?
The focus will be on strategic replacement of dated content, skills and assessments in existing curriculum and will be
geared to K-12 educators in a full range of school settings. Heidi will share resources for integrating web 2.0
applications, digital literacy, and updating to new assessment forms. Participants will examine methods for revitalizing
content through interdisciplinary themes and problems ranging from sustainability to media literacy to globalizing the
curriculum. Dr. Jacobs believes that we have a new kind of learner requiring a new kind of learning environment. This
will be a cutting edge workshop showing how we can harness technology to create a more engaging and personal
experience for our 21st century learners. PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING LAPTOPS!
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A Data Dialog
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Margaret Maclean
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: B-23
In this session we will work collaboratively using structured protocols to learn from assessment results or data that
participants bring to the session to explore. We will learn a variety of tools and strategies participants can take back to
their schools, which will enhance collaboration and support changes in teacher practice. Please bring data you are
interested in learning from to the session!!!! If you have questions about what to bring email me at:
margaret.maclean@ruraledu.org
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Learning by Doing. Aware-Able-Act: The Big Picture
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Mike Johnston
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-22
How can schools truly commit to change for a sustainable future? Tackling global issues effectively takes a real
commitment and a clear plan to move your school forward. Whether you are a classroom teacher, administrator or just
someone who cares about the future this is the session for you to walk away with the next steps for your school. For
action to be effective and sustainable it requires a commitment and a clear plan. How can schools move forward and what
is your role as an educator?
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Literacy is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age
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Ian Jukes
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-32
Literacy is Not Enough covers a fundamental shift in the basic paradigm of teaching that is required to prepare digital
students for 21st century life. It looks at current teacher practices, and explains how we can teach effectively in an age
when new technologies cascade onto the new digital landscape at an astonishing rate, and identifies the principles and
processes that transcend these new technologies. You’ll learn how students can develop essential 21st century
fluency skills (Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Collaboration Fluency, and
Global Digital Citizenry) to operate in the new living, working and learning environments of the 21st century, and how
these skills can be taught in a structured manner at every grade level and in every subject area, and be the responsibility
of every teacher throughout the entire school experience while at the same time continuing to address learning standards
and improve test scores to meet both curricular goals, while at the same time developing strategies that will prepare
students to meet the new realities of the 21st Century. This session is based on our new books Literacy is Not Enough:
21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age, and Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the
New Digital Landscape from the 21st Century Fluency Project.
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It’s About Balance: Stress-Hardiness, Resilience and Well-Being for Teachers (and Students, Too!)

Tim Burns
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-20
Are you finding it harder to keep up with the increasing challenges of being an educator? Or life in general? Feeling more
stress and not quite sure how to keep or get things back into balance? In truth, most of us--and our students--are these
days. And while there are no simplistic answers, this workshop will certainly help bring your life and career back into
more healthful and enjoyable balance. As an added bonus, there are many practical things that you can pass along to your
family and students as well.
The good news is this: small changes, specifically applied, have been shown to produce positive results in stress
reduction, health improvement, and enhanced overall well-being. From a synthesis of research in fields such as stress
management, human resiliency, wellness, martial arts, exercise physiology, psychoneuroimmunology, the brain sciences,
neuro-feedback, cardio-feedback, positive psychology, peak performance science, and more, come key principles and
useful techniques that will certainly help in bringing about a calmer, more energized, and balanced approach to living and
learning.
Offered to educators, counselors, and care-providers in over two dozen countries, the workshop addresses theory, recent
research and--most importantly--practical and effective tools with which to make it applicable. You'll benefit in both
your personal life and in the professional setting, learn many techniques for immediate use, and have a truly memorable
time in the process.
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Teaching Content Creatively Through Movement, Music, Drama, and Play
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Vicki Lein
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: B-22
WWGD? What would Google do? If we were to use the Google organization as a model for enhancing performance, we
might just decide to have more fun. We might have a giant statue of a dinosaur, a slide from the fourth floor to the third
floor, a door coming out of nowhere, massage chairs, bright colors, and a simple code of conduct: Don’t be evil.
This workshop, based on brain research, will show you how to bring movement, music, drama, and play into teaching
language arts, science, and math. We will focus on having students do more while teachers do less. We will hold a
question in our minds, “How can I teach this, move our bodies, and have fun?”
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Neuromyths: Untruths about the Brain and Learning
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Tracey Tokuhama Espinosa
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: Auditorium
This follow-up to the keynote looks at 76 different educational concepts in depth and divides them into categories of
information that is “well-established”, “probably so”, “intelligent speculation” or a “neuromyth”. For example, to which
category do the following concepts belong? : (a) “Water is brain food”; (b) There are people who are more right-brained
than others”; (c) “There is no decision without emotion”; (d) “All learning is influenced by past knowledge”; (e) “Boys
and girls learn differently”; “(f) Music influences learning”.
In this workshop we seek to distinguish “neuromyths” from “well-established” beliefs in educational practice. Come with
your own doubts about brain-based learning fads and learn how to judge the quality of information for yourself.
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Rebuilding Motivation for School Following Conflict and Disaster: Lessons from Liberia and Katrina
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Arnold Spokane
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-30
Schools close following disaster and conflict---sometimes for a few days or weeks and in war-torn environments for
years. In the interim, students, families and teachers adapt in ways that may compromise motivation and concentration
for learning and attendance. One moderate-term situation (Katrina) and one long term situation (Liberia) are contrasted,
and strategies for addressing mental health concerns that affect student, teacher, and administrator behavior, and specific
interventions for improving motivation for learning will be discussed.
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How To Implement the International Model for School Counseling Programs at Your School
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Brooke Fezler
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: C-31
This 1-day workshop is designed specifically for the professional development of international school counselors; it will
focus on how to develop a comprehensive school counseling program using the International Model, which is based on
the ASCA National Model. This workshop represents an opportunity for authentic collaboration amongst counselors, the
goal of which is that everyone walks away with practical ideas, action plans, and a strong understanding of the necessary
components of an international school counseling program. Participants will return to their schools with useful tools to
improve their current counseling services and guidance curriculum.
The goal of the presenter is to:
 Equip counselors with the skills to modify their existing school counseling program.
 Introduce participants to the newly developed International Model for School Counseling
Programs.
 Educate school counselors on how to develop and implement a comprehensive school
counseling program.
Counselors will walk away having learned:
 The nuts and bolts of implementing the International Model.
 How to develop mission statement, standards, competencies, and indicators.
 How to enhance, manage, and audit their current programs.
 How to develop action plans for their school counseling program.
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Principals’ Job-Alike Session
 Facilitator: Eddie Wexler
Time: 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room: College
Center
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Saturday Morning Sessions (10:30 am)
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
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Freeware Multimedia for the Classroom
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Andy Kralovec
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Room: C-29
The incorporation of audio and video in the classroom as a teaching resource is on the rise. One obstacle to multimedia
implementation is cost. This presentation will identify audio and video editing freeware programs along with several free
websites that can be used to post audio/video material. (Win & Mac)
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Culturally Diverse Teaching & Learning
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William Veal, Jessica Latham & David Wells
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: C-11
This workshop will introduce children from the Cofan tribe. Recommendations on how to help students from diverse
settings and cultures will be offered. Advice and suggestions on what to do, when to do it, and why will be outlined.
Participants will have a chance to share their own experiences and knowledge.
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Best Use of Online Science Simulations: A Constructivist Approach
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Chris Slough
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: LMC
This presentation discusses the research behind effectively utilizing online science simulations in the classroom, and
presents three concrete examples of lessons used in grades 9, 10, and 11. While the examples focus on physics and
chemistry, teachers of all science disciplines will find this presentation useful in terms of how to best utilize the rapidly
growing world of online science simulations.
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Cómo Aprende el Cerebro y Sus Implicaciones Para El Salón de Clase
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Charlotte Samper
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: B-27
Este taller se enfoca en que los docentes, quienes al entender como prende el cerebro, produzcan material que puedan
utilizar en sus clases para así mejorar el aprendizaje de sus alumnos. Los últimos diez años de estudios del cerebro nos
ha presentado mucha información que apoya a los docentes en el aula, facilitándoles su trabajo y produciendo resultados
positives.
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Paideia Seminar
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Gretchen Bade & Michael Simmons
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: C-28
Paideia Seminar, as defined by the National Paideia Center, is a collaborative, intellectual dialogue facilitated with openended questions about a text. It is a method for sustainable learning as it develops skills that allow students to achieve
not only in the classroom, but also in our global society.
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Infusing Mindfulness, Art and Yoga into Your Classroom Experience
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Sora No, Yoga Recess & Yoga Month
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: C-5
Sno Yoga introduces the effective work of Mindfulness, Art and Yoga; otherwise known as M.A.Y. Students receive a
fun and non-judgmental way of teaching surrounded by a positive and safe environment. These methods concentrate on
the cultivation of young individual’s creativity, train of thought process and successful experiences.
Participants will learn how:
 Mindfulness changes the way students’ brain functions, provides tools to reflect instead of react and lessen testtaking anxiety
 Art can encourage students to become risk-takers, calm their minds and cultivate their creativity
 Yoga increases a student’s self esteem, supports collaboration, teaches compassion and acceptance
The workshop will have interactive experiences where teachers will participate in shorten versions of M.A.Y. classes in
conjunction with information and discussions. Teachers and administrators will have a toolbox of activities they can
easily implement in their classroom or school.
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Seeing Things in a New Light: 12 – 14% of Students Suffer from Light Sensitivity. Have You Heard of Irlen
Syndrome?
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Sandy Muench
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Room: C-6
Irlen Syndrome is a visual processing disorder caused by light. Students with Irlen Syndrome experience problems with
reading and studying, as they must put more energy and effort into their work. This workshop provides detailed
information about identifying symptoms and how the Irlen Method can change a student’s life.
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Sailing the Waters of Web 2.0 Tools: Co-Designing Global Peace in Today’s Knowledge Society
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Mike Foege & Victoria Placeres
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Room: B-28
Section I- Introduction. Differences between the Knowledge and Information society as well as some implications in
education such as digital literacy. Section II- Turning Knowledge Society key features into a thematic UNIT for ELL
students. Section III- Peace One Day initiative. From personal to local to global: co-designing PEACE 2.0.
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Options for Struggling Teens
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Rick Detwiler, Mason Associates
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Room: B-29
This session will help school personnel better understand the therapeutic resources available to serve struggling teens
whose needs are beyond the capacity of their school and be able to guide parents as they explore those resources. An
overview of the range of therapeutic programs will be provided: traditional boarding schools that have strong support
programs; wilderness programs; therapeutic boarding schools; residential treatment centers; acute care programs and how
they differ from each other. Participants will share with each other some direct tips/strategies regarding what to look for
in the child’s behavior patterns, how to set the stage for collaboration, the roles of the Educational Consultant, the parent,
the child, and the school/counselor, and logistics.
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Connecting Computer Modeling to the Physical Laboratory
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Howard Lovejoy & Kurt Supplee
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: LS Lab
We will demonstrate how some simple and familiar science and math investigations can be modeled using STELLA
software. Following this we will set up the actual problem with laboratory equipment and use real data to improve the
model and add further variables to our investigation. We will further connect this to a common mathematical problem.
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Applying Rubrics to ESL/EAL in the Context of a Bilingual School
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Vanessa Lima
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room: C-12
This presentation aims to discuss how to use rubrics in the context of an ESL class in order to provide students with the
tools they need to succeed in the process of second language acquisition, and to help teachers better assess and choose
their teaching/learning strategies.
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Saturday Morning Sessions (11:40 am)
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
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Cómo Contribuir al Desarrollo de la Inteligencia Emocional en el Aula
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Lorena Valencia
Time: 11:40 am – 12:40 pm
Room C-29
Mi taller se enfocará en una descripción de la teoría de Goleman, su fundamento y los componentes de la inteligencia
Emocional. Además de esto presentará sugerencias a los profesores de actividades a realizar, y de distintos temas y
técnicas que se deben enseñar a los alumnos para que poco a poco desarrollen su inteligencia emocional.
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Building Effective Reading Programs for English Language Learners
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Kristen MacConnell
Time: 11:40 am – 1:10 pm
Room B-28
International schools face unique challenges meeting students’ literacy needs. This workshop is designed to show how
one school has begun to systematically screen students’ reading skills. An outcomes-driven model will be shared to assist
with data-based decision making. Year 1 data and an overview of next steps will be discussed.
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Digital Natives Become Upstanding Global Citizens
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Karen Fraser Colby de Mattos & Paola Bonfanti do Amaral
Time: 11:40 am – 1:10 pm
Room B-29
Whether responsible for a classroom, a school or a system, participants will explore effective strategies to increase
students’ academic achievement and their realization that they have the capacity to make a difference in the world.
Participants will visit, through different media, classrooms in a partial immersion program that engages and empowers
students.
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Powerful Dual language Learning: An Innovative International School Model
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Andrea Molinari
Time: 11:40 am – 1:10 pm
Room B-20
Join us for a look at an innovative model for teaching dual language learners that honors the way young children learn
best. This project approach integrates all learning domains playfully, wraps learning in meaning and context, and ensures
that learning is connected and expanded across three age groups.
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Saturday Lunch Meetings (12:00 -2:50 pm):
1. There will be a 1:00 pm meeting with Linda Sills at lunch for anyone interested in the October 2012 Global Initiatives
Network (GIN) Conference for students in Grades 7-12 to be held at Graded School in Sao Paulo, Brazil
2. There will be a 1:00 pm meeting with Derrel Fincher at lunch for any schools interested in learning more about
AASSAnet, the World Virtual School program.
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Saturday Midday Sessions (12:50 pm)
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
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Bringing Poetry to Life
 Alexandra Baines & Melissa Daniels
Time: 12:50 – 1:50 pm
Room: C-29
Do your students feel daunted by poetry? Discover how to develop a community of readers, writers and critical thinkers
through the medium of poetry. This presentation, inspired by Nancy Atwell, will provide workshop ideas to help engage
the reluctant learner in the art of poetry.
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Cultivating Creativity and Community in the Classroom: A Walkthrough of Boalian Techniques
 Cristina Mejia & Jesse Tangen
Time: 12:50 – 2:20 pm
Room: C-11
Have you ever been in the middle of a power point lesson when the power goes out? What do you do when your 21st
century lesson turns suddenly medieval? Or do you just simply want to be more creative and “playful” in your planning?
We rely on Augusto Boal! Boalian techniques allow classroom communities to think creatively, while ensuring learning
and participation from all the students, and require no technology – not even a classroom. In this workshop we will
practice a variety of Boalian techniques (games that involve body, space, interaction) applicable for any age group, in any
subject area. We will create an authentic environment in which to develop creative potential for solving everyday
situations. (Batteries not included.)
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Music and Movement in the Regular Classroom, by the Regular Teacher
 Marilene Arndt Barreto do Nascimento
Time: 12:50 – 2:20 pm
Room: LMC
A hands-on workshop, with ideas and suggestions of activities to enrich your daily routine with your students, where you
will learn how to take advantage of the most varied kinds of musical styles and everyday materials, putting everything
together with coordinated--and uncoordinated--movement. Booklet with descriptions and references included.
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Developing and Implementing a Model United Nations Program
 Daniel Cwik
Time: 12:50 – 1:50 pm
Room: B-27
This session will explain the merits of MUN programs and give you all you need to know about implementing one at
your school. This is the real deal and not a generic overview. You will leave this session with enough background
information to address your administration, plan a program, and even plan your own conference! Resources provided.
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An Introduction to Team Coaching
 Gustavo Sever
Time: 12:50 – 1:50 pm
Room: C-28
Join me on this workshop on Team Coaching! Many times, educational leaders act as coaches without even noticing it;
this happens at different levels: in the classroom, with students individually, parents, colleagues and other stakeholders.
Learn some basic foundations about team coaching that will only improve your helping skills repertoire.
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Integrating Whole Brain Teaching Strategies
 Penny Ross & Juan Facendo
Time: 12:50 – 1:50 pm
Room: C-6
The reputation of Whole Brain Teaching in America is spreading rapidly for at least 3 reasons ... it's fun, it's free, and the
techniques powerfully engage challenging students. Come find out how you can incorporate these strategies in your
classroom tomorrow!
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Energize Your Lessons with Curriculum Driven eContent
 Marina Racy, Follett International
Time: 12:50 – 1:50 pm
Room: LS Lab
Browse through the interactive features of an eBook. Whether used with the whole class or one-on-one with a student,
eBooks are versatile, user-friendly learning resources that give you curriculum aligned and engaging content to teach and
engage your 21st century learners` experience.
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Teaching and Leading in Turbulent Times
 Charles Mitchel, Seton Hall University
Time: 12:50 – 2:20 pm
Room: C-12
In The Spiritual Dimension of Leadership, Houston and Sokolow write that teaching and leading is difficult and draining.
It saps physical, emotional, and spiritual energy. Teachers and administrators must find a way to replenish that energy.
This workshop provides educators with strategies to recharge their Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual batteries.
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Saturday Midday Sessions (2:00 pm – 4:30 pm)
Featured Consultants
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Using Curriculum Mapping to Develop Benchmark Assessments Aligned to Standards

Heidi Hayes-Jacobs
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Room: C-36
The most current work in curriculum mapping is the strategic alignment of benchmark assessments "vertically K-12" to
monitor student growth and learning. In particular, mapping has gone into deeper work with alignment to new
standards. Heidi will share work from her newest book, a LiveBook and LivePlanner, with PD360 called, Mapping to
the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum. Whether the Common Core
Standards or your unique mission statement and standards, it is critical to align thoughtfully. New levels of collaboration
and sharing in mapping are used globally by independent, public, parochial, and international schools based on Dr.
Jacobs's model for curriculum mapping.
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Strategies to Build Collaborative Teacher Teams

Margaret Maclean
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Room: B-23
Effective collaborative teams are an essential building block of a successful school. This session will focus on how to
work interdependently to create high-performing teams. We will participate in and take home a number of tools and
strategies that will increase your effectiveness as members and facilitators of powerful collaborative teams.
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Learning by Doing. Aware-Able-Act: Curriculum Integration

Mike Johnston
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Room: C-22
Can we really leave awareness and action to after school and outside class time? Real world contextual learning doesn’t
get any better than integrating global issues and sustainability into daily learning activities. We will explore many
curricular examples; share resources and help schools truly integrate change into the classroom. Please feel free to send
examples or links to good learning activities to mjo@uwcsea.edu.sg and a common resource share will be provided to all
participants.
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Understanding the Digital Generation: New Perspectives

Ian Jukes
Time: 2:00 – 4:30 pm
Room: C-32
This workshop provides a comprehensive profile of 10 core learning attributes of digital learners, and looks at the
modern workplace and examines the new entry skills students will need to be successful in the digitally infused working
environment. We examine how the world of work changed, and how it’s likely to change in the future. What are the new
thinking skills workers will require, and how must we shift instruction to ensure we are equipping our students with these
skills? The New Perspectives workshop provides a pragmatic look at how we can teach effectively in an age when new
technologies cascade onto the new digital landscape at an astonishing rate, and also identifies the principles and
processes that transcend these new technologies. This session is based on the books Understanding the Digital
Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape from the 21st Century Fluency Project.
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The Amazing Brain

Tim Burns
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Room: C-20
This workshop combines two presentations, one designed with students in mind, the other for parents. Offered to students
and parents in dozens of international school around the world, these companion presentations accompany the staff
workshop and help spread the “news you can use” about the amazing brain.
The Amazing Brain: A Work in Progress
Scientists increasingly refer to the pre-teen and teen brain as a "work in progress," because of the fact that at least seven
important areas of the brain are undergoing "reconstruction." This presentation is designed to help students to better
understand these changes and how to take advantage of this knowledge in order to build a better brain. In addition to
information presented in a way that keeps students engaged, ten important “BrainGain Tips” are offered related to the
topic areas covered: from hydration to diet, downtime to sleep, optimizing school and athletic performance, the harmful
effects of drinking and drugging, and more.
Parenting With the Brain in Mind: A Practical Journey Through the Growing Brain
This presentation--similar to the one provided to students--offers parents an informative and useful guide to the major
developmental changes taking place in the brain throughout childhood and through the teen years. A number of useful
tips for parents, based upon these milestone changes, are presented.
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Using Creativity to Teach Character, Respect, and Resilience
 Vicki Lein
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Room: B-22
What if we could teach discipline and have fun at the same time? What if we used assemblies, skits, music, and some
outrageous humor to unleash the genius of our students? What if we decided to operate from an innovative intention:
Students do more--teachers do less? And, what if all this play and creativity was based on brain research, emotional
intelligence, and fitness for life?
Could it be true we often underestimate the abilities of our students and ourselves? Did you know that a Gray African
parrot taught himself how to spell? Lecturing our students will not evoke their initiative and ingenuity. There is genius
that lies untapped in all of us, and we will feel a lot better when we know how to let it flow instead of trying to play it
safe.
This workshop demonstrates how to teach self-discipline, respect for diversity, and character–all subjects that lend
themselves to boring lectures and the rolling of countless eyes. Instead, we will do this through music, movement, drama,
and by setting high expectations.
Come ready to have fun, let go, and experience models of teaching to a classroom or to a whole school. Learn how to
teach with liveliness and creativity any attitude or skill your students need in order to be healthier, happier, and able to
compete in a global economy.
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Evidence-Based Practice: What Works in Classrooms and Why
 Tracey Tokuhama Espinosa
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Room: Auditorium
In this workshop we will confirm best practice models of teaching that apply Mind, Brain, and Education science
standards. This workshop will compare evidence from MBE science and John Hattie’s Visible Learning findings (a metaanalysis of 800 meta analyses about educational practices) to identify exactly what has been shown to improve student
learning outcomes. Is cooperative learning better than explicit instruction? Is the Socratic Method a proven practice?
Does feedback have an impact on future learning? What matters more, a habit of questioning (a mentality of skepticism),
or a teacher who believes in you? This workshop is meant to leave the participants with a sense of confirmed best
practice, and perhaps a few surprises about what really works in the classroom. References to Marzano, Wiggins &
McTighe, Tomlinson and Fink will supply additional evidence for these recommendations.
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Rebuilding Motivation for School Following Conflict and Disaster: Lessons from Liberia and Katrina
 Arnold Spokane
Time: 2:00 – 4:30 pm
Room: C-30
Schools close following disaster and conflict---sometimes for a few days or weeks, and in war-torn environments for
years. In the interim, students, families and teachers adapt in ways that may compromise motivation and concentration
for learning and attendance. One moderate-term situation (Katrina) and one long term situation (Liberia) are contrasted,
and strategies for addressing mental health concerns that affect student, teacher, and administrator behavior, and specific
interventions for improving motivation for learning will be discussed.
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Saturday Midday Sessions (2:00 pm)
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
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Teaching Today the Readers of Tomorrow
 Liliana Borrero
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Room: C-29
At the twilight of the XXI century, it is inexcusable to ignore the pedagogical implications of brain research findings. The
brain is the organ in which learning takes place; therefore, we as educators need to understand how it functions. Today
we are lucky to be able to ground the why, how, and what we teach children to read, in solid scientific findings.
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Highly Able Instruction at IB Institutions: Implementation Now, Designing for the Future
 Joanna Brown
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: B-27
The presentation includes defining the essence of highly able intelligences and dispels previous misunderstandings on the
nature of gifted/talented individuals and programs. From primary to high school instruction, the presenter reveals the
practical and ideal union of highly able programs and IB curriculum and the realities of program implementation.
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Digital Storytelling: Bring Your Story to Life
 Sergio Martinez
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: C-28
Take your oral presentation and bring it to life using digital storytelling tools! Digital storytelling is a great way to
showcase and tap into your students’ different learning styles and needs. This presentation will expose you to free and
paid storytelling programs to help your students tap into their creativity.
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Getting Your Students Organized
 Robin Glas
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: C-6
Middle school and high school teachers of all subjects can integrate organizational skills into their regular classes without
taking away valuable time devoted to curriculum. By categorizing and organizing all work done in the class, the students
will place more importance on each activity done in the classroom. The strategies taught in this workshop will allow the
student to recall information from past assignments for purposes such as test preparation. It also shows the students that
there is great importance to everything done in the classroom, and that they can take pride in their notebook as a personal
creation.
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Somewhere I Travelled Gladly, and Beyond
 Michelle Crosbie
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: B-28
This summer I had the privilege of attending Boston University's Poetry Institute run by Robert Pinsky. In addition to
receiving rare insight and inroads into poetry from many celebrated poets, teachers from elementary to high school also
devised and exchanged extraordinary lesson plans designed to ignite and inspire students of all ages. I am excited to
share what I learned.
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25 Strategies to Energize Your Classroom
 Amy Teran
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: B-29
Walk away with 25 energizing activities you can implement immediately in your classroom that address rituals, routines,
classroom environment, reading strategies, technology, gimmicks, brain breaks, and assessment. Applications for all
subjects, geared towards secondary, great for teachers working with second language learners.
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Simply Teaching With Technology
 Lynn Notarainni, DYMO/Mimio
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: B-20
Imagine a family of easy-to-use tools that work together to help you teach creatively and allow students to learn actively.
Imagine tools that dramatically expand your teaching options and streamline how you meet everyday challenges.
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How To Expand Your School's Online Reach
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Mark Wile, RenWeb School Management Software
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: LS Lab
Stay connected to your school community through Facebook, Twitter and a school blog.
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Saturday Afternoon Sessions (3:30 pm)
Teacher and Exhibitor Workshops
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The Animated Classroom: Punctuation Karate

Ruth Hoevertsz
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: C-11
How we can cater to our auditory, visual and tactile learners in an enjoyable and accessible manner with regards to
something as ordinary as teaching punctuation?
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Math and Technology - The Perfect Match

Leah Brownell
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: LMC
More than ever today’s students are surrounded by digital resources. As educators we need to bring these tools into the
classroom and promote 21st century learning in a meaningful way to develop problem solving and reasoning skills. You
will leave this workshop with activities you can use immediately in your classroom.
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The Nature of Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of History & Literature through the Lens of Post
WWII U.S. Foreign Policy
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Alexandra Brostoff & Jason Lang
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: B-27
In an ever-shrinking universe, multiplicity of perspective demands that the global citizen be adept at elucidating the often
unclear distinction between fact and fiction. Grounded in communicative and cognitive learning strategies, "The Nature
of Storytelling" is an interdisciplinary history and literature unit that examines the narratives, meta-narratives and
historical sources pertaining to Post WWII U.S. foreign policy.
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Dr. Goodreader

Susan Stevens
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: C-28
Teachers will be given the materials they need and explanations of how to use the Dr. Goodreader flow chart in their
reading program. Students who can pinpoint where their understanding breaks down when reading and know how to
solve the problem are students who are armed for the future.
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Conflict Resolution Skills for the Global Citizen

Deena Fontana Moraes & Robert Summers
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: C-6
Conflict is a normal aspect of the Elementary school day. However, as we navigate the now in order to design a more
positive future, students must be empowered to resolve conflicts peacefully and independently. In this lesson, presenters
will deliver a conflict resolution lesson which implements SIOP models of instruction.
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Perception and Rationality about Risk

John Byers, GBG/TieCare International
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: B-28
Fear is good. Fear helps protect us. But when our perception about risk does not match reality and data, we make poor
decisions about our own lives, careers, and health. This presentation points out misconceptions about safety and health
and highlights the most serious risks over which we have direct control.
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School-wide Instruction Practices That Rock

Susan Follmer
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: B-29
What happens when all teachers use the same five instructional practices? This session will demand active engagement of
all who attend as we explore instructional practices that have the greatest returns for student learning, and the power of
doing those strategies school-wide. Participants will leave will new strategies for Monday.
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Crossing the Cultural Bridge: Meeting needs in a Multicultural Classroom

Stuart Olson
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Room: B-20
This workshop addresses learning needs of students from either Latino or Asian home cultures as they study and interact
in a school culture that is largely North American. Special attention is directed to the needs of students with lower levels
of competency in using the English language.
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Our Exhibitors
Thank you to our Associate Members for their participation and ongoing support of AASSA.
ATD-American
Buffalo State, SUNY
Children of Haiti Project
CISCO
Clements Worldwide
College Board
Developmental Studies Center
Dymo/Mimio
Empresa Metropolitana de Turismo
Endicott College
Follett International
Frank Crystal & Company, Inc.
GBG/ TieCare International
George Mason University
Global Issues Network
Global Tax Service
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt International
International Schools Services
K12, Inc.
Lehigh University
Mason Associates
Northwest Evaluation Association
Pacificard
Pearson
Perkins Eastman
Rediker Software, Inc.
RenWeb School Management Software
Scholastic International
Seton Hall University
Stadium
State Department FCU
Tiosa
Turning Technologies
University of Alabama
Veracross
Virco, Inc.
Walden University/Laureate
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Note Pages
The program cover was designed by Aljosja Roels, art teacher at Academia Cotopaxi. Aljosja brings
together all the elements important to Ecuador. On the Coat of Arms the sun is representative of the
God of the Ancestors; the snow capped mountain means the high altitude of Ecuador and the condor
symbolizes power, greatness and strength of Ecuador. The theme of the conference, Navigate the
Now, Design the Future, is integrated into the landscape with the boy communicating with the
condor via headphones and the use of the electronic tablet.
Conference Evaluation
We welcome your feedback in order to continually improve our
conferences. Please take a few minutes, go to www.aassa.com
and click on the link in the News Section of the home page…
Thank you for your feedback!
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