2019 KSDE Impact Institute: Pratt: Full Schedule

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9:10am CDT

Create Connections with Your Community to Build Work-Based Learning Experiences for Students

Discuss the importance of career awareness, exploration, and preparation. Participants will receive resources to guide students in the development of a WBL Portfolio and measurement of employability skills aligned to the Individual Plan of Study (IPS).

Speakers

Natalie Clark

Assistant Director, Kansas State Department of Education

Natalie Clark is the Assistant Director on the Career, Standards and Assessment Services team in the areas of Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Individual Plan of Study (IPS) at the Kansas State Department of Education. Natalie joined the agency in 2016 as an Education Program... Read More →

Wednesday July 17, 2019 9:10am - 10:30am CDT
Benson Education Center - Room 35

Real World Applications, Session

10:40am CDT

A Guide to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Alma Rosas-Hall and Shakiyya Bland will introduce secondary educators to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and present strategies for how to sustain cultural relevance within instructional practices and curriculum planning. The session will provide supports and examples of how to be culturally responsive educators.

Speakers

Shakiyya Bland

District Mathematics Curriculum and Instructional Learning Coach, Lawrence Public Schools

Dr. Shakiyya Bland, Ed.D.PEG Affiliate PractitionerKSDE Certified Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Consultant#CreatingEquitableSpaces @DrShakB1What are the costs of being afraid of what might happen to us if we disrupt educational injustice versus what we know will happen to students... Read More →

Alma Hall

Phy. Ed & Health Teacher, KCKPS#500

Mrs. Alma D. Rosas-Hall, M.S. in Teaching., MSSL., Doctoral CandidateAs a Physical Education & Health Teacher at Harmon High School, I strive to promote the importance of our cultural pride and ownership of our own diversity and celebrate our social justice changes through sports... Read More →

Wednesday July 17, 2019 10:40am - 12:00pm CDT
Benson Education Center - Room 35

Personalized Learning, Session

12:40pm CDT

A Guide to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Speakers

Shakiyya Bland

District Mathematics Curriculum and Instructional Learning Coach, Lawrence Public Schools

Alma Hall

Phy. Ed & Health Teacher, KCKPS#500

Wednesday July 17, 2019 12:40pm - 2:00pm CDT
Benson Education Center - Room 35

Personalized Learning, Session

2:10pm CDT

HGSS Classroom Based State Assessment

This session will focus on the new HGSS classroom based state assessment model. Teacher and administrators will learn the process, and address administrative and procedural issues impacting this assessment.

Speakers

Don Gifford

HGSS Educational Consultant, KSDE

Don taught for 32 years in 1A, 3A, 4A, 5A, and 6A schools in Kansas. He left the classroom in 2010 for the State Department of Education. Don is the coordinator for Civic Engagement for KSDE and has supervised and facilitated History, Government, and Social Studies Standards (HGSS... Read More →

Wednesday July 17, 2019 2:10pm - 3:30pm CDT
Benson Education Center - Room 35

Student Success, Session

9:10am CDT

Rigorous and Relevant Instruction: Instructional Strategies that Support Rigorous and Relevant Learning.

This workshop is designed to help educators increase the rigor and relevance of their classroom instruction. Participants will learn about how rigor and relevance are defined and examine how they can be applied to the four concern areas. English, mathematics, science and social studies. Exemplary lessons and assignments for each of the four content areas will be studied and evaluated. Participants will leave with a valuable collection of research-based instructional strategies that can be used in every classroom.

Speakers

Jonathan Martin

ACT

Beth Fultz

Assistant Director, KSDE

Thursday July 18, 2019 9:10am - 12:00pm CDT
Benson Education Center - Room 35

ACT, Workshop

12:40pm CDT

Computational Thinking: CS With or Without Computers

In this session attendees will learn the underlying principles of computational thinking and will be exposed to numerous examples of how those principles are being taught in grades K-12 across various curriculum topics.

Speakers

Josh Weese

Teaching Assistant Professor, Kansas State University

I am a teaching assistant professor in the department of computer science at Kansas State University. I teach a variety of computer science classes at the post-secondary level, but I am heavily involved with CS at the K-12 level. I participate in and run multiple outreach programs... Read More →

Thursday July 18, 2019 12:40pm - 2:00pm CDT
Benson Education Center - Room 35

Student Success, Session

2:10pm CDT

The Impact of Poverty on Educational Success

This session will focus on students of poverty and how best to address their needs in your classrooms. In this session, we will define poverty, identify the impact of poverty in the classroom, and address how to best address the needs of students from this population. You will leave this session with tools and strategies which you can implement immediately.

Speakers

Cindy Hadicke

Elementary Education Program Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education

Thursday July 18, 2019 2:10pm - 3:30pm CDT
Benson Education Center - Room 35

Student Success, Session