2022 Fall Conference

Lunch will include a brief welcome from Wisconsin ASCD, raffle prizes, and our Instructional Leader of the Year announcement!

Dr. Cruz - Author, Consultant, Celebrated Educator & Administrator, Author
Dr. Cruz will share information and strategies to support transformational leadership. The information is based on the book he co-authored with Anthony Muhammad. As we are in pursuit of high levels of learning for all students, there is bound to be some resistance. Why? How can teacher and school leaders overcome this. Find out! Specifically, this breakout session focuses on the task of how to overcome rational, who are the most common, resistors to change.

Dr. Jedlicka has worked as a teacher, school counselor and is an educational psychologist providing neurotherapy in a clinical setting at Doll & Associates. He works in collaboration with a charter school in designing spaces aligned for kids. He has done extensive research on autism and anxiety and can provide practical solutions and feedback for educators in better understanding the unique needs of our students. We will take a look at what neuroscience and what it is telling us about what students need. You will walk away with knowledge on polyvagal theory and the window of tolerance affects a child’s behaviors as well as brain development and managing emotions.

Dr. Tony Frontier, Cardinal Stritch University & Author

If doing more in our schools and classrooms were the answer to better meeting the needs of every child, then we’d have met every goal and closed every gap by now. We don’t need more activities, resources, initiatives, projects, or meetings. We need more clarity. Clarity emerges when we prioritize our efforts to do less with greater focus. With this focus, we empower our students to prioritize their strategy and efforts to develop deep understanding of the most important skills and content. Drawing from the book 'Teaching With Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More' the book's author will explain a practical framework and action steps that can be used to prioritize, and align, teachers' and students' strategic efforts to support responsive learning in every classroom. Participants will learn:

· The critical distinction between empathetic vs. sympathetic lesson and curriculum design and the effect of each approach on students.

· The three components that must be established to successfully pursue equity initiatives that empower teachers and learners.

· The three priority statements that align administrators', teachers', and students' efforts to support effective teaching, avoid initiative fatigue, and ensure responsive learning for each student.

· The six elements present in systems and classrooms that choose clarity for teaching and learning.

Practical examples from classrooms and schools, action steps, and useful templates for prioritizing and planning will be shared.

Teaching with Clarity Handout

Shelly Daun, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment; Tammy Richter, Clovis Principal; Ellen Van Pay, Gegan Principal, Chip Kintopf, Behavior Coordinator; Renae Braun, RtI Coordinator

Menasha School District will share its decade-long journey of school improvement. The story begins in 2012 with three schools identified as “Focus Schools” and fast forwards to today with 2 schools receiving Gold-Level recognition in all 3 areas (behavior, literacy, and math) from the WI RtI Center and 1 school recognized as a Blue-Ribbon School. Join us on the journey to learn how we did it.

Laura Adams and Dr. Barb Novak both serve the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Participants in this interactive session will learn about DPI resources and online professional learning related to reading with an emphasis on the role of reading foundational skills (phonological awareness and phonics) in early literacy. In addition, the session will review reading-related statutes.

Dr. Cruz - Author, Consultant, Celebrated Educator & Administrator, Author

Dr. Cruz will share information and strategies to support transformational leadership. The information is based on the book he co-authored with Anthony Muhammad. As we are in pursuit of high levels of learning for all students, there is bound to be some resistance. Why? How can teacher and school leaders overcome this. Find out! Specifically, this breakout session focuses on the tough task of how to overcome irrational resistors to change.

Mary Hansen, Behavior Coach Hayward Elementary School Campus (Live), Kristen Souers, Author and Trauma Expert (Virtual)

Listen to the story of how the Hayward Elementary Campus has used movement to increase achievement in grades 4K-5. Mary Hansen, Elementary Behavior Coach, will describe how the Boost Up program in the Hayward Primary school has helped to both increase achievement and decrease negative student behaviors. The results were so positive that a Power Up program was implemented in grades 3-5 building on the successes of the movement programs in the earlier grades. Mary and Kristen will share Hawyard's journey along with research on how these types of programs can benefit all students.

The Impact of Movement on Academic Success At The Elementary Level Presentation

Dr. Tony Frontier, Cardinal Stritch University & Author

This session will share practical strategies to give students effective feedback and support students’ efforts to use feedback in meaningful ways. Drawing from Tony's article with Jay McTighe in Ed Leadership last spring, participants will:

· Learn the six components of effective feedback.

· Consider the characteristics of feedback that students are more likely to ignore, as compared to feedback they are more likely to use in meaningful ways to improve their learning.

· Apply tools to design meaningful feedback.

How to Provide Better Feedback Handout

Dr. Amy LaPierre, Director of Curriculum at School District of West De Pere

Amy will share her experiences with handling book challenges in curriculum and school libraries. She will share her insights and developed processes that respect education, educators, students, and families.

Rob Meyer, Director of Teaching & Learning for the Beaver Dam Unified School District and Wisconsin ASCD President

This session will focus on a process to design classroom-based assessments that provide necessary information for adults and for students. Dr. Anthony Muhammad refers to assessment as the lynchpin in the PLC and RtI process. Rob could not agree more! Without a quality assessment, we can not determine student needs for intervention or extension. In addition, we can't use the assessment to determine our needs to grow as educators. This is a process you will be able to share back at your sites.