June 18, 2014 - Special Education Pre-Conference Sessions

• 10 Strategies Proven to Inspire and Engage EVERY Student
• Autism Guidebooks, How A Classroom Project Can Change the State
• Building District Capacity to use RTI for SLD Eligibility
• ECSE Transition to Kindergarten
• English Learners and Assessment:  A Developmental Framework for Promoting Equitable Evaluation
• HQ Teachers, Modified Diplomas, Transfers and Educator Evaluation:  What Should You Know
• IDEA Legal Lessons Learned and Implications for Urban, Suburban and Rural Districts
• Improving Outcomes for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities Through a Process of Program Renewal
• Intervention, The Secret to Success in a Proficiency Based Learning Model at the Middle Level
• iOS 7: More Possibilities for Every Ability
• Neuro-Developmentally Sensitive School-Based Assessment and Intervention Strategies
• Response to Intervention at a Middle School?
• Review of Oregon’s Work in Special Education:  Where is OSEP Going?
• SWIFT - School-Wide Integration Framework for Transformation
• The How of RTI for SLD Eligibility:  Doing the Right Thing the Right Way
• The Missing Link
• The Why of RTI for SLD Eligibility: It's the Right Thing to do for all the Right Reasons

June 19-20, 2014 - Main Conference Sessions

• #icanhelp
• #Twitter4PLC
• “I'm Freaking Out!”:  How school leaders can help alleviate fear and anxiety that pre-service teachers face when beginning their clinical teaching experience
• 2013-14 Report Cards
• 2014-15 Accountability
• Better Together: Central Oregon’s Cradle to Career Partnership to Improve Student Outcomes
• Breaking Down the Silos: Serving Diverse Learners through Central Office Collaboration
• Building and District Leadership to support effective PLCs
• Building Capacity Through Coaching: Moving Evidenced-based Practices into the Classroom
• Characteristics of Effective District Technology Programs: Lessons from Technology Audits
• Compassionate Discipline: Moving Away from Exclusionary Practices to Culturally Relevant PBIS
• Comprehensive Health Education meets Common Core
• COSA on iTunes U
• Courage to Lead: Sustaining a Vision
• Cracking the Attendance Code: Proven Strategies to Improve Student Attendance
• Data Sharing, Communication, and Collaboration with Child Welfare
• DATA: Enough Already or Ready Enough?
• Developing a Schoolwide Approach to CCSS Writing with 6+1 Traits
• Developing Blended Learning Programs: Engaging Differentiation for All Learners
• Developing Educator Evaluation, Compensation, and Professional Development Systems: Lessons Learned from Oregon Teacher Incentive Fund Districts
• Do You Need Super Powers to be a Good Supervisor?
• Dynamic Education Career Ladder and Leadership Training:  Innovative, Quality, Job Embedded
• Engaging Students, Engaging Families: Strategies that Work
• English Language Leaders: Nurturing Emergent Bilingual Student Voice for Change
• Every Day - On Time: Encouraging Student Attendance/Reducing Truancy
• Evolving Education in High Schools
• Facebook for Administrators
• Farm to School and School Gardens:  Opportunities for Your School!
• Finding out the Way with CCSS and Proficiency
• From ESL Pullout to Language for All
• Home Connections: Engaging Families in Classroom Academic Language  Through Bilingual Math Activities
• How Quality Teacher-student Relationships Bring Social Justice Into the Classroom
• How to get your CPS on!!!
• IDEA LAB: Making Space for STEM in Elementary
• Implementing Effective PLCs to Support Learning
• Improving teacher effectiveness for student success: Models, standards, resources, and tools.
• Increasing Middle School Math Achievement for all Students.
• Inside A 'Flipped' Classroom
• Keep Learning On Track:  Formative Assessment Through Professional Development
• Keeping Your Students In Class and On-Task
• Leading Learning Communities to Improve Achievement for All Students
• Maintenance unlike your Retirement can be deferred? True of False? 
• Making Math Count: Closing the Achievement Gap
• Managing the iPhone Generation: Experience positive change, from disruption to learning
• Meet the Northwest Evaluation Association
• New Accreditation Process & Advice from Practitioners
• New Assessment Directors
• Next Challenge in Teacher Evaluation:  Rating Educators on Student Learning and Growth
• Nurturing the Inner Genius in Every Child: Building Strength Based Educational Programs
• ODE Update on Educator Effectiveness
• Online Constituent Consultation: Challenges, Benefits and Implications of Leading Large-scale Online Stakeholder Consultations
• Opening the Door to the Future
• Oregon Secretary of State Audit Highlights Middle Schools Successful in Closing Achievement Gaps
• Personalized Learning in Action: Districts that Are Disruptive
• Personalized Learning through Blended Learning
• Policy-Making and Implementation for the English Language Proficiency Assessment for the 21st Century (ELPA21)
• Preventing the 7 Boardroom Dysfunctions
• Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All
• Proficiency and Beyond: One District’s Journey Towards Individualized Education
• Project Unify: Improving Equitable Access and Inclusive Cultures
• Promoting Academic Language Development through Science Content-Based ELD in K-2 Classrooms
• Reducing Disciplinary Disparities: Transformation Through Cultural Responsiveness and PBIS
• Robotics: Changing Kids’ Lives through STEM Activities
• Science & Engineering as Context: Math and ELA in the Real World
• Secondary Early Warning Systems
• Smarter Balanced Field Test Discussion
• South Metro STEM Worksession: Developing STEM Plans
• Strategic ELL Plan, Update: What Is Next
• Supporting Principal Development to Increase Student Achievement
• SWIFT School Framework:  Equity and Excellence for EACH student
• Teaching and Learning with iPad in Oregon Schools
• Teaching and Learning with iPad in Oregon Schools
• The Chocolate Chip Cookie: A Recipe to Safe Schools
• The Essential Features of Response to Intervention
• The Missing Link
• The Power of Collective: Middle School Principals Working Together to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Student Discipline
• The Social, Emotional and Behavioral Health of our Students: Planning for Positive Impact
• The Synergy Between Staff and Student Wellness
• TSPC Redesign and edTPA Updates
• Westview Summer School 2013:  Using Innovation, Collaboration, and Data To Support Student Achievement
• What Are We Learning About Learning Walks?
• What Every Administrator Needs to Know About Response to Intervention
• What's New:  Collaborative Professional Development and College Credit Opportunities in Eastern Oregon
• Why Can’t We All Be Friends?: Creating partnerships with virtual charter schools for success for ALL students
• Working to Stop What Stops the Work
• You can’t start too early!  Creating and implementing a K-12 On-Track Data System to ensure EVERY student graduates college and career ready!