Administrators Days 2013 - Kearney

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Handouts

Teacher Effectiveness for Evaluation & Professional Growth - Charlotte Danielson
Cultivating Curiosity in the 21st Century - Ramsey Musallam

Student Discipline (10:00 am - Stateroom C)
What You Should Know About Section 504 (10:00 am - Ballroom II)
New Superintendents (10:00 am - Ruby 6)
Crete Public Schools - Multi-year Evaluation Model (10:00 am - Diamond 1)
Staff Evaluation in Early Childhood (10:00 am - Stateroom D)
EHA Insurance and Healthcare Reform Update (10:00 am - Stateroom F)
A Principal's Guide to Custody Disputes... (10:00 am - Diamond 6)
Improve Your Students By Improving Your Teachers (10:00 am - Diamond 7)
Implementing A Data Management System  (10:00 am - Stateroom E)
Maximizing the Benefits and Savings Potential/Section 125 Plans (10:00 am - Ruby 7)
A Legal Update on Bullying and Cyberbullying (11:15 am - Ballroom II)
Maneuver Education (11:15 am - Stateroom C)
Not the New Kid (11:15 am - Stateroom E)
Enhancing Teacher Performance Through Reflection/Coaching (11:15 am - Loper North)
Fix the Root Cause of Poor Student Test Scores: Apathy (11:15 am - Ruby 6)
Make Your School No Place for Hate (11:15 am - Diamond 6)
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Year Superintendents (11:15 am (Diamond 7)
Create a Collaborative Online Community for Your Staff (11:15 am - Diamond 2)
IEP's 101 (11:15 am - Crystal 1)
A Special Education Finance (3:15 pm - Stateroom D)
Negotiating After LB 397 (3:15 pm - Stateroom C)
PPACA - The Time to Control Costs ... Is Now! (3:15 pm - Diamond 7)
Classified Staff Issues (3:15 pm - Crystal 1)

Keynote Speakers For Thursday, August 1st

Charlotte Danielson is an internationally-recognized expert in the area of teacher effectiveness, specializing in the design of teacher evaluation systems that, while ensuring teacher quality, also promote professional learning. She advises State Education Departments and National Ministries and Departments of Education, both in the United States and overseas. She is a policy consultant to legislatures and administrative bodies. Ms. Danielson's many publications range from defining good teaching ("Enhancing Professional Practice: a framework for teaching," 2007), to organizing schools for student success ("Enhancing Student Achievement: a framework for school improvement," 2002), to teacher leadership ("Teacher Leadership that Strengthens the Profession," 2006), to professional conversations ("Talk about Teaching! Conducting Professional Conversations," 2009), to numerous practical instruments and training programs (both onsite and online) to assist practitioners in implementing her ideas.

Robert J. Marzano, is cofounder and CEO of Marzano Research Laboratory in Centennial, Colorado. A leading researcher in education, he is a speaker, trainer, and author of more than 30 books and 150 articles on topics such as instruction, assessment, writing and implementing standards, cognition, effective leadership, and school intervention. His books include Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives, The Highly Engaged Classroom, Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading, On Excellence in Teaching, District Leadership That Works, and The Art and Science of Teaching. His practical translations of the most current research and theory into classroom strategies are internationally known and widely practiced by both teachers and administrators.

Ramsey Musallam is the a high school chemistry teacher at Sacred Heart Cathedral High School in downtown San Francisco and adjunct professor of education at Touro University. Upon receiving his Doctorate in Multimedia Learning from the University of San Francisco, Dr. Musallam’s research interests have shifted from a focus on technology in the classroom, to an emphasis on establishing learning environments grounded in inquiry, motivation and curiosity, using technology as a strategic classroom partner. In addition to the classroom, Dr. Musallam facilitates professional development experiences for teachers nationally and internationally, and is the host of the Infinite Thinking Machine, an internet TV show dedicated to spreading innovation and creativity to fellow educators.