Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

Lisa Carter, author of Total Instructional Alignment, will peel back the complex layers of the change process to reveal the

five big ideas at the core of all successful schools. These Five Big Ideas, based on the research of effective schools,

create the context into which to embed the TIA process to ensure student success. By focusing on these powerful ideas,

teachers and administrators can simplify decision-making and eliminate distractions from efforts to promote effective

teaching and learning. Just as a magnifying glass can start a fire by focusing the rays of the sun, educators can generate

amazing power by concentrating on key critical ideas. Attend this workshop and discover your power today!

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Lisa Carter

Jun 1, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 0             Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas     Audience: 5-8

Join the UAMS Partners in Health Sciences (PIHS) program for a "Healthy Lungs" professional development workshop

for grade 5-8 teachers. This workshop is very interactive with audience participation in activities which can be used by

students. The workshop is designed to increase the trainee's knowledge and understanding of the pulmonary

components of the cardiopulmonary system and its major diseases, lung cancer and emphysema. Each grade 5-8

teacher will receive a "Resource Kit" which contains the following items: 1) illustrated syllabus (with laminated color

images and CD of PowerPoint images for use with students, 2) plastic lung model, 3) lung demonstration apparatus, 4)

sponge lung smoking kit, and 5) elastic band. The workshop is supported by a grant from the Arkansas Cancer Coalition.

Facilitator: Becky Lamb         Presenter: Dr. Robert Burns

Jun 2, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm

Limit: 50         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas     Audience: K-12, Asst. Principals, Counselors

The workshop focus will be on the 2008-2009 ACSIP's for the participant schools in the workshop. The current

improvement plans will be critically reviewed for potential effectiveness as written and implemented. The areas of

strength or weaknesses will be determined with discussion of strategies to incorporate changes into the ACSIP for

2009-2010. Participants should gain ideas of how to strengthen the ACSIP for the coming year with specific actions as to

how to involve all of the staff in implementing the plan effectively including benchmarks to assess implementation.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Kieth Williams

Jun 3, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 50         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK, K, 1, 2, 3

Teaching in the context is the most effective way to instruct students for transfer of learning rather than isolated teaching

according to The National Reading Panel Report. The use of picture books to teach vocabulary, fluency, and

comprehension mini-lessons also motivates students to enjoy reading. And nothing is more motivating than connection

with that unforgettable book! But how do teachers keep up with all the new titles being written and released each year

and know which book will "hook" every child? An anonymous author once wrote, "The road to knowledge begins with the

turn of the page." This workshop is designed to help teachers who want to offer motivating mini-lessons to their students

in the latest picture books. Fifty-five new picture books will be presented and correlated with the Arkansas Frameworks.

Ten mini-lessons will be shared that correlate with ten of the featured texts.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Wendy Ellis

Jun 3, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee:

Location:    Harding American Studies Building - Room 200

Limit: 70             Credit: 6.00

Subject: Physical Education             Audience: 7-12

This workshop will teach and demonstrate the disc sports of frisbee golf and ultimate frisbee. We will utilize the Searcy

frisbee golf course and play ultimate frisbee on the Harding University intramural fields in the morning. The afternoon

session will teach volleyball (by member of Harding coaching staff) and pickleball in the Ganus Athletic Center. Come

dressed to participate in all four activities.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenters: Keith Giboney, Stephen Burks

Jun 4, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee:

Location:    Harding University, Ganus Athletic Center

Limit: 24         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Other             Audience: Administrators

This workshop will be an extension of Dr. William's Administrators' Institute on June 3 at Riverview. The workshop focus

will be on the 2008-09 ACSIP's for the schools in the Pangburn District. The plans will be critically reviewed for potential

effectiveness as written and implemented. The areas of strengths or weaknesses will be determined with discussion of

strategies to incorporate changes into the ACSIP for 2009-2010. Participants should gain ideas of how to strengthen the

ACSIP for the coming year with specific actions as to how to involve all of the staff in implementing the plan effectively

including benchmarks to assess implementation.

Facilitator: Jerrod Williams         Presenter: Kieth Williams

Jun 4, 2009            8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Red Apple Inn Conference Center

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Other         Audience: Staff

Insurance workshop for school bookkeepers

Facilitator: Bobbie Cranford             Presenter(s): TBA TBA

Jun 5, 2009        10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 40         Credit: 2.00

Subject: Music         Audience: K-12

This is a five-day music institute featuring renowned music educators, researchers and lecturers Edwin E. Gordon and

Natasha Sigmund. Registration for the Music Institute will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, June 8, 2009. The Music

Institute will be held in the Harding University Reynolds Center. Further information can be found on the Wilbur Mills

Co-op website (http://wilbur.k12.ar.us) or on the Harding University website

(http://www.harding.edu/SummerMusic/mused.html). This institute may be taken for graduate credit or for professional

development hours.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenters: Edwin Gordon, Natasha Sigmund

Jun 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 2009        8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Registration Fee: $250

Location: Harding - Reynolds Center

Limit: 100             Credit: 30.00

Subject: Fine Arts         Audience: 7-12

This session will begin with a keynote address at 10:00 a.m. in the Reynolds Center Auditorium as part of the Fine Arts

Summer Institute. After the keynote address, participants will move to Room C219 to continue the day. In this session,

resources for curriculum, lesson plan sharing, and detailed time-tested lesson plans will be presented as well as useful

websites for teacher and student use. Time-tested stagecraft ideas will be shared along with building plans. There will be

time for experience sharing and problem solving for your particular situation. Sometimes it's hard being the only drama

teacher in the school. Let's collaborate!

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Marisa Arnold

Jun 8, 2009        10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Reynolds Center Room C219

Limit: 36         Credit: 4.50

Subjects: Foreign Language         Audience: K-12

In this workshop you will learn about the unique and rich heritage, customs, food and music related to Christmas in the

beautiful island of Puerto Rico. This workshop is in Spanish for Spanish speakers.

Facilitator: Debbi Fletcher         Presenter: Karyna Carbone

Jun 8, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:        Cabot High School--LOFT

Limit: 50         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas            Audience: K-12

This two-day workshop will focus on the basic skills necessary to use Microsoft Word 2007. Special emphasis will be

placed on using Word to improve classroom instruction. Participants will receive a training manual as part of the

registration fee. Manual includes: easy-to-use guide which will help participants in creating newsletters; using brochures

and mail merge letters to communicate with parents; using tables to create rubrics and assignment sheets; making

professional looking math worksheets; using lesson ideas and templates to help meet your curriculum objectives and

customizable student presentations. Participants will need to bring a floppy disk or flash drive to the workshop for data

storage.

Facilitator: Shayne Wallis             Presenter: Shayne Wallis

Jun 8, 9, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Registration Fee: $25

Location: ASU-Searcy Computer Lab Room 103

Limit: 20         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK, 1, 2

Based on the text "Words About Pictures" by Perry Nodelman, this workshop goes through the basics of picture book

semiotics--the study of how pictures are read to show teachers and librarians how their students read pictures to help

support their visual literacy and use those tools to improve their reading and writing strategies within the "gradual release

method" presented by Fountas and Pinnell in Guiding Readers and Writers.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Alexandria LaFaye

Jun 8, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK, 1, 2

This workshop goes through an engaging and entertaining method of using the "guided release method" to use an

integrated reading/writing approach to helping students K-2 identify plot pattern to use a model for writing their own

stories. This workshop is a hands-on walk through of the entire process of helping students create their own picture

books from their analysis of a model text to using that as a model for a group creation of a story, then releasing the

students to create their own stories.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter(s): Alexandria LaFaye

Jun 8, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Science         Audience: 5

Participants will investigate the properties of light including absorption, reflection, and refraction. Light boxes and a color

wand will be provided for teacher use in the classroom. This module is part of a series of integrated, authentic

inquiry-based modules aligned to the Arkansas Science Standards. Instructional facilitation will also be provided for the

teacher upon completion of this professional learning.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenters: Amy Adair, Vicki Garland

Jun 8, 9, 2009         8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326

Limit: 20         Credit: 12.00

Subject: Fine Arts         Audience: K-12

The 3-day Summer Art Institute will begin with registration in the Harding University Reynolds Center at 10:00 a.m. on

June 8. After the keynote address, participants will leave and go to individual break-out sessions. A schedule will be

provided that morning. During this 3-day professional development activity, workshop topics will include: Interior Design

Professions, Graphic Design Professions, Multi-color Linoleum Block Printing, Ceramics, and Introduction to Water

Color. These sessions will be presented more than once at different times during the 3-day institute. On June 9 and 10

workshops will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Stephens Art Center. Registration for individual sessions will be done each day in

the workshop you choose to attend. More details regarding this Art Institute may be found on the Wilbur Mills Co-op

website (http://wilbur.k12.ar.us). You may address any questions about this institute to John Keller, Harding University

(jkeller@harding.edu).

Facilitator: Sherri Crowder             Presenter(s): TBA TBA

Jun 8, 9, 10, 2009        10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location:    Harding Reynolds Center Auditorium

Limit: 50         Credit: 16.50

Subjects: All Subject Areas         Audience: 6-12

Best Practice is the pillar that supports powerful teaching. Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, and Authur Hyde share

more big ideas and teaching methods that help students learn, explaining how to implement these methods in the

classroom, and showing what exemplary instruction really looks like. Bring a grade-level team or content area team to

participate in learning good instructional practice including ways to implement and reflect upon together. Participants

should bring this third edition book, "Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools."

A few copies of this book will be available for an onsite purchase of $25.00.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jun 9, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Science            Audience: K-12

Using the Northwest Arkansas TIA documents, participants will revise by adding to task analysis and resources to create

a Wilbur Mills document. The first day of this two-day workshop will be a review of the process based on Lisa Carter's

work. The second day will be actual creation of the documents.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Sharon Rogers, Sharron Havens

June 9, 10, 2009    8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Location:    Harding American Heritage FOUNDERS ROOM

Limit: 0         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 3, 4, 5, 6

Drawing on the "guided release" work of Fountas and Pinnell, this workshop goes through various reading and writing

strategies to help students develop their own understanding and implementation of the elements of style (voice, figurative

language, and narrative structure in creative and expository writing.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield         Presenter: Alexandria LaFaye

Jun 9, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

This workshop will be an introduction to Macintosh computers and the OS X operating systems. For participants already

familiar with Windows, we will discuss the similarities and differences between OS X and Windows. We will also spend

time discussing the pros and cons of both operating systems as well as hardware differences between PCs and Macs.

This workshop will be very basic with lots of hands-on experience and appropriate for anybody regardless of your level of

computer literacy. Come see what all the fuss is about Macs and what it has to offer.

Facilitator: Jim Sutton             Presenter: Jim Sutton

Jun 9, 10, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Computer Lab

Limit: 12         Credit: 12.00

Subject: Fine Arts         Audience: 7-12

Ideas will be presented to help build your program, gathered from 17 years of experience in K-12 and 9-12 schools in

White County. Topics to be covered include: opportunities for your students around the state (ASCA and State Thespian

Festival); and programs and curriculum that help build visibility and develop the relationship between your program and

the other grades and departments in the school. The success of your program is dependent on building relationships

between your school and your students.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Marisa Arnold

Jun 9, 2009      8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Reynolds Center Room C219

Limit: 36         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Mathematics         Audience: 10, 11

This is a 6-day professional development for Algebra 2 teachers focusing on innovative teaching strategies addressing

the Algebra 2 frameworks and the Achieve standards (Algebra 2 assessment). Teachers will also be introduced to

TeachScape, a new online resource designed specifically for Arkansas Algebra 2 teachers. The training will be lead by a

university professor and an experienced Algebra 2 teacher. Four training days will be in the summer of 2009 with 2

follow-up days during the 2009-2010 school year.

Facilitator: Ron Smith         Presenters: PAULA SNIPES, Ron Smith

Jun 9, 10, 11, 12, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Registration Fee: $100

Location: Harding, Pryor England Science Bldg. Rm 109

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subject: Other         Audience: Administrators

This workshop gives administrators strategies for dealing and working with marginal to incompetent teachers, as well as

tips for communicating the performance and expectation to these teachers. The interactive workshop allows for practice

of strategies and concepts explored in this workshop. Participants will leave with sample letters and materials to be used

the next day in school leadership.

Description:

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Dr. Lloyd Sain

Jun 10, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 150         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This workshop will give participants ways to modify and adapt their classrooms, provide maximum positive impact on the

learners, and help teachers use brain-based research to enhance learning in their classrooms. This workshop is

designed for K-6 general education and K-12 special education.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Aleecia Starkey

Jun 10, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee:

Location:    Riverview Junior High Room 75

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 7-12

Drawing on the "guided release" work of Fountas and Pinnell, this workshop goes through various reading and writing

strategies to help students develop their own understanding and implementation of the elements of style (voice, figurative

language, and narrative structure)in creative and expository writing.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Alexandria LaFaye

Jun 10, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy         Audience:

This Day 3 training is required for Literacy Lab Year II participants. It is an overview of vocabulary and word study

instruction based on the research and works of Isabel Beck and Margaret McKeown as well as Kathy Ganske's "Word

Journeys." As a follow-up, a more intensive day of training will be provided for each, word study and vocabulary

instruction, during the fall.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jun 11, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 0         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Mathematics         Audience: K-12

In this two-day workshop, participants will be chosen by districts according to their use of technology and/or engaging

tasks to teach math. They will provide information about these sources to be screened as to grade and SLE

appropriateness by the selection committees later in the summer. Teachers will need to bring a laptop, with wireless

capability, to this workshop.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenters: Sharon Rogers, Sharron Havens

Jun 11, 23, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 0         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This workshop will provide participants with information about what happens to the brain after an injury. It will provide

information about structures of the brain, how learning is impacted by the injury, types of medication used post injury and

its side effects. The workshop will also address modifications that can help students once they re-enter school after

injury.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Aleecia Starkey

Jun 11, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview Junior High Room 75

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Science         Audience: K-4

Participants will investigate activities and strategies in science that address measurement and its relationship to Nature of

Science, Physical Science, Earth and Space Science. All activities are aligned to the Arkansas Science Standards.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenters: Amy Adair, Vicki Garland

Jun 11, 2009       8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326

Limit: 20         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Literacy, Mathematics         Audiences: K-4

This workshop, based on the Instructional Alignment work of Lisa Carter, will be for teachers who were not involved in the

TIA document preparation. The workshop will include an overview of Total Instructional Alignment; go through the types

of documents available at the WDMESC website; discuss the proposed building of resources seeking their input into the

current documents; and communicate the importance of aligned curriculum in improving student achievement.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenters: Sharon Rogers, Sharron Havens

Jun 15, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 0         Credit: 6.00

Subject:         Audience: K-12

In the morning session of this workshop, participants will take a look at the major military events in Arkansas during the

Civil War. In the afternoon session, the participants will explore the true story of David O. Dodd, a 17-year-old boy who

was hanged as a spy on January 8, 1864.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: JACKIE STEWART

Jun 15, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: 6-12

"One size fits all" just doesn't work for the students of the millennium. It didn't work for their predecessors either but often

in education we don't actually apply what research tells us. Differentiating curriculum, instruction and assessment for

students can be a mystifying process, but as committed educators we have a moral imperative to meet each learner

where he/she is and attempt to engage him/her in the learning experience. This workshop will de-mystify the process and

provide the participants with the theory and process for adapting curriculum, instruction and assessment so that every

learner has the best possible opportunity to engage in the learning experience. NOTE: Participants should bring

curriculum and textbooks that they will be using in their classrooms next year so they can leave with differentiated lesson

plans they can use.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Davis Hendricks

Jun 15, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 22

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Social Sciences         Audience: K-12

Vicksburg National Military Park is one of the first five national military parks and was established through the steadfast

efforts of Union and Confederate veterans who experienced war firsthand over its grounds. It preserves a memorial owed

to faithful soldiers and sailors and perpetuates their history for the benefit of present and future generations. This Park

preserves sites associated with one of the most complex and protected engagements of the Civil War involving joint

operations between the Army and Navy, overland and over-water troop movement, and diversion, siege, and defense

tactics. The outcome at Vicksburg satisfied the strategic objective to control the Mississippi River.

Facilitator: Tony Finley         Presenter: Tony Finley

Jun 15, 2009    6:30 am - 8:00 pm

Location:    Harding Univ. Football Field North Parking Lot

Limit: 40         Credit: 12.00

Subject:             Audience: 7-8

MathLINKS (Learning, INstruction, Knoweldge, and Standards) is a two-year professional development program

designed to assist teachers and administrators in implementing a comprehensive research-based approach to

mathematics instruction that is linked with the revised Arkansas Mathematics Framework 2004. MathLINKS training

supports any math program a school has implemented. This program requires a 2-year commitment from participant and

administrator. There is a $400 fee. Participants will receive books and materials for use in their classroom.

Facilitator: TIM BRISTER         Presenter: TIM BRISTER

Jun 15, 16, 17, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326

Limit: 0         Credit: 18.00

Subject: Music         Audience: 5-12

This session will be a collaborative dialogue between the presenter and participants about overhauling and tweaking the

secondary choral program. Discussions will include, but not be limited to, recruitment and retention of choir; recruitment

and retention of males; building a choir Boosters or Choir Parent Organization; warm-ups (kinesthetic, aural, and vocal),

sol-feg versus numbers, intonation, quality literature, head voice and chest voice, vowels, vowel postures, and much

more.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss             Presenter: Samuel Huskey

Jun 15, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy         Audience: 5-8

This workshop, based on the Instructional Alignment work of Lisa Carter, will be for teachers who were not involved in the

TIA document preparation. The workshop will include an overview of Total Instructional Alignment; go through the types

of documents available at the WDMESC website; discuss the proposed building of resources seeking their input into the

current documents; and communicate the importance of aligned curriculum in improving student achievement.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Sharon Rogers, Sharron Havens

Jun 16, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 0            Credit: 3.00

Subject: Mathematics         Audience: 5-8

This workshop, based on the Instructional Alignment work of Lisa Carter, will be for teachers who were not involved in the

TIA document preparation. The workshop will include an overview of Total Instructional Alignment; go through the types

of documents available at the WDMESC website; discuss the proposed building of resources seeking their input into the

current documents; and communicate the importance of aligned curriculum in improving student achievement.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenters: Sharon Rogers, Sharron Havens

Jun 16, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 0         Credit: 3.00

Subject: G/T         Audience: K-6

This workshop for Gifted and Talented Coordinators focuses on different programming options including electronic

updates, brochures, and web sites. An overview of specific programming options for K-2 Enrichment will be shared.

Facilitator: Karm Prock         Presenter: Karm Prock

Jun 16, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee:

Location:   WDMESC Computer Lab

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

The workshop focuses on whole group, grade level letter identification, phonological awareness and phonics instruction.

In analysis of test data, we have concluded that phonics instruction in kindergarten and first grade greatly influences the

rate of progress students make when learning to decode words and read grade level texts fluently. The purpose is to

prepare teachers to move students along the phonological and phonics continuums at a pace that will allow more

students to read and write at grade level expectations.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield         Presenter: Mary Norris

Jun 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee:

Location:    WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 40         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: 3-5, 6-12, Special Ed

Benefiting from Richard Jenkins experience as a cartoonist and as a teaching artist working in Special Needs

classrooms, teachers will learn the process for creating and drawing their own cartoon characters and assigning traits to

them. Through this process, they will learn Richard's teaching technique, used for teaching children with disabilities and

limited drawing skills. Also, the teachers will go through a writing exercise incorporating these characters and creating

short stories. Richard will demonstrate how this art project was adapted for children with special needs. Finally, he will

lead a discussion about meeting the specific needs in the teachers' classrooms.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter(s): Richard Jenkins

Jun 16, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Science         Audience: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Participants will be introduced to simple, inexpensive activities designed to conduct inquiry into the phenomena of

science. All activities are aligned to the Arkansas Science Standards.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenters: Amy Adair, Vicki Garland

Jun 16, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    ASU-Searcy Room 208

Limit: 20         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy         Audience 9-12

This workshop, based on the Instructional Alignment work of Lisa Carter, will be for teachers who were not involved in the

TIA document preparation. The workshop will include an overview of Total Instructional Alignment; go through the types

of documents available at the WDMESC website; discuss the proposed building of resources seeking their input into the

current documents; and communicate the importance of aligned curriculum in improving student achievement.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenters: Sharon Rogers, Sharron Havens

Jun 17, 2009  8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 0         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Mathematics         Audience: 9-12

This workshop, based on the Instructional Alignment work of Lisa Carter, will be for teachers who were not involved in the

TIA document preparation. The workshop will include an overview of Total Instructional Alignment; go through the types

of documents available at the WDMESC website; discuss the proposed building of resources seeking their input into the

current documents; and communicate the importance of aligned curriculum in improving student achievement.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenters: Sharon Rogers, Sharron Havens

Jun 17, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 0 Credit: 3.00

Subjects: Fine Arts, Language Arts         Audience: 3-5, 6-12

Participants will learn the history, form and creative process of comics. By creating their own cartoons and characters,

they will gain a deeper understanding of this storytelling art form, and thereby be able to teach their students the same

process. Also, they will learn strategies for integrating their language arts curriculum into the art project.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Richard Jenkins

Jun 17, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Social Sciences, All Subject Areas         Audience: 7-12

Focusing on solid waste management issues, this workshop provides the tools teachers need to help students

understand complex environmental issues. Activities also help develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

Participants will explore how our choices affect our environment and the options available to us. Each participant will

receive a CD filled with activities and background information, as well as hard copies of all workshop activities. Lunch will

be provided by the sponsor.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenters: Betsy Spetich, Michelle Gillham

Jun 17, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm

Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00

Subject: Foreign Language         Audience: 7-12

Make your foreign language classroom come alive by enhancing your student's presentational ability and motivation. This

interactive, hands-on workshop shows how to plan and create digital presentations combining images, narration, video

clips, and background music. Digital storytelling is another way to differentiate instruction and evaluate students'

performance. Teachers leave this workshop with one digital story ready to use upon return to the classroom. NOTE:

Participants should bring a USB Flash Drive to save their digital story.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenters: Melanie Soto, Wendy Cunningham

Jun 17, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Searcy High School LIBRARY Computer Lab

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Other         Audience: Administrators

This session will be an in-depth review of new laws passed in 2009 by the Arkansas General Assembly as well as an

update on recent court decisions and Arkansas Attorney General opinions. Topics will also include cell phones, Freedom

of Information Act, transportation and public school choice.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Thomas Pennington

Jun 18, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 100         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audiences: 2, 3, Special Ed

The workshop focuses on whole group phonics/spellings instruction that will enable students to read grade level texts

fluently. In analysis of test data, we have concluded that student's ability to decode multisyllabic words rapidly has

resulted in poor reading fluency and thus poor comprehension. The purpose is to prepare teachers to move students

along on the spelling continuum faster and to show them the importance of prompting students to use their phonics

knowledge to decode multisyllabic words. This workshop is appropriate for Grades 2-3 teachers and K-12 Special

Education teachers.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield             Presenter: Mary Norris

Jun 18, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location: WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 40         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience(s): K-5

"One size fits all" just doesn't work for the students of the millennium. It didn't work for their predecessors either but often

in education we don't actually apply what research tells us. Differentiating curriculum, instruction and assessment for

students can be a mystifying process, but as committed educators we have a moral imperative to meet each learner

where he/she is and attempt to engage him/her in the learning experience. This workshop will de-mystify the process and

provide the participants with the theory and process for adapting curriculum, instruction and assessment so that every

learner has the best possible opportunity to engage in the learning experience. NOTE: Participants should bring

curriculum and textbooks that they will be using in their classrooms next year so they can leave with differentiated lesson

plans they can use.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Davis Hendricks

Jun 18, 2009      8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 22

Limit: 30             Credit: 6.00

Subject: Physical Education         Audiences: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

The five components of fitness will be introduced and will be linked to the relevancy of each component. These

components include flexibility, endurance, agility, abdominal strength, and upper body strength. Activities will be given for

each component that will enhance the P.E. curriculum in the gym for greatest results and implementation.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Bryan Phillips

Jun 18, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding Academy Gym

Limit: 50         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Foreign Language         Audience: 7-12

Incorporate fun activities in your world languages classroom! This workshop will provide teachers with ideas for fun and

engaging activities using interactive games to motivate students and to make the process of language acquisition more

effective and enjoyable. Examples will be given in Spanish and English but can be adapted to any language.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenters: Melanie Soto, Wendy Cunningham

Jun 18, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Searcy High School Room 326

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy         Audiences: 9-12, 4-8

Participants will begin to see the Writer's Notebook as a powerful asset for teaching writing as they each design and

create a personal writer's notebook. Using Ralph Fletcher's and JoAnn Portalupi's "Lessons for the Writer's Notebook,"

participants will be equipped with the knowledge and experience required to implement each mini-lesson within his/her

own classroom. We will discuss ways to introduce and sustain effective use of the notebooks. Participants will also be

introduced to Aimee Buckner's book, "Notebook Knowhow," as they are encouraged to begin a book study using this

book with the PLC during their fall return to the classroom.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jun 22, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 30             Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K

In this workshop, kindergarten teachers will be introduced to the 6-Traits of Writing and will explore Vicki Spandel's

research-based method of kindergarten writing instruction.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Carolyn Mashburn

Jun 22, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding--American Heritage Cntr--Liberty Rm.

Limit: 50         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Science             Audience: 7

Participants will investigate Newton's Laws of Motion by constructing toys, using balloons, and launching rockets to

observe these laws of motion. Materials, including a Go-Motion Probe, will be provided for teacher use in the classroom.

This module is part of a series of integrated, authentic inquiry-based modules aligned to the Arkansas Science

Standards. Instructional facilitation will also be provided for the teacher upon completion of this professional learning.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenters: Amy Adair, Vicki Garland

Jun 22, 23, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    ASU-Searcy Room 208

Limit: 20         Credit: 12.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education         Audiences: Special Ed, 4-8

This workshop was developed by members of the Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) research and development group

to extend the ideas of CGI to middle grade students. Over 25 years of CGI research has shown that students learn with

understanding if, and only if, new concepts are connected to what they already know. This Institute is devoted to studying

how students' learning of fractions, decimals, proportional reasoning and algebra can be connected with what students

already understand about whole number and whole number operations.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Olly Steinthorsdottir, Pam Allen

Jun 22, 23, 24, 25, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 156

Limit: 0             Credit: 24.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: 5-12

Writing is an effective method to teach content as well as to test knowledge and can be combined with collaborative

learning structures. Low-stakes writing (e.g., quick writes, letters, free writes, think pieces, ink shedding) helps students

think and learn about the course content and stay engaged on a day-to-day basis. When students write, they are obliged

to organize concepts, place them in their own language, and connect them with their own analogies and metaphors.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jun 23, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audiences: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

In this two-day workshop teachers will be introduced to the 6-Traits of Writing and will explore Vicki Spandel's

research-based method of implementing the 6-Traits to boost writing skills and scores. Day 1 will be an introduction to

the traits and the analytical assessment model. Day 2 will be applying the traits across the curriculum.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Carolyn Mashburn

Jun 23, 24, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding--American Heritage Cntr--Liberty Rm.

Limit: 50         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

Participants in this workshop will learn to take photos with a digital camera and save them to a variety of digital media

including floppy disks, computer hard drives, CD R/RW disks, flash drives, and PDA's. Participants will also learn to use

these photos in various computer applications such as email attachments, slide show presentations, documents, and

web pages. In addition, participants will learn the basics of downloading music, audio file formats, and how to burn them

to CD R/RW disks and other media. There will also be discussion of various types of wireless technology and many kinds

of digital multimedia formats and devices. Jim will take time to answer participants' questions and attempt to demystify

whatever technology the groups would like to discuss.

Facilitator: Jim Sutton         Presenter: Jim Sutton

Jun 23, 24, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Computer Lab

Limit: 12         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: Administrators

Participants will identify and work with various forms of data as it pertains to the role of the instructional leader

(NORMES, Triand, CWT, TLI, Target). The participants will review the research of a professional learning community

and apply this information to their school. Participants will work in teams to analyze data and ACSIP plans as they

develop steps for supporting or enhancing a PLC on their campus.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenters: Jerry Vaughn, Scott Embrey

Jun 24, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 113

Limit: 100         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: Administrators

This two-day training will integrate foundational concepts in educational assessment and accountability with analysis of

your data. Critical considerations in structuring data and reports for analysis and data driven decision-making will be

addressed. Questions this session will seek to help you answer include: What assessments are used for formative and

summative evaluation of student progress at my school/district? How are the assessment results used to inform decision

making within my school/district? Are the assessments valid and reliable for these purposes? What are the critical

variables I need to analyze to understand student performance at my school/district? What are the strengths and

limitations of the data I am using to inform decisions about student progress, instructional alignment, curriculum

alignment or resource allocation? How do I relate achievement results to other factors that impact student progress at my

school/district? How do I structure analysis and reports in EGuide to get the most out of my data to answer these

questions?

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Christie Jay

Jun 24, 25, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 23

Limit: 18         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

This hands-on, experiential workshop will offer participants a chance to decide and discuss copyright Fair Use practices

and digital media sources with a team-based internet scavenger hunt based on current Fair Use information for

educators. The workshop will feature information about Fair Use and copyright protection, as well as information on

where to obtain permission to use for different media in both traditional and digital form. Participants will leave with

current information to share with fellow educators and a CD with links to resources for copyright permissions information

and several useful, permission-free media sites available on the internet. This workshop will be excellent for library media

specialists as well as classroom teachers.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Teresa Roebuck

Jun 24, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28 Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

This workshop will explore and explain the uses of wikis, blogs and pod or web casting and other forms of social media in

classrooms to increase student learning and motivation. It will provide teachers with a workable understanding of these

relevant technologies and how teachers and students could use them to enhance both reading and writing across the

curriculum. Teachers will leave with an understanding of how to design, set up and perpetuate a blog using WordPress (a

free tool), how to create a wiki for your classroom projects using Wikispaces and/or PBWiki and how to use free tools to

record and post podcasts and web casts to these sites. Workshop content will also include exploring strategies to

enhance instruction using these social media programs.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Teresa Roebuck

Jun 24, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28     Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

The purpose of this session is to provide guidance to school district personnel to foster effective leadership in RtI design

and implementation across general, remedial and special education programs. A multi-tier system of intervention options

is recommended as a means to integrate educational problem-solving across educational levels, consistent with federal

legislation (IDEA 2004) and scientific research, with the intent of producing better outcomes for all children and to apply

procedures with strong scientific bases to a wide range of decisions.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Lisa Haley, Marcia Harding, Randall Glenn

Jun 24, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 50         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Language Arts, Literacy, Special Education, All Subject Areas    Audiences: 2, 3, 4, Special Ed

Effective Literacy for Grades 2-4 (ELF) is a two-year process designed to upgrade classroom instructional strategies with

the goal of helping all students become fluent readers and writers. Components include scientifically-based research, as

reported in the National Reading Panel Report of 2000, developmental reading, writing, and word study instruction, the

reading and writing processes, explicit systematic phonics and word study skills and strategies, fluency instruction,

literature discussion groups, assessment of and for instruction, and classroom management. These three summer days

will include fluency, Readers Workshop format, developmental reading assessment, grouping for instruction, and guided

reading.

Facilitator: Donna Felty         Presenter: Donna Felty

Jun 24, 25, 26, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:

WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 0         Credit: 18.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: 5-12

In "Classroom Instruction that Works," Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock reveal the nine most effective instructional

strategies for increasing student achievement. When explicitly taught, summarizing and note taking were identified as

producing a 34% gain in student achievement. Teachers often assign and assess a student's attempt to summarize or

take notes, but how often do we teach students a systematic process for thinking through and performing either task?

Participants will not only receive several strategies for teaching students how to summarize and take notes, but also

strategies for reinforcing student effort and providing effective feedback - another high-yield strategy as reported in this

research.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jun 25, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audiences: K-12, Counselors, Special Ed

One of the most misunderstood, maligned, and underserved segments of the public school population is the urban

minority male student. African-American males often operate within a hidden rule system that is vastly different from the

middle class rule system that governs America's schools. Because the majority of public school teachers are female,

white and middle class, rule conflict is often inevitable. This conflict is evident by the number of minority males who are

placed in Special Education and alternative school placements. This workshop examines the hidden rules of minority

males in general and poor minority males specifically. Methods and strategies for building significant relationships and

promoting higher academic achievement are also presented. Participants will be given the opportunity to evaluate real-life

classroom scenarios and to dialogue about appropriate intervention and approach.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Dr. Rita Pierson

Jun 25, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:   

Searcy High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 150         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

This workshop will explore and explain the uses of Twitter, Facebook, Nings and other forms of social media in

classrooms to increase student learning and motivation. It will provide teachers with a workable understanding of these

relevant technologies and how teachers and students could use them to enhance both reading and writing across the

curriculum. Teachers will leave with an understanding of how to design, set up and perpetuate accounts on Twitter,

Facebook and create a class Ning.

Facilitator: Becky Handley             Presenter: Teresa Roebuck

Jun 25, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:        Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Foreign Language             Audience: PreK-12

Participants in this hands-on experiential workshop will learn how to use a simple interactive media format and the

Spanish/Foreign Language resources available through United Streaming to provide students with the skills to teach

others what they learn themselves about any foreign language component. The students love the team-based, hands-on,

scavenger-hunt style preparation work. Then, the technology of Microsoft PowerPoint, MovieMaker and UnitedStreaming

allows students to share with others what has been learned, using cutting-edge presentation techniques. This is

project-based, student-driven instruction at its finest. Best of all, the materials and resources needed to create these

presentations are already available to any Arkansas educator with a Windows-based PC and an internet connection.

Participants will leave with a working model to demonstrate to students.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Teresa Roebuck

Jun 25, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 3.00

Subjects: Technology, All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

Participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of GPS usage and explore a geocaching website. Participants will

also learn how the GPS and geocaching can be utilized through a cross-curricular, interdisciplinary investigation. Wear

comfortable shoes and be prepared to go outside.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenters: Jim Sutton, Vicki Garland

Jun 25, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Computer Lab

Limit: 20         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

We will visit CERI, located on the campus of the University of Memphis, and tour the facility and receive instruction on the

seismic equipment. An educational specialist will present a one-hour PowerPoint presentation that will focus on

earthquakes and the New Madrid seismic zone, which affects the Searcy area, as well as plate tectonics. Participants will

also receive information and material for use in the classroom. After lunch (on your own), we will visit the Pink Palace

Museum which is one of the largest of its kind in the Southwest. You can walk through a replica of the first self-service

grocery store in the country, Clarence Saunders' Piggly Wiggly. Explore the cultural and natural history of the Mid-South

through exhibits, dioramas, and audio-visuals. You will also see how dinosaurs and fossils dramatically chronicle our

ever-changing planet. We will also see a presentation in the planetarium.

Facilitator: Tony Finley         Presenter: Tony Finley

Jun 25, 2009      7:30 am - 5:30 pm

Location:    Harding Univ. Football Field North Parking Lot

Limit: 40         Credit: 8.00

Subject: Special Education         Audiences: K-12, Administrators, Special Ed

This workshop is designed to provide information on special education regulatory requirements as it applies to

suspension and expulsion of children with disabilities as well as strategies to improve behavior. Participants would benefit

from purchasing a copy of the "Arkansas Special Education Discipline and Behavior Due Process Manual" from Special

Solutions of Arkansas (www.spedsolutionsofark.com). The workshop would benefit regular and special educators,

special education supervisors and building level administrators.

Facilitator: Sherri Crowder         Presenter: Debbie VanDyke

Jun 25, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 113

Limit: 40             Credit: 3.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

The workshop is designed to provide information on special education regulatory requirements as it applies to regular

educators. Attendees will learn about each disability, modifications, behavior issues, Response to Intervention, and much

more. Participants would benefit from purchasing a copy of "Everything a Regular Educator Needs to Know About

Special Education: So Much More than Modifications and Accommodations" from Special Solutions of Arkansas

(www.spedsolutionsofark.com). The book will be on sale at the workshop for $25.00. Purchase orders are accepted. The

workshop would benefit regular and special educators, special education supervisors and building level administrators.

Facilitator: Sherri Crowder             Presenter: Debbie VanDyke

Jun 25, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 113

Limit: 40         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-5

This workshop will present pedagogical exercises that can make Arkansas history, culture, and wildlife interesting to

young learners, K-5. In class and out-of-classroom projects will be presented. Also, special hands-on arts and crafts

exercises will be highlighted during the workshop.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter Dr. Trey Berry

Jun 25, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    American Heritage Center, Regions Rm 206

Limit: 60         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 6-12

In this two-day workshop, participants will be introduced to the 6-Traits of Writing and will explore Vicki Spandel's

research-based method of implementing the 6-Traits to boost writing skills and scores. Day 1 will be an introduction to

the traits and the analytical assessment model. Day 2 will be applying the traits across the curriculum.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Carolyn Mashburn

Jun 25, 26, 2009       8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding--American Heritage Cntr--Liberty Rm.

Limit: 50         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 6-12

This workshop will emphasize ways of making connections between Arkansas history and U.S./world history. Also,

innovative classroom projects to make Arkansas history exciting to students in grades 6-12 will be presented. The

workshop will present various writing exercises that can be used to add a deeper understanding of Arkansas history. In

addition, the use of online resources will be highlighted.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Trey Berry

Jun 26, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    American Heritage Center, Regions Rm 206

Limit: 60         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Music             Audience: PreK, K-4

This workshop will help teachers in the following areas and activities: music and movement in daily classroom activities;

teaching across the curriculum through music and movement; materials and resources; methods for using music;

activities for special needs children; introducing instruments to young children; classroom music centers; web resources

and free software.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Dr. Brian Faulkner

Jun 29, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:  Riverview Junior High Room 75 

Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

The Wilbur Mills Co-op and Harding University will conduct ETS/Pathwise Training and Mentor Training. This is the

Arkansas Department of Education observation/mentoring program. This training program is used by Harding University's

student teachers. All cooperating teachers and University supervisors of Harding's student teachers must be trained in

Pathwise. One hour graduate credit from Harding University will be included in this two-day training. It is highly

recommended that mentors and mentees attend this training together.

Facilitator: Clara Carroll         Presenters: Clara Carroll, Jan Morgan

Jun 29, 30, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding--American Heritage Cntr--Liberty Rm.

Limit: 35         Credit: 12.00

Subject:         Audience: Administrators

Superintendents will participate in the following sessions: June 29 a.m. - Fiscal Management, Bobbie Davis; June 29 p.m.

-Parental Involvement, Cindy Hogue, ADE; June 30 a.m.- Data Disaggregation, Debbie Miller, Batesville S.D. The Board

of Directors' meeting will also be held on June 30.

Facilitator: Rodger Harlan         Presenters: TBA TBA

Jun 29, 30, 2009    8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location:    Red Apple Inn Conference Center

Limit: 25         Credit: 11.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

Historic Arkansas Museum invites you to come and step back into frontier history. Tour the museum's historic grounds

and visit a pre-civil war neighborhood, including the oldest home still standing in Little Rock and the site where William

Woodruff once printed the Arkansas Gazette. Interact with a living history character and see first hand how early

residents lived. Inside the Museum Center, explore Arkansas-made art and artifacts in four exhibit galleries, see

contemporary crafts in the Museum Store, and see the award-winning introductory video in the theater. After lunch we will

visit the oldest standing state capitol building west of the Mississippi River. Construction on the Old Statehouse began in

1833 and was completed in 1842. The Old State House served as the state capitol until 1911. This field seminar will meet

the state requirement for professional development hours needed for Arkansas History.

Facilitator: Tony Finley         Presenter: Tony Finley

Jun 29, 2009    7:30 am - 4:30 pm

$0

Location:    Harding Univ. Football Field North Parking Lot

Limit: 40         Credit: 8.00

Subject: Speech-Language Pathologists         Audience: PreK-12

This workshop, for Speech Language Pathologists, will examine what happens when students have difficulty with

pragmatic language. It will discuss the various etiologies behind pragmatic disorders and what school personnel can do

to help children to function more appropriately in social situations. It will also examine how to help students understand

the unwritten codes of social communication.

Facilitator: Marolyn Lee Presenter(s): Aleecia Starkey

Jun 29, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 40         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Music         Audience: K-6

Meeting the National Standards for Music Education in less than one hour a week is a challenging task, but with careful

planning, it can be accomplished. This workshop explores activities that address multiple standards, making the best use

of your class time.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Jaree Hall

Jul 1, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview Junior High Room 75

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

Mentor Training/Pathwise Recalibration is for the classroom teacher or administrator who is serving as a mentor for a

beginning teacher or serving as a Cooperating Teacher for Harding University Student Teacher and has previously

completed a two-day Pathwise training session. PARTICIPANTS MUST BRING THEIR WHITE PATHWISE

NOTEBOOK. The Arkansas Department of Education requires this third day of training for ALL mentors.

Facilitator: Clara Carroll         Presenters: Clara Carroll, Jan Morgan

Jul 1, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding--American Heritage Cntr--Liberty Rm.

Limit: 35             Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This session introduces participants to the use of Digital Storytelling in many ways, from introducing new material to

helping students learn to conduct research, synthesize large amounts of content and gain expertise in the use of digital

communication and authoring tools. It also can help students organize these ideas as they learn to create stories for an

audience, and present their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful way. Participants will develop a digital

story they can use with their students, lesson integration plans and ways for students to use digital stories. Files created

may be large, so participants are encouraged to bring a travel drive for file saving. Digital camera with USB cable is

optional.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenters: Cristy Waire, Debbie Wammack

Jul 6, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 204

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Literacy, Special Education         Audiences: K-1, Special Ed

Early Literacy Learning in Arkansas (ELLA) is a two-year professional development designed to assist K-1 teachers in

implementing a comprehensive research-based approach to literacy instruction in their classrooms. This professional

development emphasizes instructional techniques that focus on five essential elements of reading (phonemic awareness,

phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary) and writing development. The second year consists of three days in

the summer and two additional days during the school year.

Facilitator: Donna Felty         Presenter: Donna Felty

Jul 6, 7, 8, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 0         Credit: 18.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education     Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI, teachers explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number, operations, and

early Algebra. Teachers also learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics instruction. They will learn to

analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands and recognize student

responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that will develop their

understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussions that provide a window into children's thinking, strengthen

children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use open and true/false

number sentences to develop students relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of arithmetic, and use

of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts. What teachers learn in a CGI Institute

enhances how they implement any curriculum or resource materials. Research from Children's Mathematics-Cognitively

Guided Instruction and Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Mazie Jenkins, Pam Allen

Jul 7, 8, 9, 10, 2009      8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee:

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 158

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subjects:    Mathematics, Special Education     Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI, teachers explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number, operations, and

early Algebra. Teachers also learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics instruction. They will learn to

analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands and recognize student

responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that will develop their

understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussions that provide a window into children's thinking, strengthen

children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use open and true/false

number sentences to develop students relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of arithmetic, and use

of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts. What teachers learn in a CGI Institute

enhances how they implement any curriculum or resource materials. Research from Children's Mathematics-Cognitively

Guided Instruction and Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Dinah Brown, Pam Allen

Jul 7, 8, 9, 10, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 156

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education         Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI Year 2, teachers continue to explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number,

operations, and early Algebra. Teachers continue to learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics

instruction. They will learn to analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands

and recognize student responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that

will develop their understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussion that provide a window into children's thinking,

strengthen children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use open and

true/false number sentences to develop students relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of

arithmetic, and use of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts. What teachers learn

in a CGI Institute enhances how they implement any curriculum or resource materials.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Dyanne Van Den Heuvel, Pam Allen

Jul 7, 8, 9, 10, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 164

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This workshop will be an introduction to Macintosh computers and the OS X operating systems. For participants already

familiar with Windows we will discuss the similarities and differences between OS X and Windows. We will also spend

time discussing the pro and cons of both operating systems, as well as hardware differences between PCs and Macs.

This workshop will be basic with plenty of hands-on experience. This is appropriate for anyone regardless of your level of

computer literacy. Come see what all the fuss is about Macs and what OS X has to offer.

Facilitator: Jim Sutton         Presenter: Jim Sutton

Jul 7, 8, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Computer Lab

Limit: 12         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This session introduces participants to the use of Digital Storytelling in many ways from introducing new material to

helping students learn to conduct research, synthesize large amounts of content and gain expertise in the use of digital

communication and authoring tools. It also can help students organize these ideas as they learn to create stories for an

audience and present their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful way. Participants will develop a digital

story they can use with their students, lesson integration plans and ways for students to use digital stories. Files created

may be large, so participants are encouraged to bring a flash drive for file saving. Digital camera with USB cable is

optional.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Cristy Waire, Debbie Wammack

Jul 7, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 204

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: G/T, Mathematics         Audiences: 5-8, 9-10, 11

The College Board Pre-AP strategies two-day workshops are designed to equip middle, junior high, and high school

teachers with the strategies and tools they need to engage students in active, high level learning, and ensure that every

middle, junior and high school student develops the skills, habits of mind, and concepts required to succeed in rigorous

academics. Teachers must attend both days to receive the College Board Certificate.

Facilitator: Karm Prock         Presenter(s): Lena Walker

Jul 8, 9, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Registration Fee: $175

Location: Riverview High School Room 21

Limit: 30         Credit: 12.00

Subject: G/T         Audiences: 5-8, 9-10, 11

The College Board Pre-AP strategies two-day workshops are designed to equip middle, junior high, and high school

teachers with the strategies and tools they need to engage students in active, high level learning, and ensure that every

middle, junior and high school student develops the skills, habits of mind, and concepts required to succeed in rigorous

academics. Teachers must attend both days to receive the College Board Certificate.

Facilitator: Karm Prock         Presenter: Annice Steadman

Jul 8, 9, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Registration Fee: $175

Location: Riverview High School Room 7

Limit: 30         Credit: 12.00

Subjects: G/T, Language Arts, Social Sciences         Audiences: 5-8, 9, 10, 11

The College Board Pre-AP strategies two-day workshops are designed to equip middle, junior high, and high school

teachers with the strategies and tools they need to engage students in active, high level learning, and ensure that every

middle, junior and high school student develops the skills, habits of mind, and concepts required to succeed in rigorous

academics. Teachers must attend both days to receive the College Board Certificate.

Facilitator: Karm Prock         Presenter: Mary Pruitt

Jul 8, 9, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Registration Fee: $175

Location: Riverview High School Room 20

Limit: 30         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audiences: K-12, Administrators

Learn how to use the new version of Triand (My.Triand) to create lesson plans, align standards to your lesson plans,

share your lesson plans with others within your school and across the state, search for lesson plans within the database,

schedule lesson plans into a calendar where you can view lessons at a glance, create tests and print the test booklet to

hand to students along with pre-slugged plain paper scan forms, collaborate with other teachers, view student

assessments, use the online student roster and so much more.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Kay Tepera

Jul 8, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audiences: Administrators, Technology Coordinator

Learn how to use the new version of Triand (My.Triand) to manage users, control users' access, set sharing capabilities

for curriculum (lesson plans and pacing guides), tests and items, reports and students. Learn how to change access

dependent upon a user's role in the district and if they leave. Control who can edit and who has read only privileges to

lessons, tests, etc. Learn about the help resources within my.triand and how to troubleshoot issues.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Kay Tepera

Jul 8, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:  Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Science         Audience: 9-12

Participants will investigate the properties of water and its significance to life. Additionally, photosynthesis, including the

light dependent and light independent reactions will be explored. Materials will be provided for teacher use in the

classroom. This module is part of a series of integrated, authentic inquiry-based modules aligned to the Arkansas

Science Standards. Instructional facilitation will also be provided for the teacher upon completion of this professional

learning.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenters: Amy Adair, Vicki Garland

Jul 8, 9, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:  Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326

Limit: 20         Credit: 12.00

Subject: Other         Audience: PreK, K

Learn the components of the DIAL-3 (Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning, 3rd Edition). This is a

screening test designed to identify young children in need of further diagnostic assessment. The DIAL-3 assesses the

areas of motor, communication, cognitive, self-help and behavior. Research-based on the five domains of development

specified in IDEA (1997), guidelines for screening and assessment developed for the National Center for Clinical Infant

Program (1989), and study of results from previous versions of DIAL.

Facilitator: Marolyn Lee         Presenter: Johnnie Cook

Jul 8, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Subject: Literacy         Audience: 4-8

How do we help students remember grammar and mechanics? Explore how weaving grammar and editing into the

context of writing can be meaningful, interactive, and fun. Participate in this interactive training based on classroom

experiences and writing of Jeff Anderson as published in his books, "Mechanically Inclined: Building, Grammar, Usage

and Style into Writer's Workshop" and "Invitations to Everyday Editing."

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Jeff Anderson

Jul 9, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 100         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audiences: Administrators, Asst. Principals, Counselors

Learn how to use the new version of Triand (My.Triand) to compile and print test booklets created by adding items,

passages, writing prompts, etc. that you've searched for in the item bank or created yourself. Learn how to create online

rosters to print pre-slugged plain paper scan forms, upload student results, and then configure and view reports. Learn

how to assign interventions and AIPs to students and then create and print parent letters and much more.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Kay Tepera

Jul 9, 2009    12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: Administrators, Counselors, Technology Coordinator

Learn how to use the new version of Triand (My.Triand) to search for students, view student records containing

demographic data, state and local assessments results, course history, current schedule and more. Keep track of

communications with parents, assign interventions and track programs students are actively in. Learn how to send and

receive transcripts from school to school or school to a higher education institute. Using Triand to submit student records

to Arkansas schools is a requirement for all Arkansas public schools.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Kay Tepera

Jul 9, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

The proper training of therapists and teachers to work with children who stutter and their families is a vital element to

therapeutic success. The purpose of this workshop will be to discuss and describe methods of assessment and

treatment for pediatric fluency disorders. Specific areas covered will include: risk factors for developing persistent

stuttering, assessment and treatment of preschool children who stutter, assessment and treatment of school-age children

who stutter, addressing affective and cognitive behaviors of children who stutter, working with classroom teachers,

working with parents, and goal writing.

Facilitator: Marolyn Lee         Presenter: Brent Gregg

Jul 9, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location: WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 50         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This session will offer participants an introduction to WebQuests and examines their value as extensions to regular

classroom experiences. Participants will gain insight into the mechanics of WebQuests, practice locating WebQuests

appropriate to their grade and subject, and create a library of WebQuests. The resources reviewed and activities created

will support state and district frameworks.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenters: Cristy Waire, Debbie Wammack

Jul 10, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:   Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 204

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy             Audiences: 5-8, 9-12

If you've successfully implemented bits and pieces of the model, but long to facilitate a full-blown workshop classroom,

this workshop will provide the extra support you need. Share your successes and frustrations. Be rejuvenated as you

revisit the reading and writing workshop experience not only as a teacher but also through a student's perspective.

Come, be the student!

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jul 13, 14, 2009        8:30 am - 3:45 pm

Location:    Harding-American Studies Bldg., Room 107

Limit: 0         Credit: 12.00

Subject: Other         Audiences: K-12, Administrators

This will be the Tier I Training for 2009 (4-hour Fiscal Management Update) required by the State of Arkansas for all

school personnel with responsibilities for the school district budget.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Dr. Tom Kimbrell

Jul 13, 2009       8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 150         Credit: 4.00

Subjects: Language Arts, Literacy, Social Sciences, Library Media Specialist      Audience: K-8

Utilization of award-winning books and free online resources can be part of an action research project developed by

collaborative teacher/library media specialist groups. The workshop presenter will describe various book/online resource

combinations for possible use with the social studies or Arkansas History student learning expectations. The online

resources include the Butler Center's Digital Collections and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Kay Bland

Jul 13, 2009       12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:  ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm

Limit: 50         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Library Media Specialist         Audience: K-6, Instructional Leaders

This session will present an overview of the Charlie May Simon and Arkansas Diamond award lists for the 2009-2010

school year. Attendees will take part in the discussion of the books. Handouts will be provided.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Lloyd Harris

Jul 13, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm

Limit: 40         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Science             Audience: PreK-12

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Water Division, Watershed Outreach and Education Section and

WDMESC will offer Project WET and W.O.W., the Wonders of Wetlands. This interactive workshop will prepare teachers

to bring hands-on learning into their classrooms. Project WET is an award-winning environmental education program

designed for formal and non-formal educators working with students in pre-K through grade 12. The program is a source

on interdisciplinary instructional activities that focus on the natural environment. It can help students gain an awareness

and knowledge of the natural world around them as well as their place in it.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland         Presenter: Barbara Miller

Jul 13, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    ASU-Searcy Room 208

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education         Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI, teachers explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number, operations, and

early Algebra. Teachers also learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics instruction. They will learn to

analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands and recognize student

responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that will develop their

understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussions that provide a window into children's thinking, strengthen

children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use open and true/false

number sentences to develop students relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of arithmetic, and use

of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts. What teachers learn in a CGI Institute

enhances how they implement any curriculum or resource materials. Research from Children's Mathematics-Cognitively

Guided Instruction and Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Julie Kern, Pam Allen

Jul 13, 14, 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 158

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education         Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI, teachers explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number, operations, and

early Algebra. Teachers also learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics instruction. They will learn to

analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands and recognize student

responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that will develop their

understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussions that provide a window into children's thinking, strengthen

children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use open and true/false

number sentences to develop students relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of arithmetic, and use

of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts. What teachers learn in a CGI Institute

enhances how they implement any curriculum or resource materials. Research from Children's Mathematics-Cognitively

Guided Instruction and Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenter: Annie Keith, Pam Allen

Jul 13, 14, 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:  Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 156

Limit: 0             Credit: 24.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education         Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI Year 2, teachers continue to explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number,

operations, and early Algebra. Teachers continue to learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics

instruction. They will learn to analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands

and recognize student responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that

will develop their understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussion that provide a window into children's thinking,

strengthen children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use open and

true/false number sentences to develop students relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of

arithmetic, and use of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts. What teachers learn

in a CGI Institute enhances how they implement any curriculum or resource materials.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Laura Kent, Pam Allen

Jul 13, 14, 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:        Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 166

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education             Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI Year 2, teachers continue to explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number,

operations, and early Algebra. Teachers continue to learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics

instruction. They will learn to analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands

and recognize student responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that

will develop their understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussion that provide a window into children's thinking,

strengthen children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use open and

true/false number sentences to develop students relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of

arithmetic, and use of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts. What teachers learn

in a CGI Institute enhances how they implement any curriculum or resource materials.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Dyanne Van Den Heuvel, Pam Allen

Jul 13, 14, 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 164

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subject: Fine Arts             Audience: 4, 5, 6-12

While in class the student/teacher will draw a composition using the elements of design and will complete in watercolor

techniques such as salt, Saran Wrap, wax and glazing.

Facilitator: Sherri Crowder         Presenter: Janelle Selvige

Jul 13, 14, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    ASU-Beebe England Center, Room 116

Limit: 15         Credit: 12.00

Subject: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This is a day chocked full of information that is relevant to ESL, Special Education, and classroom teachers. Participants

will learn to tell if it is "just the language" or if there is another problem. Differences in language problems and learning

disabilities will also be discussed.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Jan Hayden

Jul 13, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

Workshop will present strategies for dealing with ADD/ADHD students, bipolar students, bullying, solutions for the

inattentive student, apathetic and indifferent students. Instructor will cover Five Key Skills for Disruptive Students:

Tattling, constant chatter, complaining, attention-getting behavior, and student conflicts.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Doug Medford

Jul 14, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 75         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

The morning session, Arkansas Schools History Searchable Database, is for teachers who are required to earn hours in,

or who are interested in, Arkansas History. Beginning with Arkansas Statehood in 1836, participants will learn how school

districts were formed, financed and governed. Racial segregation played a major role in education in Arkansas.

Consolidation was a continually ongoing process as communities grew or faded into history. The Arkansas Legislature

also played a major role in these transitions. The presenter received a grant for the Arkansas Humanities Council in 2003

for this project. The afternoon session, Arkansas Online Encyclopedia, is for teachers who are required to earn hours in, or

who are interested in, Arkansas History. The Arkansas Online Encyclopedia is now up and running and can be a valuable

asset to all teachers regardless of the subjects they teach. Sponsored by the Butler Center of the Arkansas Central

Library, the AOE covers numerous subjects just like any other encyclopedia, except all of the entries contain valuable

information about Arkansas, its history and people. Entries are continually being added and updated. Ms. Lynch, who is

an editor for the AOE, will show how you as a teacher can be a writer or editor for the AOE.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Faith Lynch

Jul 14, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 22

Limit: 25         Credit: 5.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education         Audiences: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI Year 3, teachers continue to explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number,

operations, and early Algebra. Teachers continue to learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics

instruction. They will learn to analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands

and recognize student responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that

will develop their understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussions that provide a window into children's

thinking, strengthen children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use

open and true/false number sentences to develop students' relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of

arithmetic, and use of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenter: Jeanie Behrend, Pam Allen

Jul 14, 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 179

Limit: 0         Credit: 18.00

Subject: Fine Arts             Audience: K-12

Participants will look at various art lessons of several different cultures. Presenter will show participants how to use the

idea of a passport to incorporate social studies, writing and other subjects into art lessons. Participants will create sample

projects to use as they teach these lessons to their students.

Facilitator: Linda Jennings         Presenter: Lisa Jones

Jul 14, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Bald Knob Elementary Art Room

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

How to shelter instruction and modify lesson plans to meet the needs of ESL and other students. Also included will be

ways to "modify on the fly."

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss             Presenter: Jan Hayden

Jul 14, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 20         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Literacy, Special Education             Audience: 2, 3, 4

Professional Development for teachers of grades 2-4. Enrollment is through building principal. Call Donna Felty,

501-882-8614 for more information.

Facilitator: Donna Felty             Presenter: Donna Felty

Jul 14, 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 0         Credit: 18.00

Subject: Literacy             Audiences: 5-8, 9-12

If you've successfully implemented bits and pieces of the model, but long to facilitate a full-blown workshop classroom,

this workshop will provide the extra support you need. Share your successes and frustrations. Be rejuvenated as you

revisit the reading and writing workshop experience not only as a teacher but also through a student's perspective.

Come, be the student!

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jul 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding-American Studies Bldg., Room 107

Limit: 0         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

Dr. Paul Slocumb, consultant with aha! Process, Inc., will be the presenter for this very interesting and informative

workshop that focuses on the "why" behind male behavior in school and what schools can do to begin making school

more "boy friendly." Issues that impact boys who come from poverty as well as middle class will be explored in this

session.

Facilitator: Nanette Aycock             Presenter: Paul Slocumb

Jul 15, 2009      8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Hazen High School Auditorium

Limit: 300         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

This dynamic and unique workshop is for anyone who desires to become a master teacher. The enthusiastic presenter

models effective, efficient and relevant teaching strategies that will empower teachers to improve instruction. This

positive and interactive session offers many powerful and practical real-life classroom management and teaching

strategies that will help teachers lay the foundation for raising student achievement in the classroom. Learn proven

techniques that keep students working and behaving. Both beginning and veteran teachers will benefit from the sharing

of proactive strategies that creates a safe, orderly, and on-task classroom environment. Participants will leave this

memorable workshop inspired and with many tools to help plant seeds of success in their students. Don't miss this life

changing experience.

Facilitator: Jerry Vaughn         Presenter: Mark McLeod

Jul 15, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Cabot Middle South Cafeteria

Limit: 125         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

We will be introducing participants to the Promethean ACTIVboard, ACTIV software, and Promethean's On-Line

Resources. We will introduce the components of the ACTIV classroom, where to find online courses and what free

resources Promethean Planet has to offer (resource packs, lessons that can be searched by state standards, curriculum

and grade level, and much more). We will cover the ACTIVstudio fundamentals: connecting and calibrating the

ACTIVboard, navigating the Dashboard, creating/saving/printing a new Flipchart, customizing ACTIVstudio-modes, styles

and profiles, identify and customize Toolboxes in ACTIVstudio and using ACTIVstudio's basic tools.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss             Presenter: Kendell Koberg

Jul 15, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe Junior High Computer Lab Rm. 126

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Other             Audiences: PreK, K-1

This 2-day workshop will be an overview of teaching social skills to children through visual supports, reinforcement, and

movement. Hands-on, interactive, make and take opportunities will be provided to help participants implement strategies

for teaching social skills using visual supports, reinforcement and movement.

Facilitator: Marolyn Lee             Presenter: Katie Houchin

Jul 15, 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 40             Credit: 12.00

Subject: Other         Audience: Administrators

As an administrator, you are challenged to use multiple sources of data to select curriculum and resources, remediate

students, develop and revise pacing guides/alignment documents, evaluate classroom instruction, and supervise

interventions for appropriate student learning. If you sometimes feel overwhelmed, come and join us for a day as we look

at everything from DIBELS and the QUALLS Early Learning Inventory to Benchmarks, SAT 10, and the English Learning

Development Assessment. How do these data sources connect as well as guide all the decisions for curriculum in a

district? How can you assist teachers as they use this data in the classroom. Let's make connections and think about

future changes for your district.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Debbie Miller

Jul 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 30         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Foreign Language         Audience: K-12

Teachers will be presented with technology based projects that can be used in either a Spanish or French classroom.

Teachers are asked to bring an example of a technology based project that they use in their classroom.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Lori Nielsen

Jul 16, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Searcy High School Room 302

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Other             Audiences: 3-5, 6-8, 9, 10, 11

This will be a working session where participants will bring a copy of their 2007 and/or 2008 Item by Item Analysis for

Combined Population report. Information from that report will be entered into an Excel spreadsheet. Participants will learn

how to use this information to identify strengths and weaknesses to implement strategies to improve student performance

during the next year. Information will be provided to use in instruction to address student needs.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Trena Mitchell

Jul 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

We will be introducing participants to the Promethean ACTIVboard, ACTIV software, and Promethean's On-Line

Resources. We will introduce the components of the ACTIV classroom, where to find online courses and what free

resources Promethean Planet has to offer (resource packs, lessons that can be searched by state standards, curriculum

and grade level, and much more). We will cover the ACTIVstudio fundamentals: connecting and calibrating the

ACTIVboard, navigating the Dashboard, creating/saving/printing a new Flipchart, customizing ACTIVstudio-modes, styles

and profiles, identify and customize Toolboxes in ACTIVstudio and using ACTIVstudio's basic tools.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Kendell Koberg

Jul 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe Junior High Computer Lab Rm. 126

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-1

This workshop will focus on four key elements: the actual scheduling and managing of guided reading groups,

background groups, centers, and reading strategies for guided reading. We will look at what makes guided reading

different from other types of reading instruction. Teach students how to monitor their comprehension with specific

hands-on activities. Learn how background groups can be a great management tool while the teacher is working with a

guided reading group. See specifically how to organize and use centers in the classroom. Learn how centers can be

integrated with any reading, writing, science or social studies theme, and coordinated with school curriculum and district

goals.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss             Presenter: Pat Pavelka

Jul 16, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 113

Limit: 75         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

Dr. Howard M. Knoff is the creator and director of Project Achieve, a nationally known school effectiveness/school

improvement program that has been designated a National Model Prevention Program. This workshop will focus on

interventions that schools should implement to assist challenging students who are behaviorally unsuccessful in schools.

The interventions discussed will be evidence-based, teacher-friendly and field-tested as well as prevention level, strategic

intervention level and intense or crisis appropriate. Information will be provided concerning problem situations where the

intervention is most used, functional assessment outcomes that link to make this intervention relevant, age levels where

the intervention is most successful, and the severity level of the student and/or problem.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Howard Knoff

Jul 17, 2009        9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Registration Fee: $125

Location:    WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 0         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Foreign Language         Audience: K-12

Teachers will be presented with ideas for incorporating popular Hispanic music in the classroom. Examples will be given

in Spanish for various types of listening, reading, and writing activities based on the use of popular Hispanic music.

Participants are asked to bring examples of music that they use in their classroom.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Lori Nielsen

Jul 17, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Searcy High School Room 302

Limit: 25         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy         Audiences: 3-5, 5-8, 11

Workshop will focus on rubric expectations, instructional strategies, and PowerPoint activities to increase student

performance on the Augmented Benchmark or EOC Literacy.

Facilitator: Jim Sutton         Presenter: Trena Mitchell

Jul 17, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Computer Lab

Limit: 20         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 2, 3, 4

This workshop will focus on four key elements: the actual scheduling and managing of guided reading groups,

background groups, centers, and reading strategies for guided reading. We will look at what makes guided reading

different from other types of reading instruction. Teach students how to monitor their comprehension with specific

hands-on activities. Learn how background groups can be a great management tool while the teacher is working with a

guided reading group. See specifically how to organize and use centers in the classroom. Learn how centers can be

integrated with any reading, writing, science or social studies theme, and coordinated with school curriculum and district

goals.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Pat Pavelka

Jul 17, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 113

Limit: 75         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy         Audience: 5-8, 9-12

If you've successfully implemented bits and pieces of the model, but long to facilitate a full-blown workshop classroom,

this workshop will provide the extra support you need. Share your successes and frustrations. Be rejuvenated as you

revisit the reading and writing workshop experience not only as a teacher but also through a student's perspective.

Come, be the student!

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jul 20, 21, 2009        8:30 am - 3:45 pm

Location:    Harding, American Studies Bldg., Room 107

Limit: 0         Credit: 12.00

Subject: Other         Audience: Administrators

The morning session, presented by ADE Standards Assurance Specialists, will include an overview of the school

calendar and school day; required instruction times of Art, Music and PE at elementary and middle schools; required high

school courses; the Course Code document and its use; and discussion related to Course Codes and Job Codes. They

will meet in small groups with school representatives and review current school schedules. Target Audience: Building

level administrators and other personnel responsible for entering course codes into APSCN. The afternoon session,

presented by Cindy Hogue, ADE, will be Parent Involvement. Act 397 of the Regular Session 2009 will be reviewed and

clarified. Title I parent involvement and the requirements will also be reviewed. Arkansas' Title I program was monitored

this spring by the USDOE; comments and suggestions about parent involvement will be shared. New PI training and

activities sponsored by the ADE will be addressed.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenters: TBA TBA

Jul 20, 2009     8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 150         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

A powerful workshop that helps regular education teachers find new ideas and strategies on modifying for special

education, 504, ELL and At Risk students in their classrooms. This workshop will also provide insight on what makes

these children tick and helps them become successful academically. Participants should expect to receive handouts,

great illustrations, examples and many success stories as well as group and hands-on activities to facilitate learning.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Brandi Shinn

Jul 20, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview Junior High Room 75

Limit: 40         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: All Subject Areas, Foreign Language         Audience: K-12

Align your curriculum to the State Foreign Language Standards by bringing a dose of Japan to your classroom.

Participants will be shown five lessons featuring math, art, reading, writing, and social studies. The session will include

some fun and eye-opening aspects from the land of the rising sun as seen through the eyes of two seven-year-old

American children.

Facilitator: Debbi Fletcher         Presenter(s): Catherine Mince

Jul 20, 2009      8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:        Cabot Professional Development Center

Limit: 30             Credit: 6.00

Subject: Mathematics             Audience: 6-8, 9-10

Participants will use the provided TI-84+ graphing calculators to explore games, applications, and programs pertaining to

Pre-Algebra such as the number system, solving basic equations, decimals, probability, graphing, and much more.

Effective teaching with graphing calculators is shown to help students develop a better understanding of mathematical

concepts, use higher-level approaches to solving math problems, and score higher on performance measures. Students'

use of graphing calculators is reported to build a deeper conceptual understanding of math. Participants who bring their

own Texas Instruments graphing calculator will leave with programs and applications that they can use immediately in

their classrooms.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Ronnie Flowers

Jul 20, 2009       8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Technology         Audience: K-12

This workshop will demonstrate different technologies available for teachers. The demonstration will include using open

source software, making photo stories and animotos, using the jing project to record on-screen presentations, recording

podcasts and editing them, recording and editing videos, imbedding media in PowerPoints, finding websites that have

free instructional material using interesting web browsers, and many other ideas for teachers. The workshop also shows

how to download and convert videos and audio files from the Internet. Literacy strategies will also be presented. Features

include information about my persona, Elvis the Teacher.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Larry Wilson

Jul 20, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 22

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Mathematics         Audiences: 6-8, 9-10

Participants will use the provided TI-84+ graphing calculators to explore games, applications, and programs pertaining to

Algebra such as graphing, factoring polynomials, using formulas, solving linear equations, solving linear inequalities,

solving quadratic equations, simplifying radicals, and much more. Effective teaching with graphing calculators is shown to

help students develop a better understanding of mathematical concepts, use higher-level approaches to solving math

problems, and score higher on performance measures. Participants who bring their own Texas Instruments graphing

calculator will leave with programs and applications that they can use immediately in their classrooms.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Ronnie Flowers

Jul 20, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30         Credit: 3.00

Subjects: Mathematics, Special Education             Audience: K-4, Special Ed

In CGI Year 3, teachers continue to explore a framework for how elementary school children learn concepts of number,

operations, and early Algebra. Teachers continue to learn how to use this framework to inform their mathematics

instruction. They will learn to analyze story problems and number sentences to determine their mathematical demands

and recognize student responses in terms of cognitive development; assess student thinking and design problems that

will develop their understanding of concepts and skills; facilitate discussions that provide a window into children's

thinking, strengthen children's ability to reason about arithmetic, and build their capacity for algebraic reasoning; and use

open and true/false number sentences to develop students' relational understanding of equality, fundamental principles of

arithmetic, and use of efficient and accurate invented algorithms for computations and number facts.

Facilitator: Pam Allen         Presenters: Jeanie Behrend, Pam Allen

Jul 20, 21, 22, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe High School 9-10 Bldg. Room 156

Limit: 0         Credit: 18.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

Day 1: Working with ADHD/ODD Children in the Classroom; Pediatric Bipolar Disorder; Suicide Prevention Awareness;

Anti-Bullying. Day 2: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment

Facilitator: Marolyn Lee         Presenters: Mike Davis, Sharon Curtis, Shelly Horton

Jul 20, 21, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 50         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audiences: PreK, K-5

Take your SMART Board expertise to the next level and design lessons that are content-rich and interactive. Participants

in this workshop will learn how to add interactive features to lessons and then create their own lessons using the SMART

Notebook. Participants will use strategies such as drag and drop, revealing objects using ordering, linking objects to other

pages and/or files and much more! Techniques will be demonstrated with curriculum-based examples in the morning and

hand-on/make it and take it time will be given in the afternoon to develop and save customized activities to take back to

the classroom. Bring an idea for a lesson, incorporate interactivity into the lesson and it will be ready to take back to the

classroom.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Heather Lamb

Jul 21, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:        Riverview High School - Room 23

Limit: 18         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Other         Audience: PreK-12

This interactive workshop will begin with a quick review of the latest research on the importance of parental involvement

then will identify and develop effective strategies schools are using to welcome, honor, and connect with families.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Linda Patterson

Jul 21, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee:

Location:    Riverview Junior High Room 75

Limit: 28         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Mathematics             Audience: 6-8, 9-10

Participants will use the provided Ti84+ graphing calculators to explore games, applications, and programs pertaining to

graphing linear equations, graphing quadratic equations, graphing absolute value equations, and graphing linear

inequalities. Effective teaching with graphing calculators is shown to help students develop a better understanding of

mathematical concepts, use higher-level approaches to solving math problems, and score higher on performance

measures. Participants who bring their own Texas Instruments graphing calculator will leave with programs and

applications that they can use immediately in their classrooms. The Calculator Based Ranger will also be used to explore

graphing.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Ronnie Flowers

Jul 21, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:   Riverview High School - Room 25

Limit: 30             Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

This workshop is a follow-up workshop to the demonstration workshop on July 20. Some participants may have attended

this workshop last summer and want to continue the training they received then by attending this day. In this workshop,

we will have the opportunity for teachers to actually use computers and software to create audio, video, and photo

projects.

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Larry Wilson

Jul 21, 2009       8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School Room 24

Limit: 28         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audiences: K-12, Special Ed

This workshop will define the different ways to co-teach, discuss the common problems, and outline ways to implement

this effective partnership in classrooms. Videotapes will take participants inside the classrooms of several teams of

experienced co-teachers to demonstrate co-teaching in action.

Facilitator: Clara Carroll         Presenters: Clara Carroll, Jan Morgan

Jul 21, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Harding--American Heritage Cntr--Liberty Rm.

Limit: 35         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

This workshop will provide strategies for teaching exceptional students who are in the regular classroom. Learning

Disability and ADHD will be addressed and modifications given to assist teachers. We will also discuss the difference

between section 504 and IDEA and what that means to the teacher.

Facilitator: Clara Carroll         Presenter: Clara Carroll, Jan Morgan

Jul 21, 2009          12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding--American Heritage Cntr--Liberty Rm.

Limit: 35         Credit: 3.00

Subject: Literacy             Audiences: 5-8, 9-12

If you've successfully implemented bits and pieces of the model, but long to facilitate a full-blown workshop classroom,

this workshop will provide the extra support you need. Share your successes and frustrations. Be rejuvenated as you

revisit the reading and writing workshop experience not only as a teacher but also through a student's perspective.

Come, be the student!

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jul 22, 23, 2009        8:30 am - 3:45 pm

Location:    Harding, American Studies Bldg., Room 107

Limit: 0         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: 6-12

Take your SMART Board expertise to the next level and design lessons that are content-rich and interactive. Participants

in this workshop will learn how to add interactive features to lessons and then create their own lessons using the SMART

Notebook. Participants will use strategies such as drag and drop, revealing objects using ordering, linking objects to other

pages and/or files and much more! Techniques will be demonstrated with curriculum-based examples in the morning and

hands-on make it and take it time will be in the afternoon to develop and save customized activities to take back to the

classroom. Bring an idea for a lesson, incorporate interactivity into the lesson and it will be ready to take back to the

classroom.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Heather Lamb

Jul 22, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Room 23

Limit: 18             Credit: 6.00

Subject: Technology, All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

This session introduces participants to multimedia content developed by Discovery Education. Participants will explore

the online materials to develop one or more lesson integration plans and materials correlated to district frameworks that

utilize video or other content from the online resources.

Facilitator: Debbi Fletcher             Presenters: Debbie Lewis, Kathy Skidmore

Jul 22, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Cabot/Magness Creek Elem. Computer Lab

Limit: 24         Credit: 3.00

Subjects: Technology, All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

This session introduces participants to multimedia content developed by Discovery Education. Participants will explore

the online materials to develop one or more lesson integration plans and materials correlated to district frameworks that

utilize video or other content from the online resources.

Facilitator: Debbi Fletcher             Presenter: Debbie Lewis, Kathy Skidmore

Jul 22, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Cabot/Magness Creek Elem. Computer Lab

Limit: 24         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-12

Have teachers ever complained that their students cannot understand or recall much of the content taught after a

24-hour period? It stands to reason that if students don't learn the way we teach them, then we must teach them the way

they learn! Experience 20 instructional strategies (based on brain research and learning style theory) that maximize

memory and minimize forgetting. Increase learning for students when strategies like drawing, metaphor, music, and

storytelling are used to teach curriculum objectives and meet national standards. Explore research that shows why these

strategies are preferable to others. Ensure that brains retain key concepts, not only for tests, but for life. This workshop

has been called both professionally and personally life-changing and lots of fun!

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Dr. Marcia Tate

Jul 23, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Bald Knob Elementary - Cafeteria

Limit: 150         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Technology         Audience: Administrators

This workshop is designed for school administrators and focuses on some of the newest technology for education. The

ideas presented will be things that administrators share with faculty and staff that will make learning more meaningful.

The ideas of Bob Compton, producer of "Two Million Minutes", a documentary on schools in the U.S., China, and India

will be included as will the thoughts of Sir Ken Robinson "Is Education Killing Creativity."

Facilitator: Becky Handley         Presenter: Larry Wilson

Jul 23, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 100 Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas             Audiences: K-1, Special Ed

Early Literacy Learning in Arkansas (ELLA) is a two-year professional development program designed to assist K-1

teachers in implementing a comprehensive research-based approach to literacy instruction in their classrooms. This

program emphasizes instructional techniques that focus on five essential elements of reading (phonemic awareness,

phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary) and writing development. The first year of training consists of four

days of training in the summer and four additional days of training during the school year. The second year consists of

three days of training in the summer and two additional days of training during the school year.

Facilitator: Donna Felty         Presenter: Donna Felty

Jul 23, 24, 27, 28, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 0         Credit: 24.00

Subjects: Language Arts, Literacy, Mathematics             Audience: K-12

The morning session will be Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Numeracy Strategies that Engage the

Brain. M-A-T-H is known to be the shortened form of the word mathematics. Did you also know that it is a mnemonic

device that stands for Math Ain't That Hard? This acrostic rings true when brain-compatible strategies are used.

Experience how easy math can be when sung, role-played, drawn, visualized, danced, or told in a meaningful story. This

workshop, for grades K-8, is highly engaging and tons of fun! The afternoon session will be Reading and Language Arts

Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies that Engage the Brain. According to experts in the field,

reading and language arts skills are best acquired when students are actively engaged in their own learning. This

workshop focuses on brain-based literacy strategies for Grades K-12, structured around the International Reading

Association and National Council of Teachers of English Standards. It contains over 300 activities from hundreds of

teachers as well as Marcia Tate's own classroom models. This practical resource is dedicated to literacy strategies that

apply to the way students learn to read and read to learn. These hands-on techniques will help you teach reading in

relevant, motivating, and engaging ways.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Dr. Marcia Tate

Jul 24, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Lonoke Primary School Cafeteria

Limit: 300         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy             Audience: 4, 5-8

We have procedures, now what? Let's move into sharing more mini-lessons, conferring with students, using formative

and summative assessments to guide our instruction and using data to plug in interventions. Pre-requisite for Literacy

Lab Reviewed is attendance in 2008 Literacy Lab Revisited.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss             Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jul 27, 28, 2009        8:30 am - 3:45 pm

Location:    Harding-American Studies Bldg., Room 107

Limit: 0         Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-6

Participants will explore the differences in formative and summative assessment and how each can be used to revise

curriculum, inform instruction, and lead to improving student achievement. Each participant should bring samples of

assessments used in their classrooms - teacher-produced, textbook-produced, etc. Additionally, participants should have

access to the curriculum map or pacing guide used in their district for the specific subject area they teach. During the

session participants will utilize tools that may be used in the formative assessment of their students on a

minute-by-minute, day-by-day, or week-by-week basis. Emphasis will be placed on integrating Blooms Taxonomy in the

formative and summative assessments developed in the session.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Lynn Chadwick

Jul 27, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Limit: 75             Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Literacy, Special Education             Audience: K-6

This session, sponsored by AR Learn in partnership with the AR Behavior Intervention Consultants and the ADE

Department of Special Education, will focus on research-based instructional strategies for elementary students in need of

intervention at the Tier II and III levels. Participants will learn about effective classroom practices including several

research based literacy interventions, how to monitor student progress, and decision-making rules based on the problem

solving model included in the Arkansas "Closing the Achievement Gap" design. Participants will learn about Chart Maker,

which creates progress monitoring charts for any skill area. Literacy Matrix and RIDE, web-based literacy intervention

tools, will also be discussed.

Facilitator: Sherri Crowder             Presenter: Lisa Haley, Rosemary Burks, Susan Friberg

Jul 27, 2009        9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Registration Fee: $125

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 0         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audiences: 7-12

This workshop equips teachers with knowledge and skills that will make an immediate difference in their classrooms.

Some specific topics include: teacher behaviors that sabotage effectiveness in the classroom; how to respond to

misbehaving students without losing your cool, how to cultivate respect, trust, and choice in your classroom; creating a

positive classroom culture before you manage students' behaviors; the difference between management and control; the

intimate link between instruction and management; what to do when they don't respond the way you'd like; how to work

with principals, counselors, and others to create a team approach; bringing parents into the equation of management;

high maintenance students - what to do; and much, much more.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss             Presenter: Dr. Donny Lee

Jul 27, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding-Thornton Education Center - Rm. 225

Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: 7-12

Participants will explore the differences in formative and summative assessment and how each can be used to revise

curriculum, inform instruction, and lead to improving student achievement. Each participant should bring samples of

assessments used in their classrooms - teacher-produced, textbook-produced, etc. Additionally, participants should have

access to the curriculum map or pacing guide used in their district for the specific subject area they teach. During the

session participants will utilize tools that may be used in the formative assessment of their students on a

minute-by-minute, day-by-day, or week-by-week basis. Emphasis will be placed on integrating Blooms Taxonomy in the

formative and summative assessments developed in the session.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Lynn Chadwick

Jul 28, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Riverview High School - Cafeteria

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

In this workshop, participants will learn about the Department of Arkansas Heritage, its seven individual agencies and the

numerous educational opportunities that exist. The first part of the session will focus on their four museums, their

resources, and ways to create quality learning experiences. The second part of the session will concentrate on the three

unique agencies charged with collecting data on various aspects of our state's heritage and ways to use these resources

in creating community partnerships.

Facilitator: Jayne Green         Presenter: Tammie Dillon

Jul 28, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Des Arc Elementary - Cafeteria

Limit: 75 Credit: 3.00

Subject: Mathematics             Audience: 5, 6-12

Geogebra is a free dynamic geometry and algebra software package. It is a great tool for teaching anything from simple

angles to equations of lines or even calculus concepts such as area under a curve. Come learn about this exciting free

software and how you might use it in your classroom.

Facilitator: TIM BRISTER         Presenter: TIM BRISTER

Jul 28, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Thornton Education Center, Room 231

Limit: 26             Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Literacy, Special Education         Audience: 7-12

This session, sponsored by AR Learn in partnership with the AR Behavior Intervention Consultants and the ADE

Department of Special Education, will focus on research-based instructional strategies for elementary students in need of

intervention at the Tier II and III levels. Participants will learn about effective classroom practices including several

research based literacy interventions, how to monitor student progress, and decision-making rules based on the problem

solving model included in the Arkansas "Closing the Achievement Gap" design. Participants will learn about Chart Maker,

which creates progress monitoring charts for any skill area. Literacy Matrix and RIDE, web-based literacy intervention

tools, will also be discussed.

Facilitator: Sherri Crowder         Presenters: Lisa Haley, Rosemary Burks, Susan Friberg

Jul 28, 2009           9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Registration Fee:  $125

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-6

This workshop equips teachers with knowledge and skills that will make an immediate difference in their classrooms.

Some specific topics include: teacher behaviors that sabotage effectiveness in the classroom; how to respond to

misbehaving students without losing your cool, how to cultivate respect, trust, and choice in your classroom; creating a

positive classroom culture before you manage students' behaviors; the difference between management and control; the

intimate link between instruction and management; what to do when they don't respond the way you'd like; how to work

with principals, counselors, and others to create a team approach; bringing parents into the equation of management;

high maintenance students - what to do; and much, much more.

Description:

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Dr. Donny Lee

Jul 28, 2009     8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding, Thornton Education Center Room 225

Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00

Subject: Mathematics             Audience): 7-12

Participants will use the TI-Navigator system and TI-84 graphing calculators to teach specific SLE's from the Algebra I

frameworks. Learn how to use Class Analysis to get instant results of classroom quizzes and tests. Looking for ways to

engage your students - see how to use the Activity Center to motivate all students to participate.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss             Presenters: Debbie Crisco, Theresa Gilliam

Jul 28, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 113

Limit: 28 Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Literacy         Audience(s): 4, 5-8

We have procedures, now what? Let's move into sharing more mini-lessons, conferring with students, using formative

and summative assessments to guide our instruction and using data to plug in interventions. Pre-requisite for Literacy

Lab Reviewed is attendance in 2008 Literacy Lab Revisited.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss             Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Jul 29, 30, 2009        8:30 am - 3:45 pm

Location:    Harding-American Studies Bldg., Room 107

Limit: 0             Credit: 12.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

The workshop is fun-filled with hands-on activities to teach about water, wildlife, forests and the environment upon which

all life depends. All three programs are interdisciplinary with activities to teach math, history, literature, P.E., science, art

and many other disciplines. All activities are correlated to AR Frameworks. Upon completion of the workshop,

participants receive four guides with hundreds of activities to relate the environmental message to students of all ages. In

addition to the WET, WILD, and PLT guides, participants receive posters, wildlife pocket guides, and many other

materials for classroom usage.

Facilitator: Vicki Garland             Presenters: Pat Knighten, Phillip Osborne, Rob Beadel

Jul 29, 2009     8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Location:        ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm

Limit: 25         Credit: 8.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-12

This training is for teachers that are interested in teaching content via CIV (Compressed Interactive Video). Workshop

objectives are: become familiar with AR K-12 Distance Learning; learn the basics of effective design and layout; become

comfortable using equipment and troubleshooting; be exposed to interactive instructional strategies; develop strategies

for building relationships from a distance; and much more.

Facilitator: JIMMY DUNN         Presenter(s): TBA TBA

Jul 29, 30, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 30         Credit: 12.00

Subjects: Health, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences, Physical Education          Audience: 6-8

As a result of a Wellness Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Arkansas Department of

Education (ADE) Child Nutrition Unit (CNU) has available a limited number of innovative, research-based,

interdisciplinary Planet Health curriculum developed and tested by the Harvard School of Public Health. The Planet

Health curriculum has four simple health themes integrated into physical education, language arts, math, science and

social studies classes. THE PLANET HEALTH CURRICULUM HAS BEEN CORRELATED TO THE ARKANSAS

CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS. The grant to CNU designated funds to assist schools with implementation of the

Wellness Priority Protocol as part of the Arkansas Consolidated School Improvement Plan (ACSIP) process. See

Commissioner Memo FIN-07-067 for more details.

Facilitator: Becky Lamb             Presenter: Alicia Casteel

Jul 30, 2009        10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Location:        ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm

Limit: 20         Credit: 4.00

Subject: Literacy             Audience: K-12

A model lesson for each trait will demonstrate how to use it in the mini-lessons of writing workshop or use it

independently within other lessons or provide information for all teachers to have a common language about writing.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Sharon Rogers

Jul 29, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm   Note date change from July 30

Location:        Pangburn Middle School

Limit: 40             Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Literacy, Science         Audiences: 3-5, 6-8

Participants will be shown how to bridge the gap between literacy and science by using science notebooks. Teachers will

be engaged in a 6-step process involving activities based on Marzano's "Principles for Building Academic Vocabulary."

Facilitator: Vicki Garland             Presenters: Amy Adair, Vicki Garland

Jul 30, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326

Limit: 20         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Mathematics             Audience: 5, 6-12

This workshop will introduce you to the many free graphing calculator resources available on the Internet. We will then

divide up into grade/subject level groups and find lessons that can be used in your classroom. Each group will work

through a lesson or lessons as time permits and briefly explain to the group what you've found. The instructor will be

available to help with any calculator questions. Come and find materials you can use in your classroom.

Facilitator: Tim Brister             Presenter: Tim Brister

Jul 30, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding - Thornton Education Center, Room 231

Limit: 26         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy             Audiences: K-1, Special Ed

Participants will learn how to take whole group and small group instruction and move it into literacy corners for

independent practice. Participants will learn how to introduce corners to students and how to tie each corner to one of the

five essential elements: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Demonstrations of

explicit phonics lessons, shared reading lessons, and read aloud will be given and participants will see first hand how to

take components of these lessons straight to literacy corners for independent practice. Many examples will be given and

participants will practice planning for literacy corner instruction.

Facilitator: Donna Felty             Presenter: Renae Edwards

Jul 30, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Early Childhood

Limit: 60         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Literacy             Audience: K-12

A model lesson for each trait will demonstrate how to use it in the mini-lessons of writing workshop or use it

independently within other lessons or provide information for all teachers to have a common language about writing.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Sharon Rogers

Jul 30, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm Note date change from July 31

Location:    Pangburn Middle School

Limit: 40             Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-6

Participants will explore the differences in formative and summative assessment and how each can be used to revise

curriculum, inform instruction, and lead to improving student achievement. Each participant should bring samples of

assessments used in their classrooms - teacher-produced, textbook-produced, etc. Additionally, participants should have

access to the curriculum map or pacing guide used in their district for the specific subject area they teach. During the

session participants will utilize tools that may be used in the formative assessment of their students on a

minute-by-minute, day-by-day, or week-by-week basis. Emphasis will be placed on integrating Blooms Taxonomy in the

formative and summative assessments developed in the session.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Lynn Chadwick

Aug 3, 4, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Rose Bud Elementary Library

Limit: 40         Credit: 12.00

Subject: Mathematics             Audience: K-12

This 4-day training will be for Mathematics Coaches and lead teachers and will cover the following topics: Day 1:

Overview of DAP and collecting (surveying), displaying, and summarizing categorical data. Day 2: Collecting (surveying

and measuring), displaying, and summarizing discreet single variable data. Day 3: Collecting (experimenting and

simulating), displaying and summarizing discreet single variable data. Day 4: Collecting (surveying and measuring),

displaying, and summarizing continuous single variable data. Participants will continue to meet on a monthly basis and

will continue to learn more about the DAP Strand.

Facilitator: Pam Allen             Presenter: Linda Griffith

Aug 3, 4, 6, 7, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 50         Credit: 24.00

Subject: Literacy             Audience: 4, 5-8

We have procedures, now what? Let's move into sharing more mini-lessons, conferring with students, using formative

and summative assessments to guide our instruction and using data to plug in interventions. Pre-requisite for Literacy

Lab Reviewed is attendance in 2008 Literacy Lab Revisited.

Facilitator: Yvonne Furniss         Presenter: Yvonne Furniss

Aug 4, 5, 2009        8:30 am - 3:45 pm

Location:        Harding, American Studies Bldg., Room 107

Limit: 0             Credit: 12.00

Subjects: All Subject Areas, Library Media Specialist         Audiences: 9-12, 4-8

This workshop is designed to help teachers who want to offer motivating choices to their students in the books they read.

Sixty new books will be presented as well as ways to use them in integrating units, motivating reluctant readers, character

education, content area instruction and encouraging engaged, recreational readers (which pays off at Benchmark testing

time). Thirty books will be most appropriate for grades 5-8 while another thirty will be most appropriate for grades 9-12.

Scholastic will have books on the list for purchase along with other materials to support in using the books in your

classroom.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Ken Stamatis

Aug 4, 2009            8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding Univ. -- American Heritage Auditorium

Limit: 500         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: 5-12

From the work of Ruby Payne, aha! Process consultant Jim Littlejohn will discuss Under-Resourced Learners. From

understanding today's students to designing specific interventions that work, this workshop will provide a broad base of

approaches for your immediate use in today's classroom. Based on Dr. Ruby Payne's newest publication, "Under

Resourced Learners: 8 Strategies to Boost Student Achievement," this workshop provides immediately useful strategies

such as: six-step process to follow each student's performance address AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress); strategies to

cultivate relational learning in your classroom or building; checklists for quickly assessing student resources; how to

create interventions; specific content interventions related to reading, vocabulary, and mental models in reading/writing;

and checklists for calibrating student assignments.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks             Presenter: Jim Littlejohn

Aug 5, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Des Arc Elementary - Cafeteria

Limit: 150         Credit: 6.00

Subject: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences         Audience: 5-12

The Arkansas Education Service Cooperatives sponsor this one-day CIV workshop to fulfill the requirements for counting

identified gifted and talented students being served in secondary content classes by a teacher not trained as a specialist

in gifted and talented. Secondary teachers of Math, Science, English, and Social Studies must attend the full day to

obtain a certificate of attendance.

Facilitator: Karm Prock             Presenter: Marcia Imbeau

Aug 5, 2009            8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:        WDMESC Annex Room 1

Limit: 75             Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audiences: 3-5, 6-12

This workshop is designed for ALL teachers grades 3-12 and will explore and explain the goals we have for developing

proficient adolescent writers. Those goals include being more generative, fluent, intentional, self-monitoring and critical. It

will give teachers a workable understanding of teaching these goals for writing successfully in Reading/English/Language

Arts as well as content literacy in science and social studies classrooms. Understanding how to teach students to be

more generative, fluent, intentional, self-monitoring and critical is a significant addition to the knowledge base of a skilled

teacher than enhances both reading and writing. Teachers will leave with an understanding of how to implement more

powerful writing strategies that will align with the Arkansas Benchmark exams. Teachers' awareness that students vary

the way they write according to their purposes, audience and form is a significant instructional support. Appropriate

writing scaffolding on the part of the teacher is a strongly research-based strategy that stimulates growth in writing and

reading literacy and content text. Implementation of this information will prepare students to be successful with learning

and with the Benchmark testing. The workshop will include explanation and modeling lessons on how to grow a writer

using these five goals.

Facilitator: JoElla Kloss         Presenter: Ken Stamatis

Aug 5, 2009       8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding Univ. -- American Heritage Auditorium

Limit: 300         Credit: 6.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: Administrators

This is an annual professional development event for WDMESC area administrators. Detailed program will be sent to

administrators.

Facilitator: Rodger Harlan         Presenter: TBA TBA

Aug 7, 2009          8:30 am - 12:00 pm

Location:    Des Arc Elementary - Cafeteria

Limit: 200         Credit: 3.50

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right! People severely limit their brain's potential with negative

thinking. However, when people approach situations with a confident attitude and determine a purpose for their lives,

amazing, life-changing things can occur. Find out how to reduce stress, increase laughter and lengthen your life!

Facilitator: Rodger Harlan             Presenter: Dr. Marcia Tate

Aug 11, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Harding Benson Auditorium

Limit: 1,800         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: PreK-12

Have you ever noticed that the louder some parents get when reprimanding their child, the louder the child also

becomes? Assist parents in managing a brain-compatible home without ever raising their voices. Show them how to

alleviate at least 50% of their behavior problems just by the way they set up the physical environment and deliver

engaging lessons, another 40% by developing a comprehensive plan and the most challenging 10% by using strategies

for chronic behavior disorders such as oppositional or conduct disorder.

Facilitator: Rodger Harlan         Presenter: Dr. Marcia Tate

Aug 11, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Harding Benson Auditorium

Limit: 1,800         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-4

Workshop topics to be covered include: 1) Understand the basic components of RTI. 2) Acquire specific, research-based

intervention strategies that work across the curriculum. 3) Learn to use assessment results to plan research-based

interventions. 4) Utilize progress monitoring for measuring the success of student interventions. 5) Discover classroom

management techniques that will free up time for progress monitoring and interventions. 6) Understand the possible

changes that RTI will bring to your classroom and school. 7) Make important connections between differentiated

instruction and RTI. 8) Receive print and web resources. 9) Understand how RTI differs from current "wait to fail" models.

10) Learn how to use a variety of tools to differentiate your interventions.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Laureen Reynolds

Aug 12, 2009        8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Des Arc Elementary - Cafeteria

Limit: 150         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK, K-6

This workshop will provide classroom teachers, special education teachers, and interventionists with a collection of

literacy interventions that really work when matched to student needs. After a short overview of the reserach on how all

children can learn at higher levels, from the Effective Schools research, each of the five essential components of reading

and important concepts in writing will be addressed with appropriate research-based interventions from multiple sources.

The participants will be introduced to different grade-level intervention models, as well as specific and targeted

interventions.

Facilitator: KELLY WHIDDON         Presenter: Susan Grogan

Aug 12, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:    Magness Creek Elementary

Limit: 50         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 5, 6

Mastering grade level, content-area curriculum has always been the instruction goal for each student in the classroom

setting, regardless of the diverse instructional levels of its students. Unfortunately, the material continues to be watered

down for the struggling learners, creating additional work and time for classroom teachers who think they are doing the

best for these students by trying to "catch them up" in separate groups. These teachers may even report significant

growth. However, when faced with the state standardized tests of achievement, students who are never exposed to the

grade-appropriate material fail poorly because the content is virtually foreign to them. Participants in this workshop will

learn how to change the "how" we teach, not the "what" we teach, by planning consistent, multilevel activities in reading,

language arts, and math to support and engage low-achieving students.

Facilitator: Florence LePore         Presenter: Lynne Ecenbarger

Aug 12, 2009    8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location:    Searcy-Southwest Middle School Cafeteria

Limit: 75         Credit: 6.00

Subjects: Special Education, All Subject Areas         Audiences: PreK, K-6

This workshop will provide classroom teachers, special education teachers, and interventionists with a collection of

literacy interventions that really work when matched to student needs. After a short overview of the research on how all

children can learn at higher levels, from the Effective Schools research, each of the five essential components of reading

and important concepts in writing will be addressed with appropriate research-based interventions from multiple sources.

The participants will be introduced to different grade-level intervention models, as well as specific and targeted

interventions.

Facilitator: PAM WAYMACK         Presenter: Susan Grogan

Aug 12, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:        Stagecoach Elementary

Limit: 50         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 7-12

This workshop will cover the following topics: 1) Can all children learn at high levels? Evidence from "Effective Schools"

research. 2) Professional Learning Communities and Response to Intervention: What are they? How do they work

together? Overview and elementary and secondary model schools examples. 3) Building the foundation of beliefs and

common assessments and a system for school-wide interventions for struggling students: what works.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Susan Grogan

Aug 13, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:    Carlisle School District

Limit: 75         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: K-6

This workshop will cover the following topics: 1) Can all children learn at high levels? Evidence from "Effective Schools"

research. 2) Professional Learning Communities and Response to Intervention: what are they? How do they work

together? Overview and elementary and secondary model schools examples. 3) Building the foundation of beliefs and

common assessments and a system for school-wide interventions for struggling students: what works.

Facilitator: Shirley Hooks         Presenter: Susan Grogan

Aug 13, 2009        12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location: Carlisle School District

Limit: 75         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: PreK-12

Being able to define enthusiasm, determine where your particular passions lie and what can be done to make those

passions shine are keys to maintaining enthusiasm in the whirlwind of life today. The ideas and principles rediscovered in

this seminar will not only reinforce why enthusiasm works, but also provide the tools necessary to wake up each day and

embrace it. Finding what motivates, what instills passion, and what drives one forward requires individual effort. By

focusing on these areas, participants will learn to use the energy derived, channeling it into things they may be less

enthusiastic about. Parental involvement is a key factor for sustained enthusiasm in the classroom. From improved

student achievement to reduced absenteeism, parental involvement is critical for the longevity of success in our

education system. Enlisting the aid and support of parents provides a better chance to develop the social, emotional and

academic growth of children.

Facilitator: Sheila Bowen         Presenters: Paul Vitale, Sheila Bowen

Aug 13, 2009        8:30 am - 11:30 am

Location:  White Co. Central Auditorium

Limit: 300         Credit: 3.00

Subject: All Subject Areas             Audience: K-4

Differentiation of instruction occurs when a teacher responds to learners' needs. This workshop will offer strategies such

as flexible grouping, respectful tasks, and ongoing assessment and adjustment to meet the needs of all learners in a

regular classroom. Tiered lessons, learning contracts and compacting will also be discussed as well as documentation

methods.

Facilitator: Karm Prock         Presenter: Karm Prock

Aug 17, 2009        8:00 am - 10:00 am

Location:        Pangburn Elementary School

Limit: 25         Credit: 2.00

Subject: All Subject Areas         Audience: 5-8

Differentiation of instruction occurs when a teacher responds to learners' needs. This workshop will offer strategies such

as flexible grouping, respectful tasks, and ongoing assessment and adjustment to meet the needs of all learners in a

regular classroom. Tiered lessons, learning contracts and compacting will also be discussed as well as documentation

methods.

Facilitator: Karm Prock         Presenter: Karm Prock

Aug 17, 2009        10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location:        Pangburn Middle School

Limit: 25             Credit: 2.00

Subject: All Subject Areas     Audience: 9-12

Differentiation of instruction occurs when a teacher responds to learners' needs. This workshop will offer strategies such

as flexible grouping, respectful tasks, and ongoing assessment and adjustment to meet the needs of all learners in a

regular classroom. Tiered lessons, learning contracts and compacting will also be discussed as well as documentation

methods.

Facilitator: Karm Prock         Presenter: Karm Prock

Aug 17, 2009        1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location:    Pangburn High School

Limit: 25 Credit: 2.00