ARSA CONFERENCE BREAKOUT SESSIONS Session One 9:30-10:30 AM Ballroom B “Bringing Teacher Preparation to Your District” Marcy Wood, University of Arizona The “pathways to Teaching” program seeks to address the teacher shortage in rural Arizona by working with districts to recruit prospective teachers from within the school district community, thereby allowing students to remain in their districts and serve their communities. Ballroom C “Solutions to Address Learning Loss” Brad Mitchell, Generation Schools This session will provide a pathway to considering individual and collaborative options for addressing the most pressing needs in your district in the coming year. Participants will be guided by a template that analyzes possibilities and engage in shared discussion with GSN experts and similar districts. Aspen Room “Getting the Most From Construction Dollars” Gerald Green, VANIR Construction Management This session will provide districts guidance on the use of a construction management company to maximize their construction funding as well as ensuring well-coordinated and effective construction management through needs assessments, planning, and forecasting. Agassiz Room “The Answer is Your People” Dr. Susan Hammack, Hammack ED Consulting Best practices for teacher, principal, and superintendent improvement, will focus on: Teacher’s instruction and classroom management, Principal’s instructional leadership and staff evaluation, and for the superintendent: a framework (PELP) for professional development models. Ponderosa Room “Building Learner Advocacy” Joe Howard, Prescott USD, Superintendent Looking for ways to build, or rebuild, ownership and independence in your students? We will deepen your understanding of learner agency and how all students can gain ownership for their learning, set and accomplish goals, and monitor their own learning process. Spruce Room “Connecting the Dots in Arizona” Jacqui Clay, Cochise County ESA This session will provide innovative practices that can have an impact on communications and relationships between schools, families, community leaders, and our business partners. Session Two 11:00-12:00 AM Ballroom C “Instructional Mentoring: A New Practice” Kathleen Paulson and Christi Olsen, Lake Havasu USD The practice of intentional instructional mentoring by highly trained, non-evaluative mentors supports new educators on their journey to becoming curious, persistent, and reflective practitioners. mentoring program. In this session you will learn about building a comprehensive induction and Aspen Room “Viable Restorative Practice” Richard Long, Education Life Skills There has been a call to action for educators to revamp, revise, or totally redo their discipline practices and procedures. This session will help educational leaders more fully understand “Restorative Practices” in education. Agassiz Room “Best Practices for STEM Education” Cori Araza, Grand Canyon University When science, technology engineering, and math (STEM) learning includes integrative approaches to instruction, student engagement flourishes. In this session we will discuss inquiry and collaboration through the lens of engineering design and project-based learning, and how leaders can encourage successful STEM instruction. Ponderosa Room “Practical Tools for Leaders” Dr. Howard Carlson, NAU Rural Resource Center The NAURRC website provides short, timely videos, resource information, and contacts for expert support related to all the various topics, both new and veteran administrators face every day. We welcome you to see what the site has to offer, which topics will be added soon, and discus what you would like to see added to the NAURRC website, Spruce Room “The Final Mile Project” Sean Rickert, Arizona Rural Schools Association The Final Mile Project is designed to promote “Last Mile” connection for rural Arizona Students from the high-quality Broadband most have to their schools to their homes. For far too many rural students, internet availability is either nonexistent, very poor quality, of prohibitively expensive. This project offers a proven, cost-effective concept for providing dependable, high quality internet service to all rural students. Session Three 2:30-3:30 P.M. Ballroom C “Engaging Students in Their Own Continuous Improvement” Lee Jenkins, L to J Consulting How to Make Growth Mindset Visible, Audible and Thrilling. A step-by-step presentation of the LtoJ process that replaces harmful data with data for joy. Examples are PK to grade 12. Come with cell phone camera to take pictures you can share with colleagues. “Stronger Together!” Page 20
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