Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions
November 8, 10 a.m-12:30 p.m.

1101T Low-Prep Strategies for Implementing Differentiated Instruction – R
Beginner
Carol O’Connor, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Attend this session to get instructional strategies that help you incorporate differentiation into your lessons with a minimum amount of preparation time.

1102T Leading the Alignment of Standards, Goals, Curriculum, and Assessments – R
Beginner/Experienced
Everett Kline, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Join the presenter as he shares practices and tools that ensure your curriculum and assessments are aligned with standards or goals for increasing student achievement.

1103T Using Nonlinguistic Strategies to Increase Understanding and Retention – R
Beginner
Jean Conyers, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Here’s your opportunity to gain an understanding of, and ability to use, nonlinguistic strategies in K-12 classrooms. Practice using a wide variety of nonlinguistic strategies to enhance students’ reading comprehension, writing, note-taking, vocabulary development, and more.

1104T Differentiated Instruction: A Key to Closing the Achievement Gap – R
Beginner/Experienced
Vera Blake, ASCD Differentiated Instruction and What Works in Schools Faculty Member
Explore why and how Differentiated Instruction is effective in an environment of changing demographics and higher standards. Examine key elements of differentiation, and review differentiation practices that facilitate greater achievements for all students.

1105T Assess for Success of the Whole Child – R
Beginner/Experienced
Judi Herm, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Learn how setting the right objectives and providing the right feedback can motivate the unmotivated, restore the desire to learn, and encourage students to keep learning.

1106T Designing Effective Homework and Practice – R
Beginner/Experienced
Deborah Childs-Bowen, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Get a clear picture of the case for and against homework, including the research on the effectiveness of homework and recommendations for time, purpose, feedback, accountability, types, parental involvement, and school wide policies.

1107T Exploring Stage One of Understanding by Design – R
Beginner
Janie Smith, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
This session introduces you to the popular Understanding by Design framework and how it helps you identify the desired results for what we want students to know, do, and understand about a particular topic.

1108T The Art and Science of Teaching – R
Beginner/Experienced
Tim Westerberg, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
How can a school or system institutionalize effective instructional practices in every classroom? Attend this session to answer that question and explore strategies and concepts from the best-selling book The Art and Science of Teaching.

1109T Education Reform in the Sultanate of Oman: Changing the roles of the Teachers and Learners – R
Beginner/Experienced
Dr. Muna bint Salim Al-Jardania, Undersecretary for Education and Curricula
Ministry of Education of the Sultanate of Oman and Amal Al Busaidi, Director General, Curriculum Development, Ministry of Education of the Sultanate of Oman
Learn from a case study of educational reform on a national level. Why and how did the reform take place? Curriculum re-design, assessment and evaluation systems, formative assessment, and alternative assessment tools are all explored.
The session will conclude by elaborating projects being currently implemented, and the adoption of the ASCD Whole Child initiative.

1110T Creating the Environment and Managing the Differentiated Classroom – R
Beginner
Nanci Smith, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Discover how to effectively manage Differentiated Instruction by creating a classroom environment where more responsibility is transferred to the students and a strong interdependent community is developed.

1111T The Role of School Leaders in Supporting the Whole Child – R
Beginner/Experienced
Opal Davis Dawson, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Join an experienced school leader as she outlines the steps she has taken to promote a Whole Child culture that ensures all children are engaged, safe, healthy, challenged, and supported.

1112T Using Learning Contracts and Menus to Differentiate Instruction – R
Beginner
Deborah Jones Riley, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
This session tackles the use of learning contracts and menus and demonstrates how to adapt these instructional tools for the range of learners in our classroom.

1113T The Role of Computers in Meeting the Needs of English Language Education
Beginner/Experienced
Lance Knowles, President and Head of Courseware Development, DynEd International, Inc.
Computer Assisted Language Learning programs can play a significant role in improving English language learning, especially in a blend with classroom or tutor support. This session demonstrates the capabilities of computer-based
programs, including integrated programs for student practice, administration, quality control, and teacher support.

1114T Exploring Stage Two of Understanding by Design – R
Beginner
Donnell Gregory, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Come to this session to advance your knowledge of Stage Two of Understanding by Design and examine performance tasks, academic prompts, tests, and quizzes that yield quality assessment evidence.

1115T Indicators of Success: Observing Effective Implementation of Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design Principles – R
Experienced
Sandra Page, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Find out what to look for to ensure that differentiated instruction and teaching for understanding are occurring in classrooms. Discover indicators of successful instructional approaches and curricular designs, and practice using these indicators for staff development and planning.

1116T Using Essential Questions to Motivate Learners – R
Beginner/Experienced
Marcy Emberger, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Attend this session to explore effective questioning practices, including the use of essential questions, to promote student understanding. Learn how better questioning can motivate learners and guide teachers.

1117T Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher– R
Beginner
Mary McDonough, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Drawing from more than 100 studies, this session explains the four most important components of effective classroom management and their impact on achievement.

1118T Meeting the Needs of Children at Risk: Regional Trends and Whole Child Solutions – R
Beginner/Experienced
Dr. Joseph Ghaly, Executive Director, ASCD Middle East
Academic under-achievement, behavioral problems, disruptive development, and failure to address the ever-growing needs of exceptional children are the most common trends encountered in today’s classroom. Part I is an
open forum to address regional trends, including statistics, education policy, impact on the classroom, school community, and global society. Part II centers on learning exceptionalities and educating the Whole Child. Covered topics will be exclusion, partial or total inclusion, breaking through regional barriers, and working together towards an early intervention.

1119T The Peer Review Process: Teacher Collaboration for Student Learning – R
Beginner
Judith Hilton, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Learn how to use structured peer reviews, guided by design standards, to share and discuss curriculum and assessment within a professional development approach that is rich in conversations about teaching and learning.

1120T Differentiation, Assessments, and Understanding by Design – R
Experienced
Thomas Rye, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
See how formative and summative assessments can be used in conjunction to assess understandings, knowledge, and skills for every student in the classroom. Plus, build an assessment matrix that tracks learning in the UbD framework.

Saturday Afternoon Breakout Sessions
November 8, 2-4:30 p.m.

1201T Low-Prep Strategies for Implementing Differentiated Instruction
Beginner
Carol O’Connor, ASCD Differentiated Instruction Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1101T for session description.

1202T Leading the Alignment of Standards, Goals, Curriculum and Assessments
Beginner/Experienced
Everett Kline, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1102T for session description.

1203T Using Nonlinguistic Strategies to Increase Understanding and Retention
Beginner
Jean Conyers, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1103T for session description.

1204T Differentiated Instruction: A Key to Closing the Achievement Gap
Beginner/Experienced
Vera Blake, ASCD Differentiated Instruction and What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1104T for session description.

1205T Assess for Success of the Whole Child
Beginner/Experienced
Judi Herm, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1105T for session description.

1206T Designing Effective Homework and Practice
Beginner/Experienced
Deborah Childs-Bowen, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1106T for session description.

1207T Exploring Stage One of Understanding by Design
Beginner/Experienced
Janie Ray Smith, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1107T for session description.

1208T The Art and Science of Teaching
Beginner/Experienced
Tim Westerberg, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1108T for session description.

1209T Education Reform in the Sultanate of Oman: Changing the roles of the Teachers and Learners
Beginner/Experienced
Dr. Muna bint Salim Al-Jardania, Undersecretary for Education and Curricula
Ministry of Education of the Sultanate of Oman and Amal Al Busaidi, Director General, Curriculum Development, Ministry of Education of the Sultanate of Oman Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1109T for session description.

1210T Creating the Environment and Managing the Differentiated Classroom
Beginner
Nanci Smith, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1110T for session description.

1211T The Role of School Leaders in Supporting the Whole Child
Beginner/Experienced
Opal Davis Dawson, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1111T for session description.

1212T Using Learning Contracts and Menus to Differentiate Instruction
Beginner
Deborah Jones Riley, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1112T for session description.

1213T The Role of Computers in Meeting the Needs of English Language Education
Beginner/Experienced
Lance Knowles, President and Head of Courseware Development, DynEd International, Inc.
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1113T for session description.

1214T Exploring Stage Two of Understanding by Design
Beginner
Donnell Gregory, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1114T for session description.

1215T Indicators of Success: Observing Effective Implementation of Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design Principles
Experienced
Sandra Page, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1115T for session description.

1216T Using Essential Questions to Motivate Learners
Beginner
Marcy Emberger, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1116T for session description.

1217T Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher
Beginner
Mary McDonough, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1117T for session description.

1218T What Stops Educational Reform from Working?
Experienced
Dr. Ali Al Karni, President, Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf
Education constitutes a source of power and a criterion of differentiation in development and progress domains. There are numerous cases of countries that have achieved considerable success in reforming and upgrading their educational systems and succeeded in making breakthroughs in numerous aspects of the economic, cultural, scientific and technical life. Similarly, there are numerous other cases of countries that have failed to make similar breakthroughs or may even have seen regression.
Observers of education in our Arab world note, through common cooperation in the field of education, the attention given by Arab leaders to educational reform and development. Countries spend generously on education and spare no efforts to support and develop it. Where does the deficiency lie? This session looks at answers to that question.

1219T The Peer Review Process: Teacher Collaboration for Student Learning
Beginner
Judith Hilton, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1119T for session description.

1220T Differentiation, Assessments, and Understanding by Design
Beginner
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1120T for session description.

Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions
November 9, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

2101T Teaching Thinking Skills for Powerful Learning
Beginner
Carol O’Connor, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Here is your opportunity to learn research-based strategies to stimulate higher-level thinking through question prompts, the concept attainment model, and the inductive thinking model.

2102T The Power of Peer Coaching for Improving Student Learning
Beginner
Mustafa Balkas, High School Principal,
Enka Schools
This session will provide a framework for you as an educator or administrator to incorporate a culture of coaching into your own school. The why, who, what and how of a sound peer coaching program will be outlined.

2103T W.H.E.R.E.T.O.: An Instructional Planning Template – R
Beginner
Donnell Gregory, ASCD Understanding by Design and Leadership
Faculty Member
Attend this session to explore the W.H.E.R.E.T.O. framework, a step-by-step approach for instructional planning that enhances student understanding. Discover instructional techniques that are most effective for helping students understand important ideas and processes.

2104T Content Literacy: Academic Vocabulary as a Tool for How and What Students Learn – R
Beginner
Mary McDonough, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Learn why teaching academic vocabulary is an effective way to help students understand the content they will encounter in school. Explore strategies to use in instruction and ideas for a system wide approach to using academic vocabulary development for content literacy.

2105T A Healthy School Community: The Health and Learning Connection – R
Beginner/Experienced
Theresa C. Lewallen, Director, ASCD Healthy
School Communities
It’s true that students must be healthy and feel safe in school in order to learn. In this session, explore steps to creating a health-promoting school, including connecting health education and physical education.

2106T Engaging Instruction to Promote Student Understanding – R
Beginner/Experienced
Everett Kline, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
All successful instruction aimed at achieving understanding must be both engaging and effective. This session will focus on how to organize and deliver lessons in a manner that achieves both goals. It will look at models of instruction that illustrate these goals. Participants will actively engage in improving the models provided and begin to draft one of their own lessons so that it will be engaging and effective in promoting student knowledge, skill, and understanding.

2107T Enhancing Teacher Capacity for Classroom Instruction That Works – R
Beginner
Deborah Childs-Bowen, ASCD What Works in
Schools Faculty
Based on the best-selling book Classroom Instruction that Works, this session helps you know which research-based teaching strategies are effective to use throughout an entire unit of instruction.

2108T Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: How They Work Together – R
Experienced
Janie Ray Smith, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
How does a curriculum development model and a teaching model fit together? One helps us know what to teach and the other tells us how. This session will examine the commonalities of Understanding by Design and Differentiated Instruction with practical tips for how they can be used together to provide high quality curriculum and instruction for all learners.

2109T Leadership for Creating and Sustaining High-Performing Schools – R
Beginner
Vera Blake, ASCD What Works in Schools and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Review the key characteristics of successful leadership in high-performing schools, and understand which leadership skills and strategies are essential to the school-, teacher-, and student level factors that influence achievement.

2110T Using Active Learning Experiences in your Classroom
Beginner
Figen Sonmez, English Department Head
(G6-G8), Enka Schools
Teachers are resourceful and are always on the lookout for new ideas and strategies to use in the classroom. In the daily grind of teaching we wish to provide our students with experiences that will help them become interested and connected in our subject area, as well as moving them into an active state of thinking, learning, and doing. This workshop will provide you with some teaching and learning strategies that will help your students become actively involved in your lessons, regardless of the subject area that you teach.

2111T Student Motivation and Teacher-Level Factors: What is the Relationship? – R
Beginner
Judi Herm, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Attend this session to explore the relationship between student motivation and teacher level factors that are critical to learning and achievement. And get ideas that empower you to successfully motivate and engage your students.

2112T Designing and Using Tiered Assignments – R
Experienced
Sandra Page, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Discover how to use tiered assignments to adapt classroom tasks and instructional processes to meet a wide range of learning needs. And explore tiered assignments to see how to apply readiness techniques to assignments.

2113T Advancing Stage One Unit Design – R
Experienced
Marcella Emberger, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
If you have some basic knowledge of stage one of Understanding by Design, attend this session to explore how to create more provocative essential questions that help students build a strong knowledge base and promote retention.

2114T Designing a Goals-Driven Assessment System to Provide Effective and Timely Feedback – R
Beginner
Jean Conyers, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Giving students good feedback is crucial to their success. Attend this session to explore strategies that help students set their own goals and help you design standard-based assessments that are timely and meaningful.

2115T The Landscape of Teacher Education
Experienced
Peggy J. Blackwell, Dean, College of Education,
Zayed University
The education of a teacher is not just about study in the classroom—the most important aspects of learning to be a good teacher occur in practice in schools with excellent mentor teachers, both from an institution of higher education and from a school.
Moving from the traditional approach of supervision to the more constructive methods of mentoring and collaboration require steadfast commitment on the part of university faculty and students, schools and school faculty, in addition to Ministries of Education. Recent innovations in teacher education and the focus on the whole child in learning are examined with particular attention to school-university partnerships and clinical practice.

2116T Using Understanding by Design in the Early Childhood Classroom – R
Beginner
Opal Davis Dawson, ASCD Understanding by
Design Faculty
Students between the ages of three and six are sponges for understanding. Here’s your opportunity to lean how you can help children make sense of facts, skills, and ideas and provide a greater impact on their long-term personal success.

2117T Using RAFTS and Journal Prompts to Differentiate Instruction – R
Beginner
Deborah Jones Riley, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Ignite a fire in your students’ writing and help them learn essential concepts and skills by using a Role/Audience/Format/Topic (RAFT) approach and journal prompts in a differentiated classroom.

2118T Implementing a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
Beginner
Tim Westerberg, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
A key school-level factor influencing student achievement is a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Find out what your organization needs to understand about a guaranteed and viable curriculum and the action steps for implementation.

2119T Understanding Mathematics by Design – R
Beginner
Thomas Rye, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Learn how the principles of Understanding by Design—beginning with the end in mind, authentic assessments, and constructivist
teaching—come together in an easy-to implement framework for math curriculum.

2120T Differentiating for Student Affect
Beginner
Nanci Smith, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
To what extent can and should teachers differentiate instruction for affect? Explore this question and discover how lessons can be differentiated for affect as well as readiness, interest, and learning profile.

Sunday Afternoon Breakout Sessions
November 9, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

2201T Adapting Strategies for Struggling Readers and Writers
Beginner/Experienced
Carol O’Connor, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Discover practical literacy strategies that transform basic curriculum into more engaging learning experiences. The session includes tips you can use to expand vocabulary knowledge and improve comprehension and writing skills.

2202T Schooling by Design
Beginner/Experienced
Grant Wiggins, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Get an overview of Schooling by Design and its practical and proven processes, tools, and examples to assist school leaders and teachers in implementing and sustaining standards-based education.

2203T W.H.E.R.E.T.O.: An Instructional Planning Template
Beginner
Donnell Gregory, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2103 for session description.

2204T Content Literacy: Academic Vocabulary as a Tool for How and What Students Learn
Beginner
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2104 for session description.

2205T A Healthy School Community: The Health and Learning Connection
Beginner/Experienced
Theresa C. Lewallen, Director, ASCD Healthy
School Communities
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2105 for session description.

2206T Engaging Instruction to Promote Student Understanding
Beginner/Experienced
Everett Kline, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2106 for session description.

2207T Enhancing Teacher Capacity for Classroom Instruction That Works
Beginner
Deborah Childs-Bowen, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2107 for session description.

2208T Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: How They Work Together
Experienced
Janie Ray Smith, ASCD Leadership and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2108 for session description.

2209T Leadership for Creating and Sustaining High-Performing Schools
Beginner
Vera Blake, ASCD What Works in Schools and Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2109 for session description.

2210T Different but Equal: Cultural Differences and Leadership
Beginner/Experienced
Darlene Fisher
Working in international schools, or national schools with international staff and curricular, leaders are constantly faced with challenges of how to respect all cultures, while moving forward in a focused direction to achieve the goals outlined by the school mission. Different cultures have different ways of moving towards goals, so how do leaders achieve these
goals while treating people differently but equally? Using western ideals of educational methodology and management techniques is not always appropriate. This workshop will explore some different cultural methods of achieving goals, and discuss how best to work with them. Some examples from different cultures will be used to discuss possibilities of
how leaders can work with various people and cultures to achieve a school’s goals.

2211T Student Motivation and Teacher-Level Factors: What is the Relationship?
Beginner
Judi Herm, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2111 for session description.

2212T Designing and Using Tiered Assignments
Experienced
Sandra Page, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2112 for session description.

2213T Advancing Stage One Unit Design
Experienced
Marcella Emberger, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2113 for session description.

2214T Designing a Goals-Driven Assessment System to Provide Effective and Timely Feedback
Beginner
Jean Conyers, ASCD What Works in Schools
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2114 for session description.

2215T CMeeting the Needs of Children at Risk: Regional Trends and Whole Child Solutions – R
Beginner/Experienced
Dr. Joseph Ghaly, Executive Director, ASCD Middle East
Repeated from Saturday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 1118T for session description.

2216T Using Understanding by Design in the Early Childhood Classroom
Beginner
Opal Davis Dawson, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2116 for session description.

2217T Using RAFTS and Journal Prompts to Differentiate Instruction
Beginner
Deborah Jones Riley
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2117 for session description.

2218T Leading Results-Based Professional Development
Beginner/Experienced
Ann Cunningham-Morris, ASCD Director of Professional Development
Attend this session to learn how to assess the professional development efforts in your school, and discover which learning models and practices build instructional capacity that leads to results-based school improvement.

2219T Understanding Mathematics by Design
Beginner
Thomas Rye, ASCD Understanding by Design
Faculty Member
Repeated from Sunday Morning Breakout Sessions. See 2119 for session description.

2220T Differentiating Instruction in the Math Classroom
Nanci Smith, ASCD Differentiated Instruction
Faculty Member
Do you have students who are convinced that they can’t learn math? Here’s your opportunity to discover how to make math fun and accessible with activities that involve students in skill development and concept understanding.