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9:00am CDT

Preparing Students for the 21st Century -- Lessons Learned from Our Nation's Most Rapidly Improving Schools Megacenter

10:15am CDT

AVC Director's Meeting Augusta I & II Building a Student Run 1:1 Computer Help Desk Salon IV Connecting Course Sequences to Pathways: Promoting College and Career Readiness Turquoise A Emerging Technology for Course Delivery--Edmodo Ruby Equity and Engagement: Parent Support Teams in Action Turquoise B Excellence: Building Process and Content with Integrated Curriculum Projects! Jade Helping Youth Find Their Future: A Mentorship Model that Works! Marsalis II iPad Apps not Naps for FACS Preschool Students and Instructors Jack Nicklaus Let's Talk About Data! Using Data to See Career and Technical Education. Marsalis I Making High School Math RTI a Reality Sapphire Moving Beyond Alignment - Getting the Common Core in Academic and CTE Classrooms Salon VI One-to-One Networking With the Use of Tablets and Computers Preservation Hall A Plano High School - A Shift in Climate Culture Ben Hogan Raising ACT Reading Scores by Improving Student Comprehension Abilities Coral Reading Strategies in the CTE Classroom Arnold Palmer Sharing Cyberspace with 3 Friends and 30 Million Others Broadway A The Principal Instructional Leader in a Data-driven Instructional Environment New Orleans Ballroom Web 2.0: No Registration Necessary Salon II Preparing for the Challenges and Opportunities of the Common Core State Standards Broadway B & C Using Literacy to Teach CTE Program Area Content Salon V

10:45am CDT

Continuing to Unlock Doors with HSTW's 10 Key Practices Salon III

12:45pm CDT

A National Study of High School Graduation Requirements and Diploma Options Arnold Palmer After School Programs - a Different Way of Learning Augusta I & II Blended? Flipped? Online? How to Implement Custom Digital Solutions that Maximize Student Learning Broadway A Connecting Students to Increase Graduation Rates Salon VI Cooking Connections: Science, Math, Art, Careers, Credentials, and Dual Credits! Jade Diversity: Understanding the Cultural Needs of Students, Parents, and Community Ruby Final Grades: What Can Data from 16 Million Secondary Courses Tell Us? Marsalis II Integrating Academic Content and Skills into CTE and Earn College Credit Sapphire Integrating Technology into Curriculum using an Interactive Whiteboard (SMART) Salon II Interactive Career Fair - A Hands-on Experience for Exploring Career Options Marsalis I One-to-One Networking With the Use of Tablets and Computers Preservation Hall A Pac-Man and the Common Core Coral Problem Based Learning in Consumer Education Ben Hogan Supporting An Amibitious Literacy Initiative with the Literacy Design Collaborative Turquoise B The Road to Quality Career Pathways: Guidance Services and Interdisciplinary Collaboration Turquoise A Transition is Tough - Let's Make a Game Out of It Jack Nicklaus Avoiding Classroom Comas New Orleans Ballroom Combining Best Practices for First Time Instruction and Student Interventions in Small Learning Communities Salon IV Continuing to Unlock Doors with HSTW's 10 Key Practices Salon III CTE at a Crossroads Theater Higher-level Questioning with Socratic Seminars Salon V

2:00pm CDT

Best Practice for Promoting FACS Programs Jade Building a Wind Farm in Your Classroom Coral Common Core Standards: How CTE Instructors Can Help Broadway A Connecting Students to Increase Graduation Rates Salon VI Contextual Mathematics (Mechanical Drafting and Geometry) Arnold Palmer Differentiated Instruction in Business Law Through Literature Circles Ben Hogan Engaging the Disengaged: Strategies for Reaching the 'Inbetweeners' and 'Idon'tcarers' Salon III Industry Certification: Lead by Example Sapphire Integrating Technology into Curriculum using an Interactive Whiteboard (SMART) Salon II Planning for High Quality CTE Education in the 21st Century Turquoise B Regional Approach to Career Development for High School and College Students Jack Nicklaus STEM Employment: What Our Students Really Need Ruby Students Recruiting Students into Illinois Agriculture Teacher Education Programs Marsalis I TinyQ - Social Media Tutoring - #ask_a_question #get_an_answer @arc.iit Marsalis II Combining Best Practices for First Time Instruction and Student Interventions in Small Learning Communities Salon IV Formative Assessment Preservation Hall A Literacy Professional Development Aligned to the Common Core Salon V Manage Your Classroom - Manage Yourself New Orleans Ballroom Transforming the Attitudes of At-Risk Students Theater BYOL for CIS: Helping Students Use Portfolios for College Choice and Job Search Turquoise A Illinois WECEP (Work Experience and Career Exploration Program) Coordinators Meeting Augusta I & II

3:15pm CDT

Backwards Planning for Integrated CTE Instruction Coral Developing Instructional Strategies to Embed Common Core Standards Turquoise B Do Teachers Teach Students Using the Methods by Which They Learn Best? Marsalis I Entrepreneurship: Virtual Enterprise International (VEI)Program Arnold Palmer Preparing for The WorkKeys Trilogy and NCRC Certificate. Ben Hogan Project Lead The Way (PLTW)--Problem-Based STEM Opportunities Marsalis II Real World Math, Decision Making and Career Awareness Applications for 6-12 Jack Nicklaus Saving Building Trades! (A Partnership Story) Broadway A Using Screencasts for Teaching and Learning Jade You Don't Have to be a Magician to Align Your FCS Curriculum to the Common Core Standards Ruby Brain Based Teaching: Making Connections for Long-Term Memory & Recall Preservation Hall A Specific Steps For Improving Parental Involvement New Orleans Ballroom Transforming the Attitudes of At-Risk Students Theater The Superintendent Does Make a Difference Sapphire

4:30pm CDT

The Superintendent Does Make a Difference Theater 'One Day at a Time': Supporting School Counselors in Transition Jade A series of Firsts: Improving Transitions and Increasing College Success for Students with Disabilities Preservation Hall A Career Facilitator: A Unique Position in Secondary Schools New Orleans Ballroom College Credit Business Courses Offered in High School Turquoise B Common Core Reading Standards and Students with Disabilities: Problems and Prospects in CTE Arnold Palmer Connecting Students to College and Careers through CCSS and STEM Ruby Education for Employment (EFE) Regional System Directors State Meeting and Staff Development Session Augusta I & II Freshman Advisory Transition and Leadership Program Coral How to Get Your Students to Think Outside the Box Turquoise A Improving Programs Through a Special Populations Lens Ben Hogan Increased Student Achievement in FCS with Brain-Strategies and Common Core! Broadway A Lake County Secondary Transition Service Providers Professional Learning Team (PLT) Marsalis I Quality Adjunct Are Faculty, Too! Sapphire Satisfying Common Core Anchor Standards With a Mini Unit on Korean Culture/Literature Jack Nicklaus Using Tuning Protocol to Critique Student Work in Technology Classes Marsalis II

8:15am CDT

Amped Up: Circuits, Schematics, Oh My! Sapphire Catching Freshmen Before they Fail Marsalis I Challenges and Resources for Professional School Guidance Counselors Coral Creating Wrap-around Support for Struggling Students Broadway A Data Driven Instruction: Improving Student Performance Salon IV Digital Storytelling: Defining Personality through Digital Stories Marsalis II Engaging 8th Graders in Career Options: Career Expo Can Make it Happen! Turquoise B High School, College & Career Centers - Build It & They Will Come Turquoise A High Technology in Tech Ed a guide for going 1:1 in ALL Tech Ed Courses. Ruby Improving Student College Readiness Skills in the Science Classroom Arnold Palmer Nanotechnology: Current and Future Directions Salon VI ProStart Curriculum - Expanding Career Exploration and Workforce Development for the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Industry Salon III Providing Additional Assistance in Order to Support Students and Learning Salon V School Improvement: Absent Funding Augusta I & II Six Step approach to Power Decision Making Jade CANCELLED - Design Thinking In The Classroom Cancelled Coral Session Avoiding Classroom Comas New Orleans Ballroom Brain Based Teaching: Making Connections for Long-Term Memory & Recall Preservation Hall A Building Teacher Capacity for Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Environments Theater U-46 STEM Equity Pipeline - Moving Forward with STEM Salon II

9:30am CDT

A Bridge to Your Future: Transitioning Into the Freshman Year Sapphire Can We Teach Creativity and Innovation? Yes and Here's How! Jade Classroom Lab Management and Incorporating Reading into a Foods Class Coral Creating Successful Vocational Community Partnerships for Students with Disabilities Marsalis II Creative Ways of Using Technology & Other Resources to Support Student Learning Salon V Data Driven Instruction: Improving Student Performance Salon IV Get Hands-on with Three Cutting-Edge Engineering Activities Salon VI Leading Change: Building a Culture of Support Broadway A ProStart Curriculum - Expanding Career Exploration and Workforce Development for the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Industry Salon III School Improvement: Absent Funding Augusta I & II STEM and the Common Core: A Literacy-Based Framework for Instruction Ruby Targeting Common Core with Inquiry Based Learning and Student Blogs Arnold Palmer Top 20 Tips for New Teachers Turquoise B We've Collected the Data, Now What? Marsalis I CANCELLED - Design Thinking In The Classroom Cancelled Coral Session Building Teacher Capacity for Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Environments Theater Creating and Changing Mindsets ~ Movies of the Mind Preservation Hall A Manage Your Classroom - Manage Yourself New Orleans Ballroom U-46 STEM Equity Pipeline - Moving Forward with STEM Salon II High School, College & Career Centers - Build It & They Will Come Turquoise A

10:45am CDT

Using Twitter for Professional Development Preservation Hall A 1:1 Initiative at Joliet Township High School District 204 Broadway A Collaborative Training for Literacy Design Turquoise A Community Centered Project-based Learning: Rigor + Relevance = Motivation Marsalis I Creating a Cross Cultural Learning Environment Based on Value Systems Marsalis II Establishing the Accountability Mechanism - From Students to Staff to Administrators Sapphire Freshman Connection - Last Chance to Bail (Bale) Coral Pathways to Results as a Vehicle for High School Improvement Ruby Robotics: Science and Technology as Popular as a Rock Star. Jade The Pathways Resource Center: A Resource for RTTT Districts Arnold Palmer The Yellow Brick Road: Following a New Path Turquoise B Using a CTE Employability Skills Assessment to Improve College Readiness Augusta I & II Changing School Cultures: The Key Ingredient to School Improvement New Orleans Ballroom Make Your Own Magic Designed to motivate individuals, employees, leaders and managers Theater

1:00pm CDT

How To Stay Motivated in Challenging Times Designed to help individuals, businesses and organizations cope with and conquer change and challenge St. Charles Ballroom