8:30 - 9:00 Check-in and breakfast
9:00 - 9:25 Welcome and Opening Activity
Evansham Ballroom C
9:30 - 11:00 Morning Breakout Presentations (choose one breakout session)
Breakout 1 - Social/Emotional Learning - Meeting Rooms 1 & 2
- Relationships and How to Thrive - Heather Rowland, Radford High School
Come hear about ways to connect with students.
- Using the Outdoors to Support Student Well Being - Jenni Heartway and Tammie Sarver, Blue Mountain School
student well being, while acknowledging how students learn through all the domains. Blue Mountain School
has found by supporting academics within the rich context of our woods there is an amazing alchemy for
greater success in every area of a child's development.
- Choose Joy - Amy Stevens, VAVA
used in her classroom to build community.
Breakout 2 - Instructional Strategies 1 - Meeting Room 3
- How to Address the Maslow Needs so You Can Bloom - Molly Mitchell, Independence Elementary School
need and/or poverty background. By helping them address how they're feeling on the inside we can create
successful students regardless of their background.
- The Power of Promoting Risk Taking - Katie McDaniel, Auburn Elementary
Favorite Mistake" is a quick and easy way to promote risk taking within the classroom and helps to build
resilient learners. Students who have the chance to recognize mistakes as being "gifts" to their educational
journey, value learning, not just knowing.
- HELP! I Have a Question - Ann Heaslip, Blacksburg New School
independent work time to help manage student questions and reduce interruptions.
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00 World Cafe’
Topic 1 - Qualities of a strategy/practice that set students up for success
Topic 2 - What worked? What are the barriers? How can we lean into what works and prepare to get around
the barriers?
Topic 3 - Topic specific to High Leverage Practices
12:00 - 12:45 Lunch - Evansham Ballroom C
12:45 - 2:15 Afternoon Breakout Presentations (choose one breakout session)
Breakout 3 - Classroom Management - Meeting Rooms 1 & 2
- Improving Student Behavior in the Classroom - Jason Conaway, Alleghany Highlands Schools
the antecedent is figured out the behavior can be better managed using a replacement behavior and small
environmental changes.
Karla Scales, Grayson Givens and Jessica Clervol, Martinsville M.S.
PBIS focuses on using practices, systems, and data to guide decisions when interacting with students. The core
of PBIS strategies start in the classroom. Data shows making time to praise and celebrate your students,
gaining trust and building relationships with their parents and redirecting inappropriate behavior will provide a
positive atmosphere for students to work at their full potential, feel safe and supported, and ultimately aid in
their achievement.
Brooke Blanks and Jeffrey Stallings, Lucy Addison Middle School
The presenters will share the context and processes of pilot PBIS implementation in an urban middle school,
including projects designed to engage students in the co-construction of their classroom expectation matrix
for the unique space of the art classroom, resulting student work, outcomes and next steps.
Breakout 4 - Instructional Strategies 2 - Meeting Room 3
- Easy Questioning Strategies to Promote Higher Level Thinking - Angela Smith, Auburn Middle School
get kids thinking about instruction. These strategies are easily adaptable and can be used in any classroom or subject
area. Walk away with ready to use resources that you can take back to your classroom and utilize immediately!
- This ISN’T for Babies - Building Self-Efficacy in Adolescents with Reading Differences - Karen Rahmoeller, Pulaski County Middle School
monitoring, involving families and co-teachers, and maximizing phonics instruction to address years of
cumulative gaps in literacy achievement.
- AT Capacity Building: From Silo to Team - Brittany Davis, Roanoke City Public Schools
for increased use of assistive technology as well as thoughtful consideration of Universal Design of Learning
(UDL) approaches to meet needs of all students.
2:15 - 3:00 Speed Discussion and Wrap-Up