Ensuring Learning For All Students: Sharing Successful Practices for Students Who Struggle

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENSURING LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS: SHARING SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES FOR STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLE

May 22, 2013

8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Pace University Graduate Center, One Martine Avenue, White Plains

We invite you to listen and learn from peers and colleagues, as well as a national expert on effective inclusive classroom and school practices. Pace University School of Education is pleased to collaborate with Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES Curriculum Center, Rockland BOCES, Southern Westchester BOCES and the Lower Hudson RSE-TASC in presenting this exceptional one-day conference for teachers, administrators and educational professionals.

Keynote
Meaningful Engagement: Every Student, Every Lesson, Every Day
Keynote speaker: Dr. Kevin Feldman is the Emeritus Director of Reading and Intervention with the Sonoma County Office of Education and an educational consultant with a primary focus on practical approaches to accelerating academic literacy across grades and content areas. His major contributions are in the areas of student engagement, academic vocabulary, comprehension/critical thinking strategies, preventing early reading failure, linking assessment to instruction, developing school-wide literacy support models for elementary, middle, and high schools, and accommodating and accelerating ELL/Special Education and other high risk students. Dr. Feldman co-authored Narrowing the Language Gap: The Case for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction (2005) and co-edited a special issue of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice (2012) on content area literacy.
 
Breakout Sessions
Regional educators sharing effective, evidence-based strategies that have proven successful in their classrooms and schools. Breakout Topics include:
  •     Inclusive School Learning Cultures
  •     Intensive Behavioral Supports
  •     Reading in the Elementary Grades
  •     ELA in Middle School & High School
  •     Vocabulary Development
  •     Visual Learning Supports
  •     Data-Driven Instructional Decision Making
  •     ELL Strategies

Target Audience: K-16 Inservice and Preservice Educators, Parents

Cost: $75, includes morning refreshments & lunch

Register: Register online through Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES or through the PNW BOCES and Hudson River Teacher Center Activity Catalog.

For registration support, contact: Jennifer DelVecchio at jdelvecchio@pnwboces.org

For conference information, contact: Fran Wills, PhD, Coordinator of Professional Development, Pace University School of Education at fwills@pace.edu

Many thanks to Scholastic,Inc for supporting the keynote presentation. Scholastic is a leader in the special education marketplace and a trusted name in learning, providing research-based technology programs to support K-12 students.

 

 

 

 

For a PDF of the conference flier, please click here.