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Table of Contents
Special Event Information 4

Conference at a Glance 5

Sessions at a Glance 6

Recertification Form 8

Sponsors 9

Executive Directors Club Members 10

Monday Sessions 11

Monday Exhibitor Showcase 17

Tuesday Sessions 27

Tuesday Exhibitor Showcase 32

Wednesday Sessions 43

Presenter Directory 48

Exhibitor Directory 52

Adult Education Sessions 58
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Welcome to the 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute
Letter from i3 Committee Chairperson Margaret Spivey
On behalf of the SCASA team and the Innovative Ideas Institute Planning committee, welcome to the 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute.
As you network with colleagues and plan your schedules, we hope that you find the activities and conference sessions both helpful
and inspiring as you prepare for the 2014-2015 school year. Sessions have been planned and speakers have been selected with you
and your leadership responsibilities in mind.

In every observation, every innovative lesson plan, and every collaborative discussion in the field of education, students are the
center of every decision made. With student centered approaches and ideas, we can never go wrong as educators. As we officially
shift to a new foundation of standards that guide our steps in the best instructional delivery, let us forever remember that what does
not change is meeting the diverse needs of ALL students.

As administrators we empower those we lead with knowledge and support needed to push forward with greatness. Meeting those
needs will continue to be at the forefront of our administrative practices within our buildings. With these concepts in place we create
an instructional environment that truly provides an atmosphere for success and high student achievement.

Please find within this Summer 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute, a multitude of great ideas to help you to stay connected with best
practices. Stay connected with shifts and new trends in education. But above all stay connected with colleagues providing a
collaborative discussion of all things education. GET CONNECTED and enjoy the conference!

2014 Innovative Ideas Institute Committee

Connie Dennis, Clarendon School District 3
Rosa Dingle, St. Paul Elementary School
Aimee Fulmer, Westview Elementary School
Kathy Gainey, Lamar High School
Marie Gibbons, Clarendon School District 2
Lee Green, Chester County Career Center
Gwendolyn Harris, Scott's Branch Middle/High School
Robert Jackson, Irmo Middle School
William James, SC Public Charter School District
Belinda Johnson, Star Center for Learning
Sonia Leverette, Anderson School District 5
Melissa Lloyd, Lugoff Elementary School
Tim Newman, Orangeburg County School District 4
Margaret Peach, McCracken Middle School
Cindy Pridgen, Woodland Heights Elementary School
Rhonda Rhodes, Wren Elementary School
Jean Smith, Abbeville County School District
Margaret Spivey, Greenville County Schools
George Ward, Laurens School District 55

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Letter from SCASA Executive Director Molly Spearman
Great leaders are constantly looking for successful ideas, improved strategies, meaningful ways to reflect and grow,
stronger friendships, and ways to serve. That is what you will find this week at the Innovative Ideas Institute. We have
put together a program with keynote speakers who will motivate and teach, presenters who will share cutting-edge
ideas that have been successful, and business friends who have the latest programs to help you achieve higher
expectations with your students. We know that you will be a stronger school leader because of your experience this
week.

This has been a record year for our association. Thank you for supporting us with the strongest membership and
participation that we have had in our history. You have verified that we are better and stronger when we work together.
As your staff, we are constantly looking for ideas and ways to improve service to our SCASA members. Please talk with us
about any changes or improvements you feel that we should implement to make our association better equipped to
serve the school leaders of South Carolina.

Have a great conference and thanks again for being with us!

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Special Event Information

Badges
Please wear your i3 conference badge at all times. This
serves as your admission to all conference events,
including general sessions and breakout sessions.

Beach Walk/Run
Join us Tuesday morning for the annual Beach
Walk/Run, sponsored by Pearson. The Walk/Run will
start on the beach near the Embassy pool deck.
Finishers get a commemorative conference t-shirt and
will be entered in a drawing to win $100!

Exhibitors
Visit the exhibitors in the Exhibit Hall located in
Kensington DG, Cambridge, Balmoral and Westminster
Hallways of the Embassy Suites! The Exhibit Hall will be
open Monday and Tuesday from 9:45 am-2:30 pm. Be
sure to take advantage of the Focus on Exhibits from
10:00 am-11:00 am each day!

Exhibitor Showcase
Take advantage of the Exhibitor Showcase during lunch
on Monday and Tuesday from 12:30 pm 1:00 pm. This
is your opportunity for an in-depth look at products
from participating exhibitors. See your conference
program for session offerings.

General Sessions
All general sessions will be held in the Palisades
Ballroom located at The Hilton Resort, just a short walk
from the Embassy Suites. Transportation will also be
available.

SCASA Bookstore
Be sure to visit the SCASA Bookstore! The bookstore will
offer books from keynote speakers and other hot titles.
It will be open daily in Kensington E. Keynote speakers
will do book signings in the Palisades Ballroom at The
Hilton Resort, so be sure to purchase your books before
the general session. The bookstore is provided by
Scholastic Book Fairs.

Charging Station
Charge all of your electronic devices at the charging
station sponsored by Stay Mobile. The charging station
can be found in the Exhibit Hall (Kensington DE) beside
booth 33.

Cyber Caf
The Cyber Caf is located in the Windsor Foyer by the
registration room.
i3 on Facebook and Twitter
Know whats happening throughout the day by liking i3
on Facebook and by following i3 on Twitter #SCASAi3.

i3 Mobile App
Download the i3 Mobile App on your Apple or Droid
devices! The app includes breakout session information,
presenter handouts, exhibitor information and more!
Search for SCASA.

Recertification Renewal Data
In this program booklet, you will find a recertification
credit form where you can list the sessions you have
attended. If you would like a session(s) to be considered
for recertification credit, you are responsible for
completing the form and submitting the agenda and
form to your personnel office. The agenda is for
verification that you attended sessions at the
conference. (NOTE: Your personnel office alone is
authorized to determine if the session(s) may be used
for renewal credits. SCASA does NOT make these
decisions.)

QR Codes
QR Codes will also be used to scan other participants
name badges for their contact information. QR Codes
will also be used for a scavenger hunt in the exhibit hall.
You may use the QR reader inside the mobile app or
download one of the following QR Code scanners.

iPhone/iPad: QR Reader for iPhone, Scan for iPhone,
QR Code Scanner Free and RedLaser

Droid: QR Droid, QR Reader for Android and RedLaser

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Conference at a Glance

Sunday, June 15
4:00 pm-5:00 pm SCASA Board/Leadership Meeting Somerset
5:00 pm-5:30 pm Volunteer Meeting Windsor B
5:30 pm-6:00 pm 1
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Time Attendee Reception Hampton
5:15 pm-6:15 pm CTEA Division Meeting Winchester
Technology Roundtable Meeting Pembroke
Special Ed Directors Roundtable Meeting Kensington A
7:30 pm-8:30 pm Sundaes on Sunday Palmettos Pavilion

Monday, June 16
8:30 am-10:00 am General Session Palisades Ballroom, Hilton
10:00 am-11:00 am Focus on Exhibits Exhibit Hall, Embassy
10:30 am-12:30 pm Deep Dive Sessions
11:00 am-12:15 pm Education Sessions
12:30 pm-1:00 pm Exhibitor Showcase
1:15 pm-2:30 pm Education Sessions
4:15 pm-5:15 pm Instructional Leaders Division Meeting Somerset
Elementary Division Meeting Kensington A
Middle Level Division Meeting Kensington B
Education Specialists Division Meeting Hampton
Student Services Directors Meeting Winchester

Tuesday, June 17
6:00 am Beach Walk/Run Embassy Pool Deck
10:00 am-11:00 am Focus on Exhibits Exhibit Hall, Embassy
10:30 am-12:30 pm Deep Dive Sessions
11:00 am-12:15 pm Education Sessions
12:30 pm-1:00 pm Exhibitor Showcase
2:45pm-4:00 pm Education Sessions
4:15 pm-5:15pm Personnel Division Meeting Windsor A
Elementary/Middle Meeting Kensington A

Wednesday, June 18
8:30 am-9:45 am Education Sessions
12:00 pm-5:00 pm Post Conference: Leading for Innovation Paliasades GHI, Hilton

Registration Hours Kensington F Bookstore Hours Kensington F Exhibit Hall Hours
Sunday 3:00 pm-7:30 pm Sunday 3:00 pm-7:30 pm Mon-Tues 9:45 am-2:45pm
Mon-Tues 7:30 am-4:00 pm Mon-Tues 7:30 am-4:00 pm

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Sessions at a Glance

Common Core
Forget the Standards It's all about Indicators of Rigor! Monday, June 16 11:00-12:15 p.m.
How to make sense of College & Career Readiness Standards
Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance Monday, June 16 1:15-2:30 p.m.
"How do your ensure your students have 'em?"
Making the Shift: increasing Rigor Monday, June 16 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Puzzled About what to Do with CCSS Monday, June 16 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Evidence vs. Opinion Can you be the judge? Monday, June 16 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Career & Technology Education: Uncommon to the Core Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
The Exciting New Frontier of Learning Progressions Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
District Level Planning for RTI and Common Core Integration Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Assessing the Core Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Making Differentiated Instruction a Reality Tuesday, June 17 1:15-2:30 p.m.
C4: From Concept and Design to Implementation Tuesday, June 17 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Building Systems to Support Implementation of the Common Core Tuesday, June 17 2:45-4:00 p.m.
at the District/School and Classroom Levels: The Richland Two Experience
Navigating the Common Core through Instructional Leadership Wednesday, June 18 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Educator Evaluation
District & School Planning for Student Learning Objectives Tuesday, June 17 11:00-11:30 a.m.
How will you implement SLOs in SY 15-16 Tuesday, June 17 1:15-2:30 p.m.

Technology
The Administrator and Instructional Technology Monday, June 16 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Digital Age Learning: From Vision to Reality! Monday, June 16 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Evernote: Digital Portfolios Monday, June 16 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Flipping for Digital Staff Development Monday, June 16 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Standards and Assessment with iPad! Monday, June 16 1:15- 2:30 p.m.
Leading a Digital Conversion Monday, June 16 1:15- 2:30 p.m.
Front-loading Content in Courses Through Technology Monday, June 16 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Exploring the Use of iPad for Literacy! Monday, June 16 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Partners in Learning Monday, June 16 1:15- 2:30 p.m.
How DO They Do That? Secret Tech Weapons for Tuesday, June 17 10:15- 12:15 p.m.
School Administrators
Transition to a Digital Classroom! Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Using Google Forms for Teacher Observations Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
PowerSchool and the Administrator Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Deploying and Managing iPads in Education! Tuesday, June 17 1:15- 2:30 p.m.
Education in the 21st Century: A Digital Life 101 Tuesday, June 17 1:15- 2:30 p.m.
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Be on the Reading Edge by Motivating Readers Through Technology Tuesday, June 17 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Preparing Todays Students for Tomorrow! Tuesday, June 17 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Get Nerdy, Get Organized and Get Ahead! Tuesday, June 17 2:45-4:00 p.m.
iParent--Parent/Teacher Communication Wednesday, June 18 8:30- 9:45 a.m.
Is Your iPad Truly Mobile? Wednesday, June 18 8:30-9:45 a.m.

School Law
Mock Student Discipline Hearing Monday, June 16 10:15-12:15 p.m.
School Law Updates Tuesday, June 17 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Mock Student Discipline Hearing Tuesday, June 17 10:15-12:15 p.m.

Personnel
Supporting New Teachers Monday, June 16 11:00-12:15 p.m.
MODEL - A Total Package Monday, June 16 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Pay for Public School Administrators Monday, June 16 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Growing Our Own: Developing Effective Leaders for Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
21st Century Schools
Formative Feedback for the Principal Tuesday, June 17 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Leadership Training that Pays Off Tuesday, June 17 2:45-4:00 p.m.

Special Education
One in 88?! Autisum Monday, June 16 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Ok, I Admit It, Suspension Doesn't Change Behavior Monday, June 16 2:45-4:00 p.m.
District level planning for RTI and Common Core integration Tuesday, June 17 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Special Needs Can Succeed Tuesday, June 17 1:15-2:30 p.m.
The Sticky Spiderweb of Special Education Laws Tuesday, June 17 2:45- 4:00 p.m.

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South Carolina Association of School Administrators
2014 Innovative Ideas Institute
June 15-18, 2014

Recertification Form

Date General
Session
Keynote
Session 1
Education
Sessions
Session 2
Education
Sessions
Session 3
Education
Sessions
Monday,
June 16

Stephen M.R.
Covey

Tuesday,
June 17
Kevin Carroll

Wednesday,
June 18
Dan Heath

I certify that I attended the sessions listed.

Signature:

_____________________________________
Please note: Your personnel office alone is authorized to determine if the session(s) may be used for renewal credits. SCASA does NOT make these
decisions.)

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Conference Sponsors
SCASA and the 2014 Innovative Ideas Institute planning committee wishes to extend a special thank you to the sponsors of this years
conference. When visiting the exhibit areas, please make an effort to thank these sponsors for their support of SCASA and public
education.
ACT, Inc.
Apple Education
C2 Collaborative
Classworks
Curriculum Associates
Data Recognition Corporation
Herff Jones
Horace Mann
ID Shop
JAMF Software
Lifetouch National Studios
Lightspeed Technologies
NWEA
Pearson
Renaissance Learning
Rhodes Graduation Services
SC ETV
Scholastic Book Fairs
Staymobile
Virco, Inc
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Executive Directors Club Members

Platinum Level

Gold Level

Silver Level

Bronze Level

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Monday, June 16

10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.
Focus on Exhibits

10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Deep Dive Sessions

11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Breakout Sessions

11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Snap Learning Spot

11:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.
Lunch on Own

12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m.
Exhibitor Showcase

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions

1:15 p.m. 1:45 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
Snap Learning spot

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Breakout Sessions

2:45 p.m. 3:15 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

Keynote Speaker
8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
Hilton Palisades Ballroom

The 13 Behaviors of a High Trust Leader

Stephen M. R. Covey is the author of The SPEED of Trust, a
groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book that challenges our
age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue.
Instead, the book demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged,
economic drivera learnable and measurable skill that makes
organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and
relationships more energizing. Covey advocates that nothing is
as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish,
grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical
leadership competency of the new global economy.

Covey is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, which,
under his stewardship, became the largest leadership
development company in the world. He personally led the
strategy that propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to one of the two most
influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO
Magazine. A Harvard MBA, Stephen M. R. Covey joined the Covey
Leadership Center as a Client Developer, became National Sales
Manager, and finally President & CEO.

Stephen M.R. Covey

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Monday, June 16
10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Education Sessions

Room: Palladium A (Brighton Building)
The Winning Combo to Improve and
Accelerate Student Performance: Assessment
Tasks Matching CCSS Rigor and Selective Student
Engagement Strategies
Beth Reynolds & Sandy Addis, National Dropout Prevention
Center

Classroom assessment has the greatest impact on student
learning and achievement of any educational innovation
ever documented. Leaders need to have first-hand
knowledge of its power and how best to recognize it,
support it, and model it with teachers. Preparing
students for success in a highly competitive, global, and
information rich world first requires educators to use
classroom assessment as a springboard for rethinking and
redesigning the work students will be asked to do as well
as for engaging them actively in the process. In this
interactive session, Dr. Beth P. Reynolds will engage all
levels of leadership in examining customized unit
planning templates, strategies, video clips, and stories
from five year olds to Grade 12 students and across
subject areas to illustrate the power of creating
assessment tasks and accompanying checklists that both
align to CCSS and open the door for involving students in
ways that research has shown to result in huge gains in
learning and achievement. They will also talk about ways
to provide teachers with appropriate feedback to
improve, whether from the school or the district level.

Room: Palladium B (Brighton Building)
Mock Student Discipline Hearing with Full
Discussion of All Legal Issues that Arise
Kathy Mahoney, Vernie Williams & Dwayne Mazyck, Childs &
Halligan, P.A.

After presenting an actual mock student discipline
hearing (with live attorneys, witnesses, and testimony),
the presenters will discuss all the critical student issues
administrators need to know, including student misuse of
social media, searches of students consistent with NJ v.
TLO, and admissibility of evidence at student discipline
proceedings.

Deep Dive Sessions

11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Room: Hampton
The Richest School in Town
Otis Reed & Judy Holmes, Manning Primary School

Manning Primary School has implemented a school-wide
focus on positive character traits, good citizenship and
leadership skills through a study of Marty from The
Richest Man in Town by V.J. Smith. School and
community relations have strengthened as a result of the
enthusiasm from this initiative. Diverse community
stakeholders have committed to and are serving as
Marty Mentors. Manning Primary School is Making
Attitudes and Relationships Top priority Year round with
a school-wide book study, community involvement,
positive mentors for students and rewards for Marty-like
behavior. Students demonstrating improved behavior
and increased achievement are rewarded with Marty
Parties, use Marty Money and earn Marty
Medallions. Former i3 speaker, V.J. Smith and Marty
have given Manning Primary School and its surrounding
community a blueprint for leading a rewarding and
productive life. Come learn how to replicate this
successful character education and community
mentoring program.

11:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Room: Hampton
iLead: Student Leadership & the Power of
Positive Energy
Steven Puckett, Indian Land Elementary School

Imagine a framework that would allow you to transform
your school to a culture of leadership for all stakeholders.
The iLead Framework gives you and your school an
opportunity to take existing or start up programs and
streamline them for maximum effectiveness. Elements
such as; parent volunteer opportunities, character
education, community involvement, service learning,
mentoring, leadership development, academic
enrichment, project based learning, and collaboration
with other schools being some examples. The iLead
framework is a different approach to establishing
leadership and sustaining success in the school setting.

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Education Sessions
11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

Room: Eton
Improving Behavioral Outcomes in
Charleston County Schools
Patricia Daughtry, Charleston County Schools &
Blake DuBose, Pearson

Behavior and discipline have become increasingly
more important in todays schools, and with
research pointing to a direct link between
behavior improvements and academic advances,
districts across the country are focusing on
behavior and discipline initiatives. Charleston
County Schools has recently begun the
implementation of a new system that combines
online universal screening for behavior with the
BESS, professional development, incident data
processing, behavior planning, progress
monitoring, and a virtual real-time behavior
coaching utility to realize their goals for students.
By combining decades of research with current
behavior data and universal behavior screening,
Charleston is excited to make great strides with
PBIS and MTSS. This presentation will focus on
the background of Charleston Countys needs and
decision-making process, as well as their
experience and results so far. We will also take a
look at how the system used in Charleston County
has helped similar districts to reduce Suspensions
and Expulsions, reduce Disproportionality, and
increase positive behavioral and academic
outcomes for all students.

Room: Oxford
The Center for Educational Partnerships:
Working Together to Transform Learning,
Schools and Communities
Lemuel Watson, University of South Carolina, Jerry
Mitchell, Center for Educational Partnerships;
Hannah Baker, SC Writing Improvement Network;
and Tom Hudson, SC School Improvement Council

The new Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP)
at the USC College of Education was created to
encourage and facilitate broad-based, innovative
collaborations that bring together existing
resources from all sectors of the community for
the purpose of ensuring that all of South

11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Room: Windsor C
Digital Age Learning: From Vision to Reality
Panel Discussion with South Carolina Leaders, Apple Inc.

The panel discussion will focus the vision,
implementation strategies, professional development
practices, community engagement strategies and more
required for successful digital learning and teaching
initiatives. Learn from your peers on how those factors
that school leaders should consider as they transform
their schools into innovative hubs of teaching and
learning. From financing to professional development,
we will learn best practices from school based leaders
that have been successful with implementing iPad
initiatives.

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
Room: Windsor C
Standards and Assessment with iPad
Apple Inc.

The movement toward standards-driven content is
occurring across the United States, emphasizing that
technology be deeply integrated into the educational
experience across all subject areas. New assessment
systems require schools to be prepared for deployment
in 2014. Join us at this event to learn how Apple can
support you through these critical transitions. Learn how
iPad and a wide range of instructional content such as
apps, books, podcasts, and learning resources can
support national and state standards.

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Room: Windsor C
Exploring the Use of iPad for Literacy!
Apple, Inc.

Join us for an opportunity to explore some of the
amazing apps demonstrated in Kristi Meeuwse's featured
session. Kristi is an Apple Distinguished Educator and is
the author of the iteachwithipads.net blog. We will
explore the apps mentioned in her session that led to
transformation in the classroom. Kristi will share her list
of favorite digital resources for elementary students, and
will discuss how these apps and resources have
facilitated personalized learning!

Apple Digital Learning
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Carolinas children have access to a high quality
21st century education. Through its five member
programs and initiatives, CEP provides services
directly to teachers, schools, districts and families
in the areas of professional development, family
and community engagement, and research and
policy analysis. In addition, CEP is developing new
virtual spaces in which schools, families and
communities can connect with post-secondary
institutions, businesses, non-profits, government
agencies and other stakeholder groups in order to
find the expertise, resources and assistance they
need to improve their schools. CEP is also working
to provide mechanisms through which
researchers and education experts can partner
with schools and districts to speed dissemination
of proven practices, conduct field trials of
promising models, and develop and test
innovative research-based models. The Dean of
USCs College of Education Dr. Lemuel Watson
and Directors of CEP member programs and
initiatives will engage in a panel discussion and
dialogue with attendees about ways that CEP can
meet the needs of school and district
administrators.

Room: Winchester
Make Personalized Learning a Reality by
Creating a Blended Environment
Terry Pruitt & Christina Horowitz, Spartanburg
District 7

Learn about Spartanburg School District 7s
blended learning initiative, Seven Ignites, as well
as how personalized learning has become part of
the culture from K5 grade 12. Lessons learned
on the road to a district-wide digital conversion
will be shared, as well as what is essential in
making blended learning successful across all
schools and grade-levels. Also learn
why Classworks has been a key component of
moving the district toward personalized learning.
District 7s implementation of Classworks is a
model for other districts planning to personalize
learning and using technology to advance
student academic performance.

Room: Pembroke
The Administrator and Instructional
Technology
Keith Brown, Doug Henderson, & Marc Frechette,
Georgetown County Schools

This session will describe the importance of
administrative involvement with technology, as
well as the different ways that Administrators can
get involved in the integration of Instructional
Technology at their schools. We will offer live
online tools for to engage the Administrators
during the session. The session will further discuss
practical ideas, guidelines, web tools and
resources that foster growth using Differentiated
Instruction and implementing strategies for the
Common Core standards. The presenters will
represent Elementary, Middle and High School
topics.

Room: Kensington A
Forget the Standards It's All About
Indicators of Rigor! How To Make Sense of
College & Career Readiness Standards
ACT, Common Core, Cambridge
Worldwide!
Penny Reinart, Center for College & Career Readiness

This session provides educators with essential,
immediate strategies to make sense of and master
College & Career Readiness Standards using the
key indicators of Rigor.

Room: Kensington B
Flipping for Digital Staff Development
Donna Hooks & Heather Daminov, Burgess
Elementary School

Are you tired of the same old staff development?
Do you want to get your staff engaged and model
the latest technology using 21st century tools?
The administrative team from Palmetto's Finest
Burgess Elementary School has transformed
traditional staff development by "flipping" staff
meetings and going digital and paperless. They
will share how you, too, can become proficient
with interactive technology to extend teacher
learning and make efficient use of time.

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Room: Kensington C
Evernote: Digital Portfolios
Jessica Donaldson & Bill Gaskins, Berkeley County
Schools

Evernote is a digital tool that can be used to
create portfolios that document or showcase
student work. In this session, participants will see
portfolio examples of student work and have
hands-on time to create practice portfolios.
Whether you have an iPad, an Android
smartphone, or Windows laptop, Evernote is the
perfect tool to document student growth.

Room: Somerset
The Impact of Early Literacy on Black Male
Matriculation through College Graduation
Raashad Fitzpatrick, Gaffney High School

This session will provide a blueprint of the
successful path from birth to college graduation
for black males. Specific strategies on early literacy
development, reading acceleration, building a
college going mindset with black males, building
college going cultures in middle and high schools,
student motivation, student accountability and
responsibility, overcoming poverty, and
mentoring. This session will give educators the
knowledge to equip all students with the tools
necessary to attend and graduate from college.
The common core goals of college and career
readiness will be evident throughout this
presentation.

Room: Windsor A
Supporting New Teachers: A Model for
Growth
Rebecca Partlow, Janet Morris & Gail Sumwalt, York
District Three

The Rock Hill Schools have developed an
induction program that has proven successful in
developing first-year teachers. Through support
from mentors, administrators, and district
specialists, first-year teachers develop their skills
and have their growth assessed through a growth
rubric. This session will highlight the success of
the program and provide participants with
suggestions and samples for implementing a
similar model.

Room: Windsor B
One in 88?! What Am I Supposed to Do with
All of These Kids with Autism?
Cassie Cagle, Beth Taylor & Hollis Walsh, Aiken
County Schools

Has the rapid increase in students with autism
caused concern for your department, your school,
or your district? Are you trying to figure out how
to not only include, but also bolster these
awesome individuals in your district? After 11
years of creating, tweaking, and innovating, one
school district has found some answers. Growing
from a small idea with 20 children and 5 staff
members into a large program with 250 children
and 45 staff members, Aiken Countys Autism
Program is experiencing success. Students are
served through a 2 Tier system with emphasis on
intensive therapy at a young age and
social/behavioral support groups as they mature.
Most students with autism are served in inclusive
settings, regardless of their communication skills.
Formerly non-verbal students are finding success
in many ways. These success stories include, but
are not limited to, holding the highest test scores
in their class, qualifying for gifted and talented
programs, singing solos in school programs, and
making life-long friends. Some students who
continue to be unable to talk are finding ways to
make great grades and scores on tests. Join us as
we share the program structure, research-based
strategies, and staff training that make up the
Aiken County Autism Program.

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Room: Palladium C (Brighton Building)
Designing the Effective School Division
Assessment System
Brenda Wilson, NWEA

This workshop is designed to assist teams of
school superintendents, key administrators and
teacher leaders to develop and/or improve their
school districts assessment programs so that they
are: driven to improve learning; streamlined and
efficient; smart about accountability; and strong
in providing data to educators that will help them
improve instruction. Participants will participate
in an introduction to the following activities:
inventory of their current assessments; review and
clarify the purposes that will drive their
assessment program; discuss common definitions
of summative, formative, and interim
assessments; identify the audiences (board,
administration, teachers, parents, students) for
data from their assessments and clarify the data
that is most useful to each audience; examine
some of the key metrics that they use to evaluate
schools and/or guide improvement, and explore
ways to improve those metrics; consider
strategies for setting goals that will guide
improvement. It is suggested that
schools/districts bring teams to this workshop.
Team members may include: school
superintendents, key administrators and teacher
leaders.

Room: Lands End (Brighton Building)
Overview from TransformSC Schools and
Action Team on Project-Based Learning
TransformSCs Project-Based Learning Action Team

37 schools across South Carolina are participating
in TransformSC - a collaborative effort of business
leaders, educators, parents and students to
incubate and accelerate educational change. One
transformational practice being implemented in
TransformSC Schools is Project-Based Learning.
TransformSCs Action Team will give an overview
of their activities and schools will share their
experiences with Project-Based Learning.

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Monday, June 16
Exhibitor Showcase
12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

Room: Eton
Fast-track Student Achievement with
Intervention and Assessment Solutions
TE21

TE21 offers solutions for schools and school
districts in preparing students for state testing
and Common Core. Products include: CASE
benchmark assessments for kindergarten through
HS, including new ACT prep tests; SCORE21
formative assessment builder; Academy of
READING and MATH remediation/intervention
software; Path Driver for Reading and Math, a
universal screener and RTI tool; Fuel Education
Personalized Learning Platform for online
learning; and more. Learn how districts/schools
are using these tools to diagnose, intervene and
transform instruction. Hear from teachers and
administrators who use TE21s award-winning
products to improve their schools.

Room: Oxford
Adaptive Learning -- the Key to At Risk
Readers' Success!
Erika Lawrence, Dorchester District Two for Imagine
Learning

Adaptive, individualized instruction gives at-risk
readers what they need to succeed in the
classroom and beyond. In order to provide such
impactful instruction, Dorchester School District II
has implemented technology-based intervention
programs and techniques to differentiate
instruction. By continually assessing students
progress, engaging students in learning, and
tailoring instruction to each students needs,
Dorchester School District II is seeing gains with
their at-risk readers.

Room: Winchester
Assess, Teach, Learn
Renaissance Learning

Renaissance Learning has assessments built for
insight and tools that empower teachers. Our
reading and math tools tap into a students
natural interests, so they dont think of learning as
work. As a result, they practice more, learn more,
and achieve more.

Room: Pembroke
NWEA/MAP Informed Learning Paths from
Achieve3000
Achieve3000

This session will showcase how Achieve3000 has
joined forces with Northwest Evaluation
Association (NWEA) to develop a powerful new
integration that will allow educators to create
MAP Informed Learning Paths. This product
combines the differentiated instruction of
Achieve3000 with the skills and concepts
measured by Measures of Academic Progress
(MAP) Interim Assessments and required for
College and Career Readiness. As an Achieve3000
user, you will have access to MAP Informed
Learning Paths using MAP Assessment data and
Achieve3000 data to create a personalized and
differentiated learning path for each student.
Achieve3000s differentiated online literacy
solutions for grades 2-12 reach all students one-
on-one at their individual reading levels,
accelerating reading gains, boosting mastery of
Common Core standards and performance on
high-stakes tests, and preparing them for college
and career. Please join us to hear more about
Achieve 3000 and the exciting new Map Informed
Learning Paths.

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Room: Kensington A
SchoolNet
Pearson

Pearson offers an Instructional Improvement
System (IIS) that features a fully web-based
platform that taps into the power of data-driven
K12 education for millions of American students.
This IIS manages the daily tasks of formative and
summative assessment, performance data
analysis, instructional planning and lesson plans,
curriculum management, intervention and
remediation efforts, RTI, professional
development, and educator evaluation. It
accomplishes all of these functions in a fully
automated, collaborative manner that provides a
single destination for all teachers and
administrators. This IIS solution is called
Schoolnet. Schoolnet has a single sign on with
PowerSchool and automatic synchronization.
Several states are currently using Schoolnet for
their IIS. Please join us for a unique IIS
presentation.

Room: Kensington B
Next Generation Skills in the Classroom
Learning.com

One of the most important things you can do to
prepare students for Next Generation
Assessments are to integrate technology into core
instruction. This will help students be comfortable
with online assessments and give them the
confidence they need to perform at their best.
EasyTech's interactive lessons help students
develop mouse, keyboarding, word processing,
and other technology skills while they study core
subjects. Designed with the busy classroom
teacher in mind, EasyTech can be easily included
in daily routines. Our 21st Century Skills
Assessment provides deep insight into students'
grasp of 21st century skills. Get a clear
understanding of your students' creativity,
innovation, critical thinking, decision making, and
digital citizenship skills. WayFind uses
performance-based and multiple-choice
questions to measure teachers' 21st century
instructional skills. Join us to see how students
and teachers can practice Next Generation Skills
every day in the classroom.

Room: Kensington C
Found Common Core Materials Already?
Now What?
Kurzweil & IntelliTools

There are many great materials on the market that
are aligned to Common Core. Now that youve
found them, how do your students succeed while
working with them? Kurzweil 3000-firefly is a
powerful literacy tool that provides support into
the very same curriculum and materials youre
already working with. When it comes to Common
Core, if your students are struggling with Text
Complexity, Informational Text, Academic
Vocabulary, Close Reading, Text-Dependent
Questions, or writing, then Kurzweil 3000-firefly
can provide great benefit.

Room: Hampton
Performance Management System and
Student Growth Model All in One
American Reading Company

American Reading Company's SchoolPace/eIRLA
captures achievement data that targets reading
growth for every student, every classroom, every
school, every day while making data actionable
between interim assessments. An online
formative assessment tool built on the Common
Core, this system measures student achievement
in real time to drive instruction. Using embedded
assessment, teachers identify the skills that each
student has mastered and which ones he/she
needs to do next.

Room: Somerset
Harnessing the Power of Research to
Inform Data-Driven Hiring and Increase
Student Achievement
TeacherMatch

The presentation summarizes ongoing research
that determines which skills, abilities, knowledge,
attitudes, dispositions, and experiences are most
essential to teacher effectiveness. Our study has
analyzed the relationships that exist between the
survey responses of thousands of teachers and
those same teachers ability to increse student
achievement.

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Room: Windsor A
Donors Choose Our Partnership to Help
Educators Find Funding for Classroom
Projects
Horace Mann

A brief introduction to Horace Manns multiyear
partnership with Donors Choose, a nonprofit
organization that lets you share your classroom
needs with a thriving community eager to help.
Supporters have brought teachers' ideas to life in
more than half of all U.S. public schools.

Room: Windsor B
Literature, Assessments and Data That
Drives Them
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Leadership and Learning

An overview of each of the 3 title pieces. Well
look at our Literature series and how it engages
and enables all children to learn at their own pace
for on, above and below level students. Well then
pivot to formative assessments, authentic
performance tasks, text dependent questions,
close reading and text complexity to show
learning. Finally well look at systems to gather
data and adjust instruction.

Community to Student Achievement
Results
Harriett Jaworowski, York District 3

Rock Hill Schools is transforming classrooms by
providing all students with challenging work that
authentically engages them in the learning
process and prepares them for successful futures
and is dedicated to bridging the digital divide and
it shows. A new study found that usage of
Discovery Educations digital science textbook is
associated with higher science achievement
scores in elementary school students. Specifically,
the data suggests that the Discovery Education's
Science Techbook increases student science
achievement and bolsters the effectiveness of
teaching when educators integrate it into
classroom instruction. To download the full
research study results, visit -
www.discoveryeducation.com/rockhill.

Measuring the Impact of Technology on
Learning: Just the Facts
BrightBytes

Billions of dollars are spent each year on
educational technology. How can you ensure
your investments impact learning? Explore the
research in this interactive session.

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Monday, June 16
Education Sessions

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

1:15 p.m. 1:45 p.m.

Room: Hampton
Redefining Alternative Programs
Josie Kate Haupfear & Tanya Wilson, Clinton High School

What comes to mind when you hear the term
"alternative program?" Come and learn how our district is
thinking outside the box to create a non-traditional
alternative program for students. In this session,
participants will hear about how we identify and invite
learners to participate in our alternative program, which
focuses on helping middle school students transition
into the high school environment.

2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Room: Hampton
10 Lessons for the 21st Century Learning in the
Freshman Academy
Seth Young & Paige Dillard, Wren High School Freshman
Academy; Robby Roach, Jeff Boozer & Nathan Croston,
Palmetto High School

Learn how a Freshman Academy is taking the next steps
to stay relevant in the 21st century. See how teachers
and students are utilizing data to guide instruction
during the 9th grade year and making the Freshman year
more than just a transition from middle school to high
school.

Snap Learning Spot

Theme: Professional Development & Leadership

Room: Kensington B
This format of learning has been spreading across the
country and world! Each talk is exactly five minutes long
and covers a variety of topics. Presenters share their
personal and professional passions, using 24 slides, 20
seconds per slide for a total of 8 minutes. The following
topics will be shared.

Mission Possible: Teamwork and Resilience Make
the Impossible Possible
Gloria Talley, Mary Gaskins & Howard Bissell, Lexington
District One

Whatever It Takes!
Amy Cothran, Jennifer Bufford & John Economou, Palmetto
Elementary School

Inquire, Ignite, Inspire...Innovate!
Donna Teuber, Richland District Two

Flip and Become a Blogger
Beth Shelton-Brooks, Pomaria-Garmany Elementary School
& Kim Shelton-Hamilton, Boundary Street Elementary
School

A Different Model of Collaborative Instructional
Planning
Mary Martin, Winthrop University

Teacher Toolbox for Teacher Candidates
Marian Crum-Mack & Sean Bishton, Rice Creek Elementary
School

Faculty Meetings that Promote Student & Adult
Learning: What, Why, and How
Kimberly Mack, Carol Hill & Lisa Grice, South Florence High
School

Instant Ideas

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Education Sessions
1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Room: Eton
The Leader in Me 3 Principals
Perspectives
Lori Dibble, Summerville Elementary School; Cammy
Groome, Newington Elementary School; and Kathy
Sobolewski, Rollings Middle School of the Arts

Come here from three principals, each at different
stages in the LIM process and how their paradigm
shifted in school management and student
leadership. They represent the elementary and
middle school levels and are willing to answer any
questions you might have. Whether youre
already in LIM school or are in the process, the
insight these ladies will provide will be useful to
anyone joining. Learn what to expect, pitfalls to
avoid, and practices to sustain the leadership
model in your school.

Room: Oxford
Caught in the ACT 2.0
Sean Alford & Elena Furnari, Dorchester District 2;
Trish Beason, Stephanie Mathis & Beth Pace,
Spartanburg District 1

Is school-wide or district-wide ACT, WorkKeys,
and/or QualityCore testing something new for
your school or district? Do you need a plan to
prepare for all of the changes in assessment in
SC? Come learn from our experiences in
Dorchester District Two and Spartanburg District
One where we created an opportunity for large
numbers of our students to take the ACT and
WorkKeys. Students participated in a district-wide
administration of these tests as a part of our
districts ongoing College and Career Readiness
initiatives. We also used the QualityCore program
to enhance and evaluate non-EOC core academic
courses. The ACT assessments support the goals
of our initiatives by providing an objective and
nationally recognized indication of student
readiness for postsecondary education and career
success. Learn how using ACT results will help
your students move toward their college and
career goals while providing your teachers,
counselors, and administrators with actionable
data!
Room: Winchester
Partners in Learning!
Wendell Sumter, Great Falls Elementary School

Looking for ways to improve your technology
skills or those of your staff? Interested in
partnering with other schools across the world?
Looking for ways to gain recognition and bring
powerful resources and tools to your campus to
transform the learning environment through
teaching and learning? Then we have just what
you need! Come learn about Microsofts Partners
in Learning Program and an excellent opportunity
to be an attendee at the Partners In Learning
Global Forum. In this session you will learn about
free resources, valuable international networking,
and opportunities to become recognized as an
Innovative School!

Room: Pembroke
Work Based Learning on the Loose in
Richland 2
Pepper Busbee, Blythewood High School & Mary
Harmon, Ridge View High School

RSD2 WBL coordinators will share creative and
innovative ways of using WBL opportunities in
and out of the classroom in preparing students for
21st century jobs. Will also present ideas for
bringing the real world of work to students and
their classrooms.

Room: Kensington A
Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance "How
Do You Ensure Your Students Have 'Em?"

The one most significant factor in student success,
no matter a students' IQ, socioeconomic
background, or grade point average, is GRIT! But,
how do you measure and nurture grit with every
student on your campus? Discover ground
breaking tools and strategies that quantify your
work in the area of the non-cognitive skills that
have the greatest impact on mastery of standards.

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Room: Kensington C
Making the Shift: Increasing Rigor
Carole Ingram, Jerry Henderson, Angela McCord &
Brooks Thomas, Beaufort Middle School

See how Beaufort Middle is working with its
teachers to grow towards the Common Core
through increasing rigor in the classroom. We will
tell you how we have used technology,
performance tasks and many other strategies to
target thinking, problem solving, questioning, and
assessment practices to increase rigor and
student achievement. Learn how we planned and
implemented differentiated professional
development on multiple tiers and how it was
applied in our classrooms,

Room: Somerset
Profile of the South Carolina Graduate
Betty Bagley & Peggy Torrey, TransformSC

What is TransformSC? What is the Profile of the
Graduate? What do they have to do with each
other? This session will introduce you to both.

Room: Windsor A
MODEL- A Total Package
Angela Cooper, Cecil McClary & Connie Lastinger,
Lexington District Two

Lexington District Two is building a culture of
excellence using design-based learning practices.
This "Total Package" links Selection, Employee
Growth-Development-Evaluation, and Retention.
We will demonstrate an innovative, appealing,
participant centered, engaging, and interactive
concept design. Utilizing Virtual Learning
Environment protocol we will share how we have
implemented this program in our district. This
process has enabled us to more effectively recruit,
provide engaging professional development, and
retain the best employees. As an attendee, you
will leave this session with information that you
can use in your district.

Room: Windsor B
The Transition from Assistant Principal to
Principal
Sandy Lindsay, University of South Carolina

Maybe you have just been given the head
Principal role or hope to take on that
responsibility as your next career move. How
should you prepare? What will be the biggest
differences in responsibility and how can you
prepare to perform them. In this session learn
some professional tools, gain some insights and
share with others who have a similar challenge
ahead.

Classroom Mosaic 2.0: Using Walkthrough
Observation Data to Foster Continuous
Growth
Robert Jackson, Irmo Middle School

Are walkthrough observations a common practice
in your district/building? Do you provide teachers
with instant feedback? How do you use data and
analyze these observations? Using todays
interactive technologies (such as the iPad, iPhone,
iPod Touch, and/or laptop computers), learn how
an administrator in Lexington District Five and a
pair of students created and implemented a
systematic and efficient walkthrough observation
protocol which tracks observer and classroom
performance data while simultaneously allowing
school leaders and teachers to create a dialogue
which fosters an environment of continuous
growth. Completing observations any other way
would not be efficient or effective for todays
multitasking school leaders. If you are searching
for a better way to get into classrooms while
providing effective, reflective, and timely
feedback for teachers, you are only a few steps
away. Come join this session. You will not be
disappointed.

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Leading a Digital Conversion
Tanya Campbell, York District Three

Are you are 1:1 school or considering becoming a
1:1 school? Do you have plan? Are you ready for
the cultural shift? These questions and many more
need to be considered and planned for as you
lead your school community through a digital
conversion. This session will discuss
implementation, professional development, and
curriculum integration of the iPads in the
classroom setting as well as provide practical tips
and advice.

Puzzled About What to Do with the
Common Core State Standards?
Jacqueline Jamison & Sharon Quinn, Orangeburg
District Five

Common Core Curriculum Guides, Revised Report
Cards, Common Core Institutes, Instructional
Framework, Teacher University, Mastery
Logs...These are a few of the "pieces" Orangeburg
Consolidated School District Five has put in place
as we transitioned to the Common Core State
Standards. Participants will learn OCSD5
implemented each of these strategies during this
session. Handouts and a toolkit of resources will
be shared with all participants.

RAMP-ing Up Your School Counseling
Program
Rob Rhodes, Greenville County Schools; Marci
Newman, Ashley Ridge High School; & Jennifer
Adams, Rocky Creek Elementary School

Comprehensive, developmental school
counseling programs are collaborative efforts
benefiting students, parents, teachers,
administrators and the overall community. During
this session, we will share specific data-driven best
practices, including RAMP, which maximize the
effectiveness of a school counseling program. We
will share strategies in the use of technology,
communication, building a college-going culture.
and partnering with parents and community. We
will also examine the principal-counselor
relationship and the role of a school counselor as
an integral partner in student achievement.

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Monday, June 16
Education Sessions

Education Sessions
2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

Room: Eton
Action Team on Blended Learning
TransformSCs Blended Learning Action Team

TransformSC Schools is Blended Learning.
TransformSCs Blended Learning Action Team will
give an overview of their activities and schools
will share their experiences with Blended
Learning.

Room: Oxford
Moving On & Moving Up: A Comprehensive
Guide to Middle School Transition
Dan Reyes, Catawba Trail Elementary School; Benita
Esteen, Summit Parkway Middle School; & Joe
Eberlin, Longleaf Middle School

The transition from elementary to middle school
is challenging for all students and families as they
are challenged with a number of personal, social,
academic, environmental and other changes. In
an effort to minimize the challenges and
maximize student achievement, we have begun
to create a comprehensive transition plan for
students. Join us as we share how we have
worked vertically between the elementary and
middle schools and participate in a discussion and
take away ideas you can use in your schools.

Room: Winchester
Creating a Culture of Learning: Setting
Instructional Expectations for Student
Achievement
Lori Gwinn, Brad Blackston & Amber King, Liberty
High School

Participants in this session will learn how one high
school is transforming to a culture of learning by
setting instructional expectations based on
effective learning research. Additionally, the

2:45 p.m. 3:15 p.m.

Room: Hampton
What Message are you Sending?
Jason Warren, Beck Academy & Eric Williams, Riverside
Middle School

What message are you sending? Every time a parent
receives an email, walks your halls, or reads a letter that
was sent home they are forming opinions based on the
professional quality of your communication skills. When
you communicate with business partners that
understand the importance of branding and
communicating with marketing in mind, are they
impressed with your school, or are you sending a
message that you don't care as much about your school
as they do about their business? You can improve the
impressions given to your community stakeholders by
viewing your communication through the lens of a
marketing firm and establishing as much control over the
messages your are sending (intentional and
unintentional) as possible. Presenters will use a school
Smartphone App, high quality brochures, electronic
photos of logos, school wide displays, digital branding,
social media screenshots etc... to demonstrate a high
quality approach to school branding and communication
to any school's community.

3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

Room: Hampton
Data Disaggregation in a Snap
Lavoy Carter, Kershaw County Schools

Turn the hundreds of columns and thousands of rows
that is your assessment raw data into meaningful
information in LESS THAN ONE MINUTE! You can do this
with software you already have in your district. Come
learn tips and shortcuts that will help you make sense of
your data. Whether you are a district administrator who
wants to identify performance trends or a school
principal who wants to make data-driven decisions to
guide instruction, this session will help you get there.

Snap Learning Spot
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session will address how to engage the learner in
middle school and high school classrooms and
what the administrative observer should look for
in these classrooms as signs of student learning.
Finally, participants will work together to think
about structures that exist in schools across the
state, share their experiences in classrooms where
learning is the culture, and develop a plan for
implementing a culture of learning at their high
schools and middle schools this fall.

Room: Pembroke
Adaptive Learning-The Key to At Risk
Readers' Success
Erika Lawrence, Flowertown Elementary School

Adaptive, individualized instruction gives at-risk
readers what they need to succeed in the
classroom and beyond. In order to provide such
impactful instruction, Dorchester School District II
has implemented technology-based intervention
programs and techniques to differentiate
instruction. By continually assessing students
progress, engaging students in learning, and
tailoring instruction to each students needs,
Dorchester School District II is seeing gains with
their at-risk readers.

Room: Kensington A
Evidence vs Opinion Can You Be the
Judge?

What is the evidence of a classroom using
argument based writing and not opinion based
writing? What does that classroom look like?
How does that classroom help build the
foundation for successful critical thinkers and
prepare our students for the new state writing
tests and ACT writing prompts?

Room: Kensington B
Breaking with Tradition: Offering Options
for At-Risk Learners
Neal Vincent, Florence District One; Gerard Edwards,
Alfred Rush Academy; Kimberly Mack & Mrs. Carol
Hill, South Florence High School

This interactive session will build capacity in
participants to think about how to better serve
their at-risk students in systemic ways. The
objective for the Alfred Rush Academy is for each
student to improve their areas of academic
weakness, learn to positively redirect their
negative behaviors and to make better informed
decisions. As the result of strategic changes,
students are opting to stay at the former
Alternative School instead of returning to their
home school. Presenters will provide meaningful
and measurable learning experiences for students
in "Making the RIGHT Choices!

Room: Kensington C
Challenges and Opportunities: Why
Poverty Matters and What Schools Must Do
Tammy Pawloski, Francis Marion University

While life with limited resources often provides a
shaky foundation for school success, the latest
research from neuroscience indicates that
intentional moves can help all students better
realize their potential for success. Learn new ways
to motivate reluctant learners and how executive
functioning skills lead to higher achievement. You
will leave this fast-paced session with specific and
purposeful brain-based strategies and renewed
hope.

Room: Somerset
Front-loading Content in Courses through
Technology
Joanna Stegall, Anderson University

This presentation reports findings where course
content was front-loaded in order to efficiently
teach and reinforce course standards. Student
activities included creating, watching, and
critiquing videotaped sessions,synthesizing
course content from online resources, and
developing podcasts and screencasts. Also,
learning centers were incorporated through
student iPads, laptops with Camtasia software and
Interactive White Boards in such a way that
students interacted with new content in
meaningful ways.

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Room: Windsor A
Pay for Public Chool Administrators:
Change that Jingles
Phillip Young & Lemuel Watson, University of South
Carolina

Methods and procedures paramount to
developing an equitable, a defensible and a
tailored pay system for educational administrators
will be illustrated with actual field data. Special
attention will be given to auditing indices for
assessing past pay practices, to the selection of
criteria for evaluating position worth, and to the
selection of a relevant labor market. To be taken
away from this session is all the information
needed both to develop and to implement an
effective/efficient pay system for an public school
district.

Room: Windsor B
OK, I Admit It, Suspension Doesn't Change
Behavior - So Now What?
Cassie Cagle & Beth Taylor, Aiken County Schools

What do you get when you cross inappropriate
behavior with a day of suspension? You get
inappropriate behavior tomorrow. How can your
school or district make better decisions regarding
behavior change and discipline? As a result of an
audit, administrators requests, and extensive
research, we recognized the need to do
something differently. Aiken County Schools
spent the last year developing a behavior team
designed to enact change in discipline and
behavior procedures district-wide to support both
special education and general education. One
year into the plan, find out what when well, what
we would do differently, and how we are moving
forward.

Making Your School a School to Watch!
David McDonald, Northwest Middle School & Linda
Allen, SC Middle School Association

Schools to Watch is a movement across the
country to strengthen middle level education and
accelerate reform in middle schools. Learn more
about strategies to earn this national designation
for your school and how to use the framework for
improvement to create a stronger middle grades
program. Participants will learn about STW, hear
about successes across the state, and hear about
innovative ideas that will transform middle
schools in SC.

Smart Start - The Path to School Readiness
Floyd Creech, Florence District One; Debbie Hyler,
FSD1 School Foundation; Porter Stewart, FSD1
School Board

In a community wide collaborate planning project
over 2 years, Florence School District One School
Board, Early Childhood and Parenting
Departments and the FSD1 School Foundation
brought about a comprehensive Birth to 5 year
old program to get children ready for
Kindergarten entry. Representatives of each of
these groups will share their journey and give tips
for energizing the community to adopt a city wide
campaign for getting children ready for
Kindergarten. This collaborative project has
resulted in additional funding of over 3 million
dollars to sustain the readiness project into the
future with renewable dollars. Leave this
presentation with a vision for the future.

The Exciting New Frontier of Learning
Progressions
Gene Kerns, Renaissance Learning

They go by different names and come in many
shapes and sizes, but there is no debating the fact
that learning progressions figure prominently in
both the Common Core State Standards and the
two major assessments seeking to evaluate
students progress toward them. Learn more
about how these tools can reframe our thinking
and take us to a new level allowing educators to
come to know standards like never before. All
attendees will receive access to a dynamic online
progression tool.

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Tuesday, June 17

6:00 a.m.
Beach Walk/Run

10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.
Focus on Exhibits

10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Deep Dive Sessions

11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Breakout Sessions

11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Snap Learning Spot

11:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.
Lunch on Own

12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m.
Exhibitor Showcase

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions

1:15 p.m. 1:45 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
Snap Learning spot

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Breakout Sessions

2:45 p.m. 3:15 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Snap Learning Spot

Keynote Speaker
8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

Play@Work: Unleashing Growth through
Creativity and Innovation

Kevin Carroll is the founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC and the
author of three highly successful books, Rules of the Red Rubber
Ball, What's Your Red Rubber Ball?! and The Red Rubber Ball at
Work, published by ESPN, Disney Press and McGraw-Hill. As an
author, speaker and agent for social change (a.k.a. the Katalyst),
it is Carroll's "job" to inspire businesses, organizations and
individualsfrom CEOs and employees of Fortune 500
companies to schoolchildrento embrace their spirit of play
and creativity to maximize their human potential and sustain
more meaningful business and personal growth.

After serving in the Air Force for ten years and earning his
college degree, Carroll became an athletic trainer at the high
school and collegiate levels in Philadelphia. His expertise in sport
performance recognized by the 76ers organization and led to his
job as the head athletic trainer for the Philadelphia 76ers in 1995.
While at the 76ers, Nike tapped Carroll to bring his unique
experiences to the sneaker giant in 1997. Although no job
"officially" existed at the time, Carroll was directed to create a
position at the company that would add value to the overall
mission of the brand. Carroll accepted the challenge and stayed
for seven years as "Katalyst" (the 'K' is for Kevin)a creative
change agent. At Nike he was instrumental in helping the
company develop a deeper understanding of athletic product
performance, team dynamics and interpersonal communication.
Carroll left Nike in 2004 to create his own company, Kevin Carroll
Katalyst/LLC, committed to elevating the power of sport and
play around the world.

Kevin Carroll

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Tuesday, June 17
10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Education Sessions

How DO They Do That? Secret Tech Weapons for
School Administrators
Beth Ziesenis, Your Nerdy Best Friend

What if you could whip up a graphic to brand your next
school function in a matter of minutes? Or schedule a
committee meeting without having to send three dozen
emails to find a time everyone could meet? Or, create a
dazzling multimedia video for your school -- from your
smart phone?

And what if you could pull all this off without spending a
dime?

Join Your Nerdy Best Friend, aka Author Beth Ziesenis, to
discover how to use free and bargain technology tools
you never knew existed to create professional quality
graphics, establish efficient business processes and wow
your teachers and students. This high-energy, HANDS-ON
session will give you dozens tools that will leave people
asking, How DO they do that?

Mock Student Discipline Hearing with Full
Discussion of All Legal Issues that Arise
Kathy Mahoney, Vernie Williams & Dwayne Mazyck, Childs &
Halligan, P.A.

After presenting an actual mock student discipline
hearing (with live attorneys, witnesses, and testimony),
the presenters will discuss all the critical student issues
administrators need to know, including student misuse of
social media, searches of students consistent with NJ v.
TLO, and admissibility of evidence at student discipline
proceedings.

Deep Dive Sessions

11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Room: Hampton
District & School Planning for Student Learning
Objectives
Sheila Quinn, York District Two & Betsy Carpentier, Esq.

Assuming the US Department of Education and State
Board agree, the SCDE plans to require district training on
SLOs in SY 14-15, with implementation SLOs in SY 15-16
for all teachers of non-tested grades and subjects. How
can schools and districts plan to meet these
requirements? What steps should superintendents and
principals take in what sequence? When should training
and practice occur for mentors, induction teachers,
teachers undergoing SAFE-T, veteran teachers, and
evaluators? How can SLOs fit into PLCs, data teams,
grade-level teams, and existing structures? What
assessments will be used for pre- and post-tests? Who will
determine each student's appropriate growth goal? What
is the overall process? Explore these and other questions
in a 30 minute overview.

11:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

Room: Hampton
If You Want Your Teachers to Flip - Let Them Start
With a Somersault
Max Monroe, Pickens High School

If you are wanting your teachers to flip their instruction -
whether partially or totally - this session will show tools
for them to do simple things to accomplish this goal. You
can share these methods with your teachers and they can
work their way into the process little by little. Models of
flipped classrooms will be shown as an example of
exemplary work. These powerful tools will easy the
transition and take them from a somersault to an Olympic
gymnastic one step at a time.

Snap Learning Spot
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Education Sessions
11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

Room: Eton
Action Team on Asessments
TransformSCs Assessment Action Team

TransformSC Schools is Formative Assessments.
TransformSCs Action Team will give an overview
of their activities and schools will share their
experiences with Formative Assessments.

Room: Oxford
Making Middle COLLEGE Work!
Claire Freeman & Sherri Scoggins, Berkeley County
Middle College High School

Established in 2010, Berkeley County Middle
College High School is the first and only school of
its kind in the South Carolina Lowcountry. We will
share our experiences in meeting our purpose of
giving students an opportunity to achieve high
school and college academic success in non-
traditional learning environment. Working in
collaboration with Trident Technical College, the
Middle College encourages and eases transitions
into a college environment. Students explore and
pursue academic and career aspirations while
developing strong relationships in a climate that
encourages respect and resiliency in every
student.

11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Room: Windsor C
Transition to a Digital Classroom
Apple Inc.

Technology makes this a magical time to be a student
and a powerful time to be an educator. Come experience
how you can transform teaching and learning with
exciting new content and content creation tools. This
session introduces you to some of the thousands of
education apps for iPad. Youll experience interactive
iBooks Textbooks and learn how educators are creating
amazing Multi-Touch books on a Mac with iBooks
Author!

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
Room: Windsor C
Deploying and Managing iPads in Education
Apple, Inc.

iOS 7 provides powerful new ways to configure and
deploy devices across institutions with features to help
schools purchase, distribute and manage apps with ease.
It also makes those tasks you do every day even easier,
faster, and more enjoyable. And while many of the apps
look different, the way you do things feels perfectly
familiar. This session will review the new features and
highlight ones beneficial in an education setting. Apple
Engineers will discuss the best practices for deploying
and managing iPad devices in the educational enterprise
in a manner that ensures success.

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Room: Windsor C
Preparing Todays Students for Tomorrow
Apple Inc.

Helping every student succeed can be a challenge.
Todays classroom must employ innovative tools to help
build valuable skills while meeting rigorous academic
standards. Certify their skills. Apple offers comprehensive
certification programs for creative and IT professionals in
business, education and other fields, allowing them to
distinguish themselves to colleagues, employers, and
prospective clients as skilled users of the chosen software
application. This session will examine the tools and
programs available for student certification.

Apple Digital Learning
Camp

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Room: Winchester
Career and Technology Education:
Uncommon to the Core
Lee Green, Chester County Career Center & Chris
Dinkins, Fairfield Career and Technology Center

This session will examine the relationship
between Common Core Standards and Career and
Technology Education. The integration of CTE
programs and academic courses will also be
discussed. By attending this session, participants
will learn current and innovative ways to
implement the Common Core Standards using
techniques from the CTE perspective.

Room: Pembroke
Growing Learners: Connecting Standards-
Based Grading and Reporting
Mona Fleming, Mount Lebanon Elementary School &
Charlotte McDavid, Anderson District Four

Journey with us through the process of
implementing standards-based reporting at the
elementary school level. We will share any
practical ideas, research-based best practices, and
address critical questions to help connect the dots
between grading and reporting: How do we work
with teachers to build understanding about
grading for learning and rubrics? What are some
do's and don'ts for strong communication with
families about changes in reporting and
recognition of academic success? How can you
use PowerSchool to format standards-based
report cards, allowing parents to view progress in
ParentPortal?

Room: Kensington A
Using Google Forms for Teacher
Observations
Rob Herron, Spring Valley High School

Google Forms is a powerful tool that can help you
plan events, send a survey, do teacher
evaluations, or collect any information in an easy,
streamlined way. The Form is connected to a
spreadsheet which can be shared with any
number of people. This presentation will
demonstrate how to create a Google Form to use
for teacher observations with an embedded script
that will automatically email the evaluation to the
teacher upon completion of the form. Check out
the video here: http://bit.ly/10JyPdw. Check out
the demo form at http://bit.ly/YclUjK and the
database it creates at http://bit.ly/Yx5eG7.

Room: Kensington B
Idea Exchange SC Principals and
Assistant Principals of the Year

Ask questions and get ideas from the SC Principals
& Assistant Principals of the Year! Sit at a table
with an award winning principal or assistant
principal and ask your most burning questions,
talk about what keeps you up at night, and get
great ideas from the featured guests and other
participants. This is a networking opportunity you
dont want to miss!

Room: Kensington C
PowerSchool and the Administrator
Deborah Wimberly, Marion County Schools & Paula
Yohe, Dillon District Four

Do you know the last time your teachers updated
their gradebook? There's a report for that. Would
you like grade distribution of the last reporting
period? There's a report for that. Do you want to
look at a teacher's gradebook to be sure it is set
up to calculate grades correctly? There's a report
and a portal for that too. See how much
information you can gather from PowerSchool
that will give you the data to lead your school.

Room: Somerset
Lets Give Them Something to Talk About
Nancy Baumann, Scholastic Book Fairs

Book clubs provide a venue for students, teachers,
families, and caregivers to discuss literature in a
safe and nurturing environment. Book clubs
provide "teachable moments" for honing
discussion skills, improving vocabulary, and
developing comprehension and fluency.
Attendees will learn to promote book clubs using
book talks and book trailers, select appropriate
titles, manage discussions, and evaluate sessions.
Videos of book club participants and an online
book club blog will be shown. Book club
informational cards and hand-outs to enable
replication of book clubs will be available.
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Room: Windsor A
Growing Our Own: Developing Effective
Leaders for 21st Century Schools
Patricia Fox, Phillip Davie, Michelle Meekins, & Ken
Peake, Greenville County Schools

Greenville County Schools has created an
Assistant Principal Institute for the purpose of
providing rigorous professional growth and
leadership development for our Assistant
Principals and Administrative Assistants and to
ensure high quality leadership for our district in
years to come. The focus includes instructional
leadership, operational management, finance,
communication, and student achievement. The
program format includes speakers, small group
interactive activities, and opportunities to hear
from principals on a variety of salient topics.
Though this is only the third year of
implementation of the program, a number of the
API graduates have already gone on to successful
principalships in Greenvilles schools.

Room: Windsor B
District Level Planning for RTI and
Common Core Integration
Robin Wisniewki, McREL International

Is RTI seen as an initiative in your district integral
to both general and special education? Is
Common Core implementation simultaneous with
a multi-tier system that launches all students
toward college and career readiness? If you
answered no to either of these questions but
prefer a resounding "yes," then this session is for
you. District-level leaders will benefit from
viewing RTI as a multi-tier system of support
guided by school leadership teams with
standards-based assessment and instruction
through the tiers. This session will focus on the
implementation essentials of both RTI and the
Common Core and how these blend into what is
needed for a multi-tiered system of support.
Participants will plan for the structures and
processes that build capacity for a strong system
that include standards and grade-level
progressions, universal screeners and within a
balanced assessment system, and common
language for data-driven decision making.

Assessing the Core
Shawn Clark & David Mathis, Saluda County
Schools; Marcie Enlow, Saluda Elementary School &
Abbey Duggins, Saluda High School

Participants will learn how to structure a district-
wide, comprehensive approach to creating
assessments aligned to the Common Core State
Standards. The following topics will be explored
and discussed by members of the administrative
team at Saluda County Schools: scheduling
professional development, providing feedback on
assessments aligned to the CCSS, observing
instruction aligned to assessments, using tools
and protocols to revise and refine assessments,
practicing inter rater reliability when scoring
assessments, and creating quality performance
assessments. Participants will walk away with
ideas for building a professional development
plan that will help prepare their students for
successful attainment of the CCSS.


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Tuesday, June 17
Exhibitor Showcase
12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

Room: Eton
Get Connected with Edgenuitys Online
and Blended Learning Solutions at
Edgenuity.com
Edgenuity

You know when it clicks Its that magical
moment when eyes light up, connections are
made, and real learning happens! For sixteen
years, our Edgenuity programs have connected
more than one million students with academic
success and achievement helping them get back
on track with credit recovery, graduating on time
using our core curriculum, and discovering a
passion for learning through interactive
instruction and highly engaging course work. Join
us as we share how school districts across South
Carolina use Edgenuity to connect the
differentiated needs of students with data-driven
instruction that meets the rigorous demands of
the Common Core and SC State Standards!

Room: Oxford
Blended Learning: Preparing Students and
Teachers for Success
Apex Learning

Learn how to increase instructional rigor and
meet the needs of ALL Students, use technology
to differentiate instruction and personalize
learning for each student, and identify
implementation models and plans for best
practices with technology. The majority of
districts in South Carolina have partnered with
Apex Learning to improve student achievement,
increase graduation rates, and reduce dropout
rates.

Room: Winchester
Data-Driven Decision In View of the Whole
Child
Tipping Points Technologies

In order for teachers to be effective, they really
need to know not only where each student is
academically, but wouldnt it also be great to be
able to identify their social/emotional-learning
readiness, thus giving them a 360-degree profile
of each child! This is a tall order when faced with
the new Common Core Standards, not to mention
the vast number of skills they need to visually
understand each child so as to inform their
teaching and approach for varying needs of
students within one classroom. Before now there
really hasnt been a resource in educators hands
that could help schools and districts do this with
all demographics of students in one data hub for
classroom decision-making until now!

Room: Pembroke
Increasing School Safety through
Consistent Design: Unifying the look of
your ID Cards, Parking Passes, and
Lanyards
ID Shop, Inc.

Join ID Shop, Inc., for an informative look at how
anyone can easily increase their school's security
by making simple visual changes to everyday
security items. Free product samples will be
available, and youll have a chance to take home a
pair of Costa Del Mar designer sunglasses. This
informal session will include hands-on
explanations of design changes that you can
implement immediately at little or no cost. Open
discussion is encouraged, and all attendees will
take home examples to follow as guidelines for
increasing security on campus.

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Room: Kensington A
Cogmed - Working Memory Intervention
Pearson

The session will focus on the relationship between
a key executive function, working memory, to
learning and student achievement. Sometimes
called working attention, by age five, working
memory is more predictive of future academic
achievement than IQ. In school populations, 80%
of students in the lowest 20% of achievement in
math or reading have low working memory. A
computer-based intervention for increasing
working memory, Cogmed, will be demonstrated.
Highly effective, 80% of students completing
Cogmed training show an increase of 30% or
more in working memory, positively impacting
attention, behavior, and the capacity to learn.

Room: Kensington B
ACT News and Updates for South Carolina:
How ACT will Help You Measure Your
Students College and Career Readiness in
2014-2015
ACT

Come get a fast and informative overview and
update of all major ACT College and Career
Readiness assessments that might be used on a
statewide basis in South Carolina during the 2014-
15 school year including: the ACT, ACT Aspire,
Career Ready 101, Explore, KeyTrain, Plan, and
WorkKeys! This session will also give you an
opportunity to meet your ACT Account Manager
for your school or district. Its a great opportunity
to put names with faces and learn more about
how ACT can help you and your students.

Room: Kensington C
Literature, Assessments and Data That
Drives Them
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Leadership and Learning

An overview of each of the 3 title pieces. Well
look at our Literature series and how it engages
and enables all children to learn at their own pace
for on, above and below level students. Well then
pivot to formative assessments, authentic
performance tasks, text dependent questions,
close reading and text complexity to show
learning. Finally well look at systems to gather
data and adjust instruction.

Room: Hampton
Personalizing Learning with iPads
eSpark Learning

As iPads enter the classroom, they bring with
them an unprecedented number of educational
resources. While the vast options available can
often be overwhelming for educators, building
the foundation for a solid iPad learning model can
lead districts to increased student engagement
and achievement. Join this session to learn how
eSpark Learning is helping administrators
augment traditional classroom instruction with a
personalized, engaging learning experience on
the iPad while granting educators and parents
direct visibility into student progress and
sentiment through a comprehensive online
dashboard.

Room: Somerset
Optimize Student Achievement with
Edmentum Digital Learning Solutions
Edmentum

Are you an educator striving to expand
opportunities for students with digital learning?
Join us to see Edmentums (formerly Study Island
and Plato Learning) rigorous, relevant, K-12
adaptive digital learning solutions that will
challenge learners with an innovative 21st
Century approach, engaging them with
interactive, media-rich content aligned to state
and Common Core standards. Our proven product
offerings are as diverse as your learners needs,
giving you effective digital learning options for
every learner. Designed by educators, for
educators, our solutions provide the flexibility you
need to easily fit into your districts or schools
existing curriculum and programs. Come see
what is new from Edmentum!

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Room: Windsor A
Preparing for Digital Learning Success
Classworks

Need help creating a 21st century, digital learning
environment that ensures your students are
college and career ready? Join us to learn how you
can support teachers with reliable, standard-
aligned instruction for the classroom, including
rigorous reading instruction designed for the
Common Core.

Room: Windsor B
Equal Access to Intelligible Speech and
Meeting the Educational Challenges in the
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st
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Lightspeed Technologies

Do you think it is possible to increase
engagement, reduce discipline problems,
enhance a student's attention span, and at the
same time increase your energy levels at the end
of the day? The answer is YES, and the magic of it
all, is that there are different sound solutions to
meet YOUR different teaching styles. With the
emergence of small group instruction and 21st
century skill development, our all-new Flexcat is
an essential tool. Now teachers can be two, three,
even six places at once in the classroom. Come to
our session and see how teachers can monitor
independent groups, redirect off-task behavior,
and encourage student collaboration.

Room: Palladium C, Brighton Building
The Hidden Truth Low 3rd Grade Scores
Reflect K-2 Instruction!
Letterland

K-2 instruction depends on the materials the
instructors have at their disposal. The low scores
dictate a change is required. Research outlines
what components must be present, taught and
assessed in a comprehensive K-2 program.
Letterland provides a child-friendly approach with
a multi-sensory phonics system. This K-2
approach and system gets measurable results
while building the foundational literacy skills
necessary for 3rd grade and beyond. Join us, and
you will see why a Superintendent recently said,
This is not your Grandmothers Phonics.


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Tuesday, June 17
Education Sessions

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

1:15 p.m. 1:45 p.m.

Room: Hampton
Inspirational Literature
Aimee Fulmer, Westview Elementary School

Using Children's literature to inspire a faculty, staff, and
community. Each year a new child's book is chosen and
an entire year's theme is built around it. Themes include
"change" and the challenges related to it and courage and
the courage to be kind to all people. Books include "The
Three Questions" and "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.
Morris Lessmore."

2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Room: Hampton
Early Learning = Later Success!
Susan Stevens, Greenview Child Development Center &
Abbigail Wilson, Golden Strip Child Development Center

Preparation for student success with the New South
Carolina State Standards begins well before kindergarten
enrollment! Learn how authentic assessment, exploratory
learning, learning apps and inquiry based instruction in
Early Childhood Education provides the springboard for
later academic achievement. Learn about the Early
Childhood Learning Standards and how teachers
differentiate to ensure student progress. Find out what
Greenville County School District is doing to identify and
support at-risk learners to provide the support they need
now to be accomplished students later!

Snap Learning Spot

Theme: Middle/High School

Room: Kensington B

Early Colleges Provide Opportunity to "At
Promise Students"
Chad Cox, Gerri Henderson & Priscilla Drake, Whale Branch
Early College High School

An Interdisciplinary Approach - The Secret to
Common Core Standards
Debra Miller & Valisha Singleton, Indian Land Middle School

Promoting Effective Post-Secondary Transition
Through Advisement, Career Education Goal
Setting, STEM Education Focus, and Community
Partnerships
Shea Martin & T. Cliff Roberts, Seneca High School

School Within a School: The Blended Learning
Concept
Tabitha Talley & Eric Childers, Union County Schools; Mickey
Connolly, Sims Middle School

Moving the Middle Using Formative Assessments
David Laws Jr., Pamela Rhodes, Monisha Thomas & Allison
Hepfner, Mayewood Middle School

School Tranformation through Arts Intergration
Craig Washington, Jeffery Gaines, Maureen Moore & Debbie
Donnelly, Southside Middle School

Strategic Intervention to Promote College &
Career Readiness Among At-Risk Students
Daniel Boudah, East Carolina University; Tonya Locke, Lester
McCall, Mandy Rienert & Jan Bratcher, Anderson District 2
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Education Sessions
1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Room: Eton
Managing the Emotional Brain in Angry
Students
Kathy Whitmire, Orchard Park Elementary School

Teaching students how to manage their
emotional brain and regulate their feelings of
anger is important in correcting reactive behavior.
Using a model of the brain and an emotional
thermometer students are taught why they feel
the way they do, what happens in their brain
when they get angry, and what tools and
strategies will help them manage their emotional
brain.

Room: Oxford
Making Differentiated Instruction a Reality
Gary Miller, Curriculum Associates

Differentiated instruction is becoming common
place term in todays schools, but how do you
make it a reality? The key lies in easy-to-use
assessment data that doesnt make teachers eyes
glaze over and gives them more time for
instruction. But once you have the data, then
what? This session explores how adaptive
assessment can enable Common Core success,
predict performance on the new standards, and
work seamlessly with a blended learning
approach to drive student gains.

Room: Winchester
Strategies for Involving the Board and
Community in Your Graduation Rate
Improvement Initiative
Sandy Addis, National Dropout Prevention Center &
Tom Wilson, Anderson District Five

The presentation will address strategies for
planning for and securing Board and community
support for dropout prevention initiatives in local
school systems. Presenters will provide both
research-based best practices and real-school-
system examples of strategies to muster the
necessary Board and community support for
school efforts to improve graduation rates.

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Beth Ziesenis

Get Nerdy, Get Organized and Get Ahead!

Today we have the technology at our fingertips to be
more productive than ever before -- if we could only
figure out how to use it. This session helps you release
your inner nerd to find the technology tools that will help
you organize yourself, your teams and your life -- without
costing a fortune. In this session, you'll discover both apps
and online tools to help you...

* Organize and share files
* Access what you need when you need it
* Strengthen internal and external communications
* Save time and money with free and bargain technology
* Bonus! Leave the session with a Quick Reference Guide
with 100+ favorite tech tools!

Deborah Wiles

Everything is a Remix -- Writing the Documentary
Novel: Using Short Texts and Primary Sources to
Weave Personal Narrative, Fiction, Non-fiction,
and Biography Together
Sponsored by Scholastic Book Fairs

Deborah Wiles is the author of picture books and novels
for young readers including Each Little Bird That Sings, a
National Book Award Finalist, and Countdown, book one
of The Sixties Trilogy: Three Novels of the 1960s for
Young Readers. Book two, Revolution, will be released in
April 2014.

Not only does Deborah Wiles paint vivid pictures about
conditions in the South in all of her books, she documents
historical facts that teachers can share with their students
as they look for meaningful ways to incorporate
nonfiction and historical fiction texts into their daily
instruction. Deborah teaches and writes from Atlanta,
Georgia.

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Room: Pembroke
Financial Success & Retirement System
Overview
Tim Smith, Horace Mann

We know educators are so busy preparing
students for their futures that they sometimes
don't think about their own. This session will
focus on the ins and outs of your state retirement
system as well as the different aspects of financial
success, including budgeting, managing credit,
protecting assets and savings. Other topics
include: how does my retirement system operate;
am I familiar with the retirement options and
benefits; how will my present assets affect my
retirement options; will my pension be enough to
get me through retirement; how will my pension
check compare with my paycheck; what are my
lump sum rollover options; and what are the best
options for me and my family? Tap into our
expertise and learn more how we can partner
together to build customized programs that
benefit your school district and employees.

Room: Kensington A
School Law Updates June 2013 to June
2014
Mark Mitchell & Mary Martin, Winthrop University

The presentation will give an update of the major
State and Federal Cases that have occurred since
the 2013 Innovative Ideas Institute.

Room: Kensington C
Recreating the 3 R's: Rigor, Relevance, and
Relationships
Glenn Huggins & Patsy Pye, Dorchester District Two

Recreating the 3 R's: Rigor, Relevance, and
Relationships will focus on implementing the use
of Response to Intervention (RtI), providing
focused Professional Development and the in-
depth use of PLC's.

Room: Somerset
C4: From Concept and Design to
Implementation
Lori Marrero, Emily Eberlin, Morgan Motes & Allana
Weigle, Muller Road Middle School

Follow our journey as we share how we went from
concept and design to implementation in our first
school within a school Project Based Learning
communities. As a 1 to 1 computing school, we'll
talk about the merging of technology and PBL as
a way to provide students with the very best 21st
Century Skills, all while using CCSS.

Room: Windsor A
Formative Feedback for the Principal
Kaseena Jackson, Langford Elementary School &
Twanisha Gardner, Richland District Two

As administrators, we strive to give our teachers
relevant and helpful formative assessment. We
also expect our teachers to give detailed and
purposeful feedback to their students. There are
procedures for student and teacher formative
assessment. However, a system for formative
feedback to administrators rarely exists. We will
discuss how we addressed that issue at Langford
Elementary, and how we used the data to
personalize our approach to the faculty and its
needs. Then, you will have a chance to design
your own administrative formative assessment
with the help of some of your colleagues.

Room: Windsor B
Special Needs Can Succeed: The What, Why
and How
Kimberly Mack, Felix Jordan, Lisa Grice, Assistant
Principal & Linda Alford, South Florence High School

The ESEA Waiver metrics highlights IEP student
achievement data and exposes the challenge that
many schools face in raising achievement levels of
Special Needs students. Students with special
needs can earn high school diplomas. With
increasing numbers of self-contained students
entering high school well below grade level,
South Florence High School has created focused
learning paths and transitional supports to help
Special Needs students earn traditional diplomas.
By developing a team approach with targeted
transitional goals, South Florence is opening the
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doors of possibility for self-contained learners to
graduate. This interactive workshop will explore
the support systems necessary to foster success
and build the foundation for students with special
needs to achieve at higher levels.

Education in the 21st Century: A Digital
Life 101
Jada Kidd, Spartanburg Freshman Academy

Spartanburg Freshman Academy in Spartanburg,
SC is meeting the challenge of using technology
to engage student learning. They are a 1 to 1
MacBook school. They are creating a culture of
technology engagement for students, teachers
and administrators. From the classroom to the
home, all stakeholders are using forms of digital
media to create, communicate, connect, and
learn. Digital Media will never replace the hands-
on learning, but it brings relevance and it
strengthens the learning environment for
everyone. It can be used to create, demonstrate
concepts, showcase real people practicing and
reveal real time data. It can also be used to
connect students and staff with collaborative
environments around the world. You may not be
able to take students to the Pyramids in Egypt on
a field trip, but you will be able to connect them in
a virtual environment. This session will introduce
you to several forms of digital media to impact
student learning, provide professional
development to your staff, and to improve your
organization and management skills as an
administrator/curriculum specialist. Ideas will be
discussed to help you improve communication
and connections with stakeholders and help
educators grow professionally. This could also be
a collaborative sessions. Bring great ideas to
share.

How Will You Implement SLOs in SY 15-16?
Betsy Carpentier, Esq. & Sheila Quinn, York District 2

SC educator evaluation is changing. All
evaluations of teachers and principals must
include student growth as a significant factor.
Student learning Objectives (SLOs) are one
method for measuring student growth being used
nationally in both tested and nontested grades
and subjects. How will your schools select
assessments, determine appropriate growth goals
for all students, train teachers and administrators,
ensure rigor and comparability, provide quality
feedback, track implementation, and manage the
workload? Planning steps and resources will be
shared.

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Tuesday, June 17
Education Sessions

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

2:45 p.m. 3:15 p.m.

Room: Hampton
The "Ten"Commandments of the First Year
Principal"
Wanda Frederick, Lewisville Elementary School & Cedrick
Tidwell, Chester Middle School

The interviews have ended. You received the exciting call
stating that you are the new principal! The contract has
been signed; you have the master keys to the building
and a floor plan of the school. The pulsation of your heart
is half enthusiasm, half apprehensiveness. Surviving the
first year principalship is a challenge. The first year as the
new kid on the block is like driving down an unfamiliar
highway. You will be surprised by the realities of the
principalship and the obstacles that confront you. This
interactive session will provide scenarios and pitfalls to
avoid and how to respond to challenges as a novice
principal.

3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

Room: Hampton
KEEP CALM AND LEAD ON: The First Year
Assistant Principal Experience
Tia Stewart & Denise Barth, Catawba Trail Elementary School

Are you ready to grow as a leader? This engaging session
will motivate you to keep calm and lead on! Participants
will learn how to build relationships, cultivate culture and
embrace leadership roles. This session will be presented
by a first year Assistant Principal and veteran Principal
with a passion for leading and learning!

Snap Learning Spot

Beth Ziesenis

Get Nerdy, Get Organized and Get Ahead!
(Repeat)

Today we have the technology at our fingertips to be
more productive than ever before -- if we could only
figure out how to use it. This session helps you release
your inner nerd to find the technology tools that will help
you organize yourself, your teams and your life -- without
costing a fortune. In this session, you'll discover both apps
and online tools to help you...

* Organize and share files
* Access what you need when you need it
* Strengthen internal and external communications
* Save time and money with free and bargain technology
* Bonus! Leave the session with a Quick Reference Guide
with 100+ favorite tech tools!

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2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

Room: Eton
Action Team on Competency-Based
Progression
TransformSCs Competency-Based Progression
Action Team

TransformSC Schools is Competency-Based
Progression. TransformSCs Action Team will give
an overview of their activities and schools will
share their experiences with Competency-Based
Progression.

Room: Oxford
Flipping Professional Development
Lisa Carter, Kershaw County Schools

Provide effective professional development using
the Flipped Classroom concept and Edmodo.
Employees across Kershaw County School District
view videos each month and effective school
based professional development is conducted.
This allows for the PD time to be utilized more
effectively and focus on implementation.

Room: Winchester
Be on the Reading Edge by Motivating
Readers Through Technology
Robert Furman, South Park Elementary Center

As we move more into the 21st Century, our
students need more motivation to read. E-
readers are gathering more momentum, and we
need to be prepared to meet our students where
they are with their technology skills. We need to
give them tools that will boost their reading skills
to match their technology skills. Join Dr. Rob
Furman as he shares some of the groundbreaking
ways to engage the 21st Century learner!

Room: Pembroke
Extra! Extra! How to Effectively Share Your
Good News with Media Partners
Erica Taylor, Charleston County Schools

This session will cover the role of a district's media
relations professional and how their strategic
impact promotes good news and upcoming
events. As, CCSD's media relations spokesperson, I
will cover "newsworthiness" as viewed in the
media, and will share tips and tricks for writing
media advisories, attaching usable photos, and
fostering positive relationships with media
partners, to include social media.

Room: Kensington A
Tweet Up

Meet fellow Twitter users you have connected
with throughout the conference. This is a great
networking opportunity for current Twitter users
to meet one another and convert former Twitter
engagements into face-to-face conversations.

Room: Kensington B
Idea Exchange - Superintendents & District
Level Staff

Ask questions and get ideas from veteran
superintendents, assistant superintendents and
personnel directors! Ask your most burning
questions, talk about what keeps you up at night,
and get great ideas from featured guests and
other participants. This is a networking
opportunity you dont want to miss!

Room: Kensington C
Building Systems to Support
Implementation of the Common Core at
the District/School and Classroom Levels:
The Richland Two Experience
Nancy Gregory, Sue Mellette, & Judy Carr, Richland
District Two

Learn about Richland Twos journey in
implementing the Common Core State Standards
via a strategic approach involving
implementation teams where systems are being
created to take the standards to routine use in
every classroom. Participants will review examples
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(e.g., School/System Snapshot Tool, Publishers
Criteria Checklists), reflect on their own progress
(e.g. Implementation Configuration Map) and
leave with next steps to implement in their own
settings.

Room: Somerset
Immersion Best Practices
Sandra Griffin & Cecilia Cameron, Blythe Academy

Blythe Academy, SC's first foreign language
immersion school, will present lessons learned
and best practices from 18 years as an immersion
school. Highlights will include scheduling,
recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and mentoring
teachers,textbooks/materials, and instructional
best practices.

Room: Windsor A
Leadership Training That Pays Off
Patricia Fox & Joe Urban, Greenville County Schools

Greenville County Schools has established a
Leadership Training Program that includes
training for Principals, Managers of Departments,
and Supervisors in all hourly work groups
(Custodial, Food and Nutrition Services,
Maintenance and Transportation.) The Program
includes modules on a variety of topics including
Communications, Giving and Receiving Feedback,
Conflict Resolution, and Situational Leadership.
The program has expanded over the last five years
and now includes all managerial employees. The
program has been effective in improving
timeliness of dealing with performance issues,
and the quality of performance documentation.
As a result, we have seen a reduction in
unemployment costs and have more consistency
in dealing with performance issues.

Room: Windsor B
The Sticky Spiderweb of Special Education
Laws
Meredith Seibert, Esq. & Lindsay Anne Thompson,
Esq., Duff, White & Turner, LLC

Have you ever wondered why your Districts
Special Education Director makes you jump
through all those hoops? Join us for a lively
interactive session where we will highlight
relevant sections of the IDEA and how that law
impacts a schools interactions with special
education students. We will also discuss common
mistakes schools make and some practical advice
on how to avoid these costly missteps. Regular
education and special education administrators
alike will benefit from this session focusing on
special education legal issues.

Meeting the Needs of Struggling Students
Through a More Diversified and Relevant
Summer School Experience
Marceline Catlett & Harry Thomas, Fredricksburg
City Schools

Are you dissatisfied with the daily grind of your
summer school program? The administration and
staff of Fredericksburg City Public Schools
partnered with educational consultants to
develop a new summer program geared to rouse
students and teachers from the doldrums of
traditional summer school. In response to the
national and state focus on preparing our youth
for college and career readiness after high
school, Fredericksburg City Schools developed
an exciting new summer program geared to
prepare students for the more rigorous English
and mathematics assessments. This session will
walk participants through the process of
developing the timeline for implementation,
communication with parents, the economics of
developing and running the program, and the
logistics of daily operations. Time will be reserved
for a question and answer session. The program is
geared toward grades 2-8.

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Faculty Meetings That Promote Student
and Adult Learning: What, Why, and How
Carol Hill, Kim Mack & Lisa Grice, South Florence
High School

During this time of curriculum transition to
common core, it is all the more essential that
faculty meetings produce meaningful change in
teaching and learning. How might we spend our
time in meetings with adults that actually results
in meaningful learning for adults and students?
Using research-based strategies from Garmston,
Wellman, and others, this interactive workshop
helps participants build on their own ability to
develop and facilitate meetings that promote
adult and student learning. For the past eight (8)
years South Florence High School has developed
collaborative practices that have improved
student behavior, test scores, promotion and
graduation rates. These same practices are
currently being used to implement common core
at the school level as well.

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Wednesday, June 18
Education Sessions

8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

Room: Hampton
Soaring for Greatness: Strategies to Increase your
Graduation Rate
Tracie Swilley, Fairfield Central High School

The Graduation Rate has become the topic of discussion
for high schools in this age of accountability. When
students enter high school, they have 4 years to graduate
or they will be considered a dropout. This session is
designed to provide administrators with strategies that
they can use to increase their graduation rate. In this
session you will also learn about developing a Graduation
Team to specifically focus on the graduation rate. It truly
takes a team effort to increase the graduation rate and we
want to share with you how our team gets the job done.

8:45 a.m. 9:15 a.m.

Room: Hampton
Teacher Cadet - A "Grow Your Own" Program That
Works!
Jane Turner, CERRA

About 4,000 SC teachers left their classrooms last year to
pursue other opportunities; teachers who return to their
home towns or nearby communities to work are less likely
to leave the classroom and their district. This session will
provide information about the nationally recognized and
highly successful Teacher Cadet Program, a college-credit
class that encourages high achieving students to consider
a career in education, at little or no cost to districts.

Snap Learning Spot
Wednesday, June 18

8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
Breakout Sessions

8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
Snap Learning Spot

9:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
Snap Learning Spot

10:15 a.m. 11:45 a.m.
General Session

12:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.
Post Conference Workshop:
Leading for Innovation
(pre-registered participants only)

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8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.

Education Sessions
8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.

Room: Eton
iParent--Parent/Teacher Communication in
the Digital World
Pasquail Bates, Lakisha Cook & Janelle Butler,
Westwood High School

The world of paper newsletters and report cards is
gone! So, how do we reach parents in the digital
age? Our session will focus on utilizing web based
tools to reach parents almost immediately
through blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Google
Hang Outs, and text messaging. We will also
present options that are available for parents who
are not tech savvy.

Room: Oxford
STEM for All: One Middle School's
Experience with a Whole-School STEM
Program
Mel Goodwin & James Whitehair, Laing Middle
School of Science and Technology

This presentation will explore the experience of
Laing Middle School with the creation and
implementation of a whole-school STEM initiative.
Content of this presentation is intended to help
others who are interested in implementing similar
programs, as well as those who may wish to
expand existing STEM initiatives. This content will
be provided in an interactive dialogue format that
allows exploration of concepts of particular
interest to participants. Topics will include
Meanings of STEM; Reasons to Implement STEM
Programs; Options for STEM Programs; Costs and
Funding; Getting Started; and Growing a STEM
Program. Hands-on activities will be included as
appropriate to participants interests.

Theme: School Management

Room: Kensington B

Implementing School Wide Reader and Writer
Workshop
Meredith Rose & Lou Jacobs, Jesse Boyd Elementary Schools

The Art and Science of the Home Visit
Tillmon Ancrum, Jasper County Alternative Program

Using Garner's Multiple Intelligences to Teach
Common Core
Jacquetta Chatman, MOBB Educational Consulting Group,
LLC

Cultivating Student Leaders
Donna Hooks, Felisa McDavid & Angie Smith, Burgess
Elementary School

Balancing the Common Core State Standards
Famon Whitfield & Shannon Berry Gordon Elementary
School

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Room: Winchester
Multi-Tiered System of Supports
Shawn Hagerty, Sumter County Schools

Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)is based
on the premise of a comprehensive and unified
systemic framework. The foundation of MTSS
breaks down the systemic fragmentation of
communication at the classroom, building, and
district level therefore, allowing more effective
outcomes for students and staff. MTSS is based on
a tiered framework but goes beyond the
traditionally packaged RTI framework. A
comprehensive and unified approach through a
tiered framework allows student barriers to be
addressed from a systemic organization of a
learning environment.

Room: Pembroke
Plan the Work, Work the Plan - The SC-SIC
Local Council Evaluation Initiative
Tom Hudson & Karen Utter, SC School Improvement
Council

School Improvement Councils sometimes need
additional help in identifying needs, establishing
goals, implementing effective activities, and
measuring the impact of the important work they
do for their schools. This session will provide an
overview of the SC School Improvement Councils
(SC-SIC) new Local Council Evaluation Initiative
and share specific case studies and results of the
work of participating SICs. This pilot program,
working with five SICs across the state during
2013-14, is designed to help build the capacity of
SIC members to plan their activities strategically,
implement them with quality, and document and
evaluate their results in partnership with school
leaders. Based on the Getting to Outcomes
method, and through the use of site-based
training, supportive materials and continuous
technical assistance, SC-SIC works with these local
Councils to actively collaborate with stakeholder
groups, involve a diverse cross-section of the
school community and achieve valuable real-
world results.

Room: Kensington A
Overview from TransformSC Schools &
Action Team on Culture and Climate for
Change
TransformSCs Culture and Climate for Change
Action Team

incubate and accelerate educational change. But
in order to transform education, there must first
be a willingness of educators, parents and
students to change the status quo. TransformSCs
Action Team will give an overview of their
activities and schools will share their experiences
with creating a culture and climate for change.

Room: Kensington C
Navigating the Common Core through
Instructional Leadership
Darryl Imperati & Tammy Greer McClain, Woodmont
High School

As educational leaders, we are tasked with the
responsibility of student and teacher outcomes. In
this session,attendees will receive walk-through
forms and lesson plan ideas with a common core
focus; strategies will be given to promote rigor
school-wide, and tips on leading administrative,
department, and PLC meetings with a curriculum
focus will be shared. Learn how the
implementation of CCSS strategies have resulted
in an increase in students attending college,
increased EOC results, and a Palmetto Silver award
for closing the achievement gap.

Room: Kensington D
Being Innovative with Using Teaching
Assistants
Tammy Moye-Johnson, Center for Educator Quality
& Selina Latimore, John P. Thomas Elementary
School

Research shows that students in a class with a
teaching assistant present do not on average
outperform those students in a class where only a
teacher is present. However, teaching assistants
can have an effective impact on student
achievement if schools and districts think carefully
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about the strategies they use to ensure that their
teaching assistants are deployed and supported
effectively. In this session, participants will learn
strategies to innovatively use teaching assistants
so that student outcome is impacted positively.

Room: Kensington E
Causes and Consequences of Principal
Turnover
Gayle Sawyer & Mary Martin, Winthrop University

Do we really know what happens in a school
when the principal leaves? What happens when
more than one leaves in a short time frame?
Recent research indicates that, in spite of current
tendencies to improve low-performing schools by
replacing their principals and doing so with
greater frequency, rapid principal turnover leads
to a number of negative consequences which
include a drop in student achievement and
greater difficulty in recruiting high quality,
effective teachers. Let's investigate the causes and
effects as well as share SC experiences and
generate suggestions for principals transferring to
schools with high rates of principal turnover.

Room: Somerset
Inquiry By Design
Josh Patterson & Gina Skinner, Oakland Elementary
School

Albert Einstein once said, "It is a miracle that
curiosity survives formal education." In the fast
paced, standards driven, get it covered classroom
of yesteryear, adequate time was not allowed for
inquiry and the recursive cycle between evidence
and explanations. From breadth to depth, the
Common Core State Standards encourage
students to build knowledge through research
and exploration of real-world problems and
challenges. In this collaborative, inquiry-filled
workshop, school leaders will explore effective
ways to help teachers incorporate open-ended,
student-led questioning in order to effectively
and creatively unleash deeper, more meaningful
learning. Since the inquiry-based model is not
simply a technique or instructional practice used
to teach a subject, it requires teachers to be
engaged learners and researchers with the belief
that their classrooms are rich places for wonder
and exploration. Examples will be provided for
how administrators can begin and guide teachers
through the inquiry process while capturing
students' thinking through written, experimental,
and problem/project based learning activities.

Room: Windsor A
2014 Palmettos Finest Winners Best
Practices

Join the 2014 Palmettos Finest Winners as they
share best practices that led them to become a
Palmettos Finest school.

Room: Windsor B
School Security: Leading From the Front
Patrick Sergott, The Protection Institute

Making the vision of a safer campus a reality is
only achievable through courageous leadership.
This interactive workshop will focus on creating
safer schools through the development of a
realistic implementation plan.

Room: Windsor C
Standards and Assessment with iPad
(REPEAT)
Apple Inc.

The movement toward standards-driven content
is occurring across the United States, emphasizing
that technology be deeply integrated into the
educational experience across all subject areas.
New assessment systems require schools to be
prepared for deployment in 2014. Join us at this
event to learn how Apple can support you
through these critical transitions. Learn how iPad
and a wide range of instructional content such as
apps, books, podcasts, and learning resources can
support national and state standards.

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Keynote Speaker
10:15 a.m. 11:45 a.m.

Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center,
which supports entrepreneurs who are fighting for social good.
He is the co-author of Switch: How to Change Things When
Change Is Hard, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times and
Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. The Heath brothers previously
co-wrote the critically acclaimed book Made to Stick, which was
named the Best Business Book of the Year, spent 24 months on
the BusinessWeek bestseller list, and has been translated into 29
languages, the last of which was Slovak.

The latest Heath brothers book is Decisive: How to Make Better
Decisions in Life and Work. Released March 2013.

Heath is a columnist for Fast Company magazine, and he has
taught and consulted with organizations such as Microsoft,
Philips, Vanguard, Macys, USAID, and the American Heart
Association. Previously, Dan worked as a researcher and case
writer for Harvard Business School, co-authoring 10 case studies
on entrepreneurial ventures, and later served as a Consultant to
the Policy Programs of the Aspen Institute. In 1997, Dan co-
founded an innovative publishing company called Thinkwell,
which continues to produce a radically reinvented line of college
textbooks.

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Presenter Directory
*Directory lists lead presenters only

Sandy Addis
haddis@clemson.edu

Sean Alford
salford@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Tillmon Ancrum
tancrum@jcsd.net

Kathy Mahoney
kmahoney@childs-halligan.net

Pasquail Bates
pbates@richland2.org

Eric Beltran
ebeltran@k12insight.com

Dan Boudah
BOUDAHD@ecu.edu

Earl Brewington
ewb2@idshop.com

Keith Brown
Kebrown@gcsd.k12.sc.us

Pepper Busbee
pbusbee@richland2.org

Cassie Cagle
ccagle@aiken.k12.sc.us

Tanya Campbell
tcampbel@rhmail.org

Adair Caperton
caperton@apple.com

Betsy Carpentier
eacarpentier@gmail.com

Lavoy Carter
lavoy.carter@kcsdschools.net

Lisa Carter
lisa.carter@kcsdschools.net

Marci Catlett
mcatlett@cityschools.com

Jacquetta Chatman
jchatman@mothersofblackboys.org

Shawn Clark
sclark@saludaschools.org

Angela Cooper
ACooper@lex2.org

Amy Cothran
cothrana@anderson1.k12.sc.us

Chad Cox
chad.cox@beaufort.k12.sc.us

Floyd Creech
fcreech@fsd1.org

Marian Crum-Mack
mamack@richland2.org

Tricia Daughtry
patricia_daughtry@charleston.k12.sc.us

Lori Dibble
ldibble@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Rhonda Dickerson
Rhonda.Dickerson@renlearn.com

Mike DiNicola
Mike.DiNicola@act.org

Jessica Donaldson
donalds@bcsdschools.net

Erika Duffey
Erika_Duffey@discovery.com

Shane Dukes
shane.dukes@achieve3000.com

Raashad Fitzpatrick
raashad.fitzpatrick@cherokee1.org

Mona Fleming
mfleming@anderson4.org

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Nancy Ford
nancyford1@bellsouth.net

Patricia Fox
pfox@greenville.k12.sc.us

Wanda Frederick
wfrederick@chester.k12.sc.us

Claire Freeman
freemacl@bcsdschools.net

Aimee Fulmer
fulmera@bcsdschools.net

Otis Fulton
otis.fulton@cogmed.com

Robert Furman
smayberry@scholasticbookfairs.com

Lynn Gibbs
lpgibbs@greenville.k12.sc.us

Mel Goodwin
mgoodwi8@bellsouth.net

Lee Green
lgreen@chester.k12.sc.us

Nancy Gregory
ngregory@richland2.org

Sandra Griffin
segriffi@greenville.k12.sc.us

Sarah Guckert
sarah@esparklearning.com

Lori Gwinn
lorigwinn@pickens.k12.sc.us

Shawn Hagerty
shawn.hagerty@sumterschools.net

Josie Kate Haupfear
jfhaupfear@laurens56.k12.sc.us

Rob Herron
rherron@richland2.org

Carol Hill
cchill@fsd1.org

Donna Hooks
dhooks@horrycountyschools.net

Tom Hudson
hudsontf@mailbox.sc.edu

Glenn Huggins
ghuggins@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Darryl Imperati
dimperat@greenville.k12.sc.us

Carole Ingram
carole.ingram@beaufort.k12.sc.us

Robert Jackson
rsjackso@lexrich5.org

Kaseena Jackson
kjackson@richland2.org

Nick James
nick.james@hmhco.com

Jacqueline Jamison
jacqueline.jamison@ocsd5.net

Kate Kemker
kkemker@apple.com

Gene Kerns
Gene.kerns@renaissance.com

Jada Kidd
jkidd@spart7.org

Matt Kirby
matt.kirby@apexlearning.com

Mark Kuhn
mark.kuhn@lightspeed-tek.com

Erika Lawrence
erilawrence@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

David Laws Jr.
david.laws@sumterschools.net

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Anne Lee
ALee@ScholasticBookfairs.com

Sandy Lindsay
SLINDSAY@mailbox.sc.edu

Kimberly Mack
kmack@fsd1.org

Kathy Mahoney
kmahoney@childs-halligan.net

Gabrielle Manuel
gmanuel@teachermatch.org

Lori Marrero
lmarrero@richland2.org

Shea Martin
sbmartin@oconee.k12.sc.us

Mary Martin
martinmb@winthrop.edu

David McDonald
dmcdonald@greenville.k12.sc.us

Gary Miller
gmiller@cainc.com

Debra Miller
debra.miller@lcsdmail.net

Mark Mitchell
mitchellm@winthrop.edu

Max Monroe
maxmonroe@pickens.k12.sc.us

Tammy Moye-Johnson
tmoye@richlandone.org

Grey Mull
gmull@apple.com

Kristen Norris
kristen.norris@americanreading.com

Joy Panko
Joy.Panko@Edmentum.com

Rebecca Partlow
bpartlow@rhmail.org

Josh Patterson
josh.patterson@spartanburg2.k12.sc.us

Tammy Pawloski
tpawloski@fmarion.edu

Kelly Pew
kellypew@pickens.k12.sc.us

Chris Phillips
clphilli@greenville.k12.sc.us

Bill Pratt
bill.pratt@clover.k12.sc.us

Terry Pruitt
TOPruitt@spart7.org

Steven Puckett
Steven.Puckett@lcsdmail.net

Sheila Quinn
Sheila.Quinn@clover.k12.sc.us

Otis Reed
oreed@csd2.org

Penny Reinart
penny.reinart@c2ready.org

Dan Reyes
dreyes@richland2.org

Beth Reynolds
breyno2@clemson.edu

Rob Rhodes
rrhodes@greenville.k12.sc.us

Barbara Roberts
broberts@learning.com

Meredith Rose
meredithrose4@gmail.com

Cat Rutledge
catrut@bellsouth.net

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Gayle Sawyer
sawyerg@winthrop.edu

Patrick Sergott
patricks@theprotectioninstitute.com

Beth Shelton-Brooks
bethbrooks@newberry.k12.sc.us

Sarah Skinner
sarah@brightbytes.net

Tim Smith
tim.smith@horacemann.com

Alice Smith
Alice.Smith@edgenuity.com

Patrick Sobak
psobak@classworks.com

Joanna Stegall
jstegall@andersonuniversity.edu

Dr. Susan Stevens
slsteven@greenville.k12.sc.us

Tia Stewart
tstewart@richland2.org

Wendell Sumter
wsumter@chester.k12.sc.us

Tracie Swilley
tswilley@fairfield.k12.sc.us

Matt Swilling
matt.swilling@cambiumtech.com

Tabitha Talley
ttalley@union.k12.sc.us

Gloria Talley
gtalley@lexington1.net

Erica Taylor
erica_taylor@charleston.k12.sc.us

Donna Teuber
dteuber@richland2.org

Lindsay Anne Thompson
lthompson@dwtlawfirm.com

Jane Turner
turnerj@winthrop.edu

Neal Vincent
nvincent@fsd1.org

Jason Warren
jwarren@greenville.k12.sc.us

Craig Washington
cwashington@fsd1.org

Lemuel Watson
watsonlw@mailbox.sc.edu

Steven Watson
steve.watson@pearson.com

Wendy Wells
mprince@tippingpointstechnologies.com

Famon Whitfield
whitfieldIIIf@dillon.k12.sc.us

Kathy Whitmire
kwhitmire@oconee.k12.sc.us

Deborah Wiles
debwiles@fred.net

Brenda Wilson
brenda.wilson@nwea.org

Deborah Wimberly
dwimberly@marion.k12.sc.us

Robin Wisniewski
robin.wisniewski@gmail.com

Seth Young
youngs@anderson1.k12.sc.us

Phillip Young
ipyoung@mailbox.sc.edu

Beth Ziesenis
beth@yournerdybestfriend.com

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Exhibitor Directory
See page 56 for Exhibit Hall Diagram.

Achieve 3000, Inc. 60
Shane Dukes
(800) 838-8771
Shane.dukes@achieve3000.com

ACT, Inc. 81, 82
Michael DiNicola
(404) 231-1952
mike.dinicola@act.org

American Reading Company 13
Kristen Norris
(843) 425-2926
kristen.norris@americanreading.com

Apex Learning 99
Matt Kirby
(206) 462-3759
Matt.kirby@apexlearning.com

Background Investigation Bureau 46
Beth Osborne
(704) 439-3900 ext. 174
bosborne@syntracorp.com

Benty 32
Tyler Smith
(803) 216-5401
tsmith@bentydev.com

BridgeTek solutions, LLC 54
Kelley Turpin
(864) 214-0221
kturpin@bridgeteksolutions.com

Bridgeway Solutions 90, 91
Kathy Hooper
(828) 438-1676
kathyh@bridgewayid.com

BrightBytes 48
Sarah Skinner
(877) 433-4036
sarah@brightbytes.com

C2 Collaborative 97
Fran Abee
(770) 630-5640
Fran.Abee@commoncoreinstitute.org

Camcor, Inc. 20
Bryan Pigford
(800) 868-2462 ext. 3
bpigford@camcor.com

Camp Leopold/
SC Waterfowl Association 10
Ed Paul
(803) 452-6001
epaul@scwa.org

Carnegie Learning 29
Mark Prince
(888) 851-7094
mprince@carnegielearning.com

Classworks 101
Patrick Sobak
(989) 277-5236
psobak@classworks.com

Columbia Management/ 16
Future Scholar 529 College Savings Plan
Ryan White
(888) 244-5674
ryan.white@columbiamanagement.com

Crown Global Consulting 9
Paul Berggren
(402) 817-0123
paul@crownglobalconsulting.com

Curriculum Associates 1
Pam Daniels
(800) 225-0248
pdaniels@cainc.com

Damand Promotions 62
Dan McLaughlin
(858) 663-5129
danmc10@aol.com

Discovery Education 80
Rob Warren
(980) 213-8719
rob_warren@discovery.com
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Durham School Services 5
Tim Hemans
800-950-0485,
themans@durhamschoolservices.com

Edgenuity 71
Alice Smith
(803) 269-1982
asmith@edgenuity.com

Edmentum 63
Libby Preble
(704) 904-0402
libby.preble@edmentum.com

Education Motivation, LLC 57
Robert Little
solut2000@aol.com

Encore Technology Group 30
Leo Gallant
(888) 983-6267
lgallant@encoretg.com

EPS Literacey and Intervention 87
Michael Bates
(800) 225-5750
Michael.bates@schoolspecialty.com

eSpark Learning 25
Sarah Guckert
(312) 894-3100
sarah@esparklearning.com

FACES, Inc. 100
Rick Palyok
(803) 782-3902
rpalyok@facesinc.org

First Student, Inc 86
Paul Sheppard
(864) 360-2279
Paul.sheppard2@firstgroup.com

Fuel Education 96
Tammy Graham
(803) 319-4031
tgraham@getfueled.com

Hart, Inc. 11
Paul Holdredge
(800) 654-8012
pbh@hart-inc.com

Hazelden Foundation 12
Toni Brezina
(800) 328-9000
tbrezinat@hazelden.org

Horace Mann 92, 93
Tim Smith
(864) 979-5624
tim.smith@horacemann.com

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/ 49
Riverside/Leadership & Learning Center
Nick James
(443) 481-7926
nick.james@hmhco.com

ID Shop, Inc. 75, 76
Ken Cobb
(800) 228-6522
kenc@idshop.com

Ident A Kid 37
Bryan Greenway
(843) 206-9088
greenway@identakid.com

Imagine Learning 66
Ty West
(980) 333-7202
Ty.west@imaginelearning.com

iStation 21
Corey Byrd
(919) 606-9062
cbyrd@istation.com

JAMF Software 44
Mike Bennett
(612) 677-7084
mike.bennett@jamfsoftware.com

Kelly Tours, Inc. 8
David Chason
(843) 564-1642
david@kellytours.com

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Kurzweil/IntelliTools 42
Matt Swilling
(678) 575-4374
matt.swilling@cambiumtech.com

Learning.com 2
Barbara Roberts
(803) 724-7900
broberts@learning.com

Letterland 14
Cat Rutledge
(704) 996-9010
catrut@bellsouth.net

LightSPEED Technologies 64
Mark Kuhn
(803) 786-6995
mark.kuhn@lightspeed-tek.com

McGraw Hill Education 24
ALEKS Mathematics
Forrest Smith
(404) 805-1765
fsmith@aleks.com

McKenzie Taylor Co. 31
Mike Conder
(304) 224-9393
mike@mctaylorco.com

Measurement Incorporated 38
Kendra Timberlake
(919) 683-2413
ktimberlake@measinc.com

Mentoring Minds 88, 89
Theresa Sherman
info@mentoringminds.com

Microsoft Corporation 26
Bob Dudenhoefer
(813) 842-2122
bobdude@microsoft.com

Moving to Success 85
Dan Young
(864) 680-8471
dan@movingtosuccess.com

Mural Mural on the Wall 22
Stacy Ridgeway
(800) 604-5619
info@officialmuralmuralonthewall.com

National Beta Club 58
Amy Warren
(800) 845-8281
awarren@betaclub@.org

Northwest Evaluation Association 72
Sue Madagan
sue.madagan@nwea.org
(843) 689-2268

Odysseyware 56
Jason Reavis
(877) 795-8904
jreavis@odysseyware.com

Palmetto Project 53
Cokeitha J. Gaddist
(843) 577-4122
cgaddist@palmettoproject.org

Pearson 102
Steve Watson/Tyler Garrett
(843) 810-4738/(803) 606-5933
steve.watson@pearson.com/
tyler.garrett@pearson.com

PlanetHS 6
Steve Adams
(888) 668-7452
Steveadams@planeths.com

Premier/School Specialty 27
Deanna Marie Lock
(843) 708-9515
Deanna.lock@schoolspecialty.com

Presentation Systems South 17, 18
Randy Hobart
(704) 662-3711
rhobart@carolinaposterprinters.com

QuaverMusic.com 59
Buz Watson
(866) 917-3633
buz@quavermusic.com

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Really Good Stuff 7
Lisa Brandstatter/Lynn Yeager
(800) 366-1920
writeus@reallygoodstuff.com

Renaissance Learning, Inc. 35
Rhonda Dickerson
(715) 424-3636
rhonda.dickerson@renlearn.com

Scholastic, Inc. 67
Kelly Brown/Odell Taylor
(704) 607-4938/(770) 342-8564
krbrown@scholastic.com/otaylor@scholastic.com

School Check In 98
Barry Peterson
(813) 962-7264
info@schoolcheckin.com

School Improvement Network 39
Allison Mateus
(801) 758-9738
allison.mateus@schoolimprovement.com

Scientific Learning 95
Greg Thompson/Darren Drye
(480) 699-8152/(704)219-9624
gthompson@scilearn.com/ddrye@scilearn.com

Sharp Business Systems 15
Randy Bidwell
(864) 675-2109
randy.bidwell@sharpusa.com

SiteTech Systems 51
Patrick Rhodes
(843) 808-9716
prhodes@sitetechsystems.com

South Carolina Alliance of 4
Black School Educators
Marlene Williams
(803) 603-7027
mswilliams@fsd1.org

South Carolina ETV & 94
ETV TeacherLine Southeast
Donna Thompson
(800) 277-3245
dthompson@scetv.org
Southern Management ABM 36
William Fairchild
(888) 711-2772
William.fairchild@abm.com

Southern Wesleyan University 3
Jim Shelton
(877) 644-5557
jshelton@swu.edu

Staymobile 28, 33
Chuck Morrison
(704) 807-3430
chuck@staymobile.com

TE21, Inc. 78, 79
Nancy Ford
(866) 982-8321
nancyford@te21.com

TeacherMatch LLC 65
Derrek Lyons
(888) 312-7231
dlyonds@teachermatch.org

Teachscape 61
Kristine Hammond
(877) 988-3224
Kristine.hammond@teachscape.com

TeachTown 83
Amanda Phillips
(803) 518-9364
aphillips@teachtown.com

Tests for Higher Standards 19
Stuart Flanagan
(804) 725-7997
ssflan@vims.edu

The Quest Zone 41
Theresa Tobin
(803) 648-1740
ttobin@sshouse.com

Thinking Maps 69
Donna Coon
(603) 315-7929
dcoon@thinkingmaps.com

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Tipping Points Technologies 84
Lola Tornabene
(434) 390-8776
ltornabene@tippingpointstechnologies.com

Townsend Press 50
George Henry
(888) 752-6410
george.henry@townsendpress.com

Triumph Learning- 70
Representing Coach/Options/Buckle Down
Jeff Alman
(919) 523-0040
jalman25@earthlink.net

University of Phoenix Online 52
Latrice Stewart
(704) 501-3043
latrice.stewart@phoenix.edu

VINCI Education 55
Warren Miller
(650) 704-8587
Warren.miller@vincieducation.com

Voyager Sopris Learning 77
Jeffrey Vincent
(704) 281-1006
Jeffrey.vincent@voyagersopris.com
Virco, Inc. 23
Nathan Reed
(800) 448-4726 ext. 1535
nathanreed@virco.com

Waterford Research Institute 43
Thomas Chapman
(803) 417-9291
thomaschapman@waterford.org

Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School 40
Scott Gaines
(803) 896-6566
gainess@wlgos.sc.gov

WIN Learning 45
David Mickelsen
(256) 566-5545
dmickelsen@winlearning.com

Zillion Info, Inc. 47
Ella Li
info@zillioninfo.com

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2014 Adult Education Summer Conference at a Glance

Sunday, June 15
3:00 pm 7:30 pm Registration Kensington F, Embassy Suites

Monday, June 16
8:30 am 10:00 am General Session Palisades Ballroom
10:00 am 11:00 am Visit Exhibits Palisades South
11:00 am 12:15 pm Breakout Sessions
12:15 pm 1:15 pm Lunch on Your Own and Visit Exhibits
1:15 pm 2:30 pm Breakout Sessions
4:30 pm 6:30 pm SCAACE Awards & Silent Auction Palmetto Dunes, Hilton

Tuesday, June 17
10:00 am 11:00 am Focus on Exhibits Palisades South
11:00 am 1:00 pm Vendor Showcase & Lunch Palisades ABC

Wednesday, June 18
8:30 am 9:45 am Adult Ed Directors Breakfast Atlantic View II

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Monday, June 16
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Room: Palisades D
Using Twitter for Adult Ed PD
Brett Taylor, RAETAC 5/Rock Hill Adult Education

Twitter, a tool to keep up with #adulted . As innovation
and educational tech tools accelerate, how can a busy
teacher or administrator keep up and evaluate the
usefulness of various new technologies, hardware,
software and connection platforms, as well as news
and trends from across the world that impact adult
education? I do not have any hard and fast answers
but will share my experiences and challenges. Included
will be my testimonial (and how-tos) related to Twitter.
A couple of excellent experts (Nell Ekersly, Barry
Burkett, Shelly Terrell) and their weekly updates info
will also be shared and possibly brought in as remote
guests.

Room: Palisades E
Making it Work
Karen Joyner, Richland One Adult Education

This session breaks down the math and science
standards that are covered on the GED 2014 test
using powerpoints, examples, and a writing task.

Room: Palisades F
Get Your Head in the Cloud
Mary Gaston, Pickens Adult Education

Learn how to use the "Cloud" to enhance your adult
education program. Participants will be shown how to
use SkyDrive/OneDrive (or Google Drive) to simplify
tasks such as managing student attendance, employee
payroll, or housing program documents. All
participants will be given access to templates they can
customize for their own program. Bring your own
device for a hands-on experience.

Room: Palisades G
Algebra Tiles in the Classroom
Christa Brumfield, Pickens Adult Education

Learn how to use algebra tiles in the classroom for
hands-on math instruction. Participants will be led
through activities that demonstrate how to use tiles to
teach integers, like terms, and simplifying binomials
and trinomials. Resources that can be used for
classroom instruction will also be shared.

12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.
Lunch on Your Own/Visit Exhibits

1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Deep Dive Session

Room: Palisades D
Adult Education Learning System for TABE and
2014 GED
Kammie McDougald, Kershaw County Adult Education
and Weyland Burns, Kershaw County Adult Education

Sharpen your adult education teaching skills through
an interactive lesson building process. Learn to
connect the dots between new GED standards and
what students need in classroom for content and
assessment on a daily basis. The process of precision
linkage of lesson plan objectives to College and Career
Ready standards and to TABE standards will be
thoroughly examined. Build lessons as you go. Bring
lap top or iPad for valuable resources. Leave with
helpful lessons to prepare students for new GED and
more precise lessons for TABE and with confidence in
this adult education alignment process of new GED
standards to daily teaching plans. Session facilitators
are 24/7 adult education practitioners: one adult
education teacher of young adults and one adult
education director of a local program.

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1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Room: Palisades E
Overview of Science 2014 Educational
Resources
Eric Childers, Union County Learning Center

During this session we will examine the science
practice resources developed by Adult Education
teachers throughout the state. A few of the
demonstrations will be performed. There will also be
time in the session for programs to share other ideas
that they have developed to meet the standards for
the science GED section.

Room: Palisades F
PLC: Professional Learning Communities
Christy Henderson, Lexington 2 & 4 Adult Education

Transform your adult education program into a
community of continuous improvement by shifting
your focus. Five key elements will be explored: every
student will learn, collaboration, emphasis on learning
instead of teaching, assessment for learning and
failure is not an option mind set.

Room: Palisades G
What Do I Teach? How to Optimize Your
WorkKeys Resources
Jennifer Spears, Spartanburg County Adult Education

This seminar will be for WorkKeys teachers and
Program Directors who need ideas on how to teach a
fast-paced WorkKeys class with maximum increases in
WorkKeys and TABE scores. Daily routines, Career
Ready 101/Keytrain, and favorite resources will be
discussed.

2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Room: Palisades E
Want to Know More about the WorkKeys
Talent Assessment?
Kathy Woodson, RAETAC Region 1

One of the criteria for counties to become a Certified
Work Ready Community is to have 25% of test takers
take the WorkKeys soft skills assessment called Talent.
This session will take a look at the personality
characteristics measured by the Talent Assessment.
Participants will examine the reports generated by this
test and discuss ways that students or those looking
for employment could use this information in their job
searches. Although you cannot prepare for personality
assessments, the Career Ready 101 software does offer
some preparation material for the measured areas of
Work Discipline, Teamwork, Customer Service and
Managerial Potential. Participants will have the
opportunity to explore some of the resources available
in the Career Ready 101 software.

Room: Palisades F
Free Websites to Take Your AE Classroom to
New Heights
Erin Miller, RAETAC Region 3

Come and explore my LiveBinder of free GED, ABE
and ESL websites. In this session you will get the
opportunity to explore tons of free educational sites
and discuss, as a group, ideas on how to integrate
them into your AE classrooms. Participants will learn
to use a website critique form that allows both the
teacher and students to take a critical look at websites
and evaluate them for usability and classroom
application. Bring your own device for a more
hands-on experience.

Room: Palisades G
The New Funding Formula and Its Impact on
the Budget
David Stout and Mike King, SC Department of Education

This session will cover implementation of the 2014-15
South Carolina Adult Education budget, including the
new Federal and State funding formulas. Because the
Federal funding formula is now performance-based,
adult educators will need a good understanding of
how it is calculated and the impact these performance-
based formulas will have in the coming years. Join Dr.
Stout in this informative session to understand more
about the budgeting process and how to make it work
for your program.

4:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
SCAACE Awards & Silent Auction
Location: Dunes Ballroom, Hilton

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Tuesday, June 16
Vendor Showcase & Lunch
Room: Palisades ABC
11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m.

11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Redefining the 2014 Adult Education
Classroom
Wendy Tyler, McGraw-Hill Education (Contemporary
Group)

This presentation will focus on the new Common Core
State Standards and College and Career Readiness
Skills and how they have evolved into the new 2014
Adult Education Classroom.

11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
GED 2014 Test Preparation Solutions from
Edmentum
Mike Widra, Edmentum

As you begin to prepare for the new GED assessment,
it is important to make sure you continue to support all
of the areas that learners need to succeed.
Edmentum's new suite of GED test solutions can help
you and your students make the transition. We offer
GED test solutions that provide instruction, practice,
formative assessment, and real-time reporting. Our
software helps educators pinpoint academic strengths
and weaknesses, differentiate their instruction, and
target individual student needs through rigorous
standards-based content. Edmentum is the premier
provider of online education products designed to
enhance student retention, progression, and success,
and an approved partner of the GED testing service.

11:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HMH Steck-Vaughn 2014 GED Test Preparation
Program
Marc Callahan, Geni McKee and Deanna Crosson,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Steck-Vaughn has created a brand new test
preparation program to prepare students for the 2014
GED test. Participants will find out what changes have
been made in the program to address the changes in
the new test. We will look at both the new books and
the new online editions of the program.

12:00 p.m. 12:20 p.m.
Lunch
Pick up your box lunch in Palisades South and return
to the room for the remainder of the presentations.

12:20 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.
ETS High School Equivalency Testing (HiSET)
Program
Deborah Shine, Educational Testing Service

Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the University of
Iowa (ITP) have collaborated and developed a high
school equivalency testing (HiSET) program that
launched January 2014 at the request of more than 30
states. The assessment is an alternative to the GED.
This session will provide information about the ETS
HiSET Program.

12:40 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Be TASC Test Ready
Chriss Cazayoux, CTB/McGraw-Hill

This session explores CTB/McGraw-Hill's New TASC
Test, High School Equivalency Assessment. You will
discover the role TASC Test plays in ensuring Adult
Education and College and Career Readiness outcomes
are achieved.

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Deep Dive Session
1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Room: Palisades E
Creating Digital Stories
LaVerne Stewart, Beaufort County Adult Education

An innovative approach to teaching writing skills to all
ages!! Using Windows Live Movie Maker and
Storybird.com teachers can creatively teach the
elements of writing a story or essay in chronological
order. This workshop will give teachers the tools
needed to use these two programs in their classrooms
to instruct students in creating digital photo books,
novel trailers, etc. BYOD - Teachers will need a
laptop.

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Room: Palisades D
FastTrack Roadmap to GED 2014
Susan Gibson, Christa Brumfield and Mary Gaston,
Pickens Adult Education

Presenters will share one example of a "Roadmap" for
Fast-Track students to earn a GED. The roadmap serves
as guide for both students and instructors,
highlighting milestones that must be achieved in order
to be "ready" for the high school equivalency exam.
Resources used to help students achieve success will
be shared.

Room: Palisades F
Roundtable Discussion about the 2014 GED
Math Test
Beth Martin, Cherokee County Adult Education

This discussion will focus on topics assessed on the
GED Mathematical Reasoning Exam, and the books,
materials, websites, and manipulatives used to teach
these assessed targets. Participants are encouraged to
bring information, samples, books, etc. to share in
order to provide others with useful and insightful
information.

Room: Palisades G
Financial Monitoring Process
Mike King and David Stout, SC Department of Education

Mike King and Dr. David Stout will introduce the new
position of Lead Financial Monitor at the State
Department of Education and explain the changes and
revisions that lead to the creation of this position.
Mike will cover the desk top monitoring process and
the impact that financial monitoring will have on the
Local Program Review (LPR) process.

2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Room: Palisades D
Social Studies on the New 2014 GED
Stacie Sprouse, Cherokee County Adult Education

This session will provide resources that will help
students to pass the new social studies part of the
GED. Participants will engage in hands-on, exciting
activities to explore the new test, and will learn ways to
improve student performance.

Room: Palisades F
Rehab Your Vocab: Vocabulary Across the
Curriculum
Paula Aull, Betty Gilbert, and Janet Russ, Lexington Two &
Four Adult Education

Vocabulary is "crucial for getting meaning from text"
(Kruidenier 2002). How is vocabulary implemented in
your subject area? Learn strategies to incorporate
vocabulary words into your lessons for Reasoning
through Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and
Mathematical Reasoning. This session will provide
"quick fixes" for creatively teaching vocabulary to your
students. Quick fixes include strategies, resources,
sample lessons and much more.

Room: Palisades G
Knowing Your Community and Utilizing the
Resources
Elyse Miller and Wendy Griffin, Spartanburg County Adult
Education

Come learn about various statewide community
resources that can help Adult Ed students break
through obstacles, gain employment, and/or further
their education.
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Presenter Directory
*Directory lists lead presenters only

Paula Aull
paull@lex2.org

Christa Brumfield
christabrumfield@pickens.k12.sc.us

Chriss Cazayoux
chriss.Cazayoux@ctb.com

Eric Childers
echilders@union.k12.sc.us

Deanna Crosson
deanna.crosson@hmhco.com

Mary Gaston
marygaston@pickens.k12.sc.us

Susan Gibson
susangibson@pickens.k12.sc.us

Christy Henderson
christyh@lex2.org

Karen Joyner
kjoyner@richlandone.org

Mike King
MRKing@ed.sc.gov

Beth Martin
beth.martin@cherokee1.org

Kammie McDougald
katherine.mcdougald@kcsdschools.net

Erin Miller
emiller@dorchester2.k12.sc.us

Elyse Miller
emmiller@spart7.org

Deborah Shine
dshine@ets.org

Jennifer Spears
jsspears@spart7.org

Stacie Sprouse
stacie.sprouse@cherokee1.org

LaVerne Stewart
laverne.stewart@beaufort.k12.sc.us

David Stout
dstout@ed.sc.gov

Brett Taylor
btaylor@rhmail.org

Wendy Tyler
wendy.tyler@mheducation.com

Mike Widra
mike.widra@edmentum.com

Kathy Woodson
kwoodson@greenville.k12.sc.us

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Adult Education Exhibitor Directory
Edmentum
Mike Widra
(800) 447-5286
Mike.widra@edmentum.com

F.E. Braswell Company, Inc.
Bobby Watkins
(919) 971-8936
brwkhw@mindspring.com

ETS HiSET
Deborah Shine
(855) 694-4738
dshine@ets.org

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Deanna Crosson
(800) 225-5425
Deanna.crosson@hmhco.com

McGraw-Hill Education (Contemporary Group)
Wendy Tyler
(706) 333-5351
Wendy.tyler@mheducation.com

New Readers Press
Karen Welch
(404) 580-1563
Kwelch1799@gmail.com
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