McCallum

The Science of Extreme Storm Chasing **-began with the Bermudian Springs steel drum band with special guest Dr. Paul Healy, former Bermudian Superintendent and ASCD President** **-recognition of current president and ASCD outstanding young educators** **-Scott Kinney, Discovery Education, Keynote Speaker Reed Timmer** **[|videotornadoes.net] **   **1272 The Answer is in the Room Where Failure is not an Option** **Presenter Alan Blankstein, Author of Failure is not an Option: 6 Principles That Guide Student Success in Highly Effective Schools**  **1347 Stick in a Rut with Assessment** **-Creating a culture of commitment** **-how can we make schools high performing for the kids that need us the most... Create a culture for them and everyone succeeds**  **Student/Adult engagement** **-different ways to assess (formative) allow for more ways to demonstrate knowledge** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**Building collective capacity** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Shift to collaborative school culture** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Need method to scale school culture** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**4 Assumptions** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**1. Everyone is already working hard.** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**2. Every school has excellent teachers** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**3. Its an internal journey** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**4. Building the capacity for leadership teams where failure is not an option** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**Building Collective FNO Culture** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**1. Teachers pursue a clear, shaped purpose for all students learning** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**2. Teachers engage in collaborative activity to achieve their stated purpose (collaboration starts in the meeting and ends in the classroom)** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**3. Teachers take collective responsibility for student learning** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-10 D's of deviance on approaches to difficult youth** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> **Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**1. If all students can learn, what should they be learning?** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**2. How will we ensure engaging and relevant pedagogy?** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**3. How will you know if they are learning it?** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**4. What will you do if they don't learn?** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Identify vital behaviors** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Methodology for defining and identifying excellence** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**Construct for develop common language and priorities** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**1305 Common Core Standards: Now What?** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**Presenter John Kendall, McREL Denver** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**TERRIBLE! I bailed and went to...** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**1345 The Cure for the Common Classroom** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**Presenter Marilee Sprenger** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-She is dressed up like Peter Pan and gave everyone green construction paper... I'm in!** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Common classrooms lead to frustration for low kids and boredom for high kids** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-In the uncommon classroom, we have novelty, movement, surprises, humor, emotion, relevance** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-right hemisphere of the brain looks at the present, takes everything in** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-left hemisphere of the brain looks at the past and the future** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-amygdala helps us forms our emotions and memories. Next to the hippocampus (long term memory) so when emotion is used properly, it will help info go into long term memory** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Learners remember what they write better than what you write** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-The brain loves contrast (good/bad, light/dark)... Reference to Marzano's strategies** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Person doing the most talking is the one doing the most learning** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-"I heard someone say..."** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Getting kids moving** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> **Paint letters on the floor... Jump out a word** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> **Make human angles** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> **Kids make periodic table, jump on an element that is...** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> **Calculator on the floor** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> **twister on the floor with matching words** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**-Show don't tell... We can see faster than we can read - process visuals 60,000 times faster than we process text** <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; display: block; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">