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Return to Breakout Session Search
Friday, March 13, 2009
7 am - Registration Opens
7:00 am–8:30 am - Breakfast
8:30 am–10 am - Breakout Sessions
Math
| Title: | Mathematics as a Constitutional Rights Issue |
| Strand: | Math |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Board Members, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | This open mic session will explore what schools can do at every grade level to ensure students are prepared to succeed in mathematics in high school and beyond. This session will be facilitated by Dr. Robert P. Moses, founder and president of The Algebra Project, Inc., a national, nonprofit organization that uses mathematics as an organizing tool to ensure quality public school education for every child. |
| Presenter(s): | Robert P. Moses (The Algebra Project) |
| Location: | Promenade A, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
English Learners
| Title: | The Perfect Environment to Teach Students How to Write for College |
| Strand: | English Learners |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Developers, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 301 (Veteran Leaders) |
| Description: | Composition scholars agree that small group, collaborative pedagogy is the ideal way to teach writing, yet few high schools have the space or ability to do this. Downtown College Prep does. This facility is designed to encourage collaboration and congregation in open communal spaces. Thanks to a commitment to mentoring, students from Santa Clara University are teaching a senior class, Writing for College, in which students and mentors work together on essays and gain confidence. |
| Presenter(s): | Alicia Gallegos (Downtown College Preparatory), Jill Goodman Gould, Ph.D. (Santa Clara University), Bill Gould (Bill Gould Design), Krystal Wu (Santa Clara University) |
| Location: | 103C, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Special Education
| Title: | Special Education Supports and Legal Requirements |
| Strand: | Special Education |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators |
| Levels: | 101 (Developers) |
| Description: | Special education can be an emotional and confounding topic from school and family perspectives. Charter schools can and do represent the populations of our communities. This session will address compliance as well as highlighting service delivery models that benefit all students. Topics introduced will include compliance, curriculum differentiation, collaborative teaching models, behavior support systems and partnerships with families. |
| Presenter(s): | Julie Fabrocini (CHIME Institute) |
| Location: | 202B, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Instructional Leadership
| Title: | More Tools in Your Toolkit: Building Quality Schools |
| Strand: | Instructional Leadership |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | Ideal for schools trying to close the achievement gap, this session provides school leaders training and tools to target schoolwide and individual teacher needs within culture, leadership, and teaching and assessment. While many forms of measurement are utilized under No Child Left Behind, few assessments comprehensively evaluate the schoolwide practices that impact student achievement. The School Self-Reflection Analysis Toolkit allows school leadership to assess a school based on the inputs that enhance student performance results. |
| Presenter(s): | Glenn Liebeck (Founder of Emerging Leaders), Jodie Newbery (California Charter Schools Association) |
| Location: | 102B, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Assessment Systems & Accountability
| Title: | Data-Driven Instruction |
| Strand: | Assessment Systems & Accountability |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | Research has shown that teachers understand immediate feedback is critical to student success and has also demonstrated the need to assess students in such a way as to provide them with feedback that is specific, accurate, incremental and timely. Ultimately, the responsibility for student performance outcomes filters down to the school, the administrators, the teachers and the students, all stakeholders in the process of assessment. |
| Presenter(s): | Cal Stanley (Pima Community College), Tammy Stephens (The Stephens Group), Michelle Tubbs (Alliance Charter Schools) |
| Location: | 102A, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Supporting Struggling Students
| Title: | Helping Students Make a Successful Transition to High School |
| Strand: | Supporting Struggling Students |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Board Members, Parents, Non-Classroom Based, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | Entering ninth grade is a difficult transition for all students. Learn how to develop and implement a comprehensive transition program that introduces all incoming ninth grade students to the high school culture. Look at a successful model that improves school culture, introduces families and students to high school, creates a college readiness culture and increases the number of students who graduate and enroll in post-secondary educational opportunities. This model can be adapted to fit any school's needs. |
| Presenter(s): | Charles Canosa (Kaplan K12 Learning Services), Julia Howelman (Granada Hills Charter High School) |
| Location: | 201A, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| | Title: | Mastering the Suspension and Expulsion Process |
| Strand: | Supporting Struggling Students |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Veterans, Board Members, Developers |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | Avoid costly mistakes by learning the essential keys to establishing and maintaining an effective and legally compliant student discipline suspension and expulsion system. Specifically, learn what legal rules apply to charter schools with a special emphasis on how your school can carry out student discipline under California law. |
| Presenter(s): | James Young (Law Offices of Middleton, Young & Minney, LLP) |
| Location: | 101A, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Curriculum & Instruction
| Title: | Successful PBL: Learning from New Technology Foundation Schools |
| Strand: | Curriculum & Instruction |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Teachers/Administrators, Board Members, Developers, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 301 (Veteran Leaders) |
| Description: | If Project-Based Learning has always seemed to be a great idea but somewhat overwhelming to design and organize, then this is the workshop for you! The facilitators have extensive experience in designing and using PBL in the classroom, know all the pitfalls and can help you identify the critical success factors. This experientially based workshop will excite and transform your own ideas about how you can accelerate learning and successfully introduce PBL into your classroom. |
| Presenter(s): | Sarah Frossell (KiCubed), Isla Reddin (KiCubed) |
| Location: | 201B, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Human Resources
| Title: | Wage and Hour Issues and How They Affect Charter Schools |
| Strand: | Human Resources |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Board Members, Business Managers, Non-Classroom Based, General Education/Community Stakeholders, Administrative Assistants/Support Staff |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | How does the Fair Labor Standards Act impact your school? Which employees are properly classified as exempt and which are not? Can non-exempt employees volunteer at your school? How is overtime calculated when employees receive more than one hourly rate? What about pay for supervising student overnight trips or travel to conferences? Can coaches receive just stipends? We will discuss these legal issues and more, as well as provide practical advice for avoiding the Fair Labor Standards Act danger zones. |
| Presenter(s): | Brian Walter (Liebert Cassidy Whitmore) |
| Location: | 103B, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Budget/Finance
| Title: | Charter School Audits |
| Strand: | Budget/Finance |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Board Members, Business Managers, Administrative Assistants/Support Staff |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | The California Charter Schools Association's Alice Miller will lead this comprehensive session. She will be joined by: J. Mark Jenkins of Envision Schools, who will talk about the role and function of Charter School Audit Committees; Walter Wallace of Granada Hills High School, who will show you how to manage appropriate documentation and close the books in style; and Paul Minney of the law office of Spector, Middleton, Young & Minney LLP, who will share strategies for fighting negative audit findings. |
| Presenter(s): | J. Mark Jenkins (Envision Schools), Sarah Kollman (Middleton, Young & Minney, LLP), Alice Miller (California Charter Schools Association), Walter Wallace (Granada Hills Charter High School) |
| Location: | 103A, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| | Title: | The Triangle of Tension: How Leaders Can Make Ends Meet |
| Strand: | Budget/Finance |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Board Members, Business Managers |
| Levels: | 301 (Veteran Leaders) |
| Description: | This session explores the interaction of the three largest factors in a charter school’s ability to maintain financial stability: personnel costs, facilities costs and enrollment revenue. What happens when you have to compromise? Every charter school lives with the triangle of tension. How can you make the best of it? What if the triangle collapses—can the school survive? Support financial viability by learning to keep each leg of the triangle in proper tension. |
| Presenter(s): | Doug Hering (The Classical Academy of Colorado Springs, Colorado), Peter Hilts (The Classical Academy of Colorado Springs, CO) |
| Location: | 102C, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Facilities
| Title: | Preliminary Apportionment Conversion: Propositions 55 and 1D |
| Strand: | Facilities |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Board Members, Business Managers, Developers |
| Levels: | 101 (Developers) |
| Description: | The focus of this workshop will be to provide charter schools that received preliminary apportionments under Proposition 55 and Proposition 1D with the information necessary to successfully reach their final apportionment. The presentation will detail the tools and steps necessary to navigate the intricate state funding process. |
| Presenter(s): | Jason Casillas (Department of General Services), Barbara Kampmeinert (Department of General Services), Juan Mireles (Department of General Services), Travis Williams (Office of Public School Construction) |
| Location: | Promenade C, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Authorizer Relations
| Title: | Avoid the Breakup: Prepare for Renewal and Avoid Revocation |
| Strand: | Authorizer Relations |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Veterans, Board Members, Business Managers |
| Levels: | 201 (Schools/Teachers) |
| Description: | Got a good thing going that you want to protect? We want to help you avoid non-renewal and revocation. We have 15 years of experience in defending charter schools against revocations and supporting charter schools through renewal. We will outline the top 15 reasons charter schools are revoked or non-renewed and discuss real life examples, taking the lessons from each. We will also discuss the legal steps for renewal of the charter and critical tips for submitting a renewal petition. |
| Presenter(s): | Lisa Corr (Law Offices of Middleton, Young & Minney, LLP), Paul Minney (Middleton, Young & Minney, LLP) |
| Location: | 203B, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Advocacy
| Title: | California Charter Trends |
| Strand: | Advocacy |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Veterans, Board Members, Business Managers, Developers, Parents, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 301 (Veteran Leaders) |
| Description: | This presentation provides both a macro and micro level analysis of the state of the charter movement in California. Participants will learn about Academic Performance Index results statewide and within seven key regions as well as trends from 2004 through 2008. Participants will also learn about a matched comparison analysis of charter schools in Los Angeles and Oakland, in which each charter is "matched" with similar traditional schools and their performances are compared. |
| Presenter(s): | Aisha Toney (California Charter Schools Association) |
| Location: | 101B, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Community Partnerships
| Title: | Building Solid Futures for Every Youth: A Campaign To Create An Architecture, Construction, & Engineering (ACE) Academy in South Los Angeles |
| Strand: | Community Partnerships |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Developers, Parents, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 101 (Developers) |
| Description: | In 2006 the Community Coalition launched a campaign to create pathways out of poverty by building career technical academies in South Los Angeles high schools that connected students to jobs that offered living wages, health benefits and union protection. These academies would prepare students to either attend college or find careers. After two years, Green Dot Public Schools committed to launch the first Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (ACE) academy at Locke High School in September 2009! |
| Presenter(s): | Karume James (Community Coalition), Guillermo Munoz (Green Dot Public Schools), Njideka Obijiaku (Community Coalition) |
| Location: | 204, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Independent Study
| Title: | Reading Improvement With Visual Skills Training |
| Strand: | Independent Study |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Teachers, Administrators, Teachers/Administrators, Veterans, Board Members, Parents, Non-Classroom Based, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 301 (Veteran Leaders) |
| Description: | Numerous studies show that visual skills can affect reading. How efficiently the eyes move while tracking across a page, how well the two eyes are coordinated, and how rapidly they can refocus are all related to fluency and to scores on standardized tests. This session presents research to support this relationship and describes a program of assessment and visual skills training that can be implemented in the classroom or in any other location via the Internet. |
| Presenter(s): | Robert Hoffman (Gemstone Foundation), Maureen Powers (Gemstone Vision Research Institute) |
| Location: | 203A, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Developers
| Title: | Converting a Traditional Public School to a Charter Public School |
| Strand: | Developers |
| Type: | Breakout |
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| Audiences: | Developers, General Education/Community Stakeholders |
| Levels: | 101 (Developers) |
| Description: | In 2005 King-Chavez Public Schools Charter Network Organization managed the conversion of a traditional public school to a charter public school. Test scores have increased from the 500s to the 800s in three years. The administration and development team of King-Chavez will share the areas where change was made to effect increases in student academic achievement. |
| Presenter(s): | David Wilson (King-Chavez Public Schools), Tim Wolf (King-Chavez Public Schools) |
| Location: | 203C, Long Beach Convention Center |
| Time: | Friday 3/13 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
10:15 am–11:30 am - Closing Keynote
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