2024 Conference Agenda

July 30, 2024

8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

8:30 AM Registration

9:00 AM Keynote Speaker: Brian Mendler

12:00 PM- 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Breakout Session 1

3:00 PM Breakout Session 2

5:00 PM Social

TOPICS

Elementary

• The WHY behind the Structures

• Behavior Data Cycles with the PLC

• Facilitating Cultural Change w/in Your Building

• Whole Brain Teaching

• Level up Your Executive Functioning with your K-8

• Responding to Rage

• Mock Classroom/Decorating vs. Implementing

Middle School

• Facilitating Cultural Change w/in Your Building

• Best Practices for the Elective Classroom

• Responding to Rage

• SEL in Literacy

• Mock Classroom/Calm Corners

High School

• Restorative Justice

• Student Engagement

• Community Circles

• Teenage Brain Science

Administration

• Teachers First, Building the School Family

• Challenges and Solutions Round Table

• Restorative Practices from the Admin Perspective

• Communicating with Parents about Student Discipline

K-12

• I Hate It and You Can’t Make Me

• Byte-Sized Brilliance: Time-Saving Tech for Teaching Triumphs

• Restorative Conversations

• Connecting with Families

• Games of Connection

• Mental Health Crisis Response

• Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention for Schools

• Emotional Poverty

• ACEs

• Vicarious Trauma

• How to Deal with Angry Parents

• Routines/Structures and Procedures – They Should Know Better

• Why Connections Matter: The brain was built to connect

• Brain States: When and How to Respond to Upsets in Each State

• Neuroplasticity: Helping Students Understand How Learning Happens

• Teacher Regulation

• Unlikely Allies