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1:30pm EST

Our Teachers and Our Schools: What Educators Can and Cannot Do to Close the Achievement Gap

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Showing contempt for a half-century of unrefuted research, public policy now assumes that teachers alone can close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and middle class children. In this challenging climate for public education, teachers and other public school leaders have three tasks, each of which must be pursued simultaneously. First, educators must resist the reduction of expectations to improved performance on low-quality, high stakes standardized tests. Second, they must direct what resources they can to the provision of high quality early childhood, health, social service, and after school programs that can improve the readiness of disadvantaged children to learn, and to the mobilization of available resources for these purposes from other community institutions. And third, educators must become more outspoken about social and economic conditions that limit children’s ability to take advantage of public education, and about the imperative to fight politically to ameliorate these conditions.

Speakers

Richard Rothstein

Monday January 21, 2013 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Delta Ballroom D

Topic Area At-Risk, Cultural Diversity, Early Childhood, Effective Leaders, Family Engagement, Fiscal
Session Type Notable Ideas

3:30pm EST

No More Racial “Achievement Gap”: Reconsidering How We Think About Student Achievement

Based on Dr. Royal’s article, “Please Stop Using the Phrase ‘Achievement Gap’” http://www.good.is/posts/please-stop-using-the-phrase-achievement-gap, this session will encourage educators to reconsider how we think about, speak about, and approach our work with students, families, schools, and communities that have been historically-marginalized and/or are currently under-resourced. This session will expose the pathology of deficit-oriented discourses in education that fuel martyrdom and the messiah complex. Toward an anti-racist, anti-elitist professional education force that maintains high expectations for all students, this session will examine the Anglo-normativity of current racial “achievement gap” thinking and juxtapose it with the idea of the education debt owed to the students, families, and communities we serve.

Speakers

Camika Royal

Monday January 21, 2013 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Presidential D

Session Type Notable Ideas

9:00am EST

Flexibility At Last – Building Upon the SES Model for Improved Student Outcomes

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With the new NCLB Waiver, LEAs have greater flexibility to redesign Supplemental Educational Services (SES) to customize extended learning to meet the needs of your district’s neediest students. Good news is on the horizon! School leaders and classroom teachers are invited to learn about innovative program design and supports with the Baltimore City Public School System, currently providing SES for over 6000 Title I students.

By the end of this session, conference attendees will return to their districts with strategies for developing public and private partnerships that work and meet the needs of the schools. Presenters will share a program design with an infrastructure that supports student attendance, manages service providers effectively while ensuring a return on the Title I investment. Participants will have an opportunity to address related fiscal issues and internal controls.

Speakers

Keshawn Golson

Keshawn Golson works as an Educational Specialist in the Baltimore City Schools Office of Federal Programs/Title I supporting the implementation of SES and Parent Choice programs.

Naomi Hill

Dr. Naomi Hill . is an Educational Specialist in the Office of Federal Programs/Title I in the Baltimore City Public Schools. She oversees the implementation of Supplemental Educational Services and Parent Choice.

Tasha Johnson

Tasha Franklin Johnson serves as the Director of the Office of Federal Programs/Title I for the Baltimore City Public Schools. She is a former classroom teacher and school administrator with research interests in culturally relevant practices and teacher preparation in urban scho... Read More →

Michael Klapp

Michael Klapp graduated from the University of Central Florida and has worked in IT and IT consulting over 30 years. He currently works in the Baltimore City Schools Office of Federal Programs/Title I as an Application Developer.

Robin Lopez

Robin Lopez is the Title I Manager in the Office of Federal Programs/Title I for Baltimore City Public Schools. Wtih 15 years experience, she has been a teacher, mentor, literacy professional developer, and Specialist with the Maryland State Department of Education and Baltimore County... Read More →

Tuesday January 22, 2013 9:00am - 10:00am EST
Presidential B

Topic Area School Improvement
Session Type Proven Strategies

9:00am EST

Is Your School-Parent Compact Linked to Student Achievement Goals? Ten Steps to Effective Compacts

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This presentation will explain how to revitalize Title I School-Parent Compacts - moving from a routine requirement to a powerful tool for collaborating with families to improve their child's academic achievement. This workshop will show you how to engage parents in designing grade-level Compacts that are linked to the goals of the school improvement plan and use specific and meaningful learning strategies in the classroom and at home.

Participants will engage in interactive activities with sample templates and tools they can use right away along with a new 10-step process developed with Title I schools in Connecticut. They will learn about the research-based evidence that says why the process of truly engaging parents in creating the Compact is as important as the product. Participants will also take a tour of Connecticut's new online video coaching toolkit that walks schools through the process for creating a School-Parent Compact that will get results (website is freely available).

Speakers

Patricia Avallone

Selected as CT's Teacher of the Year in 1995, Patti went on to become an elementary and middle school principal and most recently served as Title I Director for the City of New Haven. Currently she is a consultant to CT DOE in family engagement and an executive coach for urban principals... Read More →

Judy Carson

As manager of the CT School-Family-Community Partnership Project, Judy Carson develops programs and policies related to family engagement and family literacy. Her Ph.D. is in Social Policy from the Heller School at Brandeis University with a focus on the intersection of family and... Read More →

Anne Henderson

Anne T Henderson, a best-selling author and expert on family-school partnerships. She works across the country as a speaker, professional developer, and thought partner with SEAs, school districts, community groups, foundations and government organizations.

Tuesday January 22, 2013 9:00am - 10:00am EST
Governors' C

Topic Area Family Engagement, School Improvement
Session Type Proven Strategies

10:45am EST

Reauthorization and Key Issues: Reauthorization, Common Core, Waivers

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Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) remains one of many important issues facing educators and our schools. In addition, other national topics such as: standards, assessments, waivers, early childhood, teacher education need to be incorporated into the rewriting of ESEA. This session will examine how these elements will be incorporated into the conversation between the Administration and Congress.

Speakers

Rich Long

Tuesday January 22, 2013 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Delta Ballroom D

10:45am EST

Testing Your Time and Effort: The Rules on Allowability for Federally Paid Employees.

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This presentation will be based on programmatic and fiscal allowability rules relating to personnel costs in Title I, A programs. It will cover the allowability rules under Title I,A,OMB Circular A-87 and A-133 and EDGAR. This presentation will provide practical examples of time and effort documentation that has not been compliant as well as practical ideas on how to deal with certain costs, including but not limited to: temporary personnel, overtime, split funded personnel and schoolwide flexibility. The presentation will include test questions for attendees to review their knowledge or the requirements and provide citations for the rules so that they can reference the requirements later. Finally the presentation will cover the proposed time and effort changes.

Speakers

Tiffany Winters

Tiffany R. Winters joined Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC in July 2006. Ms. Winters provides legal advice, consulting services, audit defense, trainings and mock monitoring visits of Title I programs for compliance. Ms. Winters regularly contributes to Thompson Publishing Groups’s p... Read More →

Tuesday January 22, 2013 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Governors' C

Topic Area Fiscal
Session Type Proven Strategies

10:45am EST

Using the Common Core State Standards to Drive Student Achievement and School Improvement

The Common Core State Standards have the potential to revolutionize American education. Informed by leading education models around the world and grounded in evidence of the knowledge students must have to succeed in college and careers, the standards give educators a consistent and focused picture of the skills that are most essential to children’s development. Alberti will discuss the major instructional shifts required by the standards, including the evidence behind the shifts. These same shifts will be represented in both consortia assessments. Also in this session, suggested tools and strategies for using the standards to improve teaching and learning will be presented.

Speakers

Sandra Alberti

Tuesday January 22, 2013 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Presidential B

Session Type Notable Ideas

3:00pm EST

Effective ESEA Flexibility Implementation: Using data, including graduation rates to identify subgroup intervention in focus and other Title I schools

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States with approved ESEA flexibility requests must use data to select and implement interventions in Title I schools with the greatest achievement gaps (focus schools) and to provide supports to ensure continuous improvement in other Title I schools. Presenters will discuss the Federal requirements that apply to these schools and discuss strategies for using data, including graduation rate data, for identifying interventions.

Speakers

Victoria Hammer

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Christine Pilgrim

Angela Tanner-Dean

Tuesday January 22, 2013 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Delta Ballroom D

3:00pm EST

Supporting High Quality Pre-school through Title I, Part A

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High-quality preschool programs supported with Title I funds can help ensure that children have the foundation they need to achieve success throughout elementary and secondary school, and beyond. Using the revised Title I Non-regulatory guidance, this session will highlight successful programs and provide clarity regarding the use of Title I funds to implement high-quality preschool programs.

Speakers

Steven Hicks

Tuesday January 22, 2013 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Presidential B

3:00pm EST

Title I, Part A Equitable Services 101: Everything you wanted to know about providing equitable services to eligible students attending private schools but were afraid to ask.

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This session will address the requirements governing equitable services to eligible private school students under Title I, Part A. It is geared toward people who are new to equitable services or would like to refresh their knowledge in this area.

Speakers

Mike Anderson

Future Loves Past

Amy Huber

Todd Stephenson

Tuesday January 22, 2013 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Governors' C

3:30pm EST

Using Title I Funding to Support EL's and Avoiding Supplanting of Core EL Programs

Speakers

David Holbrook

Tuesday January 22, 2013 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Ryman Ballroom A

Session Type Notable Ideas

9:00am EST

Core Principles for Managing Title I Effectively

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Ensuring compliance with Title I requirements requires state and local educational agencies to navigate a complex network of rules and regulations, especially in light of ESEA Flex. This presentation will focus on the internal control systems needed to effectively manage Title I programs.

Topics include: core principles for effective grants management; internal control standards; common audit or monitoring findings; practical strategies for strengthening grants management systems; and reducing audit or monitoring risks.

Developing robust internal control systems to manage federal funds can facilitate compliance and help to reduce the risk of audit or monitoring findings in the future.

Speakers

Melissa Junge

Sheara Krvaric

Sheara Krvaric is a co-founder of the Federal Education Group, which provides strategic advice, compliance counseling, implementation assistance, and training to states and school districts on how to use and manage federal grants to support K-12 programs.

Wednesday January 23, 2013 9:00am - 10:00am EST
Governors' C

Topic Area Fiscal
Session Type Proven Strategies

9:00am EST

Detailed Guidance for Implementing A Successful Title I Private School Equitable Services Program

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This session will provide Local Educational Agency (LEA’s) Title I personnel and other involved stakeholders with guidance for planning and implementing a successful high quality Title I Private School Equitable Services Educational Program. A sample of a LEA’s current Title I private school program systemic procedures will be reviewed.

Speakers

Cleophas Jones

Cleophas Jones Ed.D., is a Title I Coordinator for the DeKalb County School District, in Stone Mountain, Georgia. During the past twelve years he has served the children of DeKalb in different capacities, and he has done each duty with the utmost level of care, commitment, and concern... Read More →

Safiyyah Shahid

Ms. Shahid is the director of the Clara Mohammed private school located in Atlanta, Georgia. Director Shahid has over 25 years of dedicated educational services to students served at the school.

Anthony Threat

Anthony Threat is a Title I Education Program Specialist in the state of Georgia with over 25 years of educational experience

Wednesday January 23, 2013 9:00am - 10:00am EST
Presidential B

Topic Area Program Coord
Session Type Proven Strategies

9:00am EST

GLEE (Government Lawyers’ Excellent EDventure): Season II

Explore legal issues regarding Title I and other Federal education programs with two of ED’s most experienced attorneys.

Speakers

Kay Rigling

Phil Rosenfelt

Wednesday January 23, 2013 9:00am - 10:00am EST
Delta Ballroom D

10:00am EST

Sustaining Turnaround Efforts and Lessons Learned Through the Federal School Improvement Grant

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This session will provide an overview of the national landscape on the Federal School Improvement Grant and efforts to sustain practices that exhibit promise. The session will highlight resources and tools that might be useful for states, districts and schools as these important conversations begin.

Speakers

Carlas McCauley

Susan Wilhelm

Wednesday January 23, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am EST
Ryman Ballroom A

Session Type Notable Ideas

10:45am EST

Creating Parent Leadership as a Pathway to School Improvement

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Overview of parent/family engagement training designed by Parents for Public Schools (PPS Greater Cincinnati and National) under the Ohio Department of Education as part of the agency’s Race to the Top strategy to turn around persistently lowest achieving (PLA) schools. This systems-based, multi-lingual curriculum is delivered online and in local school buildings. Parent leaders are supported by a community of learners’ website with a social media platform enabling interactive news and statewide information sharing. This platform also serves as a data management tool to track application of new skills learned, sustainability and changes in school climate. This proven, practical strategy offering parents the skills needed to effectively lead, advocate for and build local learning support systems maximizing student academic achievement can be replicated to any state and district as a means of addressing chronically underperforming schools through parent engagement and leadership.

Speakers

Nita Rudy

Prior to joining PPS, Nita served as manager for the Center for Parent Leadership throughout the nation to underscore the importance of parent involvement in improving student achievement and helped parents become informed consumers of public education.

Rolonda Smith

Rolonda manages Parent Leadership Institutes statewuide, serves on the STRIVE Executive Committee, the Board of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative and of GEARUP SCORES, and previously as adjunct instructor (School of Education, Miami University Oxford) teaching Parent-School-Community... Read More →

Wednesday January 23, 2013 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Governors' C

Topic Area School Improvement
Session Type Proven Strategies

10:45am EST

Current Efforts at the U.S. Department of Education to Strengthen and Support Families

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Presenters will discuss programs and activities across the U.S. Department of Education that strengthen and support family and community engagement in their children’ education.

Speakers

Anna Hinton

Gary Rutkin

Wednesday January 23, 2013 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Presidential B

10:45am EST

ESEA Flexibility: Overview

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As if November 31, 2012, the U.S. Department of Education has approved ESEA flexibility requests from 34 states and the District of Columbia. This session will provide an overview of ESEA flexibility request approval process and discuss some of the approaches states are using to implement the ESEA flexibility principles. The principles are 1) College-and Career-Ready Standards for all Students, 2) State- Developed Differentiated Recognition, Accountability, and Support, 3) Supporting Effective Instruction and Leadership, and 4) Reducing Duplication and Unnecessary Burden.

Speakers

Deb Delisle

Victoria Hammer

Christine Pilgrim

Kay Rigling

Susan Wilhelm

Wednesday January 23, 2013 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Delta Ballroom D

3:00pm EST

ESEA Flexibility and Title I, Part A Fiscal Issues

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This session will address ESEA flexibility and the operation of a Title I, Part A program, especially with regards to the use of Title I, Part A funds. It is geared particularly towards SEA and LEA staff that is responsible for monitoring, designing, or implementing Title I, Part A programs.

Speakers

Micheal Anderson

Kay Rigling

Todd Stephenson

Wednesday January 23, 2013 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Delta Ballroom D

3:00pm EST

ESEA Flexibility Monitoring

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This session will highlight a variety of approaches that the U.S. Department of Education (ED), State education agencies, and local educational agencies (LEAs) are using to build partnerships that support effective ESEA flexibility implementation.

Speakers

Christina Imholt

Angela Tanner-Dean

Veronica Tate

As director of the Office of Program Administration and Accountability, Ms. Tate provides oversight in the implementation and monitoring of federal programs authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001... Read More →

Wednesday January 23, 2013 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Governors' C

3:00pm EST

Supporting School Turnaround Through ESEA Flexibility and School Improvement Grants

Both ESEA flexibility and School Improvement Grants require States to intervene in their lowest performing schools (Persistently Lowest Achieving schools under SIG and priority schools under ESEA flexibility. This session will highlight similarities and differences between the two programs and discuss strategies States are using to integrate school turnaround efforts.

Speakers

S

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Wednesday January 23, 2013 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Presidential B

8:30am EST

Federal Funding for ESEA, IDEA, and other Programs

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This session will focus on how the budget process, deficit reduction, and appropriations are going to unfold for the upcoming year. Questions about sequestration, how other program funding sources fit into Title I (Head Start, IDEA)as well as other programs will be presented.

Speakers

Richard Long Ed.D

Thursday January 24, 2013 8:30am - 10:00am EST
Delta Ballroom D

Session Type Notable Ideas