How Do Digital Tools Support “Classroom Instruction That Works”? A
Christine Tomasino

Does your school improvement plan deploy Marzano’s nine strategies from “Classroom Instruction That Works”? Are you interested in increasing student achievement? Come learn how to leverage your classroom technology resources to support this initiative. In this session, administrators, curriculum specialists and instructional leaders will see examples of how interactive whiteboards, handhelds, and computers support student learning activities. By using these tools, students can identify similarities and differences, summarize, take notes, give nonlinguistic representations to content and concepts, generate and test hypotheses and provide cues, questions, and advance organizers. These ideas will help mobilize your professional development by blending technology use into “Classroom Instruction That Works”!

Our Students • Our Worlds
David Warlick

For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were arranged in straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (generations of teachers), we are facing the challenge of changing our notions about teaching and learning to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We are struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent the classroom, redefine what it is to be a teacher and a student.

There is much that has changed, and for much of it, we have responded by attempting to hold it back -- to block it. This presentation, by 30+ year educator, author, and technologist, David Warlick , will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging conditions that might help us to redefine and retool the 21st century classroom.

Changing Instruction to Improve Student Performance on the MAP tests A
Scott Spurgeon

Eliminating ineffective instructional practices should be a goal for all Missouri school districts. See an effective process to follow when analyzing student performance data from the MAP tests and how to ensure that necessary instructional changes occur in the classroom. We will explore reasons why students select the wrong answers on the MAP test and some ways to correct student processing errors. Lastly, we will share the MAP test structure for the past two years to assist school districts to identify areas of instructional focus.

Enhancing Student Information Systems to Ensure No Child Left Behind A,T,S
Greg Walker

In this case study presentation, Data Solutions Administrator, Greg Walker, will describe how the Pinellas County school system implemented a database system to interact with its Student Information System (SIS) and expedite analysis of student data for assessing individual and grade level performance results.

Using Acuity Software for Student Assessment A
Stephanie True

Hear the experiences of one small school district's (Bayless) use of Acuity, an affordable, online assessment by McGraw Hill. This session will introduce the assessment and describe how the data is used to guide instruction by individual teachers and teams. Writing Roadmap 2.0, another online assessment based on the six traits, will also be presented.

School Improvement: Student Assessment & Data Analysis T,S
Bill Harman

Bill Harman, will discuss how he uses a database administration program to create powerful student data analysis tools and how other schools can use this approach to help monitor student achievement. He will examine how schools have successfully devised plans that focus on improving student achievement through effective and responsive teaching and learning programs.

Creating a Culture of Assessment A,T,S
Bertha Doar, Roxanne Mechem

How do you construct an assessment system based on national and state standardized tests, district benchmark tests, classroom summative and formative assessments? This session chronicles the issues and processes that Rockwood School District used to become more assessment literate.

Developing a Sustained Vision for Technology: Shifting Perceptions to Action A
Rem Jackson

How do you increase collective thinking, develop new patterns of relationships and create powerful instructional practices through technology-driven schools when these same schools are feeling tremendous pressures to adjust to an era of standards/ accountability and accelerating complexity? Educators are struggling to infuse technology into daily classroom instruction. Meanwhile, students attend classes that do not excite their thinking or creativity. For most teachers, even those wanting to use technology to teach core subjects, infusing technology into daily instruction is still a difficult goal. Why? Lack of appropriate curriculum that seamlessly integrates technology and the Internet. Lack of access to technology resources for teachers and students. Antiquated models that do not and cannot support a technology rich school and classroom. Educators and students are living in a transitional period where the old models are not longer working and the new models have not yet emerged. Join Rem as he presents his ideas about how we CAN infuse technology while at the same time maintain accountability and meet curriculum standards.

Using Technology to Analyze Data to Improve Student Achievement S
June Wilson, Judy Straatmann

Technology allows efficient gathering, organizing, and analyzing information to improve student performance. This session will show how one district is utilizing a variety of methods to improve instruction and student performance. DIBELS and Pearson Benchmark tests record student mastery of state/local standards, and Excel and Access are used to correlate MAP, Gates, and Benchmark test results. Moodle PLCs provide teachers with an important collaborative tool to review student performance and plan for improved instruction.

Delivering High Stakes Data to the Classroom Teacher A,S
Susan Homes

Does your high stakes assessment data actually get beyond an administrator1s desk? Does each teacher have to spend hours studying last year1s data to try to figure out how to help this year1s students? This session will explore how a CSD member school district tackled that problem and positioned itself to identify achievement gaps and build a road to real student improvement.

Using Technology to Harness the Power of Data A
Gregory Koenig

We appreciate that educators might be wary of the potential for a sales pitch from a vendor giving a presentation. We acknowledge, too, that technology developers are likely to be able to share insights that come from a slightly different perspective on the same ideal: support and encouragement for the people we have entrusted with the leadership and equipping of our children.We see that prodigious amounts of data are generated in schools today—especially from formative and summative assessments. The data are expected to provide the foundation for informed decisions by education leaders about what to teach, how to teach and how to plan and implement interventions. The analysis of data has the potential to be overwhelming. Appropriate technology serves as a critical link in the data-to-decision-to-achievement chain: a carefully constructed data management and reporting application can go far toward helping sharpen the vision for curriculum and instruction.

Instructional Technology Coaching for 21st Century Teaching and Learning Curriculum and Instruction
Jan Streich

Join a team of highly motivated instructional technology resource teachers (ITRTs) and learn about their role as job-embedded coaches. Enrich your understanding of today's learner and interact with 21st century technology tools that the ITRTs use as part of daily practice to support teacher learning in data-driven decision making, differentiated instruction, and technology integration in the K-12 classroom.

Data Analysis on a Shoe String – Updated A,T,S
Bertha Doar

See how MS Excel can be used for data analysis. This discussion emphasizes the importance of clean data collection, what data to collect and how to present the data for interpretation and use by non-statisticians. Familiarity with MS Excel is helpful, but not necessary.