ELEVATE! chattanooga

June 10th, 2017

7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast (don’t miss it!)  

8:00 - 9:15 Be Who You Are - Todd Parr  

9:30 – 10:45 Morning Meeting  

11:00 – 12:00 Buffet Lunch

12:15 – 1:30 Sight Word 60 Routine

1:45 - 2:15 Make & Take

Afternoon Break

2:45 – 4:00 Classroom Management

Start Your Day Right with

Morning Meeting

9:30 - 10:45

You will find the value of starting each day with a morning meeting after attending this session. You will see how just 10-20 minutes each morning

can change the dynamics of your classroom & make it more like a family. You’ll learn the components of morning meeting as well as ideas for greetings, activities & morning messages to use in

your classroom!

Being Who You Are with Todd Parr 8:00 - 9:15

Todd will kick off our day with an uplifting message about being true to

yourself. In a recent interview in Singapore Todd said “I am my books.

Everything I do is consistent with who I am.” Todd’s message of love, acceptance and tolerance will shine through as you

take this hour long journey into self awareness.

A Compilation of Classroom Management Ideas & Tips

2:45 - 4:00 Mr. Greg’s goal is to bring tons of new & fresh classroom management strategies,

tips, tricks & ideas! Plan on learning about different types of behavior

systems, rewards & consequences, the importance of routines, expectations &

procedures, and ways to bring free and low-cost incentives into your classroom.

Sight Word 60 12:15 - 1:30

This is a 5 day sight word routine that provides your students with 60 exposures to each sight word. Greg will demonstrate

a routine that includes reading words, spelling words, games & sentences that takes just a few minutes each day. You

will see videos highlighting students doing sight word routines in the classroom.

Make and Take

1:45– 2:15 pm

We will use this time to make a math or literacy activity for your

classroom. We will be making paper plate puzzles! This make and take

will be a resource that you can take back to the classroom and put to

immediate use!!

greg smedley-warren

biography

Greg has been teaching for 11 years. He spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and now he is in his 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is his passion and his calling but honestly, that wasn't how it started. When Greg was moved to Kindergarten (not voluntarily!) he called his mommy and cried. But on the first day, he fell in love and knew that

Kindergarten is where he belonged. He has remained in Kindergarten ever since. Greg has no plans to leave the classroom as the kids are what drive

him to continue to grow as a teacher and person.

Greg received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and received his ELL certification from David Lipscomb University. At the beginning of his career he spent two summers teaching in Ecuador which only helped to fan

the flames of his passion for teaching. In 2014 Greg was chosen as Teacher Of The Year. Greg has presented at the National Kindergarten

Conference, the Tennessee Kindergarten Conference and provides professional development to schools and teachers all over the country. Greg enjoys blogging and using social media to help teachers around the world

make their classrooms a more fun, effective and interactive place to teach.

When not in the classroom, blogging and doing all things teach, Greg enjoys spending time with his family. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his husband (known as The Mister on the blog) and their dogs, Butters and

LuLu.

get to know

As children encounter a Todd Parr Book, they learn how to articulate not only their own feelings more clearly but also how to better understand the feelings of others.The empathy as the core of each book helps build the foundation for each child not only to learn how to bloom where they are planted but how to share the light and space with those around them.

Todd Parr is an author and illustrator of more than 40 children’s books. He loves pitbulls and macaroni and cheese. He lives in San Francisco, California. He first got into children’s publishing in 1998 to take his messages that are

part of his art and put them into books.

In Todd’s own words:

I spent my childhood in a small town in Wyoming. It was a great place to grow up, but I knew the world was out there waiting for me. In high

school, art was a passion of mine, but I failed art class. Because of that failure, I lacked the self-confidence to pursue it further. But it wasn’t all my teacher’s fault. I worked at many things before finally coming back to my original dream of painting, but again I faced rejection. Despite the

rejection, I continued on with my work because I knew being an art is twas what I wanted to do with my life.

Many fun, cool things that have happened to me through my books. My work was displayed in the windows of FAO Schwarz in New York City and

SanFrancisco, with interior displays of some of my products, including my first four books. “Todd Parr Shops” within Toys “R” Us Japan were

launched at all 101 stores, with products exclusively available in Japan. I have partnered with Target, Reach Out and Read, People Magazine, and

several other organizations to promote reading. And in November 2005, my children’s preschool show, ToddWorld, premiered on TLC and Discovery Kids. The show has since been nominated for anEmmy Award and has won several other awards, including the iParenting MediaAward and the 2005 Humanitas

Award for the episode entitled, “Who’s Your BestFriend?” ToddWorld is now airing in almost every country around the world.

register!Saturday, June 10th

The Chattanoogan in

Chattanooga, TN

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

or visit The Kindergarten Smorgasboard Website

Your registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, an afternoon snack and all materials

for the make and take session!

travel infoIf you will be flying in for the conference, you will fly

into the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (www.chattairport.com)

The Conference will be held in the grand ballroom of the Chattanoogan Hotel. This gorgeous hotel is located in the heart of Chattanooga surrounded by SO MANY things to do! If you have never visited Chattanooga, make plans to explore while visiting. The next page of

this brochure provides some suggestions. You can navigate to the hotel’s website at

www.chattanooganhotel.com to see pictures and to book your room! Rooms are very limited for the

weekend BUT there are many other hotels in the area! Here are some that are nearby and within walking

distance:

Staybridge Suites Chattanooga The Read House Historic Inn & Suites

Days Inn Chattanooga-Rivergate Marriott

Days Inn Chattanooga—Rivergate

things to doChattanooga was named the “Best Town Ever” by Outside

Magazine. We have suggested a few links below to help you see

why!

Click the links for more info:

See Rock City

See Ruby Falls

The Tennessee Aquarium

The Hunter Museum of American Art

Click Here to See Much More!