Educating the

Whole Child

With THE WHOLE CHILD at the center, the ASCD framework for educators consists of the Communities of Excellence (listed on the left) which represent the challenges and responsibilities of educators in classrooms and leadership positions today.

TEACHING AND LEARNING

GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

POVERTY AND EQUITY

REDEFINING STUDENT SUCCESS

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

FEA Conference Center 12 Centre Drive

Monroe Township, NJ

This conference will feature ~ International keynote speaker Sean Slade, Senior Director for Global Outreach, ASCD Your choice of three 1 hour 15 minute breakout sessions presented in the morning and afternoon Presentations will address the five tenets of: Healthy, Safe, Engaged,

Supported, Challenged and the Communities of Excellence listed below.

NJASCD and NJPSA/FEA invite you to attend a one day conference on

Join educators statewide for an excellent day of learning, teaching, and leading!

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March 9, 2017

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Educating the Whole Child Conference Breakout Session Offerings

Session I (10:15 – 11:30) 1. Redefining Engagement in K-12 Math Students are very capable of doing high quality math problems. The key to success rests in the how not

the what. This session supports teachers and school leaders as we strive to provide high quality instruction to engage students. Tenets: Engaged, Supported, Challenged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Transformational Leadership, Redefining Student Success Presenter: Tracey Knerr, K-12 Supervisor of Math, Hillsborough Township Public Schools

2. Now that’s a Good Question! Promoting Cognitive Rigor through Classroom Questioning What is a good question or, rather, how can a good question prompt students to think deeply and express and share the depth and extent of their learning? Learn how to develop good questions that promote cognitive rigor by challenging students to demonstrate higher order thinking and communicate depth of knowledge. Tenets: Engaged, Supported, Challenged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Redefining Student Success Presenter: Erik M. Francis, ASCD author, Professional Education Specialist

3. Moving Beyond Traditional Grading Categories: Teaching and Assessing Academic and 21st Century Skills in the Secondary Classroom

Using traditional categories of assessment (tests, quizzes, homework, participation, projects, etc.) left us unable to deeply understand what students did or did not master as they progressed through a class. In response, we have developed a grading system in which the category of achievement that students are learning becomes the categories on which we base grades. This approach determines how students earned grades and creates a fingerprint of mastery for students, classes, grade levels, etc. It also provides students and parents with much more accurate feedback about performance on what matters most. Tenets: Engaged, Challenged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Redefining Student Success Presenter: Marc Mancinelli, Lindenwold School District

4. Educating the Whole Child via Carson Babies Initiative Educating the Whole Child includes supporting the Whole Family. Carson Elementary School, a school with a diverse student population, has established an educational partnership with Pennsauken families from birth; provides intervention during the time of critical language development (birth-4); hosts “Bring your Baby to School” events to view modeling of parent/baby conversation, play dates, and camaraderie prior to entering school; and provides families with the tools and support to ensure their children enter school prepared to learn. Tenets: Healthy, Engaged Communities of Excellence: Poverty and Equity, Redefining Student Success Presenters: Diane D. Joyce, Principal and Tara Barnstead, Reading Specialist Pennsauken School District

5. Engaging the Whole Child in High School for Responsibilities in Local and Global Communities Challenging global issues are powerful instructional connectors for the whole child. High school classrooms can provide valuable experiences with learning skills and technology to inspire students to respond to these critical issues. NJ instructional standards address the knowledge and learning skills that will build connecting lessons in multiple classrooms for awareness studies and action plans. Participants in this workshop will explore how a global issue can connect students in five different instructional areas and build responsible citizens within the same school, across the country, and across the world! Tenets: Engaged, Supported, Challenged Community of Excellence: Global Engagement Presenter: Dr. Virginia Magnus, NJASCD Faculty, Board Member, and PD Presenter

Session II (11:30 – 12:45)

6. Productive Struggle: Changing the Way Students View Mistakes Students need a safe, supportive environment to feel comfortable with being wrong, learning new concepts, and growing. In the classroom, teachers can support the whole child by looking at how their own teaching, feedback, and assessment practices are structured to allow for a challenging environment in which students feel like they can be successful. Tenets: Engaged, Supported, Challenged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Redefining Student Success Presenter: Jennifer Larson, Director of Student Life & Middle School Math Faculty Morristown-Beard School

7. Community Collaboration Programs for Middle and High School The Pine Hill School District and the Pine Hill Police Department have worked together to build a collaborative partnership to benefit all students and promote a safe, healthy and positive environment for learning. Programs and activities include events at the Pine Hill Middle School and Overbrook High School during Violence Awareness week, High School Sports Training Programs, and more. Both schools have practiced the Green Dot program, in which students are asked to mark on a map where in the school they felt most safe, physically and mentally. Staff and students are challenged to analyze and brainstorm ways to make school feel safer to all. This and other activities reinforce working together as community and school to enhance the development of the whole child, resulting in positive improvement in school climate. Tenets: Healthy, Safe Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning Presenters: Heidi Daunoras, Director of C&I and Brittany Wooster, SAC Coordinator, Pine Hill Public Schools SRO Justin DiGiacomo, Pine Hill Police Department

8. Urban School Leaders Panel: Using Social-Emotional & Character Development to Transform Middle School Climate

A panel of urban educators will discuss implementation of social-emotional learning and character development –as a Whole Child approach- to turning around their troubled schools. After an overall discussion of how they guided their schools to be safe, supportive, healthy, engaged, and challenged, participants will meet in subgroups to discuss particular obstacles they overcame, including large special education populations, overcoming negative mindset, district policy, and empowering teachers. These schools are participating in the National and New Jersey Schools of Character programs. Tenets: All Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Transformational Leadership, Poverty & Equity,

Redefining Student Success Presenters: Maurice Elias, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Moderator Dr. John Anzul, Assistant Superintendent, New Brunswick Public Schools Mr. Robert Brower, Principal, Brensinger School, Jersey City Public Schools Mr. Jeremiah Clifford, Principal, New Brunswick Middle School Dr. Margaret Critelli, Vice Principal, Brensinger School, Jersey City PS Ms. Francine Luce, Principal, Nolan Middle School, Jersey City Public Schools

9. Creating a Homegrown Before/After Care Program Learn about how our award-winning before/aftercare program went from a PLC idea to reality. School leaders will explore how to use their own staff to support working families in a school-based program. From homework to technology, exercise to crafts; see how your staff can make a big difference in the lives of working parents. Tenet: Safe Community of Excellence: Transformational Leadership Presenter: Kathy Murphy, Kenilworth Public Schools

10. Student Inquiry-Based Research Made Easy

To “actively engage each student in learning” and connect that learning “to the school and the community”, “teachers use a range of inquiry-based, experiential learning tasks and activities.” This presentation will present the benefits of utilizing one common inquiry-based research process across curricula and grade levels that engages students in deepening understanding of what they are learning. Participants will be provided sample curriculum units, a variety of inquiry-based research processes, or an approach to developing one organically with their own staff, and research project ideas to engage students at all levels in interdisciplinary research, STEM, projects, and Title I after-school and summer programming. Tenets: Engaged, Challenged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Global Engagement, Redefining Student Success Presenters: Rick Cohen, Assistant Superintendent, Metuchen Public School District Principal, Moss School, ESSA Coordinator/Title I Director, with additional staff

Session III (1:30 – 3:00)

11. The AP Experience to Support ALL Students’ Success The number of students who take an AP course at Bergenfield High School has grown from 10% to 39%. We offer open enrollment for AP and encourage all students to take at least one AP course. They have advanced from offering 6 courses to 22 AP courses across disciplines. To foster this environment of equity and excellence in our multi-cultural school district, the Board of Education pays for all students to take the AP exams. Algebra I, Geometry, and PSI Physics have been introduced into the middle school curriculum. Teacher marketing, support, and celebration are all components of this success. Tenets: Engaged, Supported, Challenged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Transformational Leadership, Redefining Student Success Presenters: Jim Fasano, Principal, and Tara Schneider, Director of Curriculum Development Bergenfield High School

12. The Whole Child Starts with a Well-Supported Teacher as Seen through the Lens of an Administrator

Administrators share their successes through their vision of “The Whole Teacher”. Participants will walk through three tenets and how they apply to school staff. Participants will learn how to build teacher leaders and ensure students are getting what they need by providing their staff with similar principles. Tenet: Supported Community of Excellence: Transformational Leadership Presenters: Tabitha Bradley, Lauren Bound, Colleen Dubrow, and Chantal Simonelli Kenilworth Public Schools

13. Transforming Middle School Science Instruction

This session will describe the leadership process that Lumberton Middle School used to transform science instruction. Attendees will learn how a grant, strategic planning, and teacher leadership came together to migrate to a digital curriculum aligned to NGSS. Tenet: Engaged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Transformational Leadership Presenter: Joseph Langowski, Superintendent, Lumberton School District

14. Placing Students at the Center: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model

Placing students in the center of the WSCC Model makes visible the commitment of health and education to ensure that every child is safe, healthy, engaged, supported, and challenged. What can schools do to empower all students to become actively involved in improving their health and educational outcomes? How can the WSCC Model support students as agents of change and allies for school improvement? Tenets: All Communities of Excellence: Redefining Student Success Presenter: Linda Morse, Immediate Past President, American School Health Association

15. The Facilitative School

This session will explore the relationship between successful habits, such as decision making, self-regulation and persistence, and success. Participants will look deeply into how habits are formed and internalized and how facilitative interactions (rather than directive ones) foster success habit building. Most importantly we will examine how a professional community’s consistent use of common language, common practices, and common goals support the ability to have students recognize their own success, and how these realizations form the foundation for learning and internalizing these habits of success. Tenets: Engaged, Supported, Challenged Communities of Excellence: Teaching & Learning, Poverty & Equity, Redefining Student Success Presenter: Steve Heisler, Author. The Missing Link: Teaching and Learning Critical Success Skills

Educating the Whole Child Registration Form - March 9, 2017

Important: Please include the attached Breakout Selection Form for each registrant.

Name______________________________________________________________________________

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Position ____________________________________________________________________________

School/District _____________________________________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________________________________

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Phone ______________________________ Fax _________________________________________

E-mail ____________________________________________________________________________

Purchase Order No. ____________________ Personal Check ____________________

Please fax registration form to Michele Goldfarb at 609-409-0946

Or mail to: NJASCD, 12 Centre Drive, Monroe Township, NJ 08831

May also be emailed to njascdmail@aol.com

Refunds: If you are unable to attend a program for which you have registered, call or write NJASCD seven (7) days prior to the program date to request a refund. No refunds shall be granted unless notification is provided within this timeframe.

Sessions to be held at:

FEA Conference Center,

12 Centre Drive,

Monroe Township, NJ 08831

Pricing: $ 120.00 - one person or

$ 99.00 per person for team of 3 or more

Number of people ________ @ $_________ Total $ ___________

Educating the Whole Child Conference Session Selection Form

March 9, 2017

Name _________________________________________________________ District/School ___________________________________________________ Please select one offering from each session.

Session I (10:15 – 11:30)

_____ 1. Redefining Engagement in K- 12 Math

_____ 2. Now that’s a Good Question! Promoting Cognitive Rigor through Classroom Questioning

_____3. Moving Beyond Traditional Grading Categories: Teaching & Assessing Academic and

21st Century Skills in a Secondary Classroom

_____ 4. The Carson Babies Initiative

_____ 5. Engaging the Whole Child in High School for Responsibilities in Local and Global

Communities

Session II (11:30 – 12:45)

_____ 6. Productive Struggle: Changing the Way Students View Mistakes

_____ 7. Community Collaboration Programs for Middle and High School

_____ 8. Urban School Leaders Panel: Using Social-Emotional & Character Development to

Transform Middle School Climate

_____ 9. Creating a Homegrown Before/After Care Program

_____10. Student Inquiry-Based Research Made Easy

Session III (1:30 – 3:00)

_____11. The AP Experience to Support ALL Students’ Success

_____12. The Whole Child Starts with a Well Supported Teacher as Seen through the Lens of an

Administrator

_____13. Transforming Middle School Science Instruction

_____14. Placing Students at the Center: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model

_____15. The Facilitative School