Monday June 7, 2004



Kansas Excellence in Math and Science Teaching Conference

“Leading to Change”

DRAFT

Monday, June 22, 2015

7:45 am – 8:30 am Registration – Stringer Fine Arts Center

8:45 am – 9:00 am Welcome and Announcements -Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Denise Kahler, Kansas State Department of Education

9:00 am – 9:30 am Keynote speaker- Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Shannon Ralph, 2015 Kansas Teacher of the Year

Dodge City High School

9:30 am – 11:00 am Business and Industry Panel - Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Moderator – Darren Dedo, KSN News Wichita

Wolf Creek

Westar,

Fidelity Security Life Insurance Company, Jake Winship

11:15 am – 12:15 pm Lunch – Fine Arts Gallery Theater

(Note: after lunch we will move to the Science Hall for the afternoon sessions)

Concurrent Share Sessions – Science Hall

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Achieving the Vision: Project QUEST, Leadership for the Pursuit of Excellence in Mathematics Education

Presenter: Sherri Martinie, Kansas State University, Project QUEST

Location: Science Hall Room 101

Audience: Elementary and Secondary

We will share how we achieved our vision of forming a core group of teacher leaders and equipping them with the knowledge and skills to be leaders in the improvement of mathematics teaching and learning. The vision was to dig deep into the knowledge of mathematics and to encourage and show others how to do the same. Project QUEST formed a professional learning community consisting of project leadership and teacher participants that worked together to achieve four goals: Increasing teacher mathematical content knowledge, focusing instruction on Standards for Mathematical Practice, improve standards implementation in classrooms, and to expand our work by developing teacher leaders who can provide mentorship within their school and disseminating materials to district, state and national audiences. Project QUEST is funded through the Mathematics Science Partnership.

Collaborative Math Technology Tools

Presenter: Scott Keltner, Eudora High School

Location: Science Hall Room 116

Audience: Elementary and Secondary

This session will focus on collaborative technology tools that are useful in the math classroom. Examples include Google Sheets and Drive, Desmos Online Graphing Calculator, Goo.gl URL Shortener, as well as the TI-84

and TI-Nspire graphing calculators. Attendees will use a sample lesson finding the relationship between their height and wingspan to demonstrate these technology tools.

Presenter: Learning By Doing: Integrating iPad Apps to Target the

Eight Science and Engineering Practices in the NGSS

Location: Science Hall Room 117

Audience: Elementary and Secondary

The Next Generation Science Standards require a dramatic departure from approaches to teaching and learning science occurring today in most science classrooms. The goal of instruction has shifted from learning facts to explaining phenomena through a lens of inquiry in order to build a coherent storyline across time. In this interactive session, participants will explore how to engage students in the eight practices of science and engineering through hands-on activities and critical thinking experiences tailored for the primary grade band.

Participants will leave this session with:

■ An introductory level understanding of how to integrate the eight Science and Engineering practices in the NGSS into their daily science instruction

■ An example of a hands-on learning activity that can be used in the classroom

■ A list of iPad apps that can be used to support science instruction in the K-12 classroom

Math Workshop Sessions

1:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Posing Purposeful Questions to Advance Thinking, Learning, and Achievement

Presenters: Melisa Hancock, Kansas State University and Lynette Sharlow, USD 259 Wichita

Location: Science Hall Room 102

Audience: Elementary Math

Effective mathematics teaching relies on questions that encourage students to explain and reflect on their thinking as an essential component of meaningful mathematical discourse. Just asking questions is not enough to ensure that students make sense of mathematics and advance their reasoning. In this session we will take a look at two critical issues that must be considered--the types of questions you ask and the pattern of questioning you use and share how you can transform your classroom into an inquiry-oriented community of learners and makes the mathematical practices come to life!!

Middle School Math KCCRS 101: Hot Topics Necessary to Bridge Elementary to High School Mathematics

Presenters: Liz Peyser, USD 259 Wichita and Raelynn Pfaff, USD 266 Maize

Location: Science Hall Room 103

Audience: Middle Math

Day 1: Developing Fraction Number sense with number lines and manipulatives; Developing Number Sense through “Decomposition”

Day 2: Developing Ratios and Proportional Reasoning with models

Day 3: Introduction to multiple representations of Functions

Statistics – the Original Data Driven Instruction, Let the Numbers Talk

Presenters: Molly Easley, USD 259 Wichita and Shelby White, USD 259 Wichita

Location: Science Hall Room 101

Audience: Secondary Math

If you’ve ever wondered how you’re going to teach the statistics standards to your students, this session has answers. We’ll look at the basics by describing data visually and numerically then work through data collection and randomness, and finally draw conclusions from data using inference. You’ll gain experience and form ideas for engaging activities to share. With stats, you’ll never hear “Where will I ever use this?” as students ask and answer their own questions with statistical reasoning.

Science Workshop Sessions

Teaching with all Three Dimensions of the Standards is a Complex Task! 

Presenters: Mary Cerny, USD 305 Salina and Charlotte Neugebauer, USD 259 Wichita

Locations: Science Hall Room 124

Audience: Elementary Science

Presenters: Joyce Depenbusch USD 438 Pratt and Marsha Ratzel, USD 229 Blue Valley

Locations: Science Hall Room 125

Audience: Middle Science

Presenters: Jared Bixby, Sunset Zoo Salina and Kara Luce, Smoky Hill Education Service Center

Locations: Science Hall Room 126

Audience: Secondary Science

Attendees will experience, watch, and build three dimensional learning experiences that will make the shifts expected by these standards come to life.  We will dig into what it really means to build student proficiency in all three dimensions over time.  For example, we don’t just want students to engage in the science and engineering practices, we want that to be in the context of the other two dimensions and we want to design curricula that make sure that student proficiency in these practices builds over time.   

Much of the time will be focused on grade-level specific practical tools and resources for making these changes in individual classrooms, but to really achieve the vision in these standards, it takes more than just changing individual classrooms.  Attendees will also wrestle with and receive support around the much larger issues that surround standards implementation.  As we’ve worked with districts over the past two years since the standards have been adopted, many districts are using their standards implementations as an opportunity to address science-related issues within their local districts—support for science at the elementary level, coherence across K-12, course mapping (middle school and high school), partnering with informal science educators, reaching out to our community, etc.  These sessions will help you to identify key problems and/or strategically develop solutions to problems you’ve already identified.

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Networking Break

4:30 pm – 5:45 pm Reception

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center Lobby

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching

Awards Banquet

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center - Lobby

Recognition of 2015 Presidential Award Nominees and Announcement

of 2015 State Finalists

Immediately Following Short meeting with 2015 State Finalists at registration table

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

7:45 am – 8:15 am Registration – Stringer Fine Arts Center

8:30 am – 8:40 am Announcements -Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Denise Kahler, Kansas State Department of Education

8:40 am – 9:50 am KATM Presentation – Leaders of Change

Dr. Janet Stramel, Assistant Professor

Director of Assessment and Accreditation

Fort Hays State University

Concurrent Share Sessions – Science Hall

10:00 am – 11:00 am

When the Mathematics “Boogey Man” Sneaks Upon You, What Do You Do When Panic is Not An Option?

Presenter: Matt Seimears, Emporia State University New Foundations

Locations: Science Hall Room 108

Audience: Elementary and Secondary

The Power of Differentiation in Math-Teaching New Concepts in Small Groups!

Presenter: Jessica Griffin, USD 253 Emporia

Locations: Science Hall Room 116

Audience: Elementary

Participants will explore how to deliver differentiated math instruction at the elementary level. Presenters will share ideas on how to deliver small group math instruction through the use of pre and post assessment systems, lesson progression, time management, math stations, and the best habits of learning.  Participants will leave with a new spin on delivering math instruction that allows more time for students needing tier 2 and 3 math support and an increase in student success!

Inquiry by Design

Presenter: Shannon Ralph, USD 443 Dodge City and Michael Ralph, USD 233 Olathe

Locations: Science Hall Room 124

Audience: Secondary

These two Biology teachers have been working together since 2009 to develop support resources for teachers wanting to use more inquiry in their classroom. The goal of the session is to link the philosophy of inquiry to the nuts-and-bolts process of daily teaching. Participants will be introduced to a detailed workflow for identifying the instructional objectives within traditional materials, aligning those objectives with new standards such as NGSS, and rebuilding a lesson that is a more rich inquiry experience than what was used previously. Many discussions are occurring around the country about inquiry as a lofty goal, but this session will focus on actually implementing those ideas in a tangible way. A specific example will be used during the instructional process of a lab that attendees will be able to use in their own classrooms, and additional examples of other lab materials will be shared for them to use on their own when they return to their districts.

11:15 am – 12:15 pm Lunch – Fine Arts Gallery Theater

Westar Energy Presentation

(Note: after lunch we will move back to the Science Hall for the afternoon sessions)

Math Workshop Sessions

12:30 pm – 4:30 pm Posing Purposeful Questions to Advance Thinking, Learning, and Achievement

Presenters: Melisa Hancock, Kansas State University and Lynette Sharlow, USD 259 Wichita

Location: Science Hall Room 102

Audience: Elementary Math

Effective mathematics teaching relies on questions that encourage students to explain and reflect on their thinking as an essential component of meaningful mathematical discourse. Just asking questions is not enough to ensure that students make sense of mathematics and advance their reasoning. In this session we will take a look at two critical issues that must be considered--the types of questions you ask and the pattern of questioning you use and share how you can transform your classroom into an inquiry-oriented community of learners and makes the mathematical practices come to life!!

Middle School Math KCCRS 101: Hot Topics Necessary to Bridge Elementary to High School Mathematics

Presenters: Liz Peyser, USD 259 Wichita and Raelynn Pfaff, USD 266 Maize

Location: Science Hall Room 103

Audience: Middle Math

Day 1: Developing Fraction Number sense with number lines and manipulatives; Developing Number Sense through “Decomposition”

Day 2: Developing Ratios and Proportional Reasoning with models

Day 3: Introduction to multiple representations of Functions

Statistics – the Original Data Driven Instruction, Let the Numbers Talk

Presenters: Molly Easley, USD 259 Wichita and Shelby White, USD 259 Wichita

Location: Science Hall Room 101

Audience: Secondary Math

If you’ve ever wondered how you’re going to teach the statistics standards to your students, this session has answers. We’ll look at the basics by describing data visually and numerically then work through data collection

and randomness, and finally draw conclusions from data using inference. You’ll gain experience and form ideas for engaging activities to share. With

stats, you’ll never hear “Where will I ever use this?” as students ask and answer their own questions with statistical reasoning.

Science Workshop Sessions

Teaching with all Three Dimensions of the Standards is a Complex Task! 

Presenters: Mary Cerny, USD 305 Salina and Charlotte Neugebauer, USD 259 Wichita

Locations: Science Hall Room 124

Audience: Elementary Science

Presenters: Joyce Depenbusch USD 438 Pratt and Marsha Ratzel, USD 229 Blue Valley

Locations: Science Hall Room 125

Audience: Middle Science

Presenters: Jared Bixby, Sunset Zoo Salina and Kara Luce, Smoky Hill Education Service Center

Locations: Science Hall Room 126

Audience: Secondary Science

Attendees will experience, watch, and build three dimensional learning experiences that will make the shifts expected by these standards come to life.  We will dig into what it really means to build student proficiency in all three dimensions over time.  For example, we don’t just want students to engage in the science and engineering practices, we want that to be in the context of the other two dimensions and we want to design curricula that make sure that student proficiency in these practices builds over time.   

Much of the time will be focused on grade-level specific practical tools and resources for making these changes in individual classrooms, but to really achieve the vision in these standards, it takes more than just changing individual classrooms.  Attendees will also wrestle with and receive support around the much larger issues that surround standards implementation.  As we’ve worked with districts over the past two years since the standards have been adopted, many districts are using their standards implementations as an opportunity to address science-related issues within their local districts—support for science at the elementary level, coherence across K-12, course mapping (middle school and high school), partnering with informal science educators, reaching out to our community, etc.  These sessions will help you to identify key problems and/or strategically develop solutions to problems you’ve already identified.

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Networking Break

4:30 pm Adjourned – Dinner is on your own

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

7:45 am – 8:15 am Registration – Stringer Fine Arts Center

8:30 am – 8:40 am Announcements -Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Denise Kahler, Kansas State Department of Education

8:40 am – 9:50 am KATS Presentation – Changing Perceptions

Daniel Bergman, Associate Professor

Curriculum and Instruction Program Chair

Wichita State University

Concurrent Share Sessions – Science Hall

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Two, Two, Two Benefits in One! (We’re Talking Math, not Certs Mints!)

Presenter: Lee Anne Coester, Emporia State University

Locations: Science Hall Room 116

Audience: Elementary and Secondary

What provides guidelines to 1) be a stronger math teacher and 2) improve your students’ assessment scores? The CCSS (KCCRS) Practice Standards…that’s what! These eight simple approaches to improving our teaching also offer insights into strategies that prepare our students for the format of our state assessment questions. The Practice Standards aren’t difficult to put into play; they simply remind us what effective math instruction looks like. Our 40 MSP Grant teachers have been working with these standards for 2 years with positive results throughout their 10 schools. Please come hear how we did it and see what “Practice Standards” lessons look like in K-8 classrooms.

The Magic of Math Mastery through Movement & Music

Presenter: Michelle Kelly, USD 458 Basehor-Linwood

Locations: Science Hall Room 117

Audience: Elementary

Ever felt frustrated from trying every math strategy known and you still

haven’t reached that struggling learner? Fret no more! During this share session, we will tap into your students’ strongest multiple intelligences to

produce math success. You will leave with catchy new rhymes, crazy, but purposeful hand gestures, entertaining lessons, and fresh

musical tunes.

BYOD, A Look at a Real Blended Learning Environment

Presenter: Carol Strickland, National Teachers Hall of Fame, Emporia

Locations: Science Hall Room 123

Audience: Elementary and Secondary

Participants will be encouraged to bring their own device (laptop, tablet, smartphone) to log in to an interactive lesson. They will be asked to respond to questions, and the “teachers” will use the screen to project “class average” and the student progress in real time. The online discussion board and other tools will also be demonstrated.

Participants will engage in a hands-on demonstration of digital learning, experience what a blended learning environment looks and feels like, and

have an opportunity to use actual educational software that is readily available for their classrooms.

11:15 am – 12:15 pm Lunch – Fine Arts Gallery Theater

Kansas Cosmosphere and Hutchinson Community College Presentation

(Note: after lunch we will move back to the Science Hall for the afternoon sessions)

Math Workshop Sessions

12:30 pm – 4:30 pm Posing Purposeful Questions to Advance Thinking, Learning, and Achievement

Presenters: Melisa Hancock, Kansas State University and Lynette Sharlow, USD 259 Wichita

Location: Science Hall Room 102

Audience: Elementary Math

Effective mathematics teaching relies on questions that encourage students to explain and reflect on their thinking as an essential component of meaningful mathematical discourse. Just asking questions is not enough to ensure that students make sense of mathematics and advance their reasoning. In this session we will take a look at two critical issues that must be considered--the types of questions you ask and the pattern of questioning you use and share how you can transform your classroom into an inquiry-oriented community of learners and makes the mathematical practices come to life!!

Middle School Math KCCRS 101: Hot Topics Necessary to Bridge Elementary to High School Mathematics

Presenters: Liz Peyser, USD 259 Wichita and Raelynn Pfaff, USD 266 Maize

Location: Science Hall Room 103

Audience: Middle Math

Day 1: Developing Fraction Number sense with number lines and manipulatives; Developing Number Sense through “Decomposition”

Day 2: Developing Ratios and Proportional Reasoning with models

Day 3: Introduction to multiple representations of Functions

Statistics – the Original Data Driven Instruction, Let the Numbers Talk

Presenters: Molly Easley, USD 259 Wichita and Shelby White, USD 259 Wichita

Location: Science Hall Room 101

Audience: Secondary Math

If you’ve ever wondered how you’re going to teach the statistics standards to your students, this session has answers. We’ll look at the basics by describing data visually and numerically then work through data collection and randomness, and finally draw conclusions from data using inference. You’ll gain experience and form ideas for engaging activities to share. With

stats, you’ll never hear “Where will I ever use this?” as students ask and answer their own questions with statistical reasoning.

Science Workshop Sessions

Teaching with all Three Dimensions of the Standards is a Complex Task! 

Presenters: Mary Cerny, USD 305 Salina and Charlotte Neugebauer, USD 259 Wichita

Locations: Science Hall Room 124

Audience: Elementary Science

Presenters: Joyce Depenbusch USD 438 Pratt and Marsha Ratzel, USD 229 Blue Valley

Locations: Science Hall Room 125

Audience: Middle Science

Presenters: Jared Bixby, Sunset Zoo Salina and Kara Luce, Smoky Hill Education Service Center

Locations: Science Hall Room 126

Audience: Secondary Science

Attendees will experience, watch, and build three dimensional learning experiences that will make the shifts expected by these standards come to life.  We will dig into what it really means to build student proficiency in all three dimensions over time.  For example, we don’t just want students to engage in the science and engineering practices, we want that to be in the context of the other two dimensions and we want to design curricula that make sure that student proficiency in these practices builds over time.   

Much of the time will be focused on grade-level specific practical tools and resources for making these changes in individual classrooms, but to really achieve the vision in these standards, it takes more than just changing individual classrooms.  Attendees will also wrestle with and receive support around the much larger issues that surround standards implementation.  As we’ve worked with districts over the past two years since the standards have been adopted, many districts are using their standards implementations as an opportunity to address science-related issues within their local districts—support for science at the elementary level, coherence across K-12, course mapping (middle school and high school), partnering with informal science educators, reaching out to our community, etc.  These sessions will help you to identify key problems and/or strategically develop solutions to problems you’ve already identified.

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Networking Break

4:30 pm Adjourned

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