Monday June 7, 2004 - All Events



Kansas Excellence in Math and Science Teaching Conference

“Relevance”

Monday, June 12, 2017

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration – Stringer Fine Arts Center

8:30 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. Welcome and Announcements – Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Denise Kahler, Director of Communications and Recognition Programs

Kansas State Department of Education

8:40 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. Keynote Speaker –

Randy Watson, Kansas Commissioner of Education

Kansas State Department of Education

9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Ashley Dunivan

Leavenworth High School

10:20 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Networking Activity

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Lunch – Fine Arts Gallery Theater

(Note: After lunch, we will move to the Science Hall for the afternoon sessions.)

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Concurrent Share Sessions – Science Hall

Room 102 New Math Standards –

Melissa Fast, Math Education Program Consultant

Kansas State Department of Education

We will share the Newly Adopted Math Standards highlighting changes and improvements within the document. Participants will receive links to the standard document as well as other related resources.

Room 103 Secondary Science Session –

Lizette Burks, Science Education Program Consultant

Kansas State Department of Education

1:45 p.m. – 4 p.m. Math and Science Short Courses –

Choose one of the following to attend – the learning experiences will build across all three days, so you will stay with the same group on Monday – Wednesday.

Room 102 Math Elementary: Building Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding in the areas of: Common Situations in Addition/Subtraction

Common Situations in Multiplication/Division

In order to build procedural fluency students should have a strong conceptual foundation to support effective reasoning through problems with efficiency and flexibility. This session will focus on the critical teaching practice of "Building Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding" using the computation situations in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division detailed in our standards.

Presenters: Lynette Sharlow and Debbie Thompson

Room 103 Math Middle/High School: Building Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding in the areas of: Ratio and Proportions Solving Equations

Fluency is more than speed and accuracy. This session will focus on the research based teaching practice "Build Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding". Using the topics of ratio, proportion and solving equations, we will explore models and strategies that provide a conceptual foundation for these topics and lead to fluent use of procedures.

Presenters: Amy Cunningham and Rhonda Willis

Room 125 Science Elementary: Helping Students Make Sense of the World: 1D to 3D Learning in Elementary Science

This workshop focuses on the role of phenomena and integrated three dimensional instruction in the key shifts that underlie our standards. Transforming classrooms from places in which students “learn about” science ideas to ones where students “figure out” how phenomena work in order to build science knowledge will be analyzed as we explore teacher tool supports to achieve this vision.

Presenters: Christie Purdon

Room 126 Science Middle/High School: Helping Students Make Sense of the World: 1D to 3D Learning in Secondary Science

This workshop focuses on the role of phenomena and integrated three dimensional instruction in the key shifts that underlie our standards. Transforming classrooms from places in which students “learn about” science ideas to ones where students “figure out” how phenomena work in order to build science knowledge will be analyzed as we explore teacher tool supports to achieve this vision.

Presenters: Gary Andersen & Greg Schell

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Networking Break

4:30 p.m. Adjourn

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Reception

5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching

Awards Banquet

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center – Lobby

Recognition of 2017 Presidential Award Nominees and announcement

of 2017 State Finalists

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Registration – Stringer Fine Arts Center

8:15 a.m. Announcements – Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Denise Kahler, Kansas State Department of Education

8:20 a.m. – 8:35 a.m. Westar Energy presentation

8:40 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. KATM presentation – Using Relationships, Relevance, and Innovation to Ignite Student Learning

Stacey Ryan, Andover Middle School, Andover USD 385

10 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. Concurrent Share Sessions – Science Hall

Room 101 It’s Easy to Put Ag into Your Science Classroom

Elementary and Secondary Science

Denise Scribner, Eisenhower High School, Goddard USD 265

Kansas is an agricultural state and teaching Ag brings your math and science classes alive with real world applications to help your students become solvers, leaders, entrepreneurs and, yes, even agriculturalists. This session will connect you with the vast array of resources available so that you can easily blend what you currently do in the classroom with the National Agricultural standards at the elementary, middle and high school levels while also helping your students to become agriculturally aware and environmentally literate citizens.

Room 102 Instant Results

Elementary and Secondary Math

Penny Seifert and Mollie Carty, Turner Sixth Grade Academy,

Turner USD 202

Presenters will introduce participants to both Class Kick and Go Formative. These web-based programs provide instant feedback in a user friendly interface. Presenters will show how these applications have been used in the math classroom, as well as the steps to create your own to meet individual student needs. Participants will be walked through the signup and creation process to allow them to utilize these applications in the classroom.

Room 124 Understanding Climate Change and Climate Change Models

Secondary Science

Ruth Hutson, Blue Valley High School, Blue Valley-Randolph USD 384

By collecting local data and comparing it to long-term databases, satellite data, Google Earth, and computer climate models like EdGCM, students can understand climate change with raised awareness. My students have used fieldwork to help them understand the Earth's changing climate. Join me to see how I have modified my curriculum to show my Earth Science and Biology classes how teams of scientists collaborate. In addition to traditional laboratory work, my students collect data from several local geologic formations. Students also collect local weather and phenological data. They compare this data with regional and national databases, satellite databases, and climate modeling software (EdGCM). Students then develop a plan to inform their communities concerning how climate change could affect us. Bring your technology so you can analyze the data and models for yourself.

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Lunch – Fine Arts Gallery Theater

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

12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Math and Science Short Courses continued

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Networking Break

4:30 p.m. Adjourned – Dinner is on your own

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Registration – Stringer Fine Arts Center

8:15 a.m. Announcements -Stringer Fine Arts Center Auditorium

Denise Kahler, Kansas State Department of Education

8:20 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Hutchinson Community College presentation

8:40 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Concurrent Share Sessions – Science Hall

Room 101 Forensic Crime Science—putting math and science into action to

solve simulated crimes.

Secondary Science and Math

Denise Scribner, Eisenhower High School, Goddard USD 265

Participants will become familiar with how both math and science can be applied using the engaging platform of forensic crime scene investigation.

Learn about the Eisenhower High School Forensic Crime Science curricula and how to implement a similar program in your school district.

Participants will learn about Senate Bill 1055 CTE initiative that supports dual credit at local universities and technical colleges when using Forensic Crime Science.

Room 102 Minecraft for Education – Part 1

Elementary and Secondary Math

Stacey Ryan, Andover Middle School, Andover USD 385

Participants will learn how Minecraft for Education can be used to incorporate problem solving, collaboration, and creativity in the classroom.

Room 103 How TO IMPRESS (Training Opportunity to Integrate Math Practices Related to Elementary Science Standards) your elementary teachers and reach new heights in science and math instruction.

Elementary Math and Science

Jonda Walter, IMPRESS Consultant

Brenda Chandler, Gammon Elementary School, Wichita USD 259

Mark Jamison, White Elementary School, Wichita USD 259

Three Wichita elementary teachers participating in the TO IMPRESS grant and a science consultant working with the grant will lead this session. Participants will engage in experiments and white boarding sessions that have been used during the grant summer trainings. These trainings have significantly increased teacher content knowledge and confidence in both math and science instruction. The session will highlight content found in lessons created by the presenters for usage in the 4th/ 5th grade classrooms in Wichita schools to teach the KCCRS for science.

10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Concurrent Share Sessions – Science Hall

Room 102 Minecraft for Education – Part 2

Elementary and Secondary Math

Stacey Ryan, Andover Middle School, Andover USD 385

Participants will learn how Minecraft for Education can be used to incorporate problem solving, collaboration, and creativity in the classroom.

Room 124 You Too Can Be a YouTube Star

Elementary and Secondary Science

Stan Bergkamp, Maize High School, Maize USD 266

Presenter will demonstrate the steps necessary to film, edit, and publish videos from the classroom. Also discussed will be the advantages of creating and utilizing YouTube videos.

Room 101 WILD! – Outdoors Education on Steroids

Elementary and Secondary Science

Steve Woolf, Erie USD 101

In its second year WILD is a is going viral in bringing Kansas schools a wide variety of outdoor activities to increase learning, engage students in their natural environment, provide students with another way to be involved with school, provide ways to network with other schools and students, and provide leadership opportunities. WILD focuses on outdoor activities such as gardening, ecology, sustainable agriculture, hiking, camping, fishing, green energy, archery, trapshooting and hunting. If you are interested in getting your school and students excited and involved in the great outdoors and engaging these great activities in your curriculum and activity plan – this is for you!!

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Lunch – Fine Arts Gallery Theater

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

12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Math and Science Short Courses continued

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Networking Break

4:30 p.m. Adjourned

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