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Wednesday, Jan. 23
8:30-9:45 pm

Financial Literacy for Graduation

Learn about this Wauawatosa School District graduation requirement that provides graduates with an education in financial literacy that is necessary to live meaningfully in a changing world. Discover how the district allows students to fulfill this requirement through a number of different classes.
Wauwatosa School District

A Proactive Process to Increase Student Achievement

Find out how the School District of Superior created a district-wide Continuous Improvement Model that encompasses all the necessary components and involves all stakeholders using collaboration, data-driven decision making and an integrated set of tools. Learn how this plan provides for data collection, clarifies accountability and responsibility and tracks all students on their way to success.
Superior School District

Wednesday, Jan. 23
1:30-2:45 pm

Meeting the Needs of Wisconsin’s Military Families

A significant number of Wisconsin parents have been called to active military duty as members of the Reserve and National Guard. When parents leave home, their children abruptly find themselves with new barriers to learning, challenges and stresses. This workshop will highlight for school board members and administrators the need for specific recognition of this population of students and will share resources available to Wisconsin schools to serve these students and families.
Operation Military Kids, UW Extension

Guaranteed Achievement Takes Everyone: A Middle School Alternative Program

Find out how this grant-funded program teaches at-risk seventh and eighth-graders math, reading, English and life skills. Learn how these same students run a school store, produce a school newspaper and participate in two community projects. Discover how to set up a similar alternative school within the middle school setting.
Oconto Falls School District

Advocating for an Upgrade to Standards-Based Mathematics

Discover how standards-based mathematics programs can provide all students opportunities to learn problem-solving techniques needed for lifelong learning experiences and succeed on standardized tests. Learn about the historical change in mathematics instruction.
Sauk Prairie School District

The Conceptual Lens: A Portal to Synergistic Thinking in the Classroom

Find out how to create learning environments that buzz with the intellectual synergy that tickles the mind, increases the intellect and ramps up the personal engagement that students bring to their learning. Discover how this learning environment can help schools move beyond the 2-D focus on teaching facts and skills in isolation to a 3-D model that expands understanding to the conceptual level.
CESA #6

Many Happy Returns: Why School Boards Should Care about Pre-K

Discuss how high-quality pre-kindergarten programs can yield high benefits for kids, public schools and communities. Learn how investments in pre-k pay off in the form of higher test scores and graduation rates and send young people on their way toward becoming productive adults and contributing members of the community.
National School Boards Association

Thursday, Jan. 24
9:00-10:15 am


K-12 Balanced Literacy Plan — Selling it as an Investment

Amid budgetary and political pressure to reduce spending, the Fort Atkinson School Board has steadfastly kept its focus on building a K-12 aligned literacy program. Politics can give way to school board statesmanship when the focus is on reading and student achievement.
Fort Atkinson School Distric

Science, Math, Engineering & Technology: A Partnership in Prairie du Chien

Find out how the Prairie du Chien Area School District is improving its curriculum, creating ties with community businesses and adding meaning to the education of its students through a program called SMET (Science, Math, Engineering and Technology). Learn how the district involves area communities and businesses in this program to create a better prepared work force.
Prairie du Chien Area School District

Thinking About Elementary World Language in Your District?

Learn what is takes to get the necessary local support and approval to implement high quality, innovative educational programs in today’s fiscally challenging times. Discover how Waunakee successfully advocated locally for a content-based elementary world language program and how teachers have effectively integrated Spanish into the social studies curriculum.
Waunakee School District

Lodi Art Sleuth

Find out how the Lodi Art Sleuth program highlights the arts from the local to international levels by engaging students in a competitive activity that emphasizes teamwork and research skills to answer a variety of art-related questions.
Lodi School District

How Industry Can Support Your School

Learn how the Brillion School District procured a $1.4 million donation from the Ariens Corporation for the purpose of constructing an engineering and technology center addition to Brillion High School. Find out how creating these partnerships is done through a focus on student learning that matches the needs of modern industry.
Brillion School District

Graduation Requirement: Online Course Experience

Discover what districts can do to prepare students for the increasing prevalence of online learning. Find out how to provide quality online educational experiences for students and discuss what resources are required and how to assess district capacity to provide an online graduation requirement.
Kiel Area School District

Thursday, Jan. 24
3:45-5:00 pm

Alternative Program for Credit Deficient Students

Originally designed for migrant students, the Portable Assisted
Study Sequence (PASS) is now available to all schools in the United States. Learn how PASS allows high school students a viable credit accrual option using flexible, credible, portable and readable materials.
CESA #8

21st Century Skills Beyond the School Day

Wisconsin has embraced the Framework for 21st Century Learning, a national initiative to ensure that our students are educated using world-class standards. Explore the ways co-curricular and extra-curricular activities — band, choir and FFA — along with athletics, fine arts and journalism are excellent ways to teach leadership, ethics, accountability, adaptability, personal productivity, personal responsibility, social skills, self direction and responsibility.
Milton School District

Eliminating High School Class Rank and Implementing a Laude Recognition Program

Learn about Neenah High School’s revised grading practices and the special academic honors system. The end results included a differentiated grading scale and the elimination of class rank and valedictorian and salutatorian honors. Discuss the five core beliefs that supported the change to the new recognition program.
Neenah School District

Advocating Good Nutrition Will Benefit Your District and Your Students

Discover the relationship between great test scores, good behavior and well-nourished students. Learn about school nutrition services that benefit school districts and students. Discuss these issues with a three-person panel of school nutrition experts from a variety of Wisconsin districts that will provide attendees proven ideas.
School Nutrition Association of Wisconsin

School and Community Working Together to Build Assets

Discover how to get “assest-building” started in any district. Take advantage of this hands-on learning experience during which audience members will have the opportunity to try out several activities. Learn about activities that build assets in youth while connecting them to their community.
Winneconne Community School District

Starting a School-Based Industry

Discover how a tech ed department started a school-based industry that benefits local businesses and students. Learn how to raise funds to start a similar program and how to create opportunities for cross-curricular learning.
Webster School District

Friday, Jan. 25
8:30-9:45 am

Be sure you catch the opportunity for Student Learning Sessions on Wednesday, Jan. 23 and
Thursday, Jan. 24.

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