Conference Schedule

Newport Beach, CA
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Highly Practical

Research/Practical Mix

Research Based

Pre-Conference Day - Friday, January 16, 2009
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
	Presenting Yourself! Eric Jensen, Conference Host Learn quickly in a fast-moving one-day session on how to better present yourself. Perfect for staff developers, administrators and classroom teachers. Learn the secrets to fabulous presentations every time and have a great time in the process. Join us for fun, learning and stretching your skill level!
	Teaching Practical Neuroscience in School Daniel Amen, MD, Psych., Brain Imaging Specialist, Medical Dir. This conference will give participants practical information on how to teach neuroscience in schools and why it is important. In addition, Dr. Amen will give a detailed description of his high school course, Making A Good Brain Great, that is currently being taught in 34 states and 7 countries.
	Not-Too-Extreme Classroom Makeovers Brain-Compatible Classroom Design Martha Kaufeldt, MA, Trainer and Consultant Want to motivate and inspire students? Do you want the learning environment to be brain and body-compatible? Try a fresh start with a mini-Classroom Makeover! The human brain is wired to be sensitive to the surrounding environment. Many studies have confirmed that by paying attention to and modifying the physical details in the learning environment (lighting, temperature, color, air quality, sound, design), educators can enhance students' success. Many other distractions can occur in classrooms such as inappropriately sized furniture, interruptions, and clutter. Gain tons of ideas to make-over your classroom on a budget from a successful veteran teacher.
	Brain-Friendly Teaching Made Easy through Structures! Spencer Kagan, PhD In this active pre-conference, we learn simple, proven instructional strategies, called structures, to implement five principles of brain-friendly teaching. Structures require not special preparation; they are powerful in any lesson. Come learn five principles of brain based learning and experience the power of structures in action.
Day 1 - Saturday, January 17, 2009
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
	Opening Session Wake Up the Brain Eric Jensen, Conference Host Cathie Summerford, MA, President, Fit4Learning
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
	Keynote Magnificent Mind at Any Age Daniel Amen, MD, Psych., Brain Imaging Specialist, Medical Dir. The mind and the brain are one. You can have a magnificent mind at any age by learning how to care for your brain. This keynote address will be filled with practical information on how to have the best brain possible.
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
	Begin With the Brain Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom Martha Kaufeldt, MA, Trainer and Consultant This engaging session provides valuable information about three key elements of Brain Compatible Teaching and Learning. Recent research about how student’s brains grow, develop and respond to the environment should influence our classroom practices. Understanding some “brain basics” can give educators guidelines that will help them design truly brain-compatible classrooms and school environments. Participants will gain specific practical strategies to help reduce student stress, discover systems and procedures for effective classroom management, orchestrate opportunities for differentiated instruction and learn a variety of strategies for grouping students.
	Making it Stick! Unforgettable Memory Strategies Spencer Kagan, PhD Experience the power of simple instructional strategies called structures. Simulations make content unforgettable. Listen Right! Enhances attention during, and retention following, lectures. RallyCoach dramatically improves skill acquisition. Kinesthetic Symbols improve recall. We will experience these easy-to-use structures in action and explore the brain processes that explain their power.
	Highly Effective Education! Susan Kovalik, President, Susan Kovalik & Associates, Inc. Brain compatible strategies provide administrators multiple opportunities to support their teachers within a safe and predictable environment as well as the tools necessary for effective instructional practice and meaningful, standards based curriculum. Coaching supports consistency and continuity through the school for students and teachers on their journey to high academic achievement.
	Brain-Tech Helen Teague, MEd, Teacher, Our Overnight Planning System Brain research goes Hi-Tech! Join us in the matrix where research and technology meet classroom curriculum and need for applications. Bridge the techno-divide and depart fun, fresh ideas, digital activities, integrated projects, multimedia storytelling, and free, web-based resources for your classroom/tech partnerships.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
	Making a Good Brain Great! Daniel Amen, MD, Psych., Brain Imaging Specialist, Medical Dir. This fun, fast paced lecture will show how to optimize your brain to achieve a better life. The lecture is divided into two parts: the 9 principles of the Amen Clinics to show how brain science is practical to all aspects of your life and a 7 step program to achieve your best brain possible, including how to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
	Teachers, Change Your Bait! Brain Compatible Differentiated Instruction Martha Kaufeldt This powerful engaging session begins with recent research on the brain's response to stress, emotions, experiences, and the environment. Discover how each learner’s brain develops at its own pace and is uniquely formed. Students’ brains learn differently, therefore, teachers must know how to differentiate instruction in today’s highly diverse classrooms. Using a Fishing Tackle Box as a metaphor for an educator’s repertoire of strategies, Martha will share dozens of classroom-tested practical ideas that will inspire teachers on ways to modify the curriculum and their instructional strategies - without compromising mastery of standards. Learn new ways to orchestrate powerful learning experiences in response to every student's unique needs.
	Neural Basis of Common Learning Problems Along with Natural Solutions Jeff Haebig, PhD, President, Wellness Quest This session identifies common learning and behavior problems, relating lack of sufficient sensory-motor development to each. Academic success starts by knowing the neurology involved, then strengthening the body/brain systems through neurostimulation.
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
	Rock 'n Roll Classroom Rich Allen, PhD, International Consultant Over the past decade, music as an instructional tool has moved into even then most traditional classroom. This creative (and frequently hilarious) session provides a hands-on overview of the main ways to influence brain chemistry in order to boost attention, learning, and recall, as well as improve discipline and create a non-threatening learning climate.
	Making it Stick! Unforgettable Memory Strategies Spencer Kagan, PhD Experience the power of simple instructional strategies called structures. Simulations make content unforgettable. Listen Right! Enhances attention during, and retention following, lectures. RallyCoach dramatically improves skill acquisition. Kinesthetic Symbols improve recall. We will experience these easy-to-use structures in action and explore the brain processes that explain their power.
	Give Your Brain a Break Brain Break Activities for the Classroom Shari Rindels, Teacher, Catalina Ventura School Would you like your students to be alert, have fun, and be ready to learn all day long? Come to this interactive session to learn fun and easy brain breaks. These 2-5 minute activities will get students up and moving to raise their oxygen levels and increase their learning power!
	Sometimes it's Just About the Dot Ron Nash, MA, Consultant, Virginia Beach, VA Intrigued? Grab your sneakers and join Ron Nash as he models ways to create a healthy, brain-compatible classroom environment at any grade level. This is a highly interactive session and participants can expect to be standing, moving, laughing and sharing throughout.
Day 2 - Sunday, January 18, 2009
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM
	Yoga Tools for You Leah Kalish, MA, Educator, Yoga Teacher, National Speaker Learn how to use Yoga Tools to enhance your health and well-being. De-Stress and boost your energy, patience, and passion with fundamental yoga-based techniques that you can do anytime, anywhere. When you regularly reconnect and restore mind-body integration with Yoga Tools you develop the awareness and ability to self-care on the spot.
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
	Morning Announcements Wake Up the Brain Eric Jensen, Conference Host Cathie Summerford, MA, President, Fit4Learning
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
	Keynote Brain Mapping, Development & Maturation Arthur Toga, PhD, Prof. of Neurology, UCLA Brain maps offer key biological markers for understanding normal development and lifelong dynamic changes in the brain. This talk describes some of these approaches and their application in basic and clinical neuroscience including mapping approaches that help shed light on a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
	Q & A: Secrets of the Human Brain Eric Jensen, Conference Host Arthur Toga, PhD, Prof. of Neurology, UCLA Dr. Arthur Toga and Eric Jensen will host a no-holds barred Q & A session on what we have learned about the use of brain scans in his amazing UCLA lab. Toga has played a big part in how we map the human brain and compiled 1000's of scans. Discover what only he knows about the human brain. This is a rare opportunity to ask questions of a pioneer in brain mapping.
	Yoga Tools for Well-Being Leah Kalish, MA, Educator, Yoga Teacher, National Speaker Yoga Tools for Well-Being provide proven, practical strategies to integrate and energize mind and body for reduced stress and increased focus, self-control, peacefulness and memory. In this highly practical workshop, participants learn 4 different kinds of yoga-based activities, designed for the classroom, that empower them to effectively manage their own well-being and positively impact the well-being and learning readiness of their students.
	Green Light Classrooms Teaching Strategies that Accelerate Learning Rich Allen, PhD, International Consultant Students walking into classrooms today are radically different than those we taught 20, 15, even 10 years ago. Having grown up with the internet, digital TV and computer games, even young kids arrive with a very different idea of how they learn and new expectations of information delivery. To draw these learners in, ignite their passion for learning, and help them maximize their potential, we need to use instructional strategies that more closely match their fast, exciting and instantly gratifying world. In this practical, energetic, dynamic session you’ll both hear about and experience brain-based teaching techniques you can use to seize – and hold! – their attention, and help them learn better.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
	I Know I Am, But What Are You? Your Social and Emotional Brain Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Educator All good educators know that emotion is critical to learning. Emotions, social interaction and creativity stem from integrated brain systems. In this session, I will present my latest research on the neurobiology of specific highly valued social emotions like admiration and compassion. We'll explore the body/mind basis for them which includes our own sense of “consciousness” and “self”.
2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
	He Said, She Said Sex and Emotional Memories Larry Cahill, PhD We have learned a lot about how the brain stores memories, in particular memories for emotional events. It is now becoming increasingly clear that these brain mechanisms are similar in some respects, but very different in others between men and women. This development is part of a quickly growing realization in neuroscience more generally that "sex matters," often in very surprising ways. This lecture will explore why this is so, and how this development will likely affect everything from the clinic to the classroom.
	How to Overcome Writer's Block Howard Berg, Director, New American School Learn brain-based learning strategies that have enabled our 12-15 year old students to complete 28 page research papers at the graduate school level in under four hours! This presentation is chock full of specific techniques you can immediately put to use in your classroom.
	All Smoke and Mirror Neurons The Neurobiology of Social Interaction Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Educator Learn about how we process emotions, social conditions in order to learn. Discover what this means for educators and their students. What is the relationship between the body and mind, and how does this relationship influence learning? I discuss these questions from a neurobiological perspective, and relate them to issues about teaching and learning.
	Learning in Motion High-Energy A.C.T.I.V.E. Fit4Learning Games Cathie Summerford, MA, President, Fit4Learning If you want a session jam-packed full of great games and activities that kids love, then this is the hour for you! Takingthe Fit4Learning A.C.T.I.V.E. standards, aligning with the National Standards, a shot of adrenaline, a dose of enthusiasm and a whole bunch of smiles...bodies will be moving maximally with minimal equipment. All age groups invited.
	They Really Do Learn Differently Gender Differences in the Classroom Bryan Harris, MEd, Director of Prof. Dev., Casa Grande ESD This engaging and interactive session explores the biological, behavioral, and brain-based differences between boys and girls. Participants will be equipped with specific strategies and techniques that have been proven effective in the classroom.
	Multi-Sensory Note-Taking and Writing Strategies Guaranteed to Increase Student Achievement! Dennis Pauli, EdD, Ass't Superintendent, Round Lake Area Schools This fast-paced highly interactive session will engage participants in several multi-sensory, classroom proven, note taking and writing strategies. Participants experience how to teach students the art of writing clear, organized paragraphs, reports, and essays. Discover hands-on brain-based strategies that have successfully increased student achievement in schools throughout the United States.
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
	The Effects of Poverty on the Brain Eric Jensen, Conference Host This engaging session challenges you to grapple with the devastating changes from poverty. But most important, you can learn what you can do to help students improve and succeed.
	Seven Deadly Sins of Teaching, and How to Avoid Them! Willy Wood, MA, President, Open Mind Technologies, Inc. What are seven of the most brain-antagonistic teaching practices currently used by teachers? And, more importantly, are you using any of them? In this session, you will learn the answers to these questions, plus the brain-friendly alternatives that will improve your classroom community, raise student engagement, and boost retention.
	Can We Survive Response to Intervention? Bonnie Shrum, MEd, Teacher Lynn Dockery, EdD, Ass't Principal, North East ISD Sebastian Macias, Teacher Marina Serbantez, MA, Teacher Because of federal law, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA-2004), schools all over the nation are having the revise their intervention programs for struggling learns. It is urgent that we understand how important it is to build strong support teams, gather sufficient data and find useful instructional/behavioral strategies for these students. Response to Intervention, or RtI, promotes early identification of students who are experience difficulty in academic and/or behavioral areas.
	B.O.N.G.O Into Action Teaching Strategies that Work Brenda McKinney, MA, CEO & Instructor, Don't let your students shut down and turn off to learning. Teach them to B.O.N.G.O for great results. This highly practical session will proved 10 strategies that will motivate your learners. Be ready for a dynamic workshop based on current brain studies. Maximize teachable moments and amplify comprehension with B.O.N.G.O.
Day 3 - Monday, January 19, 2009
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
	The Wonderful World of the Interactive Read Aloud Craig Carson, EdS, Ass't Superintendent, Hollister R-V Schools Join Craig as he uses the elementary instructional strategy, "Read Aloud," to explore its uses in working with anyone from preschool to adults. Discover how to deliver simple to sophisticated content through picture books. Leave with practical material that you can incorporate into your next workshop, classroom, or tutoring session.
	Add Some Color to Your Gray Matter Using the Arts to Teach Literacy Susan Keene, Arts Integration Coordinator Encounter the fun and effective brain-compatible, arts-integrated, instructional strategies that classroom teachers in Englewood Schools use to gain improved reading and writing scores. Discover how tableaux, verbs on stage, looking at art, sensory stations, punctuation dancing, main idea lyrics, and more can engage and excited students while facilitating learning.
	Mapping and the Learning Journey Jim Muckle, Managing Director, Brains in Action Inc. Do your students ask information, understanding or application questions? Are you focused on getting from information to understanding, or from understanding to application? Success in your classroom depends on how quickly you can get to understanding, and how much time you can find to invest in getting to application. Learn how and why MindMapping can help!
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
	Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Rick Doughty, MA, Associate Director for Admin Serv. Educators are in the communication business. Often students learn a different lesson than our spoken words intend. This session uses humorous examples of miscommunication and current research to give insight into the messages we send and the meaning students make. Want your intended message to stick? This session’s for you!
	Mathematics as a Whole Brain Event Barbara Govendo, PhD, Associate Professor, Lesley University Barbara Allen-Lyall, MA, Math Prof./Coord., The Mead School Participants will actively engage in lessons covering NCTM math concept areas for the elementary grades and middle school. Activities will be novel, involve math manipulatives, embrace the brain-friendly elements of choice and personal connection, encourage high-level thinking, and be accessible to teachers for immediate inclusion in classrooms.
	See, Experience, Tell Ana De Gea-Coombs, MA, Special Educator/Presenter, The Children's Guild See, Experience, Tell is a classroom-tested model for reaching all the unique brains in your classroom. This model provides a planning rubric and strategies to engage and impact the different learners in your classroom helping you to be aware of your own learning style.
	Impact of Emotions on Learning Judy Eacker, BS, Ed. Consultant, Susan Kovalik & Associates Combine theory with instructional strategies to bring about a calmer, more focused classroom for optimal learning. Develop your understanding of how the brain functions under stress by using visuals, movement & collaboration. Experience strategies that will calm you as well as the students in your classroom.
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
	Taking the Expo Home with You Eric Jensen, Conference Host Understand, translate, and use the content you’ve learned and ensure that your knowledge stays with you.
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
	How to Design and Deliver Brain-Based Teaching Eric Jensen, Conference Host This is the true insider’s guide to successful presentations. Although ideal for staff developers, it’s perfect for classroom teachers, too. Learn from the original, scientific teaching process. Get the simple secrets that tell you what to do, how to do it and when to do it. Expect a great, idea-packed session you’ll use for years.
	Adapt, Adjust, and Apply Make Your New Ideas Work! Rich Allen, PhD, International Consultant Turn theory into better education outcomes: Learn how to take the ideas you’ve gathered at the Expo and apply them for maximum effect in your classroom. This interactive session helps you adapt brain-friendly strategies to your grade, subject and learning environment. You’ll come away with new lesson plans and a blue-print for weaving deep learning strategies into your teaching. Gain confidence and be inspired by knowing how to make the most of your new strategies.