The handouts for session listed below will be available ONLY online. Please plan ahead to print your preferred handouts and bring with you or plan to view by computer online. Handouts will be posted as they become available.
Scroll down to see more interactive sessions for which a limited quantity of handouts will be available at the conference.
| Title | Day | Speaker |
| Preparing ELL Students for the Changing World of the Common Core Standards | Wednesday Keynote | Jim Warford |
| Rigor and Relevance: Your ELL Bridge to the Common Core State Standards | Wednesday Breakout | Jim Warford |
| Developing Mastery of High-Utility Academic Vocabulary for Common Core Competencies | Wednesday Institute | Kate Kinsella |
| Disrupting Classroom Discourse: Preparing English Learners for Common Core Academic Language Demands | Thursday Keynote | Kate Kinsella |
| Tools to Structure Academic Interaction for Career and College Readiness | Thursday Institute | Kate Kinsella |
| Shifting Instruction to Strengthen the Opportunity to Learn Both Content and English | Friday Keynote | Steve Leinwand |
| Building Language Rich Math Classrooms for ELL Students | Friday Breakout | Steve Leinwand |
The following sessions will have a limited quantity of handouts available at the conference. However, we still encourage you to view your handouts online during the session or bring them with you. Handouts will be posted as they become available.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Developing ELL Writing through Metacognition…Rob Robertson
Threading a Teaching Theme throughout the Four-Hour Block … Heidi Koski
The Common Core and Move on When Reading … Mary Wennersten, Bette Lovelace
Writing for ELLs in the Middle School Content Classroom…Secily Downes, Tammara Ragsdale
Verb Tense Study-Advanced…Bradley Williams
How to Get Children Engaged in Academic Vocabulary… Powerpoint …Handout…Mary Wennersten, Bette Lovelace
Conversational Writing: Helping ELLs Link What We Say with What We Write…Rob Robertson
Targeted Instruction: Using the Method Four Picture Story Frames to Practice Reading Comprehension … Heidi Koski (Wednesday and Thursday)
Lights, Sound, Action! Use Technology to Engage your English Language Learners…Handout, Reference Materials , Smartboard_Activity…Jennifer Glueck, Carol Keough(Wednesday and Friday)
Text-Cavating to Increase Reading Comprehension…Bradley Williams
A Collaborative Approach to Students with Dual Labels…Sandra Laine, Gerry Haskins
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Grammar-Based Writing in the Early Primary Grades…Heidi Rochin (Thursday and Friday)
A Complete Look at Complete Sentences…Kevin Clark
Coaching for ELD Instructional Excellence…Kevin Clark, Heidi Rochin
Help! I’m a Mainstream Classroom Teacher with One Student on an ILLP!…Handout, Reference…Jennifer Glueck, Carol Keough
Shifting Culture from Teaching to Learning — Handout 1, Handout 2 … Sid Bailey
Write Up the Genius Ladder … Deb Weigel (Thursday and Friday)
Monitoring: Everything You Want to Know…Kathie Mooney
Making Language Learning a “Piece of Cake” for High School ELLs…Downes, Ragsdale
Playing with Parts of Speech…Power Point, Handout…Alissa Thelen, SaraBeth George, Laveen Elementary
Friday, December 14, 2012
Dramatic Play…Terry Doolan
Informational Text and the Common Core Standards…Patricia Cunningham
Gesture Your Way to Improved Language Learning…Heidi Rochin
ELL Performance in Structured English Immersion…Hildie Cohen
Plays, Poetry, Fluency and the Common Core: Lesson Frameworks that Engage Your ELL Students…Patricia Cunningham
Use of Data as Part of Educator Evaluation…Carrie Giovannone
ELL Students in the A-F and AMAO Accountability System…Hildie Cohen












