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Amy Williams

Grand Blanc West Middle School
Friday, March 6
 

8:00am CST

ONPAR Assessments for Middle School NGSS Aligned Curricula, including OpenSciEd and IQWST Meeting Room 103Linda Malkin

9:00am CST

Health in Our Hands: Using 3-D Formative Assessments to Inform Student Learning and Support Teachers’ 3-D Practices Governor's RoomAshley Booker • Consuelo Morales • Jenna Nachazel Tools for Thinking (not Worksheets) Banquet 3Emily Pohlonski • Christie Morrison Thomas By Design: The Mi-STAR method for developing NGSS-aligned assessments Banquet 7Barb McIntyre • Chris Wojick Does it make sense? Regency 1Jeanane Charara • Melissa Renko Keynote: Unlocking our potential: Leveraging crosscutting concepts as a path to science agency and identity Banquet 5Aneesha Badrinarayan Using Anchoring Phenomena and Driving Question Boards to Spark Student Questioning Meeting Room 103Diane Wright

10:00am CST

Enhancements to particle models for explaining conductivity and related thermal phenomena. Michigan 2Trevor Goff • Scott Milam Addressing English Language Learners in a Science Class Regency 2Thomas Long Assessment Fixer-Upper: Learn to assess "knowledge in use" with Item Clusters Banquet 6Jessica Ashley Consensus Meetings in Science: Making Student Thinking Visible & Incorporating Student Voice Banquet 3Tiffany Henfling Do we REALLY know ourselves and our students? Ensuring "all students" really DOES mean "all students" Banquet 4Jill Griffin Mi-STAR’s assessment tools for NGSS - how to make them work for you Banquet 7Barb McIntyre • Ashley Poole

11:00am CST

A Focus on Modeling in the Phenomenon- based classroom Meeting Room 103Diane Wright Argument and Explanation in MS Banquet 3Deborah Vannatter Providing Elementary Teachers and Students with Comprehensive Skills and Strategies To Accomplish The Intended Vision Of The SEP and CCC Banquet 1Laura Chambless • Minna Turrell The Crosscutting Concepts as Suites of Questions Guiding Development of Explanations Meeting Room 205Joyce Parker

1:00pm CST

How to Start Biology and Chemistry NGSS Units using Driving Question Boards to Investigate Phenomena Meeting Room 201Andrea McCune • Lauren Nacy Instructional Change through Productive Talk Walk Throughs Banquet 1Mary Burke Make Time for Science with Project-Based Learning Capitol 2Terra Tarango Who gets to be a Smart Science Student in your Classroom? Banquet 3Christie Morrison Thomas Why aren’t they talking? Tips and Strategies for More Productive Discourse in Science Banquet 2Laura Ritter

2:00pm CST

Organism Engineering Meeting Room 201Kristy Butler • Patti Richardson Chemistry to make Students React Meeting Room 103Gary Curts Let’s Engage Students through Phenomena-based Science Instruction Meeting Room 205Maeve Green We Love to Hate Assessments - Let's Do Something About It! Banquet 2Aneesha Badrinarayan

3:00pm CST

Student-Generated Questions to Lead Investigations: Students “Driving the Bus” Banquet 7Emily Gochis • Kim Smith Kolasa • Jennifer Pera Engineering in Middle School with Phenomenal Instruction Capitol 4Tom Gantt

4:00pm CST

Favorite Demos do fit with NGSS! Banquet 3Kristen Garavaglia • Mary Jordan McMaster Science Modeling, My trials and Tribulations and why I still believe in it. Capitol 3Lynnelle Buchanan
 
Saturday, March 7
 

8:00am CST

Fake news or real science? Building information literacy in today’s students Banquet 3Anne Jeannette LaSovage Learn About Free, Phenomenon-Based Materials for Grades 6-8 Science Meeting Room 205Susan Olszewski Standards Based Grading + NGSS: A Match Made in Heaven Banquet 4Vanessa Logan Wentzloff Promoting 3-Dimensional Science Teaching and Learning through NGSS-aligned Curricula and a Teacher Support System Governor's RoomJenna Nachazel • Chris Reimann Lab and Activity Enhancements with Google Sheets Meeting Room 204Justin Faught • Connie Kemner Teaching Kids to Ride the Struggle Bus Banquet 8Laura Sloma

9:00am CST

Where did the fat go? A biology storyline for teaching growth & cellular respiration Meeting Room 201Wendy Johnson • Cassie Oostindie NASA Resources, GLOBE Program and Student Research Governor's RoomDavid Bydlowski • Kevin Czajkowski • Janet Struble Questioning Science Regency 1Ashley Driscoll • Lyndsay Mahar • Katie Stevenson

10:00am CST

Using Models to Drive Student Understanding of the Central Dogma Meeting Room 201Mark Eberhard Disciplinary Literacy; Writing in Science Class Meeting Room 202Mari Maltby • Julia McBride Engaging Your Students to Think and Act Like Scientists Banquet 2Dawn McCotter Incorporating Interactive Science Notebooks into NGSS Meeting Room 203Melissa Foster • Jenna Francis Inquiry Based Chemistry Projects for Middle School Students Banquet 4Kathleen O'Connor Learning to Lead Discussions in Science: How to Talk Less so Students Learn More. Meeting Room 101Mark Olson • Naomi Sarelis Help your students be better at science, life and CERs through sound reasoning Banquet 7Brian Danhoff • Lori Hall • Tony Matthys It's Too Hard to Explain! Develop Models to Construct Explanations Capitol 2Nancy Karre

11:00am CST

Equitable Systems of Learning and Assessment and Positive Student Outcomes Meeting Room 102Holly Hereau • Wayne Wright Incorporating Accessible and Engaging Anchoring Phenomena in Chemistry Banquet 6Julian Sanders EdReports – Do Quality Instructional Materials Matter to you? Regency 2Minna Turrell • Bo Winkler Elementary and Middle School Science and STEM Extravaganza Capitol 1Betty Crowder • Conni Crittenden Using Anchoring Phenomena and Driving Question Boards to Spark Student Questioning Meeting Room 103Diane Wright Using NGSS Science and Engineering Practices to Create Interdisciplinary Collaboration Banquet 5Katie Torkelson-Regan • Michelle Vanhala Using Summary Tables for Sense-Making in Science Capitol 4Sydney Barosko

12:00pm CST

3D Assessment of 3D Learning: Collisons! Meeting Room 204Deborah Vannatter Designing 3-dimensional classroom-based assessments for measuring middle school students' knowledge-in-use of energy: A research-based systematic approach Meeting Room 205Peng He • Namsoo Shin It Can't Wait! Understanding the Importance of Learning Progression Capitol 2Nancy Karre Putting the Pieces Together! Using KLEWS boards, Investigation Notebooks and Science Talk in the Elementary Classroom! Capitol 1Marie Woodman Demonstrations that Really Grab Attention! Banquet 8Mark Sheler Chihuly in The Science Classroom Regency 2Jennifer Edwards • Maria Shadbolt

1:00pm CST

Modeling the Flint Water Crisis with Pennies Banquet 1Monique Wilhelm Sequencing for SEL and Productive Talk Banquet 2Lucinda Martinelli STEP UP - Encouraging young women in physics Meeting Room 202Laura Sloma