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__2008 NMANS Conference Details__ Map to Albuquerque Academy from I-25 (6400 Wyoming Blvd.) [|MapFromI25.JPG] Albuquerque Academy Campus Map [|AcademyCampusMap.pdf] Registration in Simms Center for the Performing Arts (building #18 on the map) begins at 7:30 AM

Opening and Keynote and book signing 9:00-10:00 Session one: 10:15-11:15 Session one:** //TWO// //HOUR// SESSIONS 10:15-12:15 ** SESSION TWO: 11:30-12:30 ** KEYNOTE  1:00-2:00 ** SESSION THREE: //TWO// //HOUR Session//  //1:00-3:15// (1 offering) ** ** SESSION THREE: 2:15-3:15 ** Sessions End and Exhibits Close at 3:15 p.m. All DAY SESSIONS
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ADMINISTRATORS’ STRAND

** Simms Center for the Performing Arts  ** ** 9-10:00  ** Followed by a book signing. ** ** SESSION ONE: 10:15-11:15  ** **// One Hour //**** Sessions ** This class will demonstrate how children learn through play. We will do    sequential movements that teach beat competency and rhythmic awareness through bonding with language. We will use creative ideas to explore various elements of music. We will share enjoyable ways to tie into the regular classroom curriculum. This is a class for music teachers and classroom teachers who are looking for some fresh ideas and fun! ** Room 45 Yoga with Debbie ** (**Not a certified yoga instructor, just sharing**    Benefits of yoga with others.) Come learn ways to strengthen, relax, and revitalize all at the same time. Instructor has been practicing yoga for 15 years. WEAR LOOSE CLOTHING. North Hall Chris Rigali, Teacher 1/hr. PE/All Room 205 Cross Curricular Activities in Physical Education already exist and brainstorm new ones, too! (Session presented again    at 11:30) **        //TWO// //HOUR// SESSIONS 10:15-12:15 North Hall Joan Ellard, Ponderosa Montessori School, Inc. K-3 Room 101 Grammar the Montessori Way Imagination”. This session will give participants tools to make GRAMMAR come alive. Each part of speech is introduced through stories and represented by a geometric symbol. Sentence construction becomes a game as the child moves from simple sentences to completed paragraphs. **      North Hall Gayle Wilson, Albuquerque Academy 7-9 Room 206 Geographic Information Systems: Making Connections and maps, instructional technology, science, social science, and math topics will be visited, as time and interest permit. ** Bldg. 2 Nancy Brady, Solomon Schechter Day School   Art/All Art Room Listen to the Children ** Brown Hall Dr. Estevan Real-Galves, NM State Historian; History/All Computer Erwin J. Rivera, ENLACE Coordinator, and Lab Coordinator; Nila Montoya, Teacher Courier with RHP, McCurdy Teacher Regenerate History Project ** North Hall Diane MacAlpine, AFRL La Luz Academy Science/4-6 Room 105 Space Weather ** Brown Hall Christine Mulgrave-King, Catapult Learning K-2/Math Room 405 Everday Math in Your Classroom in your classroom. Speaker will focus on the game kits, parent communication, rote memorization and other aspects that are difficult to incorporate. Please come with questions and suggestions of other topics that you need assistance with in your classroom. ** North Hall May Kassicieh, Instructional Coach  All Room 201 Learning and Working Collaboratively ** Gardenhire Gail de Young, Rehoboth Christian School All Hall Mary Johnson, UNM Building Better Brains: Applying Brain Research to the Classroom and Beyond ** North Hall Suzanne Fortney, Rehoboth Christian Academy 7-12 Room 200 The 40 Developmental Assets ** North Hall Jerry L. Burton, Hope Christian School 7-12 Room 107 Teaching and Testing for Concept Attainment multiple choice, and true or false. Concept attainment is a critical step in     developing the ability to think critically. ** North Hall Rev. Buddy Monahan, Menaul School 7-12 Room 102 Honoring the Circle of Diversity **A circle represents unity, community, connectedness, and inclusion. **    **All parts need to be represented and acknowledged. Gender, race,** **and cultures make up our students, faculty, staff and families. We must celebrate that diversity and honor the circle.** ** SESSION TWO: 11:30-12:30 ** ** North Hall Ali Hughes, Hope Christian School 7-9 levels ** ** Room 203 “Alright, Listen Up, You Boneheads!” ** How to get the attention of today’s screen-agers the right way---and keep it! Today’s students have a grandiose sense of entitlement, and if that wasn’t bad enough, -- expect to be entertained! So, why not find creative ways to fool them into actually learning? No, I am not saying cave in to these precious angels, but how go about using their emotions to tap into their innate curiosity and get them to //educate// (yes, educate) themselves. Come check out ideas for getting students to show up---//and enjoy//---a challenging class. ** North Hall Jeanne N. Snyder, St. Mary’s Albuquerque 4-12 levels/Art ** ** Room 225 A Thousand Paper Cranes ** Learn the history of the Japanese legend of the crane. Learn about Sadako and her quest. Learn to fold two types of Origami cranes. ** Simms Cindy Wagner, Manzano Day School All ** ** Chorus Rm Children’s Meditation/Yoga ** This class is designed to give structure for children to find a way to enter into a quiet space. We begin with 10 asana or movements followed by the Corpse pose in a 12 minute Yoga session. Then we sit in a guided 9 minute imagery that delights children and allows them to center themselves and feel peaceful. This meditation comes from a renown humanitarian and spiritual leader known as AMMA. Pictures of the movements and handouts will be included. ** North Hall Emmit D. Dewitt, Menaul School 10-12/Math ** ** Room 216 How to Develop a “Fail Proof” Math Program ** Math in high school tends to be the breaking point for many students particularly in competitive college prep curriculums. Menaul School’s math courses under Mr. Dewitt’s leadership have the lowest number of academic failures in the school and have become an area where struggling math students find success---without lowering standards. How does it happen? Come discover how to develop a “fail-proof” math program. ** North Hall Johnee Simrell, St. Mary’s Albuquerque 6-8/Math ** ** Room 204 How to Teach Middle School Math Without Losing your Mind ** (“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”) You waltz into your eighth grade class only to discover that your students range in ability from fourth grade level to Algebra 1. How do you TEACH them all without leaving one student behind? How do you accomplish that and still have a life outside of school? Come see! ** Brown Hall Hugh Himwich, Albuquerque Academy All ** ** Room 418 The Future of Latin in New Mexico ** The goal of the presentation is to promote the teaching of Latin in New Mexico. The benefits of the teaching of Latin will be presented as well as support for existing programs. ** North Hall Jim Carrie, St. Pius X High School 7-12 ** ** Room 217 Hands-on Science in the Digital Age ** This presentation will address the use of hands-on science labs for engaging our students in today’s teaching environment. The first half of the presentation will address the limitations and learning styles present in today’s students, the weaknesses and their strengths, and how we can approach the student so they can be successful (and enjoy) science. The second half will be an interactive, hands-on introduction to lab equipment used at St. Pius X High School to familiarize the teachers with easy, medium and advanced labs. Additionally, non-traditional lab equipment will be introduced to show what can be done with today’s budgets. Although the session is targeted towards high school, many of the ideas presented are also applicable to the mid-school classroom. ** North Hall Chris Rigali, Teacher PE/ALL ** ** Room 205 Cross Curricular Activities in Physical Education ** This presentation will cover various cross-curricular activities that already exit and brainstorm new ones, too! (Also presented during the 10:15 time slot.) ** Brown Hall Maria Cordova Andrews, Menaul School 7-12/Admin. ** ** Room 422 College Counseling with First Generation Students and Families ** Ms Cordova Andrews has been a college counselor for over twenty-five years. She has counseled first generation students and their families not only at Menaul School, but has been active in state an national programs, like the College Horizons Program, that focus on helping first generation students get into the colleges of their choice. She will be presenting a workshop that will highlight the unique challenges of the first generation student in the college admissions process. The first generation student and his/her family are often intimidated by and apprehensive of the college admissions process. College counselors have to provide one on one counseling that helps each family understand the process. Each component of the process: admissions, financial aid, testing, the selection of colleges, and how this relates to each family’s circumstances, have to be considered if we are to have a successful outcome. ** KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. TIM SNYDER ** ** HEROES AND HOPE---BUILDING 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIPS ** ** SIMMS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ** ** 1:00-2:00 **   ** SESSION THREE: //1:00-3:15// ** ** Two Hour Session ** ** Brown Hall Christine Mulgrave-King 3-5 ** ** Room 405 Everyday Math in your Classroom. **   This session will help you implement the Everyday Math Curriculum in your classroom. The speaker will focus on the game kits, parent communication, rote memorization and other aspects that are difficult for teachers to incorporate. Please come with questions and suggestions of other topics that you need assistance in in your classroom. Those will be addressed during this session. ** SESSION THREE: 2:15-3:15 ** ** One Hour Sessions ** ** North Hall Sharon Rhutasel-Jones, Menaul School 10-12 ** ** Room 101 “I Think, Therefore, I Am” ** The presentation will explore techniques of leading class discussion that encourage critical thinking. We will simulate a class discussion on male/female roles and relationships as they appear in two passages from Virginia Woolf. After exploring the passages, we will move to a more general discussion of the current relationship between the sexes. Finally, we will share successful discussions techniques. ** North Hall Dr. Richard Field, Albuquerque Academy 10-12/All ** ** Room 203 A Visual Tour of Ancient Greece ** Come join me on an exciting whirlwind tour of some of the salient sites of ancient Greece. Some of the stopovers include: The Parthenon, The Athenian Agora, Mycenae, Corinth, Olympia and Ephesus. You will see sites where a king was murdered, drama was born, and where athletes toiled for glory.
 * OPENING AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER**
 * 9-9:10 Welcome by Dr. Kathryn Weil, NMANS President All **
 * 9:10-10:00 Keynote by: Jenifer Fox, Author and Speaker: Every Child Has **
 * Strengths: Brining out the Best in Children by Discovering Their **
 * Strengths
 * Music Bldg. Cindy Wagner, Manzano Day School 1/hr. Music/All **
 * Chorus Rm. Early Childhood Music Education **
 * Bldg. 3 Debbie Vigil, St. Michael’s High School 1/hr. All **
 * This presentation will cover various cross-curricular activities that
 * Dr. Montessori labeled the age from 6-9 years the “Age of
 * Connecting curriculum using Geographic Information systems, data
 * Learn how to teach tolerance and caring for each other and all living things in this hands-on, art based workshop. This curriculum is based on three questions, research in appropriate children’s books, group discussion, and art making that includes words.
 * This presentation will introduce the Regenerate History Project, State Historian’s Web Site, and Drawing from the Well Curriculum, all of which call on integrating the community resources and individual to “Regenerate” the interest in the rich cultural history of New Mexico.
 * The presentation will begin with an overview of the education outreach activities available through the AFRL La Luz Academy. The activities provide an opportunity for students to explore science, technology, engineering and math. This presentation will focus on space weather; participants will discover connections between the Sun and Earth. They will become solar scientists, studying solar wind, solar cycles, and the electromagnetic energies bombarding the Earth.
 * This session will help you implement the Everyday Math Curriculum
 * Participants will collaborate by using a protocol that allows them to connect to one another and to their work, while at the same time allowing them to get useful feedback from one another.
 * This interactive session will help you discover how to bring brain based strategies to the classroom and beyond. We will look at research that can lead us to become better teachers and our students to become better learners. In addition, we will look at strategies for working with students with learning delays, ADD, Dyslexia, and other learning problems using brain based methods. Finally, we will explore the things that can shrink the learning capacity of our students.
 * The 40 Developmental Assets are common sense, positive experiences and qualities that help influence choices young people make as well as helps them become caring, responsible adults. The Asset approach is based on common wisdom about the kinds of positive experiences and characteristics that young people need and deserve. The Developmental Asset framework is categorized into two groups of 20 assets. External assets are the positive experiences young people receive from the world around them. External assets identify important roles that families, schools, congregations, neighborhoods, and youth organizations can play in promoting healthy development.
 * This presentation is about the technique for allowing students to discover key concepts in any subject by challenging them to use what they already understand individually and as a group. The “discovered” concept is then reinforced through a meaningful activity. Testing whether or not the student has attained a given concept can be challenging and very time- consuming unless the teacher prepares the assessment implement carefully. If done properly, the grading of concept tests can be done with little more effort than the lower level assessment tools of matching,

** Brown Hall Dr. Jill Brown, Albuquerque Academy Tech/All ** ** Room 400 Educational Vodcasting Webinar ** Partial archive viewing hosted by Dr. Brown. Jonathan and Aaron have revolutionized their classrooms using video pod casts, or vodcasts. Student no longer come to class to hear a lecture, they now watch lectures at home prior to class on their computers., iPods, cell phones, or DVD players. In class, students are engaged in hands-on activities and directed problem solving. This webinar will include technical instructions for creating video podscasts using a variety of commercial and open source software, pedagogy of using video podscasts in the classroom, and Jonathan and Aaron’s results after a full school year of instruction using this model. View part of this archive and find out more about Webinar opportunities. ** North Hall Stan Gillespie, Ricoh Business Solutions All ** ** Room 102 Total Cost of Ownership ** Stan Gillespie will present Ricoh’s unique perspective on educational institutions employing technology to control costs as related to this marked and document workflow. ** Simms Lisa Meassick, St. Pius X ** ** Library Melanie Templet, Sandia Prep Library ** ** Reading Rm. Got Graphic? **   This presentation is an overview of what graphic novels are, examples of a wide-range of them, ideas for their use, sites that review them, and a brief discussion of them. ** Brown Hall Rafael Figueroa, Albuquerque Academy, 10-12 ** ** Computer Juaquin Moya, Bosque School, ** ** Lab Mary Anne Modzelewski, Sandia Preparatory ** ** Beyond our Gates: Cooperative College Counseling Programs ** For the last six years, three independent schools (Albuquerque Academy, Bosque School and Sandia Preparatory) have put on joint college guidance programs twice a year. Now the three schools are cooperating with the Rocky Mountain Association for College Admission Counseling are beginning a college and career outreach program in the Bernalillo County  Public Library. Come hear about their atmosphere of cooperation and find out how you can get involved in their newest initiative, the College Corner.

** North Hall Jozette Linhart, Our Lady’s Assumption All ** ** Room 107 School-Wide Behavioral Corrections ** In today’s society we have seen a vast growing issue in schools with bullying and defiance toward adults and staff. This is considered a serious detriment to the learning atmosphere. We as a school institution need to take a closer look at the effectiveness of detentions. This workshop will give you strategies to tighten the reins in behavior through-out your school. ** Sessions End and Exhibits Close at 3:15 p.m. ** ** // Please be sure to complete an evaluation form for us // ! We do listen and made sure to have presentations that were requested last year as well as lengthen the time of the presentations. We hope you enjoyed your day and look forward to seeing you next year! **

ALL DAY SESSIONS 10:00-3:15 CATAPULT LEARNING with Lee Jenkins High School Simms Little Theater of the root causes of educational frustrations. Today’s educators inherited structures that are contrary to the best interests of students and their teachers. One example is cramming and forgetting. The second component of the seminar is solutions. For example, how can cramming be removed from schools. The session is balanced between practical advice, theory, and practice. A healthy dose of humor is included. The examples from North American classrooms are equally divided between elementary and secondary.
 * This work shop has two components. The first is a description

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ADMINISTRATORS’ STRAND All sessions held in: Simms Library, Academy Room 9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, JENIFER FOX(Simms Hall) All 10:15-11:15 Lisa Hamilton, Dan Williams and guest Sam Ornelas, PED EQUITABLE SERVICES TO PRIVATE SCHOOL CHILDREN UNDER TITLE 1 11:15-12:15 Larry Bemesderfer, PED Admin. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS 12:15-1:00 LUNCH HOSTED BY DAVID SANCHEZ OF SCOTT W. Dining Hall FORESMAN IN THE WEST CAMPUS DINING HALL 1:00-2:00 Simms Hall KEYNOTE SPEAKER, DR. TIM SNYDER All 2:15-3:15 Rebecca Dow, Appletree Educational Center Admin. Simms Library NEW MEXICO POLICIES AFFECTING PRIVATE SCHOOLS ** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 9:00-10:00 Jenifer Fox Simms Center for the Performing Arts Every Child Has Strengths: Bringing Out the Best in Children by Discovering Their Strengths The world has changed radically in the past 20 years, however, our schools have not kept up with those changes. The future will depend on educational models that resonate into the 21st Century and engage students in the ways that society will continue to demand. For children to find their paths in the new world, they will have to know what their strengths are and how to put them to work. In this keynote session, Jenifer Fox outlines the changes needed in our schools, and discusses how parents and teachers can work together to help children discover their strengths and put them to work in pursuit of discovering what will be their most meaningful contribution to life. A question and answer period will follow a 30 minute presentation. ** 1:00-2:00 Dr. Tim Snyder Simms Center for the Performing Arts Heroes and HopeBuilding 21st Century Partnerships ** Did it really take 40 years for the overhead projector to make it from the bowling alley to the classroom? Author, humorist and wannabe educator Tim Snyder will answer this and several more of life’s perplexing questions in a keynote session dedicated to the innovative and wildly enthusiastic educators helping students thrive amidst rising global challenges.
 * This workshop provides an opportunity for private school administrators to learn about equitable services to their students under Title 1 of NCLB from a member of the New Mexico Public Education Department’s Title I Bureau. Participants will get an overview of the law and it requirements to benefit eligible private schools’ students. Key aspects of the process will be covered with opportunities for participants to ask questions. **
 * This presentation will cover the adoption cycle and it’s process as well as how private schools are impacted by recent IM requirements, etc. The attendees will participate in discussion. **
 * Participants will discuss current or pending legislation affecting private schools. (ie. Pre-K, curriculum and instructional materials, NMAA regulations, and more.) Participants will create a priority list for NMANS action items.