Agenda-at-a-Glance

2019 Mega Conference

The New Nevada- Expanding Equitable Opportunities for ALL
Check (✓) the boxes to indicate each session you attend; you must have the room monitor STAMP the designated spaces
for each session attended. Please note there are NO waived sessions.

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Friday, 5/3/19 — 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (2.0 hrs towards credit )

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Opening Keynote Address: Go Forth and Be Bold: Emerald Bay
Kieschnick
Educating for the Future AB

Friday, 5/3/19— 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm (1.25 hrs towards credit )

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Non-profit Emerald Bay
Share Fair
organizations 123 and Foyer

Saturday, 5/4/19 — 7:00 am to 8:00 am — Continental Breakfast- Emerald Bay Foyer

(0 hrs towards credit)

Saturday, 5/4/19 — 8:00 am to 9:30 am (1.5 hrs towards credit )

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Keynote Address: Diversity: Every Brain is Wired Emerald Bay
Medina
Differently AB

Saturday, 5/4/19 — 9:45 am to 11:15 am (1.5 hrs towards credit )

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Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Emerald Bay
Murray
Tomorrow's Schools, Today 123

Emerald Bay
Attack of the Teenage Brain Medina
456

Excellent Elementary Schools: Policy and Practice Burnham, Ritchie,

Garden 1
Levers for Change Severens, & Waugh
Saturday, 5/4/19 — 9:45 am to 11:15 am (Continued)

Curriculum Design Cycle: Designing for a Better

McGough Garden 2
Tomorrow

Nevada's Need for SEAD: Social-Emotional Academic Madden-Dent &

Zephyr
Development Trujillo

Dorofachuk,
Literacy Learning & Engagement: Through Arts
Rougeau, Flores, & Tallac
Integration Teaching Strategies
McCarty

Saturday, 5/4/19 — 11:30 am to 12:45 pm (.75 hrs towards credit)

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Harrah's
Superintendent's Recognition Luncheon Ebert
Ballroom

Saturday, 5/4/19 — 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (1.5 hrs towards credit)

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Examining Positive Discipline Practices and Building
Howard Emerald Bay A
Relationships

Brain-Based Learning: Teaching Distracted Learners Kuzmich Emerald Bay B

Tech Tools for Student Engagement and Teacher Emerald Bay

Murray
Effectiveness 123

Build it and They Will Come: The Blue Print of a

Pershing County Emerald Bay
Multi-Tiered System of Support for Mental and
School District 456
Behavioral Health

Building Blocks of Achievement: Creating the Josh Stevens

Garden 1
Foundation of Success Elementary School

Carson City & Clark

Bridging the Gap Through Innovation & Digital
County School Garden 2
Tools
Districts

Implementing a High-Quality Intervention and C.P. Squires

Zephyr
Enrichment Block to Ensure Student Success Elementary School

Advanced
A Seat at the Table for Everyone: Flexible Seating &
Technologies Tallac
Teaching
Academy
Saturday, 5/4/19 — 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm (1.5 hrs towards credit )

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Closing the Achievement Gap: Research, Theory, &
Howard Emerald Bay A
Practice

Want Rapid Literacy Growth? Teach Vocabulary in

Kuzmich Emerald Bay B
Context

Lemelson STEM Emerald Bay

Moving from One Star to Three and BEYOND!
Academy 123

Emerald Bay
Live Your Excellence Starting Today! Casas
456

Healthy Minds, Safe Schools: A Multi-Tiered System Lucille Rogers

Garden 1
of Support for Mental and Behavioral Health Elementary School

Building Teacher Capacity Through Engagement Helen Smith

Garden 2
Strategies Elementary School

Yerington High
College and Career Readiness Through EnvisionIT Zephyr
School

Comprehension Strategies to Ensure Success for All

Clark County School
Students, Specifically Targeting Students in Special Tallac
District
Education Settings

Saturday, 5/4/19 — 4:15 pm to 4:45 pm — Refreshment Break –Emerald Bay Foyer

(0 hrs towards credit)

Saturday, 5/4/19 — 4:45 pm to 6:15 pm (1.5 hrs towards credit )

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Race & Culture in the Classroom Howard Emerald Bay A

Intelligent Lives- Including Students with Intellectual

Bowers & Fields Emerald Bay B
Disabilities

Emerald Bay
Ensuring Effective PLCs: The Data Teams Process Pijanowski
123

Stop. Right. Now.- The 39 Stops to Making Schools Emerald Bay

Casas
Better 456

Coral Academy of
Fun, Fast, Formative Assessments Using
Science Las Vegas Garden 1
Technology
Centennial Hills

From Phonics to Fluency- Move Your Students from Wallin Elementary

Zephyr
Phonics to Fluency School

Language and Foundational Skill Acquisition Doris French

Tallac
through STEAM Elementary School
Sunday, 5/5/19 — 7:00 am to 8:00 am – Full Breakfast - Emerald Bay Foyer (0 hrs towards credit )

Sunday, 5/5/19 — 8:00 am to 9:30 am (1.5 hrs towards credit )

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Emerald Bay
Creating Trauma Sensitive Classrooms Howard
AB

Five to Thrive: Instructional Strategies That Impact Emerald Bay

Pijanowski
Learning 123

Emerald Bay
Inclusive Practices for Equal Access Fields & Jensen
456

Guerilla PD: Strategic & Tactical Strikes for

McGough Garden 1
Instructional Improvement

Improving Student Outcomes: Linking Family

Peterson & Quintero Garden 2
Engagement Best Practices to Student Learning

Teaching Reading Like a True Detective: Identifying

Laxalt Tallac
Clues, Following Their Trail and Solving the Case

Sunday, 5/5/19 — 9:45 am to 11:45 am (2 hrs towards credit )

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Closing Keynote: The Truths All Educators Need to

Emerald Bay
Know to Overcome their Fears and Experience Casas & Murray
AB
Success

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