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Staying Alive: A Veteran Staff Member’s Survival Kit
Presented By: Susan Stark, Pam Sieger, Shauna Rosenberger, Beth Mulhollan, April Calton, Donna
Pfrogner, Renee Perri
Target Audience: All Staff

This session is designed to discuss ways we can stay passionate and energized throughout the school
year. Pam, Shauna, Beth, April, Donna, and Renee will discuss how they keep focused, balanced and
centralized in a fast-paced, online, cyber school setting. They will share what they do during the day, as
well as outside of work hours, to stay on track throughout the school year and combat stress. Other
ideas are welcome, because there are many things that we do on a day to day basis that help keep us
focused and passionate about what we do for our students and families!

category: professional growth time: 8:00 / 9:00 room: 206

Teaching Growth Mindset
Presented By: Michael Scheirer and Beth Bock
Target Audience: All Staff

Can we teach growth mindset to kindergartners? 5 graders? High School 10 graders? Taken directly
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from the 2017 Character Summit, this workshop will help kids adopt a malleable theory of intelligence.
You’ll spend most of your time planning a set of experiences to introduce students to what this means
for them! We’ll briefly review research describing what happens for kids who have a growth mindset,
and how you can specifically teach these concepts at any grade level, in any content. At the end of this
workshop, you’ll have a clear plan for starting the school year teaching growth mindset in your
classroom, and a path for specific instructional lessons to apply for the next 10 months!

category: growth mindset / grit time: 8:00 / 9:00 room: 207

Team Work: Inter-Departmental Success
Presented By: Kimberly Watson
Target Audience: All Staff

What's your role? In this session, all departments will work together to form alliances and construct
high-impact solutions to the common "what just happened?" moments that present in our Agora day.
You may be alone in your office, but you are not alone on the Agora team. We will act out true-to-life-
coaching/teaching/counseling scenarios, and role play the best practice teamwork tactics that support
our collective students.

category: professional growth time: 10:00 / 11:00 room: 108

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