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Understanding our LGBTQ Community
Presented By: Heather Silberman, Josh Dorfuzaun
Target Audience: All Staff

This year, the subject of our differentiated supervision project was working with students in our LGBTQ
community. Our students helped us to create a presentation that helps our community better
understand each other, and some of the daily issues that arise. Understanding how to communicate
better with our LGBTQ community. Understanding why pronouns matter.

category: student and parent engagement time: 8:00 / 9:00 room: 108

Understanding the Fixed Mindset / Victim Mentality and Strategies for How to
Counteract It
Presented By: Lew Kroner, John Thomas
Target Audience: All Staff

The greatest strategy when encountering a victim mentality is to be sure to identify the fixed mindset
nature of it early in the interaction, avoid enabling it, and empowering them with a growth mindset. This
means that we need to be very careful how much empathy we include into the interaction. Join us as
we look at how to empower parents and students by assisting them in learning how to use the school
systems and take ownership over their education.

category: growth mindset / grit time: 10:00 / 11:00 room: 105

Weekly Schedules: Providing Consistency for Students with a Weekly Course
Format
Presented By: Jessica Whitmoyer, Jennine Thomas, Alison Force
Target Audience: High School, Middle School

Do your students struggle to remember what is due in your course? Is it difficult to find time for
reteaching and remediation each week? To help with these issues, the US History team moved to a
weekly format. We stopped using the K12 created units with the course and instead had students
follow a weekly schedule. They had similar assignments each week and Fridays were reserved as work
days. Students knew what to expect each week and planning was easier. Our session will explain our
process of adapting the course for a weekly schedule and the benefits of this schedule.

category: instructional strategies / planning time: 10:00 / 11:00 room: 218

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