2016 Summer
Lifeskills Teachers
Teachers Will always be remembered the 6, 2016 Registration Opens: for May inspiration they share with their students.
Thank you for joining us for two amazing days jam-packed with great speakers, bright
ideas and tons of shared strategies you can use on the very first day of school!
When you are inspired, your students will be too!
Gayle MC Lorna Salgado Monica Allen
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will take steps to ensure that lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in
all educational programs and services.
Program 1st floor 1st floor 1st floor
2nd floor 1st floor
DLC PECOS
2nd floor 2nd floor
LAB
Day 1 P.M. 1:00 - 3:30
Staying Afloat in Life Skills
Swimming in the Deep End
Higher Level Thinking & Children's Storybook Nancy Perkins Working with the Active Learner
Kerrie Taylor Sticker-Story Book Make & Take Nancy Perkins
Day 2 A.M. 9:00 - 11:30 Structured Teaching
Kerrie Taylor Pancakes Across Curriculum Nancy Perkins
Seasonal Jobs/Tasks for Save Your Sanity: Tips for Behavior Management Diversified Learners
Teri Jones
Teri Jones & Caryn Seed
Connecting the Behavior Puzzle Through Functional Communication
Teaching Functional Skills & Routines
Amber Dollar & Tricia Terlouw
Day 2 P.M. 1:00 - 3:30 Structured Teaching: How Can I Set Up My Room to Help Students be More Independent?
Kelly Bell STAAR Alternate 2: What You Need to Know Cindy Lovelace Literacy through Experience Books: A Make & Take Donna Clemens & Scarlett Bayard
What can I do with my Music Therapy: Tips & Tricks for your classroom students with LID? Tina Lombardi Rhonda Lilly & & Molly Fawkes Kasye Palmer
Leslie Rainey & Amanda Walker
Tiffany Johnstone
AAC Workshop: Proloquo2Go
Assistive Technology for Students
What in the World are E Books?
Informal Assessments
Leah Gardner
Leah Gardner
Linda Rush
Linda Rush
Active Learning for Data Collection for Student's in the Life Skills Students with Severely Delayed Development Curriculum
Teresa Segerstrom & Anna Curtis
"Cub Cuddies"- Developing Leaders within Special Populations
1st floor
Tejas Cafe
Day 1 A.M. 9:00 - 11:30
Kerrie Taylor
BlueBRAzos MockingBird bonnet
Pecan
TIme Room
Kate Hurst 2016 Summer
Lifeskills Teachers
Jessica Cummings & Jennifer Mcdonald Cooking with Math & Science
Cooking with Math & Science
Jennifer Ives
Jennifer Ives
Visual Supports in the Life Skills Classroom Stacey Callaway
Building Communication with CORE Vocabulary
Tina Lombardi & Molly Fawkes
Implementation of AT in Sherman ISD
Transition in the Classroom
Jill Roper & Debbie Dent
Kathryn Hurst
Thank You For Attending!
Day 1 August 8, 2016 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Presenters & Presentation Descriptions
Cooking with Math and Science Do you want to put functional living skills back into your life skills classroom? Then come join me in preparing a recipe from planning a grocery list, comparison shopping, counting and adding money, and sprinkling in some science. Not to mention you will be able to have a great treat to eat! Jennifer IVES
Data Collection for Student's in the LifeSkills Curriculum This presentation provides forms and examples of how to collect data with prompting levels for students in the Life Skills curriculum. The recorded data is exported into graphs for parents to view progress or regression on goals/objectives. Also data collection devices for behavior and toileting. Ann Curtis & Teresa Segerstrom
Working with the Active Learner Integrating work and movement activities for the active learner. Participants will see examples of how to set up distinct areas inside and outside the classroom for differentiated instruction to provide heavy work input throughout the learners' day. Presenter will provide visuals of work areas for participants to experience while making recommendations to tailor instruction for a variety of active learners. Teri Jones
Staying Afloat in Life Skills This workshop will train the participants to start out successfully on their first year in the Life Skills Classroom. Participants will leave this session prepared to make it through their first year in Life Skills. You will be ready when the kids arrive on the first day of school! Kerrie Taylor
Higher Level Thinking & Children's Storybooks Following this research based session, the participant will understand how to create templates for students to use, making children's storybooks their own story. This session will interest teachers, instructional assistants & SLP Nancy Perkins
Connecting the Behavior Puzzle Through Functional Communication When working with low verbal and non-verbal students, it is often difficult for educational teams to know where to start in developing functional communication skills and addressing challenging behaviors. This session will help teams plan and implement systematic functional communication instruction while analyzing and addressing problematic behaviors. Leslie Rainey & Amanda Walker
"Cub Cuddies"-Developing Leaders within Special Populations Our "Hot Topic" discussion will help you learn how to build one-to-one friendships between people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities offering social mentoring while improving the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded. Jessica Cummings & Jennifer Mcdonald
AAC Workshop: Proloquo2Go Participants will learn funding options for AAC. The workshop will demonstrate the flexibility of Proloquo2Go 4.0 to meet the needs of a variety of users by experiencing an opportunity to become knowledgeable of the app by hands on learning, by customizing the app, and to be able to implement the app in a variety of settings. Leah Gardner
Day 1 August 9, 2016 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Presenters & Presentation Descriptions
Cooking with Math and Science Do you want to put functional living skills back into your life skills classroom? Then come join me in preparing a recipe from planning a grocery list, comparison shopping, counting and adding money, and sprinkling in some science. Not to mention you will be able to have a great treat to eat! Jennifer IVES
Swimming in the Deep End If you survived the first year then this is for you to start swimming. Ideas to help you succeed in the next set of races. Kerrie Taylor
Sticker-Storybook Make & Take Make and Take Sticker-Storybook: Bring your own technology and sticker-storybook! Participants attending this session will receive researched guidance in selecting a sticker-storybook for classroom use. Kylene Beers, “Say Something” strategies will be used for creating comprehension questions that can be answered with the stickers provided in the sticker-storybook. Nancy Perkins
Teaching Functional Life Skills & Routines In this session, we will dive into the world of daily skills and functional routines that our students will need to master in order to facilitate increased independence. We will brainstorm crucial skills needed, share how to address and teach these skills, and discuss the importance of using visual supports to aid in skill independence and mastery. Tiffany Johnstone
Seasonal Jobs/Tasks for Diversified Learners This presentation will spark ideas for throughout the school year for connecting classroom and campus jobs to connect Indicator 13 and 14. Presentation of actual jobs created in a structured manner to produce products to create as gifts or sale to staff and/or students. This presentation will give participants ideas on how to create products their students can assist in making. Terri Jones & Caryn Seed
Assistive Technology for Students This presentation will cover assistive technology devices, software, and apps to meet the needs of individuals with the following challenges: intellectual or literacy, mobility, sensory, vision, hearing, and speech. The goal is to introduce professionals to assistive technology options for function and independence of your students in the classroom and beyond. Leah Gardner
Active Learning for Students with Severely Delayed Development Active Learning, an approach developed by Dr. Lilli Nielsen, provides an assessment and curriculum that can be used by these students to advance their skills. This session will provide a brief overview of Active Learning, tools and equipment for utilizing this technique, and resources to learn more about this approach. Kate Hurst
Day 2 August 8, 2016 9:00 A.m. - 11:30 a.m. Presenters & Presentation Descriptions
Structured Teaching Structured Teaching is an excellent way to run your classroom. This research based practice is efficient and effective for our students. The participants will leave the session with knowledge of how to set up and run a structured classroom. Kerrie Taylor
Pancakes Across Curriculum Following this research-based session, participants will be able to present a themed lesson across the four curriculum's: LA, math, science and social studies. This lesson plan can be used as is or modified for all age groups. This session will e of interest to Teachers, Instructional Assistants, PT, OT, and SLP. Nancy Perkins
Save Your Sanity: Tips for Behavior Managment Many students in LIFE Skills classrooms need more specific intervention strategies than what is available in PBIS. In this session, we will discuss simple strategies that you can use to increase positive behaviors in your LIFE class. Come learn how to not only increase the time you have in instruction, but also teach behavioral skills that will help your student's transition throughout their lives. Amber Dollar & Tricia Terlouw
What can I do with my students with Low Incidence Disabilities? Participants will learn strategies for working with their students with the highest needs in the developmental/lifeskills classrooms. This will consist of inclusion in groups instruction, accessing the curriculum, building learning routines, and early augmentative communication use. Molly Fawkes & Tina Lombardi
What in the World Are E-Books? Learn about the epub format and how it can impact children with disabilities. Learn about the accessibility features on the iPad which makes an ePub book more interactive. Linda Rush
Implementation of AT in Sherman ISD We will present how we have assessed and implemented AT in Sherman ISD. We will discuss RTI, devices, assessment and implementation ideas. Debbie Dent & Jill Roper
Visual Supports in the Life Skills Classroom Visual supports are a powerful classroom tool for students who have difficulty understanding and using verbal language. Visual supports include visual schedules, communication systems, and social supports. This presentation will give participants a working knowledge of why, when, and how to implement visual supports in the classroom. Stacey Callaway
Day 2 August 8, 2016 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Presenters & Presentation Descriptions
Structured Teaching: How Can I Set Up My Room to Help Students Be More Independent? This presentation will teach you the basics of incorporating structured teaching (i.e. the "TEACCH" method) into your classroom. Help your students gain independence by structuring their environment and alleviate unknowns. Bring a shoe box or small plastic bin to create tasks during a make and take session! Kelly Bell
STAAR Alternate 2: What you need to know. This session will give teachers an overview of STAAR Alternate 2 testing and how to raise test scores for low incidence students. 1. Teachers will understand STAAR Alternate 2 testing. 2. Teachers will know how to improve scores for their students. 3. Teachers will know how to document student learning. Cindy Lovelace
Literacy through Experience Books : A make and take Explore literacy through the use of commercial and DIY multi-sensory experience books. Understand communication through the use of multi-sensory commercial and DIY experience books. Scarlett Bayard & Donna Clemens
Music Therapy: Tips and Tricks for your classroom Learn what Music Therapy is and how to use music in your classroom for academic concepts, transitions, social skills, and more. You will learn songs to use in your classroom that will engage your students and help their retention of skills. Learn how using music can change your classroom and your students’ learning. Rhonda Lilly & Kasye Palmer
Informal Assessments Learn about informal assessment options that can be used in the special education classroom. These are simple to use and available on the web for free. I will also show hands on examples of kahoot, quizzes, and plickers. Linda Rush
Transition in the Classroom Want to help your student's prepare for their future? Come get an overview of the basics of transition for the classroom teacher. Your help can impact the future success of your students. Kathryn Hurst
Building Communication with CORE Vocabulary Our goal is to explain how our Augmentative Communication Team has embraced CORE vocabulary as a strategy to improve the communication skills of students at different learning levels. We will describe how we are connecting with teachers and SLPs to integrate into instruction, and to present practical tips for implementation. Molly Fawkes & Tina Lombardi
2016 Summer
Lifeskills Teachers
August 8-9, 2016 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Thank You! A special thanks to all the presenters for making this event a spectacular learning experience teachers can take to the classrooms!
Allen ISD Stacey Callaway, InHome/Parent Trainer Allen ISD Anna Curtis, House Principal Allen ISD Teresa Segerstrom, Special Education Teacher of Functional Academics Catholic Diocese of Dallas Linda Rush, Technology Specialist at Notre Dame School Dallas ISD Jennifer Ives, Life Skills Teacher Denison ISD Leslie Rainey, Speech Language Pathologist Denison ISD Amanda Walker, Structured Learning Teacher Ennis ISD (Retired) Cindy Lovelace, M.Ed., Retired Teacher Highland Park ISD Kelly Bell, K4 Structure Teacher Irving ISD Amber Dollar, Special Education Coordinator Irving ISD Ticia Terlouw, Autism/Behavior Specialist Leander ISD Nancy Perkins M.Ed., SPED Teacher, Functional Life Skills (ICAP) Midlothian ISD Kathryn Hurst, CBI Classroom Teacher New Life Medical Equipment Leah Gardner, Director of Assistive Technology Plano ISD Tiffany Johnstone, Special Education Teacher
Gayle MC
[email protected] 972-348-1598
Region 10 Donna Clemens, Consultant Region 10 Scarlett Bayard, Consultant Richardson ISD Molly Fawkes, AugmentativeCommunication Teacher Richardson ISD Tina Lombardi, Assistive Technology SLP Richardson ISD Kasye Palmer, Music Therapist Rockwall ISD Jessica Cummings, Functional Academics 2 Teacher/Cub Buddies Administrator Rockwall ISD Jennifer Macdonald, Functional Academics 2 Teacher/Cub Buddies Administrator Rockwall ISD Kerrie Taylor, Functional Academics Teacher 1 Sherman ISD Debbie Dent, MS,CCCSLP, Autism SpeechLanguage Pathologist Sherman ISD Jill Roper, MS,CCCSLP, Lead Speech Language Pathologist Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired Kate Hurst, Statewide Staff Development Coordinator Wylie ISD Teri Jones, Team Leader & Mentor for the Lifeskills & SACC Wylie ISD Rhonda Lilly, Music Therapist Wylie ISD Caryn Seed, Life Skills Teacher
Monica Allen
[email protected] 972-348-1556
Lorna Salgado
[email protected] 972-348-1302
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2016 Summer
Lifeskills Teachers
