[Mo-facs] Incredible Professional Development Opportunity - June 22

[Marcia Ritter]

The National State Teachers of the Year Conference will be held in Kansas City, June 21-25.  We plan to open to the public a Practitioner's Conference on June 22 at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. (2030 E. College Way)  The theme is "The Power to Make a Difference" and an incredible program is planned for the day.
   
  The program is as follows:
  8:00-9:00 AM     Registration and Continental Breakfast
  9:00-9:45 AM     Keynote Address by Andrea Peterson, 2007 National Teacher of the Year 
  from Washington state -- an amazing music educator
  9:45-10:00 AM    Break
  10:00-11:45 AM  Keynote Address by Sandra Roberts and a student from Tennessee -- Paper Clips Project.  (Holocaust reflection community project -- Featured in books, movies and on The Today Show and HBO.)
  11:45-12:30 PM   Lunch
  12:30-1:30 PM    Concurrent Session #1
  1:45-2:45 PM      Concurrent Session #2
  2:45-3:00 PM      Conclusion and Wrap-up
   
  All of this -- including breakfast and lunch -- for $15.00!!!!  This is an amazing professional development once-in-a-lifetime event that you don't want to miss!!!
   
  You MUST register by June 8th at www.mnu.edu/adult/lti/conferences or contact me for additional information.  marciafacs at sbcglobal.net
   
  Please share this information with the teachers in your school and in your area.  I do understand that some of you are out for the summer, but please call or email your friends about this amazing event.
   
  The concurrent sessions will be led by Teachers of the Year from throughout the U.S. and topics include:
  Time Management Ideas for the Elementary Teacher
  Twenty-First Century High Schools:  What's So Different?
  How to Win Learners and Influence Students
  Motivation in Motion (brain-based teaching methods)
  M.A.I.Z.E. -- Museum Artifact Inquiry Zone - problem based learning
  Do You Really Get It? - math/elementary
  I'm Not A Reading Teacher
  Diversity in a Literacy Classroom:  Teaching All of the Children
  Live Your Life in One Letter --- Laughter/love/Learn
  Sandra Roberts -- more information on the Paper Clips Project
   
  Thanks so much --
  Marcia J. Ritter, CFCS
  1995 Lee's Summit and Missouri Teacher of the Year
  Co-Chair 2007 NSTOY Conference
   
   
   
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