2024 Great Ideas in Education Conference: Grid

IMPORTANT! If you haven’t registered, please go to the Event Home Page to submit your registration.
You are not registered unless you receive a confirmation email.

Contact Kelli Byrne at (785) 296-3637 if you have any questions.

About the Conference Program

When considering which session to attend be aware that most sessions will address more than one strand so be sure to look at the full descriptions.

Cookies and Conversations on Thursday are designed to give attendees the opportunity to network with others who have similar job responsibilities. You may choose any of the sessions to attend, so if you are more interested in learning from a different group, you are welcome.

If you have questions about the program of events, please contact by email at Pat Bone or by phone (785) 296-2303.

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Conference Registration Open 5:30pm - 8:30pm

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IXL for Grades K-5 Math is FREE 8:30am - 10:00am

Student Sense-making and 3-Dimensional Science in a Secondary Classroom 10:45am - 12:15pm

Standards Alignment: Find the Gaps in Instruction 3:30pm - 5:00pm

How can a Balanced Assessment System drive instruction? 8:30am - 10:00am

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Policy 10:45am - 12:15pm

A View from the Hallway 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Protecting Your School Through a Layered Security Approach 8:30am - 10:00am

Light the Way with Literacy: Ten Ways to Illuminate Learning for ALL Students 10:45am - 12:15pm

Child Abuse and Neglect: Recognize, Report, Support 3:30pm - 5:00pm

How high performing school districts exceed expectations on State Board outcomes 8:30am - 10:00am

How high performing school districts exceed expectations on State Board outcomes 10:45am - 12:15pm

Break/Visit Vendors 10:00am - 10:30am

Lunch/Vendors 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Break/Visit Vendors 2:45pm - 3:15pm

Vendors Remain open 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Vendors Open 5:00pm - 6:00pm

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General Session 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Council of Superintendents 3:30pm - 6:00pm

Registration/Breakfast 7:00am - 8:00am

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) - What Administrators Need to Know about this Common Disab... 8:30am - 10:00am

KSDE Introduces Writing Tenets: What You Need to Know 10:45am - 12:15pm

Implementing Mathematical Language Routines in the Classroom 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Playful Learning = High-Quality Instruction 8:30am - 10:00am

ELL 101 Basics: Building Bridges 10:45am - 12:15pm

MTSS Through a Preschool Lens 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Framing Young Children’s Visible Learning in Play with Structured Literacy Supports 8:30am - 10:00am

Understanding LGBTQIA+ and Race: Best Practices for growth & Awarenes 10:45am - 12:15pm

HGSS101: Leading the Way in All Four Fundamentals 8:30am - 10:00am

Unlocking Minds: Introduction to Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics 10:45am - 12:15pm

HGSS Constructive Coaching for Effective Walk-Throughs 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Understanding Diversity Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and their interconnectedness 8:30am - 10:00am

Vocabulary Matters: Effective Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary 10:45am - 12:15pm

You Don’t Have to Leave to Lead: Retaining Teachers by Developing Leaders 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Assessment Literacy 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cybersecurity and Kansas Educational Data System (KEDS) 3:30pm - 5:00pm

High Quality Elementary Science Instruction That Supports Structured Literacy 8:30am - 10:00am

School Counseling 101 for Administrators; What Can Counselors Do for You? 10:45am - 12:15pm

Building Thinking Classroom in Science 3:30pm - 5:00pm

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IXL for Grades 6-12, Math is FREE 8:30am - 10:00am

Empowering Learning: Digging Deeper into Thinking Classrooms 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Special Education 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Human Trafficking in America’s Schools: What Kansas Schools Can Do to Identify, Respond, and Pre... 8:30am - 10:00am

Protecting Our Schools 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Curriculum Leaders/Assessment Coordi... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Understanding the changes in TTS accommodations for state assessments 8:30am - 10:00am

Turning the Page: Using Data and Collaboration for Literacy Success 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Counselors/Social Workers/SRO 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Highlighting Opportunity: High-Quality Instructional Materials in Service of Quality Instruction 8:30am - 10:00am

General Session 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Break/Visit Vendors 10:00am - 10:30am

Lunch/Vendors 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Vendors Open/Break 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Vendors Open 3:30pm - 4:30pm

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Registration and Breakfast 7:00am - 8:00am

Realities of Inclusive PreK Settings 8:30am - 10:00am

Using the Updated Kansas Early Learning Standards 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Elementary Admin/Principals 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Strategies and Resources for Implementing a High-Quality Individual Plan of Study (IPS) Process 8:30am - 10:00am

School Partnerships for Induction Support: A Model for the Development of Co-Constructed Inducti... 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Early Childhood 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Balanced Assessment in the Secondary Science Classroom 8:30am - 10:00am

Understanding and Using the Science Standards Alignment Tool Kit 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Technology Staff 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Unlocking Organizational DNA: Transform Your Culture & Climate 8:30am - 10:00am

Updated Suicide Prevention Toolkit 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Superintendents/District Admin. 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Slice Through the Unknown: Using "Thin Slicing" to Foster Student Problem-Solving in Building Thinking Classroom... 8:30am - 10:15am

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Classroom Practice 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Secondary Teachers/Instructional Coa... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

KAP ELA Interims: Using Data to Drive Instruction 8:30am - 10:00am

Complex texts are the New Black: Understanding the Need for Text Complexity in Reading 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations - Principals/Admin Secondary 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Resources for the new Math Standards Alignment Toolkit 8:30am - 10:00am

Promoting Math Fluency and Number Sense in Elementary Education 10:45am - 12:15pm

Cookies and Conversations -Elementary Teachers/Instructional Coa... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

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