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 * ISACS Learning Bridges Audio Seminars**

**[|The Inspiring Learning Series]** **Independent Schools of the Central States (ISACS) Learning Bridge** The following Learning Bridge Audio Seminars will be part of the Summit Inspiring Learning Series for the 2009 – 2010 school year. These pre-recorded audio sessions (complete with accompanying Powerpoint presentations) run one hour, and are followed by roundtable discussions facilitated by Summit administrators, teachers and/or counselors.
 * Audio Seminars background information**

**Creating and Changing Mindsets: Strategies that Impact Achievement, Motivation and Relationships** **(with Dr. Robert Greenleaf)** Focusing upon the behavior of a student seldom prevents repeat occurrences. Focusing on the mind’ s internal movies does impact behaviors and attitudes. People learn, act out and disrupt as a result of the internal movies playing continuously in the mind. Changing long-term behaviors, attitudes and choices can be done. Creating "Can-Do" attitudes is a process we can influence! This session will include the processes impacting mindsets (behaviors), strategies for accomplishing long range changes in student behaviors, ways to help students be involved with strategies that affect them personally, and ways to foster individual, classroom and even school-wide change.


 * Dr. Robert K. Greenleaf** is the author of numerous articles and several books including //Creating and Changing Mindsets: Developing// //Responsible Behaviors//, //Brain Based Teaching: Making Connections for// //Long-term Memory and Recall//, //Memory, Recall and the Brain: The// //Nonlinguistic and Visual Attributes of Memory and Recall//, //A Mastery// //Toolkit: Essential for the// “//Can-Do//” //Student//, //Engaging Today's Students//, and //Coaching Reluctant Learners//. He received his Doctorate in Education from Vanderbilt University and is currently the President of Greenleaf Learning.

Powerpoint from Dr. Greenleaf's presentation **Say Yes to No** **(with Dr. David Walsh)** Self-discipline is as strong a predictor of school success as intelligence. Powerful cultural messages that scream More, Fast, Easy, and Fun are making it difficult for children to learn self-discipline. The result is a growing epidemic of Discipline Deficit Disorder, or DDD, with symptoms including a culture of disrespect, inability to delay gratification, sense of entitlement, self-centeredness and rampant consumerism. Regaining the ability to "Say Yes to No" is not only important for our kids well-being but essential for improving classroom performance and ensuring our country’s economic future. "Say Yes to No" involves parents, educators, and community leaders in crucial conversations about how to teach young people how to say no to themselves so they can be successful in school and life. **Brain Research for Parents: Practical Cognitive Science Tips!** **(with Mr. Rick Wormeli)** We’ve learned more about how the brain learns in the last 15 years than in all of history up to this point. With overwhelming amounts of research in the media each month, it’s hard for conscientious parents to keep up. Join us as Rick Wormeli does the sifting and presents the salient conclusions from all that data. How can we build our children’s capacity to remember course content? Why does my child behave that way? How do we get our children to pay attention to what is important? What role do emotions play in our child’s learning? What about diet, exercise, and sleep patterns? What can we as parents do at home to increase our child’s learning success? The answers to these questions and much more will be shared in this timely session for parents.
 * David Walsh** is president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family. Psychologist, educator, author, Dr. Walsh is of the world's leading authorities on the impact of media on children and teens. He has written eight books including the national best seller //Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen//. His latest book is //No. Why Kids - of All Ages - Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It//.

**Web Literacy for Lower and Middle School Students** **(with Mr. Alan November)** As the web becomes the dominant media for children it will be essential to teach young children the grammar and literacy skills to be safe and to be excellent “web detectives.” This seminar will provide teachers with an overview of how to teach elementary students to choose the right search engine, understand how to find who controls the information, and to develop early cross referencing strategies. Teachers will also learn how to incorporate age appropriate bogus websites into the curriculum to prepare children to question web-based content. **Motor Skills that Enhance Learning for Life** **(Dr. Robert Sornson)** Many children today do not develop the motor skills needed for basic, much less optimal, success in the early years of school. These children may have difficulty sitting still, maintaining attention, balancing, catching a ball, running, skipping, listening, or using visual-motor skills for cutting, coloring, drawing and printing. Along with language and behavior skills, these motor skills are an important part of the foundation of early learning success. Explore the importance of developing these skills and learn to easily match appropriate activities to a child’s skill level.
 * Rick Wormeli**, one of the first Nationally Board Certified teachers in America, brings innovation, energy, validity and high standards to both his presentations, and his instructional practice, which includes more than 25 years teaching math, science, English, health, history, and training teachers. Rick’s work has been reported in numerous media, including ABC’s Good Morning America, //National Geographic// and //Good Housekeeping// magazines//, What Matters Most: Teaching for the 21st Century//, and the Washington Post. He was Disney's Outstanding English Teacher of the Nation in 1996, and is a columnist for the National Middle School Association’s //Middle Ground// magazine. His books include //Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice//, the award-winning book, //Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle Level Teacher//, //Day One and Beyond: Practical Matters for New Middle Level Teachers//, all from Stenhouse Publishers, and //Summarization in any Subject//, published by ASCD. His classroom practice is the showcase for the first tape of ASCD's best-selling video series, "At Work in the Differentiated Classroom." His new book on teaching through analogies and metaphors comes out in 2009.
 * Alan November** makes people think, question and, also important, laugh. His background as a dorm counselor for at-risk students, classroom teacher, technology coordinator, alternative school director, city planner, new school designer, university lecturer and years of consulting around the world give him a breadth of understanding and educational experience. Alan November's astute observations about the economy, education and technology make him hugely popular, entertaining and engaging. For Alan November, it's not the technology itself that it is important; it's the way we use it. His ideas about global communication, collaboration, assessment, and critical thinking have inspired schools, governments and corporations around the world to rethink and redefine their approach to education and technology.

Learn to: • Recognize the sequence of development for essential sensory-motor skills, • Recognize the importance of developing sensory-motor skills to academic and social learning, • Match activities to the needs of any child, • Stimulate the growth and development of the children in your classroom and school, and • Help children grow through movement and play.

Visit www.earlylearningfoundation.com for more information. **Kids and Technology: Get Your School Talking About 21st Century Media** **(with Ms. Emily Hunt)** The digital media that runs through the middle of kids’ lives today evolves at a dizzying pace, and brings with it opportunities and challenges that are profoundly changing the nature of childhood as well as the nature of parenting and education. This session will explore this media landscape, what parents and kids think about the role of media in kids’ lives, and will provide practical strategies for getting the parents, educators, and kids in your community talking about how kids can learn to be safe, smart, and responsible media creators and consumers.
 * Bob Sornson, Ph.D.** worked as a classroom teacher and school administrator for over 30 years, and is the founder of the Early Learning Foundation. Bob is known for his workshops and keynote presentations on topics including early learning success, and teaching and parenting with Love and Logic. Bob is committed to the belief that practically every child can have a successful early learning experience. Bob is the author or editor of numerous articles and books, including //Creating Classrooms// //Where Teachers Love to Teach//, and //Preventing Early Learning Failure//.


 * Emily Hunt** is the schools program manager at Common Sense Media, an organization dedicated to helping families navigate our kids’ 24/7 media world. Emily manages the on-the-ground implementation of the Common Sense Schools Program, a first-of-its-kind media education program that gives educators all of the resources, training, and support they need to engage parents in their kids' media lives. Prior to joining the schools team, Emily was a member of Common Sense Media’s development team, where she helped to secure more than $2.5 million in early funding for the schools program as well as other critical Common Sense initiatives. Emily’s background is in youth advising in educational settings, most recently at a private art college. Emily holds an A.B. from Brown University where she studied education, gender, and media.