"Time" is the central theme of this inspirational, humorous, and informational keynote address. Tammy shares fascinating examples of the impact that time can have on human behavior. You'll hear fresh, practical ways to use your time wisely— and even save time— by using technology effectively and efficiently.

School culture can not improve when conflicting agendas exist. Come explore the causes of social division and the barriers to aligning adult and school agendas. Learn how to heal old wounds and what leaders and teachers must do to create the synergy that guarantees a healthy learning environment.

Gone are the days when students would complete a paper worksheet and then turn it in in the wire box on the teacher's desk. Join Tammy in this timely session to learn how to reorganize for assignments that have been created on computers and mobile devices. You'll discover effective ways to collect and organize your students' digital work. And, you'll find out how to easily share it with others!

Teaching in this digital world can be a challenge. Join Lori to find out if all the gadgets and gizmos are necessary and how all technology impacts young minds. You'll explore the latest information regarding how students learn and what is healthy for the brain. And, you'll leave with practical strategies for how to balance digital tools with brain development. [STEM]

Discover the extraordinary instructional benefits of e-books! Karen introduces a variety of e-book software and hardware options, complete with pros and cons. You'll learn where to find and download e-books. You'll find out how classrooms across the country are already using e-books. And, you'll see for yourself why e-books will likely become the textbooks of the future.

Learn how to use exciting apps, iPads, and iPod Touches to effectively differentiate instruction for your tech-savvy students. Katie shares 75 terrific, easy-to-apply, and innovative apps you can use to meet the needs of all your students across all content areas.

Gail shares strategies, tips, and tricks for managing your students as they learn with technological tools. You'll learn proven techniques for keeping your students on task and away from digital distractions. Come gain the ideas, tools, and resources you need to quell the chaos and keep everyone focused on learning!

Come learn how easy— and advantageous— it is to use Google apps in your classroom. Tim shares the best and most effective ideas and classroom applications available from Google. You'll start at the beginning with login and access, and quickly move on to creating and sharing. (Intro)

Join Cheryl to learn all the basics of using a SMART Board and the amazing SMART Notebook™ software. You'll explore resources and activities for leveraging these tools in your classroom to boost the effectiveness of your instruction. And, you'll leave with a clear understanding of how a SMART Board is way more than just an overhead projector. (Intro)

Take a close look at ethical leadership, why we must put children first, and how to communicate that important message-and get favorable results. Anthony explores how to build consensus, plan strategically, develop your vision, and create job-embedded professional development. Come learn how to create purpose, build capacity, collaborate, and demonstrate accountability—as all great leaders do.

Differentiation is a teacher's intentional response to learner's needs shaped by a unique mindset. Discover how to establish that mindset—school wide and in your classroom—to allow differentiated instruction to flourish. LeAnn shares the characteristics of the mindset and how to develop it so that desired actions and outcomes occur.

Raise the bar for all learners with differentiated instruction! Join Richard to explore the concept of differentiation. You'll learn how to develop curriculum and instruction that meets the diverse needs of all students in the classroom. Plus, you'll discover effective formats and tools to assist in the development and implementation of school- wide differentiation.

Student achievement data is packed with valuable information. To improve both learning and teaching, start using assessment to listen to what students are saying about their learning strengths and challenges. Bobb shares four powerful assessment practices for helping teachers understand achievement data and match it to high-yield, research-based strategies and instructional designs.

What makes a successful leader? How do leaders impact teaching and learning? Tom describes the knowledge, skills, and disposition you need to build positive relationships with staff in order to accelerate student achievement. Learn from a proven-educational leader how leaders learn, develop, share, collaborate—and even fail.

Struggling with how to keep successful, new teachers happy and on board? You're not alone. The number of teachers leaving the profession in the first five years has never been higher. In this interactive and informative session, you'll learn how to ensure success for your new teachers by avoiding five common mistakes that drive new teachers away.

Discover creative new ways to use the computer in your science or social studies classroom. This session is packed full of clever ideas for low- prep, high-impact projects that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. You'll be amazed at how these simple activities will not only excite your students, but also challenge them to think at a higher level.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate technology into your instruction. Lori shows you how to inject technology into your lesson plans, make them uniquely "yours," and deliver instruction that's a lot more fun and effective for everyone.

Discover why online courses and blended learning environments are becoming very popular for differentiating instruction, providing students with options, and expanding professional opportunities for teachers. Karen shares current research on online learning and where it might be going. You'll look at case studies of how districts nationwide are using both online and blended models of instruction. (Next Steps)

Make your students' finished work available for all to see. Come discover easy ways to begin and sustain electronic portfolios for your students. You'll be sending the message that lifelong learning and personal growth are to be celebrated!

Explore, share, and critique the best online edugames out there. Tim introduces you to games that support your curriculum and are web-based, kid-tested, teacher-approved, FREE, and amply embedded with fun and education. Plus, he presents great classroom management tips for effortlessly adding the games to your curriculum.

Go beyond the basics of the interactive whiteboard and learn how to use it to make your instruction spring to life! Cheryl opens up a whole new world of ideas for creating and organizing lessons. You'll learn how easy it is to catch and hold your students' attention. Plus, you'll learn how to use the amazing SMART Notebook™ software as a powerful assessment tool. (STEM)

No tender age is too young to learn with technology! Come explore technology tools for early learners— including the iPad, iPod, and iPod Touch— and how to integrate them into your classroom. Pam introduces a variety of multi-media resources you can use to differentiate instruction, solve problems, communicate ideas— and spice up your teaching! (PS)

Have you ever been on a team where personal and professional "drama" makes it impossible to focus on student needs? Join Dr. Muhammad to examine how to immediately address disturbing issues, recognize and overcome the psychological and sociological barriers that hold teams and schools back, and create a culture where collaboration rules.

Want to know which grading practices you should STOP using in your schools and why they are not effective? Join LeAnn to explore today's top grading issues, including hodgepodge grades, redos and retakes, formative versus summative assessments, and standards-based grading. You'll learn how to get started on the process of change. And, you'll examine examples from other schools that took the journey from the red lights, to the yellow lights, and finally to the green lights of full implementation!

When you leave this summit, your DI enthusiasm will be in overdrive and you'll have lots of terrific new ideas to try back home. Don't let the distractions of the "real world" prevent you from harnessing all that positive energy. Join Richard, a leading expert in school wide differentiation, to discover how to keep the DI fire burning and turn the energy into long-term results.

Gain a fresh understanding of why classroom visits are so important and what they should include. Tom shares a proven process for engaging teachers in meaningful and reflective discussions about what happens daily in their classrooms. You'll see how high-quality instruction thrives when you and your teachers share an understanding of what it is and how schools and districts can support it.

Discover how Instructional Leadership has been defined and structured to promote academic success in a high poverty school, using mathematics as the driving force for successful systemic change. Join Marco to examine the Instructional Leadership practices that have sustained a culture of school research and instructional excellence for a decade. You'll look at student work from schools of poverty that have changed the mathematical dispositions of students as well as their ability to successfully pass mathematics assessments. And, you'll leave with some small steps that can make big changes in your school.

What are the best strategies for supporting and coaching teachers? Come to this interactive and entertaining session to learn how great coaches and mentors use technology in the classroom and practice real-time coaching. You'll gain some fresh ideas for supporting teachers in organizing and managing their classrooms, for disciplining students, and for creating strategies to help at-risk and special-needs students.

Ensure that the students in your school are prepared for the 21st century world that awaits them. Come gain a clear understanding of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and how they are changing teaching and learning in today's classrooms. Katie identifies how the Common Core State Standards are different and shares resources, implementation plans, and assessment examples to help you get up to speed.

Build your teachers' differentiation skills and knowledge—easily and intentionally—with the Differentiation Growth Scale. LeAnn introduces this monthly/semester goal-setting tool that countless teachers are using with tremendous success. Come explore how to set differentiation growth in motion at your school. And, get ready to be amazed at the benefits that both teachers and students will enjoy.

Increase rigor and deepen your students' understanding of the content by adding depth and complexity to your differentiation. Richard will share a menu of strategies, models, and ideas you can add to your differentiation toolbox and implement successfully.

Discover how—in just 60 days—you can create self-directed, responsible, life-long learners who are prepared for a challenging future. Bobb shares powerful strategies that dramatically accelerate literacy, thinking, and learning in all content areas. You'll learn how to manage differences in student motivation and reading and writing performance with differentiated strategies that energize both students and teachers.

Finally have enough time in the day to achieve all you want to achieve! Come learn how to focus on the activities that deliver the greatest return. Tom shows you how to get organized, work smarter, overcome work overload, stress less, and create even more success in your school—and life.

Take an insider's look at how successful administrators in urban schools across the country foster cultures that promote academic quality and social justice. Join Ignacio to identify and explore four leadership principles commonly used in urban schools today and reflect on how they should—and shouldn't—be implemented in your school.

Engage your learners and enliven your teaching with fantastic and free Web resources. In this session, you'll see how these tools can improve classroom management, whole-group instruction, and small-group interactive activities. Even if you don't have an interactive whiteboard, come find out about Web tools that will transform your classroom!

No time to sort through the millions of Web tools out there for effective organization, communication, and instruction? No problem. The Accidental Techie has done the homework for you. Lori shares her favorite Web tools along with super resources for managing your time and classroom, all of which you can put to use immediately!

Do tools like Twitter and Facebook have a role in the classroom? In this session, you'll investigate blogs, wikis, media sharing sites, and social networks; how students use them; and how they can enhance both teaching and learning. You'll discuss responsible student use of these tools. And, you'll discover how schools around the country are using them. Next Steps

Using technologies with emergent and early readers requires a critical eye and select resources. Join Gail to explore the benefits of using great— and in most cases free— technological tools and resources with your young readers. And, leave with new online resources, activities, and teaching tools appropriate for learners from 4 to 8 years old.

Add to your toolkit the very best technology tools out there for making a teacher's job easier. Tim presents his picks for the best of the best tools you can use to teach students of all ages, collaborate and plan, streamline your workflow, and document quickly and easily. And, they're all FREE!

Discover the new world of digital storytelling! Krissy shares everything you need to get started. You'll explore how to engage your learners and manage their storytelling projects in a variety of formats. And, you'll learn how to integrate standards with digital storytelling across the curriculum. (PS)

Learn how to use QR codes for both teaching and learning. Daniel demonstrates how to use QR codes to to make content, handouts, and enrichment activities accessible at school or at home. Plus, find out how administrators can use QR codes to link to staff handbooks, grading procedures, or recordings of staff professional development seminars. [EXH]

Does the activity in your classrooms reflect the major changes in education that have been brought on by the Information Age? Using real examples from classrooms and schools across the country, Katie illustrates what learning with technology looks like. You'll go home with resources and plans for engaging students with the latest and most effective digital tools.

Is your job tying you in knots? In this fun and informative session you'll learn over 25 of the absolute best strategies for dealing with stress—from acute to chronic. Come learn the difference between beneficial stress and damaging stress, and how the brain responds chemically, emotionally and physically to stressors. Your life will never be the same after learning and practicing the 25 Solutions for Stress.

Determine whether differentiated instruction is being implemented successfully in every classroom. Richard offers a practical guide for what to look for in your evaluation. You'll learn how to use this tool for coaching and supporting teachers along their journey to successfully differentiating instruction in the classroom.

Discover how to bring energy, passion, and positive attitude back to students who fail. Bobb reveals research supported practices that will ignite improved student achievement and bring failing students the joy of success in school. You'll learn how to motivate struggling, defiant, and disinterested learners to become engaged, empowered, and ready to achieve high standards!

What do you as an administrator need to know about the brain that affects teaching, learning, and leading? Join Tom to uncover critical information that you can immediately apply to teacher behavior, classroom strategies, and leadership practice. You'll learn 20+ brain-based applications that you can take back to your school and use to recharge, rejuvenate, and reactivate your staff—and yourself!

Boosting achievement among ethnic groups calls for real change—starting in the classroom. Ignacio defines "culturally responsive" teaching and how it increases student motivation, attention, and achievement. You'll discover proven ways to improve your success with minority students. And, you'll take home culturally responsive teaching practices you can implement immediately.

Learn how to best utilize the computer for your primary students. Join Tammy to explore some fantastic Web resources for kindergarten and first grade teachers and students. You'll gain valuable technology tips and strategies for teaching young students. And, you'll discover many age appropriate student computer activities that teach technology skills.

Introduce the fun of scrapbooking to your students— a terrific way to get them excited about writing! With Lori as your guide, you'll use an online scrapbooking tool to create your very own photo book to share with your class. Bring your digital pictures and your laptop and take this opportunity to get creative!*NOTE: This is a "Flipped Classroom" session. This means you will have some homework to complete prior to attending the session. Then we can use the session time for hands-on work. • Visit www.lorislatestlinks.com to view your homework assignment. It will be posted 2 weeks prior to the conference. • Bring your own laptop with pictures saved and ready to go. • Not sure how to save pictures or set up your account? Watch the video and do your homework for success on session day.

Lights! Camera! Action! Discover how to use mini- movies to motivate your students. Karen shares how mini-movies are being used in today's classrooms. You'll learn how to use video to differentiate instruction across the curriculum. And, you'll find out how you and your students can make your own mini-movies— quickly, easily, and with free software!

Come explore the infinite possibilities iPads and iPods offer. Gail offers tips and tricks to help you select apps for your learners and integrate handheld devices into your instruction. You'll see why iPad and iPod applications are terrific ways to teach and learn— with a touch of the finger.

Take a deeper dive into classroom-friendly Google tools and how to use them to get your students excited about learning. Tim reveals how to brainstorm, create, and communicate using multiple channels in creative, classroom-enriching ways. Come ready to participate and share the Google "goodness" you have experienced. (Next Steps)

Navigate your way through the sea of free math websites out there. Find out which ones work in the classroom and which ones students can use on their own. Alvin shows you how to find and use free websites that bring math to life, engage students in the classroom, and create excitement about doing math at home. No technology experience necessary! (PS)

Engage, educate, and delight all your learners with your interactive whiteboard. Nathan connects you to amazing websites and resources that make it easy for you to unleash the full power and interactivity of this powerful technology. This strategy-focused, skill-building session is loaded with great ideas and best practices! [EXH]