Registration is now open for Building Capacity, Competency & Confidence, this summer's TEAM-based professional development conference for PreK-12 educators in the Rutherford County School System.

This exciting conference is specially designed to prepare and support you as you strive for success with the new TEAM evaluation model. Conference sessions have been developed and chosen to address a wide range of specific aspects of the evaluation model, with the purpose of building capacity, competency, and confidence in your teaching effectiveness, while at the same time increasing your students’ achievement.

What’s in it for you...

• Hundreds of practical and powerful teaching strategies to support TEAM success
• Proven best practices for building capacity, competency, and confidence
• Insights, knowledge and research-based strategies from 22 of this nation's leading education experts
• Practical strategies and solutions from 39 RCS educators
• 161 focused, hands-on sessions to choose from! View complete list
• A handout packet from each session you attend—and a binder to store them in—plus a full year of online access to every handout from every session
• An exciting exhibit hall showcasing Crystal Springs Books' professional titles and resources, and more local vendors than ever before
• A personalized certificate of training to meet independent in-service requirements

Get ready for a strategy-packed education conference that will get you energized and motivated, and equip you with strategies for success!

• Top Teaching Topics
  • 21st Century Skills
  • At-Risk/Struggling
  • Centers & Stations
  • Classroom Management
  • ELL Strategies
  • Interventions
  • Make-n-Takes
  • Mathematics/Singapore Math
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Poverty
  • Motivation & Engagement
  • Technology
  • View session titles

• Featured Presenters
  • Jack Berckemeyer
  • Dave Burgess
  • Debbie Diller
  • Jean Feldman, Ph.D.
  • Robert Hudson
  • Rita Pierson, Ed.D.
  • Monte Selby, Ed.D.
  • Greg Tang
  • Marcia Tate, Ed.D.
  • Becky Thomasson, Ed.D.
  • Numerous RCSD Practitioners!
  • Read all presenter bios