2024 NevadaPhD: Full Schedule

9:30am CDT

Making Friends

Monday August 19, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am CDT

Autistic youth have challenges with reading social cues and making friends. This session will give a couple strategies for you to teach to help them figure out the rules to making friends.

Speakers

Arlyce Kroese

Middle School Teacher

Monday August 19, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am CDT
MS Room 36 (Kroese)

Instructional Strategies

Audience Elementary, Middle School, Special Education

9:30am CDT

SEL 101

Monday August 19, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am CDT

HS Room 12 (DeYoung)

Speakers

Emily Kruse

Elementary Counselor and District SEL Consultant, Nevada Community School District

Randi Davis

3/4 MA Elementary Teacher

Monday August 19, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am CDT
HS Room 12 (DeYoung)

SEL

Audience Elementary, Middle School, High School, District, Special Education

10:30am CDT

Starting Your Classroom Off On the Right Foot

Monday August 19, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT

HS Library

This session is geared towards Elementary teachers wanting to start the year off with a positive classroom community with effective behavior management strategies. This session will include evidence-based interventions centered around The Classroom Check-Up model. You will walk away with strategies that you can implement in your classroom and start the year off on the right foot.

Speakers

Erin Murphy

Elementary School Counselor

Megan McCormick

3/4 MA Elementary Teacher

Monday August 19, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT
HS Library

Classroom Management

Audience Elementary, Special Education

1:15pm CDT

Easy as ABC? Alphabet Knowledge for Young Learners

Monday August 19, 2024 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT

Elementary Library

In this session, we will offer ideas for brief, individualized letter-learning opportunities that are developmentally appropriate and fun. Our target audience is teachers of preschool-aged students or students in SPED who need more 1:1 support. We will talk through how we make letter learning meaningful for the students and manageable for us.

Speakers

Erin Klopstad

Reading Specialist

Carla Creswell

Elementary ELL

Monday August 19, 2024 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT
Elementary Library

Curriculum

Audience Elementary, Special Education

1:15pm CDT

Making Your Wellness a Priority

Monday August 19, 2024 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT

Gates Hall Auditorium

Our profession is demanding and can lead to emotional exhaustion and burnout but can also bring great joy. In this session we will look at how enhanced physical, mental, emotional and social well-being lead to educator wellness. You will have the opportunity to create your own plan for well-being as you start this school year. Invest in yourself by attending this session!

Speakers

Meg Frideres

HS Instructional Guide, Nevada Community Schools

Meg has taught social studies at Nevada High School for 22 years and has been an instructional guide for eight years. She also coaches students, teachers and sports teams in mindfulness.

Monday August 19, 2024 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT
Gates Hall Auditorium

SEL

Audience Elementary, Middle School, High School, Special Education, District

9:00am CDT

Phonics Lauch

Tuesday August 20, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CDT

Elementary Library

Designed for special education teachers to learn how to better use our new Phonics Launch curriculum

Speakers

Erin Klopstad

Reading Specialist

Morgan Temple

Elementary Special Education

Tuesday August 20, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Elementary Library

Curriculum, Special Education

Audience Special Education, Elementary