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THIS EVENT IS 100% FREE!

This year’s SAS Institute, offers keynote sessions, seminar and series sessions, various breakout sessions, an Act 45 course, informational tables, and special evening events!

  • Keynote Speakers:

- Chase Mielke, nationally recognized author, speaker, and expert on applying research-based, teacher-tested practices to improve educator well-being

- Orion Jean, 2021 TIME Kid of the Year, changemaker, author, and a passionate and engaging speaker

- Michael Bonner, educator, disruptive innovator, entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker

- Mark Perna, acclaimed speaker, generational expert, bestselling author, and national thought leader

  • Targeted seminar and series sessions designed to understand, investigate, and explore critical topics in today’s educational landscape
  • Breakout sessions examining strategies to encourage purposeful leadership and strategies to tackle the tough topics in the present educational climate
  • An Act 45 course focusing on and applying purposeful leadership strategies to meet the known challenges of today and prepare for the unexpected challenges of tomorrow
  • An opportunity to visit informational tables and participate in a raffle - with exciting prizes for the winners
  • Sponsored events each evening to provide fun, food, and relaxation
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Hershey, PA  USA
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2024 SAS AGENDA
Sunday, December 08
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Early Bird STEELS Seminar (Pre-Registration Required - Limited Capacity)
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Registration
4:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Act 45 Mandatory Session (for pre-registered participants)
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Welcome Reception
Monday, December 09
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
Monday Hot Breakfast Buffet
8:00 AM to 9:15 AM
“In This Together: Building Empathy and Connection to Cultivate Collective Efficacy” and "What My Generation Needs From You"
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
CDT & MTSS - A Needed Marriage
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Enhancing Educational Leadership through Targeted Professional Development
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
From Challenges to Opportunities: Pre-Apprenticeship Program
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Induction Plan Update and Changes
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Introduction to Act 13- Beginning to End
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Kindness Matters: How and Why to Create Positive Ripple Effects
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Leading with AI: Empowering Schools for the Future of Learning
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Leading with Fire: Ignite the Spark in Every Educator
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Making the Right Instructional and Assessment Decisions for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
One Book, One Community: Fostering Family Engagement Through Reading
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Supporting Educator Growth in Multi-Dimensional STEELS Assessments
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
The Future Ready PA Index and Accountability Calculations
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
The Intersection of Education and Workforce
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Transformative Leadership for the STEELS Standards: Empowering Educators and Navigating Change
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Intervention Implementation
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Utilizing PVAAS Teacher-Specific Data: Insights for Using Data for Professional Growth
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Leadership and Literacy
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Effective School Planning: Understanding the Connection Between School Resources and Building Capacity within our Schools
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Fireside Chat: Interactive Q&A with Orion Jean
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Forging the Future of Learning: Trends and Insights from the Forge Futures Summit
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
From Abacus to Alexa
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
From Rubrics to Results: Refocusing on Student Learning through Authentic Assessment Data
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Growing and Sustaining Equity-Centered Leaders in the School District of Philadelphia
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
It Takes a School to...Raise a New Teacher!
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
LEA Selected Measures and Goal Setting
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Leading to Stay, Not Leading Away: Administrator Strategies to Attract and Keep Teachers in Your School
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Leveraging Systems Thinking for School Improvement and Expansion
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Making Sense of the Engineering Framework in Relation to the STEELS Standards
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Making Systemic School Improvement a Team Sport
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Making Time for PA STEELS in Elementary Grades
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Partnerships for Developing the Teacher Pipeline: Connection and Collaboration
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Simplify Access to Student Data in PVAAS: Leveraging Current Teacher-Student Enrollment
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Solving the Teacher Shortage: Shortage Data and Current Educator Workforce Initiatives
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Transformative Tools to Inform Students and Educators on Pathway Options: Using PVAAS to Inform Graduation Pathways, Using ASVAB to Explore Career Opt
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Work-Based Education: Guidelines for Administration & Best Practices
12:15 PM to 1:25 PM
Monday Awards Luncheon
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
AI Crash Course
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Build Trust and Skills in Educators through Instructional Feedback
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Building Level Implementation of Structured Literacy
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Building Networks for Lifelong Learning: Lessons from two Pennsylvania Learning Ecosystems
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Celebrating, Empowering, and Supporting Teachers: NSTOY-PA Organization
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Educator Workforce Initiatives: High School Programs and Educator Apprenticeships
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
From Awareness to Action: Navigating Leadership through a Trauma Informed Lens
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Graduating Students through Work-Based Learning Pathways
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Leveraging Networked Improvement Communities for Systemic Change
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Kids Who Care: Teaching Environmental Literacy to Our Youngest Learners
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Learning to Read, Reading to Learn, Learning for Life
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Literacy Boot Camp: Harnessing Personalized Learning with AI
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
STEELS Classroom Observation Tools
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Teacher-Student Mentoring and Essential Skills
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
The Dynamic Duo: Understanding How School Counselors and Social Workers Collaborate
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
The Power of Human Connection
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
What can the Division of Charter Schools do for You?
1:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Integrated Nature of PA's Expanded Integrated Assessment System
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Celebrating Local Nonprofits: Schoolwide Experiential Learning
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Empowering Administrators to 'Lean In' to Difficult Issues
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Find, Evaluate, and Select Evidence-Based Strategies: Spotlight on Attendance
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Foundations of Teaching 9/11: Tools and Resources From the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
How to Retain a Highly Effective Workforce that Reflects Racial, Gender, and Linguistic Diversity
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
K-12 Guidance Plan Overview
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Leadership Playbook: Building Courageous Teams
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Leveraging AI to Align English Curriculum with State Standards
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS): A Prevention Model to Improve Literacy Outcomes for All Students
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Planning School Ethics Training, Part I – Definitions, Codes, and the Commission
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Protein Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology – Novel Pedagogy to Combine Workforce Skills And DEI
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Rise, Bloom, Radiate: How to Cultivate Strong Foundations for Staff to Grow and Thrive, through the Lens of SEL
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
School Improvement 101
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Science-Driven Sustainability: Leadership for a Greener Future
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Supporting All Students in Successfully Engaging in PA STEELS
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Therapy Dogs in CTE
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Wired but Weary: Understanding Tech's Toll on Teens and Identifying Solutions
4:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Act 45 Mandatory Session (for pre-registered participants)
5:15 PM to 6:15 PM
Yoga for Y'All
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Cornhole
Tuesday, December 10
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
Tuesday Hot Breakfast Buffet
8:00 AM to 9:15 AM
The Audacity to Believe (Thriving in the New Age of Leadership)
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
A Collaborative Approach to the Recruitment, Retention, and Professional Development of STEM Educators
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Building our Future Workforce Together through Teacher Apprenticeship Programs
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Charting the AI Course: Navigating Generative AI in Education
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Creating an Engaging 21st Century Classroom
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Diversifying Teaching Staff Through Many Lenses
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Effective Implementation to Transform Literacy Practices in Pennsylvania
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Effective Practices Using Perkins V Funding
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
How the Arts Education Data Dashboard Can Tell Your LEA’s Best Story
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Implementing Online Testing Statewide
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Pathways to Graduation Tool - Administrators
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Pathways to Success: Effective Transition Planning for Students with Low Incidence Disabilities
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Personal Finance Education: The Upcoming High School Course Requirement and K-12 Standards
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Planning School Ethics Training, Part II – The Model Code of Ethics for Educators
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Reintroduction to the Standards Aligned System (SAS)
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Teacher Clarity: Charting Paths to Student Success
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Teaching with the STEELS Practices
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Watershed Education in the STEELS Standards
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
You Down With CoPs? Yeah, You Know Me! Improvement Science and the Community of Practice
9:25 AM to 11:10 AM
Building Resilient Schools: Systemic Mental Health
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Assessment Literacy – Building an Understanding of the Formative Assessment Process
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Build Your Own Soft Skills Challenge
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Building Teacher Community through Innovative Professional Learning
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Clarity & Coherence with Driver Diagrams
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Clearing the Lanes: Navigating Special Education Personnel Shortages from All Angles
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Community Workforce Initiatives: Aiding in the Teacher Workforce Shortage
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Designing Community Meetings for Belonging
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Discovering Pennsylvania’s Student-Centered Learning Blueprint: Quality Indicators for 21st Century Education
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Integrating Environmental Literacy Across Disciplines
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Keystone Central’s Story of Impact When Choosing to ‘Lean In’ to Difficult Issues
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Pathways to Graduation Tool - LEA Users
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Pennsylvania Disability Inclusive Pilot Grant Program - Year 1 Implementation
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Plotting the Points -- Using Data to Support LEA/Districts and Schools
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
The AI Antidote
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
The Importance of Drawing on Student Ideas, Backgrounds, and Cultures to Meet PA STEELS Standards
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Unlocking Literacy Success: Leveraging PVAAS for Strategic Program Evaluation
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Ways that Effective Educators Partner with Stakeholders Featuring NSTOY-PA 2024 Finalists #1
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Who is new in SAS (Standards Aligned System)
12:15 PM to 1:25 PM
Tuesday Awards Luncheon
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
“Adopt-a-Middle School” with Project Based Learning
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Aligning your Flight Teams with the PREPaRE Framework
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Connection with Purpose in Online Learning
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Equity through School Breakfast Expansion
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Facilitating STEELS Professional Development that Changes Minds
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Language Orientations, Emergent Bilinguals, and Schools: How School Leaders Position the Educational Experience for Emergent Bilinguals
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Leading Change that Lasts: Implementation Intelligence
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Leading the Way: Professional Development for Enhancing Arts Education in Schools
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
National Day of Learning "Teach to Remember 9/11"
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
PA STEELS: Bridging the Global Gap and Educating for a Sustainable Future
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Round Table Discussion with the PAEMST State Finalists on Education in the Classroom
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Staying the Course: Leading Your District Beyond the First Year of New Programming
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Supporting Literacy at the Middle Level and Beyond
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
The Joyful Leader: What Principals Demonstrating Satisfaction, Joy, and Well-being Do Differently
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
The Power of Play as an Instructional Tool
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Transformational Results through Instructional Leadership Development
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
Ways that Effective Educators Partner with Stakeholders Featuring NSTOY-PA 2024 Finalists #2
1:35 PM to 2:45 PM
What Can PEERS Offer You? The No-Cost Act 13 Evaluation Tool
1:35 PM to 3:00 PM
Data to Delivery: Connecting Assessment Data and Classroom Instruction
1:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Get on Board with Employability Skills! Whistle-Stop your Way at the Local, Community, and State Level with PA Career Ready Skills!
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Building PA STEELS Strong Bridges: Supporting Systemic Interdisciplinary Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Education
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Building PVAAS Foundations to Lead, Support, and Plan!
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Collaborate & Test your Act 13 Skills
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Creating a Compliant & Quality ESL Program - A Guide for Administrators
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Creating a Culture of Learning: Facilitating Teacher Engagement & Growth
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Cultivating a Robust Educator Pipeline: Innovative Alternative Certification Pathways
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Do You Know How Arts Teachers Elevate Structured Literacy Learning?
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Early Numeracy Development and Instruction
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Engineering by Design: Resources for Technology & Engineering in STEELS
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Foundations of Teaching the Holocaust: History and Pedagogy
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Increasing School Culture through Therapy Dog and Mentoring SEL Programs
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Integrating SAS and AI to Create Assessment Items
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Lead the Way: How to Leverage National Board Certification to Combat Teacher Burnout and Drive Student Achievement
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Math Interventions for all Students Using SAS, Formative Assessments, and STEAM tools
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Prompting with a Purpose
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Question, Persuade, and Refer 
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Restorative Practices: Tier 1 Fidelity without the Hocus Pocus
3:00 PM to 4:10 PM
Using Adventure-Based Counseling to Create a Supportive Educational Community
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Casino Night
Wednesday, December 11
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
Wednesday Hot Breakfast Buffet
8:00 AM to 9:15 AM
Unleashing Passion, Purpose and Performance in Younger Generations
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Considerations for Structured Literacy Instruction with English Learners
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Developing Classroom Culture through Invitation & Intention
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Empowering Learners: Transferring Ownership Through Student Data Utilization
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Framework for Personalized Student-Centered Learning
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Gen Z Revealed: The Mega Trends Driving Their Highest Performance
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Graduation Pathways to be Proud Of!
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Individualized Professional Development
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Leading and Fostering a Positive Culture and Climate Dedicated to Teamwork
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
SMART Mentoring Program
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
STEELS Leadership: Embracing the Change and Igniting Innovation
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
STEM Computer Science Career Readiness Playbook
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Strengthening School, Family, Staff & Community Collaborations Through Effective Communication Tools
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Using AI to Get Free Stuff
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
Visual Math Routines to Build Understanding and Fluency
9:25 AM to 10:35 AM
y=mx+b: Creating a Positive Slope in Student’s Problem Solving Experiences
9:25 AM to 11:10 AM
Constructing a High School Personal Finance Course: Tools, Tips, and More
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Using Multiple Sources of Assessment Data to Improve Instruction and Achievement
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Affirming Belonging and Inclusion at School
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Building Brilliance: Engaging Classrooms with KEVA Planks
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Crafting Targeted Feedback with STEELS and Danielson
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Empowerment Through Inquiry: The Leader as Coach
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Enhancing Personalized Learning Utilizing Pre- and Post-Assessments in Elementary Intervention and Enrichment Blocks
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Growing Our Own: Developing Educator Expertise to Serve Multilingual Learners
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Integrating Career Readiness into Everyday Instruction
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Leading with Purpose: Integrating Literacy Data a
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Leveraging AI for Curricular Bandwidth: Customizing GPTs
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Partnerships to Support New Teachers
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
SAS Portal Toolkits Workshop
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Staff Retention: Setting the Climate and Building Relationships
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Teachers as Leaders: Enhancing Inquiry Based Instruction through Connection and Collaboration
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
The Intersection of AI and EI (Explicit Instruction)
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM
Wow! How? Why? Being Curious about the World Around Us!
12:15 PM to 1:00 PM
Wednesday Box Lunch
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