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Pennsylvania Department of Education
Bureau of Special Education
Annual Conference
Making a Difference:
Educational Practices That Work!
Three days of intensive learning with educators who are making a difference
for all students.
March 11-13, 2019
Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center
“Can’t Miss” Keynotes
Paul Hernandez, Ph.D. Drew Dudley Dan Habib
Author of The Pedagogy of Real Talk: Author of This is Day One: A Practical Producer and Director of Including
Engaging, Teaching, and Connecting Guide to Leadership That Matters Samuel, Who Cares About Kelsey? and
With Students at Risk Intelligent Lives
The Leadership Test: Six Questions That
Overcoming the Impossible Transform People and Organizations Mr. Connolly Has ALS
Join Dr. Hernandez as he reveals his “How many of you are completely At Concord High School’s 2015 home-
personal journey from gang member comfortable with calling yourself coming parade, documentary filmmaker
to educational leader; and, find out a leader?” Leadership author and Dan Habib watched his son Samuel have a
how he used education as a source educator Drew Dudley has asked that conversation with Principal Gene Connolly.
of empowerment to change his life. question to thousands of audiences But neither spoke. Samuel and Gene
In this keynote address, Dr. Hernandez around the world, and in fewer than used hand gestures and communication
will offer practical tools and strategies one percent of those audiences were devices to interact—Samuel because of
for creating transformative programs the majority of people willing to call his cerebral palsy, and Connolly because
for middle and high school students themselves leaders. In this engaging ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou
at risk of dropping out of school. and empowering keynote, Mr. Dudley Gehrig’s disease) had taken away his ability
aims to demonstrate that there is a to speak. “Mr. Connolly Has ALS” chronicles
Paul Hernandez, Ph.D., earned his form of leadership that is driven by a Connolly’s final year as principal of the
doctorate in Sociology, specializing daily commitment to acting on six school and features CHS students asking
in the sociology of education, social key leadership values: impact, courage, Connolly about the most profound and
inequality, and diversity. Dr. Hernandez growth, empowerment, class, and personal aspects relating to his life with
is a nationally recognized speaker and self-respect. Sharing stories from small the disease. Join us to explore the themes
leader in college access and success, town Canada to the deserts of Qatar, that Connolly’s ALS catalyzed in the com-
community outreach, and pedagogy for and insights from leaders of all types, munity: how to live life fully; the benefits
educators working with underserved/ this presentation will change the way of inclusion; what it feels like to acquire a
underprepared students and students participants think about leadership in disability; how people perceive individuals
at risk of dropping out of school. their lives and workplaces. with disabilities; and how to approach an
Dr. Hernandez has been nationally rec- inevitable death with honesty and dignity.
ognized for his work and was awarded Drew Dudley is the Founder and Chief
the National Education Association Reg Catalyst of Day One Leadership, Inc., Dan Habib is the creator of the
Weaver Human and Civil Rights Award, which helps organizations around the award-winning documentary films
the Michigan Education Association world increase their leadership capacity. “Including Samuel” and “Who Cares
Elizabeth Siddall Human Rights Award, Mr. Dudley has been featured on The About Kelsey?” Habib is a filmmaker
the Equity in Education award by the Huffington Post, Radio America, Forbes. at the University of New Hampshire’s
Michigan Association of Collegiate com, and TED.com, where his “TED talk” Institute on Disability. Habib gave a
Registrars and Admissions Officers, has been voted “one of the 15 most widely viewed TEDx talk, “Disabling
and an Honors Professor of the Year inspirational TED talks of all time.” TIME, Segregation,” received the Champion of
Award for teaching. Business Insider, and Inc. magazines Human and Civil Rights Award from the
have all named his talk as one of their NEA, and the Justice for All Grassroots
“10 speeches that will make you a bet- Award from the American Association
ter leader.” Mr. Dudley’s first book , “This of People with Disabilities. In 2014,
is Day One: A Practical Guide to Habib was appointed by President
Leadership That Matters” debuted at Barack Obama to the President’s
#6 on The Wall Street Journal Bestseller Committee for People With Intellectual
List and has gone on to become an Disabilities.
international bestseller.
Why You Should Attend –
• Admission to over 40 sessions packed with • An opportunity to view poster presentations
information from over 30 nationally-renowned that highlight effective practices used by
speakers. local educational agencies and programs
throughout the state.
• Access to over 50 vendors exhibiting new
resources, technology, and services for you • A forum for meeting and talking with
and your students. Pennsylvania Bureau of Special Education
advisors.
Registration coming soon at tinyurl.com/PAedConference
Talks by Nationally-Renowned Speakers
Amy Armstrong, Ph.D. Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq. Sarah Powell, Ph.D.
• Appreciative Leadership • Cyberbullying, Social Media, and FAPE: • Effective Word-Problem Instruction for Students
• Facilitating an Appreciative Culture A Legal Analysis With Learning Difficulties
in the Workplace • A Legal Look at the Confused, Complex, and • Five Essential Components of Effective
Just Plain Confounding Reality of Today’s SDIs Mathematics Intervention
Denise Bissonnette • Life After High School: Legally-Defensible
• Creative Tools for Uncovering Gifts and Values Post-Secondary Transition Planning
Debbie Pushor, Ph.D.
• Cultivating the Spirit to Work: Inspiring Change • Parent Engagement: Moving from “Random
Dan Habib Acts” to a Systematic Approach
Mike Bovino • ACTION! Effective Transition Practices • Using Parent Knowledge in Teaching
Unified Sports Programming From K-12 Captured in Documentary Film and Learning
• Intelligent Lives (Screening and Discussion)
Jenni Brasington Jeff Remington
• Can Families Really Help Students Learn? Candace Hawkins • STEM for All! Applying Inclusive STEM
• Moving From Good to Great: Harnessing the No Matter Who Wins, Everyone Loses: Engagement by Creating a Toolbox for
Power of Families to Support Learning Restoring Relationships After a Dispute Implementation
• STEM For All! Understanding STEM and
Drew Dudley Paul Hernandez, Ph.D. Inclusive Engagement to Help All Students be
This is Day One: Defining the Things That • Pedagogy of Real Talk Future Ready
Define You • Social Construction of a Monster
Mark S. Seidenberg, Ph.D.
Lucille Eber, Ed.D. Laurie Klose, Ph.D. • Can Reading Science Improve Literacy
• Building Interventions for Students With Ethical Practice and Decision Making in Outcomes?
Serious Mental Health Challenges Via a Schools (Psych Ethics credit awarded) • How Spoken Language Experience Affects
School-wide System of PBIS Learning to Read and Contributes to
• The Interconnected Systems Framework Nanda Mitra-Itle, NCSP, ABD “Achievement Gaps”
(ISF) for Integrating Mental Health Within • Legal Considerations for Gifted Assessment
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support of Diverse Students Mark Sundberg, Ph.D., BCBA-D
• MTSS and Gifted: It’s a Beautiful Marriage • Establishing Generative Language Learning for
Batya Elbaum, Ph.D. Children With Autism
Engaging Families in Career Readiness Chemay Morales-James • Using the VB-MAPP to Guide a Language
Pamela Emery, Ph.D. • How to Support Positive Racial and Cultural Intervention Program
Idenitity in Classrooms
• The Pennsylvania Career Ready Skills:
• What Does It Mean to be Culturally Responsive
Megan Tschannen-Moran, Ph.D.
Completing the Pathway to Employability
in Secondary Classrooms? • Cultivating Trust With Students and Their
• Walking the Walk: Teaching Social Emotional Parents
Learning Skills in Today’s Environment Sharon LePage Plante • Fostering a Culture of Collegial Trust
Linda Farrell • Educational and Assistive Technologies to
Engage Students With Learning Differences
• A New, Phonics-Based Method for Teaching
High Frequency Words • Technol-OGy: EdTech to Enhance Structured
Literacy Instruction for Students With Dyslexia
• Understanding Balanced Literacy and
Systematic Literacy Instruction and
Why It Matters
More information about additional sessions and speakers is available at: tinyurl.com/PAedConference
Download the PDE Conference
Parent Scholarships App!
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PaTTAN are pleased to offer a limited emailed or postmarked on or before smart phone, tablet, or laptop computer!
number of parent scholarships to January 27, 2019. Using the PDE Conference app, you can:
Pennsylvania residents who are not • Access session information and
employed in a professional capacity by presenter details
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and up) students with a current IEP • Take notes during your sessions
may apply.
• View conference center maps
• Exchange information with other
participants
What You Need to Know More information about the app will be avail-
able soon at: tinyurl.com/PAedCconference
Registration Information Inclement Weather
IMPORTANT! Payment must be received The conference will take place rain or
prior to the conference. You will not be shine, regardless of weather conditions.
permitted to attend the conference
unless your registration fee is paid in full. Lodging
• Registration Fee is $179.00 (Registration Conference attendees may book a room
and payment must be received by at the Hershey Lodge and Convention
4:00 p.m., February 27, 2019). Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the
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ConferenceBilling@pattankop.net Meals Department of Education
• Out-of-state registration is $525 at any time. • The cost for the Coffee House, all Pedro A. Rivera, Secretary
receptions, and Tuesday’s luncheon Matthew Stem, Deputy Secretary,
Late Registration are included in the conference Elementary and Secondary Education
After February 27, you may register registration fee. Ann Hinkson-Herrmann, Director,
Bureau of Special Education
by contacting Annette Bauerlein at • Participants are responsible for making
abauerlein@pattan.net. You must pay arrangements for all other meals.
the late registration fee of $219.00. • No adjustments will be made to the
Registration Cancellations conference registration fee.
• If you are unable to attend the conference, Credit will be awarded on a daily basis.
you must cancel your registration by Act 48
Clock Hours
Individuals attending this conference
must arrive on time for the start of each
4:00 p.m., February 27, 2019, by contacting up to 11
day’s sessions, participate in sessions
Annette Bauerlein at abauerlein@pattan.net. throughout the day, and stay the dura-
Credit Hours tion of the day in order to receive Act 48
Professional Education hours.
• If you do not cancel your registration
by the deadline, you will be required to Credit will be awarded on a daily basis. The Pennsylvania Training and Technical
Act 48 Individuals attending this conference Assistance Network is approved by the
pay the full registration fee to cover costs Clock Hours must arrive on time for the start of each Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology
up to 11
incurred by PaTTAN. You or your LEA will day’s sessions, participate in sessions to offer continuing education for psych-
throughout the day, and stay the dura- ologists. PaTTAN maintains responsibility
be billed for the late registration fee of tion of the day in order to receive Act 48 for the program(s). This workshop is
$219.00. Professional Education hours. offered for up to 11 CPDs.
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rev. 11/18
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