K-1 Opinion/Argumentative Writing in Action: Observe, Reflect, and Apply

5:00pm-8:00pm TBD (MST) Yolanda Westerberg, Westerberg Associates

In this interactive professional learning session, educators will observe a live opinion-writing lesson with students, seeing effective instructional practices in action from start to finish. Participants will experience how opinion/argumentative writing can be taught with clarity, purpose, and strong student engagement—using explicit modeling, academic language, and structured support.

For full session description, click the link below.

Coaching Stances: Adapting Your Approach for Every Teacher

9:00am-3:00pm (MST) Michelle Harris, Endeavormore Coaching

Discover how to flexibly adapt your coaching style to meet teachers where they are. Through interactive exercises in listening, questioning, and reflection, you'll learn to identify and use different coaching stances to support and mentor each educator effectively. 

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From Support to Accountability: Administrator Tools for Teacher Evaluation

9:30am-4:00pm (MST) with Nancy Hungerford, Hungerford Law

This session, presented by the Hungerford Law Firm, is for school administrators and provides practical guidance for moving from supportive coaching to clear accountability within teacher evaluation. After a focused overview of Programs of Assistance for Improvement (PAIs), participants will work through real-world case studies and collaborate in small groups to draft plans tailored to authentic district scenarios involving struggling staff. The session concludes with dedicated time for superintendents and HR leaders to explore how plans of assistance can also support the growth and accountability of building administrators.

Music for Well-Being and Classroom Management for Music Teachers

9:30am-4:00pm (MST) with Dr. Giuliana Conti

This full-day, in-person professional development workshop—presented by Music Workshop in partnership with the Eastern Oregon Regional Educator Network—is led by Dr. Giuliana Conti, a nationally recognized scholar in culturally responsive pedagogy, arts integration, and educator well-being. The day begins with a collaborative morning session focused on teacher goals and challenges, followed by foundations of music for student well-being and music listening as a tool for learning and emotional regulation. The afternoon session centers on research-backed classroom management strategies for music teachers, guided lesson planning that applies the day’s concepts, and practical troubleshooting of student behavior. The workshop concludes with a dedicated focus on teacher well-being, including boundaries, self-care, and sustainable teaching practices. Educators will leave with ready-to-use lesson plans, student worksheets, and actionable strategies they can immediately implement in their classrooms. 

Teaching 6-12 Math Intervention: A Practical Framework to Engage Students Who Struggle

9:30am-4:00pm (MST) with Juliana Tapper, CollaboratEd Consulting

Learn how to engage students who have been historically unsuccessful in mathematics! We will walk through a practical 4 part framework to gain the tools to increase engagement, achievement, and motivation of older students who struggle with math. Walk away with a deeper understanding of why so many students struggle with math and get the exact tools you can implement in your classroom tomorrow to change everything for the students who need you the most.  

When I Say Go!: Transforming PE to Build Confidence and Community

9:30am-4:00pm (MST) with Cindy Kuhrasch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Please join us with this interactive session designed for K-12 Physical Education teachers. Participants will analyze PE learning tasks for engagement, generate strategies to build a positive and inclusive classroom community, and develop effective classroom management techniques tailored to physical education settings.

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Deep Dive and Q&A with Keynote Speaker, Mark Perna, on Harnessing the Mega Trends Driving Generations Z & Alpha

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Mark Perna, TBD

Join Mark Perna immediately following his keynote for an interactive, deep-dive breakout on the mega trends driving today’s students: what they think, what makes them tick, and how they make decisions. Mark will expand on the topics from his keynote and field your questions for a powerful and productive dialogue. 

Mark’s real-world strategies will give you not just the insights, but the practical tools to connect, engage, and answer why for the next generation. You’ll discover how to shift them into active purpose and supersize their performance at all levels of education and experience. 

Educators, employers, and parents everywhere are using Mark’s actionable tools to help young people make the most of their education and career journey. Don’t miss this candid and frank conversation to drive their highest performance, in the classroom and beyond!

6-12 Argumentative Writing in Action: Observe, Reflect, and Apply

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Yolanda Westerberg, Westerberg Associates

In this interactive professional learning session, educators will observe a live argumentative writing lesson with students, seeing effective instructional practices in action from start to finish. Participants will experience how opinion/argumentative writing can be taught with clarity, purpose, and strong student engagement—using explicit modeling, academic language, and structured support.

For full session description, click the link below.

Academic Progress Monitoring: It's More than Accountability (SPED)

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Elizabeth Jankowski and Patrick Kelly, ODE

Academic progress monitoring is about selecting the right tools, collecting data and providing a visual representation of that data, conducting instructional decision-making strategies and considering the next steps when change is needed.

Best Practices: Supporting Student Behavior 

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Katie Azevedo, Results Learning Center

Student behavior and academic success go hand-in-hand. Knowing this strong correlation, we must be intentional in creating environments that are consistent, predictable, positive, and safe. We must also focus on working proactively and preventively to set up our students for success. In this session, we will discuss the impact of student behavior on the overall culture and climate of a school and classroom and how their behavior influences their own success. 

Participants will explore each of the five social and emotional learning skills and why these skills are important for both students and adults. We will review the importance of systematizing our efforts into a three-tiered model of support. With a focus on preventing problem behaviors, participants will explore the importance of building relationships, establishing clear behavioral expectations, and acknowledging positive student behavior. 

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Building Civil Discourse in the Classroom - Strategies & Resources for Meaningful Dialogue (Grades 4-12)

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Don Jenkins, Bill of Rights Institute

This interactive workshop equips educators with practical civil discourse strategies and ready-to-use resources from the Bill of Rights Institute to foster respectful, thoughtful dialogue in their classrooms. Participants will explore structured discussion protocols and constitutional connections that help students engage in productive conversations about complex civic and historical issues. Teachers will examine adaptable lesson materials grounded in the principles of the Bill of Rights and Constitution while learning how to create classroom norms that promote evidence-based reasoning and mutual respect. The session concludes with dedicated collaboration and lesson creation time, allowing educators to develop an implementation plan tailored to their grade level, content area, and student needs that they can use soon after the workshop. 

CPI - Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Kelsi Skinner, Malheur ESD

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) training is designed for caregivers, educators, and human service professionals who respond to crisis situations. Participants will learn de-escalation strategies and both restrictive and nonrestrictive interventions. This in-person training includes a required online prerequisite that must be completed before attending. Registration for this session closes March 27th to allow time for completion. Participants who fail to finish the online portion of the course by April 3; will not be admitted to the April 3 session. 

Introduction to Arts Education

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

Discover how the arts can deepen learning across all subject areas. In this interactive workshop, educators will reflect on their own experiences and explore how creative practices enhance today’s classrooms. Through hands-on activities, participants will identify natural connections between the arts and core content and begin designing meaningful, curriculum-aligned collaborations that boost student engagement, understanding, and joy.

Planning Your Next Steps with AI: Hands-On Practice and Classroom Ready Strategies

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Monica Burns, Class Tech Tips

This interactive session gives educators dedicated time to apply key ideas about AI in education while preparing for practical implementation. The session spotlights what is new in the AI space and offers strategies teachers can use right away. Participants will move through guided, hands-on practice with AI tools, design classroom-ready resources, and map out next steps that support their instructional goals. They will leave with clear workflows, customizable prompts, and a plan for bringing these strategies back to their school communities.

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Pyramid Model- Strategies: Building a Caring Classroom/Setting While Reducing the Behaviors that Challenge Us 

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Ben Reipe, Marisco Institute for Early Learning 

All children need and deserve early childhood environments and experiences that are nurturing, safe, predictable, and welcoming. This session will explore the Pyramid Model strategies that support social and emotional development for children, including strategies that build caring classrooms/settings and specific practices that reduce the behaviors that challenge us. In this interactive session, we will share an overview of five (5) key preventative practices that support all children and can be embedded into your daily activities in your classroom/setting. Participants will choose the strategies for a deeper dive. We will target the top three (3) strategies elevated by the participants. Additional resources will be provided for all strategies. 

Specialized Planning and Scheduling for Students Needing More Individualized Support 

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Jenna Mejia and Jackie Garcia, Malheur ESD

This hands-on training is designed especially for K–5 Special Education Teachers and Administrators who support students with highly individualized needs. Join us as we explore practical tools and strategies to help students thrive. Most of the session will be dedicated to creating schedules, visuals, and task boxes you can take back and use right away. While all are welcome, space in this session is limited to 12 participants, with priority given to K–5 Special Education Teachers. If others sign up and space becomes full, teachers in these grades will receive first consideration.

Strategies for Success with Multilingual Learners, Part I: Promoting Language and Literacy Development in the Content Areas

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Elizabeth Howard & Shera Simpson, The Tandem Teachers

Language and literacy development aren’t limited to the language arts block! In this session, participants will be invited to consider academic language demands in the content areas and will be provided with models for creating strong language objectives as well as opportunities to connect them to upcoming lessons in their curriculum. Designed for dual language teachers, but all are welcome.

Your Impact: Bringing Help, Hope & Support

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with the National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children

This hands on, interactive training focuses on how professionals have opportunities to identify and intervene as well as provide positive impacts to children and families. The training provides basic understanding about brain science and development, an overview of how to identify drug endangered children, a brief summary of Adverse Childhood Experiences ACEs and the lifelong impacts of ACEs as well as how Positive Childhood Experiences /PCEs) can help counterbalance ACEs. Participants will learn from scenarios, in depth discussion, and conversation about local community resources to increase their knowledge and skills. They will also join in "building a brain" to better understand how early intervention and resources can positively impact a child’s life. This session will be repeated in the afternoon. 

Work Ethic Curriculum Introduction Lunch (9-12)

12:00pm-1:00pm (MST) with Mike Rowe, mikeroweWORKS Foundation

This short lunch and learn offers a brief, no commitment overview of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation’s Work Ethic Curriculum and the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge (“Skill and Work Ethic Aren’t Taboo”). You will learn what the curriculum includes, how it is structured around 12 lessons, and how the four core pillars—work ethic, personal responsibility, delayed gratification, and a positive attitude—are woven throughout. The session is designed to help you understand the purpose of the program, where it comes from, and why its focus on employability skills is relevant for students pursing all career paths. This session is intended for administrators, career counselors, senior project teachers, CTE instructors, and other high school teachers interested in implementing this curriculum in their high school. 

For full session description, click the link below.

2-5 Opinion Writing in Action: Observe, Reflect, and Apply

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with Yolanda Westerberg, Westerberg Associates

In this interactive professional learning session, educators will observe a live opinion-writing lesson with students, seeing effective instructional practices in action from start to finish. Participants will experience how opinion/argumentative writing can be taught with clarity, purpose, and strong student engagement—using explicit modeling, academic language, and structured support.

For full session description, click the link below.

ASIST Tune-Up 

12:30pm-4:30pm (MST) with Judi Trask & Paula Olvera, Lifeways

This workshop is only for people with a valid ASIST certificate. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) Tune-Up is a half-day refresher course developed by LivingWorks Education for participants who have completed ASIST. The workshop offers participants an opportunity to review the Pathway for Assisting Life Model, discuss successes and challenges in using the model, and clarify concepts covered within the model. 

Best Practices: Supporting Student Behavior (PBIS)

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with Katie Azevedo, Results Learning Center

Student behavior and academic success go hand-in-hand. Knowing this strong correlation, we must be intentional in creating environments that are consistent, predictable, positive, and safe. We must also focus on working proactively and preventively to set up our students for success. In this session, we will discuss the impact of student behavior on the overall culture and climate of a school and classroom and how their behavior influences their own success. 

Participants will explore each of the five social and emotional learning skills and why these skills are important for both students and adults. We will review the importance of systematizing our efforts into a three-tiered model of support. With a focus on preventing problem behaviors, participants will explore the importance of building relationships, establishing clear behavioral expectations, and acknowledging positive student behavior. 

Click the link below to view full session description. 

Building a Caring Classroom and Setting While Reducing the Behaviors that Challenge Us 

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with Ben Reipe, Marisco Institute for Early Learning 

All children need and deserve early childhood environments and experiences that are nurturing, safe, predictable, and welcoming. This session will explore the Pyramid Model strategies that support social and emotional development for children, including strategies that build caring classrooms/settings and specific practices that reduce the behaviors that challenge us. In this interactive session, we will share an overview of five (5) key preventative practices that support all children and can be embedded into your daily activities in your classroom/setting. Participants will choose the strategies for a deeper dive. We will target the top three (3) strategies elevated by the participants. Additional resources will be provided for all strategies. 

Finding Math in Every Space and Every Place: Linking the Arts and Mathematics in the Early Childhood Classroom (Pre K- 2)

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with TBD, NJPAC

During this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to tap into young children’s love of music and movement to spark meaningful explorations of math by using the art forms as a teaching tool. You’ll walk away with simple strategies for creating songs and facilitating movement in the early childhood classroom. You’ll also learn how to link these lessons to literacy and empower children to actively apply critical thinking skills and evaluate their learning. 

From the Constitution to the Classroom: Teaching Federalism through Primary Sources and Civic Action (Grades 6-12)

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with Don Jenkins, Bill of Rights Institute

This collaborative workshop highlights engaging lessons from the Bill of Rights Institute focused on the Constitution, primary sources, and the principles of federalism. Educators will explore strategies for helping students analyze founding documents and apply constitutional principles to modern governance, with special attention to how federalism shapes local and state decision-making. Teachers will be invited to share current Oregon-based issues from their own classrooms and brainstorm ways to connect them to constitutional concepts. The session will also introduce Think the Vote current events resources and the MyImpact Challenge civic engagement project, empowering participants to design lesson plans that connect primary source analysis to meaningful, student-centered civic action.  The session concludes with dedicated collaboration and lesson creation time, allowing educators to develop an implementation plan tailored to their grade level, content area, and student needs that they can use soon after the workshop. 

Improving IEP Quality & Compliance: Lessons from Fall Monitoring

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with Sara Byrne, Malheur ESD

Join us for a focused, hands-on training designed for current Special Education Teachers and Administrators. We’ll review the key compliance areas that had the most findings in the Fall Monitoring Cycle. We’ll also spend time on Secondary Transition, with discussion around Agency Participation and Measurable Post-Secondary Goals, plus a helpful Transition Checklist you can take with you. Please bring a laptop or a printed IEP to work on during the session.

Literacy Lab: Collaborative Strategies for Engaging Readers & Writers (Grades 6-12)

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) Facilitated by Sarah Martin, Adrian School District and EOREN

Ready to share ideas that actually work in your classroom? This facilitator-led, interactive session invites Grades 6–12 ELA teachers to swap strategies, tools, and quick activities—no formal presentations, just collaboration. Bring one or two favorites from the following: a student engagement strategy, an assessment or feedback tool, a text or digital resource, a small 5 to 10-minute student activity, or a classroom management hack. Collaborate with colleagues, gather fresh ideas, and leave with practical strategies you can use immediately to inspire reading, writing, and learning in your classroom. 

Neurodiversity in Arts Education

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

Our classrooms are more diverse than ever, and the arts offer powerful ways to engage students of all abilities. This workshop explores creative strategies to engage neurodiverse learners through physical, sensory, and emotional expression. All educators who work with neurodiverse students should participate. Participants will leave with practical tools for designing an inclusive, student-centered curriculum.

Science in Action: Collaborative Ideas for Engagement & Assessment (Grades 6-12)

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) Facilitated by Frontier STEM Hub & EOREN

This interactive, facilitator-led session for Grades 6–12 science educators is all about collaboration—not a presentation. Bring a favorite resource or strategy to share and work together to spark new ideas for engagement and learning. Leave with practical takeaways and fresh inspiration for your science classroom. 

Strategies for Success with Multilingual Learners, Part 2: Promoting Vocabulary Development 

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with Elizabeth Howard & Shera Simpson, The Tandem Teachers

Vocabulary is at the heart of both language learning and conceptual understanding, so focusing on vocabulary instruction is like a two-for-one sale! In this session, participants will engage in a variety of instructional strategies for promoting vocabulary development and consider applications to their classroom. Designed for dual language teachers, but all are welcome. Attendance at the morning Part 1 of this workshop is not required.

Work Ethic Curriculum Implementation Workshop (9-12)

1:00pm-2:30pm (MST) with Mike Rowe, mikeroweWORKS Foundation

Implementation Discussion: This follow-up session is designed for those who want to dig a little deeper into how the MRW Work Ethic Curriculum can actually be used in the classroom. We’ll focus less on the “what” and more on the “how”—how the lessons fit into different subjects, how instructors are using them with students, and what implementation can look like in real school settings. The session will be informal and discussion-based, with plenty of time for questions, examples, and practical takeaways for educators considering or already using the curriculum.

Your Impact: Bringing Help, Hope & Support

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with the National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children

This hands on, interactive training focuses on how professionals have opportunities to identify and intervene as well as provide positive impacts to children and families. The training provides basic understanding about brain science and development, an overview of how to identify drug endangered children, a brief summary of Adverse Childhood Experiences ACEs and the lifelong impacts of ACEs as well as how Positive Childhood Experiences /PCEs) can help counterbalance ACEs. Participants will learn from scenarios, in depth discussion, and conversation about local community resources to increase their knowledge and skills. They will also join in "building a brain" to better understand how early intervention and resources can positively impact a child’s life. This session will be a repeat of the morning session.  

Pyramid Model- Strategies: Building a Caring Classroom/Setting While Reducing the Behaviors that Challenge Us 

8:00am-11:00am (MST) with Ben Reipe, Marisco Institute for Early Learning 

All children need and deserve early childhood environments and experiences that are nurturing, safe, predictable, and welcoming. This session will explore the Pyramid Model strategies that support social and emotional development for children, including strategies that build caring classrooms/settings and specific practices that reduce the behaviors that challenge us. In this interactive session, we will share an overview of five (5) key preventative practices that support all children and can be embedded into your daily activities in your classroom/setting. Participants will choose the strategies for a deeper dive. We will target the top three (3) strategies elevated by the participants. Additional resources will be provided for all strategies.