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. 

Keynote Address: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance In Younger Generations

8:00am-9:15am (MST) Mark Perna,  TBD

JOIN DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE EXPERT MARK C. PERNA as he unveils the groundbreaking innovations for working with today’s younger generations. Educators, employers, parents, and community leaders will benefit from these proven strategies to bridge the generational divide, engage and retain young people, and equip them with a powerful competitive advantage. Purposeful education is the heartbeat of this inspiring call to action. Students who experience education with purpose can then pursue passion-driven employment at all levels of learning and experience. Though they’re often painted in a negative light, they have incredible potential to change the world. We just have to unleash it. As the skills gap widens, we must tap into the vast creativity, intelligence, and potential of the next generation.

A father to two successful young people, Mark delivers key insights on how they think, what makes them tick, and how they make decisions. Mark will show you how to connect, engage, and answer why to inspire their greatest effort. With clear action steps you can implement immediately both in your home and professional life, Mark’s message will help you move young people from static purpose to active purpose so they can achieve at a higher level. Countless parents, educators, and employers have used Mark’s strategies to maximize their interactions and outcomes with today’s younger generations.

Discover how you can hear the branch creak and implement the Light at the End of the Tunnel strategy to attract, engage, and empower the best young talent today. With highly practical generational insights, innovative best practices, and signature inspiration, Mark’s nationally acclaimed methods will open your eyes to the amazing promise of the younger generations. Recharge your passion for making a difference and start motivating young people like never before!

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

9:30am-4:00pm (MST) with Cindy Kuhrasch, TBD

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.  

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics

9:30am-4:00pm (MST) with Jared Sliger, Building Thinking Classrooms

Do you struggle to keep students engaged, excited to learn, and thinking deeply about math?  Join us for this hands-on workshop to learn the 14 teaching practices that research shows optimizes conditions for students to think, which increases their engagement and learning. 

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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.  

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. 

From Support to Accountability: Administrator Tools for Teacher Evaluation

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

Session description coming soon.

This session includes a lunch break. 

Deep Dive/Q&A: Harness 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 Opinion/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 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.

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. 

Click the link below to view full session description. 

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 three hour 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. 

Neurodiversity in Arts Education (K-12)

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

Our classrooms are now more diverse than ever, with students presenting a broad range of needs and interests, and the arts are an ideal way to engage students of all abilities. In this workshop we will explore creative methods to engage neurodiverse students through the arts, offering them organic avenues for expression that engage them physically, sensorily, and emotionally. Participants will leave with practical strategies for inclusive curriculum design to enhance student voice and choice. 

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

9:30am-12:00pm (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. 

Science of Reading

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with Barbara Steinberg, PDX Reading

Session description coming soon.

Your Impact: Bringing Help, Hope & Support

9:30am-12:00pm (MST) with TBD, 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.  

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. 

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. 

TBD: Bill of Rights Institute Sessions

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

Session description coming soon.

Work Ethic Curriculum Introduction Lunch (9-12)

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

Introduction: This short lunch and learn offers a brief 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.

2-5 Opinion/Argumentative 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.

Best Practices: Supporting Student Behavior 

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. 

Introduction to Arts Integration

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

Discover how the arts can deepen learning across all subject areas. In this interactive introductory workshop, educators will reflect on their own experiences with the arts and examine how creative practices can enrich today’s classrooms. Through hands-on activities, participants will explore the skills embedded in their art forms, identify natural points of connection with non-arts content, and begin to imagine meaningful, curriculum-aligned collaborations. This session sets the foundation for integrating artistic thinking and instructional goals to support student engagement, understanding, and joy. 

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

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. 

Science of Reading

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with Barbara Steinberg, PDX Reading

Session description coming soon.

Your Impact: Bringing Help, Hope & Support

1:00pm-4:00pm (MST) with TBD, 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.  

TBD SPED Training (RTAP)

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

Session description coming soon.

Pyramid Model- Strategies: Building a Caring Classroom/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. 

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. 

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.

ASIST Tune-Up 

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

Required yearly for those that have already attended the ASIST Training.

TBD: Bill of Rights Institute

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

Session description coming soon. 

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.