Sessions 1 & 2
SESSION 1 & 2 Descriptions
Presenters, Organization - Session
Session Title
Audience: All
Description
Charlene Knox Farris – Session 1
AT HOME AT SEA – Searsport’s Lincoln and Joanna Colcord
Audience: All
This presentation will feature an “old fashioned slide show” to complement a talk on the Colcords by Charlene Knox Farris, native of Searsport, granddaughter of a sea captain, and “Unofficial Historian of Searsport”. Learn about the fascinating 19th century practice of American Sea captains, during the Age of Sail, of taking their wives and families on their voyages. This began around 1840 and became quite common. It was done on U. S. ships in the merchant trade and on whalers. “At Home At Sea” will concentrate on one family in particular, that of brother and sister Lincoln and Joanna Colcord of Searsport. Through childhoods spent on their father’s merchant ships, these children experienced a way of life we can only imagine, and captured it in diaries and letters home which have been preserved.
Kris Braga and Linda Bowe – Session 1, Session 2
INTENTIONAL ASSET BUILDING
Audience: All
Intentional Asset Building is an important skill beneficial to anyone working with youth. This workshop will focus on the 40 building blocks of healthy youth development as identified by The Search Institute®. Utilizing this research-based information, the workshop will provide concrete asset-building techniques that will boost student confidence and increase desirable behaviors. Asset building is based on the awareness that _people_, not programs, make the difference for kids. A wonderfully refreshing approach for all educators!
Kristina Braga is a certified teacher and director of afterschool programs who has made the teaching of 40 Developmental Assets® to adults a personal goal. She has facilitated trainings to educators and afterschool staff across the state.
Linda Bowe is currently the principal at Stockton Springs Elementary School in MSAD #56. Before this position, she worked as a consultant and facilitator with the Great Maine Schools Project and the Center for Educational Transformation. She served as a graduate instructor at the University of Maine for many years. A former special education teacher at Mt. View Junior High, she became Sweetser’s first integration specialist when that agency opened its Belfast campus in 1995.
Possible repeats
Peter Zack, Jr. and Beth Otto, Maine Energy Education Program (MEEP) – Session 1
APPLE BATTERIES TO KILL-WATT-HOURS: Free Energy Education Activities for Your Classroom
Audience: Teachers, grades 4-12; Facilities personnel (no limit on numbers)
Participants will be introduced to a range of experiential MEEP activities that can be brought to the classroom by MEEP staff. These include energy awareness presentations like Electricity and the Environment (Apple Battery, Mini Wind Turbine, Solar Fan), Great Energy Debate, Global Energy Game to Green School service learning projects such as the Energy Patrol, Clean Air Zone (no-idling) and school audit (of interest to facilities folks).
Beth Otto is MEEP’s Carbon Footprint Educator and a trained energy auditor. Peter Zack, Jr. is MEEP’s director with years of experience as a classroom teacher.
Theo VanDeventer, Music Teacher, MSAD#3 Unity/Thorndike - Session 1, Session 2
INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING
Audience: Everyone, no experience needed
Music and dance are a way for all of us to join in community (local and the world). Good way to move and get some mild exercise, have fun and enjoy each other’s company. There will probably be something any teacher can take back with them to fit their own needs.
Officer Jessica Danielson, Searsport Police Department - Session 1, Session 2
INTERNET SAFETY
Audience: All
With her extensive NetSmartz training and law enforcement experiences, Officer Danielson will present timely and compelling information on keeping students Internet safe. Time for Q and A is provided.
Barbara Rehmeyer, #56 K-5 Technology Integrationist & Roxanna Morse, Elementary Librarian – Session 1
LITERACY AND WEB 2.0
Audience: Teachers grades 2-8.
MSAD #56 elementary librarian and the technology integrationist will share projects that involve literacy and Web 2.0 technology, such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and VoiceThread. We will also look at a Big6 Research Organizer, an online organizing tool that guides students through the research process. See what we have done and learn how to get started with your own projects.
Marieke Van Der Steenhoven, Maine Memory Network Education Coordinator -Session 1, Session 2
MAINE MEMORY NETWORK
Audience: K-12 teachers
Maine Memory Network is a free statewide digital museum developed by the Maine Historical Society to provide unprecedented access to primary source materials held by historical societies, museums, and libraries throughout Maine. Maine Memory is an incredible resource for teaching Maine Studies, U.S. history, social studies, and many other subjects. In this workshop an educator from the Maine Historical Society will review how to find, save, and use primary source documents of local, state, and national significance; create online exhibits, lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities; and will discuss opportunities to develop partnerships and projects with historical organizations in your community.
Brett Hoskins - Session 1, Session 2
MAINE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM (Maine PERS)
Audience: ALL MSRS Employees
Brett will speak to your retirement system. He will provide details for retirement collection and how best to prepare. He will have printed materials available and will be prepared to answer questions.
Betty Schopmeyer, CCC-SLP, Education Director, Penobscot Marine Museum – Session 1, Session 2
MARITIME HISTORY SUPPORTING LITERACY: A NEW CURRICULUM FROM THE PMM
Audience: Elementary School Teachers, Curriculum Coordinators, Literacy Specialists
This program will present the new curriculum being piloted by Penobscot Marine Museum to accompany its education web site and learning results guide for teachers. We will briefly review these latter products and show updates now completed to include the 2007 learning results. The majority of the presentation will then focus on a curriculum package that offers maritime history and literacy combined into a series of approximately 30 one-hour lesson plans. Each plan include hands-on maritime activities; reading, writing, and spoken language; auditory comprehension; and phonological awareness; as well as Performance Indicators for both the maritime history and literacy elements. The curriculum is currently being presented at the After School Program in MSAD56 and addresses grades K – 5, although many activities could be adaptable for older students.
Jan Leighton – Session 1
MOVING & STRETCHING IN THE CLASSROOM
Audience: Elementary
We all feel better and more alert when we get the opportunity to get up and going during the course of the day. this workshop will show you how to use movement and stretching to help students “get the wiggles out” and to support learning at the same time. Come and experience activities you can use in your classroom the next day.
Patsy Dunton – English Language Arts Specialist, Maine Department of Education
Lynn Pussic - Session 1, Session 2
NEWSLETTERS:
Lynn Pussic is an independent graphic designer in Waldo County. She has worked in the publishing/printing industry for 26 years.
Michael Shell, Director of the Center for Authentic Living – Session
Jennifer Cammack, OT/L Maine Licensed Occupational Therapist, Licensed Brain Gym Consultant
District Judge Patricia Worth, Maine District Court – Double session, combined Sessions 1 & 2
OVERVIEW OF COURT ORDERS RELATED TO STUDENTS & FAMILIES - A Judge’s Perspective
Raya Kouletsis, MSAD #3 School Health Coordinator – Session 2
Sue McCullough, Director Hutchinson Center - Session 1, Session 2
THE HUTCHINSON CENTER – OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF
Argy Nestor, Visual and Performing Arts Specialist, Maine Department of Education
