Conference Overview

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Sunday, April 2nd

6:30-8:00pm Welcome Reception and Registration
Campus Commons

Monday, April 3rd

• Session One, 10:00am - 10:30am Concurrent Sessions

  Developing and Sustaining a K-12 STEM Partnership for Early Education Field Experiences
  Heather Kennedy, Ann Marie Hancock, & Myra Lovett

  Capstone Projects: The Best Kept Secret for Impacting Student Learning in K-12 Classrooms
  Mellanie Robinson, Carson Cox, & Brittany Waldrip

  Preservice Teachers' First Field Experience in Science: Implementing Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience
  Ibrahim Abdulsalami, Ann Gaudino, Nanette Marcum-Dietrich, & William McConnell

  Innovative Communication and Collaboration Strategies in a Rural-Serving School-University Partnership
  Tiffany Hunt, Elizabeth McMahan, Margaret Hudson, & Jayne Hellenberg

• Session Two, 10:40am - 11:10am Concurrent Sessions

  HELP! What do I with this Struggling Intern?
  Todd Roberts

  The Mississippi State University Teacher Residency Program
  Jeffrey Leffler & Kevin Entrekin

  Co-Teaching: A Review of the Past, A Discussion of the Present, and Future Goals
  Mary A. Geiring

  Piloting GoReact with Pre-Service Teachers
  Margaret A. Berg & Amanda Rutter

• Session Three, 11:20am - 11:50am Concurrent Sessions

  Teachers as Leaders: Increasing Teacher Self-Efficacy and Retention in Rural Louisiana Schools
  Tia Neal

  Utilizing In-Service Teacher Expertise to Develop and Implement a Mentoring Model in Field Experience
  Mark S. Montgomery & Ronda S. McClain

  International Student Teaching: Possibilities for Student Interns
  Richard Carriveau

  Navigating State "Short-Cuts" in Order to Provide High-Quality Candidates to High-Need Schools
  Jennifer W. Barce

  Fixed-Pie Perspectives and Teacher Candidates' ClassroomPractice
  Brian Rose & Sara Myers

  Reimagining Middle School across Professional Development School Partnerships
  Matt Moulton, Danny Birmingham & Cindy Gleason

• Lunch, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Panorama Room

• Session Four, 1:00pm - 1:30pm Concurrent Sessions

  Data-Driven Seminars to Support Year-Long Residency
  Fara Seal & Kathleen Williams

  Exploring Collaborations Using Interprofessional Education
  Heather D. Young, Lisa Bowers & Renee Speight

  Professional Dress, Self-Identity, and Inclusivity for Teacher Candidates in K-12 Clinical Placements
  Zachary Schabel

  High Leverage Teaching Practices: Creating a Sustainable Professional Partnership through Online Interactive Modules
  Sheryl Vlietstra & Dori Helder

  Black Teacher Shortage: Case Studies to Determine Why Black Students are not going into Teaching
  Rhonda Jeter, Priscilla Jeter-Iles & Diane Bryant

  A-State Teacher Education Residency Pilot Program: Meeting the Needs of Schools and Teacher-Candidates
  Beverly Boals Gilbert, Ron Towery, Sandra Hawkins, & Nicole Covey

• Session Five, 1:40pm - 2:10pm Concurrent Sessions

  Building Trauma-Informed Frameworks in Early Clinical Field Experiences
  Daniel Moore, Kathryn Young, & Philip Bernhardt   

  How May I Help You? Creating Great Novice Teachers
  Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, Missy Hopper, Elizabeth Sweeney, & Lily Null

  Teacher Candidate Perception of Preparation of Methods Courses
  Kathleen Wagner & Jayson Evaniuck

  Communicating Clinical Practice Experiences for Successful State Reauthorization
  Ann Sebald & Kara Coffino

• Session Six, 2:20pm - 2:50pm Concurrent Sessions

  Building Collaboration Through Unlikely Partnership: Minnesota Coalition of Clinical Experience Coordinators in Teacher Education
  Tricia Rohloff, Kristin Conrad, Tricia Rohloff, Karen Mehle, Becki Warnock, Lisa Schmitz, & Amy Jo Lundell

  Creating a Team Approach: Purposeful Pairing in a Mentoring Model for Field Experience
  Ronda S. McClain & Mark S. Montgomery

  Opportunities to Remove Financial Barriers: Teacher Residents’ Experiences with the Federal Work Study Grant
  Kathleen Williams & Angel Ogea

  What's My Grade? New Perspectives on Grading
  Cori Hixon & Dawn Mallette

• Session Seven, 3:00pm - 3:30pm Concurrent Sessions

  Strengthening Teacher Candidacy via the Residency Program: Lessons Learned
  Martin Miller

  Cultural Overlays: Authentic and Practical Ways to Foster Culturally Sustaining Practices for Aspiring Educators
  Priscilla Jeter-Iles & Geraldine Fitzpatrick-Doria

  Building Strong Mentor Programming through Leadership Opportunities and Differentiated Pathways
  Liz Qualman & Elia Tankersley

Tuesday, April 4th

• Session Eight, 9:00am - 9:30am Concurrent Sessions

  Field Placement Scramble:Completing Observations with the Content-Specific Professor
  Jacquelyn Mesco, Andrea Ridley, & Mellanie Robinson

  Negotiation between Teacher Candidates and Students in Field Experiences
  Brian Rose & Sara Myers

  Developing and Refining an Early Field Experience for Preservice Teachers
  Dr. Rebecca John

  How Universities and School Partners Can Co-Select Cooperating Teachers
  Curtis Cunningham & Melissa Michael

• Session Nine, 9:40am - 10:10am Concurrent Sessions

  How to Embed the Praxis Preparation in Your Teacher Certification Programs
  Priscilla Jeter-Iles, Jameka Walker, Rhonda Jeter, & Diane Bryant

  Pre-Service Teachers’ Journey to Equitable and Inclusive Teaching
  Julie Paul, Jennifer Ponder, Kelly Hill, & Grace Jepkemboi

  Revising the Student Teaching Experience to Improve 
  Classroom Management
  Mackenzie Johnson, Gina McAllister, JaJuan Clark, & Casey Dowgul

  Developing Professional Dispositions
  Ron Towery, Beverly Gilbert, Tonja Fillippino & Sandra Hawkins

  Researching a Teacher Apprenticeship Model for Rural Paraprofessionals
  Daniel G. DeCelles, Katie Anderson-Pence, Kylie J. Swanson, & Katie M. McCabe

  Revising Dispositional Expectations during Fieldwork to Increase Cultural Responsiveness
  Wendy Barnes, Derek Decker, & Juliana Searle

• Session Ten, 10:20am - 10:50am Concurrent Sessions

  Meeting District and School Needs through Year-long Internship Models
  Margaret Hudson, Tiffany Hunt, Jayne Hellenberg, & Elizabeth McMahan

  Lessons from Blending Early Childhood Education and Elementary Field Experiences
  Amanda Rutter & Jean Kirshner

  Implementing Strategic Recruitment Measures in the Department of Education: Unlock Education
  Kathleen Williams & Angel Ogea

• Session Eleven, 11:00am - 11:30am Concurrent Sessions

  The Hero’s Journey: Student Teaching
  Kathleen Wagner

  Classroom Management: How to Keep Your Students on Task and Engaged with Compassion
  Fritz Murphy

  Community and Teaching: Service Learning in Teacher Education
  Stephanie Oudghiri & Abby Laufman

  Evaluating the Effectiveness of Co-Teaching and Reflective Practices on the Preparation of First-Year Teachers
  Adam Akerson, Mark Montgomery, & Ronda S. McClain

  Cultivating Self Compassion in the Pre-Service Teacher
  Lisa J. Lucas & Karen Johnson

• Session Twelve, 11:40am - 12:10pm Concurrent Sessions

  Fueling the Teacher Pipeline through University/P-12 Partnerships
  Christina Sinclair, Michelle Miller, & Carrie Baker

  Self-Care Toolkits for Pre-Service Teacher Candidates and Student Interns
  Priscilla Jeter-Iles, Tanna Frank, Rhonda Jeter, & Diane Bryant

  Wait…What? PAID Teacher Candidates in Field Experience Placements
  Teena Flesher, Carrie Mabee, Jenni Birrell, Karolyn Corey, Susan Candelaria, & Tracy Greenhow

  Technology Tools for Intern Supervision and Support
  Nancy Luke

  Using Video Coding Tools to Support Self-Reflection in the Student Teaching Experience
  Jason Davis & Jennifer Burke

  MTSS Framework for Addressing Preservice Teacher Needs
  Eileen Montalvo Wertzberger & Tracey Conway

• Lunch, 12:10pm - 1:00pm

  Panorama Room