Presentations from:

WERA 2008 Spring Conference
“Leaders, Learners and Change Agents”

March 26-28, 2008

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Entire Listing of Conference Breakout Sessions

Carl Cohn Keynote

Dean Fink Keynote

Representative Priest Working Paper on School Finance

Workshop 1 - Sustainable Leadership

Workshop 2 - Managing the New Graduation Requirements - Lessons from the Field

Workshop 3 - Leaders in Learning: Building Capacity for Teacher Leadership (Office 2007 file)

Workshop 4 - Making Sense of the Math Revisions

Workshop 6 - Evaluation in a Nutshell Power | Potter | Bylsma

Workshop 8 - Exploring the Impact of the New Math Standards

Session 1.2 - Closing the Achievement Gap: Lessons learned from research and practice

Session 1.4 - Making MAP More Meaningful

Session 1.5 - Evaluating a Web-Based Program - Digital Learning Commons

Session 1.6 - School Employee Compensation and Student Outcomes

Session 1.7 - Response to Intervention: Hope and Challenge in the Middle School Setting

Session 1.8 - WASL Growth: A Model for Program Exploration

Session 2.1 - Distributed Instructional Leadership: Lessons learned from two case studies of Elementary Principals

Session 2.3 - Assessment FOR Student Learning | Notes

Session 2.5 - Staff Perceptions of School Conditions: What Are They? Do They Reflect Reality?

Session 2.6 - Does Rank Order on the Reading and Mathematics WASL (Same students in Grades 4-7-10) Change Over Time?

Session 2.7 - Standards-based Grading in the Secondary Science Classroom (Office 2007 file) | Handouts (Office 2007 file)

Session 2.8 - Classroom-Based Performance Assessments for the Arts

Session 3.3 - Strategies to Help Reluctant Learners in Literacy

Session 3.5 - Effective Leadership

Session 3.7 - Making CBAs and Standards-Based Grading Work in Health and Fitness | PE

Session 3.8 - Formative and Diagnostic Assessment, Review of Literature and Presentation of the Washington Guide

Session 4.2 - AYP and NCLB: Information and Discussion

Session 4.4 - Only 53 days until Health and Fitness CBAs | Form

Session 4.6 - Implementing Student-Involved Assessment Practices

Session 4.8 - 2008 Legislative Update