Storm into Summer 2025

This Creating Community/Service Learning session will:
Demonstrate how philanthropy education and service-learning align knowledge and skills with students innate caring and generosity. Students become aware of needs larger than their own (purpose);
*Students are engaged in activities that apply and expand their learning (mastery); and
* Students take a role in directing their own experience (autonomy).
* Show teachers how to incorporate these lessons into an already existing curriculum. It's not an add-on and doesn't put more on your plate. Allow teachers to participate in a lesson that they might use in their classroom.
* Teach the Stages of Service Learning (Investigation, Preparation, Action, Reflection & Demonstration) and how to develop lessons utilizing them.
* Introduce teachers to the Learning to Give website that is full of curriculum and resources to implement Service Learning into their own classrooms.
* Q & A to answer questions.

In this session, the presenters will address each strand of the Word Recognition section of the Reading Rope. There will be instruction on how to implement phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition in a whole group setting in a primary classroom or in a small group setting for struggling readers in the intermediate grades.

Educational leadership goes beyond formal titles. School leadership is about creating a meaningful impact with everyone who walks through your school doors. This interactive session will explore key concepts of educational leadership in action, while sharing practical strategies that equip educators and administrators to lead effectively from any position. Attendees will engage in thoughtful discussions, real-world scenarios, and reflective practices to identify leadership strengths and create small, actionable steps to strengthen their leadership impact. This session will be intentional in action planning. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of their leadership style and how to positively inspire sustainable change.

With all the buzz about the Science of Reading and America's literacy crisis, teachers are looking for strategic, hands-on lessons that support student achievement. It is no secret that for students to become skilled readers they must acquire increasing automaticity in both language comprehension and word recognition. This session will not only discuss Scarborough's Reading Rope but also provide an advanced word study scope and sequence as well as ready to use google slides.