ADE Summit 2024

What is bullying?
Bullying is a harmful behavior that occurs in many settings. It includes actions like harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence. Recognizing and addressing bullying is essential for creating safe and supportive environments for everyone.
Join us for an interactive session to take a close look at AR Code § 6-18-514 (2020).

Overview of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) observation tool that measures the quality of teacher-child interactions.  The tool is correlated to educational outcomes for children and is used in classrooms serving children from birth-3rd grade across the country.  These evidence-based, in depth measures help to inform a consistent definition of early childhood quality, show how well classrooms support children's growht and development, and provide teachers and leaders with actionable information for continuious quality improvement.  The Office of Early Childhood is a conducting CLASS pilot project during the 2024-2025 program year reviewing how effective CLASS is in the evaluation of the quality of early childhood programs across the state.

In this session, participants will explore the requirements for Student Success Plans, including the amendments enacted through the LEARNS Act. Join this session to review the minimum requirements for SSPs and to discuss the additional requirements now in place for identification and listing of the recommended sequence of courses for successful completion of a diploma pathway selected by the student, with the flexibility to change throughout high school and continue to ensure that the student will meet high school graduation requirements and leave high school qualified for their choice career path. Take advantage of the opportunity to learn and explore leveraging Student Success Plans to maximize each learner's educational experience.

School safety is a priority. The school safety requirements included in recent legislation will be presented and discussed.  Resources that are available to assist school districts in meeting these requirements will be identified.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence? We've got you covered! Our upcoming session will leave you feeling empowered and equipped to leverage the power of AI to work smarter, not harder. During the session, we'll explore ways that AI tools can support your time and creativity, helping you find that sweet spot. You'll walk away with a newfound confidence in your ability to harness the power of AI and take your work to the next level. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your skills and streamline your workload.

In this session, participants will examine the key levers to elevate science foundational skills instruction and learning outcomes. Participants will walk away with an in-depth understanding of observation "Look Fors" in the impact areas of Structures for Learning, Aligned Content, Direct Instruction and Student Practice

This session will focus on partnerships in early childhood. These partnerships include both school partnerships with community early childhood programs and partnering with the business community to create and support early childhood.

MTSS, accessibility, and accountability are helping drive many inclusion initiatives in North America. Educational leaders are turning to award-winning products from Texthelp to help students learn on grade-level and in general education classrooms with their peers. Textelp’s CORE inclusion products will be overviewed and attendees will learn how “the CORE is greater than the sum of its parts.” Enlightened states like Arkansas, Indiana, Georgia and more are combining these tools to provide comprehensive inclusive supports to help students learn and succeed independently. Join us to see how the future of inclusive learning is already in our midst.

In this session, participants will review the ATLAS blueprints and discuss how to align Tier 1 instruction to support systems that set up students for success in math and science.

Creating digital content is important. For starters, digital content is much more likely to be accessible than its paper based equivalent. Digital content can (usually) be enlarged, read aloud with text or screen readers, manipulated, copied, created with speech, and more. However, due to the complexity of math symbols, the plethora of worksheets in circulation, and the requirement for students to “show their work,” it has been difficult, if not impossible to create a digital equivalent. In this session, attendees will learn how to use technology with a feature rich UDL toolbar where users will be given the opportunity create math by way of using prediction, speech to math, a graph editor, and a screenshot reader which will enable users to hear the math aloud allowing users to further enhance their math vocabulary. I will also demonstrate how you scan a document with your mobile phone, and convert the math problems on it to digital & accessible math.

In this session, participants will learn about the benefits of Unit and Lesson Internalization and how it can strengthen daily instructional decision-making. By integrating High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM), participants will discover how they can enhance their instructional approaches, anticipate and address gaps in instructional coherence, maintain consistency in grade-level appropriate assignments, improve teacher collaboration practice and provide more productive learning experiences and outcomes for all students.

Participants will gain insightful tips, tricks, and "did you knows” as we delve into Chrome settings, enriching their understanding of logging in to Chrome. The workshop is designed to elevate administrators' privacy and security settings, providing them with practical tips and strategies to fortify their online data protection measures.