2026 Workshops and Panels

Keynote Speaker:

Mrs. Elizabeth Armstrong

Special Education-Arlington High School

10:00 am-10:30 am

Session 1 (10:40 am-11:30 am)

All That’s Special About Special Education

How to do All the Things (Without Losing Your Mind)

Working with Multi-Lingual Learners

Don’t Work Harder Than Your Students

Mental Health: Yours, Mine, and Ours

Session 2 (11:40 am-12:30 pm)

From Interview to Tenure: The First Five Years

Setting the Conditions for Learning

All Things Elementary

Classroom Management Strategies for the Secondary Classroom

Love Your Porcupines: Engaging and Embracing the Secondary Student

Session 3 (1:35 pm-2:25 pm)

All Things Elementary

Routines, Relationships, and Results: Building a Classroom That Thrives: Strategies to build a classroom where students feel safe, connected and motivated to learn.

The Job Search

Classroom Management Strategies fot the Secondary Classroom

Lunch on your own!

12:30 pm-1:30 pm

Session 4: (2:30 pm-3:15 pm)

The Job Search

Managing Expectations

Love Your Porcupines: Engaging and Embracing the Secondary Student

Creating Psychological Safety in the Classroom