MADSEC Fall Conference

Thursday October 29, 2015

Time / Casco Bay Room / Salon A, B, & C / Salon D / Salon E / Portland/South Portland
7:30 – 8:30 / Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45
8:45 – 9:15
9:15 – 10:30 / Welcome
Jan Breton - DOE Special Services Update
David Ruff
Keynote Speaker
10:30 – 10:45 / Break
10:45 – Noon / AIM, AT, IEP and Transition
John Brandt / Responsive Verse Reactive Learners: A Brain Based/Sensory Motor Approach to Learning
Kellie Bailey / A Potpourri of Topics From Maine DOE
Roberta Lucas
Jon Braff
Peg Armstrong / Taking a Closer Look at Services for Children with a Visual Impairment
Nancy Moulton
12:00 – 1:00 / Lunch – Sponsored by PresenceLearning with presentation
1:00 – 2:15 / Partnering With the University of ME to Provide Speech and Language Services Through Telepractice
Judith Walker
MaryBeth Richards
Clarissa Fish / Specific Learning Disability
Guidance Document (This is a two part session)
Susan Holinger / Responsive Verse Reactive Learners:
A Brain Based/Sensory Motor Approach to Learning
Kellie Bailey / Executive Function Tool Kit: Staff and Students
Diane Jackson / Transitioning Students from Youth Detention Centers to SAU’s
Sherreccia Jackson
2:15 – 2:30 / Break
2:30 – 3:45 / Partnering With the University of ME, etc.
Repeat from 1:00 session / Specific Learning Disability
Guidance Document (This is a two part session)
Susan Holinger / Options in Special Purpose, Private School Placements
Sharon Brown
Erin Chase / Executive Function Tool Kit: Staff and Students
Diane Jackson / Teaching Metacognition Through Social Thinking and Habits of Mind: A School-Wide Approach
Lisa Erhardt
Madeline Mellor

MADSEC Fall Conference

Friday, October 30, 2015

Time / Casco Bay Room / Salon A, B, & C / Salon D / Salon E / Portland/S. Portland
7:30 – 8:45 / Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00 / Welcome
9:00 – 10:15 / An Introduction to Team Based Threat Assessments
Ruth Crowell
Karen Lacey-Martin / Disability Support and the Transition from High School to College
Cynthia Curry
Joanne Benica
Sandra Lynham / Middle Schoolers Meeting Standards – with Co-Teaching, Collaboration, and Differentiation
Eric Palleschi
Melissa Burnham-Barter / The ABC’s of FCT
Eric Campbell
Elizabeth Davis
10:15 – 10:30 / Break
10:30 – 11:45 / Student Led IEP meetings
Jennifer Erickson
Tom McDowell / Appy Hour
Hillary Goldthwait-Fowles
Val Baker / Middle Schoolers Meeting Standards – with Co-Teaching, Collaboration, and Differentiation
Eric Palleschi
Melissa Burnham-Barter / Mrs. White Has a Sense of Humor, Mr. Brown Doesn’t!
Social Nuances in the Classroom and the Hidden Curriculum
Eric Campbell
Sheri Sastre
11:45 – 12:45 / Lunch
12:45 – 2:00 / Student Led IEP meetings
Jennifer Erickson
Tom McDowell / Teacher
Evaluator
Effectiveness
Charles Lomonte / Potpourri of Topics from Maine DOE / Work Experience and WIOA – It’s a Win-Win
Libby Stone-Sterling
David Dubay