Featured Presenters


 

Jon E. Draud
Kentucky Commissioner of Education

Dr. Jon Draud has been a teacher, a coach, a principal, a superintendent and a state representative.  He now takes on a much larger statewide role as Kentucky’s new education commissioner!  Dr. Draud was recently a state legislator, representing Kentucky’s 63rd District, and has been vice-chair of the House Education Committee since 1999. He also serves as director of School/University Partnerships at Northern Kentucky University. Draud has served as an associate professor at NKU; superintendent of the Ludlow Independent school district; assistant superintendent of Lockland (Ohio) Public Schools; member of the Kenton County Board of Education; and a school principal and teacher. He earned bachelor’s (physical education and history) and master’s degrees (school administration) from Eastern Kentucky University; a master’s degree (political science) from Xavier University in Cincinnati; and a doctorate (school curriculum and administration with a minor in public policy) from the University of Cincinnati. Among his many honors, Draud is a 2007 recipient of the Paul Mason Legislative Advocate for Children Award, presented by the Kentucky Parent Teacher Association. He also served on the Southern Regional Education Board’s board of directors in 2005 and has served on many state government task forces.

KTLC is pleased to announce Dr. Jon Draud as this year’s keynote
speaker.
Wednesday, March 5, at 6:45 p.m.
KICC, Cascade Ballroom

Margaret Heritage
CRESST/UCLA
Margaret Heritage is Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, and also leads the Data Use program of the Accountability and Assessment Comprehensive Center.

Formative Assessment: What do Teachers Need to
Know and Do?
Friday, March 7, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
KICC, 211

Fred Johnson
Educational Resource Services
Dr. Fred Johnson is the executive director of Educational Resource Services. Johnson holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Louisville and completed post doctorate training in school psychology at Central Michigan University and in behavioral psychology at the University of Detroit. He also holds a clinical license in psychology and certification in school psychology.


From Chaos to Control: Managing Disruptive
Classroom Behavior
Thursday, March 6, from 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Responding Proactively to Chronically Despondent
Students
Friday, March 7, from 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Both sessions will be in the Hyatt Regency’s Regency
Center.

Jim Knight
University of Kansas Center for Research and
Learning
Jim Knight has spent more than a decade studying instructional coaching, and has written two books on the topic. Jim directs several research projects, including Pathways to Success, a comprehensive, district-wide school reform project in the Topeka, Kansas, school district. He also leads the coaching institutes and annual instructional coaching conference offered by the University of Kansas.

Instructional Coaching:  An Overview
Thursday, March 6, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Partnership Communication
Thursday, March 6, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
The Big Four:  Practical Teaching Strategies for
Instructional Coaches
Thursday, March 6, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Deconstructing Resistance
Thursday, March 6, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
All sessions will be in the Hyatt Regency’s Keeneland Suite.

Crystal Kuykendall
Kreative and Innovative Resources for Kids, Inc.

In 1989, Dr. Crystal Kuykendall incorporated her company, Kreative and Innovative Resources for Kids (K.I.R.K.), which provides long-term technical assistance and consulting services to an increasing number of national and international clients. This is done through individual endeavors as well as through the use of a team of expert consultants.

Strategies to Bring Out the BEST in ALL Students
Thursday, March 6, from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
REPEATED 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
KICC, 104

Rich Milner
Vanderbilt University

Rich Milner is the Betts Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University.  He has been on the faculty at Vanderbilt since 2001. Dr. Milner earned the Doctor of Philosophy Degree and Master of Arts Degree in Educational Policy and Leadership from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  He also earned the Master of Arts in Teaching Degree and the Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Beginning in the spring of 2008, Dr. Milner began serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fisk University in the Division of Social Sciences in Nashville, Tennessee.  His research, teaching, and policy interests focus on urban education, race and equity in education, and teacher education.  He has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters, and he has published two books. 

Eye on Diversity for Achievement: Every Student,
Every Day
Thursday, March 6, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
REPEATED 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Hyatt Regency, Regency South B

Peggy Olcott
MiraVia, LLC

Peggy Olcott is a national educational consultant with over 20 years experience as an educator ranging from elementary and middle school teaching to district level coordination of curriculum and instructional programs. For over eleven years, Peggy provided leadership for professional development initiatives at both the district and state levels including organizing and supervising the new staff support programs in several districts. Currently, Peggy presents workshops and seminars in the areas of mentoring, coaching, curriculum articulation, thinking skills and reading and writing strategies. Peggy holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.Ed. from City University in curriculum and instruction. She also completed an administrative licensure program at Portland State University.

Learning-Focused Relationships:  Coaching,
Collaborating and Consulting for Professional
Excellence – Part 1
Thursday, March 6, from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Learning-Focused Relationships:  Coaching,
Collaborating and Consulting for Professional
Excellence – Part 2
Thursday, March 6, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Holding Ideas Instead of Hands:  Differentiated
Approaches on a Continuum of Interaction
Thursday, March 6, from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
All sessions will be the Kentucky International
Convention Center, Room 211.

Timothy Shanahan
University of Illinois at Chicago
Timothy Shanahan is Professor of Urban Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is Director of the UIC Center for Literacy. He is on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Family Literacy, has served on the White House Assembly on Reading, and the National Reading Panel, a group convened by the National Institute of Child Health and Development at the request of Congress to evaluate research on successful methods of teaching reading. Shanahan has received several awards for his work in literacy as well as being inducted into the Illinois Reading Council Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Reading Hall of Fame in 2007.

How to Improve Reading Achievement
Thursday, March 6, from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Leadership and Reading:  The Key Decisions
Thursday, March 6, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Both sessions will be in the Kentucky International
Convention Center’s Cascade Ballroom.

Gordon Shukwit
Apple, Inc.

Gordon Shukwit is the Director for IT, Learning Technologies and International Strategic programs for Apple. His team works globally with education institutions, government agencies and International schools as they define new learning environments. He has a BBA from Eastern Michigan University.

Emergent Digital Learning Environments: 
Engaging Student Learning Transparently
Thursday, March 6, from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
KICC, Cascade Ballroom

Rick Stiggins
ETS Portland
Rick Stiggins is founder of the Assessment Training Institute (ATI), Portland, Oregon, which became a part of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in March 2006. Since 1992, ATI’s professional learning programs have helped teachers and school leaders understand how to use the assessment process and its results to benefit (not merely monitor) student learning. A native of Canandaigua, New York, Stiggins received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Springfield College in Massachusetts. His graduate studies in educational measurement were conducted at Michigan State University resulting in the awarding of a Ph.D. in 1972.

It's Time to Demand Productive Assessment FOR
OUR STUDENTS
Friday, March 7, from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Tapping the Full Potential of Assessment for
Learning
Friday, March 7, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Both sessions will be in the Kentucky International
Convention Center’s Cascade Ballroom.

Tim Tyson
Dr. Tim Tyson, named one of Georgia's High Performance Principals by State Governor Sonny Perdue, served as the principal of Mabry Middle School in Cobb County, Georgia. The School Library Journal has referred to Dr. Tyson as the "Pied Piper of Educational Technology," and his innovative use of technology to maximize student achievement has been featured in a variety of national education magazines. Also, under his leadership, Mabry Middle School earned the prestigious School of Distinction Award for Technology Innovation from Intel Corporation and Scholastic.

The Gift of Significant and Meaningful Contribution
Thursday, March 6, from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Leadership Applied:  Building Powerful Learning
Communities
Thursday, March 6, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
KICC, 209

Mychal Wynn
Rising Sun Publishing

Over the past two decades, Mr. Wynn, together with his wife, has built a successful publishing company, achieved international acclaim for his 17 published books, trained over 100,000 teachers, inspired over 500,000 parents and students, raised two children, one of whom currently attends Amherst College, the top-ranked liberal arts college in the United States. As a highly-respective and much sought after consultant to schools and school districts throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Bermuda, Mychal Wynn is a living testimony to his belief that, "Where you come from, does not determine where you are going, only where you begin."

Increasing Student Achievement: Working with
Identifiable Subgroups
Thursday, March 6, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
REPEATED   3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
KICC, Room 210