Friday, February 20, 2009

La Crosse Center, 300 Harborview Plaza  •  7:30 am to 2:45 pm

Keynote Speaker: Katalina Groh

Leadership—An Art of Possibility
Creating a Culture of Innovation & Creativity 

Founder, Groh Productions, Chicago, Illinois 

9:00-10:15  •  South Hall 

What inspires creativity, new ideas, radical innovation, and change? For more than 20 years, Katalina Groh has conducted deep research (often filmed) on what inspires authentic change and innovation. Groh creates tools for creativity and innovation used in more than 90 countries by schools, universities, governments, non-profits, federal agencies, and Fortune 100 Companies who share a passion for creativity, innovation and change.

Hear from some of the world’s leading experts on leadership, education, and innovation. Learn upcoming best practices of storytelling in organizations and see some of the “coming soon” best practices from new learning films, Practicing Possibility and Everything is Connected. See the making of the films, showing how students and leaders connect and create a new environment and culture for creativity. Experience creativity media modules not yet public—but previewed at this conference.

Groh founded Groh Productions in 1997, launching a new documentary-style leadership film series, Real People, Real Stories™, focusing on the power of storytelling and its potential to teach, transform, and inspire. Her current project, a new Internet television channel, GrohTV™, launches in the Spring, 2009. GrohTV™ brings educators together to help co-create a knowledge base of storytelling best practices.

You could be a winner! 

The WWEC Appreciation Prize Drawing!

Along with other prizes, the Grand Prize Package will include a gift certificate, valid for $100 toward the purchase of any travel arrangements placed with and purchased from Travel Leaders (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel), owned & operated by Goli's Avenues of Travel, with offices in La Crosse and Onalaska.*

* Certificate expires April 30, 2010.  

10:45-Noon Sessions

Boys, Books & Beyond
Beth King, PhD candidate, UW-Madison

Children do well if they can…
It’s our job to help them
Paul Holman, La Crosse School District

Sound & Music Activities for
Physical Science Classes
Dr. Gubbi Sudhakaran, UW-La Crosse & 
Dr. Mike LeDocq, WTC

A Model for Developing the
21st Century Skills
Mel Pontious, Department of Public Instruction

Disruptive students:
Always early, never sick!
Judy Youngblood,
Center for Teacher Effectiveness

Professional Learning Communities
Teri Staloch & Wendy Grace,
HolmenSchool District

Exploring Mathematics in the Elementary School Classroom  
Jennifer Kosiak & Jon Hasenbank, UW-La Crosse

Bullying 101
Melani Fay & Carol Kuphal, Counselors,  
La Crosse School District

Wisconsin’s Rock Carvings
and Paintings
Bonnie Jancik & Kathy Stevenson, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at UW-La Crosse

Bon Jovi, Denver, and Diamond: Their life through their music - Implications for using music in education
Patricia A. Markos, PhD, CRC, UW-La Crosse

Discovering the wonders of creative writing and critical thinking
Patrick Randolph, Associate Lecturer, UW-La Crosse 

Connecting with students
through Geocaching
Brian Meeter, La Crosse Area Sports Commission

Reclaim your health:
Old myths & new paradigms
Carol Bloom, MS, PT, La Crosse School District

Livin’ the iLife
Tricia Louis, Wonewoc-Center Schools

Move to Learn
Carol Hanson, Elementary Physical Education

Drumming for happiness
Jim Knutson, Onalaska School District

Cultivating the Creative Mind
Timothy Schreiner, WI Indianhead Tech. College  

8:00-8:50 Sessions 

Gender Specific Teaching:
Strategies that Work 
Ronnah Metz & Paul Holman, La Crosse Schools

Mystery in the Popcorn Field 
Jane Rahman & Don Rahman, retired teachers

I have a student with Asperger Syndrome – Now what do I do?  
Jody Walter, MS CCC-SLP/Speech-Language Pathologist, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare

Love & Logic: In your home, In your classroom, In your school  
Roger Fish, Retired Administrator

Imagine differentiation:
Product, process and content  
Heather Jehn, Middle School Special Education & Justin Jehn,  High School Science, West Salem District

Seven Girls Reading: What reading tells us about identity formation 
Julie Kinney, School District of La Crosse

Praying for a snow day  
Diane L. Syring, private consultant

ADHD: Thinking outside the box 
Dr. Margaret Fitts, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center

Imagining a New Podcasts: A tool to engage the 21st century learner

Andi Vogler, Onalaska School District &  Rob Kamrowski, GET School District.

SMART Boards: Engaging students with interactive lessons   
Derek Oppelt & Gregg Hilker, Onalaska School District

A means to media literacy
through video production 
Val Knobloch, CESA #10

Zumba: Dance inspiring you to MOVE! Rachel Hazuga,YMCA-La Crosse, Health & Wellness Director

Animals in the Classroom
Mike Bechtel, La Crosse School District

Reality Check 
Keith LeClaire, Reality Check 

Planning and Implementing Family Math Jamie Hotchkiss & Amy Kratochvill, Bangor Schools

Pedagogy of Writing  
Sara Zubair, Jess Gallo, & Jim Carlson, UW-Madison

Teaching for understanding and its impact on learning in Algebra 
Jon F. Hasenbank & Jennifer Kosiak, UW-La Crosse

Great artist’s Imaginations...Teach you curriculum through them  
Patricia Stellflue, Onalaska School District

Graduate Credit Option Only $90!

Viterbo University is offering the option of earning one graduate credit for taking part at the WWEC. The course requires a full day of participation at the WWEC and attendance at a Saturday morning follow up session held at Viterbo University.

Course Title: 
Imagination: Renewing the Character of Teaching & Learning

Follow-up:
Saturday, February 28, 8 am-1 pm

Course Tuition:    
$90 for one Viterbo graduate credit

Materials: Students will pick up all course materials at the Viterbo WWEC booth  

For more info or to reserve space, contact John Schroeder at jrschroeder@viterbo.edu  

Lunch Options so you can eat in

At 10:30 a.m. Quiznos Sub of La Crosse, Onalaska & West Salem will be offering  
(multiple varieties available)an “eat in” lunch option. We encourage you to bring your lunch into the mid-day sessions. Choices include: 

Sub Sandwich                $4.00 
(Turkey/Swiss, Bacon Club,
Beef /Chedder or Veggie)

Sub/chips/cookie          $5.50 
combo meal 

Small salad/chips/        $5.00 
cookie combo meal 

Small Salad                    $3.00  

12:30-1:45 pm Sessions

Imagination and the Moral Lives of Children - Tom Thibodeau, Viterbo University

Best teaching strategies for every teacher - Bill Banks, Kaukauna Area School District

The gift of story - Terry Visger, teacher & storyteller

Exploring the outdoor classroom - Brad Steinmetz & Chuck Hatfield, Kickapoo Valley Reserve

Appreciative Inquiry in education: Bringing out the best in students - Leanne Hedberg Carlson, Viterbo University

Moral Imagination - Rick Kyte, Viterbo University

Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension - Peggy Garties, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (ECB) & Cathy Burge, School District of Holmen

A classroom for all: Teach for social justice in an age of diversity - Sarah Dixen, Kimberlyn Harrington, Susan Hughes & Rhonda Rabbitt, Leadership Team, ME-PD Learning Community, UW-La Crosse

RtI Panel Discussion: Meeting the needs of all learners - Amy Stoeckly, CESA #4; Teresa Nuttelman, Holmen; Paul Fischer, Sparta and Rick Wolter, La Crescent

Trading Places: Re-Learning Teaching from Where We Learned It - Grant Smith, PhD, Viterbo University & Anthony De Paolo, MA, ME-PD, Logan High School

Foldables - Matthew Christen, La Crosse School District

Common health myths & misconceptions - Brian Udermann, Associate Professor, UW-La Crosse

Explore Microsoft Office 2007: Timesaving tips & tricks - Kristin Matchey, Arcadia Schools

Navigating the tangled Web - Members of Coulee Region Children’s Internet Protection Task Force

Tidbits of knowledge regarding your MAC - Dennis Kieser, Den’s Creative Computing, Thorp, WI

Super Hero for a day…Movement's creative powers - Kristi Mally, PhD, UW-La Crosse

Are we creating ‘Praise Junkies’? Move from praise to positive feedback - Gaye Tylka, Early Education Director, CESA #4

Creativity through Poetry Out Loud - Jacki Martindale, WI Coordinator, Wis. Arts Board

Thinking outside the box: For readers and our listeners - Carlene Roberts, World We Live In

Closing Keynote: Dear Doctor Humor

Dr. Stuart Robertshaw •  South Hall  •  2:00-2:45

Dr. Stu Robertshaw will share with you his personal journey which began in the late 1980s when he started a review of the research on the benefits of humor.Dr. Humor will share with you what he has learned about the power of humor and it's use in the classroom.

Morning Entertainment

8:00-8:55 am & 10:15-10:45 am outside of South Hall.

The Logan High School Jazz Combo is an extra-curricular music group that meets at
6 a.m. on Thursday mornings. The main purpose of this group is to begin to learn and explore the art of improvisation. Students learn to improvise using standard jazz melodies and chord progressions. The

Logan High School Jazz Combos perform for many public and private events as well as local and regional jazz festivals. Members are selected by the Director, Mark Lakmann, and include:  David Lemmon on guitar, Sheridan West on bass, Schuyler Leehey on drums, Tyler Harris on piano, Grace Lansing on trumpet, Hannah Weber and Samantha Hsieh on alto sax, and Jordan Hanson on tenor sax.

Selections include music from Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver and others.