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Friday, March 14
 

9:15am PDT

Hiding in Plain Sight: Unveiling the SEL Secrets Within Your Teaching
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is critical for student success, yet educators often lack a clear, time-efficient path to integrate it into daily lessons. As a result, students may miss the chance to develop essential life skills, leading to lower emotional resilience and diminished academic growth. In this session, discover how to spot and strengthen the SEL already embedded in your teaching. You’ll gain practical insights for highlighting these hidden components, learn to combine strategies that calm classrooms and boost engagement, and receive access to over 200 evidence-based methods—each aligned to specific SEL competencies. Walk away prepared to build a thriving, supportive, and high-achieving learning environment.
Speakers
avatar for Marcey Aronson

Marcey Aronson

Co-founder, BrainZones
Marcey Aronson is a highly qualified and experienced educator with over three decades of experience working with at-risk students in inner-city environments. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education and Elementary Education and has been awarded the prestigious Ohio... Read More →
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Marlon Wayne

Marlon Wayne has spent his career exploring the intersection of new technologies and market application. From phil&teds to Google, where data management and attention to metric integrity was a cornerstone; Marlon has established a reputation for thinking beyond innovation to integration... Read More →
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Room 219
  Session 1
  • Subject Classroom & School-Wide SEL
  • about Debbie Leonard, M.Ed., Certified Ohio Master Teacher, brings over 30 years of experience in education, specializing in supporting at-risk and struggling students in urban settings. From her early work in a boys reformatory to teaching middle school students with severe behavioral challenges, Debbie has consistently implemented neuroscience-inspired strategies such as mindfulness and brain breaks to transform classrooms. As the co-founder of BrainZones, she pioneered the integration of affective neuroscience, positive psychology, and social-emotional learning (SEL), developing a comprehensive model that has significantly improved student behavior and academic performance. Additionally, Debbie has played a key role in creating the BrainZones app, a scalable tool that facilitates SEL implementation across various grade levels and disciplines. Passionate about empowering educators, Debbie continues to provide research-backed strategies and innovative solutions to foster resilience, empathy, and positive student-staff relationships nationwide.

9:15am PDT

Last stop for High School Student Wellness
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Choooo... chooo... last train stop before high school students are out in the world! This is it, the last chance we have to empower, teach coping skills, build resilience, and discover community resources for our students. Oh, and let's make sure we check those house bill requirements. Kim will introduce how her students have been peer leaders in student wellness since 1998. Most recently, implementing Sources of Strength.  
Speakers
avatar for Kim Haney, M.Ed., A.T.,C.

Kim Haney, M.Ed., A.T.,C.

Medical Health Technology Instructor, Amherst Steele High School
A wellness advocate for all ages, Kim Haney has made a career out of student lead wellness initiatives at Amherst Steele High School through her Medical Health Technology (MHT) Program since 1998. MHT is a two year program that helps prepare students for careers in healthcare. MHT... Read More →
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Room 226

9:15am PDT

Leighton Leaders: Leading Leighton
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
The Leighton Leaders is a service group comprised of 5th grade students whose purpose is to support the school and community. Part student council, part service team, the group has traditionally read the morning announcements, done mail delivery, and provided opportunities for the school to participate in food drives, book drives, and the like.
This year's group of 36 students came in with a different focus...they wanted their service projects to directly improve our school environment and culture. This session is about how they have directed this change in the groups' purpose, how they have struggled and supported each other, and how the advisors have helped pave the way for their ideas. 

Speakers
avatar for Jennifer Kinkoph

Jennifer Kinkoph

Media Specialist, Aurora City Schools
Jennifer Kinkoph is the district media specialist for the Aurora City School District in Aurora, Ohio. Teaching all third through fifth grade students in the district, Kinkoph guides her students to develop skills and knowledge in digital citizenship, research, coding and computer... Read More →
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Room 221

9:15am PDT

Nurturing Hearts, Strengthening Minds: Trauma-Informed SEL for Teachers and Students
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
In a world where schools are often measured by numbers, where does the human factor fit? Teaching and learning is about people - the teachers, learners, and supporters. This session will explore strategies that promote emotional wellness for all stakeholders. It's all about connections, co-regulation, and care. When we make this a crucial part of the learning process, the possibilities are endless.
Speakers
avatar for Pamela Broome

Pamela Broome

Director, Niner University Elementary, UNC Charlotte
Pamela Broome is a passionate educator with more than 20 years experience in grades P-12 and higher education. She has served as a teacher, school leader, and education consultant for urban and rural schools across the country. Her steadfast approach to teaching and learning is a... Read More →
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Performing Arts Center

9:15am PDT

SEL in the Classroom and BEYOND...
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Join us for a time of collaboration between a university and an elementary classroom to see the outcome of the implementation of social emotional learning curriculum and interventions that have been tried in a lower elementary classroom. What worked and what didn't! Let's go beyond the classroom and discuss how to create a more positive school culture.  
Speakers
avatar for Sharon Swan

Sharon Swan

Professor of Practice for PreK to 5, Cleveland State University
Sharon Swan, Visiting Professor of Practice, P-5 Education in the Teacher EducationDepartment, is actively involved in the CSU Teacher License Program for preservice teacherspromoting an integrated model for teacher preparation at Cleveland State University. Swandevelops partnerships... Read More →
avatar for Salli Swisher

Salli Swisher

Salli Swisher has been teaching kindergarten for thirty-one years. She was awarded the Fayetteville-Perry Local Schools Teacher of the Year and Brown County Teacher of the Year in 2022 and went on to be awarded the District 5 State Teacher of the Year. She is involved in the building... Read More →
Friday March 14, 2025 9:15am - 10:00am PDT
Room 217
 
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