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2019 AIMS Conference

8:00am CST

Registration Goodwin Atrium

9:00am CST

Welcome Goodwin Auditorium

9:15am CST

Enabling Exploration Through Boundary Setting: Facilitating Montessori Educations Accessibility to Students Coping With Dysregulating Life ContextsLIMITED Goodwin AuditoriumMicere Keels

10:15am CST

Morning Break: Visit the Expo Goodwin Atrium

10:30am CST

Beyond Grace and Courtesy: Elementary Practical LifeLIMITED Goodwin 414Ashley Buntrock Creating Mindful Music Experiences in the EC ClassroomFILLING Kindlon 164Rebecca Appleby Hierarchies, Apprenticeships, and Press Conferences: Making History Come Alive in the Upper Elementary and Middle SchoolLIMITED Goodwin 211Adam Darlage Implementing Writing Workshop in the Elementary ClassroomLIMITED Kindlon 126Kirstin Nordhaus Learning Outside to Learn InsideFULL Goodwin 213Deepa Shreekumar Nurturing the Leader Within: A Session for Montessori Educators and AdministratorsFULL Kindlon 163Anna Perry Supporting Cognitive Development in ChildrenFULL Kindlon 162Margaret Combs Expanding our Executive Functioning ToolboxLIMITED Goodwin 317Erica Lane • Megan O'Hehir Practical Life and Human FulfillmentLIMITED Goodwin 321Jennifer Nolan • Rosemary Quaranta Preparing the Environment Using the Human Tendencies and a Critical Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist LensFULL Goodwin 212Alli Bizon Proactive, Instructional, and Relational Boundary Setting: Discipline that is Neither Permissive or PunitiveLIMITED Goodwin AuditoriumMicere Keels • Bill Kennedy • Rebecca Hendrickson • Jessica Staff-Nixon • Stacy Williams You Have an Allegation of Sex Abuse - Now What?LIMITED Goodwin 415

12:00pm CST

Lunch: Visit the Expo Goodwin Hall of Leaders

1:15pm CST

AMP it up with an Assistant Mentorship ProgramFILLING Goodwin 212Tina Davidson Are You Ready for Validation?LIMITED Kindlon 126Charis Sharp Building Community Inside and Outside of School WallsFILLING Kindlon 162Sabrina Binkley Building the Bridge Over the Troubled Waters of ChangeLIMITED Goodwin 213Edward Hollinger Cultivating Happiness and Joy in the Montessori ClassroomLIMITED Goodwin AuditoriumMarcy Formigoni Every Child is an ArtistLIMITED Goodwin 321Emily Fetter Flow and Normalization: Is there a connection?FILLING Goodwin 317Linda Davis How to build an authentic Montessori P.E. program at your schoolLIMITED Kindlon 164Nicolas Lepine Montessori Children in AdulthoodFILLING Birck Hall 225Amy Cade Pedagogy of Place on Chicago’s South Side: Centralizing African American StoriesLIMITED Goodwin 211Rita Nolan Place-Based Education in a City school SettingLIMITED Goodwin 414Tracy Rucker • Angela Stricker Storyoga: Once Upon a Mat!FILLING Kindlon 163Chelsea Brown • Liz Skrodzki Teaching Shakespeare from the Inside OutLIMITED Goodwin 415Larry Schanker • Laurie Stockton-Moreno

2:30pm CST

Afternoon Break: Visit the Expo Goodwin Atrium

3:00pm CST

An Introduction to BookshareLIMITED Birck Hall 225Lila Yusen Building an Equitable Holiday Approach in Montessori CommunitiesLIMITED Kindlon 162Tammy Oesting Coaching teachers to become self-reflective, inquiry based practitionersLIMITED Goodwin 321Dr. Sharon Damore Cultivating the Seeds of Montessori Language Development 0-3FULL Goodwin 414Elizabeth Norman • Eva Parrucci Enhancing Movement Line experiences in the 3-6 ClassroomLIMITED Goodwin AuditoriumRebecca Appleby • Melissa Mulvaney Making It Up As We Go: Exploring and Exploding the Brain through Improvisational TheatreLIMITED Goodwin 213Lisa Thauvette Montessori Language Immersion Introduction for 3-6 and 6-9 Language Immersion for 3-6 and 6-9FILLING Goodwin 415Claudia Medina • Elizabeth Rodriguez Montessori Outdoors: Reflections, Research, and Practical Application for Experiencing Nature In and Out of the Montessori ClassroomLIMITED Goodwin 317Janne B Guerin • Amanda Salley Moral Progress Through CompetitionLIMITED Kindlon 126David Chorney Preparing Students for the Current MomentLIMITED Goodwin 211Gabriel Forestieri Toddler ScienceFILLING Kindlon 164Julia Eskenazi Tracking Student Progress with PlannersFULL Goodwin 212Tracy Rucker • Angela Stricker What Does the Behavior Tell Us?FULL Kindlon 163Heather Madden