* The conference will be self-paced and held between March 27-April 24.
* Complete the form no later than Friday, February 10th at midnight.
Once your presentation is accepted, you will receive additional information about sending in your presentation.
Do you have engaging classroom practices or strategies to improve educator effectiveness that you would like to share with others? How are students empowered in your classroom and school? In what ways are you engaging students to be productive learners? Consider joining us at the 2023 NCAEE Elementary Conference and share your expertise with others.
The goal of the North Carolina Association of Educators is to support high-quality professional development sessions that are timely and relevant to elementary educators. Proposals should be very clear in how the session aligns with current research or best practice. We are particularly interested in sessions that actively involve participants and model best practices for teaching and learning.
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
The NCAEE spring PD Conference will be held in a self-paced format from March 27-April 24 virtually. Each session will be approximately 45 minutes long.
PRESENTATION PURPOSE
The objective of the sessions is to provide participants with valuable educational information that will positively impact them and their role in education. If you are representing an organization or company that offers materials or services to our participants, you may not promote books, products, or services during sessions.
CONFERENCE STRANDS
Our conference theme this year is ALL HANDS ON DECK. When you complete this Google form, you will be asked to choose one of the following four conference strands that best fit your presentation. Please read the descriptions below so you can select the strand that best aligns with your session.
** Active Learning and Engagement: Sessions designed to share strategies for actively engaging students and promoting student ownership in the learning process through hands-on experiences, cooperative learning structures, kinesthetic activities, etc.
** Educator Effectiveness: Sessions may include classroom management and organization strategies professional growth, teacher leadership, the teacher evaluation process, reflection, utilizing data to improve instruction, etc.
** Social and Emotional Development: Sessions may offer strategies for helping students develop positive relationships with others, manage and express ideas and feelings, success in school, etc.
** 21st Century Learning Approaches: Sessions offer strategies and effective modeling of blended learning, flexible seating, meaningful technology integration, personalized learning, co-teaching, differentiated instruction, and other innovative techniques to encourage engagement, growth, and learning.
All communication about your virtual session will come to you directly and you will be responsible for sharing it with co-presenter(s), if applicable.
DEADLINE INFORMATION
The deadline for presenter proposals is Friday, February 10, 2023. The NCAEE committee will review the submitted proposals in and will communicate their decision by the end of December. If you would like to submit a proposal, complete the online form. We suggest that you first create a document with all the information that is requested and then just copy and paste to the web form. Save your document for your reference since you will not be able to access the web form later.
PRESENTER CONFERENCE REGISTRATION RATES
Presenter Rate (register by March 25): $15
If your session is approved, the lead presenter will be emailed a registration link. Please wait to register for the conference until you have received confirmation from the committee.
All presenters and co-presenters (up to 3 total presenters per session) agree to register and pay the conference fee of $15 by March 25th. If a presenter has not registered and paid by March 25th, the presentation will be canceled and another will take its place.
SPECIAL NOTES
* HANDOUTS: You may link handouts in your slide deck that we will publish on the NCAEE website.
* CO-PRESENTERS: All communication regarding your breakout session will be sent to the lead presenter directly, and he/she will be responsible for sharing it with the co-presenter (if any). Also note that the co-presenter must also register for the conference.
* IF YOU MUST CANCEL: If after you have been chosen to present you find out that you must cancel, please plan to have someone in mind to take your place. This person may be your co-presenters, if you have one, or someone else qualified to present your material.
Note: In the event of unforeseen circumstances, NCAEE will notify participants of any changes and or cancellations 48 hours in advance of the conference date.
