15th Anniversary Back to School Kickoff Conference

Admitted, Denied, or Waitlisted: An NYU College Access Case Study

• Presenter: Jaclyn Dailey & Joseph Welcome
• Topic: Academic Excellence
• Room: Eisner & Lubin

Deep dive into the application data from NYU over the years and discuss how the landscape of applying to a selective college has changed. We will do some review of the ‘steps of the college application process – TREAT’, we will review our own NYU application data using real student information, and discuss what we can do with our students to help them gain acceptance to schools like NYU. We will also review 3 real applications provided to us by NYU and vote in teams as to whether you think students were Admitted, Denied or Waitlisted.

Read Outside the Box: Cross-Content Literacy Acceleration

• Presenter: Nicole Gilliams-Olivera
• Topic: Academic Excellence
• Room: GC 361

How can we increase student capacity to expertly read complex text across disciplines? In this session, we will dive into unleashing the power of metacognitive conversation to coach reading. We will explore relevant research, analyze classroom video, and practice applying metacognitive strategies.

PRIDE Promise: Increasing Access Pushing Persistence

• Presenter: Eugene Wood & Elliot Bobr
• Topic: College Access
• Room: GC 365

This session will seek to provide clarity on CIP’s PRIDE Promise Scholarship, its success and areas for growth. CIP staff members will walk away from this session understanding the impact of this matching scholarship and its impact on our efforts to ensure students can attend and graduate from selective colleges and universities.

Teaching Strategies - Make It Your Own!

• Presenter: Shay L. Askew & LeShawn Williams
• Topic: Academic Excellence
• Room: GC 369

The session will include the introduction and practice of teaching techniques that assist with classroom management, effective systems, and routines. The goal is to foster a strong start to the school year that can be effectively continued. Presenters will discuss the reasons for implementing these routines, their effectiveness, demonstrate how the techniques are used, and provide opportunities for the audience to practice them both as a whole group and in small groups.

The strategies covered will include “What To Do” Directions/Turn-in-Talk and “First Five/Do It Again.

It's a PRIME Time to Think About Vertical Alignment

• Presenter: Bikkaram Singh
• Topic: Academic Excellence - STEM
• Room: GC 375

It can be easy to think about mastery of content in silos, rather than thinking about the bigger picture. It might be easier to think about how mastery of a 4th grade standard will help students in 5th or 6th grade, but how does it help students to master content in 7th grade, or even 11th grade? In this session, we will look at various topics across multiple grade levels and show how the use of prime factorization in the instruction of these topics can impact student mastery. Hence, why this is a PRIME time to talk about vertical alignment!

Activating the Power of After School

• Presenter: Kelly Stumper & Jen Soper
• Topic: Social Emotional Learning
• Room: GC 379

How did participation in after school or extracurriculars impact you growing up? Join us as we highlight the impact that CIP’s after school program is having on scholars, share our own experiences with extracurriculars and work together to solve the after school question: how do we serve more scholars?

Metacognition: Work Smarter, not Harder

• Presenter: Samantha Davis
• Topic: Academic Excellence
• Room: GC 388

Intentional and strategic deep reflection into our teaching practices and student outcomes allows for us to grow our curriculum and broaden the scope of best practices. But who’s got the time? In this session, we will discuss strategies for implementing efficient and purposeful metacognition both for teacher and students. This session we will discuss strategies for using metacognition to improve our curriculums and lesson planning. In turn, We will discuss different approaches to deepen metacognitive activities, and instructional routines to encourage independent reflections.

Culturally Responsive or Nah?

• Presenter: Malika Davis & Louvina Jackman
• Topic: Student Engagement
• Room: Eisner & Lubin

What does it mean to be a culturally responsive educator? Is it enough to just put students’ names into the classwork and play their favorite music? This session will define and explore the concept of culturally responsive teaching, dispel some of the myths regarding it, and introduce attendees to some tools for becoming culturally responsive educators.

Empathy at the Core: Nurturing Resilience through Trauma-Informed Teaching

• Presenter: Ruben Kennedy
• Topic: Social Emotional Learning
• Room: GC 361

Trauma-informed teaching starts with an understanding of how trauma can impact learning and behavior. Through this lens, educators must think about what student behavior may be telling them and reflect on their teaching methods to find ways to better support students who may be experiencing trauma.

This intro to Trauma Informed Practices (TIP) seeks to help start the conversation with understanding the tenets of TIP in the hopes of aiding educators in creating trauma informed learning environments.

Get 'em Talking: Student Engagement Activities You Can Use Day One

• Presenter: Rose Friedrichs
• Topic: Student Engagement
• Room: GC 365

During this session, teachers will learn specific activities that teachers can use to get students talking to one another. These activities can easily be adjusted for any grade and/or content. While specifically designed to be used as “after reading” discussion tasks, they can ultimately be used in any situation to encourage students to have conversations within the classroom. Some activities can be designed to work with any type of discussion, while others require students to pull information directly from a text. These tasks will add structure to group discussions and some fun as well!

How to #LUV: Evaluating Our Beliefs to Listen, Understand and Validate our Families with an Equity Lens

• Presenter: Elizabeth Anoff
• Topic: Family Engagement
• Room: GC 369

Family engagement plays a critical role in scholar success — but it’s not always easy! Join Elizabeth Anoff, Senior Director of Family and Community Engagement, to discuss how our values and beliefs can serve as a connection (or barrier) to forming genuine relationships with families through an equity lens. We will also discuss effective strategies to build authentic relationships with scholars’ families and ways to make schools and classrooms more welcoming to all.

Why are they so DANG moody??? Being Empathetic to the Characteristic of Young Adolescents

• Presenter: Charles Jeffries
• Topic: Student Engagement
• Room: GC 375

Building authentic relationships is most important and more challenging during a scholar’s Young adolescent developmental stages. This is the most impressionable developmental stage, which places additional responsibility on 5th-10th grade educators to foster Positive learning partnerships.

How can empathy help you through gaining an understanding of one of the most critical stages of their development?

Inclusion: History & Vision Setting

• Presenter: Paulina Portnoy & Melissa Elstone
• Topic: Academic Inclusion
• Room: GC 379

Join us to learn & explore the benefits of the inclusion model in a school setting. Participants will be introduced to an inclusion framework and have the opportunity to work with individuals across layers to craft a vision for inclusion that pertains to their sphere of influence.

Coney Island Prep: A PRIDE-ful Community

• Presenter: Jonathan Cintrón-Rodriguez & Coop
• Topic: Social Emotional Learning
• Room: GC 388

Culture? What about it? How does it apply? Well, Come find out how we put it all together at CIP!

In this session we will dive into the impact and importance of values. Then we will dive into how CIP’s PRIDE values drive our school and classroom culture. Lastly, we will apply them to our campus age groups while exploring how they manifest over time.

You Can Lead, and We Need You Too: Leadership Strategies for BIPOC at Any Level

• Presenter: Dr. Lisa Martin
• Topic: Leadership Development and DEIJ
• Room: Eisner & Lubin

Dr. Martin has recently completed a 6-month project in which she interviewed 75 established and aspiring BIPOC leaders on their barriers and pathways to success. She will share insights and themes that emerged from this project and the many coaching, therapy, and affinity groups sessions she has hosted through the years. Dr. Martin will offer strategies, for any level of employee, to step into their own sense of leadership in a way that is authentic, affirming, and outside of a white supremist paradigm. Strategies for co-conspirators to champion the leadership of BIPOC will also be shared. Anticipate an interactive, emotive, and multimedia experience.

Indigenous Peoples Day + Inspired Action Day + other community initiatives

• Presenter: Maggie Rose Melito
• Topic: Student Engagement
• Room: GC 361

Acknowledging the original caretakers of the land, committing to our community, and finding filaments of reconciliation and hope bring us closer to the earth. At CIP, we put those values at the forefront of our work.

Nurturing the Nurturers: Cultivating Self-Care for Educators and Staff

• Presenter: Lakota Leijon & Courtney Gannon
• Topic: Wellness
• Room: GC 365

In the fast-paced and demanding world of education, the well-being of educators and staff is often overlooked, despite being the very foundation of a successful learning environment. “Nurturing the Nurturers: Cultivating Self-Care for Educators and Staff” is a dynamic and transformative workshop designed to empower those who dedicate their lives to nurturing young minds. Join us for a workshop that not only rekindles your passion for teaching but also nurtures the nurturer within you. Experience a profound shift in your approach to self-care and take the first step toward creating a culture of well-being within your educational community. Let’s embark on this transformative journey together (and your body ready to move/grove)!!

Trapped in Excellence

• Presenter: Iman Wright
• Topic: Leadership Development and DEIJ
• Room: GC 369

In this session, we will delve into the concepts of perfectionism and overthinking, examining their connection and impact. We will explore the positive and negative aspects of these traits in both personal and professional life, considering their consequences and social implications, as well as their effects on physical health and mental well-being. Additionally, the session will provide practical tips and strategies to combat this syndrome.

During the session, we will discuss methods for managing perfectionism and overthinking, and we will focus on cultivating self-compassion and acceptance. Mindfulness techniques will also be shared to help attendees develop a healthier approach to these challenges. By the end of the session, participants will gain valuable insights and tools to navigate their lives more effectively and foster a greater sense of well-being.

All the Way Up: Managing Up!

• Presenter: Lily DeSaussure & Hannah Prussin
• Topic: Leadership Development
• Room: GC 375

Managing up isn’t easy! Due to positional power, privilege, and identity, it can be challenging to give feedback to your manager and those with more power than you. In this session, you will engage with tools that will help you manage up and create agency in your role and your career. For some fun and optional pre-work, watch the pilot episode of Abbott Elementary in this link, on Hulu, or on HBOMax.

Pre Work link: Abbott Elementary

Beyond the Books: Embracing AI with ChatGPT

• Presenter: Liza Potter & Abigail Gabriel
• Topic: Academic Innovation
• Room: GC 379

ChatGPT: You’ve heard about it, your scholars have heard about it… now what are you going to do about it? In this session, we’ll dive into the AI landscape, how it’s already impacting education, and how you can leverage AI such as ChatGPT, Brainly, and other AI platforms to take your work to the next level.

The Science of Reading: Fad or Fact?

• Presenter: Linda Timko Liang
• Topic: Academic Excellence
• Room: GC 388

The Science of Reading is everywhere, but what is it? And what distinguishes this movement from previous trends in literacy? In this session we will dive into the Science of Reading: what it is, what it is not, and whether it is here to stay.