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10:30am AKST
Alaska Center for Accessible Materials "How Can We Help?
Monday February 3, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
Presenters
AKCAM - Grant Coordinator, Alaska Center for Accessible Materials
The Alaska Center for Accessible Materials is a grant that provides alternative formats and assistive technology to students across the state who need support accessing print. These can be students with physical, vision, or processing disabilities. AKCAM also provides support to teams...
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SESA Multiple Disabilities & Alaska Center for Accessible Materials Specialist, Special Education Services Agency
Monday February 3, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
TBA
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Executive Functioning Strategies Across the Neurodevelopmental Continuum
Monday February 3, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
Presenters
Exec. Director / Educational Psychologist, Empowerment Research, LLC
Having spent over three decades in public health and education with an emphasis on pediatric disabilities, I'm an open book. As a parent of a now-adult son with a traumatic brain injury in early childhood and as a severe TBI survivor myself, I have intense passion to share the brain...
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Monday February 3, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
TBA
10:30am AKST
10:30am AKST
My Plate Too Full...Help!
Monday February 3, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
Presenters
Keynote Speaker, Author, Educator, Molly Kennedy Productions, L.L.C.
Molly Kennedy has dedicated the past 26 years to empowering people to have more resilience, confidence and learning to leverage their adversity into results.Challenges and trauma followed Molly throughout her life. She grew up in a dysfunctional family with addiction, divorce, neglect...
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10:30am AKST
10:30am AKST
1:30pm AKST
Bridging Western and Alaska Native Ways in Transition Plans and IEPs
Monday February 3, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm AKST
Presenters
Owner, Rain Van Den Berg Consulting
Rain Van Den Berg is an education and training consultant with a background in education, health education, project management, and facilitation. Current projects include creating culturally responsive transition materials for Alaskan Special Education students, supporting organizational...
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Special Education Coordinator, NWABSD
Monday February 3, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm AKST
TBA
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1:30pm AKST
1:30pm AKST
1:30pm AKST
Strategies for Teaching Social Emotional Learning to Autistic Individuals
Monday February 3, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm AKST
Presenters
Autism Specialist, Special Education Service Agency
Autism Resource Specialist, Alaska Autism Resource Center (AARC)
The Alaska Autism Resource Center (AARC) supports individuals of all ages with autism spectrum, their families, caregivers, and service providers throughout the state of Alaska.
Monday February 3, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm AKST
TBA
1:30pm AKST
Watch Me: Flipping Limiting Beliefs Into Empowering Beliefs
Monday February 3, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm AKST
Presenters
Keynote Speaker, Author, Educator, Molly Kennedy Productions, L.L.C.
Molly Kennedy has dedicated the past 26 years to empowering people to have more resilience, confidence and learning to leverage their adversity into results.Challenges and trauma followed Molly throughout her life. She grew up in a dysfunctional family with addiction, divorce, neglect...
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3:20pm AKST
Alaska Native Values-Understanding Alaska's First People
Monday February 3, 2025 3:20pm - 4:50pm AKST
Presenters
Sisu Services for Alaskans
Dawn is Gwich'in Athabaskan and Aleut from the Native Village of Fort Yukon. She cares passionately about the Alaska Native population and want everyone she meets to understand the unique challenges they face in Western style education. Dawn is relativly new to the teaching profession...
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Monday February 3, 2025 3:20pm - 4:50pm AKST
TBA
1.5 hrs Breakout
- Audience All Experience
- Subject Administrator, ABA, Autism, Behavior, Family, Inclusion, Paraprofessionals, Related Services, Rural Alaska, Social Climate, Social-Emotional Learning, Self-Advocacy, Transition
3:20pm AKST
3:20pm AKST
3:20pm AKST
Executive Function Skills: What are they and how to improve them!
Monday February 3, 2025 3:20pm - 4:50pm AKST
Presenters
Exec. Director / Educational Psychologist, Empowerment Research, LLC
Having spent over three decades in public health and education with an emphasis on pediatric disabilities, I'm an open book. As a parent of a now-adult son with a traumatic brain injury in early childhood and as a severe TBI survivor myself, I have intense passion to share the brain...
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Monday February 3, 2025 3:20pm - 4:50pm AKST
TBA
3:20pm AKST
3:20pm AKST
Using Descriptive Teaching to Support the Learning of AAC users
Monday February 3, 2025 3:20pm - 4:50pm AKST
Presenters
Multiple Disability Specialist, SESA
My name is Jennifer and I was born and raised in MN. My first teaching job was in Bethel, AK. After that I worked at a residential school for children with autism and then as a teacher for students with multiple disabilities at a school for the Deaf. I returned to AK to work...
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Monday February 3, 2025 3:20pm - 4:50pm AKST
TBA
3:20pm AKST
10:30am AKST
10:30am AKST
Breakout Session - Dani Bowman
Wednesday February 5, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
Presenters
Founder & Chief Creative Officer, DaniMation Entertainment LLC
Dani Bowman founded her company, DaniMation Entertainment, at age 11. She has worked professionally in the animation industry since 14. Bowman has premiered 11 award-wining animated short films at San Diego Comic-Con each year for the past 10 years. Her shorts feature the voices...
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10:30am AKST
The Road to High Quality-Defensible Instruction for Significant Disabilities
Wednesday February 5, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
Presenters
Vice President, Attainment Company
Attainment is the leading provider of blended learning solutions with traditional curriculum, apps, software, web-based programs, and AT solutions for special education PreK- 12+. A scientific research-based approach to curriculum creation for ELA, math, science, social studies, and...
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Wednesday February 5, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm AKST
TBA