Registration & Publisher's Exhibits

Opening Session
Carol Udman, President of MAC²

Keynote Speaker
Why Do They Leave? How Can We Help Them Stay?
Lennox McLendon, Ed. D
Executive Director, National Adult Education Professional Development
Consortium

Tract I Presentations

Hands On Strategies for Improving Student Retention

Lennox McLendon, Ed. D.

In the General Session, we overviewed the research and the strategies. In this in-depth session, we will explore a variety of specific strategies in each of the four student persistence areas, identify what you are already doing that supports each area, explore which optional strategies you might want to add to your classroom management, talk about how and when you might use them, and play how you would document the impact and how to share those finding with the colleagues in your program -- we need to learn from each other

Give the Gift of Gab
"Teacher, We Want More Conversation!"

Debbie Hitsky, ESL Instructor, Ferndale Adult Education

This session will focus on ways to inspire and enhance verbal communication in the ESL classroom using a December-friendly gifts and gift giving theme.

Cross-Curriculum Connections

Jeff Fosnaugh and Shelly Parks
Alternative Education Instructors
Hazel Park Breakfast Club

Let us share with you our experiences with the use of thematic and team teaching in the alternative high school setting. Material and tips from nearly a decade of thematic units which include death, sports, renaissance, space and more. Come prepared to share your own experiences and ideas as well.

Learning from the Publishers

Lunch - Elections

Afternoon Session

"Report from the State"

Tract I Presentations

5 Easy Steps to Avoid Math Phobia

Robert Blair, Chief GED Examiner, Academic Coordinator

James Cooper, Instructor
Alternative High School Instructor, Mott Adult High School, Flint

Do you break out in a cold sweat or have an overwhelming sense of fear engulf your mind or do you freeze up when the subject of mathematics is brought up? If so, then this session is for you. Come and learn how to exorcise the SATANIC MATH DEMON!

Keepin' It Real

Matthew Tanguay, Alternative High School Instructor
Enterprise High School, Warren Woods

Activities will include a mock press conference, budget cuts ( a group government assignment), Bill of Rights relay and other assorted Language Arts/Social Studies fun.

Strategies to Defuse Anger

Ray Henderson, Adult Education Coordinator
L'Ansc Creuse/Mt. Clemens Adult Education

Participants will learn how perceptions contribute to anger and five emotions that underlie anger. Stress reducing strategies, active listening skills, communications strategies to prevent or defuse anger as well as ten strategies to resolve conflict will also be presented.

ESL Sharing

Irene Sinclair
Adult Education Administrator
Detroit Public Schools

Best Practices sharing of ideas with ESL colleagues.

Review and Reflections