The catalog contains information on our online courses, face-to-face offerings and The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference.

 

Join us for a day of learning centered around Differentiation in the 21st Century at Cardinal Stritch University. The workshop includes the keynote speaker plus participation in a workshop of your choice for the day. Participants can receive one graduate credit through participating in this event.

Keynote Speaker: Jackie Drummer

Jackie is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator and Differentiation Specialist for the School District of South Milwaukee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Carthage College and a Master of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Both degrees are in Exceptional Education.  Jackie is the President of the Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted (WATG) and teaches for Cardinal Stritch University, Silver Lake College and Carthage College.   She "stays real" by teaching classes at the middle school and elementary school levels, and co-teaches at the high school level.  In her spare time, she can be found writing children's books, traveling extensively, and making beautiful music with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Workshop Options (Participants can choose one):

• Teaching & Learning Online Using Moodle (This is a 2 Graduate Credit Course and will also meet May 8th)
  
• Emerging Technologies to Assist Struggling Learners
• Differentiation Using Technology

In addition to the conference, participants will be required to take a one credit online course during a window between September 13th through October 31st.  During this online class, you will design a lesson or unit in the subject area you teach using one of the technology tools that you learned about in the conference. The lesson plan design will use the Understanding by Design framework. Participants in the course will peer review one another's work in the course.

Lesson plans and units developed in the course will be posted on the ide@s portal, a statewide portal to an online database that allows Wisconsin PK-12 educators to search for high-quality online resources (lesson plans, high-quality images, video, and interactive learning tools) aligned with the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards.

Graduate Credit

Participants can earn three graduate credits through Viterbo University for $270 (or $90 per credit). Graduate credits are not covered under the scholarship and participants must pay tuition on their own. The course-work is embedded in the conference and online course. The expectations for course work and conference participation is the same for credit and non-credit participants.

Eligibility

 

In order to apply, you must be a state-certified classroom teacher in Wisconsin. We are seeking educators who are 21st century learners, exhibit leadership qualities, have strong writing skills and an aptitude for curriculum design. Participants will be asked to pay the full registration ($350) to the conference and will be reimbursed when their unit has passed the peer review process and is ready for posting on the ide@s website.

The deadline to apply is April 26th. Winners will be announced May 1st. Twenty scholarships are available. We are seeking teachers who represent a variety of subject areas and grade levels.


Questions can be directed to:
Tammy Stephens
tstephens@thestephensgroup.com

 

The Stephens Group is proud to have assisted the following  school districts and consortiums in obtaining ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funding: Milwaukee Public Schools, CESA #3, The West Allis West Milwaukee Consortium, The Kenosha School District and the South Milwaukee School District.

 

Four of these grants are continuation grants that will continue to build upon the work that is currently being done through EETT funded grants. The Stephens Group is the evaluators of these grants. More information on the grant evaluation work we are doing in these districts is available on our Research and Evaluation website.

 

Tammy Stephens and Mary Lou Ley will be speaking at the Wisconsin DPI ARRA meetings scheduled on January 5th and 11th on the peer review process they have been using throughout the state in transforming teacher practices through integrating technology to improve student academic achievement.

 

In addition, The Stephens Group assisted the South Milwaukee School District in receiving an ARRA grant. Part of these funds will be used to send teachers from the district to The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference.