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Reach Children By Teaching Children, Not Content: A Road Map To The Whole Child, Christopher Williams

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Teaching children is what teachers want to do, but all too often teachers end up teaching content and the children are left behind in the rear-view. Experience and discuss what it is like to teach using a curriculum map like a road map. Student engagement and positive school culture will be used to show how at-risk students can surpass expectations when they are taught and the subject area content information is used as the vehicle to shape a more positive future. During this session you will experience the ups and downs of the at-risk student and what you can do …

I Am Because We Are, Jennifer Baker

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Youth of today are given a bad name when relating to behavior and understanding of those behaviors. Many of those who are giving those bad reps do not spend "relatable" time with youth. Relatable time is when time spent with youth is not demanding but getting to know the youth as a person. During my time with youth, the best rapport I developed was when I had conversations that were accepting and understanding. So I started performing youth groups to see if the dynamics of the youth would change. IT did!

Growing The Youth Of Tomorrow: Applying Leadership Skills In A Hands-On Effort For Food Security, Chasity D. Tompkins

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The objective of the poster presentation is to highlight the development of student leadership and goal setting skills through 4-H. The collaborative effort with local school systems and the County Extension Offices provides a strong foundation to pursue student growth outside of the classroom. This presentation benefits school officials and community partners.

Dynamic Part-Time Shoulder Use Triggers, Bastian Schroeder

Purdue Road School

Part-time shoulder use strategies that permit all vehicles or buses to drive on freeway shoulders during some hours of the day are now employed in 16 states. This presentation provides an overview of part-time shoulder use and the findings of FHWA research (to be completed in 2019) on speed, volume, and operational triggers for opening and closing the shoulder.

I-69 Section 6, Martinsville, Jennifer Goins, Josh Messmer

Purdue Road School

Section 6 is the final section of I-69 from Evansville to Indianapolis and will link Martinsville to Indianapolis. In this session, project officials provide a summary of the project’s activities in Martinsville, including changes made after the Final Environmental Impact Statement and public involvement activities.

Project Failures And Delays, Greg Wendling, Gary Pool

Purdue Road School

This presentation is divided into three parts: (1) common occurrences that cause delay and overrun in locally and federally funded projects; (2) common practices that place projects in predictable funding and scheduling positions; and (3) what makes a well-managed project team. Project horror stories will be shared.

Secondary Road Reclamation Utilizing Steel Slag And Lwd, John Yzenas, Kelly Cook

Purdue Road School

Several counties in the Midwest have been successfully using steel furnace slag as a key component in pavement reclamation projects. This presentation covers an overview of techniques used; proper characterization of sustainable steel slag materials; specifications, test results, and comparisons to other materials; a review of one agency’s decision-making process; and an overview of the field results obtained utilizing the light weight deflectometer (LWD) as a QC tool.

Conquering The Fear Of Liquids!!, Jeff Beeler

Purdue Road School

In this session the City of Warsaw’s street superintendent shares his experiences with liquids, including making brine, anti-icing, deicing, and prewetting. Join us to boost your confidence level with regard to adding liquids to your winter maintenance toolbox.

Spr-4230: Alternative Quality Assurance Methods For Compacted Subgrade, Peter J. Becker

Purdue Road School

This presentation introduces and summarizes SPR-4230 (Alternative Quality Assurance Methods for Compacted Subgrade), which aims to establish performance-based QA test methods for subgrade treatment construction. The presenter will review the current state of subgrade treatment QA testing methods and then discuss proposed QA testing methods that SPR-4230 is currently assessing. Because SPR-4230 is not scheduled for completion until March 2020, preliminary results and future work for the project will be presented.

Technology And Addiction: How To Have A Healthy Relationship With Tech, Katie L. Greer

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Studies show that kids ages 8–18 are spending an average of 7.5 hours a day in front of screens. Additional studies show that the amount of time kids are spending on devices is negatively impacting their performance in school, along with social and emotional consequences. Brain activity while using devices has been compared to that of a heroin user, as schools and families struggle to find an appropriate balance. Learn the impact that devices, social media, and gaming are having on kids, and how we can help strike a healthy balance.

Stop Beating Around The Bush And Get To The Root!: An Examination Of How Racist And Classist Structures Produce “At-Riskness” For Poor Students Of Color, Anthony Outler Eds

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

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L.O.V.E. Is The Answer: The Movie, A.J. Ali

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The presenter will show a 60-minute, condensed version of their film, “Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. Is The Answer,” followed by a 15-minute question-and-answer of the L.O.V.E. Is The Answer principles that make up the foundation of the film.

Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Five Things They Want You To Know, Corbin Hannah, Tricia Eskridge

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This workshop will invite participants to identify their current knowledge and biases related to youth who are experiencing homelessness. Presenters will share information gathered from focus groups of youth in Louisville, KY, who have utilized the services of the YMCA Safe Place Services. The presenters will walk the participants through the top five things that youth want the adults in their lives to understand, highlighting resiliency factors for this specific population. Finally, presenters will work with participants in developing the skills of understanding and expressing empathy with this population. Participants will gain a greater knowledge for working with this population. …

Implementing Youth Programs With Excellence: From Concept To Sustainability, Quinn M. Gentry, Reinette Arnold

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation addresses eight key areas that must be addressed to create, scale up, and sustain highperforming programs implemented in collaboration with after-school programs. The program draws heavily from seven years of successful federal funding and local support to reach and engage approximately 5,000 youth throughout Georgia through the use of 16 modules for comprehensive youth development. The presenters integrate lessons learned in program leadership and management.

“Kids These Days!” Preparing “At-Risk” Youth With Social-Emotional Skills For Workplace Success, Steve B. Parese Ed.D.

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

A good job is an essential stepping stone into adulthood. It provides not only a paycheck, but a sense of pride and purpose as well. Unfortunately, troubled teens who had difficulty getting along with peers and authority figures in school typically find themselves struggling to get along with co-workers and supervisors as well. This interactive workshop for teachers, counselors, and community staff explains why youth at risk have trouble adapting to workplace culture. It explores employers’ unspoken expectations, and offers cognitive behavioral strategies for teaching social-emotional skills to adjust successfully to the world of work.

Revolutionary Tools To Transform “At Risk” Youth, Jeff C. Dane

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Students dealing with poverty, homelessness, behavioral issues, learning disabilities, learning English, or incarceration can present severe teaching challenges. Meet the challenge with the structures, activities, and procedures you’ll learn in this workshop. Combining tools from Cooperative Learning, Win-Win Discipline, and Brain-Friendly Instruction, this workshop empowers you with knowledge and strategies you will put to work immediately in your classroom. You will reach and support your hardest to reach and teach students. While individual teachers benefit greatly from this workshop, it is even more powerful when the entire school (or a school team) implements these powerful tools to transform the school …

Reach The Heart To Teach The Head: Bringing Resilience To Your School!, Ayesha Fawzi, Reginald Hurns

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Resilience is the ability to cope from negative events, challenges, difficult situations, adversity, and knowing how to return to an appropriate level of emotional well-being. We have connected being resilient to academic success because if the student is doing well in the heart, it helps us teach the head. The objective of the presentation is to present how to teach resilience to the school through creative mediums. The target audience is high school but the strategies can also be duplicated at all levels.

Windows And Mirrors Literacy Experience: Open Books, Open Minds, Bethany Louise Scullin, Jennifer Allen

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Are you hoping to create an inclusive classroom and school environment where families of all backgrounds feel welcome and valued? In this session, you will learn how you can invite educators, students, families, and caregivers to read “window and mirror” books and create a virtual discussion space where they are able to have genuine and open conversations surrounding those books that celebrate the differences and similarities that make us all human.

Examining Teen Suicide, Then And Now: Research Prevention Among Special And General Educators And Counselors, Renitta L. Goldman, Sharyn W. Hillin

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The presenters will discuss educators’ progress over a 30-year period to recognize high-risk behaviors for teenage suicide, will compare identified factors, what still is lacking among educators’ knowledge and training, and indicate effective programs, methods, and practices to assist professionals in developing comprehensive intervention plans.

Rural Education Panel, Robert L. Lake, Gina Williams, Torian A. White, Kim Morgan, Summer Pannell

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Schools in rural areas and small towns face difficult challenges in serving the needs of children and public education. This panel presentation discusses how best to serve the special needs of rural youth and schools. The presentation will also share successful programs, strategies, and tools for meeting the challenges of rural education.

Unveiling The Mask:Sexual Trauma's Impact On Academic Achievement, Behavior, And Self-Identity, Teshaunda Hannor-Walker, Sarah Kitchens, Lacey Ricks

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Sexual trauma is an unfortunate but a common and often masked experience for many students in America. While sexual trauma in itself is not a mental health disorder, it can become a risk factor for many academic and mental health problems. Trauma-informed schools can play an important role in helping students deal with the aftercare of a traumatic experience.

Stop, Look, And Listen To What Your Data Is Telling You!, Simone Danielson, Jeffrey Harris, Jeff Barnett

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Join us for a ride on the Data Train where you will STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN to what your data is telling you and use the information to develop a process of continuous improvement in your after-school program to be an effective co-collaborator of closing the achievement gap. This workshop will provide information and strategies to be used in K – 12.

1. Participants will learn the importance of data analysis in afterschool.
2. Participants will learn how to work with regular day school professionals in determining what data sources to use.
3. Participants will be able to analyze sample data and develop …

Assessing Slope Instabilities, Victoria Leffel, Joey Franzino

Purdue Road School

INDOT’s Geotechnical Services Section has recently implemented a slide ArcGIS Collector app to provide a systematic approach to collecting and managing unsafe or failed slopes/embankments needed for decision making. A brief background in Indiana landslide geology will be given, then we will review the process of how to inventory slopes through the Collector app and identify potentially hazardous slopes. The session will end with a discussion of current engineering practices INDOT is using to correct landslides.

Rapid-Setting Non-Portland Cement Concrete Applications, Matthew Ross

Purdue Road School

CSA (calcium sulfoaluminate) cement was engineered to overcome the performance challenges of traditional portland cement while producing high early strength, allowing large reductions in lane closure time and dangerous exposure to construction personnel and the traveling public. We will look at examples from the 2,500 lane miles of pavement that have been replaced since the early 1980s, with very few failures and long-term durability.

Using In Swmp, Sandy Bowman, Laura Hilden

Purdue Road School

This session provides an overview for designers and environmental professionals of the appropriate use of INSWMP for transportation projects.

Neighborhood Traffic Calming & Creative Placemaking, Alicia Czarnecki, Theresa E. Harrison, Zach Dripps

Purdue Road School

In August 2017 the City of South Bend, Indiana, participated in Smart Growth America’s new initiative: Safe Streets Academy. This 9-monthlong academy selected a multidisciplinary team of local leaders and trained them on best practices in traffic safety, public engagement, analytics, and creative placemaking. South Bend’s neighborhood traffic calming demonstration project tested three unique traffic calming measures that were installed for a short duration and analyzed for their effectiveness. Join us for a discussion.

Calibration, Bryan Pickworth, Kevin Mccarthy

Purdue Road School

It doesn’t matter if our salt spreaders are new or old, electronic or manual, liquid or granular— they all need to be calibrated. Annual calibration of salt spreaders is an important part of your fleet maintenance, winter maintenance, and MS4 compliance program. Representatives from the Department of Public Works of Farmington Hills, Michigan, will present on calibration of manual and computerized controls for winter maintenance best practices. Topics include granular and liquid calibration as well as using this practice as a tool in conjunction with AVL.

Cave Dripwater Isotopic Signals Related To The Altitudinal Gradient Of Mount-Lebanon: Implication For Speleothem Studies, Carole Nehme, Sophie Verheyden, Fadi H. Nader, Jocelyne Adjizian-Gerard, Dominique Genty, Kevin De Bont, Benedicte Minster, Ghada Salem, David Verstraten, Philippe Clayes

International Journal of Speleology

An important step in paleoclimate reconstructions based on vadose cave carbonate deposits or speleothems is to evaluate the sensitivity of the cave environment and speleothems to regional climate. Accordingly, we studied four caves, located at different altitudes along the western flank of Mount-Lebanon (Eastern Mediterranean). The objectives of this study are to identify the present-day variability in temperature, pCO₂, and water isotopic composition and to assess the possible influence of the altitudinal gradient on cave drip waters and cave streams. We present here an overview of the spatial variability of rainwater based on local and regional data, and …

Interactive Internet Of Things Robotic Device, Melissa Daniels

Defensive Publications Series

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a robotic device that includes appendages that can move and lighting elements that can activate and change color in response to movement and other indicators of user presence. As one particular example, the robotic device of the present disclosure can include a structure in the shape of a jellyfish that can be mounted on a surface (e.g., a floor or ceiling) and which can make various movements and/or lighting effects.

Project Estimating And Contingency Guidelines, Lyndsay Quist, Kevin Jasinski

Purdue Road School

In this session we discuss acceptable ranges for project estimates, what is an acceptable amount of contingency based on the stage submittal, and how we get better at estimating.