Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, is an internationally recognized authority on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He has specialized in ADHD for more than 30 years and is currently a Research Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University at Syracuse. Dr. Barkley has published numerous books, more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters, and 7 videos on ADHD and related disorders, including childhood defiance. He is also the editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, he is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

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South Dakota Speech Language Hearing Association is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. This program is offered for 0.6 CEUs (Intermediate level; Professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.
 

J. David Cooper is a retired professor from Ball State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Reading Education from Indiana University. Prior to teaching at the college level, he taught at elementary and secondary schools in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Cooper has served as a consultant to the Department of Education in Washington, DC, numerous state departments of education, and school systems throughout the country. He is very active in the International Reading Association. He has served as an editor of Indiana Reading Quarterly and as a reviewer for such leading journals as The Reading Teacher, the Journal of Reading, and the National Reading Conference Yearbook. In 1990, he was awarded the Outstanding Service Award from Indiana Reading Professors. 

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Michael Dorn is one of the most credentialed, experienced, highly respected and most trusted school safety experts in the nation. Selected as the world’s top school safety expert by Jane’s after an international search, Michael has authored and co-authored twenty books on school safety and has three more books due for publication. Michael has also authored hundreds of articles as well as columns for School Planning and Management, Campus Safety, Today’s School, School Transportation News and College Planning and Management magazines.

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What do we mean when we say "best practice" -- or when others exhort us to display it in our classrooms? Harvey (AKA "Smokey") Daniels will trace the history of the phrase, how it has been widely corrupted, and why we need to nevertheless hang on to its underlying principles. He will also demonstrate one sure-fire "best practice" activity that we can all take back to our classrooms (next fall).

Harvey Daniels has been a city and suburban classroom teacher and a college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. In language arts, Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Minilessons for Literature Circles. Smokey has recently coauthored two bestselling books on content-area literacy: Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, and the companion volume, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. He is also coauthor of Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools. 

Daniels works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, offering demonstration lessons, workshops, and consulting, with a special focus on creating, sustaining, and renewing student-centered inquiries and discussions of all kinds. Smokey shows colleagues how to simultaneously build students' reading strategies, balance their reading diets, and strengthen the social skills they need to become genuine lifelong readers.

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Vicki Gibson has been teaching students, training teachers, writing curriculum, and directing instruction since 1975. She is the owner and director of Longmire Learning Center, Inc. (LLC), a private educational facility serving families with children ages 2–8 years. She is also co-owner of What Works With Kids, a publishing company for instructional materials. Prior to opening LLC, Dr. Gibson owned two private pre-schools, taught and lectured for ten years at Texas A&M University, and spent ten years in public schools as a Kindergarten teacher, special education resource teacher, adaptive behavior specialist, and learning disability specialist. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at Texas A&M University. Dr. Gibson is a well-respected, nationally recognized author and speaker on early childhood curriculum design and methodology, classroom management, integrating and aligning assessment with instructional planning, and using effective instructional strategies for emerging and low-performing students. She provides consultation and conducts workshops for parent groups, child-care providers, teachers, supervisors, and administrators. She authored We Can!, the comprehensive early childhood curriculum that was approved for the 2003 Pre-K adoption in Texas, which includes a classroom management video and a disciplinary program called Two Choice Discipline. She also authored a supplemental Language Arts program titled Letter Sounds & Strokes, and co-authored “Road to Reading, a Reading and Collaboration Training Program for Teachers of At-Risk Readers in Grades 3–8.”

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