WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6  — PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
(By advance registration only. Add $25 fee, if you are not attending the conference.)

1. Brain Matters: Translating Research to Classroom Practice (Full Day)
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $225
You will leave this workshop with a better understanding of the learning process and with classroom strategies that can be implemented the next day.
Patricia Wolfe, EdD, President, Brain Matters; Educational Consultant; former teacher, author of Building the Reading Brain, PreK-3 (2004) and Brain Matters (2001)

2. Managing Mental States to Increase Engagement (Full Day)
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $225
Are your students in a proper state to learn? Find out how you can use concepts and tools such as music, effective directions, and state-changes to get students’ attention, help them focus on academic tasks, and maximize their positive learning states.
Willy Wood, M.A., President, Open Mind Technologies; former high school and university teacher; national speaker on brain-based teaching

3. Making Math Real: Connecting Research to Practice - A Comprehensive Multisensory Structured Methodology in Mathematics K-12
(Full Day) 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $225
Research in the last few years has provided exciting new insights into how the brain does math. This workshop will provide the direct, specific connections linking current research in neuroscience and cognitive science to applied practice in the multisensory structured teaching of mathematics for grades K-12. The research basis for this methodology focuses on the current work of Giedd, Sowell, Deheane, Butterworth, Geary and others in the areas of neuroscience and cognitive science, combined with the work of Miller, Mercer, Tomey, Marolda, Orton-Gillingham, and others for the connections to the cognitive benefits of multisensory structured methods. Therefore, the emphasis of this workshop will be on the precise educational structures that effectively reach the full diversity of processing styles for all math content from pre-K through calculus. This presentation is designed for researchers and general education and / or special education teachers of all levels.
David Berg, BA, Educational Therapist; Creator of the Making Math Real Multisensory Structured Methodology; Founder/Director of the Making Math Real Institute; Instructor, University of C
alifornia Extensions, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Santa Cruz
Nancy F. Knop, PhD, Educational Therapist, Professional Therapy Services, Inc., former science teacher, Head-Royce School; specialist in cognitive development and learning styles of adolescents

4. Brain Anatomy 101: An Introduction to the Brain and Neuroscience
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $135
You will come away with a basic understanding of the major anatomical areas of the brain, the various methods used to study brain-mind connections, and the principles that govern brain organization and function.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdM, EdD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain and Creativity Institute for the Neurological Study of Emotion, Decision-Making, and Creativity, University of Southern California

5. Applying Brain Research to the Classroom: What Educators Need To Know
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $135
This workshop will apply brain research to the classroom and include a non-technical exploration of the structure and function of the human brain with a focus on how the brain likes to learn and remember.
Diane Y. Watanabe, EdD, and Richard D. Sjolseth, EdM; Co-Directors, Institute of Learning, Teaching, and the Human Brain, Division of Curriculum and Instructional Services, Los Angeles County Office of Education

6. The Relationship between Attention Problems & Academic Achievement: Is Attention a Skill that Can be Trained?
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $135
In this workshop, explore the association between attention problems and academic achievement, novel treatments and research on attention training in children with ADHD to improve their focus and learning. Includes additional research and discussion.
David L. Rabiner, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University; Founder, Attention Research Update newsletter; co-author, “An exploration of the relationship between ethnicity, attention problems, and academic achievement” (2004, School Psychology Review)

SPECIAL EVENT — "Meeting of the Minds" Reception & Book Signing
Sponsored by THE DANA ALLIANCE FOR BRAIN INITIATIVES

Friday, February 8: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Meet other attendees and some of the nation's brightest minds at this collegial reception. Cash bar.
Michael I. Posner, PhD, and Carol S. Dweck, PhD, will be in attendance to sign their new books.
Advance registration required.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 — POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
 (By advance registration only. Add $25 fee, if you are not attending the conference.)

1. Brain-Based Teaching from a Strengths Perspective: Improving Competence
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $135
You will explore, experience, and practice strategies and activities developed from brain-based teaching principles from a strengths perspective in the areas of attention, memory, language, higher thinking and social thinking.
Susan E. Lees, PsyD, PPS, Program Director, Department of School Counseling and School Psychology, Azusa Pacific University

2. The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis & Intervention
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $135
This workshop will discuss the various subtypes of reading disorders from a brain-based educational model of learning, diagnosis and intervention.
Steven G. Feifer, Ed.D., NCSP, Neuropsychologist; co-author of The Neuropsychology of Mathematics (2005), The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders (2001), and The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders (2000)

3. The Art of Changing the Brain: From Research to Application
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $135
This workshop is designed for beginning teachers, veteran teachers, and all types of learners, who would like to have a basic understanding of how we learn and how our brain works and changes when we learn. What are the most effective approaches in retaining information? How can we be more successful in a variety of assessments? And how can we translate complicated research to basic application and implementation (where it counts the most, in each classroom)?
Maryam Torbati, PhD, Coordinator, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Graduate School of Education, Alliant International University; Instructor, Fresno Pacific University Educational Seminars, UC San Diego Extention, and other universities; Founder, BrainUnlimited.com