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10:30am EDT

Unlocking Student Potential: Connecting Interests to Careers

Thursday June 12, 2025 10:30am - 11:15am EDT

Join us in exploring a dynamic framework that helps students discover career pathways by aligning their personal interests with real-world opportunities. Through the lens of Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC), we’ll uncover how learning experiences can be transformed to spark curiosity, engagement, and career exploration.
Discover how Forge Your Future, an innovative initiative by East Central Educational Service Center (IN), is making career-connected learning a reality at the regional level – and walk away with actionable strategies to bring these powerful conversations into your own classrooms. Through the lens of Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC), we’ll uncover how learning experiences can be transformed to spark curiosity, engagement, and career exploration.
Get ready to inspire students to see their strengths, explore possibilities, and forge their future with confidence!

Speakers

Lindsey Lovern

Instructional Specialist, East Central Educational Service Center

Lindsey Lovern is an Instructional Specialist at the East Central Educational Service Center (ECESC) in Indiana, where her work focuses on enhancing career-connected learning and providing resources that empower educators to guide students in their academic and career journeys. Over... Read More →

Taylor Philhower

RIASEC Coordinator, East Central Educational Service Center

Taylor Philhower is the RIASEC Coordinator at the East Central Educational Service Center (ECESC), where she leads career-connected learning initiatives through the Forge Your Future program. She oversees the in-person Student Experience and the Mobile Experience, helping students... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 10:30am - 11:15am EDT
R101

Informational

Audience 7-8, 9-12, Administrators, Coaches/Blended/E-Learning Specialists, Teachers

11:30am EDT

Buillding Resilient Students and Schools

Thursday June 12, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm EDT

R101

Building Resilient Students and Schools; I will share how educating staff (all staff) on the impact childhood trauma has had on building positive relationships between staff and students. Attendees will walk away with strategies they can implement at the start of the school year. Improve attendance and engagement while decreasing student behaviors and teacher stress.

Speakers

Lora Wilson

Program Coordinator, East Central Education Service Center

Lora Wilson has served over two decades as an elementary administrator in east central Indiana. She earned her doctorate in education from Ball State Univeristy, studying the relational impact of training teachers in childhood trauma. Lora has also earned her certificate in Educational... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm EDT
R101

Hybrid

1:30pm EDT

The "Shift" into the Science of Reading

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT

R101

Educators will learn the "why" behind the Science of Reading and will leave the session with ideas of how to swap out Balanced Literacy routines with Science of Reading instructional strategies they can use in their classrooms.

Speakers

Jane Haudek

Literacy Training Support Specialist, East Central Educational Education Center

Jane Haudek is a long time educator of 39 years. Jane is currently a Literacy Training Specialist with the East Central Educational Training Center in collaboration with The Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning (CELL) at the University of Indianapolis. Prior to that, she... Read More →

Lori Ward

Literacy Training Support Specialist, ECESC, East Central Educational Service Center

Lori Ward has been a Literacy Training Support Specialist for 3 years located out of the East Central Educational Service Center in collaboration with University of Indianapolis CELL office (Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning). Prior to that, she has been a K-3 classroom... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT
R101

Hybrid

Audience K-3, 4-6, Teachers, 7-8, Coaches/Blended/E-Learning Specialists

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