ISFIRE Schedule for Thursday, August 2, 2018 - Center for Research in Rural Education | Montana State University

Schedule broken down by individual days for easy reference.
Full Schedule	Wednesday, August 1	Friday, August 3

Time	Event	Time	Event
8:00	Registration Help Desk Open MSU Student Union Building (SUB)	1:30	Interactive Panel SUB Ballroom A Educating for Sustainability in Remote Locations Chris Reading (Chair), Dawn Wallis (Canada), Neil Taylor (Nauru), Constance Khupe (South Africa), Morag Redford (Scotland), Patrick Hampton (Australia), Tena Versland (USA)
9:00	Keynote Address SUB Ballroom A Simone White, Assistant Dean (International and Engagement) Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AU Schooling Teachers for Rural Communities? Sharing the Lessons from Rural Education Research	1:30
		3:00	Afternoon Tea & Coffee SUB Ballroom A
		3:30	Parallel Session 4 SUB Ballroom B, C, D, 233
		5:00	Break
10:00	Morning Tea & Coffee SUB Ballroom A	5:30	Symposium Reception SUB Ballroom A
10:30	Parallel Session 3 SUB Ballroom B, C, D, 233	6:00	Symposium Dinner SUB Ballroom A Keynote Address: Allen Pratt, Director, National Rural Education Association Rural Education and Public Policy: A Major Enterprise Sponsored by the John W. Kohl Educational Leadership Endowment, Montana State University
12:00	Lunch & Rural Highlight SUB Ballroom A Ledger PowerPoint direct download

10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Session 3 — Thursday, August 2

	SUB Ballroom B	SUB Ballroom C	SUB Ballroom D	SUB Room 233
	Theme 2 - Partnership	Theme 3 - Profession	Theme 4 - Practice	Theme 5 - Students
10:30-11:00 Presentation A	Elizabeth Wargo & Davin Carr-Chellman & Kathy Canfield Daviss, University of Idaho, & Kathleen Budge, Boise State University *Rural Stakeholders and Research-Practice Partnership Involvement*	Jennifer Lutey & Tina Hamilton, Brightways Learning Making (and Keeping) Resilient Educators	Richard Kitzmiller, Niswonger Foundation, Susan Savell, Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) Center, Rachel Bear, National Writing Project, & Casey Olsen, Columbus High School, National Leadership Team College, Career, and Community Writers Program Facilitator: Victoria Schaefer, Westat Innovative Approaches to Improving Rural Students' Achievement: Interventions for Personalized Learning in Middle School, Social-Emotional Learning in 9th Grade, and Writing in Secondary Schools	Tricia Seifert, Montana State University “Gaming” the Transition to Post-secondary Education
11:00-11:30 Presentation B	Joe Hicks, Kristofer Olsen, Allison Wynhoff Olsen, Montana State University & Danette Long, Northern State University Integrating Rurality in Teacher Preparation	Jennifer Luebeck, Montana State University Reaching Rural Mathematics Teachers: Effective Strategies for Online/Blended Professional Learning		Natalie Downes & Philip Roberts, University of Canberra, AU *Rethinking Distance Education and ICT Use: Advancing Arguments of Access to Quality Teaching & Learning*
11:30-12:00 Presentation C	Brian O’Neill, Calen District State College, AU Different Strokes: Different Spokes for Different Folk	Maria Coady, University of Florida Rural Teacher-Leader Professional Development for English Learners in an Anti-Immigrant Climate		Constance Khupe, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg *Understanding the First-Year Experience of Students from South African Rural Schools*

3:30 - 5:00 Parallel Session 4 — Thursday, August 2

	SUB Ballroom B	SUB Ballroom C	SUB Ballroom D	SUB Room 233
	Theme 3 - Profession	Theme 4 - Practice	Theme 5 - Students	Theme 6 - Leadership
3:30-4:00 Presentation A	Neil Taylor & Penelope Serow, University of New England, AU A New Model of Teacher Education for Small Island States: The Nauru Teacher Education Project	Heather Fisher, Montana State University *Successful Writing Instruction in a High Poverty Middle School in the Era of Standardized Writing Assessment*	Kate Caton, Georgia State University Retention Policy, Direct Certification, and Rurality in Georgia	Brian O’Neill, Queensland State P-10/12 School Administrators’ Association, AU Who Ya' Gonna Call? Ghostbusters or Mentors?: Mentoring for New Rural Principals
4:00-4:30 Presentation B	Morag Redford, University of the Highlands and Islands & Anne Patterson, Argyll and Bute Council, Scotland Place-based Rural Teacher Education in Scotland	Kristi Borge, Polaris School *Instructional Planning Practices of Rural, Multi-grade Teachers: A Case Study*	Phillip Grant, Jr., University of West Georgia What Do Your Parents Make? The Overriding Effect of Socioeconomic Status for Rural Students	Lora Wolff, Western Illinois University & Michaela Fray, Quincy Public Schools *Growing Success: The Need for Rural Schools to Collaboratively Succession Plan to Grow and Sustain Their Leadership Pipelines*
4:30-5:00 Presentation C	Harvey Rude, Colorado Center for Rural Education at the University of Northern Colorado Systemic Recruitment and Retention of Rural Educators	Elizabeth Reierson, Miles City High School, Allison Behrens, Whitehall Middle and High School & Catherine Dorian, Fort Benton Schools Teacher Inquiry and Innovations Across Rural Contexts	Sarah Schmitt-Wilson, J. Mitchell Vaterlaus & Ashley Beck, Montana State University Rural Adolescents’ Educational and Occupational Values: Are They Different and Do They Matter in Young Adulthood?	Dawn Wallin & Paul Newton, University of Saskatchewan, CA Leadership in Community: Strengthening Rural Education