ISFIRE Schedule for Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - Center for Research on Rural Education | Montana State University

Schedule broken down by individual days for easy reference.
Full Schedule	Thursday, August 2	Friday, August 3

Time	Event	Time	Event
7:30	Registration Help Desk Open MSU Student Union Building (SUB)	11:00	Parallel Session 1 SUB Ballroom B, C, D, 233
9:00	Welcome SUB Ballroom A John Pegg, Director, SiMERR National Research Centre, University of New England, AU Jayne Downey, Director, Center for Research on Rural Education, Montana State University Alison Harmon, Dean, College of Education, Health, & Human Development, Montana State University Bob Mokwa, Provost, Montana State University Senator Jon Tester, State of Montana	12:30	Lunch & Rural Highlight SUB Ballroom A
9:00		2:00	Interactive Panel SUB Ballroom A Community Responsive Leadership Preparation: Explicit Objectives and Tacit Accomplishments Bill Ruff (Chair), Godfrey Saunders, Jason Cummins
9:30	Keynote Address SUB Ballroom A Sweeney Windchief, Assistant Professor, Montana State University The Sharing of Indigenous Knowledge Through Academic Means by Implementing Self-reflection and Story	3:30	Afternoon Tea & Coffee SUB Ballroom A
		4:00	Parallel Session 2 SUB Ballroom B, C, D, 233
		5:30	Break
10:30	Morning Tea & Coffee SUB Ballroom A	6:00	Welcome Reception MSU’s Museum of the Rockies Sponsored by SiMERR National Research Centre, University of New England, AU

11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Session 1 — Wednesday, August 1

	SUB Ballroom B	SUB Ballroom C	SUB Ballroom D	SUB Room 233
	Theme 2 - Partnership	Theme 3 - Profession	Theme 4 - Practice	Theme 5 - Students
11:00-11:30 Presentation A	Allison Wynhoff Olsen, Kirk Branch, Jan Zauha, Montana State University & Emily Nelson, Belgrade High School Writing Together: Expanding Opportunities for Teachers and Students in Rural Communities	Kerri Balint, Public Broadcasting Service; Ben Garcia, Southern Oregon Public Television; Kari Wardle, Idaho Public Television; Nikki Vradenburg, Montana PBS; Mekca Wallace-Spurgin, Iowa Public Television; & Darcy Bakkegard, Prairie Public Broadcasting Supporting Rural Educators: Lessons from the PBS Teacher Community Program	Amy Azano, Virginia Tech & Cat Biddle, University of Maine Deficits, Dichotomies, and Other Traps in Problem Formation for Rural Education	Kimberly McCluskey, Scotland County R-1 Developing an Advanced Placement Program a Small, Rural School
11:30-12:00 Presentation B	Patrick Hampton, University of Notre Dame, AU Walk Beside Me, Learn Together: A Service-Learning Immersion to a Remote Aboriginal School and Community		Matthew Finster, Westat Examining Productivity in Rural Education: Signals of Innovative Approaches and Best Practices	Melinda Davis & Cassidy Hall, University of Idaho Putting the "T" in STEM for Rural Educators
12:00-12:30 Presentation C	Christine Stanton, Lucia Ricciardelli, Montana State University & Brad Hall, Blackfeet Community College The Digital Storywork Partnership: Engaging Students, Educators, and Community Members in Research and Filmmaking		Jesse Moon Longhurst, Southern Oregon University *“Here is lots of places”: Teacher*Preparation For and With Oregon’s Rural Cultures and Rural Schools	Chris Reading, University of New England, AU The World Around Us: Nurturing Spatial Reasoning in Rural Schools

4:00 - 5:30 Parallel Session 2 — Wednesday, August 1

	SUB Ballroom B	SUB Ballroom C	SUB Ballroom D	SUB Room 233
	Theme 1 - Community	Theme 2 - Partnership	Theme 3 - Profession	Theme 6 - Leadership
4:00-4:30 Presentation A	Outi Marja Autti & Unn-Doris K. Baeck, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Teaching Should Not be a Bubble Disconnected from the Community: Rural Teachers and Local Curricula	Steven L. Johnson, Lisbon Public Schools The Value of Rural School/Community Partnerships	Jesse Longhurst, Southern Oregon University; Michael Thier, University of Oregon & Phillip Grant, Jr., University of West Georgia; Sheryl D. Craig, University of Oklahoma; & Casey Jakubowski, University at Albany: State University of New York Geographic and Methodological Gaps in U.S. Rural Education Research	Hobart Harmon & Thomas Butler, Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8 Building Leadership Capacity for Scaling Innovations in Rural School Districts
4:30-5:00 Presentation B	Jennifer Lutey & Tina Hamilton, Brightways Learning Do You Generate “Webs of Support” in Your School?	Jeff Hawkins & Dessie Bowling, Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative *Appalachia Rising*	Tom Schram, Kathryn McCurdy, Tom Higginbotham & Dan Lord, University of New Hampshire Place Matters: Review of the Research on Rural Teacher Education	Micah Wixom, Education Commission of the States How the Sausage Gets Made: Engaging in the Policy-Making Process
5:00-5:30 Presentation C	Samantha Avitaia, University of Wollongong, AU Developing a Contextualized Model of Outreach for Rural Communities	Brad Mitchell, Battelle for Kids, Danette Parsley, Education Northwest & Kristina Hesbol, University of Denver *Rural School Partnerships: Connecting Improvement Science, Collective Impact and Place Based Education*	Nick Kleese, University of Minnesota Conversation as Method: Toward a More Rurally Attuned Methodology	Devon Brenner, Mississippi State University & Susan McClelland, University of Mississippi *Building the Advocacy Skills of Rural Leaders*