SPED 2025 Summer 1 Day Conference: Full Schedule

Back by Popular Demand the 2025-2026 Special Education Summer Academy is offering a one day conference style workshop. The workshops are designed for Special Education staff members who teach in an Achieve, Connect, Elevate, Strive, or Rise classrooms AND staff members who provide behavior support to students in the resource & inclusion settings (i.e. "Focus Programming"). During the one day conference staff will have the opportunity to choose the sessions they are interested in taking and collaborate within their professional learning communities to explore the foundations of behavior & instruction, identify critical attributes of highly effective structured programs, and practice the skills needed to arrange classroom environments and be ready to welcome students on the first day of school!

To register for a session, simply click the radio button on the upper left side next to the title and the session is automatically added to your schedule. If the session is full, DON’T WORRY, register anyway for the wait list. We will be checking the numbers throughout the month and make room for all the waitlisters.

10:00am CDT

VB-MAPP Basics LIMITED

Thursday July 24, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

PESH B1-236 Classroom

An informative Overview of the VB-MAPP assessment.

Presenter

Sara Ashead

BIS - BCBA

Speakers

Ashley Kendrick

BIS

Thursday July 24, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
PESH B1-236 Classroom

ECS/Elementary, 80 Min

Program Strive/Rise/Elevate
Audience Teachers

1:00pm CDT

VB-MAPP Next Steps: Putting it in Action FILLING

Thursday July 24, 2025 1:00pm - 2:20pm CDT

PESH B1-207 Classroom

Putting the VB-MAPP into Action will walk you through the analysis of the VB-MAPP assessment that you have already completed, determining which skills need to be prioritized, which skills could become IEP goals and how to teach the identified skills in your classroom. Please bring a completed VB-MAPP to analyze and get a leg up for the beginning of the school year.

Presenter

Cara Speicher

BIS - Team Leader

I received my Masters degree in Special Education with a focus on Autism from UNT. My Bachelors is from SMU in English letters. I have worked for Plano ISD for 20 years, and I have been in Education for 25 years having previously worked in Highland Park ISD as an English 1 and English... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2025 1:00pm - 2:20pm CDT
PESH B1-207 Classroom 3000 Los Rios Blvd, Plano, TX

ECS/Elementary, 80 Min

Program Strive/Rise/Elevate
Audience Teachers

2:40pm CDT

Socially Savvy in Action FILLING

Thursday July 24, 2025 2:40pm - 4:00pm CDT

PESH B1-206 Classroom

Looking for ways to have fun with your students while teaching valuable skills? Come learn how Socially Savvy ties assessment and learning social skills with play activities that will keep smiles and laughter in your classroom.

Presenter